[Alassë]

how about whether she turns her back on Arkan and refuses his 'love' or trusts in Cadvan? (although Arkan can't be killed as he's immortal but then with all of maerad's powers she may discover a way to kill an elidhu)

that raises another question could maerad be killed if she has the blood of an elidhu? in other words could she die by any means other than natural causes?

[cheeky monkey]

As i have said many times before...(don't read if u are Mrs.C...)
Cadvan will die :eek: yet will leave Maerad and their baby to rebuild the world. I think....
i just hope that alison won't be that cruel... and that cadvan lives to fight (and be gorgeously seductive) :D another day! YAY! :D

[owleye]

i hope that doesnt happen

[cheeky monkey]

Me too! I'll just have 2 waffle on 4 a bit so i can post this....stupid thing won't let me...
dum de dum de dumm...
there we go. :D

[silverphoenix]

Hey hey! Sorry for absence - i hate computers that crash at crucial...points. Was trying to find a word that started with c, but nevermind...

Anyway, back to "evil Maerad". Although rationally I can see that being a possibility, in my heart (bring out the violins) I don't see that happening. The "worst" I can see happening to Maerad is, as great ones have said before me, that she becomes lost in the wild fey beauty of her magic, which I think strongly stems from her Elidhu ancestry, and maybe whilst in the midlle of some working becomes drawn to the brink. Of what? I hear you cry. I don't know, maybe the temptation to join Ardina in her kingdom as an Elidhu-- think about what Ardina-as-Elidhu first offered to her in the forest -- somehow giving up her mortality; or maybe she would be tempted to use her powers for good, like restoring Afinil, or Pellinor or maybe bringing someone back from the dead (please, not Cadvan!). But because it would be intrinsically wrong to do these things: loose mortal friends, upset the Balance, can't undo things etc etc: either she or someone will pull her back from the precipice.

If she becomes dangerous, I think it would be in a more general way than to specific people. My grammer's awful, but I hope you can catch my drift. Although, definitely, she has to confront and come to terms with the Riddle "incident". (I've forgotten how to do spoilers)

But I don't know;that's why I'm not the one writing! I also have tons of questions that have just popped into my head, and I don't know where to put them! Argh!

[cheeky monkey]

Yeah...me thinks that she may get mislead at one point, however Hem/Cai will snap her out of it and she will continue to be our favorite heroine...(depending on ur point of view) :)

[silverphoenix]

However, I think the possibility of her being misled is lower than it was before she was separated from y'know who. Before that, she was bottling a lot of stuff up, especially her emotions, and that influenced her. But now that she's been through that experience up North (pardon me for speaking obliquely: still can't do spoilers!) I think her heart's more open and that's really important. Whether that opens her up to romantic attachment or not, I think accepting her emotions and her love will keep her on the lighter side of grey. Was that experience what Ardina warned her about in The Gift, d'you think? I mean, loving and losing?

[Celebriän]

Was that experience what Ardina warned her about in The Gift, d'you think? I mean, loving and losing?

It could be.... but i don't think so.... i don't know why but to me it just doesnt seem profound enough......

and she hasn't really lost Arkan has she?

perhaps it means losing Hem in the future because she loves him more than any other and has already survived losing you know who in the riddle.

[owleye]

i think that... what was it ardina oh yea through great pain and i cant remember the rest could that of been the great pain?

[cheeky monkey]

I was just looking at the very beginning of this thread with people saying that Maerad may kill hem/cai.. and it just struck me that a lot of the other stuff said is very much like Star Wars....(for those who don't know *gasp :eek: )
young person...(popular, clever, promising,good looking, kind).
Family is killed/murdered..
Join fight 4 good guys..
Good guys loose 1 battle...
Young person persuaded to join the dark side..... *darth vadar breath* (come on..uve gotta know that bit!lol)
Young person accidently kills only 1 they care about in the world...because they were tricked by new 'masters'...
realise what they have done..
it either kills them from inside..
or they kill all the baddies then die soon after.
it can't possibly end like that but it does have a strange resemblance.. :rolleyes:
No? :confused:
oh well...i tried. :D