And his powers are pretty impressive, e.g. swallowing people into the earth, burning them from the inside, turning a village into rabid zombies, changing metal & stones to wax, teleporting people and rooms around, darkening the sky, spoiling food, increasing vermin, letting the death walk, etc.
Certainly even more horrible things - like natural disasters, water turning into blood and an eternal night - will eventually happen (those things are already seen in Ishy's visions at the DF Social in TGH).
All done to weak, discourage & kill mankind.
If the DO then manages to focus his Powers a bit more and let those effects become less random, no army in the world has any chance against it. He could e.g. simply turn the soldiers' weapons and armors into wax, teleport channelers away, swallow others into the earth or fry them, while the anyway demoralized and starving rest of the army is done by the attacking Shadowspawn forces.
Of course, we still know from RJ that the DO will lose. But it will be interesting to see how Rand achieves it.
Certainly even more horrible things - like natural disasters, water turning into blood and an eternal night - will eventually happen (those things are already seen in Ishy's visions at the DF Social in TGH).
All done to weak, discourage & kill mankind.
If the DO then manages to focus his Powers a bit more and let those effects become less random, no army in the world has any chance against it. He could e.g. simply turn the soldiers' weapons and armors into wax, teleport channelers away, swallow others into the earth or fry them, while the anyway demoralized and starving rest of the army is done by the attacking Shadowspawn forces.
Of course, we still know from RJ that the DO will lose. But it will be interesting to see how Rand achieves it.
Shadow win?
01/12/2009 04:20:36 PM
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The Shadow kind of has a big trump card
01/12/2009 04:30:38 PM
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If the Dark One wins, and destroys the Pattern, becomes the Creator and the Creator becomes the DO
01/12/2009 06:36:47 PM
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I used to hope for that, but the DO quotes and his choice of followers make it hard to like him. *NM*
01/12/2009 07:21:01 PM
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Fact is, people don't enjoy reading about doom and gloom.
01/12/2009 04:33:35 PM
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Yes they do. They're called the Malazaniacs ... They love emo to the max ...
02/12/2009 06:57:42 AM
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The DO is the real threat
01/12/2009 04:46:32 PM
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This is why fanfiction of soap operas and comics can be more entertaining than the real thing.
01/12/2009 06:09:17 PM
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Only if the DO isn't quite what we think he/it is.
01/12/2009 07:19:44 PM
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No, there is no sense that the Shadow can or will win.
01/12/2009 09:23:47 PM
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And RPA Reiterates Part of My Response.
02/12/2009 12:10:40 AM
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Beowulf did end badly, though
02/12/2009 05:40:52 AM
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With the Deck So Heavily Stacked in the DO's Favor, the Rest Just Makes Things Competitive.
02/12/2009 12:24:18 AM
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I always had the sense that the DO's minions are really just meant to be distractions
02/12/2009 06:30:27 AM
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