Re: Using the saidin stored in the eye of the world

On 1 Dec 2003 23:24:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Umair Ahmad) wrote:

>Hello everyone !! Its my first post, please bear with me.
>
>At the end of 'the eye of the world', Moiraine wonders whether Rand
>used the saidin stored in the eye for the purpose intended by its
>creators. It looks quite illogical that the Aes Sedai would go to such
>great pains (finding relatively untouched male aes sedai, sacrificing
>their lives, as witnessed by rand in rhuidean) just to provide the
>means to kill forsaken.
>
>Any theories about what was the intended purpose of the saidin in the
>eye? To reinforce the seals maybe?

It could have been almost anything really. I'd say that it was a desperate
attempt to preserve some male saidin untainted in a desperate attempt to hold
on to something of the past. The male Aes Sedai were going to go mad anyway, so
sacrificing themselves in order to preserve something of saidin was probably
seen as a fair deal.

Maybe it was initially set up as an attempt to purify saidin itself, but didn't
actually succeed. As we've seen with Callandor, it seems that many of the
objects of power made just prior to the Breaking seem to have been flawed, or
not to function in the way intended.

Daniel Wright