"he could do it too. Read my mind. p163 ObernewtynSo he was a farseeker? Perhaps he had coercing ability too?
"Then a boy came. He was different too. Nobody liked him much...he stood out. Jes said he made people feel uncomfortable. Then all of a sudden they were teh greatest of friends. I(Rosamunde) didnt like him and I knew Jes hadn't either. ...He became secretive and evasive after that. ...He said there were others...jhe said he could talk to people inside their heads...The boy had shown him what he was...a group...were secretly meeting. He wanted to runaway with these new friends and live somewhere else...
...Some of his Friends did not even come from our home. He ...could talk with them over great distances...A group of his people from Beldon had been uncovered and betrayed.
...They shot Jes with an arrow...I heard him cry out when he heard his friends had been killed that was when Jes...he did something. The man just stopped laughing an dfell over. He was Dead. ...One of them shot Jes. He died." p163-6 Obernewtyn
"...They showed me what they did to his friends..."p166 ObernewtynBut they dont actually show her his body. they wanted to take a live one back - maybe for experimentation
...The herders wanted to know more about his sort of misfit."p165Its possible he was taken to Heder Isle, experimented on and sent to LOTRQ in a state similar to Rushton was after Ariel was finished with him>:(
Min
Well the whole dodginess of Rosamunde's scenario was like this - she'd been tampered with quite easily by Elspeth to tell the Headkeepers that she was a Dreamer and fell into tainted water. Which meant she was susceptible to coercive action. Jes could have coerced her to believe she had seen his death. Or that BOY Rosamunde talks about could have - the one that came to the orphanhome and taught Jes to use his powers. I totally believe this was Ariel, explaining why he wasn't present at Obernewtyn during that time.
The scenario then could be that Ariel, as H'rayka, has been leading Jes, the Destroyer, on a totally seperate journey somehow and somewhere...
NO! ARGH, this is silly. It's not Jes. His coming back might simply be during the novel's conclusion, to round off the happy ending.
Min
How could Jes be Salamander? And why would he have to hide himself from the public? It makes more sense for the Druid to be Salamander, since he's fanatical about remaining hidden and unseen.
I kinda hope he doesn't come back...that this has all been a bit of a ruse, or an idea that she hasn't fully worked on yet - I can't see how Jes will come back...without it looking cheesy anyway. But I guess that's why I'm not writing these things :P
C'mon IC, surprise us!
HeartoftheDarkness
Jes wouldnt be looking for Elspeth because she 'died' in the storm at the end of the first book. Theres no way he could know that she's really alive
Brownie
easy at the moment she is innel because atthis is there, talking and advising and guiding her. but if atthis dies, coz she is an old bird, ariel might then make his move and somehoe persuade elf to become the destryer. not like atthis dies and ariel says' becom the destroyer' and elf goes ;okay' but more slwoey, like he will keep showing dreams of her loved ones being killed/ dead and then tell her something like you have to d something and they wont die and then she will become destroyer. ingenius isn't it!
fdzadia wrote.... Elspeth that her body could have healed itself but that it didn't know how to yet.
Jess is not Salamander; Salamander has dark skin