Two Rivers a Last Battle?

[Rufae]

Re-reading The Shadow Rising, I can't help must notice that the situation in the Two Rivers when Perrin arrives is a mirco-chasim of the world later in the series.

 

You have trollocs harassing the flanks. You have whitecloaks being influenced by a darkfriend advisor. And then the villagers trying to survive the best they can.

 

The trollocs represent the Shadow forces striking at Randland's flanks and in direct raids.

 

The Whitecloaks represent the Seanchan who are an outside force that has invaded and started to institute their rule of law on the common people.

 

The villagers are the people of Randland who are trying to act like the al'Sheens and stay on their individual farms and try their best to protect what they have from both invaders.

 

Then you have Perrin who is acting like Rand is trying to do in the rest of the world and push the seperated villagers together to form an organised resistance to both evils.

 

So maybe by looking at this mini-Last Battle, perhaps we can glimpse what RJ has in store for us at the end? Well, Perrrin didn't die, but he certainly changed, as did the Two Rivers.

[malin07]

Perhaps. I never really noticed anything like that, but now that you point it out it does seem plausible. Then again it could be totally different, maybe RJ has a totally different plan for the last battle. This will be something to think about when I re-read the series.