but "during the war of power... whole cities were burned out of the pattern"
moondog Send a noteboard - 30/11/2009 07:11:36 AM
I mean, objectively, yeah, it seems that stones and related objects shouldn't have a thread. But they can be destroyed by balefire. They can be affected by ta'varen.
I'm not sure if I can argue that they can play a role in the whole "destiny" aspect of the Pattern, though. But as a random example, say a rock rolled off the side of a mountain, causing a rock slide that blocked a narrow pass and forced a person to go back to a village where that evening they saved the life of a drowning child who would one day become king. Is the stone part of the Pattern? Or did some rock rabbit thing, more likely to have a thread, have to cause the rock to fall because the rock is not part of the Pattern?
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure if I can argue that they can play a role in the whole "destiny" aspect of the Pattern, though. But as a random example, say a rock rolled off the side of a mountain, causing a rock slide that blocked a narrow pass and forced a person to go back to a village where that evening they saved the life of a drowning child who would one day become king. Is the stone part of the Pattern? Or did some rock rabbit thing, more likely to have a thread, have to cause the rock to fall because the rock is not part of the Pattern?
I'm not sure.
I think it's a continuity error. Also, we saw earlier in the books that Mashadar can be (partially) destroyed by balefire. I don't think that was ever really explained, maybe just RAFO'd?
i'm not entirely sure how to interpret this one honestly. i mean, if you can find the person/people who actually built something and balefire them strongly enough, then their buildings should theoretically disappear right? otoh, rand pretty well destroyed the castle at natrin's barrows didn't he?
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A small something
- 29/11/2009 05:04:28 AM
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Re: A small something
- 29/11/2009 05:16:28 AM
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BS explained it on his tour...
- 29/11/2009 11:23:18 AM
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Re: BS explained it on his tour...
- 29/11/2009 08:39:07 PM
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Are we sure?
- 29/11/2009 09:14:45 PM
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AFAIK, stones should not be destroyed by balefire because they're not threads in the pattern
- 30/11/2009 05:30:18 AM
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but "during the war of power... whole cities were burned out of the pattern"
- 30/11/2009 07:11:36 AM
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They can be destroyed, they just don't have threads to be burned back to undo history. *NM*
- 30/11/2009 03:31:41 PM
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