Post by Katty on Apr 16, 2009 17:04:41 GMT 10
From Random Buzz:
From Tammy:
Is it bad that the thing that gave me the most glee out of all this was:
From Tammy:
Alex's family wasn't evil, just ambitious, and Alex's problem was pride. He hated being second to Alan, and finding out Alan was Alanna made him crazy. He'd lost the name of best squire to a <u>girl</u>. Roger knew exactly what he wanted: Alex wanted to kill Alanna, and Roger gave him his shot.
I'm not even sure that Alex's family knew what he was planning. He could have simply gone to his father's soldiers and commanded them to follow him, without his father's knowledge. If Roger had won, Alex would have reasoned, his family would have stood high in the new king's esteem. It never occurred to any of Roger's pawns that Roger didn't really care about winning, only about destruction.
The Chamber doesn't really judge the quality of a person's character. It tests each candidate for flexibility, nothing more. If a candidate can bend, mentally, to face whatever the Chamber shows her/him, the Chamber lets her/him go. If that person cannot bend, cannot face her/his fear and get past it, that person either cracks, or dies. It's not about good or evil in there--each person must answer to the gods for that. The Chamber is all about whether a knight has the ability to survive.
I'm not even sure that Alex's family knew what he was planning. He could have simply gone to his father's soldiers and commanded them to follow him, without his father's knowledge. If Roger had won, Alex would have reasoned, his family would have stood high in the new king's esteem. It never occurred to any of Roger's pawns that Roger didn't really care about winning, only about destruction.
The Chamber doesn't really judge the quality of a person's character. It tests each candidate for flexibility, nothing more. If a candidate can bend, mentally, to face whatever the Chamber shows her/him, the Chamber lets her/him go. If that person cannot bend, cannot face her/his fear and get past it, that person either cracks, or dies. It's not about good or evil in there--each person must answer to the gods for that. The Chamber is all about whether a knight has the ability to survive.
But what about Joren in the Protector of the Small? He was punished by the Ordeal. So why did he get punished but not Alex...
Because Joren could not bend, even a little. Alex could bend about plenty of things, just not about being beaten by a girl. Joren couldn't bend at all--there was nowhere he was flexible, nowhere he could make the adjustments to survive in the greater world.
weren't there a few of Joren's followers that didn't make it through to knighthood, not necessarily killed but just not made in to knights?
That was actually an after-effect. As far as the Chamber was concerned, Vinson had survived, but being forced to endure in his visions what his victims had endured made Vinson realize the horror of what he did. It tipped him over the edge mentally, so that he confessed publicly to his crimes and got imprisoned for it.
Because Joren could not bend, even a little. Alex could bend about plenty of things, just not about being beaten by a girl. Joren couldn't bend at all--there was nowhere he was flexible, nowhere he could make the adjustments to survive in the greater world.
weren't there a few of Joren's followers that didn't make it through to knighthood, not necessarily killed but just not made in to knights?
That was actually an after-effect. As far as the Chamber was concerned, Vinson had survived, but being forced to endure in his visions what his victims had endured made Vinson realize the horror of what he did. It tipped him over the edge mentally, so that he confessed publicly to his crimes and got imprisoned for it.
Is it bad that the thing that gave me the most glee out of all this was:
Joren could not bend, even a little. Alex could bend about plenty of things