INTERVIEW: Sep 4th, 2005
DragonCon Report - Matt Hatch (Verbatim)
QUESTION
At the end of The Great Hunt when Rand and Ishamael were fighting in the air above Falme, they appeared in the sky over many places and my question is whether this is something done by the One Power or something done by the Creator? How did they appear in the sky?
ROBERT JORDAN
An effect of the Wheel, really. It wasn't the Creator. The Wheel is more than a simple mechanism. Remember the Wheel can spit out ta'veren, can spit out Heroes as a self-correcting device because the Pattern is drifting from what it is supposed to be. We are not talking about something as simple as a spinning wheel at all, we are talking something more along the lines of the most complex computer you could possibly imagine. There were at that time, two, there were false Dragons that had a chance to create a lot of disruption. By the appearance in the sky at that battle, not just in Falme but in other places, those false Dragons were taken off the board because there was only room now for one, for one Dragon.
DragonCon Report - Matt Hatch (Verbatim)
QUESTION
At the end of The Great Hunt when Rand and Ishamael were fighting in the air above Falme, they appeared in the sky over many places and my question is whether this is something done by the One Power or something done by the Creator? How did they appear in the sky?
ROBERT JORDAN
An effect of the Wheel, really. It wasn't the Creator. The Wheel is more than a simple mechanism. Remember the Wheel can spit out ta'veren, can spit out Heroes as a self-correcting device because the Pattern is drifting from what it is supposed to be. We are not talking about something as simple as a spinning wheel at all, we are talking something more along the lines of the most complex computer you could possibly imagine. There were at that time, two, there were false Dragons that had a chance to create a lot of disruption. By the appearance in the sky at that battle, not just in Falme but in other places, those false Dragons were taken off the board because there was only room now for one, for one Dragon.
In tDR, it talks specifically about how the two false Dragons were captured (there was a flash in the sky of the tGH fight and they both fell off their horses). Given this, the idea that it was the pattern doing it to remove the two dragons makes perfect sense.
I am curious to see how else the Pattern will intervene in the LB. I really hope it doesn't seem too Deux Ex Machina though.
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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