User:Zoey The Edgedancer/Rand

"“Here is your flaw, Shaitan, Lord of the Dark, Lord of Envy, Lord of Nothing, here is why you fail. It was not about me. It’s never been about me." It was about a woman, torn and beaten down, cast from her throne and made a puppet. A woman who had crawled when she had to. That woman still fought. It was about a man that love repeatedly forsook. A man who found relevance in a world that others would have let pass them by. A man who remembered stories and who took fool boys under his wing when the smarter move would have been to keep on walking. That man still fought. It was about a woman with a secret, a hope for the future. A woman who had hunted the truth before others could. A woman who had given her live, then had it returned. That woman still fought. It was about a man whose family was taken from him, but who stood tall in his sorrow and protected those he could. It was about a woman who refused to believe that she could not help, could not heal those who had been harmed. It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero. It was about a woman who would not bend her back while she was beaten, and who shown with a light for all who watched, including Rand. It was about them all."

- -Rand al'Thor

Summary
Rand al'Thor is the Dragon Reborn, the champion of the Light in the battle against the Dark One and one of the main protagonists of the Wheel of Time.

Rand was born according to prophecy on the slopes of Dragonmount on 2 Danu 978 NE on the last day of the Battle of the Blood Snow at the end of the Aiel War.

Powers and Stats
Name: Rand al'Thor, The Dragon Reborn, Coramoor, Car'a'carn, He Who Comes With the Dawn, Shadowkiller, King of Illian, Lord of the Morning

Age: 19 in Eye of the World

Gender: Male

Classification: Ta'veren

Powers and Stats: Normal = Portal Creation via Travelling, Fire Manipulation via Fire Arrows and Blossoms of Fire, Light Manipulation and Illusion Manipulation via Illusion and Folded Light, Existence Erasure via Balefire (Burns the target out of the fabric of the Pattern itself, erasing them from reality across the timeline),

Resistance to Extrasensory Perception via Inverting Weaves (By Inverting a Weave he is capable of making it unperceivable to anyone but himself)

Passive Probability Manipulation and Empathic Manipulation via Ta'veren Nature Ascended =

Channeling
""The One Power comes from the True Source, the driving force of creation, the force the Creator made to turn the Wheel of Time. Saidin, the male half of the True Source, and saidar, the female half, work against each other, and at the same time together to provide that force. Saidin is fouled by the touch of the Dark One, like water with a thin slick of rancid oil floating on top. The water is still pure, but it cannot be touched without touching the foulness. Only saidar is still safe to be used... The True Source cannot be used up, any more than the river can be used up by the wheel of the mill. The Source is the river; the Aes Sedai, the waterwheel.""

- —Moiraine Damodred

Channeling is the ability to draw upon the One Power, in Rand's case Saidin, in order to enact various phenomena through manipulating various flows of power; Air, Earth, Fire, Spirit, and Water; into complex Weaves.

At level ++1, Rand al'Thor is as strong in the One Power as it is possible to be, only comparable to Ishameal and Rahvin in pure strength.

Gateways
Gateways are a lost method of travel which allows one to open gates that one can go through to travel long distances instantly, he must know his starting location well to be able to open a Gateway from that location.

These have a great degree of cutting power when closed, easily able to cut people apart when closed upon them.

Deathgates
Deathgates are a certain usage of Gateways that takes advantage of how Shadowspawn cannot survive passing through Gateways, therefore, through a weave of the One Power using Spirit, Earth, and Fire that opens and closes gateways very rapidly, while speeding across the ground. Any Shadowspawn who pass through it perish.

Ta'veren Nature
"The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and the threads it uses are lives. It is not fixed, the Pattern, not always. If a man tries to change the direction of his life and the Pattern has room for it, the Wheel just weaves on and takes it in. There is always room for small changes, but sometimes the Pattern simply won't accept a big change, no matter how hard you try....And sometimes the Wheel bends a life-thread, or several threads, in such a way that all the surrounding threads are forced to swirl around it, and those force other threads, and those still others, and on and on. That first bending to make the Web, that is ta'veren, and there is nothing you can do to change it, not until the Pattern itself changes. The Web - ta'maral'ailen, it's called - can last for weeks, or for years. It can take in a town, or even the whole Pattern.""

- Loial to Rand Al'Thor

As a Ta'veren, his very existence causes the Pattern to shift and change around himself. These people are spun out and used by the Wheel to correct itself when the weave begins to drift from the intended Pattern. In a sense, it is a passive correction mechanism created by reality itself. As a result of their greater level of influence on the Pattern, they do have greatly reduced freedom to stray from their intended path, and have a strict destiny and direction forced upon them. This Destiny, along with the web of influence they have upon the pattern, is known as a Web of Destiny or Ta'maral'ailen.

The effects that a Ta'veren can bring about are varied, and the effects brought about by Rand in particular are far greater than even other Ta'veren in recorded history.