Re: Does the Dark One really want to break free?
Fanatic-Templar Send a noteboard - 24/11/2013 04:31:37 AM
View original postYes humans are petty bad at acting for the long term, but much of the time it isn't deliberately deciding to wreck the long term, they just place short term above it.
If the Dark One wanted to destroy everything, why did he show alternate futures to Rand with himself in control? Though I guess he could be just taunting him.
If the Dark One wanted to destroy everything, why did he show alternate futures to Rand with himself in control? Though I guess he could be just taunting him.
Yes, but humans aren't beings of destruction. Humans are animals, they seek to survive and multiply as a species. As for his visions, he was trying to find a way to break Rand.
View original postNote sure I agree that Time is part of Creation, though I suppose it could be, it just seems more a constraint over both.
Creation is the Pattern, woven by the Wheel of Time.
View original postFair enough, that is pretty concrete evidence against my view of them not being equals. Does suggest that Lanfear is right, in that they could take out the Creator if they really wanted, and the potential visions of the future suggest that if the Dark One did successfully break free, it could be at the price of the Creator's existence.
However, even if they are equals, the Dark One may still not want to be free
However, even if they are equals, the Dark One may still not want to be free
Surprisingly, it may indeed be possible to destroy the Creator, though I do not know how such a task would be accomplished. Certainly, the Choedan Kal would not be enough for it, just as they would not be enough to destroy Shai'tan.
I don't think Shai'tan breaking free would destroy the Creator - again, they are equal and balanced, one cannot destroy the other - though it would certainly destroy Creation.
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