Personally, I think it should be possible to Unravel the Bore, maybe with Callandor. Basically, the Bore is nothing else than a special, gigantic Gateway drilled with the OP through the Pattern to the DO. We also know from Demandred that one can only sense the Bore in the Pit of Doom, which implies that it is some kind of weave and explains why Rand has to enter the Pit.
If the Bore is such a special Gateway-weave, it should be possible to Unravel it like you can Unravel other weaves (of course this was unknown in the AoL, which explains LTT's failure and Moridin's horror about this discovery). Alviarin demonstrated this in PoD and might provide Rand with a clue. The seals have to vanish (clear the rubble before you can build), because they basically block that the Bore is affected from Randland (while the DO can gradually make the Bore larger, especially by weakening the Pattern through chaos).
It's also interesting that only LTT/Rand and Demandred are able to block a Gateway.
However, I also think that Rand's special blood might somehow literally play a part, because of the Prophecies and since we know that blood can have some effects in the Pit of Doom (e.g. in mindtrapping someone).
If the Bore is such a special Gateway-weave, it should be possible to Unravel it like you can Unravel other weaves (of course this was unknown in the AoL, which explains LTT's failure and Moridin's horror about this discovery). Alviarin demonstrated this in PoD and might provide Rand with a clue. The seals have to vanish (clear the rubble before you can build), because they basically block that the Bore is affected from Randland (while the DO can gradually make the Bore larger, especially by weakening the Pattern through chaos).
It's also interesting that only LTT/Rand and Demandred are able to block a Gateway.
However, I also think that Rand's special blood might somehow literally play a part, because of the Prophecies and since we know that blood can have some effects in the Pit of Doom (e.g. in mindtrapping someone).
A great notion, using the already set rules of Jordan's magic system, and requiring a very lengthy amount of time, thus justifying the need of armies much as the channelers at the cleansing were needed.
How much harder would it be to unravel a weave of both Saidin and Saidar? This would certainly justify the importance of Callandor and the 3 become one bits.
We will have no idea until it is written, but this is the most logical, and perhaps the most exciting speculation I've seen.
How can Rand repair the bore? More importantly, what forms the boundary of the Wheel itself?
- 25/06/2010 01:00:35 AM
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Re: How can Rand repair the bore? More importantly, what forms the boundary of the Wheel itself?
- 25/06/2010 04:18:42 AM
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Mierin thought they had found a new source of power, not of THE power.
- 25/06/2010 05:40:27 PM
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Re: Mierin thought they had found a new source of power, not of THE power.
- 30/06/2010 03:18:32 AM
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Here's a theory I had posted on wotmania
- 25/06/2010 06:16:07 AM
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I told you this about 4 years ago, but your nickname is AWESOME *NM*
- 25/06/2010 01:21:24 PM
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Aiel Reluctance to Enter T'A'R in the flesh
- 25/06/2010 02:12:01 PM
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The Aiel's insistance is not baseless. They know why they say it is evil.
- 25/06/2010 06:01:08 PM
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You might be right, but the other idea is far more interesting. *NM*
- 25/06/2010 10:18:37 PM
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Slayer seems quite inhuman and he's been in TAR in the flesh a lot
- 26/06/2010 04:29:24 AM
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true, but he's also be transformed in some unknown way. Not sure he really counts as human
- 26/06/2010 05:46:46 PM
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My idea
- 25/06/2010 09:37:32 AM
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Re: My idea
- 25/06/2010 04:26:47 PM
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Re: My idea
- 25/06/2010 06:44:31 PM
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The very name "Bore"...
- 26/06/2010 07:25:22 AM
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Actually I think he pretty much backed DomA's opinion
- 26/06/2010 08:30:42 AM
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Well, as said, I disagree.
- 26/06/2010 08:43:40 AM
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- 26/06/2010 08:43:40 AM
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Well here's what I think
- 26/06/2010 11:18:33 AM
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Look...
- 26/06/2010 11:43:25 AM
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Re: Look...
- 26/06/2010 01:04:53 PM
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That's wrong...
- 26/06/2010 01:26:25 PM
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You're ignoring basic facts
- 26/06/2010 02:44:38 PM
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Again...
- 26/06/2010 02:53:05 PM
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Re: Again...
- 26/06/2010 03:30:20 PM
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No, the Bore was drilled through that specific thinness in the Pattern.
- 26/06/2010 03:54:51 PM
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Yeah....
- 26/06/2010 04:54:50 PM
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After reading through the back and forth, I am convinced of this:
- 26/06/2010 05:33:21 PM
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Re: After reading through the back and forth, I am convinced of this:
- 27/06/2010 06:20:32 PM
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Maybe they can plug the Bore with garbage like British Petroleum.
*NM*
- 25/06/2010 05:43:41 PM
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*NM*
- 25/06/2010 05:43:41 PM
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Re: How can Rand repair the bore? More importantly, what forms the boundary of the Wheel itself?
- 25/06/2010 05:59:38 PM
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Re: How can Rand repair the bore? More importantly, what forms the boundary of the Wheel itself?
- 25/06/2010 06:55:28 PM
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me too !
- 25/06/2010 10:34:41 PM
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It sounds similar to one of the noisy environmental problem in RJ's time
- 27/06/2010 02:22:27 AM
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Re: How can Rand repair the bore? More importantly, what forms the boundary of the Wheel itself?
- 25/06/2010 11:27:18 PM
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I always figured Egwene and Rand would have to work together.
- 29/06/2010 08:26:45 PM
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Re: I always figured Egwene and Rand would have to work together.
- 29/06/2010 10:17:59 PM
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Maybe saidar and saidin, woven together properly, form something else?
- 01/07/2010 11:50:40 PM
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