wayfriend wrote:Linden's Staff is not informed by the lore of the Old Lords - this has come up in the GI before, and it's been discussed here, too. But I think what is new here is that, whereas we may have believe that this was something Donaldson thought of later, in fact he planned for it twenty years ago. However, the true significance of this is still lost on me. I don't see what the lack of lore in the Staff prevents that is significant.
I'm not so sure it is prevention, as much as enablement. The Staff is not circumscribed by that lore. But consider what
has gone into it:
The Structural Lore of the ur-Viles.
The Incarnate Earthpower of the Elohim.
The Passion of Linden Avery, channeled thorugh
The Wild Magic of Covenant's white gold ring.
The Vitality of the Earthblood.
The Wisdom of C. Wildwood.
I wonder, though, if this is a hint that the heels of the staff were not of the Old Lords? Certainly they play a role, and if the Old Lords' lore does not, where did they come from?