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If I had a nickel for every time this happened... (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

And a Messiah.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think Rand counts as either twink or genocidal. The Breaking wasn't really on him.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Darth Rand counts

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's been a while but I don't recall him even ordering a mass execution of "Darkfriends," much less a genocide. Even at his most paranoid he deals with people on an individual level.

Entirely possible I just don't remember it.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He literally ordered to nuke an entire city out of existence at one point

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The abandoned city no people lived in or went near because it was corrupted with an evil goo almost as bad as the Dark One himself?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Oh, sorry, not a city - a fort, Natrin's Barrow, occupied by one of the Forsaken and a bunch of magicked slaves (hundreds of them)