by your argument Rand should have re-entered the waking world outside to join that battle
darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 09/04/2010 07:58:26 PM
One minute Rand is speaking to Nynaeve in TAR, the next time we see Rand he's back in the waking world. We don't see him leave TAR in a different physical space than where he entered.
Plus,when Ishy was killed in the flesh in the end of TDR, his corpse was in the Real World where he was killed in TAR; also Rand left TAR to the point in the Real World where he was in TAR before.
He is seen leaving the palace and heading outside.
As for the TDR scene, it's vague since we don't know exactly where they entered TAR or how they left TAR (it's clearly not Traveling since Rand magically reappears without making a Gateway).
TDR
What is written in Prophesy
And then he was in the Heart of the Stone again, stalking through the rubbled gap that had been a wall. Some of the columns hung like broken teeth, now. And Ba'alzamon backed away from him, eyes burning, shadow cloaking him. Black lines like steel wires seemed to run off from Ba'alzamon into the darkness mounding around him, vanishing into unimaginable heights and distances within that blackness.
"I will not be undone!" Ba'alzamon cried. His mouth was fire; his shriek echoed among the columns. "I cannot be defeated! Aid me!" Some of the darkness shrouding him drifted into his hands, formed into a ball so black it seemed to soak up even the light of Callandor. Sudden triumph blazed in the flames of his eyes.
"You are destroyed!" Rand shouted. Callandor spun in his hands. Its light roiled the darkness, severed the steel-black lines around Ba'alzamon, and Ba'alzamon convulsed. As if there were two of him he seemed to dwindle and grow larger at the same time. "You are undone!" Rand plunged the shining blade into Ba'alzamon's chest.
Ba'alzamon screamed, and the fires of his face flared wildly. "Fool!" he howled. "The Great Lord of the Dark can never be defeated!"
Rand pulled Callandor's blade free as Ba'alzamon's body sagged and began to fall, the shadow around him vanishing.
And suddenly Rand was in another Heart of the Stone, surrounded by columns still whole, and fighting men screaming and dying, veiled men and men in breastplates and helmets. Moiraine still lay crumpled at the base of a redstone column. And at Rand's feet lay the body of a man, sprawled on its back with a hole burned through the chest. He might have been a handsome man in his middle years, except that where his eyes and mouth should have been were only pits from which rose tendrils of black smoke.
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
Intuitively obvious, my dear Watson
- 22/03/2010 01:53:54 AM
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The best explanation for the "intuitively obvious"-comment is...
- 22/03/2010 09:41:32 AM
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So again...how would Slayer know he was in the hallway?
- 22/03/2010 03:18:51 PM
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I think Slayer spied on Asmo
- 22/03/2010 03:45:20 PM
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I agree. Slayer is the most intuitively obvious candidate. *NM*
- 22/03/2010 06:29:07 PM
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Slayer....the book4 minor villian? *NM*
- 22/03/2010 06:34:52 PM
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Slayer actually was a major villian in TSR.
- 23/03/2010 09:11:39 AM
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Re: Slayer actually was a major villian in TSR.
- 28/03/2010 07:16:59 PM
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In my view, Graendal might have sent Slayer, which would explain her knowledge. *NM*
- 29/03/2010 09:45:14 AM
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As far as I'm concerned...
- 25/03/2010 06:42:53 AM
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The problem is that people don't read the books or at least ignore what is said about Slayer...
- 25/03/2010 09:41:09 AM
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Correction...
- 25/03/2010 05:22:46 PM
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So, basically...
- 25/03/2010 05:50:42 PM
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The clues are there?
- 25/03/2010 06:29:16 PM
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Re: The clues are there?
- 26/03/2010 12:51:43 AM
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He wasn't being insulting, I don't think.
- 26/03/2010 02:16:26 AM
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well, RJ was a nuclear engineer. 'Nuff said about obviousness, huh?
- 26/03/2010 04:38:00 AM
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Apparently...
- 26/03/2010 08:58:32 AM
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No it isn't.
- 26/03/2010 05:43:02 PM
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You don't understand...
- 27/03/2010 09:11:35 AM
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Re: You don't understand...
- 27/03/2010 05:23:35 PM
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Both merged into one being
- 29/03/2010 09:43:47 AM
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Not what I asked.
- 29/03/2010 06:10:42 PM
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If he couldn't do this...
- 29/03/2010 06:59:16 PM
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Re: If he couldn't do this...
- 29/03/2010 07:46:39 PM
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That Basel Gill comparison just silly...
- 29/03/2010 08:49:19 PM
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I've asked you only one question, repeatedly.
- 30/03/2010 12:34:44 AM
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Yeah, and I repeatedly tried to show you the clues...
- 30/03/2010 09:17:59 AM
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You have never provided anything even resembling evidence.
- 30/03/2010 08:20:54 PM
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Dude
- 30/03/2010 09:49:05 PM
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You know what's really embarrassing?
- 30/03/2010 10:28:38 PM
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One last time...
- 31/03/2010 09:18:01 AM
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Egwene did it though
- 09/04/2010 02:26:10 AM
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Not before Lord of Chaos she didn't.
- 09/04/2010 08:03:12 AM
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Rand does it in the end of TFoH, though, shortly before Asmo's death. *NM*
- 09/04/2010 08:34:23 AM
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But we don't actually see that
- 09/04/2010 12:23:37 PM
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But why would he return to his starting point, makes no sense.
- 09/04/2010 12:44:21 PM
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by your argument Rand should have re-entered the waking world outside to join that battle
- 09/04/2010 07:58:26 PM
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A question on balefire/2 servants
- 24/03/2010 04:31:49 PM
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Re: A question on balefire/2 servants
- 24/03/2010 05:03:32 PM
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First rule of balefire:
- 25/03/2010 06:44:17 AM
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Re: First rule of balefire: Whatever RJ wants to undo from it is what BF does!
- 28/03/2010 06:59:04 PM
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On the servants theory
- 25/03/2010 11:33:08 AM
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Rand's odd wounds
- 29/03/2010 02:48:58 AM
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RJ said that special properties of TAR was responsible for the wounds.
- 29/03/2010 09:47:01 AM
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Who says the Dark One couldn't bring Asmodean back? Why would he want to?
- 25/03/2010 05:50:55 AM
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RJ said that. *NM*
- 25/03/2010 09:31:32 AM
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@Fanatic-Templar: Proof Slayer can't travel through T'A'R...
- 31/03/2010 03:54:19 AM
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Maybe none of it matters anyway, Slayer will go down like a punk and I know how it goes
- 31/03/2010 05:56:46 AM
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Re: Maybe none of it matters anyway, Slayer will go down like a punk and I know how it goes
- 31/03/2010 03:52:16 PM
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