Active Users:2264 Time:18/06/2026 12:25:08 PM
Regarding the number of Darkfriends ursidae Send a noteboard - 02/06/2010 07:06:08 PM
Is it stated somewhere that 50% of the Aes Sedai went to the Shadow in the AOL? I can't remember reading about any such figure.
That figure sounds awfully high, I would think that 20% or so would be more realistic. After all, most people are not that selfish, and it seems that the Shadow should have no trouble winning the War of Power if they had such numbers of channelers at their disposal.


I do think that AOL women (and men) are of much higher quality. We've only really got the Forsaken to go on, so that makes evidence tough, but ignoring their evil personalities they're remarkably accomplished people in general : almost all of them are attractive, physically strong and well educated.


Ouch! None of the Forsaken are attractive as human beings, and look what they've done with what they've got. Look at what 50% of the so-called Aes Sedai have done with their talents, their vows and their duties. Everything point to a society where half the Aes Sedai didn't take their role as "servants of all" very seriously and jumped at the first occasion to give up this duty to serve to aggrandize their own power. Half the Aes Sedai got wasted in a giant race for power, and all there's left of them, the thirteen, continued the trend. Even now, those still alive are still fighting for the top. Heck... Demandred and Lanfear have been in that self-serving race for ultimate power many years if not decades (or maybe centuries) before the Bore even existed...

Maybe 20% of Aes Sedai of the NE, and probably a much smaller percentage of channellers on the whole (WO, Windfinders, Kin, Asha'man etc.) serve the Shadow in the third Age, so that's a massive improvement over the AOL mentality, the real one underneath the illusion they were truly the "servants of all". The Third Ages are proving themselves better than their highly educated, too pampered ancestors. Egocentrism still exist, it's still especially strong among the privileged classes, but it's already a big improvement over the AOL society...
Reply to message
Matching the Dragon with a mate - 02/06/2010 10:09:49 AM 1714 Views
I think there is more to these women than simply being the Dragon's Mate - 02/06/2010 12:09:10 PM 1056 Views
I agree with darius. Also, 2/3rds of Rand's women - 02/06/2010 02:38:13 PM 1019 Views
What more IS there to being a woman? - 02/06/2010 03:52:23 PM 1105 Views
Re: What more IS there to being a woman? - 02/06/2010 04:58:36 PM 935 Views
Re: What more IS there to being a woman? - 03/06/2010 08:51:25 AM 886 Views
riiiight - 03/06/2010 11:20:31 AM 835 Views
Re: riiiight - 03/06/2010 01:53:49 PM 927 Views
the problem with your working out how strong they are is that it always begins with how much - 03/06/2010 02:14:08 PM 961 Views
Re: the problem with your working out how strong they are is that it always begins with how much - 03/06/2010 02:23:32 PM 1116 Views
Oh Sid! - 03/06/2010 02:53:48 PM 889 Views
Re: Oh Sid! - 04/06/2010 04:58:13 AM 792 Views
Like who - 01/07/2010 12:40:14 PM 830 Views
Ditto - 04/06/2010 04:41:15 PM 936 Views
Re: Ditto - 04/06/2010 04:56:45 PM 1297 Views
I never said that's all they were - 03/06/2010 08:49:53 AM 902 Views
Re: I never said that's all they were - 03/06/2010 11:44:51 AM 944 Views
Re: I never said that's all they were - 03/06/2010 02:04:29 PM 905 Views
totally disagree! - 03/06/2010 02:50:58 PM 1006 Views
Yeah Nynaeve is fantastic - 02/06/2010 12:48:56 PM 980 Views
oh dear god no - 02/06/2010 02:41:13 PM 908 Views
Re: oh dear god no - 02/06/2010 02:55:55 PM 1001 Views
Re: Yeah Nynaeve is fantastic - 03/06/2010 08:51:52 AM 893 Views
Re: Matching the Dragon with a mate - 02/06/2010 02:15:35 PM 1136 Views
*NM* - 02/06/2010 03:54:04 PM 384 Views
beautiful post!!!!!! *NM* - 02/06/2010 04:03:55 PM 529 Views
Great post, but I would disagree with the top part - 02/06/2010 05:58:59 PM 978 Views
Re: Great post, but I would disagree with the top part - 03/06/2010 04:27:28 AM 989 Views
The pattern makes Rand the greatest man alive *NM* - 03/06/2010 10:35:05 AM 391 Views
Regarding the number of Darkfriends - 02/06/2010 07:06:08 PM 1041 Views
Re: Regarding the number of Darkfriends - 03/06/2010 04:34:54 AM 876 Views
Re: Matching the Dragon with a mate - 03/06/2010 09:27:05 AM 998 Views
LOL - 03/06/2010 12:01:27 PM 870 Views
Re: LOL - 03/06/2010 12:41:20 PM 851 Views
Excellent point! - 03/06/2010 12:50:03 PM 884 Views
Re: Excellent point! - 03/06/2010 01:34:04 PM 1074 Views
Re: Excellent point! - 03/06/2010 02:05:19 PM 1017 Views
We don't even know how third names were earned - 03/06/2010 02:31:46 PM 975 Views
The point isn't her strength or beauty - 03/06/2010 03:01:03 PM 975 Views
Yeah, if only it was accurate - 03/06/2010 01:51:48 PM 1050 Views
Re: Yeah, if only it was accurate - 03/06/2010 03:13:05 PM 1036 Views
Re: Matching the Dragon with a mate - 03/06/2010 01:18:14 PM 1068 Views
Re: Matching the Dragon with a mate - 03/06/2010 02:20:05 PM 967 Views
Reasonable scientific venture - 01/07/2010 10:23:06 AM 1053 Views
I think there is more to these characters than being a mate, and I don't think the Pattern cares. - 02/06/2010 03:23:13 PM 914 Views
Hmm... - 03/06/2010 09:28:55 AM 903 Views
Because the variables we see are rarely as specific. - 03/06/2010 03:18:16 PM 866 Views
I doubt he needs one. They just get in the way. - 02/06/2010 05:14:08 PM 1112 Views
Re: I doubt he needs one. They just get in the way. - 02/06/2010 08:30:32 PM 912 Views
- 02/06/2010 10:42:17 PM 829 Views
Meh. How do we know they aren't awarded the way the Nobel Peace Prize is in our world? - 02/06/2010 11:33:48 PM 898 Views
I don't know if Lanfear, the perfect woman didn't have a 3rd name it must have been - 02/06/2010 11:49:02 PM 848 Views
Lews Therin browbeat the Third Name Committee! - 03/06/2010 07:48:41 AM 814 Views
LOL *NM* - 03/06/2010 12:03:07 PM 482 Views
LOL They called it "Tamyrlin-Gate" =) *NM* - 04/06/2010 09:48:28 PM 354 Views

Reply to Message