The One Tree
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:58 pm
Why does Linden need the Staff? It doesn't work against the skurj (or so my memory tells me), it's limited by Kevin's Dirt, etc.
And why did the Worm wake up when she used the Staff and the ring to resurrect Covenant? If wild expenditures of power are all it takes, well...
However, the original Staff, and this one in a way, both derive from the One Tree, which Tree served as the original location of the Worm's quiescence. Now of all the passages in the 2nd Chronicles that might indicate an important part of the puzzle in the Last, what about the question as to whether the One Tree survived the Isle's submersion at the end of book 5?
So here's my theory. The connection between the Staff and the Tree is part of why such an extreme use of the Staff woke the Worm up. I don't know how, but somehow, the connection is there. Maybe the Tree is gone, no less (now that the Worm started to devour the ocean?), and what Linden needs the Staff for is to grow a new One, so that the Worm will go back to sleep around it.
And this might help her fulfill her promise to Caerroil Wildwood, to boot. QED
And why did the Worm wake up when she used the Staff and the ring to resurrect Covenant? If wild expenditures of power are all it takes, well...
However, the original Staff, and this one in a way, both derive from the One Tree, which Tree served as the original location of the Worm's quiescence. Now of all the passages in the 2nd Chronicles that might indicate an important part of the puzzle in the Last, what about the question as to whether the One Tree survived the Isle's submersion at the end of book 5?
So here's my theory. The connection between the Staff and the Tree is part of why such an extreme use of the Staff woke the Worm up. I don't know how, but somehow, the connection is there. Maybe the Tree is gone, no less (now that the Worm started to devour the ocean?), and what Linden needs the Staff for is to grow a new One, so that the Worm will go back to sleep around it.
And this might help her fulfill her promise to Caerroil Wildwood, to boot. QED