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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Everett" data-source="post: 6256882" data-attributes="member: 21712">...Piratecat's need to mock things and then hit them aside, I guess that, since the Adversary is after all hundreds of feet tall, the company might "drive the spike through" him, and through the world itself.  But the Watcher's Kiss is just an ordinary-sized weapon (in fact it's a dagger, IIRC?), so I'm not sure where this theory can lead.******************One at last, but not yet known.One forever dead as stone.One to drive the spike clean through.One to die, and hope renew.******************Heres my speculation, currently: this verse refers to two people.  One in the first two lines, one in the last 2 lines.  One of the party, the one who "drives the spike" will indeed die, and renew hope.  The spike will be driven through the Adversary; as before, it will wound him, not kill him, and the campaign will end with him in a similar position to where he's always been; imprisoned or incapacitated for another age.  "But in another time, in another place, his evil may rise again, and another band of heroes be called to meet him..." Ozilinsh intoned, somberly... cue credits and endgame music.The "one forever dead as stone" is not one of the party; it is not someone the party has ever met.  It's someone they'll learn of down here in the core, someone who perhaps once challenged the Adversary or Emperor Skewn, was killed and made a gruesome example of.  Somehow this being imparts information to the company (a book in its tomb, perhaps, or speaking with its shade, what have you) that proves crucial in the final confrontation.</blockquote>

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