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Graendal: What would you do when a man appears at your door? Syraelle Send a noteboard - 06/12/2009 03:37:39 AM
Rereading the section with Ramshalan, am still a little unsatisfied with Graendal's demise.

A man appears from the Dragon Reborn, alone, at _her_ palace door. After Compulsion, the interrogation inevitably would have to lead to what the Dragon had said to him, and the very strange riddle the Dragon had queried: "How do I outthink an enemy I know is smarter than I am." That by itself and given that the Dragon had woven a hole in the air directly to her palace, AND the fact that Rand outrightly identifies her: "My current foe understands the others in a way that I cannot hope to match. So how do I defeat her?" (567) would she not be in the least bit suspicious immediately?

Yes the chess game of wills is one thing, but effective the moment she compelled him and discovered the dialogue that the Dragon had said, she's knows he knows where she is.... Why stay at all? Especially when she's got to think to herself how is he getting back to Rand (with no horse, or entourage....)? The thought that the Dragon has got to be somewhere in the vicinity has to have crossed her mind, right? Her hiding place has been compromised, that is an immediate fact.

Add to that, that if Aran'gar were there, wouldn't Aran'gar have felt the buildup of saidin for the balefire; it was a lot of balefire after all.... (the passage reads that it was a moment to be sure, but a long one)...?

I know Sanderson kind of dumbed her down and forgot some of the details of her scenes, but given just how smart she is, I'd think she'd not be so foolish as to just Compel him and send him on his way and then resume her idle fancies....
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Graendal: What would you do when a man appears at your door? - 06/12/2009 03:37:39 AM 1144 Views
I tend to agree - 06/12/2009 03:46:37 AM 619 Views
Re: I tend to agree - 06/12/2009 04:01:22 AM 714 Views
I love the idea of a third person involved. - 06/12/2009 06:35:51 AM 644 Views
Delana!!! - 09/12/2009 08:35:40 PM 550 Views
Ah, so you're proposing that - 06/12/2009 04:29:34 AM 687 Views
Re: Ah, so you're proposing that - 06/12/2009 04:53:45 AM 645 Views
I agree - 06/12/2009 05:09:33 AM 537 Views
She wouldn't have to know when he was going to BF her palace - 09/12/2009 06:46:05 AM 478 Views
It wouldn't work that way - 09/12/2009 04:32:48 PM 484 Views
Possible way in which Graendal could have survived... - 06/12/2009 06:11:11 AM 713 Views
Makes sense. Good points all around. - 06/12/2009 06:37:21 AM 727 Views
Re: Possible way in which Graendal could have survived... - 06/12/2009 06:39:24 AM 643 Views
Balefire doesn't work that way... - 06/12/2009 08:06:38 AM 634 Views
Re: Graendal: What would you do when a man appears at your door? - 06/12/2009 06:33:58 AM 689 Views
Re: Graendal: What would you do when a man appears at your door? - 09/12/2009 11:44:17 PM 458 Views
Re: Graendal: What would you do when a man appears at your door? - 15/12/2009 02:48:31 PM 468 Views
From the author's perspective... - 06/12/2009 11:05:16 AM 705 Views
Re: From the author's perspective... - 06/12/2009 05:38:09 PM 563 Views
She'd have had to ask the right questions to get the right answers. - 07/12/2009 12:44:29 AM 593 Views

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