How did Rand get into the Stone of Tear?

[wallpad]

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm nearing the climax of The Dragon Reborn. It seemed that Rand was suddenly just walking through the halls of the Stone of Tear. I guessed I missed this, but how did he get in?

[Toy and Minion]

I....dont know!

 

:? good question, maybe soon the people who have read the books like 20 times each will come by and give us an answer

[Tenshin_Xo]

He climbed in. Mat actually sees someone that could have been Rand, either that or some random Aiel.

[DemandredFO]

I think he got in like the Aiel did, climbing the thing. I'm on TGH in my current reread so I can't cite chapter and verse right now.

[Toy and Minion]

To my knowlege it doesn't mention him getting in at all! Just like wallpad said, he just was in there. We can just assume he got in like the aiel.

 

Or maybe he just asked to see Calandor and the guards let him in jk!

[Iceman]

He climbed in. Mat actually sees someone that could have been Rand' date=' either that or some random Aiel.[/quote']

 

Yup, it's from Mat's point of view where he sees one man could be Rand or just another Aiel climbing up the wall of the Stone... followed by a LOT of Aiel also climbing the wall.

 

That's just too much work for Mat Cathoun though... especially when he's got a tidy bundle of explosives to make a neat hole to sneak in through. :D

[Tenshin_Xo]

I've got to say, I like Mat's solution better.

[Toy and Minion]

Yep, and who knows, maybe rand made a hole in the wall as well, with the one power, the explosion seemed to be a little to loud IMO

[Tenshin_Xo]

I once set off a quarter tin (maybe 1/8lb) of gun powder with the tin inside a sealed wooden box. I was about 50ft away and still couldn't hear for about 2 days. His was about a backpacks worth wrapped up to maximize the explosion. I think it was plenty loud.

[RobertAlexWillis]

Tenshin is right. In TDR ch 54, Mat does see Rand scaling the wall. He climbed in.

[Toy and Minion]

ok then nvm!

 

i have no experience with explosives, except fireworks

[Tenshin_Xo]

Stick with fireworks, explosives are bad, unless you have a stump that needs removing. ;) They have this nasty habit of taking fingers, eyes and ears when they go off. :P

[Toy and Minion]

roflmao

 

ill make a note of that :lol:

[Blue]

Rand climbed into the stone of tear apart from mats pov when he sees someone climbing up the side of the fortress in Rands pov there is this "his side ached; the old wound burned, strained almost to tearing from the climb up the side of the fortress." in the chapter into the stone

[Myke Ov Oi]

Chapter 54 page 630

 

Mat's perspective - " 'a hundred bloody paces. Maybe a hundred twenty. Burn me, even Rand would not try to climb that.'

 

Suddenly he blinked, and squinted at the side of the stone. There was some fool climbing it, just visible as a moving shadow in the moonlight, and over halfway up already, with a drop of seventy paces to the pavement under his feet."

 

Considering that in the next paragraph the Aiel discovers mat, and Sandar discovers them both, all at the same entry area, you can assume that it was Rand climbing the stone. Otherwise why would Jordan also make Mat comment about Rand and climbing it in the first paragraph. 

 

I only just read past this part for the first time, and then went back and re-read it to be sure. 

[Myke Ov Oi]

17 minutes ago, Myke Ov Oi said:

Chapter 54 page 630

 

Mat's perspective - " 'a hundred bloody paces. Maybe a hundred twenty. Burn me, even Rand would not try to climb that.'

 

Suddenly he blinked, and squinted at the side of the stone. There was some fool climbing it, just visible as a moving shadow in the moonlight, and over halfway up already, with a drop of seventy paces to the pavement under his feet."

 

Considering that in the next paragraph the Aiel discovers mat, and Sandar discovers them both, all at the same entry area, you can assume that it was Rand climbing the stone. Otherwise why would Jordan also make Mat comment about Rand and climbing it in the first paragraph. 

 

I only just read past this part for the first time, and then went back and re-read it to be sure. 

Reading further Chapter 54, page 638

 

Rand's perspective - " His side ached; the old wound burned, strained almost to tearing by the climb up the side of the fortress."

 

Rand climbed in, before the others showed up. How he specifically got in, not sure. Mat had to blow a hole in an arrow slit with the fireworks, but the 100+ Aiel were also able to get in somehow. So you'd have to assume there were various points of entry.