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The worm of the world's end Gradual Interview!

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As a novelist who has contributed much to the understanding of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant on this forum, I decided to start my own Gradual Interview! Who's the interview with? Me!

Simply reply to this message to start the gradual interview.
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Taking from Donaldson's example here: https://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/fromt ... /index.php
let me start this off with some background information.
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Publications: The Enneagram Monthly (1995); White Buffalo: The Epic Tale of a Warrior-Prophet (2022)
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So first questions

1. What are the questions you are looking for? About your works or Donaldson's works? Or just Chronicles specifically - in other words would you be able to answer Gap book questions?

2. I am going to guess you can answer Chronicles questions so here goes one relating to your avatar name: Do you feel Donaldson did an adequate job of explaining and describing the Worm of the Worlds end in Last Chronicles? If not how do you think he could have improved it?
a) [No spoiler question - so no spoiler answer expected - just more general answer - yes I think Donaldson resolved well or no I don't think he did] Do you think the resolution of the Worm of Worlds End in Last Chronicles was resolved well or not resolved well.
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samrw3 wrote:So first questions

1. What are the questions you are looking for? About your works or Donaldson's works? Or just Chronicles specifically - in other words would you be able to answer Gap book questions?

2. I am going to guess you can answer Chronicles questions so here goes one relating to your avatar name: Do you feel Donaldson did an adequate job of explaining and describing the Worm of the Worlds end in Last Chronicles? If not how do you think he could have improved it?
a) [No spoiler question - so no spoiler answer expected - just more general answer - yes I think Donaldson resolved well or no I don't think he did] Do you think the resolution of the Worm of Worlds End in Last Chronicles was resolved well or not resolved well.
1. Same as the GI, I'm looking for questions specific to me as an author and to my published works. I'll be the first to admit, however, that nobody here has read them, making the success of this personal GI a sketchy prospect.

There should be a link to "White Buffalo: The Epic Tale of a Warrior-Prophet" in my signature below.

I have published chapters from my second unfinished work here as sneak previews.

2. I don't think this is the right place to answer questions about the Chronicles. The Elohim seemed able to control the Worm. And if I'm the Worm on this forum, then the Elohim are the moderators.
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"Samrw3" asked: what is this scenes the characters are talking about? Why are these people fighting?

Thank you for your questions, Samrw3! Yours are the first questions of the worm of the world's end Gradual Interview.

Are your questions referring to the two sneak preview chapters I submitted to this forum? If so, then:
1. The only scene I can think of might be referring to Colchuck Pass, AKA, Aasgard Pass. It's a real place in Washington State in the Enchantment's Region. It has two names because some 20th-century explorers gave it a name, and then the government gave it a name. This double-nomenclature happened in many areas of the Enchantments.

Two years ago I heard about an earthquake/avalanche that occurred in this area. At the moment I heard about it I thought to put this event in the novel I was working on.

To be a novelist sometimes requires opportunism.

It ended up being the final battleground of the novel. I can't say much more than that, and Black Crow already reveals that this is where shit finally hit the fan.

Of course, if there's an earthquake in my novel then it's going to be caused by supernatural forces. I like to claim that the actual event was really caused by the supernatural.

2. Why are these people fighting? Samyaza wants to make the Earth a happier place for demons. White Buffalo does not, because he knows in that case it'll be a worse place for humans.

Samyaza does have a wider purpose than mere world-conquest. It has nothing to do with plotting revenge against the world's creator (in case anybody's thinking Lord Foul vs. the Creator). Samyaza explained her wider purpose toward the end of the first novel. I had a friend of mine read her speech. It was so convincing that he took the side of evil! This means he took Satan's side and went against God's side.

This was very surprising. It's not that this friend is a devil-worshipper.
He just liked and agreed with Samyaza's side of the conflict.
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Who is White Buffalo?

(Note: The keepers of American virtue are telling me that "Native American" is going out of style, and that I'm to write "Indigenous Americans" or something like that.)

Whachichun Tatanka, aka White Buffalo, is a member of the Arapaho tribe of Native Americans. The name Whachichun Tatanka is Native American for "White Buffalo." There's a Native American myth about the White Buffalo, and readers of this blog are free to use Google or an alternate meta-search engine such as DuckDuckGo. I don't want to waste time explaining information that is readily available elsewhere on the web. But the Whachichun Tatanka I'm referring to here is a real individual who lives in the state of Idaho, United States, North America. He's not a mythological being. Or should I say, mythology is not mythical; it is real, just as real as Whachichun Tatanka.


I'm in the process of writing a book about Whachichun - the person, the legend. I'm currently working on the final draft. I plan on publishing the book this year (2022). One of the purposes of this blog is to keep my readers posted about the novel's progress. I'm also working on a second Whachichun Tatanka book. It is currently in its infancy, with 2-1/2 chapters completed in rough draft. But I'll be sure to keep you updated about that one also.


If Whachichun is so legendary, then why isn't he famous? Because the individual I am referring to does not desire fame. It's possible that some of his doings have made local or regional news, but the cause of those doings remains obscure to the public. After all, news outlets rely on what they're told; the people who work for them don't actually go out and investigate anything. Perhaps if they actually got off their butts and do some investigating, the identity of the individual behind those doings would be made public. But don't expect me to reveal the birth name of the individual known as White Buffalo, Whachichun Tatanka, as well as several other names (some of them almost unpronounceable). His birth name is only temporary - it lasts merely for a lifetime, while Whachichun Tatanka has lived several hundred lifetimes, mostly on Earth. I'm not referring to living on other planets. Whachichun has walked through literal Hell itself, and he has spent centuries in Heaven conversing with angels.


This is not a religious blog. In his current incarnation, Whachichun's family of origin just happens to be Christian. But he also partakes in several mystical systems from which he gathers ideas and concocts spells and rituals designed to combat evil. This evil can take many forms, not merely Christian. His battles with Set and Set's sons indicate that there are many forms of supernatural entities extant. Some of them are Egyptian gods. But their point of origin is irrelevant to Whachichun. As far as he's concerned, Set is the supernatural equivalent of Loki, the Norse god of mischief. The same evil takes on different names for various cultures. And evil is evil, no matter how it's named. Whachichun will sometimes use different known names for the same being. The beings themselves don't refer to themselves with names because they have no need for them.


Another purpose for this blog is to keep you updated on Whachichun's neverending adventures. He doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word "retirement." He's already been through enough adventures to fill a thousand books, and he's currently working on filling another thousand.
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Do people even like your novel? You say that nobody has read it.

I did say that. In fact, nobody has read White Buffalo all the way through. I'm working on getting more readers.

However, I can say this much. Those who have read over half the book report that they are enjoying the reading. I've found such readers on Critiquecircle.com This is the most popular critiquing site out there.

What is your book about anyway?

White Buffalo, you mean? I have another one in the works. It's called Elijah: Black Crow.

White Buffalo is about an eccentric Native American (or Indigenous American, if you prefer) who believes that the Earth is being invaded by demonic beings from an invisible dimension that only a few people, such as himself and Roy, can see.

Who is Roy, and why is he important to the novel?

Roy is a brilliant industrial chemist who lived through a lab accident involving acid approximately twenty years ago. The doctors place him in a medically induced coma due to the pain from the burns. Two weeks later, Roy was brought out of the coma, only to report that the entire time he had been seeing and speaking with angels.

Roy's face is badly scarred, and he is blind in his right eye. Roy made White Buffalo's acquaintance on Facebook, but since they live 1200 miles apart, they didn't meet for a long time. Roy lives in Illinois and Buffalo lives in Idaho. Buffalo eloquently describes Roy's face as "melted."

Roy is important to the novel in that he can still see and hear things that normal people can't. His ability with the supernatural realm was not limited to the time he spent in a coma, but has lasted since then.

Roy is also the McGyverish character of the novel. He isn't just a brilliant, though retired, chemist, he's also quite the gadget-loving type.
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I know that you're the author of the amazing White Buffalo novel. Reading it changed my life. But what have you written recently?

I'm so glad you asked! I currently working on the sequel to White Buffalo called Elijah: Black Crow. Here is an excerpt from chapter 13:

“No! Take it! You’ll know when the time is right!� He removed the knife sheath from his belt and offered it and the knife to me.
“You are rather insistent. Very well.� I took the sacrificial knife and put it in its sheath. I wasn’t used to carrying a knife, but if this one was enchanted then perhaps I could put it to some good, or evil, use.
We entered the parking area. They found the parked cars right where they left them. White Buffalo had driven his old car. He pointed me to his car and said, “Get in!�
I turned to Buffalo and said, “I could tear your head off right off your shoulders if I wanted to.� I wasn’t quite as fond of him ordering me around as I used to be.
“I could tear your dick off and feed it back to you, if I really wanted to go there!� was his retort.
“Go ahead, this is your chance to come out of the closet if that’s what you feel you have to do.�
“Hey guys!� said Roy. “He’s getting away!�
We turned just in time to watch as Manny hopped in his car and roared out of there, throwing gravel everywhere. White Buffalo and I had been discussing important matters and failed to notice Manny sneaking back to his car. And Roy couldn’t move very fast limping without his cane I’d broken. The makeshift walking stick he’d found in the forest wasn’t as useful as a cane.
“Let him go. We’ll deal with the cops later,� said Buffalo.
“Assuming he’s going to the police,� Roy surmised.
“Wouldn’t you if you were in his shoes?� I asked Roy.
We stood in a circle throwing ideas back and forth for a few minutes until I said, “Let’s head back to Minneapolis.�
“Into the lion’s den?!� exclaimed Buffalo.
“Precisely,� said Roy. “Let’s assume that the axe was found during the search for Nathaniel. It was kept in a fairly large guitar case and should stand out like a sore thumb. If that’s so, we won’t have to search any farther than the evidence room at the local police station.�
“Yes, let’s just pull a Terminator and retrieve it that way,� quipped White Buffalo.
“We’d need the axe before we could even attempt it,� I said.
“Wait. Why do we think it’s being kept at a Minneapolis police station? The crime wasn’t committed in Minneapolis,� Roy observed wryly.
“You’re right!� said Buffalo. “It could be with the Minnesota state police, or the FBI might have it… I’ll consult with Allison, my daughter.�
White Buffalo raised his arms, looked up at the sky, and said, “Allison, O Allison sweet daughter, warrior-princess love of mine, O daughter thou wilt come to me as I please. O daughter Allison, come to me.�
The sweet tinkling of tiny bells arose from behind. Turning to look for the source of the sound, I beheld a shimmering of the atmosphere at ground level that was slightly taller than the average human and shaped like an oval mirror. I could see through it, but only with great difficulty as the glimmering tended to bedazzle my sight.
Through the shimmering, glittering of air the color of moonlight came Allison. She walked through, crystalline shimmering, moonlit Allison wearing a sparkling dress with a Crown of Life gracing her head.
“Hi, Daddy,� she smiled. Her voice belied the fact that she was dressed like a queen coming forth from the right-hand of God.
Tears welled up in White buffalo’s eyes for his beautiful daughter Allison.
“I don’t want to ask you this, Allison, knowing that once you’ve answered my question you will be gone from me again,� he said. “But time is short.�
“You believe the answer is to fight as usual, don’t you, Daddy,� chimed Allison with a smile. “It could be that, in the long run, the answer will be to surrender. But I want to make the process quicker for you. Because it is easier for you to learn your lesson if you battle your way through. So here…�
Allison raised her right hand in the air, and when she brought it back down, gripped a lustrous steel axe similar if not identical to the original.
“Norsotros the Living Axe of the North II possesses a potent magic equivalent to 100 Horns of Power,� she said. “This axe is a Divine embodiment of God’s strength. Although forged by seraphim in the fires of Heaven, it could never stand equivalent to His pure Majesty.�
Allison knelt down on one knee before me, Elijah, the Black Crow who only recently prayed to Satan for release from Hell.
“I don’t understand it, Allison. But I…I’ll accept it.�
I took the newly forged Axe of the North in my right hand. The axe melded itself with my grip as if it accepted me as part of its being. It lifted toward the heavens in a salute of triumph, leaving me stunned by its behavior when, in fact, I’m considered a villainous figure.
Allison regained her feet and asked, “Are you ready to destroy for your King and Almighty Savior?�
“Well, I…� I was afraid to admit that I was working for Samyaza.
“It’s good that you hesitate, Elijah. This is not a weapon of destruction. You should never use the axe to destroy. Chopping with an axe is the first step in building a comfortable cabin. Destruction implies creation. Your axe is therefore a tool of creation.�
I dared to ask, “But what am I?�
“Who you are is Elijah. What you are remains to be seen.�
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