PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoIf I had a nickel for every time this happened...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1626arrow-down115
arrow-up1611arrow-down1imageIf I had a nickel for every time this happened...lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·5 months agoSee also: The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. They also have a warmongering desert tribe that worships water, covers their faces in combat and has weird rituals nobody else understands
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 months agoBut the Messiah in WoT brings them back from the brink of jihad rather than flinging them off the cliff (as the Aiel False Dragon attempts to do). Its a subversion of the trope.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months ago? I don’t think Rand counts as either twink or genocidal. The Breaking wasn’t really on him.
See also: The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. They also have a warmongering desert tribe that worships water, covers their faces in combat and has weird rituals nobody else understands
But the Messiah in WoT brings them back from the brink of jihad rather than flinging them off the cliff (as the Aiel False Dragon attempts to do).
Its a subversion of the trope.
And a Messiah.
?
I don’t think Rand counts as either twink or genocidal. The Breaking wasn’t really on him.
Darth Rand counts