I think Rand has become more sane, but I think he has severed his connection with Moridin/TP yet - Edit 1
Before modification by Matrimony Cauthon at 31/10/2009 07:14:27 PM
I think a big part of what is to come in WoT is how Rand is going to eliminate his connection with Moridin. I think a big part of this will be Rand faking his death, or by Alivia helping him die.
Rand succesfully integrated with Lews Therin and his past lives, but Moridin is still there. Though debatable, Rand may even have the halo of darkness around him as well.
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?
Rand succesfully integrated with Lews Therin and his past lives, but Moridin is still there. Though debatable, Rand may even have the halo of darkness around him as well.
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?