TB
2013-03-08 21:52:29 UTC
Spoiler space for The Last Book.
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More spoiler space.
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Not sure how much spoiler space we need.
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That'll do.
So anyway, the Third Age ended and the Fourth Age began (heh, in the
middle of the afternoon, I liked that touch). The One Power didn't go
anywhere[1], so obviously if Chaggabaggawoggaland is Earth (as
suggested by fossilised skeletons and hood ornaments in the museum of
Tanchico), then the transition into nobody-can-use-the-One-Power[2] we
currently have on modern-day Earth is still a long way off around the
spin of the Wheel. Along with a whole mess of continental drift and
shit. Whatever.
But what was that other Power Rand used at the end of the story? He
himself seemed to have been burned out (without suffering gentled-man
syndrome, no less), but then he just wanted his pipe to be lit, so it
was?
What was *that*?
It wasn't the True Power, and it wasn't the Creator's version of the
same (which I assumed was the One Power all along anyway). So what was
it? Some sort of Perrin/Slayer-style Tel'Aran'Rhiod Power? Had Rand
strolled out of the world (possibly mid-body-swap, or sometime after
seeing Cadsuane) and into the World of Dreams in the flesh, and that
was how he was doing it?
Because "Rand wanted it to happen and so it did" seems completely
fucking irresponsible if you ask me.
Yeah, so that. Answer it.
I'm not sure really. Why do you think it wasn't anything to do with the.
More spoiler space.
.
Not sure how much spoiler space we need.
.
That'll do.
So anyway, the Third Age ended and the Fourth Age began (heh, in the
middle of the afternoon, I liked that touch). The One Power didn't go
anywhere[1], so obviously if Chaggabaggawoggaland is Earth (as
suggested by fossilised skeletons and hood ornaments in the museum of
Tanchico), then the transition into nobody-can-use-the-One-Power[2] we
currently have on modern-day Earth is still a long way off around the
spin of the Wheel. Along with a whole mess of continental drift and
shit. Whatever.
But what was that other Power Rand used at the end of the story? He
himself seemed to have been burned out (without suffering gentled-man
syndrome, no less), but then he just wanted his pipe to be lit, so it
was?
What was *that*?
It wasn't the True Power, and it wasn't the Creator's version of the
same (which I assumed was the One Power all along anyway). So what was
it? Some sort of Perrin/Slayer-style Tel'Aran'Rhiod Power? Had Rand
strolled out of the world (possibly mid-body-swap, or sometime after
seeing Cadsuane) and into the World of Dreams in the flesh, and that
was how he was doing it?
Because "Rand wanted it to happen and so it did" seems completely
fucking irresponsible if you ask me.
Yeah, so that. Answer it.
creator? He has been reborn in another body, a bit like the DO always
did with his minions, so perhaps the Creator has done it with Rand, and
given him his version of the TP.
I don't know what the One Power is, but it may not be the Creator's
version of TP because you'd imagine he wouldn't allow baddies to use it...
Besides that though...it must be odd for the Wives of Rand to experience
him in a Moridin's body...! I mean, well, let's just hope he's just as
endowed, or more so, than Rand was! Or even if he is, well, you'd
imagine some questions about them preferring Moridin's body! I think
it'll all end in divorce, or whatever they have.