I always saw the One Power as infinite, so what Rand and Nyn did never made much sense to me, but I wrote it off by not thinking too much about it. But if the One Power is finite, and they actually channeled all of it over the course of the day, it would be entirely possible for them to funnel all of saidin through Shadar Logoth, leaving the taint behind, and saidin returning to the overall saidin pool normal and taint-free.
Although if looked at that way, there's still the issue that if clean saidin is added to a pool of tainted saidin, wouldn't the taint spread to it too? Maybe the taint itself would get diluted, but that would mean that no matter how much saidin they funneled through Shadar Logoth, some taint would always remain. Which seems problematic.
Although if looked at that way, there's still the issue that if clean saidin is added to a pool of tainted saidin, wouldn't the taint spread to it too? Maybe the taint itself would get diluted, but that would mean that no matter how much saidin they funneled through Shadar Logoth, some taint would always remain. Which seems problematic.
Not necessarily. You take for granted the whole of saidin passed once through the filter. Actually, it could have had several passes over the course of the day. Don't forget, the Taint too was a finite amount, eventually the last trace of taint would have been removed. It would simply mean with each pass there was less and less Taint in the TS, and Rand stopped the process once he couldn't feel any residue of the Taint anymore.
Wierd, I always had the opinion that only a very small fraction of saidin passed through Rand during the Cleansing i.e. 1% or less. Using both CK together, Rand could probably destroy the world, but the Power drives the whole universe. The DO also only hit the Source with a single backblast of the True Power. Proportionately, the taint must be microscopic in size compared to the Source.
Not impossible either, after all the whole point was to attract the Taint. The bottomline is that Rand stopped once he no longer felt a trace of the Taint, we'll never know if he channelled the whole of saidin once, multiple times or this was over after he channeled only a fraction of it, until all the taint got caught.
I tend to think your "small fraction" (not 1%, it's much too big) is what Rand channels at any given moment with the CK at top strength. My feeling is that this amount of OP used at once by both halves of the CK is probably not that far from the maximum percentage that can be used without starting to cause problems to the fabric of reality and the lifeforms part of it(reality/the pattern being the "True Source", IMHO).
Is the One Power limitless?
- 12/10/2012 11:14:19 PM
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- 12/10/2012 11:59:02 PM
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That actually explains the cleansing for me
- 13/10/2012 01:07:57 AM
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Re: That actually explains the cleansing for me
- 13/10/2012 01:22:15 AM
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Or the taint didn't act like oil?
- 13/10/2012 05:38:29 PM
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From the various descriptions in the text this seems likely
- 14/10/2012 08:21:59 PM
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That's not conclusive
- 14/10/2012 11:32:19 PM
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RJ himself said it's like an oily skin floating on top of Saidin. *NM*
- 15/10/2012 02:22:22 AM
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Jesus this is hard work
- 15/10/2012 02:19:43 PM
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Well I doubt very much that it actually was oily
- 15/10/2012 03:24:17 PM
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Ermm, I agree?
- 15/10/2012 04:19:36 PM
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You seem to be asking why the taint didn't mix with saidin
- 16/10/2012 12:48:55 AM
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I think you might be, not sure where you've gotten that idea from. *NM*
- 16/10/2012 02:45:18 AM
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Cause you keep saying the taint didn't act like oil
- 16/10/2012 05:04:10 AM
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Re: That actually explains the cleansing for me
- 15/10/2012 11:10:36 AM
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- 15/10/2012 02:46:50 PM
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Re: Is the One Power limitless?
- 13/10/2012 01:16:20 AM
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Do you have a link to the interview question and answer mate? *NM*
- 13/10/2012 02:42:57 AM
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Re: Do you have a link to the interview question and answer mate?
- 13/10/2012 03:28:55 AM
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