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

On 02 Dec 2003 07:46:11 GMT, Daniel said...
> 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.

Conversely, the Eye could just have been another "lock" on some of the 
elements of the Prophesies of the Dragon.  Just as callandor was woven 
about with webs of _saidar_ and _saidin_ specifically to allow only 
the Dragon to touch it, so were the Dragon Banner, the Horn of Valere, 
and one of the Seven Seals preserved in a pool of pure _saidin_.

Only the Dragon Reborn could take callandor -- only the Dragon could 
drain the _saidin_ out of the Eye, for without the items from the Eye, 
the Prophecies cannot be fulfilled.

-- 
Duncan J Macdonald
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