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Andriy asked this question about The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, #12):
Why did Rand destroy the Choedan Kal?
Jess (oracle_of_madness) Rand was about to lose himself completely by using the Choedan Kal to destroy everything including the pattern itself. One of the last things Lews The…moreRand was about to lose himself completely by using the Choedan Kal to destroy everything including the pattern itself. One of the last things Lews Therin says to him is that people are born again and fight for a second chance at life. Rand realizes that his own answer to the question his father asked him "why do YOU fight?" was to live to love again. he destroys the Choedan Kal for his second chance, to be allowed to love and once again laugh.(less)
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The Gathering Storm
by Robert Jordan
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