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She escaped... just like Moghedien escaped Salidar Sidious Send a noteboard - 06/08/2010 06:05:14 PM

She did not escape through her own merits, or by taking advantage of a situation that afforded her a chance to get away, or by people helping her as part of a pre-arranged plan on her part.


But she did escape.

The contention of most who supported the escape was that she was captured too easily, which suggested to them that her capture was with her permission and at her will.


Well that's their problem. My contention was that she escaped in the War of Power using intimidation, so I thought it was a clue that it would happen again.

This was not the case. Whatever the similarity or distinction of your contention (and to be fair, the whole "Semirhage is too mighty to be contained" notion is not unimaginable for you), it was made in the midst of a slew of errant predictions with just that basis.


I don't really see the merit of your statement. I didn't think that Semirhage would remain captured and she did escape. I also claimed that she would go on a torture rampage, which she did. If you're upset because I didn't predict that SH would release Semirhage and that she'd torture Min using the DB, I'll admit that I didn't have that level of foresight.

As it is, the people you cite above (with whom I agreed) were right. While various Aes Sedai might have been intimidated by her in captivity, there was no indication that any of them were so far gone as to being amenable to cooperation with an escape.


True, though they were on their way to being chronically frightened of her. It would have taken a few more months and she would have broken them.

No other parties were permitted access to her, so more sensible and tougher-minded people were not even given the chance to laugh in her face.


Tougher than the Aiel Wise Ones?

And Cadsuane hit upon the key to winning the psych-out war against her, which seems highly unlikely for the people of the 2nd Age who were likely in as much awe of the Power & those who worked with it as we are of Science in the 20th & 21st centuries.


Cadsuane spent several weeks trying to get her mind past the Legend. When she did that she realized how easy it was to break Semirhage. You're not impressed by Semirhage, but that's because you're scoffing at it from a distance. If some biblical legend appeared on earth there is a good chance you'd be intimidated and concentrate on their legend and find their weaknesses harder to see.
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