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Re: If you can stay on subject, yes. Zeratul Send a noteboard - 12/11/2010 10:56:44 AM
Elayne intended to use the Band and the rest of her armies against Perrin only as a last resort to suppress an attempt to revive Manetheren and take over half of Andor, or even try to take over te whole of Andor. As far as she knew when she first met Mat in ToM, this was a distinct possibility since Perrin had raiased a big army, raised the Manetheren banner and also had this fight with Rand before he left for Ghealdan (she doesn't know this was staged). As far as she knew before meeting him, Perrin's forces may have had no intention of participating in the Last Battle and raising them to take over part of Andor is just as likely.

As for Cairhien, she tried to take over it peacefully and it cost us quite a bit of of her personal holdings, which she would have to use to compensate those Andoran nobles which lands were used to convince the Cairhienian nobles to support her. This doesn't strike me as an action of someone who cares only for her personal power and Andor's expansion.

My reading about the mentioning of the Band "as part of my army" in Cairhien is that she intended to use the fact she has the support of so many Cairhienian soldiers (including quite a few nobles) as a tool to convince the other nobles there to accept here easier and with minimum fighting, preferably none at all.
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So about the nobility. - 09/11/2010 06:53:34 AM 1275 Views
Thank you. I couldn't put a finger on why that bothered me. - 09/11/2010 08:27:26 AM 858 Views
Re: Thank you. I couldn't put a finger on why that bothered me. - 09/11/2010 06:56:35 PM 736 Views
that is how suicidial thoughts are usually formed in RL *NM* - 11/11/2010 06:03:21 PM 356 Views
I don't have any problems with this - they are trying to get more power to survive. - 09/11/2010 04:08:22 PM 895 Views
If that power is needed to survive, how will those she takes it from survive? - 09/11/2010 09:23:15 PM 831 Views
I disagree - 09/11/2010 07:28:39 PM 776 Views
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Yes, of course... - 10/11/2010 01:36:30 AM 813 Views
If you can stay on subject, yes. - 10/11/2010 03:22:49 AM 969 Views
Re: If you can stay on subject, yes. - 12/11/2010 10:56:44 AM 794 Views
Re: If you can stay on subject, yes. - 14/11/2010 03:13:07 AM 658 Views
*Scratches head* - 09/11/2010 10:59:29 PM 830 Views
Re: *Scratches head* - 09/11/2010 11:50:00 PM 903 Views
Damn... - 10/11/2010 01:27:28 AM 731 Views
Re: Damn... - 10/11/2010 04:38:23 AM 728 Views
Ridiculous - 12/11/2010 07:20:13 AM 853 Views
Uh-huh. - 14/11/2010 03:51:49 AM 789 Views
Re: Damn... - 12/11/2010 11:05:52 AM 750 Views
You make a valid point. - 14/11/2010 02:53:46 AM 1023 Views
Re: So about the nobility. - 10/11/2010 05:28:50 PM 760 Views

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