That is the point. No one matters but Rand. Everyone else is irrelevant. The actions of Egwene, Matt, a random farmer, a bird, an ant, all of these are irrelevant. The Wheel runs around Rand. If Rand loses, then the Wheel loses. Reality itself loses.
There's a vast deal of difference between "Rand is the most important" and "Rand is the only one that matters".
I can prove in a hundred ways that if his clique did not do what they did and were not what they were, the world would have been doomed by now.
But I need just two simple pieces of evidence:
1)In the AoL, while the final sealing of the DO was an act of LTT, the opposition of Latra Pose was just as critical in saving the world. In the past age, we are definitely certain that one other person's actions mattered just as much as the Dragons. It stands to reason the same is the case now.
2) Min's vision of the swarming points of light. If Rand were ALL that mattered, he alone should be enough to push back the darkness. But he isn't. Its only when the select group of people who're close to him are around him that we see the Light winning. That's conclusive proof that Rand isn't all that matters,
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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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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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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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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Re: Atop Dragonmount, for one...
09/02/2011 03:12:02 PM
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Not at all!
10/02/2011 02:58:39 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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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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