Fatal Revenant: Those 100 Questions

[wayfriend]

I've split this into another thread to keep the Runes spoilers out of the original thread.

Here is my take at which of those 100 questions were answered.

Dissect. Add. Answer. Enjoy.

The Answered (38)

Prologue
3. What does Roger refer to when he speaks of Joan “bearing it”?
A: I presume now this refers to being tormented by a Raver so much that she pounds her head and creates caesures.
4. Why can Roger so influence Joan’s condition?
A: He's working for Foul.
7. Is Roger possessed by a Raver?
A: No, it appears not. He's as bad as he seems. He's fallen for Foul in the hope of gaining immortality.
9. What is the significance of Jeremiah’s construction ability?
A: It is a reflection of his powers in the Land.
12. Has Jeremiah been to or seen the Land prior to his summons?
A: Yes. He's been in some way to the Land, many times, in many ages.
13. How did Roger know so much about Jeremiah?
A: He's working for Foul.
24. Has the nature of summoning or of reality itself altered significantly?
A: Yes. Roger, Jeremiah and Joan have all been to the Land somehow, long before Linden was summoned.

Part One
31. Had Joan been to or seen the Land prior to her summons?
A: Yes, it appears likely, as Jeremiah definitely has.
33. Why is Roger in the Land?
A: He's working for Foul.
35. Whom does “Tell her that I have her son” refer to?
A: Foul has Linden's son Jeremiah; he also has Joan's son Roger.
46. What gave rise to Kevin’s Dirt?
A: It was concocted by Esmer, Kastenessen, and Foul and/or a Raver.
48. What are the skurj, and what are they after?
A: They are, as thought, beings which Kastenessen had been Appointed to contain, but which he has set free and now controls.
52. What are the Elohim trying to warn the people of the Land about?
A: A plot by Foul, Ravers, Kastenessen, Esmer, Roger, and a croyel to destroy the Earth.
53. What are the croyel doing?
A: Enslaving Jeremiah and doing Foul's bidding.
54. How did Kastenessen get free, and what is he after?
A: By becoming skurjish; he desires to destroy the world out of petulance.
56. Which Half-Hand do the Elohim warn people against?
A: Probably Roger. But this could be wrong.
58. What forces have been “set in motion which will shatter the Arch of Time”?
A: One, at least, is a bid to get Linden to rouse the Worm by resurrecting Covenant with wild magic, the Staff of Law, and the krill.
64. Why does someone “command” Anele not to speak of Kastenessen, Durance, skurj, and Elohim?
A: So he will not reveals what he knows of their plotting.
65. Why does Covenant ask Linden to “find me”?
A: He wants her to meet him in Andelain, and not be fooled by Roger.
66. Who is the fiery being that can possess Anele?
A: Kastenessen.
67. Who is/are Esmer’s master(s), and what are they after?
A: Kastenessen, and Foul.
69. What Elohim guidance did Linden spurn which will cause much to be lost?
A: Taking the ring when they told her to, and being dissuaded from creating the Staff of Law.

Part Two
71. Why does Esmer help Linden travel through time to retrieve the Staff?
A: Its part of the plot-line which ends with Linden rousing the Worm by resurrecting Covenant.
72. Whose malice caused the storm while Esmer was away summoning a ceasure?
A: Kastenessen, probably.
73. Why does Covenant say, “Just be wary of me. Remember that I’m dead.”
A: Because Roger has taken on Covenant's appearance to trick her.
80. How is it that Esmer can “block” access to the wild magic?
A: His nature makes him antithetical to alloys.
81. How is the new Staff of Law different from the original?
A: It had no runes; it was not informed with lore.
83. What are the Demondim after?
A: They are part of a plot to let Roger sneak in as Covenant.
84. What is Esmer’s relationship with the Demondim?
A: He merely used them to advance Foul's machinizations.
85. What is the fiery possessor’s relationship with the Demondim?
A: He is Kastenessen, and he is working alongside Esmer.
89. Does health-sense, or a lack of it, really explain the can/cannot of Linden’s ring?
A: Some. Esmer can also block it. And the Staff is antithetical to using it.
91. Whom does the stone know “betrayed” Covenant?
A: Roger, Covenant's son.
92. Who is the Mahdoubt, and what is she after?
A: She is an Insequent, and she is here to help.
94. Why is “Find” emphasized in the title of the last chapter?
A: Because that is not Covenant approaching.
95. What “peril and pain” await Linden?
A: A plot by Roger, posing as Covenant, and Jeremiah, possessed by a croyel, to obtain the Power of Command.
96. Why must Linden “be cautious of Love”?
A: Because that is not Covenant approaching.
97. Is that really Covenant riding up to Revelstone?
A: No.
98. Is that really Jeremiah riding up to Revelstone?
A: Yes, but he is enslaved by an invisible croyel.
99. Why do the Haruchai call Covenant a stranger?
A: Probably they got a hint that it was really Roger; they seemed to have unconvinced themselves of it quickly.
100. Why is Jeremiah “excited” as he rides up to Revelstone?
A: He is enslaved by a croyel and is participating in a charade.

The Yet To Be Answered (62)

Prologue
1. What did Joan fail at?
2. Did Roger take Joan’s place in some form?
5. Is there a significance to Roger’s attending medical school, or being a butcher?
6. Why did Roger want Haven Farm?
8. What is the cause of Jeremiah’s ‘disorder’?
10. What is the significance of Jeremiah’s missing fingers?
11. What is the significance of the race track and the red race car?
14. What did Sheriff Lytton do to Joan in the police car years ago?
15. Is Sheriff Lytton complicit in Foul’s plans?
16. Does Sherrif Lytton appear again in the story?
17. Is Sandy complicit in Foul’s plans?
18. Does Sandy appear again in the story?
19. Why does Roger take and then slaughter Sara Clint?
20. What happened in Haven Farm that bloodied the halls?
21. Who shot Linden Avery?
22. Why was Linden summoned to the Land?
23. How was Joan able to summon Linden?
25. Why did the old man not appear to Linden?

Part One
26. Was Linden mortally wounded when she was shot?
27. What do Linden’s visions as she is summoned mean, and who sent them?
28. Why is Joan possessed?
29. Why was Joan summoned to the Land?
30. Who summoned Joan?
32. What does Joan’s real world death allow her to become?
34. What does Roger’s real world death allow him to become?
36. What is the significance of the parallelism between Joan and Linden?
37. What is the significance of the parallelism between Roger and Jeremiah (and Covenant)?
38. Why did a ceasure strike just as Linden was summoned?
39. What are the stars that are “set free by the severing of time”?
40. Why is Anele “mad”?
41. Why is Anele blind?
42. How had Anele continually eluded the Masters?
43. What were the ur-viles doing with Anele before Linden found him?
44. Did Caer Caveral have any influence on Anele?
45. Why is Anele the “Land’s last hope”?
47. What “subtle substance” does Kevin’s Dirt deprive people of?
49. How and why does Covenant speak to Linden in dreams?
50. Why does Covenant tell Linden to “never mind” about Jeremiah?
51. Why is the lurker of the Sarangrave growing restless?
55. What happens to the people of the Land that a ceasure snatches away?
57. How do the Masters serve Foul?
59. What is Foul’s deeper purpose, of which he will not speak?
60. Whom has Foul whispered to, and with what result?
61. What did the Elohim do, according to Foul, that would cause us to “feel despair”?
62. Why are the ur-viles trying to help Linden?
63. How is it that Covenant has a capability to possess Anele?
68. How did the Haruchai unleash “endless havoc” by fathering Esmer?


Part Two
70. What doom do the Ranyhyn fear Linden will bring forth?
74. Why is Joan delivering blows to the Arch of Time and causing ceasures?
75. Why are Joan’s blows to the Arch of Time not rousing the Worm of the World’s End?
76. Why are there skest on the broken wall in Linden’s ceasure vision?
77. Why did the wild magic turn black in the ceasure?
78. What does it mean if Esmer can travel through time at will?
79. How do Haruchai and Ramen know so much about lore and time travel?
82. Why did finding the Staff not help Anele?
86. What is the significance of Linden learning where to find Jeremiah?
87. Why does the type of ground alter Anele’s madness?
88. Why are both Lord Foul and Covenant able to possess Anele on grass?
90. Can Good ever be accomplished by evil means?
93. Will the Haruchai finally discover a better answer for their passion?

[SleeplessOne]

awesome, loved that thread when you first started it WF.
Am hoping you can find another 50 fresh questions related to events played out in FR !

[soft one]

14. What did Sheriff Lytton do to Joan in the police car years ago?

According to Lytton...
"She asked me why [she had to ride in the back of the squad car]. She was f###ing hysterical about it. So I told her."
"Told her --?"
"The truth, Dr. Avery. Her ex was a f###ing leper. And she was married to him before she knew he had it. She probably had it herself. Hell, she probably still does. If nothing else, she's a damn carrier.
"I made here ride in the back because I idin't want to be infected."

Assuming there's nothing more Lytton is going to reveal, that seems to answer #14.

[wayfriend]

Assuming there's nothing more Lytton is going to reveal, that seems to answer #14.

It might very well be.

But then again, if Lytton did do something which, afterwards, would look bad, is he the kind of person who would admit it? A man who has revealed his baser nature, and that he is driven by fear?

We know he changed the subject before finishing his recital of events.

IIR, this question arises because it seems like Joan was fine when she entered the car, and she was firmly into her mentally disconnected state when she emerged at the other end.

Occam's Razor suggests Lytton had something to do with it.

(Discussion of this was in the dissection of prologue chapter 4.)

[soft one]

Ok, my bad for posting in the wrong spot. I'm reading Runes again and read that section not too long ago, so it was fresh on my mind.

[wayfriend]

Ok, my bad for posting in the wrong spot.

(I only intended to refer you to earlier posts on the subject.)

[sherifffruitfly2]

On the q/a pair

Q: Why is Roger (insert shitty thing here)?
A: Because he works for LF

I predict that he will turn out to be one of those that Esmer was referring to in saying "that which is evil need not have started out so, nor need it always remain so" (or whatever the quote was - don't have the book in front of me.

[Thorhammerhand]

68. How did the Haruchai unleash “endless havoc” by fathering Esmer?

Simple answer: They obeyed/respected LA and the land as a whole. The mere-wives DON'T

Rationalization: Just after LA has bathed in Glimmermere (FR), she calls Esmer to account for his actions, his balance start to fray toward havoc.
Rough Quote
LA If you don't insist on committing harm you wouldn't be in this trouble.
Esmer If I didn't insist on helping you, I wouldn't be driven to commit harm.

[Thorhammerhand]

25. Why did the old man not appear to Linden?

He only appeared to TC once remember. The appearance seems to be a test as well as a warning of what is to come. Also remember what he said to TC at the end of the of TPTP, that the risked much by speaking to TC at all. the more he interferes with the people from the real world, the more he risks violating the arch of time.

[Thorhammerhand]

Prologue
1. What did Joan fail at?
Potentially getting TC to despair (enough to surrender to LF)
2. Did Roger take Joan’s place in some form?
Yes, the mission: Inspire the wild wielder (in this case LA) to despair and be the tool by which LF can use to break the Arch of Time.
5. Is there a significance to Roger’s attending medical school, or being a butcher?
6. Why did Roger want Haven Farm?
8. What is the cause of Jeremiah’s ‘disorder’?
10. What is the significance of Jeremiah’s missing fingers?
11. What is the significance of the race track and the red race car?
14. What did Sheriff Lytton do to Joan in the police car years ago?
15. Is Sheriff Lytton complicit in Foul’s plans?
IMHO: NO
16. Does Sherrif Lytton appear again in the story?
Probably not
17. Is Sandy complicit in Foul’s plans?
IMHO: NO
18. Does Sandy appear again in the story?
Probably not
19. Why does Roger take and then slaughter Sara Clint?
Extra blood and pain to open the rift to the land
20. What happened in Haven Farm that bloodied the halls?
The slaughter of Sara Clint
21. Who shot Linden Avery?
Does it matter? IMHO: NO
22. Why was Linden summoned to the Land?
23. How was Joan able to summon Linden?
25. Why did the old man not appear to Linden?

[wayfriend]

2. Did Roger take Joan’s place in some form?
Yes, the mission: Inspire the wild wielder (in this case LA) to despair and be the tool by which LF can use to break the Arch of Time.

Are you saying that it was Foul's plan to have Joan doing what Roger is now doing? And that something went wrong, such that Joan could not do it?