I imagine Moridin revealed such info about balefire knowing Rand would end up using it to start taking out other Forsaken. Moridin gets some of his rivals out of the way, and he manipulates Rand into doing the DO's work, creating chaos in the pattern via over-use of balefire. It ties in with his manipulations in getting Rand to kill a woman (Semi) and go on a couple cold-blooded crusades of death (Graendal, almost the Seanchan). Moridin almost won the Last Battle in this book...Rand became Dark Rand, and was teetering on the brink of stone-cold insanity.
Good points. He removes his own safety valve in saying that, assuming he had an extra man left in the Dark One Recycles Me video game, but he does have a shot at clearing the rival field otherwise.
Actually, we DID know Sheriam was a DF. But I agree, I liked how her (and Verin's) motivations were explained, and added depth to the BA.
I thought there was speculation and suspicion about Sheriam as DF but no actual in-book confirmation prior to this book. Hearing her inner DF monologue added a whole new side to her.
It was all RJ. The entire plot is RJ's. Sanderson is only writing it for him now. But yes, I liked it too.
Yeah I get BS's role. "Direction" was the wrong word. "Treatment" would have been better, to the degree it applies to parts that BS wrote.
My only regret is that we didn't get to enjoy Dark Rand longer.
Good point. Dark Rand would have been awesome for longer, some boiling and tense conflicts with Cad/Nyn/Wise/Egw/Min/Avi/Ely. Barely pulling it out at the end, etc. Would have made for some nice suspense.
On a vaguely related note, I hope Fain doesn't have a wagon accident and die conveniently. I want him to show up at a really inconvenient time and threaten to derail everything and have some awesome suspense.
Nicely done, Sanderson. Some differences but still a great story.
- 16/11/2009 01:13:51 AM
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Re: Nicely done, Sanderson. Some differences but still a great story.
- 16/11/2009 03:46:28 AM
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"We" did not "know" Sheriam was a DF
- 16/11/2009 04:28:53 AM
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And the consensus seemed to be she was a lightsider who was being used by BA. *NM*
- 16/11/2009 05:09:57 AM
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Sheriam is like someone not believing God joining the clergy, just for personal gain,
- 16/11/2009 09:24:40 AM
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Good points re Moridin & the balefire secret
- 16/11/2009 03:50:08 PM
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Re: Nicely done, Sanderson. Some differences but still a great story.
- 17/11/2009 03:03:35 PM
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