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Covenant and the Humbled climb onto the shore to evade a tidal wave caused by the Worm's approach to the Land; they survive, though the Humbled's Ranyhyn mounts are lost. The morning sun has failed to dawn, and Thomas Covenant watches as the stars begin to wink out, one by one.
Linden Avery is now in charge of a clinic for the mentally ill and is responsible, among other things, for caring for Joan Covenant. Roger, son of Thomas and Joan, comes to visit for the first time in many years and seeks to take Joan out of care, claiming that he wants to assume responsibility for the task himself.
This was followed by another trilogy, The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and finally a tetralogy, The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The main character of the stories is Thomas Covenant, an embittered and cynical writer, afflicted with leprosy and shunned by society but fated to become the heroic savior of the Land, an alternate ...
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.
The lurker, grateful that Covenant and the Haruchai have exceeded the terms of their alliance, offers hurtloam to the two. Before leaving, Covenant asks the Feroce to convey a message to Linden to "remember forbidding". They then travel eastwards via teleportation with wild magic, watching the Worm of the World's End in the Sunbirth Sea as it ...
Linden, Covenant and Jeremiah depart Berek's camp, leaving the Theomach behind to fulfill his chosen role as Berek's guide. Whilst Covenant and Jeremiah attempt to teleport the trio to Melenkurion Skyweir, the source of the Earthblood, Linden is separated from them, and finds herself lost amongst the ancient forest of Garroting Deep.
Covenant's bargain with the Ranyhyn unintentionally tied them to the Land for decades, preventing them from escaping the ravages Lord Foul's preternatural winter. Likewise, Donaldson highlights many instances of the second aspect of the perilousness of power (i.e., the level of the wielder's self-awareness leading to positive or negative results).
The Ranyhyn, prescient and hyper-intelligent great horses in Steven Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant; Red Hare, the mount of Lü Bu and Guan Yu in the Chinese epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms; Rih, Kara Ben Nemsi's horse in Karl May's tales of the Orient