TheWormoftheWorld'sEnd wrote:Heh, I'm beginning to feel like a Horrim stalker here. But I'm just a guy with a lot of knowledge of the Chrons.Horrim Carabal wrote:Elena is/was unbalanced but cool. One really stupid mistake with the Earthblood. There were 10,000 other Commands she could have given that would have been far superior. How about Commanding the Illearth Stone's destruction?illender wrote:...just got to the end of my reread of illearth war. i know everyone says she was crazy, but i think im in love.
However, without the Staff of Law being lost, Foul would have taken longer to regenerate himself and also would have needed a new plan for the Second Chronicles. Without the Sunbane maybe he would have tried a Last Chronicles-like plan instead. I wonder what Kastenessen was up to at the time?
Amok addressed this very point you make when he stated that if someone were to Command the Stone's destruction, perhaps its uncontained evil would spread throughout the Earth.
There is supposedly no Command that any mortal human could devise that would not have some kind of evil boomerang effect, this renders the Power of Command effectively worthless.
I think a better way to formulate the problem with the Power of Command is that mortals, whose knowledge is finite, could not foresee the unintended consequences of their use of the power, regardless of whether those unintended consequences were good or ill. I can say no more here without spoiling The Last Chronicles.