What I was wondering was, presumably before those people were
resurrected in Hinderstap and came back out of the gateway to attack
all over again, their bodies would have vanished from the previous
attack. So unless the Dreadlords wiped them all out completely (no
bodies), there would have been some mysterious body-vanishings.
At the very least, some suddenly-hungry Trollocs as their dinner
vanished.
>Did the Hinderstap resurrection spell last long
>enough to resurrect the Hinderstappers and the Rand Handers the
>morning AFTER the Last Battle?
There's the question, sure enough. If the bubble was still active and
that was what was resurrecting them, then it would have stopped when
the Dark One was sealed off, and they would all remain in whatever
state (dead or alive, but not perpetually-looped) they were in at that
moment. Sad for them, since they'd mostly have been killed (again) in
the second assault.
If the bubble *created* the loop effect (in the same way it made metal
into putty or a whole suburb of the Rahad [or whereverthefuck] into
crumbling dust), and only lasted a few hours (as bubbles tended to do)
but left behind a permanently-changed condition, then it wouldn't have
broken the spell when the Dark One was sealed away. So they would
still be in the loop, and would have to wait for Randin and his
Pattern-fixing mojo to come and fix shit up.
Maybe that's what Randin is going to be doing for the foreseeable
future.
Mind you, we don't know that a bubble really does leave a permanent
effect. In cases where things came to life and attacked people, they
weren't brought permanently to life. They were alive until "killed",
and that was it. Maybe if they'd been left un-killed, they would have
stayed that way? Or maybe the effect only lasted for a short time and
the bubble burst. Either way, it seemed like Hinderstap was a
particularly lingering (or permanent-area-effect) bubble.
I wonder what would have happened if the Dreadlords had used balefire
on them? After all, they were under orders to destroy the Pattern as
much as possible by using balefire all over the place. Would the
Hinderstapians still have resurrected?
>How did the Red Handers get trapped in Hinderstap anyway?
Because they went there, in a previous book. And were killed there (or
died of their wounds afterwards, and subsequently vanished). Anyone
killed in Hinderstap gets resurrected there. At least as long as the
bubble holds. That's how Mat found out about the place.
I believe the chapter was called "Hinderstap".
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