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Interview #196: DragonCon Report - Isabel, Entry #28

Question

Someone had a question about Machin Shin in the Ways. Since it seems to absorb the creatures that pass through there, could you regard it as a servant of the Dark One or perhaps almost as a Forsaken?

Robert Jordan

It’s not a servant of the Dark One. It will kill Trollocs or anything else. You can say it’s a parasite that grew in the Ways because of the taint on the One Power that was used to initially create the Ways. The talisman of growing that was used to extend the Ways. So it’s not a servant of the Dark One, but it’s definitely on the evil side.

Question

Would it be cleaned with the Cleansing of saidin ?

Robert Jordan

No. Its like a bacteria breed. Just by cleaning up the chemicals that caused the bacteria to come into existence, unless it’s feeding on that, those chemicals, you are not going to destroy the bacteria. You simply cut off what helped to create it.

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