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Re: None of these situations is really the same krassos Send a noteboard - 14/06/2010 03:38:42 PM
The Seanchan believe that the Aes Sedai are murderous monsters one and all. That if you goto sleep at night, there is a possibility of a Aes Sedai killing you in your sleep. The Aes Sedai are their bogymen, plain and simple. And the Sul'Dam did have a choice as Tuon made ever so clear - they could simply decide not learn to channel and disappear into the country and live quiet lives.

Tuon was insistent on what the Seanchan believe channelers to be, thieves and murderers and the worst scum the universe has ever created - to be imprisoned and controlled before they break the world anew. Given this cultural baggage, and other options instead the Sul'dam embraced channeling. They badgered the Aes Sedai, Evil Incarnate in the eyes of their culture, to train them.

Julian Sandar, a Tearian who was raised with a similar set of beliefs and same type of culture as the Seanchan and Children, with a few weeks of association with a channeler, realized that what he was taught was fundamentally wrong. That only took a matter of weeks.

On top of that there are the people who follow the Dragon Reborn. After three thousand years of hearing about what the Dragon did, and all the male Aes Sedai, people are willing to drop their preconceptions to follow this man. Men are willing to channel, and women who should be absolutely terrified of those prospects instead come and join their husbands as they learn to channel. They accept this new twist of events.

I submit that the hardest core and most twisted faction of the Children, those who will never change, stayed behind with the questioners when the rest of the children broke away with Galad. Thus, those remaining are far more likely to, if not lose, at least mitigate some of their hatred for channelers.
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Is there anyone who *doesn't* think Galad can channel? - 05/06/2010 02:36:20 AM 1664 Views
Re: Is there anyone who *doesn't* think Galad can channel? - 05/06/2010 03:17:56 AM 1007 Views
He cannot. This passage is similar to one in New Spring - 05/06/2010 03:36:19 AM 790 Views
As he has not been tested, we don't know either way *NM* - 05/06/2010 04:37:49 AM 379 Views
Re: He cannot. This passage is similar to one in New Spring - 05/06/2010 11:27:35 PM 777 Views
Elayne had the Spark actually - 06/06/2010 03:32:05 AM 693 Views
Re: Is there anyone who *doesn't* think Galad can channel? - 05/06/2010 05:45:49 AM 755 Views
Re: Is there anyone who *doesn't* think Galad can channel? - 05/06/2010 11:05:50 PM 789 Views
The Flame... - 05/06/2010 03:45:18 AM 725 Views
I would be a little surprised if he could. - 05/06/2010 06:51:02 AM 653 Views
uh, me. and thousands of others. it's called the void, which tam can do. *NM* - 05/06/2010 07:09:52 AM 339 Views
Wait?? Tam must have some channeling genes since Rand is his son.... *NM* - 05/06/2010 06:21:40 PM 335 Views
you're kidding right? *NM* - 05/06/2010 06:30:54 PM 329 Views
wow *NM* - 05/06/2010 08:39:39 PM 329 Views
I'll be the one to actually say it... - 06/06/2010 12:43:30 AM 717 Views
On the fence - 05/06/2010 12:44:45 PM 748 Views
Re: On the fence - 05/06/2010 11:22:52 PM 696 Views
Re: On the fence - 06/06/2010 03:27:06 AM 675 Views
Re: On the fence - 06/06/2010 02:22:35 AM 715 Views
Re: On the fence - 06/06/2010 03:27:54 AM 567 Views
They still see channelers as Dark Friends. - 10/06/2010 03:51:44 PM 756 Views
More likely they'd do what the Seanchan would when/if Tuon Channels - 13/06/2010 12:21:12 PM 771 Views
As you pointed out - 13/06/2010 02:08:34 PM 758 Views
Only for the short term - 13/06/2010 02:48:54 PM 775 Views
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Nothing is completely static. - 13/06/2010 05:41:59 PM 888 Views
right, cause in a few months they are going to change more tahn 1000 years of doctrine *NM* - 13/06/2010 10:32:56 PM 391 Views
Yes. Exactly. In three days two Aiel clans ended a blood feud. - 14/06/2010 03:14:42 AM 894 Views
None of these situations is really the same - 14/06/2010 03:18:59 PM 796 Views
Re: None of these situations is really the same - 14/06/2010 03:38:42 PM 759 Views
I think you are overstating the situations below - 14/06/2010 06:02:12 PM 721 Views
Nonesense. The Sul'Dam hadn't started channeling. - 14/06/2010 07:26:12 PM 815 Views
The sul'dam who have realized what they are know it's just a matter of time - 14/06/2010 07:50:52 PM 855 Views
As sul'Dam they need to be taught to channel. - 14/06/2010 10:38:33 PM 723 Views
Actually women soldiers are NOT common in WoT - 23/06/2010 07:50:13 AM 1011 Views
They are common enough in Seanchan and with the Aiel though - 27/06/2010 03:47:18 PM 677 Views
I'm inclined to say no - 06/06/2010 07:48:11 AM 855 Views
I don't. - 09/06/2010 03:28:30 PM 803 Views
As others said, there is no real reason to believe that. *NM* - 09/06/2010 03:44:00 PM 397 Views
me *NM* - 09/06/2010 11:25:14 PM 417 Views

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