Although given how we know Oaths work, they wouldn't have to die.
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 29/09/2010 09:55:22 PM
They would just have to BELIEVE they were dying.
As to them being so arrogant and evil that they couldn't ever imagine someone repenting... that seems ridiculous. In thousands of years, there's never been someone who's tried to repent, or become a traitor to the Dark One?
We see with regular Darkfriends, some of them take the oaths, never expecting them to come into play (I believe the family that hosted Fain in Cairhein was like this, later in the series?). I'd say it's pretty likely that at least some of these Darkfriends say something like "What? No! That oath was a long time ago, I won't do what you say!"
And then they get killed, and any other DFs in the area start following orders out of fear.
So, obviously, the DF organization has at least some experience with traitors. You don't think the Black Ajah, a group so paranoid that they have magical oaths restricting their members, would have this happen, at least once?
As to them being so arrogant and evil that they couldn't ever imagine someone repenting... that seems ridiculous. In thousands of years, there's never been someone who's tried to repent, or become a traitor to the Dark One?
We see with regular Darkfriends, some of them take the oaths, never expecting them to come into play (I believe the family that hosted Fain in Cairhein was like this, later in the series?). I'd say it's pretty likely that at least some of these Darkfriends say something like "What? No! That oath was a long time ago, I won't do what you say!"
And then they get killed, and any other DFs in the area start following orders out of fear.
So, obviously, the DF organization has at least some experience with traitors. You don't think the Black Ajah, a group so paranoid that they have magical oaths restricting their members, would have this happen, at least once?
I amuse myself.
This message last edited by beetnemesis on 01/10/2010 at 10:12:27 PM
Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 08:35:55 AM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 11:52:10 AM
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As far as we know, they're just regular Oath Rod oaths. There's no surveillance
- 29/09/2010 09:50:16 PM
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It's poetic. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 11:59:05 AM
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agreed. "The hour of my death" sounds more threatening and foreboding. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 09:33:38 PM
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The Forsaken that created the Oaths in the first place must have messed up
- 29/09/2010 03:14:30 PM
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Most likely
- 29/09/2010 05:43:38 PM
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Although given how we know Oaths work, they wouldn't have to die.
- 29/09/2010 09:55:22 PM
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It's really, really stupid
- 29/09/2010 09:58:51 PM
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As with many previous similar debates regarding the Shadow
- 29/09/2010 10:18:03 PM
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Hah, Either they're SO SMART we just don't realize it... or they're idiots
- 01/10/2010 10:11:42 PM
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Jordan needed it this way to be able to write the deeply moving Verin confession scene
- 29/09/2010 10:39:22 PM
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it's not so much that they are dumb... they just have no common sense!
- 30/09/2010 05:57:03 PM
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It's less stupid than you think
- 29/09/2010 11:51:34 PM
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With the Black Ajah, you either agree to join, or you're murdered
- 01/10/2010 10:16:41 PM
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Translation error
- 30/09/2010 01:02:06 AM
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This would be awesome if true. Unfortunately, I don't think it is
- 01/10/2010 10:20:20 PM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 30/09/2010 04:20:05 PM
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Because no one is perfect.
- 01/10/2010 03:06:14 AM
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Padan Fain wasn't a mistake.
- 01/10/2010 03:56:28 AM
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Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 05:22:09 AM
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Re: Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 06:39:26 AM
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse. 
- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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I always hate that saying..ignorance is bliss! So it should be a valid excuse!
- 01/10/2010 07:36:52 AM
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