132

 

That means, 999.868 to go till the million

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Sing me a song of the lad that is gone,

Say, could that lad be I?

Merry of soul he sailed on a day

Over the sea to Skye.

Mull was astem, Rum on the port,

Eigg on the starboard bow:

Glory of youth glowed in his soul:

Where is that glory now?

Sing me a song of the lad that is gone,

Say, could that lad be I?

Merry of soul he sailed on a day

Over the sea to Skye.

Give me again all that was there,

Give me the sun that shone,

Give me the eyes, give me the soul,

Give me the lad that's gone.

Sing me a song of the lad that is gone,

Say, could that lad be I?

Merry of soul he sailed on a day

Over the sea to Skye.

Billow and breeze, islands and seas,

Mountains of rain and sun,

All that was good, all that was fair

All that was me is gone.

Sing me a song of the lad that is gone,

Say, could that lad be I?

Merry of soul he sailed on a day

Over the sea to Skye.

Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,

Onward, the sailors cry

Carry the lad that's born to be king

Over the sea to Skye

Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,

Thunder clouds rend the air;

Baffled our foe's stand on the shore

Follow they will not dare

Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep

Ocean's a royal bed

Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep

Watch by your weary head

Many's the lad fought on that day

Well the claymore could wield

When the night came, silently lay

Dead on Culloden's field

Burned are our homes, exile and death

Scatter the loyal men

Yet, e'er the sword cool in the sheath,

Charlie will come again.

ur right that was poorly structured. yes i guess he is prideful sumtimes' date=' but mainly im trying to say all th heroes are amde to seem more than what they were. sorry i structured that :oops: like a total nooblet lmao, still funny.[/quote']

 

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Rand should not be in a position of leadership of nations. He doesn't like it' date=' and it doesn't suit her personality. And I think if he survives TG, he won't be. He doesn't like the deceit and back-stabbing.

 

Right now, he a boulder rolling toward TG, and he wants all of Randland to be united behind him. And he only know how to FORCE them to unite (and he may have a point) so he is fairly "ruthless" as he gathers everyone together.

 

Guy's been under a lot of stress though. Those crazy women hanging on him, all the physical problems he's having to deal with. He just wants everyone to survive TG, but people just get in his way the whole time.[/color']

I agree he is not ideally made for the ruling of many nations. There are two ways to rule through being beloved by the people or through sheer brutality that no one dares question your authority. Rand implies neither and so walks on a terribly thin line of throwing everything into anarchy.

He can get himself power, but holding the newly won power is always the trial for him.

As for Elaida. If Rand had had the 50 Aes Sedai who assaulted the Tower executed as he would enemy soldiers and in theory as an extra their corpses hung in public display in Caemlyn or just have them all stilled, travel them to the WT and drop them off at the gates for all Aes Sedai to observe. Any kind of rebellion would have stalled for the time being in Andor and possibly elsewhere.

Simply because Aes Sedai are seen as nigh invincible he would have easily clapped shut two dangers. Lords and Ladies are less likely to rebel when even all powerful Aes Sedai cannot stand up to him without losing everything.

It doesn't have to be as extreme examples. But simply examples of strength to your enemies. And Rand seems awfully reluctant to set examples to his enemies and instead gives off signs of extreme weakness.

I doubt Elaida would have done much more plotting with over 50 sisters either dead or stilled as a result of her actions. She would have to face too much flak on her homefront to even think of dealing with anything else.

Same with nobles who rebel. Colavaere is the best example. He exiles her instead of giving the proper punishment for the crimes of murder and high treason. The best example is again to set a sign of power, he should have just had one of his ashaman, channel a noose to form in the roof as all the assembled nobles observed and hanged Colavaere right there. The present nobles would be scared into obedience by the act of the male one power on top of a newly crowned regent just being disposed of as if she were nothing of a challenge to his power.

Again it doesn't have to be such an extreme example, however the matter is one of setting an example. Something which Rand is too weak to do often.

What personally bothers you or what do you particularly like about Rand's personality.

Me personally in the book I wonder why RJ portrayed Rand the way he is at the moment. He seems like a craven boy who tries to deal with the mantle that is put on him but fails badly at most he tries or he could have done it better. Also shrouds himself in hypocrisy.

Other characters in the WoT, such as LTT and Artur Paendrag would in my opinion be much more suited or their personalities much more suited to take on the role Rand has.

Lets take Colavaere for example, she commits high treason yet instead of just commanding her execution as he would undoubtly if she had been a man (considerring her charges of murder of loyal subjects of his on top of treason) he tries all kinds of hypocritical actions that imply weakness.

Same LTT doesn't seem to suffer awful qualms. While he takes over Rand's body at Dumai Wells for a short time, he punishes the Aes Sedai who are holding him with a punishment considerred worse then death. He stilled them.

Rand seems to have a way of being awfully weak in the face of his enemies and this has almost cost him his life more than once. I believe Randland would be in a much better condition to face the Last Battle would Rand have the personality of LTT or even Paendrag. At least Elaida would not be playing games with him, since she would be cowed to respect, neither would Egwene or others be particularly willing to cross his way when he wants something.

Am I the only one who has the opinion Rand is weak as a leader? And it would perhaps be preferable if LTT would permanently take over Rand's body, to force everything into order for the Last Battle that is nigh.