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I doubt he's a special case.

Phelix Send a noteboard - 21/12/2009 06:34:33 AM

This is what I was alluding to in my post above. It's late and I've been studying for far too long, so my brain is more or less mush at this point. But yes--I think the Taint is indeed responsible for corroding the natural safety nets in place by the Pattern from preventing seeping in information along one Thread from one lifetime to the next. Rand might also simply be a special case, but who knows.

I would make the claim that, however Rand got LTT's knowledge, it was absolutely necessary to his survival. Without his "instincts," which we know to be LTT-derived, he would have been made mincemeat by all of the Forsaken and shadowspawn at multiple times throughout the series.

Though, the fact that he has had to channel so much, so often, and with so much complexity, might have pushed him faster than most male channelers.

We know that Semirhage spoke of the madness that some men go through; as did Cadsuane. The Aes Sedai brought it up from her experience with previous male channelers and False Dragons, and she said that the longer they had been channeling, the more likely they were hearing a voice, or more than one.

It's likely that their thread had been corroded back to their previous life.

Now, perhaps people who are hearing more than one voice have been reborn more frequently than Rand was. A man's soul that was involved in the Sealing of the Bore could have been reborn again when the Trolloc Wars washed over the world, and again during the next era when Hawkwing's Empire rose and fell. If they lived short, tainted lives, their natural barriers could already be weak during this incarnation, perhaps allowing them to hear a few of their most recent voices.

I was Phelix on wotmania, I will always be Phelix in the "real" world, and now I am Phelix on RAFO.

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I had a theory back on Wotmania... Phelix - 21/12/2009 05:45:53 AM 709 Views

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I doubt he's a special case.

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we are borg

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<quote id="63440">This is what I was alluding to in my post above.  It's late and I've been studying for far too long, so my brain is more or less mush at this point.  But yes--I think the Taint is indeed responsible for corroding the natural safety nets in place by the Pattern from preventing seeping in information along one Thread from one lifetime to the next.  Rand might also simply be a special case, but who knows.

I would make the claim that, however Rand got LTT's knowledge, it was <i>absolutely necessary</i> to his survival.  Without his "instincts," which we know to be LTT-derived, he would have been made mincemeat by all of the Forsaken and shadowspawn at multiple times throughout the series.</quote>

Though, the fact that he has had to channel so much, so often, and with so much complexity, might have pushed him faster than most male channelers.

We know that Semirhage spoke of the madness that some men go through; as did Cadsuane. The Aes Sedai brought it up from her experience with previous male channelers and False Dragons, and she said that the longer they had been channeling, the more likely they were hearing a voice, or more than one.

It's likely that their thread had been corroded back to their previous life.

Now, perhaps people who are hearing more than one voice have been reborn more frequently than Rand was. A man's soul that was involved in the Sealing of the Bore could have been reborn again when the Trolloc Wars washed over the world, and again during the next era when Hawkwing's Empire rose and fell. If they lived short, tainted lives, their natural barriers could already be weak during this incarnation, perhaps allowing them to hear a few of their most recent voices.
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