Is this personality flip a characteristic of 13 dreadlords and fades turning/forcing someone to the shadow?
Of course not. We know Graendal was one of earliest to go to SG to join the Shadow, very early during the Collapse. There were no Trollocs and Myrddraal back then.
The method to turn people was invented later by Semirhage during her experiments with Myrddraal, likely fairly late in the collapse if not during the War of Power itself.
The BWB explained what happened: before she joined the Shadow, Graendal turned to extreme hedonism. It was in reaction to the fact AOL society failed to meet her exacting standards and embrace the values of ascetism she preached. She made herself an extreme caricature of the very excesses she was preaching against. She changed the way she mader her point, but it was still the same point.
She's not changed that much, beside the fact she became fond of her pleasures over time. Underneath the smokescreen of the hedonist (it's largely an image she cultivates), she's still a freak of self-control, of order (her whole life is very organized, everything has its place in her palace and she loathes the "chaos" of the outdoors) and restraint who is extremely judgmental and critical (and often mocking) of how everybody else lives and how little they can control their pulsions. Her image has changed a lot, but her personality not much.
Was Graendal turned?
14/08/2011 10:12:08 PM
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Re: Was Graendal turned?
15/08/2011 01:34:51 AM
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Yep - pretty much what I was going to say.
15/08/2011 04:45:26 PM
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Yeah. It's too bad BS kind of ruined her character.
15/08/2011 06:28:55 PM
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Re: Yeah. It's too bad BS kind of ruined her character.
15/08/2011 08:52:29 PM
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Sometimes I get the impression that Aran'gar and Graendal's fates were switched.
16/08/2011 04:54:36 AM
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Re: Sometimes I get the impression that Aran'gar and Graendal's fates were switched.
16/08/2011 03:30:29 PM
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Yes, I do not believe that what I said is true, it's just an impression I get when reading. *NM*
16/08/2011 07:32:21 PM
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Re: Sometimes I get the impression that Aran'gar and Graendal's fates were switched.
18/08/2011 12:09:57 AM
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Re: Sometimes I get the impression that Aran'gar and Graendal's fates were switched.
18/08/2011 12:46:45 AM
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That cliffhanger was similar to what GRRM does...
17/08/2011 10:51:00 PM
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Re: That cliffhanger was similar to what GRRM does...
18/08/2011 12:23:55 AM
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I think this is most obvious with the Perrin at Dragonmount scene.
18/08/2011 12:45:51 AM
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Re: I think this is most obvious with the Perrin at Dragonmount scene.
18/08/2011 01:16:09 AM
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Graendal was to Wheel of Time as the Comedian was to Watchmen. The joke was on them in the end. *NM*
25/08/2011 06:33:37 AM
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