Re: But that has always been the case. I am astounded that it isn't recognized more often...
fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 09/02/2011 07:47:14 AM
If Rand chose to kill himself, the world dies.
What if Moiraine chose to kill herself in the Two Rivers? Emond's Field is overrun, and Rand dies, so based on your logic, the world dies.
If Rand chose to return to the Two Rivers and refuse his destiny, the world dies.
And it does so if Perrin chooses not to heed the tugging he felt from Rand. Rand becomes a White Tower captive, and the world probably dies.
Rand is the be all and end all of this series. That's why I said all along that everyone who goes on about him getting a big head, or becoming authoritarian or wanting people to understand the gravity of his mission are missing the boat.
So Rand missed the boat too? Because he himself states that Cadsuane was right in what she tried to do.
Had he continued on, he would either have destroyed the Borderland army, or they'd have successfully killed him. Either case would have seen massive repercussions on the fight against the Shadow.
Rand is what matters. He is all that matters.
Nope. He's central to the fight, but without his support base, he's defeated. Min's viewing is very precise on that.
If Egwene never arrived, and the White Tower vanished in a puff of smoke, it wouldn't matter.
It would, based on Min's viewing. Practically, with no White Tower and formal union of female channelers, the Light would probably be defeated. With no Aes Sedai at all, Rand wouldn't be found and protected initially, nor would he later have a legion of competent women acting as his diplomats and healers and as a part of his army. With no Tower, Nynaeve never becomes conscious of her powers and thus there is no cleansing of Saidin. The repercussions of that not happening are itself staggering.
RAND matters. The land is one with the Dragon. Not with the Amyrlin, or the Wolf King, or the Prince of Foxes or anyone else.
But the Dragon needs them. Various members of his innermost clique have been shown to be crucial to his very survival as well as his success. Many of those show more loyalty to Egwene than to him, and in opposition to each others plans may yet be central to saving the world.
It is all about Rand. It always has been.
In some other series, maybe. Rand himself has stated otherwise.
Rand is the Great Serpent
- 08/02/2011 04:21:32 AM
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Yeah, that seems logical, funny to see rand bite himself in the ass :p *NM*
- 08/02/2011 06:31:44 AM
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I want to reply and say that's not exactly how I picture it, but I don't want to be dirty. *NM*
- 08/02/2011 06:50:17 AM
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That actually seems cosmically plausible - but I really hope this is not the case 
- 08/02/2011 03:27:29 PM
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- 08/02/2011 03:27:29 PM
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But that has always been the case. I am astounded that it isn't recognized more often...
- 08/02/2011 03:58:24 PM
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This. There's a reason one of his archetypes is the Fisher King. *NM*
- 08/02/2011 07:00:05 PM
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The issue is that the Fisher King story is about the Land, not the People
- 08/02/2011 08:02:24 PM
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None of this is contradicted by what I have posited
- 08/02/2011 09:16:48 PM
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But the chess analogy is what I'm seeing - the Dragon is necessary in degree not in total.
- 09/02/2011 02:42:15 PM
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The Fisher King is not a messianic myth.
- 08/02/2011 10:07:44 PM
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Fisher King title and legends are connected to the Messianic mythos
- 09/02/2011 09:47:14 PM
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The disciples, not Jesus, were the "fishers of men." EDITED.
- 09/02/2011 10:08:24 PM
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Yeah, you're right about the fish - I was reaching (and typed too fast to think)
- 10/02/2011 05:30:29 PM
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(and typed too fast to think)
- 10/02/2011 05:30:29 PM
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Re: But that has always been the case. I am astounded that it isn't recognized more often...
- 09/02/2011 07:47:14 AM
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You two are like a married couple without the benefit of the makeup sex.
- 09/02/2011 09:30:10 AM
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Huh? No. You are so off it's not even funny.
- 09/02/2011 03:16:05 AM
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Looks like somebody hasn't read The Gathering Storm.
- 09/02/2011 06:17:55 AM
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Re: Looks like somebody hasn't read The Gathering Storm.
- 09/02/2011 06:20:21 AM
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- 09/02/2011 06:20:21 AM
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Atop Dragonmount, for one...
- 09/02/2011 07:36:56 AM
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I'm exhausted, so I may be misremembering.
- 09/02/2011 09:27:18 AM
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You sound like Ishamael 
- 09/02/2011 02:38:52 PM
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Re: You sound like Ishamael
- 09/02/2011 03:17:58 PM
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- 09/02/2011 03:17:58 PM
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I'm definitely not confusing this with the real world roflmao
- 09/02/2011 03:54:04 PM
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Re: I'm definitely not confusing this with the real world roflmao
- 09/02/2011 06:10:01 PM
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Seems to me that you're confused.
- 09/02/2011 08:27:06 PM
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The amount of elitism on this board would be depressing if it weren't so damned funny.
- 09/02/2011 09:18:13 PM
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What depresses me...
- 09/02/2011 11:23:13 PM
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I, personally, like it. It makes sense for the Dragon to be an incarnation of the Serpent.
- 09/02/2011 11:39:28 PM
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