TheStarsAreRight:Thoughts
'til death...
Now that Henrik has 'died', I wonder if he and Rebecca need to get married again...
Destroying the 'magic'
The more I think about it, the more I wonder what is/was wrong with the KoF's plan to cap the 'Well of Souls'. Sure, it'll 'kill' all of the magic in the world or somesuch. But why should anyone care? The world certainly seemed to be getting along fine for the first 30 years of my life, without any magic (well, until the governments overexpanded credit distorting the markets... but that's a different story). I know I wouldn't miss it.
It has also been mentioned that this would leave the KoF ascendant, while crippling the KoB and KoL. Again, who cares? We could, presumably, do something to shackle the power of the KoF, and if there is no magic, what does it matter that the other Kings have no power?
It has further been mentioned that this would leave the world unprepared for the next time that Outsiders came. But this wouldn't be for another 100,000 years or so. Who knows what mankind will have done in that time. We've made remarkable advances over the last 200 years. With 500 times that much time, we'll have likely built planes that can fly into space. We can colonize the rest of the universe. Maybe we'll have already taken the fight to the Outsiders and made peace with them on our own terms. If nothing else, if capping the well causes them to ignore us this time, why wouldn't it be more of the same the next time?
It has also been said that mankind will do itself great damage, somehow, with machines in the next 50-100 years. But that's just a vision induced by 'magic'. Seeing as how the magic is said to be (in some ways) a living force, is it not possible that it is acting in self-preservation? Showing us images that get it the outcome it wants? Again, if nothing else, this is just a possible outcome. Forewarned is forearmed.
One additional thought: Why is it that we couldn't just 'cap the well' until the 'time of crisis' passed? It's only supposed to last a couple more years, I think. Is it because the world can't fix itself without the magic, so that the 'time of crisis' becomes everlasting? But that doesn't sound right, because it is my understanding that the well was capped previously. Hmmm. I guess I'll need to ask somebody about this.
