Lord Foul can't be an Insequent, but that beggar . . .
Wayfriend's post quoted above pretty much sums it up. And it goes along with complaints I've written elsewhere: contrived ignorance necessary for all this to work. In order for the presence of the Insequent to be plausible, Donaldson is going to have to invent yet another reason for characters to have been in the dark, to never have heard of them.
The plausibility of Linden and Covenant never hearing about these characters when they are so crucial for so many seminal events of the past (Berek's tutelage, creation of the original Staff, the Guardian of the One Tree, the reason for the Haruchai taking the Vow, the Seven Words of Power, and probably more)--it just strains credulity.
Why couldn't Donaldson simply bring in a bunch of Unfettered Ones to fill the role of the Insequent in the LC? With the Unfettered Ones, Donaldson already built within his mythology a class of secretive, seclusive, solitary people who sought out unknown Lore. That's the Insequent in a nutshell! He didn't need to invent another class of such beings.
And another thing: if a class of people already existed prior to the Unfettered Ones, prior to the Old Lords, then why did the Land need Lords? They already had them in the form of the Insequent!
So this is perhaps the worst thing about the Insequent: they render the entire history of the Lords unnecessary. The cool thing about Berek was the
he was the first one to awaken to Earthpower, to get it to respond directly to humans. This was supposed to be the beginning of mankind having this relationship with the Land, and having the power to defend it. That's what made Berek's experience on Mount Thunder so cool: the fact that mankind's plight had reach a point where the earth itself was responding, and giving them power.
But now we realize that the Insequent already had much more power, and that they were there with Berek, teaching him. Thus, Berek and the Lords are now redundant to the Insequent, and no longer as special.
I really hate the Insequent, the more I think about it.
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