: But what if Alric DID turn to a page near his own fate?
: You say his not being at the Devoid is how he
: survived. If Alric had died, this more than likely
: would have been a Dark age by now. But Alric survived,
: by not being at the Devoid. Why wasn't he there? Maybe
: he turned to a page that spoke of his death at the
: Great Devoid, and then didn't go there.
Perhaps. But you could just as easily say that every archmage who ever made a good decision did so because they successfully read the Codex. Even if Alric didn't suspect that disposing of Balor's head would be a risky business, there were legitimate reasons for him to be elsewhere. The war was still going on, and there were 3 other Fallen Lords to take care of.
: As for him not seeing Soulblighter's War... that brings
: up another interesting point. Who DID see
: Soulblighter's war, a mere 60 years into his own
: future? That's pretty close to one's own fate. And
: writing that information down in his journal helped
: the Light survive when Soulblighter returned with the
: Myrkridia, just as he foresaw... You see where I'm
: going with this?
Yeah, into insanity. The TFL narrator is *not* the reincarnation of Mazzarin. :-)
I don't think 60 years really counts as "close" to one's own fate. That's probably something like a million pages, given the amount of information per year the Codex must contain. If the Codex is useful at all, it must be possible for most sorcerers, at least, to get much more accurate readings than that.
--SiliconDream
