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  • Horn of Valere, Shadar Logoth Dagger.

    From Timothy Bruening@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 15 13:55:20 2022
    The Horn of Valere spent several months nestled right next to the Shadar Logoth dagger during The Great Hunt. Why wasn't it contaminated by the SL taint?

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to Timothy Bruening on Thu Jun 16 11:13:32 2022
    On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:55:20 -0700 (PDT), Timothy Bruening wrote:

    The Horn of Valere spent several months nestled right next to the Shadar Logoth dagger during The Great Hunt. Why wasn't it contaminated by the
    SL taint?

    2 ideas:

    1. The dagger's evil is a type of disease. While a physical object can be
    can contain it's germs, it can't actually affect the object itself. The
    dagger isn't "sick" it can only spread sickness to living beings around
    it.

    The Horn isn't alive. It is a ter'angreal, but it can't catch the disease.
    Had Padan Fain been the horn blower especially after becoming Mordeth,
    maybe things would have been different.

    2. We know very little about how ter'angreal are made or their potential properties. It could simply be that when it was created, it was given
    specific types of immunity to evil influences.

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  • From Timothy Bruening@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Sun Jun 19 17:03:02 2022
    On Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 4:13:35 AM UTC-7, Jason Evans wrote:
    On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:55:20 -0700 (PDT), Timothy Bruening wrote:

    The Horn of Valere spent several months nestled right next to the Shadar Logoth dagger during The Great Hunt. Why wasn't it contaminated by the
    SL taint?
    2 ideas:

    1. The dagger's evil is a type of disease. While a physical object can be
    can contain it's germs, it can't actually affect the object itself. The dagger isn't "sick" it can only spread sickness to living beings around
    it.

    That would explain how Mat became immune to the taint by AMOL!

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