Wheel of Time: Path of Daggers
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jackDifferent ways Rand is going mad as of the middle of Path of Daggers:
1. General paranoia, impulsiveness, and voice of Lews Therin due to corruption from the taint of saidin. This is almost a cuddly, friendly madness by now, that I like reading about how Rand comes to terms with it, and presumably everything else is introduced to keep Rand from having too convenient control over his powers after he actually DOES cleanse saidin
2. Blurring, vomiting, staggering from mutually balefiring each other's balefire with Morridin. Apparently this causes some sort of connection with Morridin which grows over time, and makes HIS voice appear in his head.
3. Siwrls of colour around ta'veren twisted events (apparently). OK, this isn't madness per se, but Rand doesn't know what it IS, except that it keeps making weird shit happen that no-one else sees.
4. The weirdness and self-directedness of saidin (and saidar) anywhere near Ebou Dar. This is not just Rand, but (a) it's understandably difficult to tell apart from everything else going on in his head and (b) he refuses to listen when any of the other people TELL him it's going on.
5. Massively overdrawing saidin via callandor, which makes him be all crazy
6. Bubbles of evil, which haven't been seen lately, but seem to cause excessively mad-like things near Rand, like making lots of reflections of him come out of mirrors and attack, or the air go all solid and throw him onto a wooden sword.
That's an awful lot of ways for one person to be mad, although I suppose, if I get mental difficulties, I would expect overlapping, interlocking ones. At least two of them give him voices in his head. Several involve saidin having a life of its own. Many of them make him feel ill. Is it unsurprising it's hard to say which is which?
1. General paranoia, impulsiveness, and voice of Lews Therin due to corruption from the taint of saidin. This is almost a cuddly, friendly madness by now, that I like reading about how Rand comes to terms with it, and presumably everything else is introduced to keep Rand from having too convenient control over his powers after he actually DOES cleanse saidin
2. Blurring, vomiting, staggering from mutually balefiring each other's balefire with Morridin. Apparently this causes some sort of connection with Morridin which grows over time, and makes HIS voice appear in his head.
3. Siwrls of colour around ta'veren twisted events (apparently). OK, this isn't madness per se, but Rand doesn't know what it IS, except that it keeps making weird shit happen that no-one else sees.
4. The weirdness and self-directedness of saidin (and saidar) anywhere near Ebou Dar. This is not just Rand, but (a) it's understandably difficult to tell apart from everything else going on in his head and (b) he refuses to listen when any of the other people TELL him it's going on.
5. Massively overdrawing saidin via callandor, which makes him be all crazy
6. Bubbles of evil, which haven't been seen lately, but seem to cause excessively mad-like things near Rand, like making lots of reflections of him come out of mirrors and attack, or the air go all solid and throw him onto a wooden sword.
That's an awful lot of ways for one person to be mad, although I suppose, if I get mental difficulties, I would expect overlapping, interlocking ones. At least two of them give him voices in his head. Several involve saidin having a life of its own. Many of them make him feel ill. Is it unsurprising it's hard to say which is which?
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Date: 2010-08-10 05:57 pm (UTC)Poor Rand is going very mad though :-(