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Interview: Jun 27th, 1996
AOL Chat 1 (Verbatim)BIG TX MA
Mr. Jordan, will we find out more about the Snakes and Foxes in future books?Robert Jordan
Read and find out! ::stage direction: Phantom of the Opera: Laughter from offstage::Tags
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Interview: Oct 9th, 1996
ACOS Signing Report - Erica Sadun (Paraphrased)Erica Sadun
What was going on in Aelfland when Mat went round and round and round the same location? Were they traveling in time?Robert Jordan
Not traveling in time. The physical laws of nature differ. Mentioning the Dark One [in Randland] is bad luck. In Aelfland, it is *REALLY* bad. You cannot go to Aelfland in Tel'aran'rhiod (similar to stedding).Tags
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Interview: Mar, 2000
Letter to Paul Ward (Verbatim)Paul Ward
Possible question: Why did the ter'angreal doorway burn down when Lanfear and Moiraine passed through?Robert Jordan
When Moiraine and Lanfear went through the ter'angreal, it burned in part because both were channeling, and the world on the other side of the doorway has a radically different set of natural laws. The odd optical effects witnessed in that other world are not artificially produced artifacts. (complete answer)Paul Ward
The laws for channeling are different on the other side of the doorway...interesting.Tags
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Interview: Sep 3rd, 2005
DragonCon Signing Reports - Matt Hatch (Verbatim)Ted Herman
Do the Finns inhabit a perpendicular world?Robert Jordan
No, it is a parallel world.Ted Herman
Does the physical location of the world of Finns have anything to do with the bells ringing when the ta'veren were in together?Robert Jordan
No.Ted Herman
Have the Finns existed as long as the Wheel?Robert Jordan
Yes.Ted Herman
Do they have souls?Robert Jordan
Yes.Ted Herman
Are the Finns from human stock?Robert Jordan
No.Ted Herman
Did they originate in their current location?Robert Jordan
Yes.Ted Herman
Are they related to Tel'aran'rhiod or do they control Tel'aran'rhiod?Robert Jordan
No.Tags
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Interview: Sep 3rd, 2005
DragonCon Signing Reports - Matt Hatch (Verbatim)Matt Hatch
The Finns reside in a Parallel World, is that correct?Robert Jordan
Yes.Matt Hatch
Okay, so are Parallel Worlds and Mirror Worlds the same thing?Robert Jordan
No, they are different.Matt Hatch
Okay, well then do Parallel Worlds have their own reflections?Robert Jordan
Possibly.Tags
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Interview: Sep 3rd, 2005
DragonCon Signing Reports - Matt Hatch (Verbatim)Matt Hatch
Did Lanfear get the opportunity to ask the Finns, to make a wish, after going through the doorway with Moiraine?Robert Jordan
Read and find out.Matt Hatch
Okay, well, then did Moiraine get the opportunity to make a wish?Robert Jordan
Read and find out.Tags
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Interview: Sep 4th, 2005
DragonCon Report - Matt Hatch (Paraphrased)Question
Mr. Jordan, if you could, I would like to know who built the Tower of Ghenjei. If you can't tell us that, is there any kind of detail you can share without compromising the future?Robert Jordan
I am sorry this is a RAFO.Tags
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Interview: Nov 4th, 2005
KOD Signing Report - Bluecole (Paraphrased)Robert Jordan
You CANNOT reach the Tower of Ghengei through the Portal Stones. (direct from RJ)Tags
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Interview: Jun 10th, 2010
Luckers
This is also from one of Brandon's hash outs with Matt from Theoryland. In it Brandon speaks of the nature of Parallel Worlds.
Brandon: Extrapolations of this question get us to: is there one Dragon for all different Parallels or are they all different Dragons? Traveling through the Portal Stone seems to indicate that there are many different lives Rand could have led. The same thing happens with several of the ter'angreal that people go through. The question then is, are those all separate universes? Do we have a multi-verse sort of concept? Or are they possibilities and do these worlds all exist or could exist, what is the difference. In some of those Rand failed. So, is Rand the Dragon in all of them or is Rand not the Dragon in some of them? What happens in the ones where Rand failed? Are they real worlds? Are those different worlds where there is a different Dark One who then takes over and destroys that world or maybe not, maybe he makes it has he wishes. Or are those just possibilities, reflections of this world that don't really exist except when we touch them? Those are all very good questions. Robert Jordan said that Tel'aran'rhiod is a reflection of all different worlds, which implies other worlds continue to exist. The World of the Finns is something different...
Matt: ...he called it a Parallel World...
Brandon: Yes, the Parallel World, that one and also the one Rand and Lanfear visited are persistent regardless of someone from this world visiting. Yet, many of those seem almost shadowy and reflections of the real world, some of them seem as real just strange when visiting them. What happens in these different world, that sort of thing, those were never questions that Robert Jordan answered...
Ok, my request for clarification is mainly concerned with that last paragraph—specifically it left me confused about whether Brandon is speaking about Parallel Worlds or Mirror Worlds. Brandon seems to lump both in together, describing some as shadowy, some as solid. Brandon describes the Finn world as THE Parallel World (we also know the Ogier world is a Parallel World), but in the same paragraph Brandon seems to define it as a persistent Mirror World of some form, and grants that same allocation to the world Rand and Lanfear visited in The Great Hunt.
Maria Simons
Cut Brandon a break, here. I had to look it up to make sure that I had which one was which correct. The 'finn worlds are Parallel Worlds, the Ogier world is a Parallel World. The place that Lanfear, Rand, Loial and Hurin went to was a Mirror World, as were all of the ones in the Portal Stone incident.Luckers
[Sorry Brandon! I am an uber geek and get carried away and never meant to attack you! Mea culpa!]Tags
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Interview: Apr 15th, 2011
JordanCon Report - Ted Herman (Paraphrased)Question
Did the Eelfinn know Mat would be returning when they gave him the ashandarei and told him "Wise to take leavetaking, etc..."?Brandon Sanderson
They don't have perfect knowledge of the future (think Dreamers) but they knew it was a possibility. Also, they gave him the ashandarei in fulfillment of his request for leavetaking, but were hoping he would not realize that, and be trapped in their domain.Tags
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Interview: Apr 17th, 2011
JordanCon 2011 - Terez (Verbatim)Ted Herman
When the Eelfinn told Mat, 'Wise to ask for leavetaking, when you set no price' etc., did they know he would be back?Brandon Sanderson
The 'Finns do not have a perfect vision of the future, but are capable of reading some things about it, and so I would say it's likely they knew. They didn't know everything, though.Ted Herman
So, it's...to the best of their knowledge, they couldn't...Brandon Sanderson
Yes. They sincerely tried to kill him, but they knew there was a strong possibility he'd be back.Ted Herman
Did they know that his ashandarei was the answer to the leavetaking thing?Brandon Sanderson
They knew what they were giving him. They were hoping he wouldn't.Ted Herman
Excellent. Thank you.Tags
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Interview: Feb 22nd, 2013
AMOL Signing Report - J. Dauro (Verbatim)Question
How come Lan couldn’t tell that Moiraine was alive, and with the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn? Because he felt the severing of the bond?
Brandon Sanderson
He did not have the bond any more. Since the bond was severed, he couldn't feel her any more.
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But why would the bond be severed, she was still alive?
Brandon Sanderson
RJ says it is because she went to another dimension, and when that slice happened, it cut the bond. The bond couldn't function across the dimension there without some sort of connection there, without some sort of opening portal or something like that.
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Interview: Feb 22nd, 2013
AMOL Signing Report - J. Dauro (Verbatim)Question
In book 6 or 7 when Moiraine gets thrown through the portal, was it RJ's plan to bring her back in Towers of Midnight?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, he actually wrote most of the scenes that take place in the Tower of Ghenjei and afterwards.
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