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Not completely true Skeeve the Great Send a noteboard - 15/11/2010 07:48:15 PM
The rotting is part of the Dark One's touch. Corruption, death, and so on. Rand, as the champion of the Creator represents life. The food in the sacks didn't spoil when they were opened, they were always rotten. The food in the other sacks didn't "unspoil" from Rand's presence, they were always good. Of course the outcome depends on Rand's state and presence, but he doesn't turn bad food into good, that would be unnatural. The state of the food cannot be known until the sacks are opened, Rand's presence simply did what his presence has done since the beginning of the series, since The Dragon Reborn, at least: cause an extremely unlikely outcome to be true. Only now, thanks to his position as Light's champion, that result is one that favours life.

This only works because the state of the food was theoretically unknown, so while it was rational of Iralin to suspect that the sacks not opened would be rotten as well, he didn't know. Rand could not have caused an impossible scenario to be true, only a highly implausible one.


I agree with the premise that we didn't know the state of the food and thus it can be anything. But I don't think law of uncertainty was implied here. It would be quite frankly ridiculous.

On the other hand, we first hand saw as Rand changed the food – apples in the Prologue. They had fallen, were small and started to rot. Rand let them rot, but grew new ones. Basically it’s very similar to what Perrin did in TAR when he willed the grass to be green and surroundings “to smell” right.

I think it’s closely related to “belief and order” thing. In case of grain for Rand, and in case of grass in TAR for Perrin, they both willed their belief of correct order into existence and their surroundings.

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