Re: Here's the exact answer, straight from RJ...
tjacknorris Send a noteboard - 22/12/2009 05:00:29 PM
Has anyone asked BS/RJ WHY Callandor lacks the safety buffer? According to The Guide LTT used this sword as a weapon against Shadow. According to some earlier WoT books the 'urban myth' among some knowledgable Aes Sedai was that it wasn't finished. This sounds a bit..... vague. If they manage to finish the Choedan Kal at the end of the war of the shadow, surely they would have been able to finish Callandor before during earlier stages of the war??
Please dont reply with: But maybe it was almost finished and then dreadlords attacked and disrupted the final tuning process etc or some other BS (BS doesn't mean Brandon Sanderson here btw ) Do we have any real clues? Is it missing a piece or something? Ring of the Tamyrlin?? ( sorry, that last one was really lame)
Please dont reply with: But maybe it was almost finished and then dreadlords attacked and disrupted the final tuning process etc or some other BS (BS doesn't mean Brandon Sanderson here btw ) Do we have any real clues? Is it missing a piece or something? Ring of the Tamyrlin?? ( sorry, that last one was really lame)
According to RJ angreal and sa'angreal were being mass produced during the War of Power much like tanks, airplanes and other much needed equipment were being mass produced during WW2. But as the War grew longer, the industrial capacity of the world was diminshed as society started disintegrating. As mentioned in other quotes, by the last years of the War armies had reverted from using shocklances to using sword and bows and arrows, simply because the capacity to maintain a technological infrastructure base was diminshed and eventually virtually destroyed.
Now, as far as Callandor was concerned, RJ said that due to the above situation and the speed at which these angreal and sa'angreal were being manufactured by necessity, the rate of technical faults in completed products increased. And Callandor was one such case. So disappointingly, it wasn't a special case, or the result of deliberate sabotage or interference by the Shadow. It was simply a faulty product on the production line. One of many where something went wrong.
And yes, my first thought when I read that was: "How the hell did they build the Choedan Kal, right at the end of the War, if something of that strength could not have been developed at the height of their technological capability.
But I guess it is similar to the Atom Bomb. The Manhatten Project, which was completed close to the end of World War 2. And Germany were only a few years from developing their own Bomb, despite the destruction of much of their infrastructure. And of course, it meets RJ's plot requirements, just like so many other unlikely occurrences in this series.
So, lets compare this to WW2. That would be similar to General Rommel of Germany or some other highranking fellow of the allies being equipped with a very powerful gun which has a flaw making it explode in their face if they hold down the trigger for too long. If I were LTT ( more or less world president), I would have used another weapon 'cause I believe that he would have had access to others. Nice touch RJ!!
Callandor
22/12/2009 12:52:43 PM
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RJ on Callandor and its flaw
22/12/2009 02:49:11 PM
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Damn you for stealing my thunder! *NM*
22/12/2009 02:53:41 PM
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Always a pleasure! *NM*
22/12/2009 02:58:29 PM
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It's always strange to me how despite mass production of angreal and sa'angreal no Forsaken had one
22/12/2009 09:15:27 PM
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Ummm, why would they seal and ward a flawed sa'angreal in the Stone...?
22/12/2009 11:42:03 PM
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Here's the exact answer, straight from RJ...
22/12/2009 02:53:23 PM
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Re: Here's the exact answer, straight from RJ...
22/12/2009 05:00:29 PM
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The Nazi's did have that weapon.
22/12/2009 05:46:41 PM
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Re: The Nazi's did have that weapon.
22/12/2009 06:54:05 PM
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Where does it say LTT used it?
22/12/2009 07:29:02 PM
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I seem to recall...
22/12/2009 07:40:36 PM
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Re: Here's the exact answer, straight from RJ...
22/12/2009 05:04:17 PM
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Rand used the fat man to over power Asmodean when they were screwing around in Rhuidean *NM*
22/12/2009 06:12:39 PM
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Re: Here's the exact answer, straight from RJ...
22/12/2009 07:32:53 PM
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How funny is it that they're mass-producing crystalline swords and humanoid statuettes?
22/12/2009 09:18:33 PM
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Since they were mass produced, I reckon each Forsaken probably had a personal sa'angreal...
22/12/2009 09:49:14 PM
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If sa'angreal were massproduced, it is a wonder that the world wasn't destroyed during the WoP, IMO
22/12/2009 10:26:47 PM
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Re: Callandor
22/12/2009 11:09:26 PM
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Re: Callandor
23/12/2009 11:07:20 AM
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That doesn't really fly...
23/12/2009 03:24:11 PM
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