Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:11 pm
That's how I see it. Destroying the Land was a means, not an end. He wanted someone to despair enough to break the Arch.
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Avatar wrote:I don't think it's about how much he harms the Land, but about the extremes that the harm will drive its inhabitants to. It's the actions of their despair that can bring down the arch for him.
This is probably right, but then doesn't that mean that all the wars and harm he has done when no white gold was in the Land's world were ultimately pointless (for instance, during Kevin's time, when the Landwaster wasn't capable of summoning white gold)?wayfriend wrote:That's how I see it. Destroying the Land was a means, not an end. He wanted someone to despair enough to break the Arch.
Passages like this lead me to believe that the Despiser had not yet realized how to destroy the Arch of Time -- but he was making the attempts. His early trials were insufficient, but he kept trying. It's almost as if he's experimenting.in [i]Against All Things Ending[/i] was wrote:... The transformation which had created quellvisks from such creatures had been Lord Foul's only dangerous achievement during his centuries among the Demimages of Vidik Amar. Doing what he could with monsters both too intelligent and too savage to be ruled, the Despiser had given them an aspiration which might serve his purpose. When the quellvisks had rendered the Demimages extinct, Lord Foul had convinced them that they could master the entire Earth if they first slew the Elohim.
By that means, the Despiser had hoped to awaken the Worm.
It's possible the Despiser didn't know his wars were bootless; that could just be how Lord Mhoram sees it, of course. But somehow Lord Foul came to see that his best chance of breaking out of his prison the Earth came through focusing on attacking the Land. That much seems certain.In chapter 10 of [i]The Illearth War[/i] was wrote: As he spoke, he felt that he was not replying to Covenant's question--that the question had a direction he could not see. But he continued, offering Covenant the only answer he possessed.
"It is clear now that Lord Foul lusts to strike back at his brother, the Creator. And at last, after ages of bootless wars carried on out of malice, out of a desire to harm the creation because he could not touch the Creator, Lord Foul has found a way to achieve his end, to destroy the arch of Time, unbind his exile, and return to his forbidden home, for spite and woe. When the Staff of Law, lost by Kevin at the Desecration, came within his influence, he gained a chance to bridge the gap between worlds--a chance to bring white gold into the Land.
"I tell you simply: it is Lord Foul's purpose to master the wild magic--'the anchor of the arch of life that spans and masters Time'--and with it bring Time to an end, so that he may escape his bondage and carry his lust throughout the universe. To do this, he must defeat you, must wrest the white gold from you. Then all the Land and all the Earth will surely fall."
A long reach indeed ~Cord Hurn wrote:The Despiser has a long reach, Rune. Even managed to show up in our world, you know!Rune wrote:I don't believe the Despiser made it to the One Tree.Cord Hurn wrote: Such could be said about the isle of the One Tree, as far as Foul's machinations went.
And shame on you for even suggesting it
I always read the Bhrathairain name as Brethren.JIkj fjds j wrote:The name "Brathairealm" is fairly explainatory - a breath of fresh air - from the trials and tribulations of Linden Avery. She is the counterpart to Hile Troy - blind.
When we see past her grief and despair we see the Land in all its glory.