So here's an interesting question: what happens if no one goes to the well to claim the power? Does it just sit there? Or would it go free/randomly start doing things?
Moot point. With the millennial power gathering, Ruin's influence would increase, and he would manipulate things so drastically until someone was at the Well.
However... I would really like if this "millennial power" wasn't just an arbitrary sort of thing, like, not just something that happens every thousand years. Where does the power come from? Why does it gather here? It seems to me that there has to be some overriding reason to the Well's existence, and thus far, no theory on this site has given a clear answer.
And no, you can't say "Ruin gathered the power". That's insanity. I was under the impression that Ruin's influence increased because the Well's power was gathering (simply put, there needs to be a reason in the time of Alendi for Ruin to send out the Deepness specifically at Alendi and Kwaan's time, not centuries earlier. Linking Ruin's strength to the gathering of the Well gives the reason for this--Ruin wasn't manipulating the Hero of Ages and all of that with Alendi a century or two earlier because the Well was not ready yet. Note, I think it was Andrew who linked this up. Thanks man
). Thus, Ruin would already be a weaker force without the Well's power gathered... I mean, its like saying that car works by gasoline... but if it doesn't have gasoline, the car is going to magically create its own gasoline (despite, you know, not working.).
There is something bigger here... something we haven't even touched upon yet...
