Re: How can Rand repair the bore? More importantly, what forms the boundary of the Wheel itself? - Edit 1
Before modification by Demortae at 25/06/2010 01:31:15 PM
Some spare thoughts:
The wheel of time is just that, time. The dark one's prison is the fact that time is a repeating cycle of 7 ages. His only chance at breaking free from this cycle is to "persuade" the only meaningful variable in this cycle (people) to break from the routine of the wheel, and thus rendering the wheel an imperfect circle. I would argue that he would have to do this to a ta'veren, possibly even exclusively to Rand. Although, if Rand were killed, it seems likely the pattern would tighten around Mat and Perrin. This would go a ways in explaining the "kill him, don't kill him" edicts.
Lews Therin created a One Power barrier with cuendillar disks as focal points, to absorb the force directed at it. The one power cannot weaken cuendillar, but apparently the true power can. Whatever the original encasement of the DO, the one power was obviously successful in manipulating, but the true power could not have.
One of the oft overlooked details in the story is that darkhounds make prints on hard surfaces but not on the softest earth. As a being created by the true power, this may be a clue that the true power's weaknesses may be some mundane and easily overlooked substance, water for example.
The wheel of time is just that, time. The dark one's prison is the fact that time is a repeating cycle of 7 ages. His only chance at breaking free from this cycle is to "persuade" the only meaningful variable in this cycle (people) to break from the routine of the wheel, and thus rendering the wheel an imperfect circle. I would argue that he would have to do this to a ta'veren, possibly even exclusively to Rand. Although, if Rand were killed, it seems likely the pattern would tighten around Mat and Perrin. This would go a ways in explaining the "kill him, don't kill him" edicts.
Lews Therin created a One Power barrier with cuendillar disks as focal points, to absorb the force directed at it. The one power cannot weaken cuendillar, but apparently the true power can. Whatever the original encasement of the DO, the one power was obviously successful in manipulating, but the true power could not have.
One of the oft overlooked details in the story is that darkhounds make prints on hard surfaces but not on the softest earth. As a being created by the true power, this may be a clue that the true power's weaknesses may be some mundane and easily overlooked substance, water for example.