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I Won't Say You're Wrong, but I'll Give You 10:1 Against. The Name With No Man Send a noteboard - 04/12/2009 07:12:56 PM
Perhaps more shocking would be for the Rand-Moridin link to seep hope into Moridin, leading Moridin, at the last moment when Rand is utterly beaten, to turn on the Shadow and use the Dark Ones own power to reseal the bore. Moridin, as a philosopher, is presently at peace with the annihilation of all things, but if some of Rand's newfound hope and love seeps through their peculiar bond, then could not Moridin save the day even as an intellectual exercise?

"I cannot accept the end of all things if any part of me believes in hope, Rand al'Thor! Next time I will remember my mental failing and defeat you utterly!"

There are no factual flaws, certainly, but it's counter to the sense and spirit of Ishy start to finish. He knows each turning of the Wheel, each Rebirth, means greater flux, an opportunity for a novel ending: He's counting on it to release him from a vicious and never ending cycle. Unless something happens we've never seen him reference, Ishy serving the Creator as he says the Dragon has served the DO in Ages past (and if you think about it it almost makes sense, because if the Dragon is the DO's Champion whom is the Creator's, whom does he fight?) then oblivion must be nearly as appealing to him as it is to the DO. He must fail, fail, fail, always totally, always epically, and as long as he serves the DO the only alternative is victory--which means annihilation.

So I can't see any "hope for Salvation and Rebirth" for Ishy in the Wheel. He's an extremely tired man, even apart from having been in and out of consciousness for a generation every thousand years since the Breaking. At this point he probably hates existence as much as the DO does.
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