the only way i can see anything changing for the future would be if Avienda could be present at the time the pact is entered. Could the timing work? She is the only person who would put two and two together and maybe help avoid this bleak future.
If DomA is right and the future Avi saw was pre VoG, when Rand was the Dark Rand, then it's possible that new Rand, the Light Rand, could pass alone some Light genes to his Aiel kids. After all, his kids were the ones that started all this dark future in the first place.
I don't think it was Dark Rand's viewing she saw. The viewing shows an important part of Rand's legacy, namely the Peace of the Dragon, which Light Rand heavily implies he will request as part of his price to fight the Dark One.
And of course, there is no post-TG viewing for a Dark Rand. The wolves made that clear.
I should have read this before i replied. As always, you have expressed the point succinctly and accurately.
Avienda's viewing and the Fields of Merrilor (spoilers)
- 28/12/2010 06:21:05 PM
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Indeed...the bleak future makes the Last Battle almost an anti-climax...
- 28/12/2010 08:20:31 PM
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And yet, the only places of relative peace and shelter right now are Seanchan controlled lands.
- 29/12/2010 03:21:37 AM
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Those who would give up permanent liberty in exchange for temporary security, deserve neither..
- 29/12/2010 10:27:35 AM
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Says the person defending monarchies and oligarchies, some of them quite brutal.
- 29/12/2010 02:12:56 PM
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LoL. What is this "POV trap" that people refer to so often to make a point?
- 29/12/2010 10:00:11 PM
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Re: LoL. What is this "POV trap" that people refer to so often to make a point?
- 29/12/2010 10:44:12 PM
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Why do you have this urge to overcomplicate something as simple as personal likes and dislikes?
- 30/12/2010 10:00:43 AM
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Re: Why do you have this urge to overcomplicate something as simple as personal likes and dislikes?
- 07/01/2011 05:28:03 PM
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"romantic characteristics"
- 07/01/2011 06:06:31 AM
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Re: "romantic characteristics"
- 07/01/2011 05:30:33 PM
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Don't blame the Seanchan, The Aiel made an excuse to start a war.
- 08/01/2011 09:20:36 AM
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Re: Those who would give up permanent liberty in exchange for temporary security, deserve neither..
- 29/12/2010 03:06:16 PM
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They are pretty close to evil. Slavery being the big thing, but the crushing social scale is far
- 31/12/2010 06:45:59 PM
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The Aiel sold slaves to Shara, does that make them evil? No society in Randland is without flaws.
- 07/01/2011 05:10:32 AM
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you are missing my point
- 07/01/2011 11:31:11 PM
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No, you're missing the point. Benevolence is irrelevant.
- 08/01/2011 09:48:51 AM
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Re: No, you're missing the point. Benevolence is irrelevant.
- 08/01/2011 10:04:18 AM
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Well the Westlands aren't exactly modern Europe or USA either
- 08/01/2011 11:00:31 AM
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Re: Well the Westlands aren't exactly modern Europe or USA either
- 09/01/2011 02:08:17 AM
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That's funny, I'd choose modern day China in a second.
- 09/01/2011 06:37:24 AM
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Hong Kong is not an accurate representation of the rest of Modern China
- 20/01/2011 04:50:20 PM
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~sigh~ Cosmopolitan China is different than Rural China
- 21/01/2011 01:00:17 AM
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well there is also the fact that Hong Kong has different "rules" than even other major
- 21/01/2011 05:38:46 PM
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I'm not just talking about Hong Kong though...
- 22/01/2011 09:36:20 AM
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I've traveled extensively
- 22/01/2011 06:02:47 PM
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You've traveled to China extensively?
- 22/01/2011 07:41:30 PM
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the quesetion you responded too is "would you rather live in Medieval Europe of Modern China
- 22/01/2011 09:47:24 PM
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Actually, China is changing.
- 09/01/2011 06:32:58 AM
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true to a point, yet China has been under one form or another of totalitarian rule for
- 20/01/2011 04:57:37 PM
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So?
- 21/01/2011 01:20:18 AM
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It's the comparative to the Seanchan empire I'm really getting at here, not saying China isn't
- 21/01/2011 05:43:56 PM
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I don't even know why China was brought up in the first place ~shrugs~
- 22/01/2011 10:04:59 AM
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I totally agree with your last point, which is why I think RJ set them up to be the "Evil Empire"
- 22/01/2011 06:12:46 PM
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They're not entirely evil though, and RJ has written them that way
- 22/01/2011 08:02:22 PM
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Please. Like anyone else in Randland is really free?
- 30/12/2010 02:47:27 AM
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Andor is rather progressive... Allowing the common people to speak their minds
- 31/12/2010 06:35:29 PM
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Re: Andor is rather progressive... Allowing the common people to speak their minds
- 01/01/2011 12:18:46 AM
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Seanchan is much closer to the Chinese culture. Which has never established democracy
- 01/01/2011 06:12:10 AM
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Prussia (and with it Germany) would never have changed to democracy if not forced to
- 01/01/2011 12:23:34 PM
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too easy: they did not have to fight the Shadow, they don't even know shadowspawn really exist as of *NM*
- 29/12/2010 02:44:18 PM
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It goes beyond the channelers. The Seanchan control the population
- 31/12/2010 06:00:57 PM
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Re: It goes beyond the channelers. The Seanchan control the population
- 01/01/2011 10:58:22 PM
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Word, even the Tinkers are gathering and migrating to Seanchan held lands in the south. *NM*
- 07/01/2011 05:21:09 AM
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You are right, here is a better analogy
- 03/01/2011 06:23:16 PM
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Even Hitler didn't think Jews could kill people with their minds
- 03/01/2011 07:22:09 PM
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It depends on Rand's sperm I guess
- 28/12/2010 08:27:59 PM
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- 28/12/2010 08:27:59 PM
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No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
- 28/12/2010 08:31:27 PM
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Re: No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
- 28/12/2010 08:50:28 PM
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Re: No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
- 30/12/2010 03:56:55 PM
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Because the Aiel are savages who have no place in a modern world
- 28/12/2010 11:15:23 PM
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Re: No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
- 30/12/2010 04:01:00 PM
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Re: It depends on Rand's sperm I guess
- 28/12/2010 11:02:34 PM
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- 28/12/2010 11:02:34 PM
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VoG = Veins of Gold. The chapter at the end of TGS where Rand becomes balanced. *NM*
- 29/12/2010 06:56:38 AM
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Re: It depends on Rand's sperm I guess
- 29/12/2010 04:37:04 AM
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- 29/12/2010 04:37:04 AM
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Re: It depends on Rand's sperm I guess
- 30/12/2010 04:02:31 PM
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- 30/12/2010 04:02:31 PM
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timeline in the books
- 29/12/2010 03:34:45 PM
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Re: timeline in the books
- 29/12/2010 05:29:11 PM
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Re: timeline in the books
- 31/12/2010 01:18:32 PM
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yes thousands and thousands AFTER hundreds of years. these kids were probably slowing since birth.
- 03/01/2011 08:19:22 PM
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Re: yes thousands and thousands AFTER hundreds of years.
- 04/01/2011 12:21:59 PM
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your premise is that first generation applies to anyone but them.
- 10/01/2011 09:25:02 PM
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From a plot standpoint I very much dislike Avienda's visions as well
- 20/01/2011 01:39:37 AM
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Problem is, the fate of post-TG Randland depends on the viewing being heeded before TG. *NM*
- 20/01/2011 10:07:15 AM
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The Light's victory in the Last Battle was already a foregone conclusion
- 21/01/2011 03:48:54 PM
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