Moridin has one massive asset: he wishes for himself something only Shai'tan can give him - the final death of his soul - and his best chance to get that is to ensure Shai'tan's final victory.
Moridin is the only Chosen truly motivated to do anything and everything to make Shai'tan win, and who make any personal agenda a distant second to that. Moridin is Nae'blis because he's the only Chosen who puts so little value in the position itself and understands it must be him because all the others are too self-serving and ambitious. Moridin doesn't care for the title or to boss the Chosen around, all he cares about is using them like pawns on a board moving toward Shai'tan's victory. He sees the Chosen, even himself, exactly like Shai'tan does see them: expandable means to an end. An end he wishes for too.
Moridin is the only Chosen truly motivated to do anything and everything to make Shai'tan win, and who make any personal agenda a distant second to that. Moridin is Nae'blis because he's the only Chosen who puts so little value in the position itself and understands it must be him because all the others are too self-serving and ambitious. Moridin doesn't care for the title or to boss the Chosen around, all he cares about is using them like pawns on a board moving toward Shai'tan's victory. He sees the Chosen, even himself, exactly like Shai'tan does see them: expandable means to an end. An end he wishes for too.
If anything, it was the other Forsaken, not Ishamael/Moridin who were duped by the title of Nae'blis. Moridin knows exactly what the DO and is willing to achieve it. Demandred doesn't. Recall from his POV in WH where he thinks about how crazy Moridin is, he thinks that some of his plans and order were nothing but sheer madness. Well, they weren't madness because the goal was the same as the DO's: to destroy all of creation. Naturally, Demandred thinks it's madness because the annihilation of everything isn't his goal, it's to rule over the whole world or at least his own private empire.
The whole title of Nae'blis was created by the DO because he wasn't happy with the infighting among the Forsaken and he was trying to bring them to heel. It's probably no coincidence that the first we hear of Nae'blis is in LoC when Moridin's soul is still being "processed" by the DO and Ishy isn't around calling the shots. And the DO is enforcing his will, not just with the empty title, but by Moridin's exclusive access to the TP and through Shaidar Haran.
Could Moridin be a false Nae'blis whom the DO wants to replace with Demandred?
05/07/2010 05:11:43 PM
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Not a chance...
05/07/2010 06:30:38 PM
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I agree
06/07/2010 04:44:30 AM
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What about winning?
06/07/2010 09:24:11 AM
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Remember what Verin said? Don't analyse the DO with human values..
06/07/2010 10:20:37 AM
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Assuming Verin is right
06/07/2010 08:09:02 PM
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Re: Assuming Verin is right
06/07/2010 08:44:22 PM
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Re: Assuming Verin is right
06/07/2010 09:06:20 PM
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Exactly. The Dark One just needs to get free. Then he can break the Pattern at his leisure...
06/07/2010 09:48:10 PM
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Well I agree and disagree
06/07/2010 09:55:49 PM
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Sure. That's for RAND to win. For the Dark One to win, it is as simple as just killing Rand...
06/07/2010 09:58:30 PM
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Says who?
06/07/2010 10:04:31 PM
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Because Rand is the only one who can stop him from breaking free.
06/07/2010 10:05:52 PM
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Sadly no. But it would have made for a more enthralling physical war...
05/07/2010 06:54:11 PM
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Demandred?
06/07/2010 12:44:56 AM
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Moridin is to blame because he is a symbol of RJ's choice to make this a metaphysical war...
06/07/2010 12:56:32 PM
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Re: Sadly no. But it would have made for a more enthralling physical war...
06/07/2010 02:31:31 AM
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Will be interesting to see...
06/07/2010 07:19:41 AM
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Re: Will be interesting to see...
06/07/2010 07:36:00 PM
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I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
06/07/2010 02:25:47 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
06/07/2010 07:52:54 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
06/07/2010 08:03:12 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
06/07/2010 08:58:38 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
06/07/2010 10:32:39 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
07/07/2010 06:03:46 AM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
07/07/2010 03:58:19 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
07/07/2010 06:30:33 AM
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I claimed long time ago that Demandred is an agent of Light
07/07/2010 04:29:28 PM
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But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
07/07/2010 06:47:12 PM
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Re: But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
07/07/2010 08:04:21 PM
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Re: But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
07/07/2010 11:38:40 PM
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Re: But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
08/07/2010 12:37:08 AM
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Nah, we already got that twist....it was cool when Verin did it, but RJ wouldn't overuse the idea *NM*
08/07/2010 01:15:46 AM
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That would make Demandred my new favourite character
08/07/2010 10:15:41 AM
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