Greetings, ReadandFindOut.com. Once more, I, Hopper Aes Sedai, come to you live from beautiful tel’aran’rhoid, where the weather is always warm as you like! *transmits image of scantily clad wolf sipping oosquai on a Domani beach into your head*
 
I have recently wrapped up my read-through of the series and the new book The Gathering Storm. This is only my second thread in this forum, but I think I have learned a lot from my first post a while ago, discussing the identity of a new Forsaken, Paah. Obviously that did not pan out as I’d thought, but oh well, I thought it was a decent theory at the time.
 
Anyway, I want to talk about a new theory recently sprung forth from my lupine loins, one considering the origin of the oft used phrase “the Dark One’s own luck.”
 
In Rand’s world, the phrase is used to describe someone who is exceptionally lucky, like Matrim Cauthon. By extension, the Dark One is also exceptionally lucky. His luck is shown in the following list of events from the Wheel of Time.
 
1. He was Created and given his own room from the time of his birth. How many kids can say that?
2. Mierin Eronaile, the undisputed #1 hottest woman ever, came to his room to look for him. And he’s still grounded. How lucky is that?
 
Most men would stop here and consider themselves unbelievably lucky, but let’s continue.
 
3. He somehow communicates with the outside world without ever leaving his room, as evidenced by the spreading of his cult following. This would be the stuff of legends even in the Internet Age (see Tay Zonday, Chris Crocker, etc.), an age that is yet to come and an age long past, but imagine this happening without it. That’s pretty darn lucky.
4. In the Lord of Chaos, he laughs in Demandred’s face and gets away with it. Also, he knows who Demandred is masquerading as. What wouldn’t you give for that bit of information?
5. He can talk in CAPITAL LETTERS.
 
Now, the opponents of my theory may argue that the Dark One has never won a battle, that the leaders of his forces are Scratch and Grounder from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, that his most competent subject was a spy who spied on the wrong side, and that the phrase “the Dark One’s own luck” is the biggest oxymoron in the series.
 
But the fact remains that the Dark One is ridiculously lucky due to the above five reasons. Thus the phrase was born and the rest is history. Another case cracked by yours truly.
 
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get a good even tan on my haunches, so that they will look nice when Perrin fantasizes about them in the next book.

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