Anyone get the feeling that Semirhage was set up by Shaidar Haran to die - to put the Dragon Reborn into a predicament so dire that he could only reach out to the True Power as a last resort, something that only the Great Lord of the Dark can bestow as a privilege, and thereby become corrupted over time? Or do you think it was something the Pattern wove into existence for a precaution should te need arise, when Rand and Moridin's opposing balefires crossed and merged their threads together? Or sheer happenstance of such?
But until we know more about just how he did the supposedly impossible and channeled the TP, we can't know for sure. Especially since the end of the book seems to suggest him overcoming the effects of the Semirhage incident... it's weird.
Edit: by the way, hadn't we concluded that blocking saidin/saidar also blocked someone from the TP...? Or am I misremembering that?
This message last edited by Legolas on 31/10/2009 at 04:52:00 PM
Semirhage, Rand, and Shaidar Haran
- 31/10/2009 03:37:08 AM
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Obviously yes... otherwise they wouldn't have left the access key behind for Rand *NM*
- 31/10/2009 06:47:26 AM
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I don't think they expected Semi to get away with Rand
- 31/10/2009 02:43:23 PM
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I'm not so sure... I think they planned most of this event as their revenge on Semirhage
- 31/10/2009 07:09:21 PM
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I do think that's quite likely, yes.
- 31/10/2009 04:51:21 PM
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I think Rand has become more sane, but his connection with Moridin is not severed yet
- 31/10/2009 07:13:06 PM
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Either Rand channels through Moridin, is allowed to touch it always or the Spider capture was flawed
- 01/11/2009 01:38:04 AM
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