... that the simplest explanation is that as long as you use both saidin and saidar together, you're okay and the Dark One won't be able to taint either one. The female Aes Sedai refused to help last time, so it was only saidin, and so it failed. A theme throughout the entire series has been gender relations, and I see no better way to show men and women working both metaphorically and literally together to save the world.
Thus, the three becoming one would refer to two female channelers and Rand working together to use Callandor, the women directing the flows, to seal the prison. Most likely Rand, Nynaeve, and Egwene, the trio from the Two Rivers.
It seems to me that anything else would just be needlessly complicating the matter ...
Thus, the three becoming one would refer to two female channelers and Rand working together to use Callandor, the women directing the flows, to seal the prison. Most likely Rand, Nynaeve, and Egwene, the trio from the Two Rivers.
It seems to me that anything else would just be needlessly complicating the matter ...
I am pretty sure I have read somewhere that RJ said that if both halves of the power had been used in the original sealing, both would have been tainted. Someone more knowledgable about WoT quotes databases might be able to give you a direct quote but I am pretty sure about this.
Thats why there have been lots of theories about Rand using the True Power to touch the Dark One. Because unlike either saidin or saidar, it could not be tainted being the DO's own power. But the DO can instantly stop a channeler from tapping into the TP if he wants to so Rand could not use that, unless he could create a separate supply that the DO could not prevent from being used (a TP-EotW which was my second idea)
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- 02/12/2009 01:47:12 AM
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It seems to me ...
- 02/12/2009 04:09:58 AM
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Re: It seems to me ...
- 02/12/2009 04:51:08 AM
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I like this theory. Beats the TP and Saidin+Saidar theories for workability IMO. *NM*
- 02/12/2009 05:46:52 AM
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That would definitely be pretty cool. It'd also explain just what the Eye of the World was FOR!
- 02/12/2009 06:37:48 AM
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And maybe this was what Herid Fel wanted to talk to Rand about? A Well of Saidin/Saidar mixed.
- 02/12/2009 08:00:07 AM
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Maybe, but I think the problem is the Dark One's ability to affect weaves that should last forever.
- 02/12/2009 04:15:28 PM
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It's also interesting to see...
- 02/12/2009 04:46:43 PM
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Exactly. The weave itself didn't fail but the flows were powerless against the bubble of evil.
- 02/12/2009 04:52:03 PM
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