Is Randland Earth?? and if so, are you sure???

[Agitel]

My personal interpretation of the Blight is that it was created by the cleansing of saidin for the Eye of the World. The Aes Sedai who created had no where to place the taint so it would be neutralized.

 

It is a very good idea about the eye of the world, It sounds logical, and I have thought about it myself, but still I have no explanation why the blight border is like a straight line and not circular. The taint should spread in all directions uniformly. And yet, the location of the Eye is always different in the Blight. Usually it is beyond the Mountains of Dhoom. Maybe this mountains have stopped the taint, just like Balkan mountains stop the clouds and cold, so in my country climate is very different to the north and to the south of them.

Another problem is that the Blight continues in Seanchan, as well. And the straight border is present there, too. It really doesn't fit with the Eye saidin cleansing theory.

 

I'm sorry for the off-topic, but I feel the idea is intriguing and needs some discussion. Agitel, why don't you start a new topic about this?

 

All descriptions of the taint speaks against this theory. The taint is described as an oily surface covering Saidin. Which means that Saidin itself was its usual clean self, you just could not access it without being exposed to the taint. So when they created the Eye, rather than removing a piece of the taint (something that should not have helped even if they had managed it), they would have found a way to extract some of Saidin into the Eye, where it then could be accessed without having to go through the taint.

 

Are you so sure? At the Cleansing the taint was filtered off and removed from saidin and collected into a pretty much literal ball above Rand. While I can't disprove you, I don't think my idea is disproven by this, either. We need to see more wells of saidin to get a better picture.

 

Barid Bel Medar may have a point though. I've no time for further comment at the moment though.

[Majsju]

My personal interpretation of the Blight is that it was created by the cleansing of saidin for the Eye of the World. The Aes Sedai who created had no where to place the taint so it would be neutralized.

 

It is a very good idea about the eye of the world, It sounds logical, and I have thought about it myself, but still I have no explanation why the blight border is like a straight line and not circular. The taint should spread in all directions uniformly. And yet, the location of the Eye is always different in the Blight. Usually it is beyond the Mountains of Dhoom. Maybe this mountains have stopped the taint, just like Balkan mountains stop the clouds and cold, so in my country climate is very different to the north and to the south of them.

Another problem is that the Blight continues in Seanchan, as well. And the straight border is present there, too. It really doesn't fit with the Eye saidin cleansing theory.

 

I'm sorry for the off-topic, but I feel the idea is intriguing and needs some discussion. Agitel, why don't you start a new topic about this?

 

All descriptions of the taint speaks against this theory. The taint is described as an oily surface covering Saidin. Which means that Saidin itself was its usual clean self, you just could not access it without being exposed to the taint. So when they created the Eye, rather than removing a piece of the taint (something that should not have helped even if they had managed it), they would have found a way to extract some of Saidin into the Eye, where it then could be accessed without having to go through the taint.

 

Are you so sure? At the Cleansing the taint was filtered off and removed from saidin and collected into a pretty much literal ball above Rand. While I can't disprove you, I don't think my idea is disproven by this, either. We need to see more wells of saidin to get a better picture.

 

Barid Bel Medar may have a point though. I've no time for further comment at the moment though.

 

The cleansing is what best illustrates my point. Rand did not filter off the taint bit by bit, he had to get all of it moving.

Granted, that is a moot point now, since Barid posted the RJ quote.

[ironisles]

So there should be a whole lot of artifacts on the Moon then..maybe that's where the Martian pyramid came from.