Linden Avery

A Coherent Description

Linden is a true heroine / a useless whiny bitch / a questionable character who may be dunno what. She kicks ass / whines and does nothing / is occupied in various activities. Together with Thomas Covenant and other characters from the books about him, she saves the land / gets in the way of the real hero / aims at some results with various and questionable success.

A Coherenter Description

Appearance and Character

Gothic Linden Avery — In the Last Chronicles, Linden has embraced the goth subculture and summons black flames from her Staff. Here posing for an Linden's Army promo poster.

Linden is depicted as a voluptuous (well, reasonably voluptuous, but certainly not on a par with even a flatter-chested giantess) woman with wheaten - presumably as opposed to ryeish or barleylike - hair, some premature worrylines around her mouth, and a cool, businesslike façade. Beyond this relatively normal façade roils a veritable turbulence of angst and self-doubt contributing to blacker than black moods which any death metal lyricist would be proud to achieve during songwriting. In the 2nd Chronicles, she has reached the age of 30. She does not indulge in pink frills, but wears regular jeans, a red flannel shirt, and sturdy boots.

By the era of the 3rd Chronicles, ten years later, she retains the appearance of a comely mama bear, with some gray around her temples and a slim enough figure to still put the hearts (and sickeningly also the loins) of fanboys aflutter.

Fans, Thoolahian cultists and the undecided meh-attitudists in-between experience a spectrum of reactions stretching from infrared all the way beyond ultraviolet over this character, particularly what with her tendency to weep in every other paragraph and to continually get lost in despairingly agonized self-analysis, a thing which all too often prevents her from achieving anything at all. Some cannot stomach such a trauma-laden stressball; some identify and sympathize with her due to reasons of their own.