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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 455274" data-attributes="member: 307">If they emulate Lord Foul by taking vengeance, then they become Lord Foul.You don't get it do you? Covenant didn't derive his power from the ring, that was only a symbol. Covenant was the power of wild magic. That is why Lord Foul was unable to overcome him in the final confrontation.A proposition completely unsupported by the book. The Lords were only able to overcome Drool's forces because Covenant unleashed the power of wild magic to create a lava flow that consumed the ur-viles. The Lord's own forces were being slaughtered until that point.Or he could just go to Lord Foul and give the white gold to him directly.That is not what allowed Lord Foul to return. He could return because he was not truly defeated, the Illearth Stone still existed among other things.Lord Foul could not have been destroyed any other way, no matter what Covenant had done at any point in the story. The wild magic had to be purged from within, and the only way to do that would be for its embodiment to sacrifice himself.I think you missed much of the point of the story.</blockquote>