Then why are they not located everywhere?
I mean Ishamael was awake and active for many decades during the 3 millennia between the sealing and the current time, and had hordes of darkfriends working for him (and the black ajah).
If SG rocks give some special power to the shadow, then why would Ishy not have arranged to have that material everywhere? I mean how hard would it have been for black ajah to arrange for there to be SG material in Tar Valon. Heck, why not in the foundation/walls of the White Tower itself(then again, Shaidar Haran did seem very powerfull there in the Mesaana encounter)?
Certainly Ishy could have had SG stone to have been used in all major cities during the time Hawking ruled. Ishy had him under compulsion afterall. That would certainly have given him the power to include SG stone in buildings and walls and so on of a lot of cities.
And even now, why just BT? With traveling commonplace and lots of darkfriend Asha'man and Aes Sedai to use, Moridin could be hauling so much SG stone everywhere that he risks running out. If SG stone gives the DO power in areas where it is located, then why is this not happening?
I mean Ishamael was awake and active for many decades during the 3 millennia between the sealing and the current time, and had hordes of darkfriends working for him (and the black ajah).
If SG rocks give some special power to the shadow, then why would Ishy not have arranged to have that material everywhere? I mean how hard would it have been for black ajah to arrange for there to be SG material in Tar Valon. Heck, why not in the foundation/walls of the White Tower itself(then again, Shaidar Haran did seem very powerfull there in the Mesaana encounter)?
Certainly Ishy could have had SG stone to have been used in all major cities during the time Hawking ruled. Ishy had him under compulsion afterall. That would certainly have given him the power to include SG stone in buildings and walls and so on of a lot of cities.
And even now, why just BT? With traveling commonplace and lots of darkfriend Asha'man and Aes Sedai to use, Moridin could be hauling so much SG stone everywhere that he risks running out. If SG stone gives the DO power in areas where it is located, then why is this not happening?
So apparently the palace at the Black Tower is made of Shayol Ghul stone...
23/05/2012 12:57:37 AM
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Maybe Shaidar Haran's physical limitation to SG can be bypassed by moving tainted rocks elsewhere? *NM*
23/05/2012 03:10:59 AM
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Not the palace...
23/05/2012 03:32:59 AM
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That is good logic, but the flip side is: Why would RJ bother to specify that if it were minutiae?
23/05/2012 11:22:24 AM
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Wouldn't have taken any time away from creating the ending.
23/05/2012 02:58:32 PM
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It just seems an odd thing to mention purely as background color.
23/05/2012 08:17:45 PM
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Re: It just seems an odd thing to mention purely as background color.
23/05/2012 08:42:09 PM
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Yeah, my bet is it is something more like that.
23/05/2012 09:14:24 PM
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Re: Yeah, my bet is it is something more like that.
24/05/2012 02:23:54 AM
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His response certainly seem to raise more questions than it answers, perhaps deliberately.
25/05/2012 01:38:30 AM
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Re: His response certainly seem to raise more questions than it answers, perhaps deliberately.
27/05/2012 04:32:24 PM
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Re: His response certainly seem to raise more questions than it answers, perhaps deliberately.
03/06/2012 08:44:57 AM
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Forgive me if I missed it, but I think the most obvious points haven't been discussed:
22/06/2012 10:59:02 PM
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Be'laim FTW, but technically half the Andoran nobility is Rands blood.
22/06/2012 11:15:12 PM
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Re: Why would RJ bother to specify that if it were minutiae?
23/05/2012 07:58:50 PM
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The way RJ played up everything in the Blight (especially Shayol Ghul) being subsumed in the DO...
23/05/2012 09:07:31 PM
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Re: So apparently the palace at the Black Tower is made of Shayol Ghul stone...
23/05/2012 05:52:12 PM
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Re: So apparently the palace at the Black Tower is made of Shayol Ghul stone...
23/05/2012 08:51:36 PM
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If SG rocks have special properties...
28/05/2012 01:28:28 AM
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Blightfortress, Towers of Midnight, etc.
18/06/2012 12:31:48 PM
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Re: Blightfortress, Towers of Midnight, etc.
19/06/2012 05:42:21 AM
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Re: Blightfortress, Towers of Midnight, etc.
19/06/2012 06:51:02 AM
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