this is the reason - though I still wish she was just dead and gone *NM*
kcf Send a noteboard - 10/11/2009 10:38:02 PM
The "list" of names that Rand has in his head always starts off with Moiraine. He has blamed himself for her death along with all the other women on that list. Here is part of her letter to him:
I could not tell you, for the same reason I could not tell Lan. Even given the choices, I could not be sure which you would pick. Men of the Two Rivers, it seems, retain much of storied Manetheren in them, traits shared with men of the Borderlands. It is said that a Borderlander will take a dagger’s wound to avoid harm to a woman and count it fair trade. I dared not risk that you would place my life above your own, certain that somehow you could sidestep fate. Not a risk, I fear, but a foolish certainty, as today has surely proved....
And Rand's response to that excerpt:
“My choice, Moiraine,” he muttered. “It was my choice.”
What Rand needs to learn from her, and what Tam tried to tell him in tGS, is that everyone has a choice. Everyone has free-will. All the people that choose to fight along with him, or side with the Shadow, made their own choice of their own free will.
Just seeing Moiraine alive again will have its benefits. But, having an Aes Sedai he trusts will go a long way to ensuring he can learn to accept the help he needs to win the Last Battle.
I could not tell you, for the same reason I could not tell Lan. Even given the choices, I could not be sure which you would pick. Men of the Two Rivers, it seems, retain much of storied Manetheren in them, traits shared with men of the Borderlands. It is said that a Borderlander will take a dagger’s wound to avoid harm to a woman and count it fair trade. I dared not risk that you would place my life above your own, certain that somehow you could sidestep fate. Not a risk, I fear, but a foolish certainty, as today has surely proved....
And Rand's response to that excerpt:
“My choice, Moiraine,” he muttered. “It was my choice.”
What Rand needs to learn from her, and what Tam tried to tell him in tGS, is that everyone has a choice. Everyone has free-will. All the people that choose to fight along with him, or side with the Shadow, made their own choice of their own free will.
Just seeing Moiraine alive again will have its benefits. But, having an Aes Sedai he trusts will go a long way to ensuring he can learn to accept the help he needs to win the Last Battle.
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Why is Moiraine needed?
10/11/2009 11:33:06 AM
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he's learned to laugh, her return will make him weep over all the things he's done...
10/11/2009 11:46:51 AM
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Re: he's learned to laugh, her return will make him weep over all the things he's done...
10/11/2009 01:35:12 PM
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Mat had 3 wishes granted when he went there, would be just mean if she didn't get any *NM*
10/11/2009 04:14:37 PM
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i'm pretty sure exploding their doorway and entering at the same time as lanfear
10/11/2009 05:35:38 PM
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Re: Why is Moiraine needed?
10/11/2009 01:34:30 PM
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Callandor will be used by Logain and his two bonded AS, not Moiraine. *NM*
10/11/2009 05:33:20 PM
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Re: Callandor will be used by Logain and his two bonded AS, not Moiraine.
10/11/2009 06:07:01 PM
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Re: Why is needed?
10/11/2009 02:26:25 PM
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Just because he's learned to laugh doesn't mean he trusts Aes Sedai
10/11/2009 02:27:53 PM
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Oh man! but I don't want Rand to revert back to being a total pansy.. He was cool in WH *NM*
10/11/2009 02:42:04 PM
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Yeah, WH Rand was a BAMF. Dark Rand totally would've let Lan fall off that rooftop *NM*
10/11/2009 06:52:46 PM
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She's not
10/11/2009 03:43:53 PM
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Re: Why is Moiraine needed?
10/11/2009 04:36:14 PM
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Guilt
10/11/2009 10:29:39 PM
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this is the reason - though I still wish she was just dead and gone *NM*
10/11/2009 10:38:02 PM
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