I don't know that it would have violated the rules we had already seen established, in this sense. If Linden emerged from her 2nd Chronicles pregnant, that might have told me that, in the Land, Covenant was right when he said he was no longer impotent. And she got pregnant in the land.Zarathustra wrote:I suppose Linden being pregnant would have violated the logic of the Land/reality dichotomy, much like TC's beard would have proven the Land to be a dream. But I'd always thought a breakdown between reality and fantasy was something we were going to be shown in the Last Chronicles, so the identity of the father of Linden's child could have been a constant source of curiosity and uncertainty throughout the tale, with a big reveal at the end one way or the other (or ambiguous).
The fact that SRD chose not to explore this relationship between reality/fantasy as an element of the story itself seems to make the story pure allegory--as TheFallen has been saying--rather than surrealism, as Lurch has been saying. The only mixing of reality/fantasy is in the setup concept of the Land itself, just getting our characters into that allegorical space. Once they are there, in the Land, there is no more any crossing back and forth between the boundaries. We're dealing strictly with dead characters. No possibility of moving back and forth between reality/illusion, or life and death.
And the Creator, to thank her for what she did, let her carry her child back. He already intervened in Covenant's "real" life to save it from the snake bite. And in that ending, he also gave Covenant another "gift," without, he said, asking for permission, in showing Mhoram sending the krill to Glimmermere, and letting him hear all the new titles they came up with for him.
It would, had he gone this right, adequately explained to me why the Creator didn't appear to Linden at the end of WGW.
