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Actually there were a couple of versions that happened, and Moiraine came in neither. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 17/10/2009 05:32:52 PM
I look at things a different way, forgetting the actual events that hurt the shadow.
Where would be be in the story now without her? If any of the others were missing things would be worse, but Rand aside she'd been the catalyst for everything, theres a vision Rand has where he is an old man fightin trolloc's in the two rivers, this is what would have happened without her.
Nynaeve ticks most boxes, but she never playes a major role in most of them, Moiraine and Lan where a two man army against the shadow for almost 20 years.
Moiraine and Lan were looking for Rand. How much Shadow-fighting were they really up to? In any event, there are all sorts of things that could have happened even if she never made it to the Two Rivers. Rand could still have hit all the important points without her intervention. A better question might have been, how would she have persuaded them to come with her if the Trollocs had never attacked? Nobody was all that sanguine about her waltzing off with the kids, and she had to persuade them to sneak away, and just about the whole village was in agreement that they had to be recovered from Moiraine's clutches. Without the aftermath of a Trolloc attack to clean up, they would not have been distracted enough to let her get away with the kids, and while the Finder coins might have made Mat & Perrin amenable, Rand was resistant and not all that thrilled with the idea of leaving. Mat would also have been a hard sell to go with an Aes Sedai.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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Which character (besides Rand) has hurt the shadow the most? (my analysis and your opinion) - 17/10/2009 05:16:34 AM 1576 Views
Nyneave wins hands down - 17/10/2009 05:22:08 AM 827 Views
Nyneave has done more - 17/10/2009 06:42:26 AM 792 Views
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Re: Beg to differ, the "endless summer" was VERY important to the shadow - 18/10/2009 11:10:20 PM 743 Views
believe what you want, but if the weather hadn't changed when it did TG would be over by now. *NM* - 18/10/2009 11:56:09 PM 355 Views
Actually, there might be a better reason for why it mattered. - 10/12/2009 07:03:32 PM 793 Views
Immaterial. - 10/12/2009 07:48:51 PM 659 Views
It has to be Moiraine - 17/10/2009 05:00:32 PM 846 Views
Actually there were a couple of versions that happened, and Moiraine came in neither. - 17/10/2009 05:32:52 PM 919 Views
So you think the story would have panned out - 17/10/2009 05:46:46 PM 678 Views
None. *NM* - 17/10/2009 08:43:08 PM 343 Views
That's highly subjective - 17/10/2009 08:52:17 PM 732 Views
Re: That's highly subjective - 17/10/2009 08:54:52 PM 680 Views
I think you know exactly what I mean. - 17/10/2009 10:53:40 PM 685 Views
All of them - 18/10/2009 12:09:55 AM 813 Views
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They may have only been visions... - 18/10/2009 09:19:05 AM 750 Views
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Re: "Every possible outcome to a given situation is the actual outcome somewhere" - 18/10/2009 06:51:42 PM 828 Views
That all goes without saying - 18/10/2009 07:26:06 PM 618 Views
I disagree - 18/10/2009 07:58:37 PM 718 Views
Re: I disagree - 18/10/2009 10:04:27 PM 711 Views
It's almost irrelevant- the Dragon Reborn was Foretold - 18/10/2009 02:07:47 AM 673 Views
Does that mean he'd win? - 18/10/2009 04:47:56 PM 704 Views
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Not really what I was arguing. - 18/10/2009 05:30:05 PM 672 Views
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the BCS is not a good system *NM* - 18/10/2009 09:08:25 AM 347 Views
Re: Which character (besides Rand) has hurt the shadow the most? (my analysis and your opinion) - 17/10/2009 05:26:26 PM 949 Views
Someone needs to re-adjust their meds - 18/10/2009 05:55:58 AM 809 Views
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He's got a point though... - 21/10/2009 11:18:38 AM 775 Views
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Damn skippy! *NM* - 21/10/2009 11:17:36 AM 337 Views
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Re: Ishamael/Moridin - 18/10/2009 09:21:29 AM 853 Views
You make it sound very simple - 18/10/2009 10:47:57 PM 770 Views
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