Perrin doesn't count since his information is from Hopper - Edit 1
Before modification by LadyLorraine at 03/12/2010 09:58:57 PM
and neither Hopper nor Birgitte are run of the mill humans, nor is their authority infallible.
Hopper may just be wrong, for reasons mentioned above, and wolf souls are not human souls, evidenced most plainly by the fact wolf souls go to T'A'R' and human souls do not.
Birgitte is a Hero of the Horn and thus tied to the Weave and inhabiting it. Furthermore, she has no evidence that the soul truly dies if it is killed in T'A'R'. Like Hopper, she just knows that it is no longer tied to the Horn, and thus no longer in T'A'R'.
In both these instances, the destination post-mortem is T'A'R'. However we know that the destination of human souls is NOT T'A'R'.
There are too many differences, and our information is from fallible sources. Birgitte herself has admitted to not being particularly knowledgeable about all things "magic", and Hopper is a wolf. As he has insisted over countless chapters in various ways, humans are not wolves and wolves are not humans.
Hopper may just be wrong, for reasons mentioned above, and wolf souls are not human souls, evidenced most plainly by the fact wolf souls go to T'A'R' and human souls do not.
Birgitte is a Hero of the Horn and thus tied to the Weave and inhabiting it. Furthermore, she has no evidence that the soul truly dies if it is killed in T'A'R'. Like Hopper, she just knows that it is no longer tied to the Horn, and thus no longer in T'A'R'.
In both these instances, the destination post-mortem is T'A'R'. However we know that the destination of human souls is NOT T'A'R'.
There are too many differences, and our information is from fallible sources. Birgitte herself has admitted to not being particularly knowledgeable about all things "magic", and Hopper is a wolf. As he has insisted over countless chapters in various ways, humans are not wolves and wolves are not humans.