Most damage to the world is certainly done by the DO
Etzel Send a noteboard - 21/04/2010 02:03:07 PM
Anyone else think that the blight and the food blight are connected and that both will end when the tinkers/aiel sing the song?
Similar to the DO weakening the Pattern, his touch spoils things, dramatically changes the weather, increases vermin, etc., in order to basically create a global Blight, which kills humankind.
However, Rand's state and connection to the land can apparently reduce (but also strengthen) this effect. The damage is apparently also reduced by giving order & belief to the people. Factors like the Tinkers' firm peaceful belief might actually weaken the Shadow. Therefore the Tinkers were IMO also the actual target of the Trollocs seen in TGS, prologue, which coincidentally bumped into Tylee's Seanchan army.
It seems very likely that the Tinker will help to heal the world after TG (some suggest that Aviendha might find the Song), though I think the most dramatic changes (e.g. the darkening the sky) will immediately be reversed, when Rand defeats the DO. We also saw the Blight immediately receding after Rand's victory in the end of EotW.
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- 21/04/2010 05:21:41 AM
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I always thought ..
- 21/04/2010 07:47:09 AM
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Seems like it'd be the opposite, wouldn't it? (AND GODDAMMIT THERE IS NO SONG)
- 21/04/2010 05:46:37 PM
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but the food spoiling when dark rand appears def points a finger at rand affecting the food supply
- 21/04/2010 05:49:15 PM
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The song
- 21/04/2010 06:46:21 PM
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No, that wasn't "the song" it was a bystander's persepective of Aiel seedsinging
- 22/04/2010 06:57:48 AM
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Don't make me explain myself! 
- 21/04/2010 08:19:27 PM
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- 21/04/2010 08:19:27 PM
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Eh... it's possible. but it doesn't seem like they're Mat-memories
- 22/04/2010 07:00:43 AM
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Re: Seems like it'd be the opposite, wouldn't it? (AND GODDAMMIT THERE IS NO SONG)
- 21/04/2010 10:30:57 PM
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Ahahaha, I read the capitalized DO as Dark One, not the word itself.
- 22/04/2010 05:02:40 AM
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Most damage to the world is certainly done by the DO
- 21/04/2010 02:03:07 PM
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