Miya Kiyoshi
Aes Sedai
Just a random question (maybe someone knows or can find evidence one way or another) because this was rattling in my head after reading some one else's theory on another thread...
Question: Did Mierin (AKA Lanfear) swear to the shadow before or after the creation of the Myrddraal? And, can you please provide a refrence to your reply.
Reason for the question: What if it was because of Mierin, that Jordan told us early on about how someone can be forced to the shadow?
Reasons for this idea:
a) Being powerhungry/deranged/misguided/foolish doesn't = evil. Case in point: Elaida. Nuff Said.
b) Despite being responsible (in part) for the bore, Mierin wasn't the first to join with the shadow. If she was so flat out stupidly power hungry and evil... why the wait? She more than anyone knew the power potential there.
c) The shadow had reason to believe that LTT would be moved by Mierin ... they were old flames and even if she was looney toons for him (power hungry or whatever) they had history. Her becoming shadowsworn might have been just another straw on the camel's back that the Dark One was trying to break.
d) Unlike the other forsakken who got their names from others, Lanfear picked her own. For someone who wasn't the first to go to the Shadow... she sure jumped in with both feet and embraced it, didn't she?
e) While peeved and nutty crazy about Rand sleeping with Avi when she showed up in Cairhien; she didn't decide to kill him (she didn't REALLY lose it) until he said that he couldn't love any woman sworn to the shadow. Why would this be a trigger any more than anything else... if it didn't hurt her deeply for some reason. I mean, really, she WAS in the middle of a great plot to convert Rand to the shadow, right? I mean she didn't think he was going to come willingly... sooooo why the shock that he hates it all the sudden? Could it be that hearing him say he could never love her, for something that was beyond her control, broke her withered blackened insane little heart?
f) At the end of book 13 when we see Mierin beg for Rand's help... it's Mierin he calls her and sees her as... not Lanfear. Could this be because of the LTT/Rand merge, or a writer's subtle way of indicating there is a difference between the two.
I know lanfear going good theories aren't really popular with a lot of folks :rolleyes buuut bear with me and look at the evidence and, consider that these books have often told little stories of people overcoming what was set against them and changing their ways when it seemed impossible they ever would. I think Mierin's story could be just another epic spoke in the wheel of time.
Now... the question is... does my theory hold water? Were the fades around at the time? COULD it have happened?
Question: Did Mierin (AKA Lanfear) swear to the shadow before or after the creation of the Myrddraal? And, can you please provide a refrence to your reply.
Reason for the question: What if it was because of Mierin, that Jordan told us early on about how someone can be forced to the shadow?
Reasons for this idea:
a) Being powerhungry/deranged/misguided/foolish doesn't = evil. Case in point: Elaida. Nuff Said.
b) Despite being responsible (in part) for the bore, Mierin wasn't the first to join with the shadow. If she was so flat out stupidly power hungry and evil... why the wait? She more than anyone knew the power potential there.
c) The shadow had reason to believe that LTT would be moved by Mierin ... they were old flames and even if she was looney toons for him (power hungry or whatever) they had history. Her becoming shadowsworn might have been just another straw on the camel's back that the Dark One was trying to break.
d) Unlike the other forsakken who got their names from others, Lanfear picked her own. For someone who wasn't the first to go to the Shadow... she sure jumped in with both feet and embraced it, didn't she?
e) While peeved and nutty crazy about Rand sleeping with Avi when she showed up in Cairhien; she didn't decide to kill him (she didn't REALLY lose it) until he said that he couldn't love any woman sworn to the shadow. Why would this be a trigger any more than anything else... if it didn't hurt her deeply for some reason. I mean, really, she WAS in the middle of a great plot to convert Rand to the shadow, right? I mean she didn't think he was going to come willingly... sooooo why the shock that he hates it all the sudden? Could it be that hearing him say he could never love her, for something that was beyond her control, broke her withered blackened insane little heart?
f) At the end of book 13 when we see Mierin beg for Rand's help... it's Mierin he calls her and sees her as... not Lanfear. Could this be because of the LTT/Rand merge, or a writer's subtle way of indicating there is a difference between the two.
I know lanfear going good theories aren't really popular with a lot of folks :rolleyes buuut bear with me and look at the evidence and, consider that these books have often told little stories of people overcoming what was set against them and changing their ways when it seemed impossible they ever would. I think Mierin's story could be just another epic spoke in the wheel of time.
Now... the question is... does my theory hold water? Were the fades around at the time? COULD it have happened?