This is Semirhage! You CANNOT, I REPEAT, CANNOT trust ANYTHING she says. I admit Rand is in sorry shape, but I think he is a long way from terminal madness. Just because Semi said such cases often result in terminal madness does not mean this is so. It may be that every case does, or 1 in 5, or 1 in 5,000, or 1 in 5 million, or none ever; we have no way of knowing.
Except we do. Lews Therin himself says that she rarely lies. From our experience with her i.e. her PoV's and Forsaken gatherings she doesn't lie. Semirhage has one unquestionably effective tactic, namely that the truth is horrific enough. As a sadist she doesn't gain anything by illusion and deception, like Graendal does. She gains results by verifiable pain that the victim is aware of. Like Ishamael, she enjoys the opportunity to tell Lews Therin that he's killed his whole family. The truth is bad enough - Rand is descending into madness, and she loves the effect and the realization it's having on his friends. Why would she lie when she can open their 'simple minds' and make them aware of the desperation of their own situation?
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Rereading Knife of Dreams and what Semirhage said flipped a switch in my head...
- 01/10/2009 06:49:21 AM
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A couple of points
- 01/10/2009 12:04:53 PM
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Re: A couple of points
- 01/10/2009 01:20:41 PM
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She's a sadist, she's got every reason to lie to cause pain
- 01/10/2009 03:38:20 PM
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But she's not a moron
- 01/10/2009 05:08:23 PM
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She's not a moron, she's a Forsaken!
- 01/10/2009 05:49:28 PM
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... who according to a truly good man, rarely lies
- 01/10/2009 05:59:53 PM
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I don't have an agenda
- 01/10/2009 08:45:49 PM
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Heck. She might even by playing Rand so that he starts hunting for Graendal.
- 02/10/2009 12:28:47 AM
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That's a possibility
- 02/10/2009 01:35:56 AM
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Spoilers!?
- 01/10/2009 04:13:50 PM
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Re: Spoilers!?
- 01/10/2009 05:00:16 PM
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