Your theory hinges upon Rand drawing on Saidin and the TP together, or being in a circle where the TP and Saidar are used together. But RJ has said that the TP and the OP have unpredictable reactions together. We also have the crossing balefire streams as evidence for this. Which makes it highly unlikely someone can channel both and survive. That is, if one person can access two sourcesb of power at the same time in the first place!
So quite apart from the thematic issues others pointed to, there are practical issues with your idea too.
Anyway, you're taking the wrong message from Rand's statement about having to touch the DO last time. The solution is not: touch him with something else. The solution is to not touch him at all.
So quite apart from the thematic issues others pointed to, there are practical issues with your idea too.
Anyway, you're taking the wrong message from Rand's statement about having to touch the DO last time. The solution is not: touch him with something else. The solution is to not touch him at all.
The most likely solution is to use a well so that while your sealing the DO and therefore touching him, he is only able to pollute the well, leaving saidar-saidin clean.
It's probably why Sanderson said that he was surprised at how much foreshadowing was in TEOTH. When you add Moiraine comment in the book about the purpose of the eye:
“It might be called the essence of saidin.” The Aes Sedai’s words echoed round the dome. “The essence of the male half of the True Source, the pure essence of the Power wielded by men before the Time of Madness. The Power to mend the seal on the Dark One’s prison, or to break it open completely.”
We know that Moiraine was almost always wrong when she was sure of something, but often correct when guessing, this is probably one of those good guess.
What's so special about Callandor?
- 06/03/2012 07:31:40 PM
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Honestly, I'm more curious about the "Dragon-only" barrier that surrounded it
- 06/03/2012 09:16:15 PM
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I also think the flaw might be deliberate
- 06/03/2012 09:56:02 PM
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Re: I also think the flaw might be deliberate
- 07/03/2012 04:11:21 AM
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RJ addressed this ... I had a similar thought several years back and this quote was floated my way
- 07/03/2012 04:18:01 AM
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Using the True Power to win Tarmon Gai'don goes against every moral in the series.
- 07/03/2012 07:00:02 AM
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actually self-sacrifice is one of the Dragon's principle virtues
- 07/03/2012 10:36:03 AM
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- 07/03/2012 06:02:48 PM
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- 07/03/2012 06:18:16 PM
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- 07/03/2012 11:38:56 PM
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- 10/03/2012 11:52:23 AM
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- 10/03/2012 06:40:00 PM
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Have to agree with you on this
- 12/03/2012 01:17:06 AM
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Re: Have to agree with you on this
- 12/03/2012 02:36:13 PM
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Fain has become so much more than human. We have no real sense of the limits of his power
- 18/03/2012 11:21:54 PM
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Shai'tan is the opposite half of the Creator.
- 19/03/2012 01:44:31 AM
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I actually don't see it that way
- 19/03/2012 03:37:26 AM
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depends how you look at it
- 19/03/2012 10:41:28 AM
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Re: depends how you look at it
- 19/03/2012 01:07:21 PM
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The DO did not not destroy Mashadar alone
- 19/03/2012 11:42:21 PM
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That's not correct.
- 20/03/2012 01:55:05 AM
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Saidin and the True Power both touched Mashadar
- 20/03/2012 01:11:17 PM
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RJ Quote:
- 19/03/2012 06:52:12 PM
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Exactly
- 19/03/2012 08:54:22 PM
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Personally I view it more as Creation v. Destruction
- 19/03/2012 11:48:20 PM
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- 20/03/2012 01:06:20 PM
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My point with imagination is simply that destruction only does 1 thing
- 20/03/2012 01:14:55 PM
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- 20/03/2012 04:35:17 PM
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- 20/03/2012 04:59:13 PM
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- 20/03/2012 08:57:35 PM
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- 14/03/2012 12:15:36 PM
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I totally agree with you on both issues Ben
- 07/03/2012 11:44:42 PM
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No, I don't agree
- 10/03/2012 12:11:37 PM
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That makes no sense...
- 10/03/2012 09:21:19 PM
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Re: That makes no sense...
- 11/03/2012 12:25:53 AM
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Name an existing well that has that much power, though.
- 11/03/2012 01:11:40 AM
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He makes a good point though.
- 11/03/2012 05:49:59 AM
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Yes, but...
- 11/03/2012 06:17:25 AM
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- 11/03/2012 06:47:43 PM
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How the Three can become One using the True Power...mindtraps of Moggy and Cyndane...
- 12/03/2012 06:04:22 PM
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Whether it happens or not, it might explain the choice of mind trap victims
- 13/03/2012 06:43:45 AM
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- 13/03/2012 05:19:21 PM
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