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by Seeker: 2003-01-12 | Not yet rated

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Ok, I've been thinking for some time now that the True Power - drawn from Shai'tan - is very much to the true source what matter is to anti-matter. Sort of. What I'm really getting at is that the True Power can block the true source or disrupt it's flow.

I think the walking dead and the fact that Webs of Saidar are failing, stem from the same source. With the Sha'tan gaining more freedom, is able to cause minor disruptions in the true source. Since in the WOT world, the true source is responsible for everything from Newton's third law, to driving the wheel of time, I don't think it's a big leap to say that the source also serves as the barrier between worlds - between the mirror worlds, TAR, and even the world of the dead. Thus disruptions in the source cause small holes in the barriers. The dead aren't in Randland, as much as to say that the world of the Dead and Randland are the same place in the pockets where the source is disrupted. Why can they walk through walls? Because the disruption isn't complete so from the dead man's perspective the wall doesn't really exist.

Finally, there is an aside theory. Again, it still falls from the idea of disrupting the source, but maybe it's not the dead that people are seeing. Maybe it's people from mirror worlds - people who still are dead in Randland but alive in those mirror worlds. The dead seem as curious about the living as the living are about the dead. Maybe the disruption creates a thinness in the pattern and two mirror worlds intersect. To dead man who frightened Kireyn is really a man in a mirror world, staring at what he believes to be a ghost of Kireyn. He walks through the wall, because in the mirror world, the wall isn't there.
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Tamyrlin: 2003-01-12

Okay, whenever anyone mentions T'A'R...I have to take note. :) You could be right that the dead walking, as a disruption, has to do with the DO. But I like what you mention as another possibility. The idea that these are "reflections" of those people, as though these disruptions may be bringing the reflections in touch with the real world. Very cool idea...of course, anything that adds T'A'R to it is a very cool idea.

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Captain Cauthon: 2003-01-13

Whoa, after reading this one, now I'm not sure at all what to think. Before, I was convinced that the ghosts were all being manifested courtesty of the Dark One acting in his capacity as Lord of the Grave, exploring his increasing freedom a bit. No one's checked the seals for awhile, so maybe one or two more have broken. Shaidar Haran seems more clearly than ever to be the Dark One's avatar, and is growing in strength, so he may have the power to effect this feat now. He might not have done it in the AoL, but you could say that about a lot of things. The Dark One opening areas to the mirror worlds idea is definitely neat.

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Tigraine: 2003-01-15

This brings up a good point. Are these bubbles of evil in the past also manifestations of this power earlier in the series, but to a lesser extent?

We know that in the World of Dreams, any wound taken there is mirrored in the waking world, and death there is death here. If the Dark One is able to mesh TAR with the waking world via the bubbles, that would explain the whacked out things happening without any force of reason behind them.

Also, if TAR is the closest "realm" to the waking world, then it would make sense that the Dark One first affects the waking world through the weather... then the Dreaming World through bubbles of evil... and as his reach grows longer, he can cross the mirror worlds and create "ghosts." An interesting prospect.

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anderwarrick: 2003-06-07

That second part about the mirror worlds is exactly what i thought when i read about the ghosts. The only thing different is that i was thinking that the DO found a place where he could put a special shield to block **all** of the OP. So, the barriers between the worlds are getting holes because the OP is being shielded.