Balefire only undoes the actions of the person who did it.
Semi didn't strangle Min, so Min's bruises remain. Even though she made Rand strangle her, and it was against his will, he still did it.
Semi didn't strangle Min, so Min's bruises remain. Even though she made Rand strangle her, and it was against his will, he still did it.
Semi's actions caused Rand to strangle Min, therefore without her being there Rand wouldn't have strangled Min and therefore she shouldn't have bruises. Moiraine mentions it in tFoH, "...whatever those people had done, now no longer had been done, and neither had what others had done because of their actions."
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Continuity errors
- 29/10/2009 04:36:00 PM
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Min's bruises
- 29/10/2009 05:37:01 PM
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Re: Min's bruises
- 29/10/2009 06:18:13 PM
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sorry doesn't work that way
- 30/10/2009 02:30:00 AM
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I'd be careful about going down that line of reasoning, though...
- 31/10/2009 09:52:19 PM
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You can control how far back the balefire burns.
- 01/11/2009 07:42:29 PM
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Rand actually killed Min
- 15/11/2009 07:00:48 PM
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No, it's said that she gasps inbetween the letting go of her and the balefire. *NM*
- 15/11/2009 08:27:53 PM
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Traveling would have required her to know where she was going.
- 15/11/2009 12:39:10 PM
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Burn it!
- 30/10/2009 01:56:17 AM
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It could be just me, but "for Light's sake" was a new one to me, too...
- 31/10/2009 09:55:17 PM
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*NM*