How would Hopper know what comes next much like how Rand or Ishmael would not know what comes next?
In this current time epoch, I am going to use the word season but understand I am talking about a season longer than months or years. In this current season, knowledge is transmitted via rules, via intuition, via social factors between people.
But if the Dark One wins, the nature of the rules, the nature of reality would change and how it would change is beyond human or dream wolf knowledge. It would be a different season, a different type of time.
In our season of life the sun rises every day and there is times of darkness with the moons and the stars. But what happens if the sun does not rise again, it is not predestined, thus all of knowledge rests on a concept of a cosmic axis. Anno Mundi, Axis Mundi, Contra Mundum, etc
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Hopper may be unreliable, but he is a good boy!!!