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The biggest thing coming of this chapter is the fact that it isn't the same old chronicles anymore.
In the First Chrons, there was one Big Bad - Lord Foul - his important henchmen in Drool and the Ravers, and his various minions...
In the Second Chrons we get a greater variety of foes or potential foes when we go voyaging with the Giants - but in the Land itself we have one Big Bad - Lord Foul, his most important henchmen in the Ravers, and his various minions, primarily from the Clave - but with the Land itself so socially corrupted, practically anyone you meet would be happy to shed your blood for their village.
Now we have so many enemies and/or potential enemies, it is hard to keep track of them, and nearly impossible to know who is secretly up to doing what with whom. 
And so very many of them are so puissant. 
There is still Lord Foul and the Ravers. Nasty Kasty and his fiery little friends. Roger Covenant. Joan Covenant, though the woman is so crazy she might be just a force for chaos rather than an enemy as such. The Harrow, who sounds like he might be an Insequent gone bad, as two others of his race have sacrificed their sanity and lives to stop his plans...now we learn that there are at least six sandgorgons running around (and we have yet to learn why they are here and what they are up to - let us hope that they are friends, but since they are mentally part Raver, I do not trust them - also we cannot forget that the elohim warned the Land against them). And we cannot forget the croyel. And the fact that the elohim are all mixed up in this somehow, too! And Esmer and perhaps even the haruchai have the potential to be enemies to Linden.
Who knows - maybe the Land will be torn apart by all of these factions jockeying for power rather than anything Linden might do in her ascending darkness of her spirit. 
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