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Nope. Because the current Delenn was created in 2020 and I wasn't able to find any other Delenn's lol. <_< -
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...I still have mine... I've even gave up trying to get them to delete it! Photobucket routinely sent out stuff threatening to delete all your pictures and most of the time that was bull crap. lol Mind, I'd check mine like... every 2-4 years... Back when they were threatening to delete stuff if you were over capacity... they never did. You just couldn't... do anything until you deleted stuff below capacity. (I... Just don't know how you go from being the best service for hosting photos to the worst service in the span of a year...) -
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Wait. How many years ago was this, and who/what account was this back then? If you hosted the pictures on photobucket or something they're probably on your old photobucket - not DM. -
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Oh no, I know what sweet corn is. I'm just checking how they're putting on the pizza. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if they left the husk on it!- 27 replies
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You're reading waaay too much into what I typed as it pertains to the real world, versus how it pertains to the world of the wheel of time. Earlier you accused me of making up an entire magic system out of thin air... and here you are... creating memories within the well of the eye of the world, when nothing in the text, supports this. If you recall at the end of the 3rd age Rand Sealed the Dark One in his Prison. And when you begin the book series again we're greeted with the iconic line Think about that for a minute in context about the Creator Sealing the Dark one at the "moment of creation", and what Rand just did... at the end of the 3rd age.... And that there are neither beginnings or endings in... the wheel of time... Because legend fades myth.... and myth is long forgotten...
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*Starts making a circle out of salt around himself* "Just playing it safe you know, pretty sure that was a summoning ritual"
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Like, the whole dang sweet corn on the cob?- 27 replies
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It was a metaphor to explain teaching weaves to others, compared to what was happening to Rand in the first book, and the difficulty of constantly doing that thing over and over again without catastrophic failure. In the first book, Rand was effectively blind, deaf, and dumb. He couldn't see his weaves. He couldn't feel his weaves, and he didn't know what he was doing, or that he was even doing anything at all! By the end of the book he was making things happen because he wanted (willed) them to happen. Contrary to your statement, the above paragraph is supported In the text. This has nothing to do with creating some super secret backup magic system. It's applying everything we know from the beginning of the first book to the ending of the last book, and assuming every inconsistency in the novels magic system is "true", and then figuring out how to make everything "consistent" when you have a bunch of inconsistencies! Rand used a gateway at the end of book 1 to Tarwin's gap. He didn't know his start location at all, though he had a good idea of where he wanted to go... He forgets how to use the weave after using it! Even though Rand learns weaves the first time he sees/uses them... And then he uses them again and again in books 3 and 4 until he finally learns travelling for real in book 5 after realizing like a big thick dummy head what he's been doing all the damn time, and he would never have figured it out if he never relieved some stress in that igloo... When he gets to Tarwin's gap, he does this weird matrix warp effect on the ground which causes the earth to ripple around him and that Matrix style volcanic Eruption kills a ton of Trollocs in the process - LTT was not in control during this, and he completely forgot that weave to. Yes they were weaves, but I also think Rand just made those weaves happen instead of him blindly weaving a billion threads of the one power. The Plot armor is strong in Rand. Yes, Occam's razor - RJ evolved his magic system and fleshed it out over time. Blah blah, don't care. Magic pipe, and his quotes about "magic" in the 4th age being "very weird" says otherwise. One of the literal themes of the books is "rules are meant to be broken" / "Authority doesn't know what they think they know". Authority figures like the Aes Sedai love to think they know everything, and the one power is made up of nothing but rules, and and they're constantly being broken! lol The idea in the post you replied to. To expand on that. It's entirely plausible that Aes Sedai in the 2nd Age applied the scientific method to the one power. (Re: See RJ's personal religious views) This could be RJ's form of commentary on how "scientists" have applied the scientific method to the natural world, and the world at large, and how it's "demystified" everything, and how it's removed the "magic" and "mystery" from the world. Bu applying that method to the one power, they've created rules like "this works" and "this doesn't work" . That leads to tradition and self imposed rules and limitations upon institutions (---> white tower). Which is why the Forsaken were surprised that certain things were possible when they thought they were impossible. Your assertion that I'm creating a new magic system is baloney. I'm just trying to keep everything consistently true (in my own head canon) instead of hand-waving away that RJ evolved his magic system and ignore how "magic" worked in the first 3 books. I believe there are things that happen in the final books (magic wise) that parallel the first books that when you look at them together, it's worth reexamining that RJ's "plan" was intentional, and that not everything should just be hand-waved away as "he was just fleshing out the magic system" and "more was going on then we know". (Example being, the fight in Book 3 = We now know those happened what we now know are called Dream Shards) The One Power is a "Hard Magic system with Soft spots". It's a system that has self imposed rules and limitations created by humans, because humans create their own reality, and Rand has the ability to change reality as we know it.
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