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Re: timeline in the books Ava Send a noteboard - 31/12/2010 01:18:32 PM
No, that's her first experience in the columns, where she saw the traditional Aiel history, and the ??? marker indicates I'm highly uncertain about the precision of that timing. Her second experience began the same day she finished the first; I marked it as between 811 and 821, since there's an interlude where she ends one vision and sees the sun shining, indicating that Rand's epiphany has happened. Since we have that marker, I'm more certain of the timing for the second experience.
Damn. There goes my theory. I was certain her visions of the future had to be while Rand was still Dark Rand, since anything else wouldn't really make sense (imho). If she did go in the second time on day 811, and Rand transformed day 815, then it's still narrowly possible that her visions were at least partly of the Dark-Rand future, though.

But that's assuming her visions were true ones in the first place. I don't think they were, because the prophecy said that "only a remnant of a remnant" would survive the LB, but in the visions there are thousands and thousands of Aiel.
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