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Date Posted: 21:44:18 03/04/01 Sun
Author: Halfor Gaidin
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Re: The Strangness of the Power

I like your arguments, and I have some to add. We never heard from any of the women who went to Caemlyn that anything was strange about the Source. But remember, we have been told several times that forming a gateway is done by "making two places the same" in some way. If the two places were the same, then wouldn't the weave be the same in both places, and its destruction have the same effect both in Altara and Andor?

Another argument is that no one has tried to combine saidar and saidin for nearly three thousand years because of the Taint. Who knows what the result on the two halves of the Power would be. This may, in fact, have been what gave Rand the idea of how to cleanse saidin.

My last arguement, and my weakest, is that we know the DO was trying to keep the seasons still. This seemed to be a direct touch of the DO, which would logically happen using the TP. Maybe trying to undo the DO's touch contaminated the OP when it touched the TP. This is kind of a stretch, seeing how little we know about the true power, but I think that it is at least a possibility.

On the other hand, it could have to do with the damane that died in the expolsion of the gateway. We know the the two halves of the OP are connected in some way, and maybe the repercussions spread from saidar to saidin. I doubt this, because nothing like this happened with the Taint, but again, we know so little about the OP that just about anything is possible.

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