Thomas Covenant was near death after he saved the young girl who had been bitten by the rattlesnake. His body in the real world was already in a highly depleted state. What if he had swallowed enough venom to be more immediately fatal?
Imagine if he had fallen in the woods, from exhaustion, and had never found the girl. He might have become so weak that he would have died from starvation and exposure. If so, how would the events of The Power That Preserves been altered?
Would Lord Foul have continued his aggression against The Land if there was no longer any way to obtain the white gold from Covenant?
Was there any way that the Lords (especially Mhoram) would have resisted they way they did without Covenant's presence and ultimate defeat of Foul?
Would the Elohim be compelled to try to intervene at some point if Foul ultimately posed a threat to the Earth itself instead of being freed by the breaking of the arch of time?
Only by the destruction of the Illearth Stone was the Land truly freed, was that possible without Covenant?
Could the Creator have chosen someone to take Covenant's place (not Linden Avery)? Would there have been time? Would anyone else make the same choices that Covenant did?
Could the Creator have ultimately chosen to destroy his creation rather than allow Foul loose to plague the rest of the universe?
Was Lord Mhoram's Victory possible without Covenant's presence and actions in the Land? Would the victory have mattered if the Illearth Stone was not destroyed and Foul hadn't been defeated?
