I wish he would rather shut up about stuff like this too. It reminds me of him confirming for no good reason that the sword Rand was given by scholars in TGS was Hawkwing's Justice. That too sent many minds spinning on why Rand may need the sword of the leaders of the TAR heroes. Sanderson may not have realized he was killing many alternative theories doing this (Guaire Amalasan's sword, LTT's WOS sword was two of those).
I don't think he killed the theory about Guaire's sword at all; Hawkwing very well could have taken the sword from Amalasan when he was defeated, perhaps in a duel (though Hawkwing denied it; that doesn't mean anything, and if anything suggests there was actually a duel; the reasoning against it is silly, since he was no doubt shielded). And the theory about it being Lews Therin's sword was never a valid option; Rand verified that it was not. Anyway, the real reason I came out of the closet to post here was this bit:
But no, he just flatly told people it was Justice, and in the book Rand said "Rand remembered the sword from his own memories rather than LTT's / there were things about that sword LTT knew and wasn't telling him"
The second bit came from Min's POV, and was in reference to Rand, not Lews Therin. And Rand does know things about the sword he wasn't sharing; he knows it is Justice.
This message last edited by Terez on 12/06/2012 at 05:21:27 AM
So apparently the palace at the Black Tower is made of Shayol Ghul stone...
- 23/05/2012 12:57:37 AM
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Maybe Shaidar Haran's physical limitation to SG can be bypassed by moving tainted rocks elsewhere? *NM*
- 23/05/2012 03:10:59 AM
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Not the palace...
- 23/05/2012 03:32:59 AM
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That is good logic, but the flip side is: Why would RJ bother to specify that if it were minutiae?
- 23/05/2012 11:22:24 AM
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Wouldn't have taken any time away from creating the ending.
- 23/05/2012 02:58:32 PM
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It just seems an odd thing to mention purely as background color.
- 23/05/2012 08:17:45 PM
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Re: It just seems an odd thing to mention purely as background color.
- 23/05/2012 08:42:09 PM
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Yeah, my bet is it is something more like that.
- 23/05/2012 09:14:24 PM
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Re: Yeah, my bet is it is something more like that.
- 24/05/2012 02:23:54 AM
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His response certainly seem to raise more questions than it answers, perhaps deliberately.
- 25/05/2012 01:38:30 AM
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Re: His response certainly seem to raise more questions than it answers, perhaps deliberately.
- 27/05/2012 04:32:24 PM
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Re: His response certainly seem to raise more questions than it answers, perhaps deliberately.
- 03/06/2012 08:44:57 AM
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Forgive me if I missed it, but I think the most obvious points haven't been discussed:
- 22/06/2012 10:59:02 PM
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Be'laim FTW, but technically half the Andoran nobility is Rands blood.
- 22/06/2012 11:15:12 PM
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Re: Yeah, my bet is it is something more like that.
- 12/06/2012 05:18:39 AM
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Re: Why would RJ bother to specify that if it were minutiae?
- 23/05/2012 07:58:50 PM
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The way RJ played up everything in the Blight (especially Shayol Ghul) being subsumed in the DO...
- 23/05/2012 09:07:31 PM
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- 23/05/2012 05:52:12 PM
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Re: So apparently the palace at the Black Tower is made of Shayol Ghul stone...
- 23/05/2012 08:51:36 PM
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If SG rocks have special properties...
- 28/05/2012 01:28:28 AM
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Blightfortress, Towers of Midnight, etc.
- 18/06/2012 12:31:48 PM
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Re: Blightfortress, Towers of Midnight, etc.
- 19/06/2012 05:42:21 AM
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Re: Blightfortress, Towers of Midnight, etc.
- 19/06/2012 06:51:02 AM
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