[Dragaera] Prophecies (was Re: The Desecrator) [spoilers]

[Ray Lee]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>wrote:

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> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Alexx Kay wrote:
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>> This prophecy would have contained some text along the general lines of
>> "When he has found that which he has lost, he will come into his true
>> power."  The only thing Telnan seems to have 'lost' in this story was "the
>> sword that was made for him".  And what he finds is also, albeit in a
>> rather different sense, "the sword that was made for him".  This sort of
>> tricksy language is typical of prophecies.
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> Also, of course, the prophecy could have been made from a godlike or
> Seriolian time perspective.  Maybe Telnan's going to lose it.  Maybe he's
> going to lose it in such a way that it ends up where his earlier self found
> it.
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> Or maybe his soul was the previous wielder.  Maybe that's why the sword
> accepts him, despite his heroic nature.


I'd ruled that out, as the whole sword-through-the-heart bit seemed like a
violent way of tying the sword to Telnan's soul, much as Vlad does
gracefully with The Lady Teldra. But, <shrug>, I'm not tied to that
interpretation, it just seemed a possibility.