How can the unseen foe be Slayer, if Slayer is explicitely mentioned one sentence before as one of the specters, who hunt Perrin?
I agree. That'd be repeating Slayer twice (almost in a row), and in the context it's clear Harriet want the "unseen threat" to be mysterious, so it wouldn't have done at all to remind us of Slayer right before if that was him.
I don't think "unseen" implies TAR necessarily either. To me in the context I think it implies Perrin isn't aware of the threat, or he can't find the source.
The way Harriet chose to mention Slayer along the wolves, it sounds like it's the fact Slayer is killing wolves that Perrin will have to deal with.
The only thing remotely interesting is that if Slayer tries to scout Perrin's camp as "Lord Luc" he's making a big mistake, with Basel "I worship the Andoran Royalty" Gill, Lini Eltring and Morgase there. They would know he's Luc Mantear right away. Perhaps Galad too, though he must have been really young when Luc vanished.
A full picture of the US cover art and a longer synopsis
30/04/2010 02:02:14 PM
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Hmmm...
30/04/2010 02:28:14 PM
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I've really no idea (about the text or the cover). My first thought about the foe was Demandred *NM*
30/04/2010 02:36:30 PM
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I agree with you Etzel - I think the unseen foe is Slayer. "Unseen" may imply operating from T'A'R *NM*
30/04/2010 02:40:51 PM
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I meant that the text implies that Slayer and the unseen foe are different people.
30/04/2010 02:49:10 PM
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Yeah, it does
30/04/2010 03:48:25 PM
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Or, as said, the unseen foe is Aran'gar...
30/04/2010 04:02:33 PM
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Ah, ok. I don't agree, then!
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30/04/2010 04:13:16 PM
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I'm assuming the text is fake as well, or they would have released it during Jordancon *NM*
30/04/2010 03:37:34 PM
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Ugh. My two least favorite characters seem like they get all the screen time in this book.
30/04/2010 02:39:34 PM
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The unseen foe might also be Fain, who we know will also show up in ToM. *NM*
30/04/2010 03:00:07 PM
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Dude on the right looks like a tinker, and ya, Thom's legs look really really short for his torso *NM*
30/04/2010 03:30:54 PM
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Hm, ya. The cover is a fake.
30/04/2010 03:34:36 PM
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I think you're right
30/04/2010 04:59:28 PM
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Sweet has some serious problems with proportions of body parts...
30/04/2010 07:11:52 PM
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Still an atrocious cover. I hope this isn't the final version *NM*
30/04/2010 08:01:07 PM
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This is the cover to Loial's book, this is how everyone actually looks to an Ogier! *NM*
01/05/2010 06:15:21 AM
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