Physical God: He's a being roughly on par with the Creator, but being trapped inside the Arch of Time makes him a part of physical reality. He usually manifests as a spectral figure whose only clear feature are Glowing Eyes of Doom, but he can take more physical shapes as well (he reverts to an old man after being defeated by Covenant in The Power that Preserves, most obviously). It's worth noting that he's a Power That Is trapped within physical reality, so being a Physical God is actually a step down for him. When He Smiles: A male example, when Linden watches as he trades his life for Joan's he smiles at her. The Chosen One: In the Land, she's known as "Linden Avery the Chosen", and both the Creator and Foul claim to have been the one who chose her. The commander of Foul's army is one of three brothers of the race of Giants, a people previously thought incorruptible. With the aid of the powerful Illearth Stone, Foul's non-corporeal servants, the Ravers, have possessed the three brothers, now renamed Kinslaughterer, Fleshharrower and Satansfist. In shame and despair, the other Giants offer no resistance as Kinslaughterer murders them all in their home city. Thus, the Lords have lost their strongest and bravest ally in the fight against evil.

Romanticized Abuse: Invoked Trope Falling in love with Covenant and deluding herself into thinking that their encounter was consensual is her way of coping, but it is explicitly very unhealthy as is true in real life. The World Is Not Ready: She accesses magic none of the Lords were ready for yet, and it leads to disaster. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson. The series began as a trilogy, entitled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. This was followed by another trilogy, The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and finally a tetralogy, The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Led by High Lord Prothall and Lord Mhoram and accompanied by the Lords' sleepless and ageless protectors the Bloodguard, Hirebrand Birinair, yhe Giant Foamfollower, and an Eoman of soldiers led by Quaan, the Quest sets out eastward. Covenant joins them in the hope that the recovery of the Staff of Law will somehow assist in his return to his "real" world. Lord Fouls Bane is the first volume in the The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, written by Stephen Donaldson.

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Viles are an extinct race who spawned the Demondim. They were non-corporeal, but nonetheless very powerful. Initially a proud and gifted race, they were led into self-hatred and despair by the Ravers. They were eventually destroyed by the Council of Lords, under High Lord Loric "Vilesilencer". Planet of Hats: The Haruchai are easily the hattiest race in the Land, with all of them seeming to be relatively minor variations on the same personality. Justified because the only Haruchai to show up in the Land in the first place are elite warriors who are products of the same intense training regime; the Haruchai homeland (and by extension, the bulk of their population) is never seen.

However, his consciousness remains, and while in a state somewhere between being and non-existence, he is spoken to in the darkness by the voice of the old beggar from the beginning of the first book, who is in fact the Creator of the Land. The Creator thanks Covenant for saving his creation and asks him what reward he might accept. Excitedly, Covenant asks the Creator to save Foamfollower, but the Creator regretfully tells Covenant that even he cannot undo something which has already occurred: otherwise the Arch of Time, the fundamental structure underlying the Land's universe, will be destroyed. The Creator explains that this restriction, in fact, is what prevented him from dealing with Foul directly: he had to act through a proxy, Covenant, and even after causing Covenant to be transported to the Land, the Creator did not interfere with Covenant's freedom of will in any way. The decision to "save or damn" the Land was Covenant's own. Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Linden is usually cool, professional, and somewhat brisk, having buried her sentimental side a long time ago. Only Covenant and Jeremiah can consistently bring it out in her. Power Incontinence: In the second series, Lord Foul uses cursed venom to deliberately induce this, hoping Covenant will lose control completely and annihilate the Land on his own.Resurrective Immortality: How he avoids death, mixed with Complete Immortality. Sure, Foul can be killed, at least as a discrete being, but no matter what you do, he'll always reform out of ambient hate after a while. Card-Carrying Villain: Look at the name! Foul's what the bumbling, mustache-twirling Card-Carrying Villains want to be when they grow up. Word of God delves into Foul's opinion on the matter of his own Obviously Evil nature in a bit more detail — Foul doesn't actually perceive himself as evil, since he thinks he's beyond all moral judgments anyone else might make of him. However, he does find being labeled evil — including being given his various Names to Run Away from Really Fast— quite flattering. The Last Dark is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the final book of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, ending the story that Donaldson began in 1977 with Lord Foul's Bane. It was published on October 15, 2013. [1] [2]

Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: At the end of The Last Dark, Covenant imprisons Foul inside himself. Non-Action Guy: Covenant has no military training and finds killing repellant, and his leprosy makes him even more fragile than a normal person. The Chessmaster: Foul is very, very intelligent, and is usually several steps ahead of everybody else.I had conceived the ambition to write a fantasy novel about a “real” character who rejected the fantasy experience (no doubt partly in an attempt to answer my own questions about why fantasy matters); and it occurred to me one day that if I wanted my character to have any true substance, he would have to be someone with very personal reasons to prefer fantasy (a leper, in this case) - someone for whom integrity is more important than convenience or easy gratification. And, of course, integrity is a journey. We don’t simply have it. First, we have to discover it. Then we have to earn it." Dark Magical Girl: Rather like Elena, she's not evil, but has issues. In Linden's case, those would be depression, mistrust, and a degree of power-hunger she mostly keeps hidden even from herself. Lord Foul's Bane was a critical and commercial success, and is now seen as one of the crowning achievements within the fantasy genre. The Corrupter: One of his goals is to drag as many people into Despite as possible. His success rate is fairly alarming. Word of God even notes that the true nature of Foul's power, in contrast to the flashy elemental magic of the setting's other main godlike beings, the Elohim, is his ability to warp people and things to his service. Demonic Possession: Like his Ravers, Foul knows how to do this. Unlike them, while he exists primarily as spirit, Foul does have the ability to interact with the physical world on his own, so he rarely possesses people unless possessing that specific person gets him something he wants like possessing Joan to torment Covenant. He's also one of the various beings who can possess Anele and later Jeremiah, and for his final confrontation with Covenant in The Last Dark, he possesses Roger.