More urgent would have been Dark Rand+Choedan Kal sorting out Tuon, the WT, ALL living Trollocs...
Shannow Send a noteboard - 12/05/2011 07:58:34 AM
I cannot help but think that Choedan Kal-toting Dark Rand paying a visit to Taim would have been an awesome scene in tGS. It makes sense given Rand's way of dealing with problems in the period between killing Semirhage and his Dragonmount moment, namely - quickly, with brute force and little to no concern for collateral damage or consequences (balefiring Natrin's Barrow, bullying Tuon, telling the Borderlanders to go get stuffed (I'm not British but I love their insults
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I picture it going like this: Rand seizing enough of saidin (through the access key) to make any non-True Power or non-gholam resistance futile, taking a couple of Aiel and Ashaman for a token guard and gating to the Black Tower (let's ignore the dreamspike for argument's sake, he can ride the last couple of miles). Then he summons Taim and demands to know what exactly he's been doing since their last meeting (end of tPoD?) and why, making it clear that anything other than the truth will result in a gentle brush of balefire. Maybe I'm missing something but how does that not solve the Black Tower problem in a day or so? I was aching for this confrontation ever since Dark Rand was introduced.
I would love to hear your take on this - fire away
). I picture it going like this: Rand seizing enough of saidin (through the access key) to make any non-True Power or non-gholam resistance futile, taking a couple of Aiel and Ashaman for a token guard and gating to the Black Tower (let's ignore the dreamspike for argument's sake, he can ride the last couple of miles). Then he summons Taim and demands to know what exactly he's been doing since their last meeting (end of tPoD?) and why, making it clear that anything other than the truth will result in a gentle brush of balefire. Maybe I'm missing something but how does that not solve the Black Tower problem in a day or so? I was aching for this confrontation ever since Dark Rand was introduced.
I would love to hear your take on this - fire away
The most urgent thing Rand could have done while toting the Choedan Kal, would have been to erase the Seanchan threat from Randland, erase every living Shadowspawn from the planet using that same weave he used in the Stone of Tear to seek out and destroy Shadowspawn, and to put the White Tower in its place.
As well as removing anyone or anything else that could possibly stand in the way of the Light.
THEN he should have had his revelation on Dragonmount to go off to face the Dark One meek as a lamb.
At least the rest of the world's problems would have been solved, given that there would be no more Seanchan threat, no more Trollocs on the planet and no more of anything remotely threatening, other than the Dark One himself, who Rand could then defeat by being a good boy and dying like he is supposed to according to prophecy.
Dark Rand vs. Taim - a missed opportunity?
- 12/05/2011 12:07:40 AM
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Dark Rand would approve of what Taim has been doing.
- 12/05/2011 03:50:11 AM
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i was thinking that taim would have been able to hide what he was doing from dark rand fo sho! *NM*
- 12/05/2011 10:45:21 PM
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More urgent would have been Dark Rand+Choedan Kal sorting out Tuon, the WT, ALL living Trollocs...
- 12/05/2011 07:58:34 AM
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So, essentially, Rand should have done the DO's work before destroying him?
- 12/05/2011 09:43:44 PM
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Re: More urgent would have been Dark Rand+Choedan Kal sorting out Tuon, the WT, ALL living
- 13/05/2011 12:20:36 AM
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and create another Shadar Logoth, but this time it takes up the entire planet. Good plan there. *NM*
- 13/05/2011 07:59:20 PM
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What Rand did to clear out the trollocs in TOM was plenty big enough to do what you suggest.
- 12/05/2011 05:14:40 PM
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Unless Taim is not a darkfriend.
- 12/05/2011 10:37:48 PM
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