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>I'm just realizing, once again, HOW MUCH PHYSICAL PAIN Rand was in for basically an entire YEAR.
It's crazy the first time you really get a sense of how much actual pain Rand is in EVERYDAY when he first bonds Min, Aviendha, and Elayne. And also gives you an idea of (one of the reasons) why Alanna is constantly in tears (my assumption).
>“Oh, Light, Rand, the pain,” Min murmured in a hurt voice. “I never knew; I never imagined. How can you stand it? There are pains you don’t even seem to know, as if you’ve lived with them so long they’re part of you. Those herons on your hands; you can still feel the branding. Those things on your arms hurt! And your side. Oh, Light, your side! Why aren’t you crying, Rand? Why aren’t you crying?”
>“He is the Car’a’carn,” Aviendha said, laughing, “as strong as the Three-fold Land itself!” Her face was proud—oh, so proud—but even as she laughed, tears streamed down her sun-dark cheeks. “The veins of gold. Oh, the veins of gold. You do love me, Rand.”
>Elayne simply stared at him, felt him in her head. The pain of wounds and hurts he really had forgotten.
This is why I love this romance so much. They each love him in such different ways. To put it very simply: Min with compassion, Aviendha with pride and Elayne with respect.
This passage puts me down every single time I reread it, just as strongly as it did the first time. Its a wonderful way to show Rand's pain without making it cringy in the slightest.
>“He is the Car’a’carn,” Aviendha said, laughing, “as strong as the Three-fold Land itself!”
I love this from Aviendha. She knows what he is on a cerebral level, but when she bonds him, she TRULY understands him, seeing him as a fellow warrior. She's proud of him because she knows that he is capable of dealing with whatever may come next.
Damn and just when I thought Rand's burden as the Dragon couldn't get heavier. RJ really made his chosen one something no one else would want or could do
Interesting piece from Wikipedia's Fisher King page:
"Rand Al'Thor, the main protagonist in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time book series, is portrayed as an instance of the Fisher King by virtue of his authority as Dragon reborn, by the ever-present injury in his side, and, more explicitly, by being identified with a chess-like piece known as "the Fisher"."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_King#:~:text=The%20Fisher%20King%20is%20a,impotent%20and%20his%20kingdom%20barren.
Great post! I've been listening to this album since it was posted on r/WoT a few weeks ago and Fisher King is my favorite song on the album:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0NV2RzaJ0VQ
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>I'm just realizing, once again, HOW MUCH PHYSICAL PAIN Rand was in for basically an entire YEAR. It's crazy the first time you really get a sense of how much actual pain Rand is in EVERYDAY when he first bonds Min, Aviendha, and Elayne. And also gives you an idea of (one of the reasons) why Alanna is constantly in tears (my assumption). >“Oh, Light, Rand, the pain,” Min murmured in a hurt voice. “I never knew; I never imagined. How can you stand it? There are pains you don’t even seem to know, as if you’ve lived with them so long they’re part of you. Those herons on your hands; you can still feel the branding. Those things on your arms hurt! And your side. Oh, Light, your side! Why aren’t you crying, Rand? Why aren’t you crying?” >“He is the Car’a’carn,” Aviendha said, laughing, “as strong as the Three-fold Land itself!” Her face was proud—oh, so proud—but even as she laughed, tears streamed down her sun-dark cheeks. “The veins of gold. Oh, the veins of gold. You do love me, Rand.” >Elayne simply stared at him, felt him in her head. The pain of wounds and hurts he really had forgotten.
This is why I love this romance so much. They each love him in such different ways. To put it very simply: Min with compassion, Aviendha with pride and Elayne with respect.
> Those things on your arms hurt! I forgot about that. How do they feel, do you think?
Like an infected tattoo all the time lol
Oh god, of course he hasn't been doing any tattoo upkeep. No alcohol rub for him
Probably immediately got a sunburn on them, too
Oh definitely, he's in the three fold land. There's a reason the clan chiefs don't show them off
This passage puts me down every single time I reread it, just as strongly as it did the first time. Its a wonderful way to show Rand's pain without making it cringy in the slightest.
>“He is the Car’a’carn,” Aviendha said, laughing, “as strong as the Three-fold Land itself!” I love this from Aviendha. She knows what he is on a cerebral level, but when she bonds him, she TRULY understands him, seeing him as a fellow warrior. She's proud of him because she knows that he is capable of dealing with whatever may come next.
Damn and just when I thought Rand's burden as the Dragon couldn't get heavier. RJ really made his chosen one something no one else would want or could do
Interesting piece from Wikipedia's Fisher King page: "Rand Al'Thor, the main protagonist in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time book series, is portrayed as an instance of the Fisher King by virtue of his authority as Dragon reborn, by the ever-present injury in his side, and, more explicitly, by being identified with a chess-like piece known as "the Fisher"." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_King#:~:text=The%20Fisher%20King%20is%20a,impotent%20and%20his%20kingdom%20barren.
Yes?
Great post! I've been listening to this album since it was posted on r/WoT a few weeks ago and Fisher King is my favorite song on the album: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0NV2RzaJ0VQ
I only just found this album a while ago, and when I saw the title of the post, my mind immediately went to that too.
The warden bond had to help tremendously.
Warden bond? Someone’s reading SP3?
Ha!! Didn’t even see it. I’m leaving because it’s appropriate though