From: Louis-Philippe Giroux <dragon@anime.sobhrach.com>
To: RahienSorei@aol.com
CC: ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma/WoT] Differing Powers 2 ---> Glaring Mistake     ?!?!?! And...
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 07:45:55 -0500

At 23:08 -0500 26/12/99, RahienSorei@aol.com wrote:

in the book, "thw world of the wheel of time" it says that the DO was brought
into the world by botha man and a woman, actually the woman was Lanfear. But
that book came out after book 7 i think.
Micah

   Since you're raising a good point, I'm taking the liberty to post
the reply on the list so that people will know my answer...

   I know about the reference book - I bought it the week it was
out...  Very nice...

   According to it, the Bore was opened by Mierin (Lanfear) and
Beidomon.  What happens in tEotW is that Moiraine makes a
generalization using the term "men".

   Or, another, more plausible, hypothesis is that people in the
Third Age simply don't know or don't remember how the Dark One was
initially released, so the modern Aes Sedai, being the feminists that
they are, took the opportunity to put the blame on the men. (It *has*
been over 3000 years - a lot can get lost over such a long period!)

   The latter assumption is likely the case, because if the knowledge
of Mierin's actions was widespread among the Aes Sedai community,
Moiraine would have probably violated the First Oath when she told
Egwene that the men had done it.

As Obi-wan said in Starwars and is oft quoted "the truth depends on your point of view."

If Moiraine knew that woman had done it she would be breaking the Oath
but, and this is a big BUT, If she had been told by older Aes Sedai that men had done it but in reality women had and men had only helped to free the Dark One. In her mind she is telling the truth as SHE knows it and as we all know memory can be tricked and fooled. Even by ourselves on purpose.



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