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Mat/Fain/Mordeth
Drew McCaffrey from The Wheel of Time group on Facebook.
“So as many of you know, JordanCon was this past weekend. I spent a big chunk of Sunday evening chatting with a couple people about the ending of AMoL and, specifically, two crazy theories that might actually be true. One of them is more, ah, insane than the other, so I won’t go into that here…BUT…
I think a common complaint many people have with AMoL is the role Fain/Mordeth/Shaisam ended up playing. Many people thought there would be a bigger fight. Personally, I thought he was going to be sealed away by Rand after Rand killed the DO, thus becoming a new, unknown Dark One for the next Second Age to accidentally release.
However, the eminent Matt Hatch (of Theoryland infamy) informed me of some information I wasn’t previously aware of.
For some reason, I’ve long operated under the assumption that Mordeth’s power came from the *finns/Sindhol. I really don’t know why I thought this, but I could have sworn it was from a WoB/quote from RJ.
Either way, that assumption was extremely incorrect. Matt got a fantastic series of quotes from Brandon a few years back (linked below), including the source of Mordeth’s power.
You see, there are apparently many powers in the world, both good and evil, outside of the One Power and the Dark One. (Brandon mentions wolfbrothers as one of these.) Anyway, before coming to Aridhol, Mordeth went searching for these powers. He wanted to destroy the Dark One, and thought he could do it without being the Dragon or using the One Power.
In the process, he “found things he should not have.” The power behind the dagger/Shadar Logoth is one of these things. It is, to quote, “an unnatural natural” power. It’s not something woven, like the One Power or True Power, but it used more instinctually.
That said, this is a natural manifestation of an evil power in the world. When Mat kills Fain, the mists disappear, Fain’s body rots, and the dagger melts…but the remains are still there, at Thakan'dar. That power is STILL IN THE WORLD.
In many ways, Fain as a character had an unsatisfying end. But the power he represented did not end at all! It’s there, waiting to corrupt, to be picked up and spread once again as it did when Mordeth was looking for power.
I think we may just have a hint of how, perhaps, the Dragon’s Peace will be broken and war will once again come into the world in the Fourth Age…“
http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=482
That’s a theory that would explain sooo much about Fain’s weird unexplained ending.  A theory that makes me crave for some more WoT lol. Â
#glad i wasn't the only one who thought fain was going to become the new Dark One#wot book spoilers#wheel of time#a memory of light spoilers#amol spoilers
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Parents really post stuff like this online and wonder why their kids don't trust them
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whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision
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Happy International Dog Day!Â
Here are four of my favorite dog-related comics I’ve made so far
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do you ever think about Solinda saying, "Keep the Covenant, Jonai. If the Da'shain lose everything else, see they keep the Way of the Leaf. Promise me" and just lose your goddamned mind over it
because every future clan chief and every wise one apprentice who enters the glass columns looks at the past through the eyes of their ancestors, they all understand that Aiel once followed the Way of the Leaf
but only Jonai is the one who is given these last and final instructions by Solinda
"If the Da'shain lose everything else, see they keep the Way of the Leaf."
in the end, only Rand knows that even Tuatha'an are more truly Aiel than Aiel themselves
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“Thinking about compression from a side view”
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I don’t think adding nonbinary to Victorian’s gender system would’ve fixed their weird sexism. If anything I think it would’ve made them weirder and sexismier
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