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1) Chi è Nakomi?
2) Chi è la donna in abiti Aiel che Rand incontra uscendo dal Pozzo del Destino alal fine del 14?
3) Sono la stessa persona?
Innanzitutto vorrei elencare alcuni apssaggi del 13 e del 14 che potrebbero essere interessanti.
Libro 13, cap 39 (In the Three-fold Land)
"A sound came from outside her camp.
Aviendha opened her eyes and jumped up, embracing the Source. A piece of her was pleased that she now instinctively looked to the One Power, rather than spears that were not there. She wove a globe of light.
A woman stood in the darkness nearby, wearing Aiel garb. Not cadin'sor
or the garb of a Wise One, but normal clothing: a dark skirt and a tan blouse and shawl, a kerchief on her graying hair. She was middle-aged, and
carried no weapons. She was still.
Aviendha glanced to the sides. Was this an ambush? Or was this woman a specter? One of the dead walking? Why hadn't Aviendha heard her approach?"
"I am Nakomi. I promise that I mean you no harm, child."
"You have the air of a warrior about you, child. Tell me, are you from among those who went west? The ones who joined the one named the Car'a'carn?"
"Tell me, are the wetlands as glorious as so many say? Rivers so wide you cannot see the other side, plants so full of water they burst when squeezed?"
"But the wetlands are part of our destiny, are they not? The things the Car'a'carn is said to have revealed . . . they link us to the wetlands in curious ways. Assuming what he said was true."
"Tell me Nakomi, where is it you travel? Which sept is your own?"
"I am far from my roof," the woman said, wistful, "yet not far at all. Perhaps is far from me. I cannot answer your question, apprentice, for it is not my place to give this truth."
"From inside her pack, she drew forth several deepearth roots. Aviendha's mother had always cooked those. Nakomi placed them in a small ceramic baking box, then slid this into the coals. Aviendha hadn't realized the fire had grown so warm. Where had all those coals come from?"
"I'm sorry," Nakomi said. "I've let myself ramble again. I am prone to it, I fear. Here, let us eat."
Aviendha started. Surely the roots weren't done yet. However, Nakomi pulled them out, and they smelled wonderful. She cut the shellback, fishing a pair of tin plates from her pack. She seasoned the meat and roots, then passed a plate to Aviendha.
She tasted hesitantly. The food was delicious. Wonderful, even. Better than many a feast she'd had in fine palaces back in the wetlands.
Libro 14, Epilogo (To See the Answer)
He could... see, just faintly. A figure kneeling down beside him. "Yes," a woman whispered. He did not recognized the voice. "Yes, that's good, That is what you need to do."
He blinked, his vision fuzzy. Was that Aiel clothing? An old woman, with gray hair?
By istinct, he reached for the One Power to light it [la pipa].He found nothing. No saidin in the void, nothing. [...] He inspected it [la pipa] for a moment in the darkness, then thought of the pipe being lit. And it was
Da un'intervista a BS
Question
Who was the Aiel woman that Aviendha met on her trip to Rhuidean?
Brandon Sanderson
Nakomi. Also, RAFO, there's a hint in A Memory of Light.
(Later in the evening, he said that hint can be found between the chapter "The Last Battle" and the end of the book. He also said she came from deep in Jordan's notes, and he did not feel like he could give more information than that. Also, she might be explained in the encyclopedia, but no promises regarding that.)
1) Allora... chi è Nakomi?
Si veste similmente ad una Aiel, parla ad Avy del nostro (our) popolo, parla delle terre bagnate come se non le conoscesse, però non risponde alla domanda di Avy sulla sua setta di appartenenza. Anzi, risponde, ma qualcosa di quasi incomprensibile.
Non può incanalare, eppure sembra avere uno strano effetto sul fuoco, e sul cibo.
La risposta sembra venire da sola: è un Aiel Jenn.
2) Una donna anziana che sa che Rand è linkato a Moridin e si sta trasferendo nel suo corpo.
3) Viene facile pensare che siano la stessa persona, più che altro per l'intervista a BS, e perché altrimenti non avrebbe senso se non lo fossero. L'unico indizio che rema contro questa ipotesi è che Avy la vede come una donna di mezza età, invece Rand la vede anziana.
Ma quindi chi o cosa è Nakomi?
Considerando quanto Rand riesce a fare con la pipa, cioè sembra in grado di plasmare il Disegno secondo il suo desiderio, e quanto riesce a fare Nakomi con fuovo e cibo, sembrerebbe che entrambi abbiano la stessa natura, qualunque essa sia.
Viene quindi quasi naturale pernsare a Nakomi come ad un Drago precedente a Rand, di un altra epoca, in grado però di "cavalcare il vento del tempo" e presentarsi dove e quando vuole nel Disegno.
Ho letto di alcuni che suggerivan che potesse essere l'opposto del Drago, ma scarterei l'ipotesi, perché l'opposto del Drago, cioè il campione dell'Ombra, non è in grado di fare certe cose con il Disegno, o almeno Moridin/Ishamael non sembrava in grado di farlo.
Ma perché farla apparire nella storia senza dare qualche indizio in più?
Bella domanda! E credo senza risposta, a meno che non venga messo qualcosa nelal futura Guida di WoT.
nihilim
P.S.
Non è tutta farina del mio sacco, visto che l'argomento è largamente discusso sulla rete.