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Book 2 of the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

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There is a new trailer at the SRD web site!!!
Way cool!!! 8)
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Wow. Crazy, interesting stuff.

It sounds like Linden is sure slutting it up. Heh.-jay
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Somehow, I just knew that trailer would elicit a THOOLAH-tinged response from you, Jay. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Guided by her heart’s passion for healing, Linden Avery formed the new Staff of Law
With love and power she restored the land’s health.
But now her heart has darkened, and the Staff with it
Betrayal and battle have burned her to the core
Leaving nothing of her former self except a Fatal Revenant.

“Oh, Linden,” Covenant gasped. “What have you done?”



Wow. Her heart has darkened? That fits with some of our interpretations that she isn't exactly working with pure intentions. But "the Staff with it"??? The Staff itself has darkened? Whoa.

Nothing is left of her former self (except the Revenant)? The Fatal Revenant is part of herself? I suppose in a Land where characters meet parts of themselves as personified characters, this shouldn't be surprising. But it does suggest that Covenant isn't really there as much as we'd like him to be. Even when he's there, this suggests that he's still part of herself.

Oh well, i guess we shouldn't read too much into this. It's just a teaser trailer.
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Ok, ok. I'm kinda dumb, so maybe someone could spell something out for me? Isn't a revenant something that came back to life from the dead? Linden never died... Covenant did.

Well, there goes my personal theories about the book. /sigh.
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Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:Ok, ok. I'm kinda dumb, so maybe someone could spell something out for me? Isn't a revenant something that came back to life from the dead? Linden never died... Covenant did.

Well, there goes my personal theories about the book. /sigh.

A revenant is something that remains from a lost or used whole. There are TONS of potential "fatal revenants" in the upcoming book:

1) Roger: the remainder of TC's mortality in the "real world"
2) The Illearth stone shards: Revenants fo the original pulled through a caesure
3) Jeremiah: The remainder of the Cult that served the despiser in the "real world"
4) TC himself, in whatever form he takes

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Got it! Thanks a ton Guns!
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Wow.

Very interesting.

Oh, a revenant is a ghost, or rather, it is that also. Linden is a ghost, in a way, since she died (and is now free to transcend.)

I bet anyone a million electrons that Linden is not really the Fatal Revenant ... that's just Donaldson being a tease.
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I think you're right Wayfriend. Still, the language used here is at the very least intensionally misleading.

And what do you make about the Staff being darkened? Is it darkened merely by her use of it? Perhaps this bolsters your theory about the Staff being more intimately, personally tied to Linden than we currently understand.
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There are many and various people who have speculated that the "darkness" of the Elohim has, through Findail, infected the Staff of Law:
In [u]The One Tree[/u] was wrote:"These Elohim consider themselves the center of the Earth. According to him, everything important happens here. The rest of the world is like a shadow cast by Elemesnedene. Foul and the Sunbane are just symptoms. The real disease is something else - he didn't bother to say exactly what. Something about a darkness threatening the heart of the Earth. He wants my ring. He wants the wild magic. So he can attack the disease."
But personally, I think that if the Staff is used frequently by Linden, they shall become spiritually united: darkness in one would then be darkness in both of them.
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Excuse the double post ... is that Gallow's Howe at the end of the clip?
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Wayfriend wrote:Excuse the double post ... is that Gallow's Howe at the end of the clip?
Has to be!

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Um...pretty much all topics elicit a THOOLAH-tinged response from me.

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Wayfriend wrote:There are many and various people who have speculated that the "darkness" of the Elohim has, through Findail, infected the Staff of Law:
In [u]The One Tree[/u] was wrote:"These Elohim consider themselves the center of the Earth. According to him, everything important happens here. The rest of the world is like a shadow cast by Elemesnedene. Foul and the Sunbane are just symptoms. The real disease is something else - he didn't bother to say exactly what. Something about a darkness threatening the heart of the Earth. He wants my ring. He wants the wild magic. So he can attack the disease."
But personally, I think that if the Staff is used frequently by Linden, they shall become spiritually united: darkness in one would then be darkness in both of them.

How about this? Mhorma understood the paradox that TC WAS the white gold... could Linden herself BE the Staff of Law?
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I love the trailer...pretty tricky (in more ways that one!)! ;)
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Bah. I need to ban ALL of SRD's readers.

:P ;) -jay
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kevinswatch wrote:Bah. I need to ban ALL of SRD's readers.

:P ;) -jay
Come on, you love being tormented! :twisted: :P
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If I want to be tormented, I'll read Runes again.

Ooooooooooh.

Hehe. ;) -jay
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ROTFLMAO!!!! Brilliant response! Brilliant!
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A Gunslinger wrote: How about this? Mhorma understood the paradox that TC WAS the white gold... could Linden herself BE the Staff of Law?
According to the author ... absolutely yes.
In the Gradual Interview wrote:This whole conundrum would be much simpler if you accepted Mhoram's statement ("You are the white gold") as a metaphor. (He could have said of Linden in TROTE, "You are the Staff of Law".)
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