There are degrees of victory for Shai'tan. Preventing him from breaking free and defeating him are not the same thing.
See, if Rand dies, then there is nothing stopping Shai'tan from destroying the world. But that doesn't necessarily mean that he is freed - there are infinite worlds, as seen through the Portal Stones. And the Shai'tan paradox goes that if he breaks free in one, he breaks free in all, but if he is free in one, he is free in all.
We've seen, again through the Portal Stone journey, countless number of realities in which Rand dies. By your reasoning, this would mean Shai'tan is already free, but that is quite obviously not the case.
I imagine that in order to be freed by killing Rand, Shai'tan would have to kill him in every world. With infinite worlds, fat chance of that happening. Alternatively, there could be one true world for which all others are replicas, but there's no evidence of that, and no reason to believe so.
So, Shai'tan can't just free himself by killing Rand. What is one world destroyed to him?
See, if Rand dies, then there is nothing stopping Shai'tan from destroying the world. But that doesn't necessarily mean that he is freed - there are infinite worlds, as seen through the Portal Stones. And the Shai'tan paradox goes that if he breaks free in one, he breaks free in all, but if he is free in one, he is free in all.
We've seen, again through the Portal Stone journey, countless number of realities in which Rand dies. By your reasoning, this would mean Shai'tan is already free, but that is quite obviously not the case.
I imagine that in order to be freed by killing Rand, Shai'tan would have to kill him in every world. With infinite worlds, fat chance of that happening. Alternatively, there could be one true world for which all others are replicas, but there's no evidence of that, and no reason to believe so.
So, Shai'tan can't just free himself by killing Rand. What is one world destroyed to him?
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Could Moridin be a false Nae'blis whom the DO wants to replace with Demandred?
- 05/07/2010 05:11:43 PM
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Not a chance...
- 05/07/2010 06:30:38 PM
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What about winning?
- 06/07/2010 09:24:11 AM
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Remember what Verin said? Don't analyse the DO with human values..
- 06/07/2010 10:20:37 AM
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Assuming Verin is right
- 06/07/2010 08:09:02 PM
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Re: Assuming Verin is right
- 06/07/2010 08:44:22 PM
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Re: Assuming Verin is right
- 06/07/2010 09:06:20 PM
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Exactly. The Dark One just needs to get free. Then he can break the Pattern at his leisure...
- 06/07/2010 09:48:10 PM
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Well I agree and disagree
- 06/07/2010 09:55:49 PM
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Sure. That's for RAND to win. For the Dark One to win, it is as simple as just killing Rand...
- 06/07/2010 09:58:30 PM
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Says who?
- 06/07/2010 10:04:31 PM
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Because Rand is the only one who can stop him from breaking free.
- 06/07/2010 10:05:52 PM
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Those are not all synonyms.
- 06/07/2010 10:24:08 PM
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Sadly no. But it would have made for a more enthralling physical war...
- 05/07/2010 06:54:11 PM
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Demandred?
- 06/07/2010 12:44:56 AM
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Moridin is to blame because he is a symbol of RJ's choice to make this a metaphysical war...
- 06/07/2010 12:56:32 PM
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Re: Sadly no. But it would have made for a more enthralling physical war...
- 06/07/2010 02:31:31 AM
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Will be interesting to see...
- 06/07/2010 07:19:41 AM
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Re: Will be interesting to see...
- 06/07/2010 07:36:00 PM
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I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 06/07/2010 02:25:47 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 06/07/2010 07:52:54 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 06/07/2010 08:03:12 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 06/07/2010 08:58:38 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 06/07/2010 10:32:39 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 07/07/2010 06:03:46 AM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 07/07/2010 03:58:19 PM
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Re: I don't think so. But neither do I think Moridin is the true Nae'blis
- 07/07/2010 06:30:33 AM
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I claimed long time ago that Demandred is an agent of Light
- 07/07/2010 04:29:28 PM
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But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
- 07/07/2010 06:47:12 PM
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Re: But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
- 07/07/2010 08:04:21 PM
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Re: But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
- 07/07/2010 11:38:40 PM
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Re: But why would they expect someone to survive into the nhext Age?
- 08/07/2010 12:37:08 AM
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Nah, we already got that twist....it was cool when Verin did it, but RJ wouldn't overuse the idea *NM*
- 08/07/2010 01:15:46 AM
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That would make Demandred my new favourite character 
- 08/07/2010 10:15:41 AM
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- 08/07/2010 10:15:41 AM
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