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That's because most of the major people in WoT are powerful channelers. Great Lord of Chaos Send a noteboard - 21/08/2010 04:13:04 AM
Most of the female Aes Sedai died before the end of the breaking. The ones that did survive died before they could pass on their entire knowledge, or the Aes Sedai that came after were too weak to use it.



They were not too weak because even thousands of years later there are channelers, loads of them who are strong enough to channel these weaves. Specifically Travelling seems easy for anyone who is strong enough and it seems like MANY women are strong enough alone.


Mostly, we see are the women that are powerful enough. Egwene, Elayne, Avi., Nynaeve, Cadsuane, Romanda, Lelaine. Siuan and Leane are the only two major living characters that I can think of that cannot make a gateway by themselves.
Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
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How were all these amazing weaves 'lost' ? malekithe - 20/08/2010 04:33:43 AM 1713 Views
Ishamael may have had a hand in that... Froggles - 20/08/2010 04:45:39 AM 1078 Views
Agreed. Lord Haart - 20/08/2010 10:01:37 AM 974 Views
You're right. It is merely a plot requirement, made ludicrous by the ease of mastering these weaves Shannow - 20/08/2010 10:08:10 AM 1086 Views
Re: You're right. It is merely a plot requirement, made ludicrous by the ease of mastering Evil_Monkey - 20/08/2010 03:40:16 PM 832 Views
These are good points. To some extent, it may be because our main characters are "gifted" channelers newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 08:57:49 PM 842 Views
The bigger problem is minor characters copying the weaves so quickly... Shannow - 20/08/2010 09:14:25 PM 890 Views
Lost Weaves Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:43:25 PM 1052 Views
Re: Lost Weaves *NM* Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:45:30 PM 518 Views
Not logical Shannow - 20/08/2010 01:50:32 PM 1045 Views
Re: Not logical Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:22:04 PM 866 Views
All I'm saying, is that Travelling would STILL be a very usefull survival tool during the Breaking.. Shannow - 20/08/2010 03:44:59 PM 1000 Views
All good points also. Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:48:49 PM 1340 Views
Re: Not logical Evil_Monkey - 20/08/2010 03:45:55 PM 842 Views
Re: Not logical mmcleod - 21/08/2010 04:20:41 AM 757 Views
you may have hit onto something with your last statement darius_sedai - 21/08/2010 05:06:59 PM 855 Views
Re: you may have hit onto something with your last statement Ashaman_Luc - 23/08/2010 05:09:06 PM 769 Views
If you go back and read the descriptions of the breaking, and think about the 3000 year cycle newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 04:37:02 PM 915 Views
I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge. Gher - 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM 866 Views
The need to learn a location to travel Ryan - 20/08/2010 05:58:48 PM 807 Views
They could use Rand's trick from TGS. Gher - 21/08/2010 01:06:33 AM 766 Views
You & Ryan make good points, esp on balefire/compulsion. In a shorter series, it'd make more sense newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 08:52:59 PM 879 Views
My only theory... Nameless Ashaman - 20/08/2010 06:02:14 PM 813 Views
The Strongest Died seems like a pretty valid theory to me... lodlom - 20/08/2010 06:14:29 PM 975 Views
Maybe Aes Sedai treated weaves like Intellectual Property Helene - 20/08/2010 09:49:12 PM 791 Views
Trademark? Patent? Or Copyright? =P *NM* newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 10:19:36 PM 354 Views
If they are secretive and protective, it's not a huge stretch that knowledge would be taken into the Helene - 21/08/2010 10:27:15 AM 917 Views
It doesn't have to be logical... scooter - 20/08/2010 11:50:17 PM 941 Views
Idea? Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2010 12:47:52 AM 726 Views
But they weren't too weak malekithe - 21/08/2010 02:48:43 AM 806 Views
That's because most of the major people in WoT are powerful channelers. Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2010 04:13:04 AM 839 Views
How can you "write a weave down"? NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 04:54:28 PM 850 Views
How did Moiraine learn balefire then? *NM* Sidious - 21/08/2010 05:04:27 PM 1040 Views
figured it out on her own, don't forget that Nyn used it too against the Fades in TDR. *NM* NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 05:12:15 PM 390 Views
That's a stretch - Moiraine never demonstrated any creative talent with the OP... DomA - 21/08/2010 06:15:01 PM 810 Views
OK, I'll buy Vandene teaching it, but not learning it from a written description *NM* NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 06:35:46 PM 399 Views
I myself can't buy Vandene teaching that weave to any Sister RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 04:06:26 PM 822 Views
Me neither... DomA - 24/08/2010 05:50:24 PM 865 Views
Mispost.. *NM* RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:51:02 PM 457 Views
I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM 810 Views
Re: I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP DomA - 24/08/2010 05:32:11 PM 1141 Views
But... fionwe1987 - 24/08/2010 06:40:39 PM 777 Views
When did she use that? *NM* Lord Haart - 25/08/2010 09:34:31 AM 372 Views
We know of her trick with stones and light from 'New Spring' IIRC RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:40:26 PM 955 Views
Elayne did use Moiraine's coin trick. Gher - 25/08/2010 06:09:27 PM 913 Views
Likely from Vandene DomA - 21/08/2010 05:58:31 PM 1150 Views
Something no one else is mentioning... that I saw... Phelix - 21/08/2010 07:15:49 PM 880 Views
one thing i've noticed Yunalesca - 23/08/2010 06:37:48 PM 817 Views
Simple: none were necessary for survival in Stone Age barbarism. Macharius - 23/08/2010 09:12:40 PM 776 Views
Passing on useful survival skills trumped esoteric lore during the War of Power and the Breaking RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 03:18:47 PM 967 Views
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