I've alway thought the horn superimposed TAR onto the real world & this is what is needed for LB.
HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 17/12/2012 03:52:17 PM
Rereading TGH and Rand has been fighting Ishy in the sky. After the following books where the "science" of the WOT's metaphysical world is kinda mapped out, I find this bit a little hard to understand.
Did we ever establish what happened here? Where is Rand fighting? It's not Tel'aran'riod (at least it doesn't seem like it. Why is he visible across the sky? I like the idea that the Seanhan fight is linked with Rand's physical fight - he is one with the land and all that. Is this a device we'll see again? How does it play into
Logain's Glory viewing if Rand's battle is visible across the sky (if, as many assume, Logain will get credit for after the last battle).
It seems to me more a matter of RJ not quite figuring out how important the Forsaken are - after all, Ishy is just a forsaken who can be killed by a heron marked sword. We never see it occur again wen fighting the forsaken.
Or it could be the old favourite of mine - the pattern needed it so that the world could know that the Dragon had been reborn and to act as a way to proclaim it across the land. Thoughts?
(Oh and this is definitely the Rand we're all rooting for - a man who would blow the Horn of Valere and let Ba'alzamon strike him in the side to save Egwene who was collared by the Seanchan. Bravo!)
Did we ever establish what happened here? Where is Rand fighting? It's not Tel'aran'riod (at least it doesn't seem like it. Why is he visible across the sky? I like the idea that the Seanhan fight is linked with Rand's physical fight - he is one with the land and all that. Is this a device we'll see again? How does it play into
Logain's Glory viewing if Rand's battle is visible across the sky (if, as many assume, Logain will get credit for after the last battle).
It seems to me more a matter of RJ not quite figuring out how important the Forsaken are - after all, Ishy is just a forsaken who can be killed by a heron marked sword. We never see it occur again wen fighting the forsaken.
Or it could be the old favourite of mine - the pattern needed it so that the world could know that the Dragon had been reborn and to act as a way to proclaim it across the land. Thoughts?
(Oh and this is definitely the Rand we're all rooting for - a man who would blow the Horn of Valere and let Ba'alzamon strike him in the side to save Egwene who was collared by the Seanchan. Bravo!)
I think the Blight has some of this meshing going on as well. So all of Rand's early battles tale place in TAR essentially.
Maybe the bore isn't sealed with the power, but with will.
Rand fighting Ishy in the sky above Falme
- 16/12/2012 11:20:21 PM
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I think the horn of Valere meshes the real world with TAR
- 17/12/2012 03:13:46 PM
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I've alway thought the horn superimposed TAR onto the real world & this is what is needed for LB.
- 17/12/2012 03:52:17 PM
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RJ addressed this in part ... although he dodged the "where" question
- 17/12/2012 09:37:01 PM
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Makes sense
- 18/12/2012 03:47:59 AM
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But that's the point of ta'veren - to create a favorable situation for that kind of thing
- 18/12/2012 04:04:42 AM
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I like Onarishma's explanation a lot better, actually. Or a combination of the two
- 22/12/2012 03:47:15 PM
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