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Re: She has a pretty powerful weapon... moratcorlm Send a noteboard - 20/12/2010 10:27:59 AM
Egwene got the meaning her Dream when she met Rand. She has done that before, getting the meaning of a Dream well after having seen it.
Could you provide examples of Dreams whose meaning she came to believe after the fact? There are a number of symbols she interprets immediately, but I don't remember any where she later just fitted a convenient meaning onto them. The single example of subsequent interpretation I can find is from LOC, the understanding that Gawyn would be her Warder: "She had not realised the words were coming out of her mouth until they did, but once they did, she knew they were true. That dream."

In TOM, there is no such certainty, just free association: "Break the seals? She saw the image from her dream, Rand hacking at the ropes that bound the crystalline globe." Moreover, the Dream itself does not impute any sense of wrongness to the destruction of the globe; her opposition to breaking the seals is based purely on her own fear.
But they all think his plan is crazy. Opposing his plan doesn't mean betraying him.
If he gives them an order, it certainly does. He's supposed to be crazy; they knew that when they signed on.
She has a Dream, she acts on it.
That the Seals need to be broken is far too well foreshadowed for her opposition to bear out. Rand's plan is certainly flawed; we know that touching both saidin and saidar to Shai'tan would result in catastrophe. And Egwene's opposition will be important. But her personal belief that the seals should not be shattered is based on no Dreamer's prophecy, and will need to be overcome.
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Exactly how loyal do you think Nynaeve and Elayne are? - 17/12/2010 04:52:34 AM 1120 Views
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Torturing Nynaeve for exclusively her own political ends. *NM* - 20/12/2010 12:14:55 AM 669 Views
Re: Torturing Nynaeve for exclusively her own political ends. - 20/12/2010 01:24:12 AM 1149 Views
And the most painful torments were caused by Egwene - 20/12/2010 09:31:44 AM 1259 Views
That's not quite true. - 20/12/2010 06:47:33 PM 1071 Views
That's not quite accurate. - 21/12/2010 01:22:26 AM 1320 Views
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Ta'veren vs. Mary Sue - 17/12/2010 07:33:28 PM 1581 Views
I see them as being the same thing. - 17/12/2010 08:11:30 PM 1208 Views
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I would say that in the grand scheme of things, Rand's had good to balance out the bad. - 20/12/2010 06:27:35 PM 1101 Views
Funniest statement I've ever seen on here. - 18/12/2010 05:22:28 AM 1203 Views
Agree with your comments. - 20/12/2010 03:12:32 PM 1557 Views
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Yes, communication is key. - 18/12/2010 05:32:01 AM 1078 Views
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Definitely... - 18/12/2010 03:24:12 PM 1085 Views
Where does the 200000 number come from? *NM* - 18/12/2010 03:36:22 PM 586 Views
That's not right... - 19/12/2010 12:56:25 AM 1072 Views
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What's said above. Plus - 19/12/2010 11:00:42 AM 1031 Views
More explanations... - 20/12/2010 02:51:25 AM 1065 Views
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An Amyrlin doesn't really have a power base. - 18/12/2010 05:43:12 AM 1170 Views
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She has a pretty powerful weapon... - 20/12/2010 02:41:32 AM 1088 Views
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I'd advise a re-read. Of ToM, and maybe the whole series... - 20/12/2010 03:58:03 AM 1124 Views
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One example of this... - 20/12/2010 11:15:03 AM 1159 Views
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That's not quite true. - 20/12/2010 10:35:45 PM 1120 Views

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