Presumably, the balefire stream Rand used to kill Semirhage & Elza was narrow - narrow enough that it only hit them, not the bracelets. Whereas, the balefire stream Rand used to destroy the palace was HUGELY WIDE - wide enough to wipe out the entire palace and everything in it, presumably. I don't have the book in front of me, but I recall that it was said that there was nothing left where the palace had been standing.
I am pretty sure the way it was described was that the balefire stream was NOT wide and large enough to encompass the entire place. But rather that the palace somehow "absorbed" the balefire energy and started glowing from that. I think the term was "breathed in". And then when it had absorbed enough the whole place vanished in an instant. That is completely unlike balefire we have seen before.
Either BS wrote it differently, or this was somekind of new type of balefire. I suppose you could argue that Rand used LTT knowledge to modify the balefire weave but there was no mention of it. I figure BS just wrote it differently. This causes a lot of confusion. I am not entirely convinced that BS and RJ views on balefire are identical.
Graendal's Fate (Alive or Dead?)
05/01/2010 05:44:12 PM
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Re: Graendal's Fate (Alive or Dead?)
05/01/2010 07:15:41 PM
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Nynaeve's boat...
05/01/2010 07:23:57 PM
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Good point ...
05/01/2010 07:52:04 PM
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I'm somewhat surprised objects have threads.
05/01/2010 08:45:52 PM
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Re: I'm somewhat surprised objects have threads.
05/01/2010 09:23:06 PM
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Re: I'm somewhat surprised objects have threads.
05/01/2010 10:30:42 PM
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There is another way...
05/01/2010 07:00:31 PM
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Nope
06/01/2010 04:36:56 AM
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USe Occam's Razor yourself...
06/01/2010 05:53:22 AM
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and why didn't she invert any of the weaves?
06/01/2010 05:55:54 AM
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Maybe you cannot invert compulsion?
06/01/2010 06:56:35 PM
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so it's the one and only thing we've seen that can't be inverted? seems a little
06/01/2010 11:31:09 PM
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Re: so it's the one and only thing we've seen that can't be inverted?
07/01/2010 12:02:00 AM
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She's dead as a bloody doornail. Or whatever that saying is... *NM*
05/01/2010 07:20:36 PM
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Clearly dead
05/01/2010 07:29:11 PM
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Re: Clearly dead
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Re: Clearly dead
05/01/2010 08:41:15 PM
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I think she's alive.
06/01/2010 06:12:50 PM
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Compulsion is rather useless isn't it?
06/01/2010 07:44:42 PM
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It may take an exceptional Delver/Healer
06/01/2010 08:49:37 PM
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perhaps, but still I have a hard time believing Graendal didn't invert the weaves!
06/01/2010 11:06:49 PM
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Re: perhaps, but still I have a hard time believing Graendal didn't invert the weaves!
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