Maybe, but what's the point? - Edit 1
Before modification by DomA at 17/06/2010 04:59:04 AM
That's hardly the same as including her in the image, or at least convey the duality of saidin and saidar.
The illustration is a very weak concept, considering what the scene was, and represented thematically.
The most likely reason they didn't went for Rand and Nynaeve is because they had a concept very much like that for TPOD.
That was a mistake in the first place, to have chosen these two complementary scenes for two covers.
In Jordan's idea, the fixing the weather was like a prelude to the Cleansing of Saidin. It was the female deed, that reunited Kin, AS, "WO" and Windfinders for the first time, and performed a deed like the WT alone, or any of the groups, had never done. They had to come together for something like this to happen.
They overdid it, though, and there was no one to guide saidin because no man was in the circle to give access to it to the leader. The bowl drew saidin on its won, and did what it wanted with it. The OP went "wild"/mad in the whole area.
The Cleansing was the great deed that worked. A lot more ambitious, a lot more complex and impressive, driven by a man but with a woman at his side. It was the first time AS and Asha'man worked together - a pair lead by a man to cleanse the Taint, a woman to lead the battle against the Forsaken. Nynaeve placed her fate in Rand's hands, while Rand placed his in Cadsuane's. The male/female element of the Cleansing is massively important.
The TPOD cover is really nice, and it's a good idea to show Aviendha and Elayne and Nynaeve with the Bowl, but it really limited their options for WH.... Rand & Nynaeve would have looked pretty much the same as TPOD, and showing the three women like this also deprived them of the alternative choice of showing Rand bonded by Min, Elayne and Aviendha for WH.
Anyway.. it's a nice enough image, but it's just not a good concept for the scene they sought to depict.
The illustration is a very weak concept, considering what the scene was, and represented thematically.
The most likely reason they didn't went for Rand and Nynaeve is because they had a concept very much like that for TPOD.
That was a mistake in the first place, to have chosen these two complementary scenes for two covers.
In Jordan's idea, the fixing the weather was like a prelude to the Cleansing of Saidin. It was the female deed, that reunited Kin, AS, "WO" and Windfinders for the first time, and performed a deed like the WT alone, or any of the groups, had never done. They had to come together for something like this to happen.
They overdid it, though, and there was no one to guide saidin because no man was in the circle to give access to it to the leader. The bowl drew saidin on its won, and did what it wanted with it. The OP went "wild"/mad in the whole area.
The Cleansing was the great deed that worked. A lot more ambitious, a lot more complex and impressive, driven by a man but with a woman at his side. It was the first time AS and Asha'man worked together - a pair lead by a man to cleanse the Taint, a woman to lead the battle against the Forsaken. Nynaeve placed her fate in Rand's hands, while Rand placed his in Cadsuane's. The male/female element of the Cleansing is massively important.
The TPOD cover is really nice, and it's a good idea to show Aviendha and Elayne and Nynaeve with the Bowl, but it really limited their options for WH.... Rand & Nynaeve would have looked pretty much the same as TPOD, and showing the three women like this also deprived them of the alternative choice of showing Rand bonded by Min, Elayne and Aviendha for WH.
Anyway.. it's a nice enough image, but it's just not a good concept for the scene they sought to depict.