I hope everyone affected by the fires stays safe <3

I don't think there are many climate scientists who think all climate change is caused by humankind. The effects of sunspots and the Milankovitch Cycles are all widely studied and understood

Moiraine 25

Teslyn 12

Verin 10

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On a different note it's possible that Rands acceptance of the loss of his channeling is affected by the threads of gold that countered the taint in his brain

That's your personal opinion. Deaths like those of Hurin, Ruarc or Egwene really gave me chills.

I think RJ mixed tragic and happy ending to please everyone. You can't expect him to kill off a character after announcing his death from day one. That would be soooo boring.

I don't mean to imply that it's anything other than an opinion

Yet of the thousands of deaths you refer to three that we knew because in the context of the books those are the ones that matter most

Of those three Rhuarc was the most emotional/impactful for me, because he lost everything he was before he died, and it's this type of thing that I ~wanted more of

There were emotional points in the last battle (and not all of them involve loss, Olver blowing the horn is an example) but too many happened off screen for me

 

 

Post last battle,rand is definitely not in dream reality.

This is probably true, but I dislike the 'ability to alter reality' ending. It feels like the 'price' paid in the Last Battle was comparatively little, even ignoring Game of Thrones, there are larger consequences in Harry Potter and Enders Game

Little? 3/4 of all borderland men are dead, the Aiel lost all their leaders (excluding the wise ones, of course), the Aes Sedai lost half their sisters, the ogier gave up their peace.... Whatever happened to Rand, to many people sacrificed too much to call these sacrifices little.

That's fair, but on the other hand we don't know them, the emotional impact of lots of people who haven't really affected the story dying is relatively small. And at the end the hero rides into the sunset with no apparent lasting impacts

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Rand doesn't have the after affects that come from being gentled as Logain (who afaict was depressed/suicidal if not immediately then very soon after), equally Siuain and Leane were depressed immediately afterwards. The closest we see in the books is Setalle, who when we meet her is resigned, and even relieved that she couldn't be healed (according to the wiki) and that's after 25 years.

What we know is that rand does not regret or apparently feel any negative effects from being burned out, I don't think he'd want it back even given the choice

Post last battle,rand is definitely not in dream reality.

This is probably true, but I dislike the 'ability to alter reality' ending. It feels like the 'price' paid in the Last Battle was comparatively little, even ignoring Game of Thrones, there are larger consequences in Harry Potter and Enders Game

But even without the ability to alter reality I don't think Rand would care if he was 'healed' or not, he's never wanted the power and prior to the end of GS didn't know what to do with it. Since tGS I don't see him ever heading back to the farm, but nor do I see him in any leadership role. At least in the short term I see him travelling, long term I'm not so sure

Rand doesn't care a whit about his previous power,he returned from the last battle with the ability to alter reality, his powers evolved,in my opinion,he is even more powerful now,so who needs channeling?

The only way I can like this is if I follow the theory that he's still in a ~dream reality and we didn't get the real ending ala Inception style

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@jack you have to wait an hour (or 4 other posts) before going again

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