I think it's safe to say we've seen the DO make a few mistakes (the biggest of which will probably prove to be creating Padan Fain. )
There was no way for the DO to foresee Fain being "corrupted" (
) by Shadar Logoth.Law of Unintended Consequences. There was no way to foresee it, no, but had the DO not done what he did it wouldn't have been possible, and in the end it looks like it may prove the Shadow's undoing.
The Law is dumb. Sure it's applicable, but it doesn't make every action a mistake just because some unforeseen difficulty arises.
The chance of Fain coming in contact with Mordeth was laughably small. It was about the same probability that an Aes Sedai would show up just in time to save them and thwart their plans. It would have been a mistake not to create a Hound of the Shadow. Without Fain, Moiraine would have arrived at the Two Rivers, and left with the boys unopposed, making it that much harder to track them down.
I guess I just have a different definition for "mistake". The DO might regret it, but hindsight is 20/20. At the time, it was the best course of action.
Bad cost benefit analysis, IMHO. The risk of Padeth may have been small, but it was real, and probably catastrophic for the DO in the end. Conversely, the risk of Mo getting to Rand before the DO was much higher, but it's not game, set and match if that happens; he's still got very good chances of eventual victory. So it surely seemed like a good idea at the time, and probably still does. I just don't think it will turn out to be in the end.
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Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 08:35:55 AM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 11:52:10 AM
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As far as we know, they're just regular Oath Rod oaths. There's no surveillance
- 29/09/2010 09:50:16 PM
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It's poetic. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 11:59:05 AM
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agreed. "The hour of my death" sounds more threatening and foreboding. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 09:33:38 PM
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The Forsaken that created the Oaths in the first place must have messed up
- 29/09/2010 03:14:30 PM
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Most likely
- 29/09/2010 05:43:38 PM
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Although given how we know Oaths work, they wouldn't have to die.
- 29/09/2010 09:55:22 PM
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It's really, really stupid
- 29/09/2010 09:58:51 PM
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As with many previous similar debates regarding the Shadow
- 29/09/2010 10:18:03 PM
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Hah, Either they're SO SMART we just don't realize it... or they're idiots
- 01/10/2010 10:11:42 PM
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Jordan needed it this way to be able to write the deeply moving Verin confession scene
- 29/09/2010 10:39:22 PM
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it's not so much that they are dumb... they just have no common sense!
- 30/09/2010 05:57:03 PM
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It's less stupid than you think
- 29/09/2010 11:51:34 PM
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With the Black Ajah, you either agree to join, or you're murdered
- 01/10/2010 10:16:41 PM
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Translation error
- 30/09/2010 01:02:06 AM
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This would be awesome if true. Unfortunately, I don't think it is
- 01/10/2010 10:20:20 PM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 30/09/2010 04:20:05 PM
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Because no one is perfect.
- 01/10/2010 03:06:14 AM
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Padan Fain wasn't a mistake.
- 01/10/2010 03:56:28 AM
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Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 05:22:09 AM
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Re: Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 06:39:26 AM
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse. 
- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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I always hate that saying..ignorance is bliss! So it should be a valid excuse!
- 01/10/2010 07:36:52 AM
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That's not a mistake, that's bad luck (Yay for the Pattern 
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- 01/10/2010 03:48:32 PM
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- 01/10/2010 03:48:32 PM
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It was a calculated risk, but the wrong bet.
- 01/10/2010 03:57:32 PM
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