Kevin's Watch

I'm surprised that I've never done this before, but I've been trying to decide where to place the Wards for my game... so I plotted the locations (approximately, and marked the Grieve for the 1st ward as the Giants had it) of the known Ward locations...



Is it just me, or is there a rather large clustering of Wards being found in the North East of the map? Aside from the 7th Ward, they all were either found, located, or originated there.

Forestal wrote:Is it just me, or is there a rather large clustering of Wards being found in the North East of the map? Aside from the 7th Ward, they all were either found, located, or originated there.

If the 7th Ward was really a bum steer, a missed opportunity to use
Damelon's Door (didn't dead Kevin slam it shut?), then maybe the ward
was actually a backdoor into Foul's Creche! The soft ones said as much.

I've always wondered how the people of the Land (as dead Kevin did at Abatha)
show up at the very end when Covenant had Foul defeated.
Wouldn't that place the ward also inside the cluster?

Wow impressive Forestal

I don't know about impressive, it's just a few dots on a map, but it was interesting to me that all evidence thus far suggests a grouping like this. Is there more information RE: the wards in the GI?

Or flipping the map, and without a great stretch of the imagination,
puts the 7th Ward back into the cluster.

Lazy Luke wrote:

Forestal wrote:Is it just me, or is there a rather large clustering of Wards being found in the North East of the map? Aside from the 7th Ward, they all were either found, located, or originated there.

If the 7th Ward was really a bum steer, a missed opportunity to use
Damelon's Door (didn't dead Kevin slam it shut?), then maybe the ward
was actually a backdoor into Foul's Creche! The soft ones said as much.

I've always wondered how the people of the Land (as dead Kevin did at Abatha)
show up at the very end when Covenant had Foul defeated.
Wouldn't that place the ward also inside the cluster?

It was never said Kevin "slammed shut" Damelon's door. Bannor suspected the way through the door was no longer available due to the damage between Kevin and Elena. The only other time the door was used was in the Final Chronicles, BEFORE the door was created.

I also don't get where it is hinted that the Door lead to Foul's Creche?

bikebryan wrote:I also don't get where it is hinted that the Door lead to Foul's Creche?

"The Door" Illearth War was described as like a portal to hell, if I remember
correctly. Foul's Creche with its mote of Hotash Slay seems like a hellish place.

I'm also amazed that the obvious is forever overlooked.
Damelon's Door is a direct reference to Tolkien and Durins Door -
"mellon" speak friend and enter. Drinking the Earthblood was not
the key.
Elena failed the test.

Unless you've got a better alternative ... ?

Hellish though it may be, the Atlas of The Land clearly shows that the Earthblood is under Melenkurion Skyweir, so I'm not sure where the logical leap for Damelon's Door to lead to fouls creche is. (Also, Fouls Creche is about 240 leagues farther South than that edit suggests.)

Looks like an earthworm to me

Forestal wrote:Hellish though it may be, the Atlas of The Land clearly shows that the Earthblood is under Melenkurion Skyweir, so I'm not sure where the logical leap for Damelon's Door to lead to fouls creche is. (Also, Fouls Creche is about 240 leagues farther South than that edit suggests.)

the logical leap ... is why the staff of law had to be destroyed. To allow
us freedom of expression and imagination - without which truth and beauty remains hidden.