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We are interpreting Prophesy here ... Direct v. Indirect actions are what we are discussing darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 15/04/2012 07:21:29 PM
Because Rand will save existence itself from Shai'tan, anything and everything that happens does so only because Rand allowed it to be preventing the total annihilation of everything.


You cannot take it so literally as the actions of only one person that matter. Rand has set in motion dozens of courses of action that probably end with a Prophesy fulfilled, characters have spoken about how the Prophesies are so cryptic he could have fulfilled dozens without them even knowing it. If Rand does not save existence then by default nothing else can happen.

And YES by saving existence itself Rand is indirectly responsible for anything that happens after. Clearly we see potential for people to make their own choices, but without Rand those choices are not possible and thus trace back to Rand. This does not mean Rand must do these deeds himself in order for Prophesy to be fulfilled, his mere existence enables the Prophesies to unfold.

His personal actions are almost incidental to the fulfillment of macro-level Prophesy such as the death of almost an entire race of people, unless you believe he will personally kill all but a remnant of the Aiel. His choices (i.e. saving those who,will accept the Peace of the Dragon) set Prophesy in motion... Thus twenty years after his death/dissapearance the Aiel who did not follow his Peace choose to wage an unwinnable war and end up dying out. They no longer have a purpose in the Pattern and are thus cut from it. Could as easily be some kind of plague or they could in fact die during TG. There are many options for the vast majority of the Aiel to die... Aviendha's vision is simply one of those options. An unlikely one as it clearly shows the Aiel in flagrant disregard to their own Prophesy, something they do not seem likely to do.

Think of how the Mirror Worlds work, they split off into infinite options based on an individual's choices/actions in life. Would Nynaeve of the main world be responsible for the actions created by the Nynaeve of a Mirror World? Or the actions of a Nynaeve of a Mirror World several times removed from the real world?
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Aviendha, the columns, and the Seanchan - 03/04/2012 04:29:31 PM 2208 Views
As far as I understand it, that future is impossible anyway. - 03/04/2012 07:30:52 PM 1207 Views
Depends on how one defines Aiel - 04/04/2012 04:11:11 AM 1178 Views
There are more than there were before. - 04/04/2012 07:03:27 AM 1178 Views
But when the prophesy was made there many followers - 04/04/2012 10:10:54 AM 1107 Views
The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 04/04/2012 06:28:47 PM 1198 Views
Re: The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 05/04/2012 01:41:23 AM 1455 Views
Well that more than covers it *NM* - 05/04/2012 04:43:53 AM 572 Views
Re: The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 05/04/2012 07:39:04 AM 1261 Views
Re: The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 05/04/2012 02:14:37 PM 1589 Views
For the record I agree that the visions are not true either - 05/04/2012 02:25:47 PM 1157 Views
Re: For the record I agree that the visions are not true either - 05/04/2012 11:36:53 PM 1140 Views
Yes, I was thinking of the Aiel's suicidal traditions as well. - 05/04/2012 06:24:56 PM 1087 Views
Re: The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 06/04/2012 10:51:00 PM 1166 Views
Re: The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 06/04/2012 10:38:24 PM 1422 Views
Re: The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 07/04/2012 06:27:27 AM 1118 Views
Re: The Tuatha'an are not Aiel. - 07/04/2012 07:23:03 PM 1036 Views
So what you're saying... - 07/04/2012 10:07:59 PM 969 Views
What I am saying is that it's not a "pure bloodline" that makes one an Aiel - 08/04/2012 12:16:10 AM 1085 Views
I never said it was. - 08/04/2012 12:43:26 AM 1192 Views
Actually you did In your above post you speak of the Tinkers as not Aiel because they have been - 08/04/2012 06:09:01 AM 1128 Views
No... - 08/04/2012 07:12:22 AM 1219 Views
You have no evidence that the Tuath'an are mostly comprised of runaways etc - 08/04/2012 05:16:54 PM 1208 Views
Re: You have no evidence that the Tuath'an are mostly comprised of runaways etc - 08/04/2012 06:43:27 PM 1216 Views
Re: You have no evidence that the Tuath'an are mostly comprised of runaways etc - 08/04/2012 07:52:10 PM 997 Views
Thanks for that. - 09/04/2012 02:38:25 AM 898 Views
Red hair is double recessive ... Doesn't take much to eliminate it from the gene pool. There could - 08/04/2012 11:22:36 PM 1115 Views
You are consistently making the same mistake. - 09/04/2012 02:45:46 AM 991 Views
They are the same thing. The remnant of a remnant are Aiel - 10/04/2012 05:04:55 AM 1152 Views
No. They are not. - 10/04/2012 05:42:29 AM 1013 Views
Never said the remnant of the remnant was the whole of the Aiel - 10/04/2012 05:45:47 PM 1036 Views
You said that redefining the Aiel would allow Aviendha's vision to be possible. - 10/04/2012 06:53:51 PM 1220 Views
No , I said there were many ways to interpret the statement based on how one defines Aiel - 10/04/2012 07:36:11 PM 971 Views
All of which is entirely irrelevant. - 10/04/2012 07:38:29 PM 1003 Views
Actually it states he will save a remnant of a remnant - 10/04/2012 07:47:04 PM 1057 Views
Re: Actually it states he will save a remnant of a remnant - 11/04/2012 01:40:36 AM 1074 Views
That is what I just said - 14/04/2012 01:41:56 AM 1034 Views
What is important about that? - 14/04/2012 04:35:55 AM 1001 Views
The importance is that the prophesy says that Rand - 14/04/2012 06:06:31 PM 1164 Views
So what you're saying is... - 14/04/2012 09:45:36 PM 1078 Views
That's exactly it - 14/04/2012 11:21:25 PM 1119 Views
Good. - 15/04/2012 02:01:14 AM 1146 Views
He sets it in motion, thus his actions lead to it - 15/04/2012 02:55:13 PM 995 Views
Yes, but in that case, he is responsible for everything, ever. - 15/04/2012 05:29:31 PM 1082 Views
We are interpreting Prophesy here ... Direct v. Indirect actions are what we are discussing - 15/04/2012 07:21:29 PM 1056 Views
Re: We are interpreting Prophesy here ... Direct v. Indirect actions are what we are discussing - 17/04/2012 04:18:32 AM 1243 Views
Depends on how you look at the Prophesy - 18/04/2012 01:45:23 PM 964 Views
Of course, but the point of my example was... - 17/04/2012 06:08:09 PM 1007 Views
Where are you getting this happens over thousands of years? - 18/04/2012 01:47:42 PM 940 Views
Because that was the important part of that post. - 18/04/2012 05:28:10 PM 1112 Views
Don't know when this became about winning - 19/04/2012 02:08:16 AM 900 Views
Re: I never said it was. - 18/04/2012 12:37:23 AM 1186 Views
Re: As far as I understand it, that future is impossible anyway. - 04/04/2012 07:16:13 AM 1232 Views
Re: As far as I understand it, that future is impossible anyway. - 06/04/2012 10:33:00 PM 1120 Views
Thank you for that analysis. *NM* - 17/04/2012 12:36:08 AM 547 Views

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