I do think that there is a lot of foreshadowing for the death of the dark one related to Padan Fain and Shadar Logoth, in typical Jordan fashion. When Fain scratched Rand with the dagger, the ashaman saved Rand by containing the evil, sealing it together with the evil from the wound, and speculated that the two evils would destroy one another. In cleansing Saidin, Rand combined the taint with the evil from Shadar Logoth, and they destroyed one another. Fain is frollicking in the blight waiting to meet Rand at the dark one's prison at the last battle, and what kind of sick joke will have been played on me if he's not important? I think they will kill the dark one by sealing Fain with the dark one in a way that parallel's the cleansing of Saidin and Rand's wound. And seriously, is Fain not the Golem of this series, with a Golemy ending coming, maybe?
Also, how anticlimactic will it be if everything repeats itself, only Jordan's not going to be there to write it?
I think Ishmael is Naeblis because he is the only one that wants what the dark one wants. His reincarnated life is a pointless, painful repetition, and he wants to break the cycle, end the world, so he can just die, just as Rand wanted before he had the epiphany and became hippy-Rand. As Min figured out in some of her random speculation. From the dream conversation, it seems pretty clear that this is what Ishmael wants, and since he has no connection with ANYONE that he cares about, I don't think he is going to have an epiphany and go Vader on us, and i don't think Rand is going to do the carebear stare with the one power to bring him around. Also, it seemed that channeling the True Power made Rand a lot more dark and crazy, and Ishmael apparently is holding it all the time....he's not going zen-Moridin any time soon, I think. It seems Rand's ability to grab the true power because of their link should have a role in the end too, but it might be just the ability to see it being woven..though that blackened hand holding a sword bothers me. And I think Ishmael's "Snapism" would also be anticlimactic, as would the cycle repeating itself again, but sorry, the author is dead.
In short....Moridin is hopeless and wants to die; I think he can't be a double agent. And Fain's waiting at the end, and I think he should be important.
WoT If...Moridin Is a Double Agent?
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I do think that there is a lot of foreshadowing for the death of the dark one related to Padan Fain and Shadar Logoth, in typical Jordan fashion. When Fain scratched Rand with the dagger, the ashaman saved Rand by containing the evil, sealing it together with the evil from the wound, and speculated that the two evils would destroy one another. In cleansing Saidin, Rand combined the taint with the evil from Shadar Logoth, and they destroyed one another. Fain is frollicking in the blight waiting to meet Rand at the dark one's prison at the last battle, and what kind of sick joke will have been played on me if he's not important? I think they will kill the dark one by sealing Fain with the dark one in a way that parallel's the cleansing of Saidin and Rand's wound. And seriously, is Fain not the Golem of this series, with a Golemy ending coming, maybe?
Also, how anticlimactic will it be if everything repeats itself, only Jordan's not going to be there to write it?
I think Ishmael is Naeblis because he is the only one that wants what the dark one wants. His reincarnated life is a pointless, painful repetition, and he wants to break the cycle, end the world, so he can just die, just as Rand wanted before he had the epiphany and became hippy-Rand. As Min figured out in some of her random speculation. From the dream conversation, it seems pretty clear that this is what Ishmael wants, and since he has no connection with ANYONE that he cares about, I don't think he is going to have an epiphany and go Vader on us, and i don't think Rand is going to do the carebear stare with the one power to bring him around. Also, it seemed that channeling the True Power made Rand a lot more dark and crazy, and Ishmael apparently is holding it all the time....he's not going zen-Moridin any time soon, I think. It seems Rand's ability to grab the true power because of their link should have a role in the end too, but it might be just the ability to see it being woven..though that blackened hand holding a sword bothers me. And I think Ishmael's "Snapism" would also be anticlimactic, as would the cycle repeating itself again, but sorry, the author is dead.
In short....Moridin is hopeless and wants to die; I think he can't be a double agent. And Fain's waiting at the end, and I think he should be important.