Moridin as Ishmael at least was pretty successful in driving the course of history over 3000 years towards the Dark One's goals, helping the overall countries slowly deteriorate, and have Hawkwing's descendants return just at the wrong time for the forces of light.
Once Rand and company started becoming player on the chess board it became more difficult, as he was fighting their Ta'veren natures and the wheel / pattern more at that point.
Regarding being duped, in a previous post I mentioned that he didn't realise the Dark One's end goal, but thinking on it more, Moridin's goal was for oblivion, to not be reborn again and again to fight the champion of light (as I believe he is fated to do), and so I think deep down he probably knew that the Dark One wouldn't let him go, even if successful in breaking free, but it was his only hope for oblivion (outside perhaps of Balefire, but I suspect that the likes of Rand, Moridin and the Heroes of the Horn likely can't be truly Balefired).
Regarding Graendal, she was pretty effective compared to the other forsaken when it came to the various subplots of the Dark One, and during the Last Battle, however as Moridin and Rand at least realised, and potentially Lanfear as well, but the other forsaken didn't, winning the Last Battle wasn't going to free the Dark One, and so wasn't what the Dark One was truly after, it would just put the world in darkness, making life harder for the light in the next age, but not ending the turn of the wheel. Thus they wouldn't become truly immortal, and the Dark One would happily sacrifice them at a later date in order to try and win the next confrontation with the champion of light. I would imagine that over the many turnings of the wheel, the Shadow's forces have won at times, but the Dark One has yet to break free, and so Light has also turned things around and defeated the forces of darkness in later ages.
Thus Graendal was effective, but only in terms of winning the battle, not the war.
Once Rand and company started becoming player on the chess board it became more difficult, as he was fighting their Ta'veren natures and the wheel / pattern more at that point.
Regarding being duped, in a previous post I mentioned that he didn't realise the Dark One's end goal, but thinking on it more, Moridin's goal was for oblivion, to not be reborn again and again to fight the champion of light (as I believe he is fated to do), and so I think deep down he probably knew that the Dark One wouldn't let him go, even if successful in breaking free, but it was his only hope for oblivion (outside perhaps of Balefire, but I suspect that the likes of Rand, Moridin and the Heroes of the Horn likely can't be truly Balefired).
Regarding Graendal, she was pretty effective compared to the other forsaken when it came to the various subplots of the Dark One, and during the Last Battle, however as Moridin and Rand at least realised, and potentially Lanfear as well, but the other forsaken didn't, winning the Last Battle wasn't going to free the Dark One, and so wasn't what the Dark One was truly after, it would just put the world in darkness, making life harder for the light in the next age, but not ending the turn of the wheel. Thus they wouldn't become truly immortal, and the Dark One would happily sacrifice them at a later date in order to try and win the next confrontation with the champion of light. I would imagine that over the many turnings of the wheel, the Shadow's forces have won at times, but the Dark One has yet to break free, and so Light has also turned things around and defeated the forces of darkness in later ages.
Thus Graendal was effective, but only in terms of winning the battle, not the war.
Moridin
16/01/2013 03:20:50 AM
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I think Moridin was just another dupe of the DO
16/01/2013 04:03:47 AM
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I disagree somewhat...
16/01/2013 08:54:09 AM
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Never understood why Moridin didn't just ask someone to balefire him. *NM*
16/01/2013 01:41:18 PM
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It doesn't stop you being respun by the wheel
16/01/2013 02:28:31 PM
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Then just Travel to Tel'aran'rhiod and commit suicide! *NM*
16/01/2013 03:20:16 PM
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But then the DO would bring him back. *NM*
16/01/2013 04:08:54 PM
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Travel into Tel'aran'rhiod and kill yourself with balefire! *NM*
17/01/2013 01:12:42 AM
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You can not touch yourself with your own weaves? *NM*
19/01/2013 04:04:28 PM
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Sure you can ... Androl opened up,gateways and blasted dark Asha'man with their own weaves
20/01/2013 03:43:01 AM
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I also don't really agree
16/01/2013 04:50:55 PM
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Yet the Dark One told us directly that he had many plans
17/01/2013 12:36:09 AM
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Re: Yet the Dark One told us directly that he had many plans
17/01/2013 07:01:14 AM
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Demandred and Graendal were the only two effective Forsaken, really.
17/01/2013 07:51:49 AM
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I am disappointed that we didn't have more on screen time from Demandred
17/01/2013 05:00:52 PM
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