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very Age A Slight Veriation

by Steven Amundson: 1998-06-01 | Not yet rated

Before Winter's Heart - Archive Only: Miscellaneous Theories

If you have read some of my other theories you know I think that the Age before the Present Age will affect the weaving the present Age. I believe that Each age is a little canged from the one before, just as the same Ages on different turnings are simmiluar, yet slightly different. So lets bring this into some more focus, maybe events in a age are repeted in the same Age, several times. False Dragons have ravaged the Continent. War has enveloped the whole Continent several times, with the Trollock Wars, with Auther Hawkwing, with The Aiel, several times wars have involed all nations. I belive that each major war was a trail run for Tarom Gaidon.

And another theory is that the Dragon has been Reborn several times(at least once before Rand in the Third Age). The list of False Dragons is a list of names that the Dragon has been spun out in attempt to cause the final battle. It is said that the Wheel weaves As the wheel wills, yet let's say that it has to try several ! times to get it right, The Lace of the Ages is increadably complex, ind in such a complex weaveing no matter how experienced the weaver, it may make mistakes. And so it tries and retries to get the weaving right, and has tried to get the Right Dragon, in the time that the Dragon is meant for. I say it is possible for some of the False Dragons to be born on Dragon Mount, yet the wheel was not ready. Maybe for some the birth on Dragon Mount was to be a spiritual rebirth. Athor Hawkwing said in the Great Hunt that he has Rode with the Dragon and Against him.

And in the Third age he rode against a False Dragon Guaire Amalasan. Our theory is that that was the Soul of the Dragon born in a time that he was not needed, or that the time was not right, so his thread was forcefully removed by Hawkwing.

Hints are given in The World Of Robert Jordans Wheel of Time it stated that "... he had a copmpelling, he never adressed a body of people, but they where in his hands." And that seems to b! e a ta'veren trait, like Perrin in the Two Rivers( convinceing people to move into the Village itself) and so that may mean Guaire was a ta'veren, and we know that the Dragon is a ta'veren. Another thing that lends evedence to me is some of the names of the false Dragons Yurin Stonebow. Stonebow is obviously a acuired name like Hawkwing was for Athur Pendrag. So maybe Stonebow could pull a bow that was all but impossible for most people to even concive of pulling, and that seems to resemble the Two River Long Bow. In TGH only Rand, Perrin and Lan could pull Rand's bow, and the Shienarians said it was like a staff. And it is know that Robert Jordan has gathered from ancient mythology, particualy Norse, yet lets say that he took a bit from Greek, from Homer's Oddesy. And in the story only Ulsyes could pull the bow,(it was given to him from the goddess Hera)and so maybe Yurin proved hhimself by pullling on this bow and it proved him to some people like a ta'verin does. Amothern! ame is Roalin Darksbane. Now why would a false Dragon have a aquired name like Darksbane? When people think offalse dragons they dont think of good, they think of distruction and they breaking of the world, so why would they give a name that challanges evil like Darkbane to a man that embodied destruction? And why would it of sticked for so long? if Rand was to die I dont think the whole continent would give him a name like Darksbane. Roalin must have done something to earn the name, something to go against the false Dragon perspective, and I think that he when against the false Dragon perspective because he was the real Dragon, just born in a time that the wheel didnt need, the wheel nade a mistake in weaving him out, and dispite of that he did so much good they honour him with the name Darksbane. now incase you lost track what the theories are it is that event repeat themselfs several times in a Age, slightly different each time, and that hte Soul of the Dragonhas been reb! orn atleast once during the third age.
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Tamyrlin: 1998-06-01

Take a breath, compelling thoughts.

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SmerfSlayer: 1998-07-24

That theory seems sort of odd. For starters what you say sounds a lot like the worlds around portal stones, while maybe not being so slight. I vaguely agree with you about that, but I do not agree with you on the accounts of false dragons acting out tarmon gai'don. It seems to me that (if any was any...) the point of each "event" (false dragons, trolloc wars, artur hawkwing, 100 year war etc.) were trials and lessons to be remembered and to educate future generations on how to do something. As for the names of the false dragons and how they are to be interpreted, I beleive that there names do mean something, but not the way you see it. For instance, 'stonebow' may have something to do with how he was defeated, perhaps it is a metaphor saying he tried to do some thing that couldn't be done, such as destroying Tar Valon. When you say about how callandor and the like must have somehow been destroyed, I think it can be assumed that anything not cuelindar will eventuallyturn ! to dust, while things of callandor will eventually be lost somehow. The bit about the creator is very interessting. It is said that the creator bound the DO in shaol ghul, but that doesn't seem likely for two reasons. I'm not sure about this but it was said some where that the DO is as powerful as the creator. Second it was also said that the DO has been around as long as the creator. With those two facts it doesn't seem possible that the creator could bind the DO before he "created" shaol ghul, or if he escaped completely. Another way of viewing it is that when the DO is freed and made manifest he will noit be at the pinnacle of his power, but he will slowly (or maybe quickly) grow more powerful as his from takes a greater presence outside of shaol ghul.