Ripheus23

So it says in AATE that the magic crystal sword was made from crystal exposed to the Blood of the Earth. Loric got this crystal. He also knew the danger of the Blood, I think, from Damelon. In the fanfiction I wrote, though, I said that Loric knew the danger from seeing an evil Insequent and a quellvisk (some evil magical monster) use the Power of Command from the Blood to have one of the Elohim accept being possessed by one of the croyel. The outcome was that the croyel, feeding on the Elohim, could not survive the power of it, and then the Elohim drove his enemies into the Blood, which destroyed them. Then the Elohim explained to Loric the grave danger of the Blood, and claimed that he was the Lord to protect that place.

But I guess it was Damelon, from the canon/lore, except Loric is talked about questing under the mountain, for the Blood, so I don't know...

And Amok says Kevin made him, yeah? Because Amok is himself one of the Seven Wards. But Amok is a way around the Door, from later than the Door by name, so, hmm...

I think the evil Insequent had studied the quellvisk species, but they knew of the EarthBlood, so, hmm...

Well, let's say Loric couldn't access the core zone, under the mountain, of the EarthBlood. Instead, he went a little deeper, where a secondary, but still powerfully concentrated, rivulet of Blood flowed. There should also be a flow of molten hurtloam below that... But then how does the Elohim scene make sense? Maybe it wouldn't. Or there would be some weird threat anyway, not as grave as that of Command...

Anyway, Loric would find a crystal which would have been energized by ages of exposure to the Blood, which is not a normal liquid, but which has the same positive density at all scales. It is a superabundant substance of prime matter, almost. This is why the Worm consuming the Blood will destroy time, because the Blood is infinitely dense/compacted.

Hmm... I wanted a scene just now, though, where Loric Commands the crystal to live... So the sword is alive, and it is in the books anyway. To an extent. But I wanted it to come alive like a Wraith of Andelain, to explain why the Wraiths were so enamored with the sword.

Also, the Ravers are like anti-Seven Words. They have no true names, and they *are* their false names. Magically speaking, I mean. So rending them meant breaking their names into letters, magically/metaphorically.