Kevin's Watch

Second time around the series and while reading toward the end of The One Tree, I get to this point when Findail interupts a story telling time with an incredible multi-harmonied song and his own tale -

For at that time was a peril upon the Earth to which we could not close our eyes. In the farthest north of the world, where winter has its roots of ice and cold, a fire had been born among the foundations of the firmament. I do not speak of the cause of that fire, but only of its jeopardy to the Earth. Such was its site and virulence that it threatened to rive the shell of the world.

What the heck is this all about? This quote preceeded some factoids about the Colossus and forests.

Dawngreeter wrote:Second time around the series and while reading toward the end of The One Tree, I get to this point when Findail interupts a story telling time with an incredible multi-harmonied song and his own tale -

For at that time was a peril upon the Earth to which we could not close our eyes. In the farthest north of the world, where winter has its roots of ice and cold, a fire had been born among the foundations of the firmament. I do not speak of the cause of that fire, but only of its jeopardy to the Earth. Such was its site and virulence that it threatened to rive the shell of the world.

What the heck is this all about? This quote preceeded some factoids about the Colossus and forests.

Spoiler

Foreshadowing of the Last Chronicles

Emotional Leper wrote:

Dawngreeter wrote:Second time around the series and while reading toward the end of The One Tree, I get to this point when Findail interupts a story telling time with an incredible multi-harmonied song and his own tale -

For at that time was a peril upon the Earth to which we could not close our eyes. In the farthest north of the world, where winter has its roots of ice and cold, a fire had been born among the foundations of the firmament. I do not speak of the cause of that fire, but only of its jeopardy to the Earth. Such was its site and virulence that it threatened to rive the shell of the world.

What the heck is this all about? This quote preceeded some factoids about the Colossus and forests.

Spoiler

Foreshadowing of the Last Chronicles

Yep.

Somewhere in the tale of the merewives is a big clue...

To cap that fire was Kastenassen's fate; he had taken a mortal wife, and they drug him to be the sacrifice to solve that problem. Findail was his best friend. Kastenassen told Findail he hated him. Now Findail is part of the Staff of Law.

It also introduced the merewives as they were the descendants of the woman Kastennessen loved.

Oops sorry danlo already said that!

Nope, still not getting it. What fire? Up north where? Jeopardy?

In the farthest north of the world, where winter has its roots of ice and cold, a fire had been born among the foundations of the firmament. I do not speak of the cause of that fire, but only of its jeopardy to the Earth.

Maybe it'll make more sense to me when I get up to ROTE.

It was partly explaining something about the Elohim and their Wurd, their responsibility for the Earth (or so they believed) and justifying their actions. This crisis happened a long time prior however Findail felt it necessary to explain this story to show that the Elohim have a purpose and possibly also that they sacrifice and the penalty for them not making these sacrifices. Perhaps in order to be more accepted by the Search by showing them how much the Elohim have had to endure and how important they are.
This story also introduced us to the merewives, as it was the love of Kastenessen (a mortal woman who could not possibly be with him) and the damage done to her after he had shown her his love and was then forced away (she was unable to be healed by the Elohim) that caused the creation of the merewives who lured Cail and Brinn into the sea and caused Cail's fidelity to be tested by the Haruchai on his return to the Land, to prove any haruchai would have also fallen prey. (He failed apparently).

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Thanks Kay, but I understood that part. The part about the fire in the north is what I was trying to figure out. I guess that was just some history that is not further explained.

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Thanks Emotional Leper.

The Fire was partly cos there had to be some sort of incident to fuel the story and partly laying ground for the future.

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Thanks Kay, but I understood that part. The part about the fire in the north is what I was trying to figure out. I guess that was just some history that is not further explained.

Spoiler

If you read the second chapter of fatal revenant on SRD's website, you will know a lot more about Kastenessen and the fire in the North.

Thank you iQuestor. Turns out I was asking about something that has yet to be developed answers! I will wait until FR comes out - no released chapter reading for me.