Kevin's Watch

earthbrah wrote:And by the way: hurtloam never cured TC's leprosy. It just reversed the symptoms of it for a time in the Land. He regained sensation in his fingers and toes, but the essential fact of his disease never left him. If there is textual evidence to prove that hurtloam actually cured his leprosy, I'll need it quoted for me.

Umm... what evidence could there be, beyond the disappearance of its symptoms?

And isn't Unbelief founded on the idea that leprosy can't be cured? If it actually can't be cured, it sort of undermines the whole first Chronicles in this respect?

Fair enough, Wayfriend.

But for me, the fact of TC's Unbelief is the very thing that kept his leprosy intact despite the healing effects of hurtloam. Insofar as the Land reality was indeed an outcropping or projection of his internal reality, he never lost his leprosy because he refused to believe in the reality of the Land and its marvels, like hurtloam.

His leprosy was an integral aspect of him as a character in both First and Second Chronicles. I just wonder what factor it's going to play in these Last Chronicles, what significance it will have one way or another, whether he still has it, or whether he has been freed from it due to his death via wild magic and subsequent resurrection.

It may be gone as a disease for him, but I believe it's still around as an issue in the story.

Because Foul laughs at Lepers.