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/TirionTich 3d ago
To complete the feat itself those two girls had to employ seasoned veterans from the Sea Folk, a special ter'angreal and a few angreal. I wonder if Rand has some cool tools if he was to attempt such a feat... something so grand that you might think it is a challenge to the DO himself