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That's one opinion... fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 04/09/2013 06:06:15 PM

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That is, I said after the last book that at Merrilor she would either:

1) Wake up and smell the reality Rand, not she, was the prophesied Dragon Reborn to win Tarmon Gaidon and defeat the DO or

2) Come to an untimely and messy but well deserved end.[/quote]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it wasn't that you said either one of these would happen, but that both would, and that both would be related. That she would be humiliated in Merrilor, and a glorious death would be a sort of redemption. That was hardly what happened at all...

[quote]She ultimately did both, accepting her supporting role, however important, WAS a supporting role, then getting sacrificed to underscore just how secondary she was.[/quote]
Because literally saving the world, and timing the breaking of the Seals to enable the Dragon to save the world, then be the one reason he's able to fight off his depression and fight the DO is so very secondary...
[quote]She did NOT screw everything up or oblige the Pattern to remove her for forbidding the Dragon break the Seals and fulfill prophecy,[/quote]
Wasn't this the thrust of your prediction, though?
[quote]but wound up dead anyway—and life went on (for most others.) Martyrdom and discovering an unprecedented counter to the irresistible force in the final pages of the series is cheesy and guaranteed to outrage Egwene haters and narrative writing lovers alike, but dead is dead, and she had already (rightly) acquiesced to the Dragon Reborns plan.[quote]
Life almost did not go on, but for her own actions, though. She died, Rand was crushed, he was nearly destroyed by the weight of his (absurd) guilt. Then the Horn is blown, she talks to him, and he rises to save the world...

And she specifically did not acquiesce to his plan. She did not allow him to break the Seals right away, which is the sole reason the world survived. Because as the text makes abundantly clear, the moment the Seals were broken, the DO burst loose. The only reason the breaking of the Seals didn't end in disaster is that it was timed for the exact moment Rand could push the DO back. Had Rand gotten his way, the DO would have been completely free the day after Merillor. Fat lot of good that would have done.

Like I said in your previous post... neither of them was completely right. Neither of them was completely wrong. Which is why Moiraine was needed to step in to broker a compromise.

So, by all evidence you were completely wrong. Not only was Egwene the very opposite of secondary to resolving the central conflict of the series, she wasn't humiliated in Merrilor, and she was just as right/wrong as Rand was with regards to the Seals. Rand was only able to beat the DO when he accepted that she was as much a Hero as he, and he gave up his insistence on saving the world alone. It was never a one person job, nor was it meant to be that.

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