Re: Why didn't Moridin just kill Rand when he was fighting Sammael?

Galad Damodred wrote:

> On May 7, 5:39 pm, vecki <vecst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Balderdash. (I always wanted to use that word).
> >
> > As of EoTW, only Ishy, Aginor and Balthamel had escaped the Bore.
> > Ishy was never completely imprisoned and A + B had been trapped close
> > enough to the surface that they felt the effects of the turning of the
> > Wheel, and had aged about 3,000 years.  When they escaped they were at
> > full strength.  Rand was lucky in that 1) there were others there to
> > distract them (or in Balthamel's case, turn him into a giant
> > mushroom), and 2), he got very lucky and managed to take out Aginor's
> > connection to the source.
>
> 3 Forsaken at FULL STRENGTH could not take out Moiraine, Rand with
> ZERO experience and Egwene with -10 experience? Balderdash yourself!
>

Moiraine surprised Aginor and held him for a while, The Green Man
turned Balthamel into the aforementioned mushroom.  Ishy didn't show
up in this scene until later.

Rand had already started channelling (Bela refresher, hitting a
Trolloc on Domon's boat, Four Kings) so his strength likely had
already started climbing, and lets not forget he's the most powerful
channeller EVER so he could very well already be stronger than A / B
(he never faced both at once, only a slightly (!) burned and otherwise
wounded Aginor (perhaps a little difficult to concentrate?) and a not-
quite-in-this-world Ishy - hence the not being killed Ishy).

That and they'd been so bloody cocky that they didn't just come out
firing the way they should have if they really wanted to wipe out Rand
& co at tEotW.  Too busy gloating to notice Moiraine embrace saidar
(much harder to ****eld someone once they've already started
channelling).

~*~
vecki