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Spiral Doom

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Spiral Doom

 

Spiral Doom was one of The Eight Elemental Constructs, representing the perverted force of elemental Air.

 

Spiral Doom could take three different forms. The first was simply that of an invisible force, though this was its weakest 'stealth' form. The second was that of a swirling dark vortex that would buffet its foes with epic gusts and shoot lightning at them. The third - and most epic - of its forms was that of a fine blueish mist, which would attack its enemies from without and within by seeping into their lungs and choking them.

 

First appearing in Book 10, Spiral Doom was the first Construct unleashed by the Dark Elemenstors as they prepared to restore Char Reyarteb to power, though we don't know it's true nature until Book 11 where the other seven Constructs are introduced. The Construct actually has a showdown with the Elemenstors Ubrith and Jarvelos. It's an epic battle, but Spiral Doom is victorious, killing Jarvelos with it's deadly mist form, and disappearing into the sky booming with mocking laughter.

 

This of course sets up Ubrith, who vows to avenge her fallen lover, to have a second climactic battle with the Construct of Air. Indeed she spends much of Book 11 searching for the fiendish Elemental. Unfortunately, the plot was never resolved. Ubrith doesn't even appear in Book 12.

 

Some rumours suggested that the plot was originally a major thread in Book 12, but ended up being cut for space. The Fans for a True Tycho Brahe Epic (FfaTTBE) choose to see this glaring omission as further proof that Tycho Brahe was not the only writer working on the epic. Still more rumours have circulated that The Fourteenth Manuscript contained a side plot that would wrap up this thread, as Ubrith had become one of the more popular characters in the series, and to have so blatantly dropped the plot was confusing to most.

 

Ultimately, Spiral Doom is never killed in the main series due to this rather glaring oversight, much to the dissatisfaction of many a fan.

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