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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

And a Messiah.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year 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 1 year 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)