Rand had used Callandor four times, two sucessful tries and two failures.
Successes: defeating Ishmael and destroying the Trolloc attack on Tear.
Failures: Trying to heal a dead girl and trying to destroy the Seanchan.
When he attacked Ishmael and the Trollocs, weaves he never knew about came naturally, e.g. pick out trollocs and fades and kill them whereever they were.
When he tried to heal the girl or destroy the Seanchan he struggled to figure out what to do and the results were unexpected.
Theory: Callandor was designed specifically as a weapon against the shadow. It's not just merely a Sa'angreal - it's actually designed to only work successfully against the DO.
Requiring women for other type of channeling is a safety feature - to ensure that caution is applied to using it (akin to having several people sign off before you can throw an atomic bomb).
So Rand will not have to have other women link with him to use Callandor if he fights the shadow with it.
Successes: defeating Ishmael and destroying the Trolloc attack on Tear.
Failures: Trying to heal a dead girl and trying to destroy the Seanchan.
When he attacked Ishmael and the Trollocs, weaves he never knew about came naturally, e.g. pick out trollocs and fades and kill them whereever they were.
When he tried to heal the girl or destroy the Seanchan he struggled to figure out what to do and the results were unexpected.
Theory: Callandor was designed specifically as a weapon against the shadow. It's not just merely a Sa'angreal - it's actually designed to only work successfully against the DO.
Requiring women for other type of channeling is a safety feature - to ensure that caution is applied to using it (akin to having several people sign off before you can throw an atomic bomb).
So Rand will not have to have other women link with him to use Callandor if he fights the shadow with it.
Maybe requiring women to act as the safety buffer is essentially because saidin & saidar together are able to withstand the TP tainting them. That sounded odd, didn't it? Well maybe Callandor is intended to be used as a tool to seal the bore, and this time, to make sure that Rand, if he used Callandor to boost his power, included women to prevent tainting saidin again.
That theory just sounded really bad when I read it again, but now it's too late
Callandor as the weapon of choice
- 15/11/2009 07:37:38 AM
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I actually don't think Callandor will be used at all - perhaps we are being over-literal.
- 16/11/2009 08:46:21 PM
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Re: Callandor as the weapon of choice
- 21/11/2009 11:52:02 AM
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