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Wheel of Time: Towers of Midnight
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He was killed by someone who already knew what he was going to say or didn't care.
MWO: Adamski
That doesn't make any sense.
You could balefire him with just a bit and he'd only be gone for a few seconds before he came in.
That's not entirely true, you know. I'm curious as to just how tangled that is, actually.
Huh?
No it wouldn't have. It's pretty well established that the wielder of the balefire has at least some protection from the timeline reshuffling itself.
I thought the balefire itself burned the threads of time or whatever. So would the fire burn itself?
Note: I'm being mostly facetious.
It burns the threads of whatever you shoot. Then the rest of reality goes all crazy for a instant to try and re-order itself given the lack of something that was there before.
The thread of the person who shot the balefire isn't burned at all. So you remember how to do it.
In fact, there seems to be an immunity to the re-ordering effect granted to the person who creates the Balefire.
Balefiring 4000 years out of existence would certainly destroy reality.
Yeah, but balefire doesn't completely remove what happened, people still have a sense of what happened before the balefire. When Rand BFed Rahvin, Asmodean "came back" to life, but some people seemed to think he SHOULD be dead. Similarly when Rand BFed the darkhound in the waste that was going after Mat, he went from "probably should be dead" to "what a nasty rash on your arm".
I understand were talking several orders of magnitude difference timewise / power used, and its a moot point now that
Both sides stopped using Balefire in the War of the Shadow after seeing the effects of some cities removed anywhere between a few hours and a few days back. Your plan would absolutely wreck shit. It would probably be even worse than grumpy Rand winning.
Exactly.
You are talking about destroying the basis for ~3500 years of history. Reality will tear itself apart trying to course correct for that shit.
I always figured that the original timeline felt like deja vu.
Thats because he got hit by a lightning bolt and died instantly, it didn't even register before he died and then when time got rebooted he was back. There was nothing too remember, he died too fast.
Any idea where I could get my hands on them stupid-cheaply?
I've just finished book six on my latest read through. Read TGS when it came out, but it had been a while since I read the rest of them.
Man, Faile pisses me off.
I would expect used bookstores to have tons of the paperbacks for cheap, though you might want to wait until the series is actually finished if your going to reread everything.
Moiraine wasn't talking about Mat sounding the horn in the future, she was weighing Mat's life versus the priority of getting the horn back.
I was able to get though it with a similar gap. Sanderson doesn't focus as much on the myriad minor characters, thank god. As long as you basically remember what the principals were up to, it isn't too bad. The book helps remind you as well.
Uh, Knife of Dreams was actually pretty huge in terms of stuff happening, plots being wrapped up etc. I actually think more things happen in it than in Path of Daggers-Crossroads.
You don't really have to, much. Sanderson does a much better job than Jordan ever did of dropping in reminders of what happened in the last book.
My particular favorite:
Same goes for Egwene's teaching the novices to channel her enough power to gateway to the storeroom and grab a powerful angreal. That's using your noggin.
Not to mention the people who knew were a small minority in a sea of people who could and would, potentially, murder them in the blink of an eye for even bringing the idea up.
And beyond even that, many Aes Sedai wouldn't stand for it. It'd be the equivalent to arresting someone on no evidence to us.
Slayer is Luc and Isam. They are relatives of...damn, Rand's parents? Too many damn names. His uncles. Or an uncle and a half-stepbrother twice removed. I get confused.
That said, the amalgam known as Slayer can't be much more than 20 years old, given the timelines. In addition, and I'll have to hunt this info down, Slayer isn't well-known among the Forsaken, as they have other concerns. It's like Shaidar Haran - he's around, but he's busy doing things you ain't in on.
From what can be pulled from the books, it appears that Slayer only has one Forsaken patron. If Slayer were the "go-to" assassin for the dark side, he'd have a lot more people calling on him.
Finally, even if Slayer were known enough to be used by him, Asmodean is not the hiring-assassins type. There is no reason to assume he even knows about Slayer, and even if he did, he wouldn't recognize the guy immediately on sight.
I've also thought that part of Slayer's stick might be:
Also I've always been under the impression that Asmodean was one of the first of the Forsaken released, so he might have run across a whole bunch of interesting characters before ending up where he did. Remember what his cover was?
Nah, the first released were
And Slayer