I think on the one hand it will be worse but I don't think it will be much worse. We already know that half of the seals are already gone. It's possible that the DO influence will double but it may actually diminish some. Think of water coming out of a blocked hose. There's a point where it's seeping through, a point when it's shooting out from being forced through a small opening and a point where it's running strongly but not as far. The bubbles of evil whetehr they represent seeping or shooting they should stop as soon as the seals are removed. The blight might extend further but I think the DO might have more trouble making his power spread as far as he can in the "shooting" stage. Remember the WOP took place for hundreds of years, the world can survive the current size of the bore at least to a degree.
I think the idea of pressure that you have is probably not correct. We know that the DO is easily powerfull enough to destroy reality itself, so to use your analogy, there is likely more than enough water that opening the bore fully will simply increase the rate of water flow and flood the world even faster.
Currently, the bore is thankfully small enough that the DO can only influence the world to a limited degree, but the bigger the bore, the worse the effect on the world. Breaking all the seals would not free the DO, but it would certainly allow the DO to touch the world more openly, which is not good. It would also allow the DO to once again start enlarging the bore and coming closer to full freedom. Not a good thing.
It should also be said that the War of Power lasted only ten years, and the people at the time were likely far more capable of resisting/surviving the DO's attacks both due to their advanced technology and their advanced One Power capabilities. The people of the third age are not so lucky, so the fact Rand wants to break the seals without a good plan is even more bizarre.
The bore was open for a hundred years if I remember correctly and while there was famine and other effects the drastic effects represented by bubbles of evil have never been referred to in any AOL scene.
Crazy theory about the seals.
- 22/11/2010 03:45:36 PM
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I think Rand's dream of Cyndane will lead him to ...
- 22/11/2010 04:57:16 PM
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- 22/11/2010 05:10:19 PM
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He's probably banking on his ta'veren aura to force the Pattern to reveal how to Seal the Bore.
- 23/11/2010 02:18:09 AM
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Rand will seal the Bore with the TP and sacrifice himself in the process. *NM*
- 22/11/2010 06:09:57 PM
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I think you make it too complicated for nothing..
- 23/11/2010 03:05:08 AM
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Not sure I agree.
- 23/11/2010 03:43:00 PM
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I regard to making ti worse...
- 23/11/2010 06:31:36 PM
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- 23/11/2010 08:05:19 PM
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Re: I regard to making ti worse...
- 29/11/2010 11:56:18 PM
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They've nearly lost the Borderlands... THERE IS NO TIME LEFT *NM*
- 29/11/2010 12:34:38 AM
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