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That is good logic, but the flip side is: Why would RJ bother to specify that if it were minutiae? Joel Send a noteboard - 23/05/2012 11:22:24 AM
...the walls around the grounds, and the big black stone Taim made his announcements from.

The palace is white marble (with black columns, IRRC).

Terez who asked Sanderson said he was on his guard a bit, wanting to know first why/because of what theory she asked that question (ie: it had the "could have missed anything in the books that would make it better to RAFO this?" feel).

In other words, it's probably no more than "interesting minutia". If it played any real role in AMOL, Brandon would have RAFOed this.

If the rock came from Shayol Ghul but it did not matter, it seems kind of odd Jordan would spend any of his precious and fleeting last moments jotting that down for Sanderson to somehow include (or not.) "I did not have time to tell Brandon how Moiraine is rescued, because I was busy letting him know the irrelevant-but-cool fact the Black Towers walls came from Shayol Ghul." :[ It is equally hard to imagine anyone going to the trouble of obtaining that difficult-to-obtain material (how was it transported? Traveling near Shayol Ghul is known to be dicey, at best) if it were not useful for something. Maybe it is just something trivial like allowing the DO to directly observe the BT, or perhaps it does something more significant like allow him to extend the powers he has at Shayol Ghul to the BT. I cannot imagine it being completely irrelevant since it was specifically stated though.

Why Sanderson did NOT RAFO this is the bigger question to me. Unless he just thought, Well, there is no reason it could NOT be, so as of now it is, just to send them off on a wild goose chase so they do not puzzle out anything significant in the next six months. That would not be dishonest or deceptive, only misleading (which I consider legitimate when people fish for confirmations that are also spoilers) but it would also be kinda weak.
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