Kevin's Watch

earthbrah wrote:Wayfriend, you have convinced me without compulsion.

I cannot be denied. Everyone says so.

And at that comment, I am laughing it up!

Part of me still thinks there's something more... Seems like a bit of a set-up. If linden sees the 4 high lords as 'the answer' I would just out of habit question it.
But we don't yet know if the Dead Giants or if Sunder & Holian spoke to their kin. Mayhap the silence was just imposed as to ensure Linden made her own decision.

With two books left, I don't think we can answer this question yet. I don't buy the lords being the cause. Kevin already tried to influence Linden once before.

Don't you think though, with Kevin roundly shown to be a bit of a piker, in terms of his results, that he shouldn't be included in the company of his sires?
or if he's there, as a petulant child compared to the stature of the others?
Something like --

Berek she knew, his fair and condign face smiling but not speaking. She could recognize Damelon from the determined, importunate Hand she had seen, grown to manhood. Loric, an astonishing iteration of his grandsire.
And the fourth, sucking his thumb, wailing like a banshee for his wooby, no doubt Kevin.

Maybe?

I think the inhabitants of the Land, or the New Lords would beg to differ. They did not judge Kevin - or did not judge him only - on the basis that he desecrated the Land in his despair in the end.

I have been re-reading the First and Second Chronicles and when I got to where TC is in Andelain in the TWL and is talking to the dead, Mhoram and Elena answered the question.. or at least it seems to me that they did. Both of them mention a law that keeps them from interfering.

Ah, beloved," Elena replied quickly, in the clear irrefusable voice which he remembered with such anguish, "this is not a time for grief. Our hearts are glad to behold you here. We have not come to cause you pain, but to bless you with our love. And to give you gifts, as the Law permits."

And then later Mhoram says something to him about not being able to tell him too much. I dont have the book with me right now but part of what he says when he talks about not being able to tell him is 'That is the law'. When I get home I will look it up and post it here.

But since they both mention a 'law' being involved, that could very well be the answer to the silence.

SoulBiter:

That all makes some sense. However, which law would it be? They were limited in The Second Chronicles before the Law of Life was broken. But when the Dead were silenced in Andelain before Linden does the thing with all those powers, that law was broken.

Very recently on the GI, SRD comments on this very matter. He comments that the Dead's comprehension of the stakes could have been the silencer. He says that Berek was as good a candidate for the silencer as TC. But he also says, lastly, that there's more to this being dead business than meets the eye.

I bet that whatever did the silencing, it wasn't what we're thinking it was.