On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Jussi Nikander wrote:

At 00.16 1.3.1998 EST, you wrote:  

 And, Lina doesn't pull off the Dragon Slave without outside help.
 Dragon Slave gets power from Shabranigdo. And if Shabranigdo isn't around,
 I don't know if she could use the Dragon Slave. Even if she could,

certainly

 not on a regular basis.

It doesn't draw power from Shabranigdo, it draws power from what Shabranigdo
is made of; hate, fear, etc. 

Don't know about that. There was something about this in NEXT, I think.
But since I haven't seen those episodes, I can't be sure.
It may be that all powerful spells of Black Magic draw power from Mazoku.

If you remember the episode right after Rodimus and Mummy-man get killed
by Shabranigdo, Lina explains that the some of the opening words of the
Dragon Slave chant refer to Shabranidgo.  It seems pretty clear that the
Dragon Slave -DOES- draw off of him.  As for the reference from NEXT, I
wish I could confirm that, but haven't found where to get those tapes
(D*** it!  When's April going to arrive?! I want my tapes!)
 

I seriously doubt she could destroy Dark One on her own. ^_^

If that's so, then how's Rand going to do it?  No offense to Al'Thor fans
(I like the guy myself), but it seems to me that Lina could mop the floor
with half the Tower with the kind of powers at her disposal.  Sure, Rand
has an army of Aiel at his back, but unless they can channel, I doubt they
will be of any real use at the final battle, except to distract the Dark
One's minions.

This just triggered another thought...

The two really significant attacks that all of the powerful channelers use
against other hyper-powered channelers are shields and balefire.  If Lina
draws her power from a different source, then the shields are probably
useless, right?  And if she isn't from Randland, then she doesn't have a
thread in the Tapestry that balefire can burn out, does she?

Now, my two cents: I'd like to see how people would react to Zel and Gourry
and Naga. Zel would probably be mistoken for some kind of Trolloc (even with
the mask) 

Well, Zel -IS- 1/3 daemon.

That's a possibility. The Sword of LIGHT. The people of Randland worship the
light (in a sense.) They might see Gourry as some kind of avenging angel. I
can see the Whitecloaks reaction now...

<snip whitecloack bit>

Hey, it could happen. No, really!!!!

Nothing's too weird when Lina's around. ^_^

Lina: What are you guys doing, anyway?

Whitecloaks: We're here to preserve the Light, defend justice, yadda...

Lina: *sigh* Great.  We finally ditched Amelia during scene 24.  Now we've
got hundreds... 

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