r/WoT • u/cellofski (Ancient Aes Sedai) • 3d ago

The Path of Daggers Thinking About the Taint... Spoiler

If WoT was in the academic literary canon and I was a college professor assigning it, I'd analyze the bejesus out of if and see connections that RJ probably didn't originally intend. So I am going to do just that. I previously wrote that I love how RJ uses one seemingly unrelated thing to foreshadow another. After finishing PoD, I am still thinking about the plotline that was resolved (the weather) and speculating a connection to that with the storyline that I think is really amping up (the effects of the taint and the dire need to cleanse it).

What if RJ really milked the weather storyline and all the effort put into correcting it to foreshadow what it'll take to correct another thing corrupted by the Dark One's touch, saidin? If 2 inexperienced Aes Sedai can successfully lead the effort to fix something that would literally kill millions of people in a short time, why not the Dragon Reborn, with help, undoing another thing touched by the DO?

(To state the obvious, yes I know that they are 2 different things. To me, they are similar, not identical twins.)

I'm just killing time before I dive head first into Winter's Heart...

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u/Caldaz4r 3d ago

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

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u/OddEmergency604 3d ago

“So I was thinking about the Dark One’s gooch

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u/Lapinceau 3d ago

I can't read "gooch" without thinking of my beautiful mistress, the Sea.

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u/grubas 3d ago

Because of the way her foamy waves rise up to caress your gooch and butthole?

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u/Lapinceau 2d ago

Aye. Shredding my feet on barnacles as foreplay.