The remnant, the ones to be saved, will be the ones who agree to give up and spear and accept serving the AS out of Toh. The rest will refuse, and die with spear in hand during TG or the scraps afterwards.
Avi's vision shows up what the Aiel will do if they dont find something else to live for. They must give up fighting as a way of life. They are never going to turn into farmers, so they need something. A purpose. The AS give them that. Now, in the short term (say the next 1000 years or so) they may well be more like Warders than the AoL Aiel. But eventually everything will come full circle and they will fulfill their orignal role as pacifists.
Avi's vision shows up what the Aiel will do if they dont find something else to live for. They must give up fighting as a way of life. They are never going to turn into farmers, so they need something. A purpose. The AS give them that. Now, in the short term (say the next 1000 years or so) they may well be more like Warders than the AoL Aiel. But eventually everything will come full circle and they will fulfill their orignal role as pacifists.
The Aiel are and always have been some sort of monstrous aberration. What other ethnic group requires a unifying purpose, as the Aiel always have? In order for them to give up this need for a collective purpose, they must be broke so there can be no hope for the remnant of a remnant to be useful, and instead, they can just get on with being people who lead their own lives, whether ordinary or normal or heroic or evil, just like everyone else. They need to be shattered like Manetheren so that they can be real and normal people like Rand & the other Two Rivers characters. Manetheren lasting as a mighty nation might have given Rand an entirely different sort of upbringing, whether his adoptive father was a mere common soldier returning to his farm, or a noble-born warrior and officer who raised his adopted son and possible heir to be a lord and leader. More likely, had Manetheren lasted, their heroic qualities would have been degraded and lost as they took a bigger role on the world stage or something. The remnant of a remnant, however, was able to preserve those heroic values and virtues that made Manetheren great and pass them on to the three ta'veren who would be required to save the world one day. Thus as well, should happen for the Aiel. Greatness destroyed Rome and the old Roman people, values and traditions. Destruction saved Manetheren's people and values and may do the same to the Aiel. Captivity in Babylon preserved the Hebrew traditions and customs and taught them to value what they had lost, while their brief experience as a great nation corrupted even men chosen by God like Saul, David and Solomon. I think this is the necessity the Aiel will have to face.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
A Unified Theory of the Prophecies of Rhuidean
12/12/2011 07:08:16 PM
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I don't know that it's inherently necessary to destroy them, assuming you have correctly identified
13/12/2011 01:01:19 AM
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I have a bad feeling that their new "future" will tie to the AS...
13/12/2011 07:56:56 PM
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You have that backwards
14/12/2011 12:43:07 PM
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And all that is why they have to go.
19/12/2011 07:36:21 PM
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