I was just thinking the same thing as your end point.
Seriana Sedai Send a noteboard - 30/10/2009 09:02:54 PM
Ok - so the final chapter lists three candidates for Mesaana:
Nelaia Merhan, a Brown
Teramina, a Green; and
Jamilila Norsish, a Red.
It goes on to state that they're all very weak in the power. Egwene has a premonition that none of them fit - and wonders whether Mesaana is still hiding in the tower.
This was a clear steer from RJ/BS - so i looked up what we know about them from the encyclopedia WOT and guess what? None of them seem to have been mentioned before. The encyclopedia WOT has always been pretty good, so i'm wondering whether i've missed something.
It leads me to a few thoughts:
1. If they haven't been mentioned before, then why give us this tidbit without any context?
2. Maybe they are known characters and there's something that might give us some ideas about who Mesaana is?
Egwene has some intuition that they can't be forsaken, but mainly because they're all weak in the power. But don't we know that it's possible to both hide use of Saidar, and to hide the extent of your strength? Egwene might be wrong...
Her final thought on whether the Forsaken might still be in the tower suggests that whomever she is, she can't be Aes Sedai. They were all tested on the oath rod. This brings Laras to mind. She's always helping out the wondergirls - she offered to let Egwene escape which would have only served to extend the conflict. And I got some weird feeling about her when Eqwene was in the chimney cleaning, like she was a little too quiet...
So - who is Mesaana? One of the three AS mentioned by Egwene who we know little about? Laras? Someone else?
Nelaia Merhan, a Brown
Teramina, a Green; and
Jamilila Norsish, a Red.
It goes on to state that they're all very weak in the power. Egwene has a premonition that none of them fit - and wonders whether Mesaana is still hiding in the tower.
This was a clear steer from RJ/BS - so i looked up what we know about them from the encyclopedia WOT and guess what? None of them seem to have been mentioned before. The encyclopedia WOT has always been pretty good, so i'm wondering whether i've missed something.
It leads me to a few thoughts:
1. If they haven't been mentioned before, then why give us this tidbit without any context?
2. Maybe they are known characters and there's something that might give us some ideas about who Mesaana is?
Egwene has some intuition that they can't be forsaken, but mainly because they're all weak in the power. But don't we know that it's possible to both hide use of Saidar, and to hide the extent of your strength? Egwene might be wrong...
Her final thought on whether the Forsaken might still be in the tower suggests that whomever she is, she can't be Aes Sedai. They were all tested on the oath rod. This brings Laras to mind. She's always helping out the wondergirls - she offered to let Egwene escape which would have only served to extend the conflict. And I got some weird feeling about her when Eqwene was in the chimney cleaning, like she was a little too quiet...
So - who is Mesaana? One of the three AS mentioned by Egwene who we know little about? Laras? Someone else?
I was thinking "Wouldn't it be funny if it was Laras", but then I saw you thought it too, so who knows? Wouldn't that be great? I'm remembering Siuan telling Nyneave what an excellent judge of character she is really sarcastically...that would just be funny. She's been around forever, but she also has minimal contact with the Aes Sedai...
It still makes me giggle, but I think it's at least plausible.
The candidates for Mesaana
- 30/10/2009 07:56:24 PM
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none of the characters ever consider that a forsaken could be accepted, novice, or servant
- 30/10/2009 08:03:58 PM
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I was just thinking the same thing as your end point.
- 30/10/2009 09:02:54 PM
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So...Danelle?
- 31/10/2009 12:07:10 AM
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Danelle is only a possibility if she tricked the oath rod, so she's unlikely
- 31/10/2009 12:18:53 AM
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Which has very interesting implications
- 31/10/2009 05:16:35 AM
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Forsaken are immortal, so their lifespan are not effected by Oath Rod.
- 31/10/2009 03:30:25 PM
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What about AS who left the tower before the Seanchan attack? *NM*
- 28/11/2009 03:00:48 PM
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It has to be someone we know at least sort of well by now. But I don't think Laras.
- 31/10/2009 02:35:13 PM
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