TGS (The Last that could be Done) - Rand raised a hand and, filled with the power he did not understand, wove a single weave. A bar of pure white light, a cleansing fire, burst from his hand and struck Semirhage in the chest. She flashed and vanished, leaving a faint afterimage to Rand's vision.
Is Semirhage dead? Possibilities....
1. Semirhage is dead.
2. Semirhage Travelled. As one of the most skilled channelers of her Age, she could have done this. We've seen Lanfear disappear before in earlier books.
3. Semirhage wove an illusion of invisibility on herself and ran away. She took off the bracelet and let it drop to the floor.
4. The True Power, being the opposite of the One Power, makes balefire that propels you into the future. Rand left the room and went to banish Cadsuane. Semirhage rematerialized later in the room and was unharmed, and ran away.
5. The entire scene happened in Tel'aran'rhiod, with Semirhage still in her cell. Although she was shielded, she entered TAR, pulled Rand in and created an overly elaborate scenario to break him. It worked and he thought he'd killed her. Shadar Haran freed her later and she and Elza left the place.
6. It's one of Lews Therin's memories from the War of Power, washing over his own. Combined with the fact that Rand is mildly tainted himself, he perceived something that didn't happen.
7. Semirhage's fireball in KoD had a weave of Compulsion that sucked onto Rand's brain. It was designed to unravel/activate after about a week. When it did, it made him delusional and he thought Semirhage had caught him. In the mean time, Shadar Haran freed Semirhage.
8. Rand hit her with an invisibility weave, not balefire. She ran away and Moridin unravelled it. Rand himself said he didn't understand the power he was using.
9. Graendal wove an illusion of Semirhage and sent it after Rand while Shadar Haran freed the real Semirhage. Graendal watched the scene unfold and at the exact moment she sensed his balefire coming, she let her illusion disappear.
10. It wasn't Semirhage from the beginning, but Sammael who had resurfaced. Using Semirhage as a disguise he got himself into a whole lot of trouble and died for real this time.
Thoughts?
Is Semirhage dead? Possibilities....
1. Semirhage is dead.
2. Semirhage Travelled. As one of the most skilled channelers of her Age, she could have done this. We've seen Lanfear disappear before in earlier books.
3. Semirhage wove an illusion of invisibility on herself and ran away. She took off the bracelet and let it drop to the floor.
4. The True Power, being the opposite of the One Power, makes balefire that propels you into the future. Rand left the room and went to banish Cadsuane. Semirhage rematerialized later in the room and was unharmed, and ran away.
5. The entire scene happened in Tel'aran'rhiod, with Semirhage still in her cell. Although she was shielded, she entered TAR, pulled Rand in and created an overly elaborate scenario to break him. It worked and he thought he'd killed her. Shadar Haran freed her later and she and Elza left the place.
6. It's one of Lews Therin's memories from the War of Power, washing over his own. Combined with the fact that Rand is mildly tainted himself, he perceived something that didn't happen.
7. Semirhage's fireball in KoD had a weave of Compulsion that sucked onto Rand's brain. It was designed to unravel/activate after about a week. When it did, it made him delusional and he thought Semirhage had caught him. In the mean time, Shadar Haran freed Semirhage.
8. Rand hit her with an invisibility weave, not balefire. She ran away and Moridin unravelled it. Rand himself said he didn't understand the power he was using.
9. Graendal wove an illusion of Semirhage and sent it after Rand while Shadar Haran freed the real Semirhage. Graendal watched the scene unfold and at the exact moment she sensed his balefire coming, she let her illusion disappear.
10. It wasn't Semirhage from the beginning, but Sammael who had resurfaced. Using Semirhage as a disguise he got himself into a whole lot of trouble and died for real this time.
Thoughts?
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This message last edited by Sidious on 06/01/2010 at 12:11:17 PM
Semirhage's fate (Alive or Dead?)
06/01/2010 12:10:26 PM
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Like Graendal, she is dead...
06/01/2010 12:19:23 PM
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hasn't BSand said there will be another Graendal POV?
06/01/2010 02:39:15 PM
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Nope...
06/01/2010 02:41:15 PM
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You're reading a lot into that
06/01/2010 02:53:47 PM
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Never happened in the series before...
06/01/2010 03:24:40 PM
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Re: Never happened in the series before...
06/01/2010 03:27:04 PM
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As said, your second option is likely
06/01/2010 03:36:12 PM
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aren't you the one who keeps arguing that Slayer must have killed Asmo
06/01/2010 03:45:46 PM
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It seems...
06/01/2010 03:55:45 PM
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perhaps, but it's "newly minted" in the Prologue
06/01/2010 05:22:21 PM
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According to Tellings of the Wheel
06/01/2010 05:45:19 PM
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*shrugs*
08/01/2010 05:31:23 AM
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Probably enough to get some DF reports, sent out new spies to Rand, deal with some nobles, etc. *NM*
08/01/2010 07:19:59 AM
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Or to Travel around and meet with the FS again
08/01/2010 03:17:11 PM
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I doubt that Graendal would want or need a stronger alliance with Aran'gar...
08/01/2010 03:40:12 PM
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That's a thin line of argument.
06/01/2010 03:29:06 PM
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No... Crossroads of Twilight happened during the Cleansing (Winter's Heart) *NM*
06/01/2010 09:20:46 PM
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You misunderstand my comment
08/01/2010 05:30:17 AM
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It happened partially
06/01/2010 03:58:58 PM
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I doubt...
06/01/2010 04:12:53 PM
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Yet Sammael knew even before he had her convinced he would be NB
06/01/2010 05:46:03 PM
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Both were old comrades, though. *NM*
06/01/2010 05:49:11 PM
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Old comrades?
08/01/2010 05:41:18 AM
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Yub, for Forsaken they were pretty close; closer than Graendal and Aran'gar. *NM*
08/01/2010 07:18:01 AM
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I wonder if the DO could ressurect her since it was his power that killed her? *NM*
06/01/2010 02:13:41 PM
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Here is what BS said
06/01/2010 03:48:03 PM
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Very inventive, but.... Semirhage is Toast with a Capital T. *NM*
06/01/2010 03:24:36 PM
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Re: Semirhage's fate (Alive or Dead?)
07/01/2010 03:23:43 PM
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wait you were joking?
08/01/2010 05:45:07 AM
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I give you credit for the imagination, but the books will loose all integrity if they went that far. *NM*
07/01/2010 06:56:37 PM
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