You & Ryan make good points, esp on balefire/compulsion. In a shorter series, it'd make more sense
newyorkersedai Send a noteboard - 20/08/2010 08:52:59 PM
The latter was a bigtime tool of the Shadow, something that must have had very few Lightside uses. The former was so horribly destructive that even the Shadow didn't want to use it.
Yeah, terangreal construction must have been quite complicated.
It's another thing that might have worked better if the series was shorter. There had to be reasons for the Lightside guys to have to walk and ride to places, and restrictions that would make their enemies a little harder to kill. This also adds more weight to scenes where our heroes learn (or re-discover) weaves that make their lives and missions easier. Since the series didn't wrap in 3 or 4 or 6 books, we've had all this extra time to wonder at the total loss of things like Flight - that weave, in particular, would've been quite handy during/after the breaking (unlike, perhaps, Traveling).
Yeah, terangreal construction must have been quite complicated.
It's another thing that might have worked better if the series was shorter. There had to be reasons for the Lightside guys to have to walk and ride to places, and restrictions that would make their enemies a little harder to kill. This also adds more weight to scenes where our heroes learn (or re-discover) weaves that make their lives and missions easier. Since the series didn't wrap in 3 or 4 or 6 books, we've had all this extra time to wonder at the total loss of things like Flight - that weave, in particular, would've been quite handy during/after the breaking (unlike, perhaps, Traveling).
How were all these amazing weaves 'lost' ?
- 20/08/2010 04:33:43 AM
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You're right. It is merely a plot requirement, made ludicrous by the ease of mastering these weaves
- 20/08/2010 10:08:10 AM
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Re: You're right. It is merely a plot requirement, made ludicrous by the ease of mastering
- 20/08/2010 03:40:16 PM
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These are good points. To some extent, it may be because our main characters are "gifted" channelers
- 20/08/2010 08:57:49 PM
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The bigger problem is minor characters copying the weaves so quickly...
- 20/08/2010 09:14:25 PM
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Lost Weaves
- 20/08/2010 01:43:25 PM
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Not logical
- 20/08/2010 01:50:32 PM
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Re: Not logical
- 20/08/2010 03:22:04 PM
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All I'm saying, is that Travelling would STILL be a very usefull survival tool during the Breaking..
- 20/08/2010 03:44:59 PM
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If you go back and read the descriptions of the breaking, and think about the 3000 year cycle
- 20/08/2010 04:37:02 PM
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I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge.
- 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM
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You & Ryan make good points, esp on balefire/compulsion. In a shorter series, it'd make more sense
- 20/08/2010 08:52:59 PM
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Maybe Aes Sedai treated weaves like Intellectual Property
- 20/08/2010 09:49:12 PM
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Trademark? Patent? Or Copyright? =P *NM*
- 20/08/2010 10:19:36 PM
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If they are secretive and protective, it's not a huge stretch that knowledge would be taken into the
- 21/08/2010 10:27:15 AM
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Idea?
- 21/08/2010 12:47:52 AM
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But they weren't too weak
- 21/08/2010 02:48:43 AM
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That's because most of the major people in WoT are powerful channelers.
- 21/08/2010 04:13:04 AM
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How can you "write a weave down"?
- 21/08/2010 04:54:28 PM
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How did Moiraine learn balefire then? *NM*
- 21/08/2010 05:04:27 PM
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figured it out on her own, don't forget that Nyn used it too against the Fades in TDR. *NM*
- 21/08/2010 05:12:15 PM
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That's a stretch - Moiraine never demonstrated any creative talent with the OP...
- 21/08/2010 06:15:01 PM
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OK, I'll buy Vandene teaching it, but not learning it from a written description *NM*
- 21/08/2010 06:35:46 PM
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I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP
- 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM
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Re: I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP
- 24/08/2010 05:32:11 PM
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We know of her trick with stones and light from 'New Spring' IIRC
- 25/08/2010 02:40:26 PM
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Simple: none were necessary for survival in Stone Age barbarism.
- 23/08/2010 09:12:40 PM
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Passing on useful survival skills trumped esoteric lore during the War of Power and the Breaking
- 25/08/2010 03:18:47 PM
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