I love that everyone just assumes that Callandor will have a major part to play in the last battle. It very may well have one, but as there is no clear path yet to what the resolution of the last battle will even look like, there is no way to credibly announce that Callandor is anything more than another Red Herring.
With that said, I am becoming more and more convinced that Callandor is nothing more than a Red Herring. Bare with me here.
1) The bore was initially made by Lanfear, as far as we know she hasn't shared how.
2) At the time of the AOL, the good guys had no idea on how to permanently seal the Bore
3) Callandor is an AOL creation.
By accepting that Callandor is the key to sealing the bore or victory during the Last Battle, we are accepting that somehow, without knowing who, what, when, where or how, AOLers somehow created the key to victory, and then failed to use it the first time around. There is nothing that I have read that would require Callandor being anything more than a flawed ter’angreal that was sealed during the AOL to assure proper identification of the DR. Heck, it could have been stuck there because it WAS flawed and could never be used safely as intended, we just don't know.
There are prophecies that could be read to suggest that it has an important part to play at the Last Battle, and maybe it does. It appears that Rand certainly believes it will, however the one thing that we have seen throughout this series is that we can NEVER completely trust the opinions of those within the WOT world, they usually can't even see as clearly as we can.
Further, even if it does have a key role in the Last Battle, does Rand even have to be the one to wield it?
I admit that there is enough evidence to suggest that Callandor may not have been created during the AOL, indications throughout the series are present that AOLers did not fully understand it, but if they did not create it, then who did?
Rand now has all of LTT's memories and knowledge about Callandor, so why would he need any of the knowledge that Min and Cadsuane are gathering about it? Surely LTT as the Amerlyn Seat had access to all the knowledge available concerning Callandor. Something about the whole Callandor thing just doesn't ring true.
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I love that everyone just assumes that Callandor will have a major part to play in the last battle. It very may well have one, but as there is no clear path yet to what the resolution of the last battle will even look like, there is no way to credibly announce that Callandor is anything more than another Red Herring.
With that said, I am becoming more and more convinced that Callandor is nothing more than a Red Herring. Bare with me here.
1) The bore was initially made by Lanfear, as far as we know she hasn't shared how.
2) At the time of the AOL, the good guys had no idea on how to permanently seal the Bore
3) Callandor is an AOL creation.
By accepting that Callandor is the key to sealing the bore or victory during the Last Battle, we are accepting that somehow, without knowing who, what, when, where or how, AOLers somehow created the key to victory, and then failed to use it the first time around. There is nothing that I have read that would require Callandor being anything more than a flawed ter’angreal that was sealed during the AOL to assure proper identification of the DR. Heck, it could have been stuck there because it WAS flawed and could never be used safely as intended, we just don't know.
There are prophecies that could be read to suggest that it has an important part to play at the Last Battle, and maybe it does. It appears that Rand certainly believes it will, however the one thing that we have seen throughout this series is that we can NEVER completely trust the opinions of those within the WOT world, they usually can't even see as clearly as we can.
Further, even if it does have a key role in the Last Battle, does Rand even have to be the one to wield it?
I admit that there is enough evidence to suggest that Callandor may not have been created during the AOL, indications throughout the series are present that AOLers did not fully understand it, but if they did not create it, then who did?
Rand now has all of LTT's memories and knowledge about Callandor, so why would he need any of the knowledge that Min and Cadsuane are gathering about it? Surely LTT as the Amerlyn Seat had access to all the knowledge available concerning Callandor. Something about the whole Callandor thing just doesn't ring true.