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Excellent point! darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 03/06/2010 12:50:03 PM
Some obscure beauty that briefly played the role of arm-candy to an important man and couldn't deal with him moving on...


Actually it's even worse. We know Mierin and LT were together then broke up while they were young and in training, not after LTT became "important". He realised she was with him not because she loved him, but because of his strength and talents, and he broke up.

Mierin was always nuts, and never got over a college fling.... LTT married Ilyena 50 years before the WOS and he has some grey hair, so that gives us an idea just how deranged Mierin Aronaille was.


Not only nuts but weak willed. Here is a woman with every advantage, clearly brilliant (she was a researcher after all), strong in the Power, beautiful. Yet so fundamentally flawed that even after living for well over 200 years she hadn't been able to get over being dumped. Not to mention how poorly she must have been viewed for being unable to earn the 3rd name despite her obvious advantages.

I have to say I think the reason Graendal became my favorite Forsaken was for this quote, which really highlights what we are discussing here.

tFoH
The First Sparks Fall

"If this Rand al'Thor really is Lews Therin Telamon reborn," Graendal went on, settling herself on the man's back where he crouched on all fours, "I am surprised you haven't tried to snuggle him into your bed, Lanfear. Or would it be so easy? I seem to remember Lews Therin led you by the nose, not the other way around. Squelched your little tantrums. Sent you running to fetch his wine, in a manner of speaking." She set her own wine on the tray, held out rigidly by the sightlessly kneeling woman. "You were so obsessed with him you'd have stretched out at his feet if he said 'rug'."
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
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the problem with your working out how strong they are is that it always begins with how much - 03/06/2010 02:14:08 PM 706 Views
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*NM* - 02/06/2010 03:54:04 PM 288 Views
beautiful post!!!!!! *NM* - 02/06/2010 04:03:55 PM 429 Views
Great post, but I would disagree with the top part - 02/06/2010 05:58:59 PM 750 Views
Re: Great post, but I would disagree with the top part - 03/06/2010 04:27:28 AM 745 Views
The pattern makes Rand the greatest man alive *NM* - 03/06/2010 10:35:05 AM 277 Views
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The point isn't her strength or beauty - 03/06/2010 03:01:03 PM 724 Views
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Reasonable scientific venture - 01/07/2010 10:23:06 AM 820 Views
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Meh. How do we know they aren't awarded the way the Nobel Peace Prize is in our world? - 02/06/2010 11:33:48 PM 674 Views
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Lews Therin browbeat the Third Name Committee! - 03/06/2010 07:48:41 AM 588 Views
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