Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:54 am
A lot of good points here which I will not bother to address in turn as I feel that it would be kind of redundant to address peoples responses to my own points earlier (at least more than a few times).
To return to the points of the entire thread the basic question here at least is no whether or not Foul was bound by the laws of the land or creation or whether or not it was possible to kill him.
My point is that as living and dying is defined by laws in the Land Foul could only be killed if he was subject to those laws. We have debated the point of his relationship to these laws at some length without (in my opinion) coming to any conclusions, but this is only because we know to little about the physics (laws) of the Land in the first place and we know nothing about how Fouls relationship to these laws works.
What we know about these things is that Covenant, the one person intimately familiar with the white gold and the wild magic, did not believe that he could have killed Foul with it. We do not know if he means that he could not (meta)-physically have killed Foul, or just that it would have no meaning to do that.
We know that several people in the chronicles believed that he should have killed Foul when he had the chance but none of these have shown themselves to be knowledgeable enough about LF earlier for us to think that they should know better than Covenant in this matter.
What we do know about LF and TC suggests that LF was not worried by being killed by the wild magic. In TPTP he mocks TC to try to kill him with it, and whether or not he was really mad or not in WGW he did give TC the means to unlock the full power of the white gold and I do not feel that he could have done that if he had been worried that he might be killed by it.
In conclusion: I chose to believe Covenant in this matter. In spite of everyone else saying something else.
To return to the points of the entire thread the basic question here at least is no whether or not Foul was bound by the laws of the land or creation or whether or not it was possible to kill him.
My point is that as living and dying is defined by laws in the Land Foul could only be killed if he was subject to those laws. We have debated the point of his relationship to these laws at some length without (in my opinion) coming to any conclusions, but this is only because we know to little about the physics (laws) of the Land in the first place and we know nothing about how Fouls relationship to these laws works.
What we know about these things is that Covenant, the one person intimately familiar with the white gold and the wild magic, did not believe that he could have killed Foul with it. We do not know if he means that he could not (meta)-physically have killed Foul, or just that it would have no meaning to do that.
We know that several people in the chronicles believed that he should have killed Foul when he had the chance but none of these have shown themselves to be knowledgeable enough about LF earlier for us to think that they should know better than Covenant in this matter.
What we do know about LF and TC suggests that LF was not worried by being killed by the wild magic. In TPTP he mocks TC to try to kill him with it, and whether or not he was really mad or not in WGW he did give TC the means to unlock the full power of the white gold and I do not feel that he could have done that if he had been worried that he might be killed by it.
In conclusion: I chose to believe Covenant in this matter. In spite of everyone else saying something else.