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Re: Why is Moridin and not Demandred marshalling the Dark Forces in the Blight? Curie Send a noteboard - 20/09/2009 09:44:06 AM
Demandred is a great general, dedicated by his skill and experience to marshalling an extremally important military force, of scale and value as huge, as a trollock army in the Blight. Shara is one posible place to utilise his merits, but this land seems to be located too far away from the main theatre of the Last Battle. Logistic problems connected with transportation by sea and concenration in a given spot of, say, 500k troops with supplies and civillian services would be enormous. Marching troops through Aiel Waste will cause imminent disaster. IMO, Demandred was given by Nae'Bliss equally important post of the CIC of the Seanchan EVA and currently is posing as a general Galgan. Semirhage was behind all political maneuvers, he was purely involved in military tasks. He supported downfall of Suroth, millitary incompetent and nusance, creature of Semi, not his. Nobody can blame him for unproductive sending of 150k soldiers to AD, because it was triggered by Greandal and ordered by Suroth herself. Galgan's behavior as a professional soldier, as we know from KoD, fits precisely character of Demandred. I expect from him to mantain high profile of a military man, during whole course of thorough torture appllied to him by Seeker Morr, as, I presume, will happen in ToM.


Pretty much everyone has theorized up to now that Demandred - being the last remaining Forsaken general - and apparently the only military general in the world to equal Lews Therin's strategic ability during the Age of Legends - was logically massing Trolloc and Dreadlord Forces in the Blight, in prepration for the Big Invasion.

We know Moridin is not a military leader, and is more the spiritual and philosophical leader of the Shadow. Does anyone else find it strange that he is now leading the military build up while the Great Mystery around Demandred's secret activities is revealed as no more than him wasting away in some backwater Kingdom, gathering a relatively small army of Murandians armed with pitchforks and rusted swords?

Sammael's Illian army was more powerful, Be'lal's Tairan army was more powerful and Ravhin's Andoran army was VASTLY more powerful.

What is the greatest general of the Shadow doing, spending all his time on a tiny kingdom that can probably field an army no greater than half a single Aiel tribe?

While Mad Moridin, the philosopher, is leading the Army of Shadow in the North?

It just doesn't make strategic sense.
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Re: Why is Moridin and not Demandred marshalling the Dark Forces in the Blight? - 20/09/2009 09:44:06 AM 878 Views
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