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I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP RugbyPlayingAshaman Send a noteboard - 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM
We know for example that she started experimenting with the One Power once she found out she could channel - she generated a trick involving light sources and stones. Further there were variations of weaves in which she used a staff or branch as a focus such as whips of fire and using a branch as a fireball-shooting wand.

I'm not going so far to say that she is on the same level as Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve, but I do think that unlike many Sisters, by the time she was Raised, she was known as barely above a Wilder for a reason, and I think it is because she had personal tricks that lay outside of what the White Tower taught.
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How were all these amazing weaves 'lost' ? malekithe - 20/08/2010 04:33:43 AM 1977 Views
Ishamael may have had a hand in that... Froggles - 20/08/2010 04:45:39 AM 1292 Views
Agreed. Lord Haart - 20/08/2010 10:01:37 AM 1177 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 1281 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 1003 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 1048 Views
The bigger problem is minor characters copying the weaves so quickly... Shannow - 20/08/2010 09:14:25 PM 1087 Views
Lost Weaves Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:43:25 PM 1303 Views
Re: Lost Weaves *NM* Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:45:30 PM 618 Views
Not logical Shannow - 20/08/2010 01:50:32 PM 1279 Views
Re: Not logical Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:22:04 PM 1069 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 1215 Views
All good points also. Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:48:49 PM 1538 Views
Re: Not logical Evil_Monkey - 20/08/2010 03:45:55 PM 1048 Views
Re: Not logical mmcleod - 21/08/2010 04:20:41 AM 967 Views
you may have hit onto something with your last statement darius_sedai - 21/08/2010 05:06:59 PM 1042 Views
Re: you may have hit onto something with your last statement Ashaman_Luc - 23/08/2010 05:09:06 PM 967 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 1127 Views
I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge. Gher - 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM 1106 Views
The need to learn a location to travel Ryan - 20/08/2010 05:58:48 PM 1020 Views
They could use Rand's trick from TGS. Gher - 21/08/2010 01:06:33 AM 991 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 1068 Views
My only theory... Nameless Ashaman - 20/08/2010 06:02:14 PM 1039 Views
The Strongest Died seems like a pretty valid theory to me... lodlom - 20/08/2010 06:14:29 PM 1191 Views
Maybe Aes Sedai treated weaves like Intellectual Property Helene - 20/08/2010 09:49:12 PM 991 Views
Trademark? Patent? Or Copyright? =P *NM* newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 10:19:36 PM 456 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 1117 Views
It doesn't have to be logical... scooter - 20/08/2010 11:50:17 PM 1139 Views
Idea? Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2010 12:47:52 AM 917 Views
But they weren't too weak malekithe - 21/08/2010 02:48:43 AM 1037 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 1118 Views
How can you "write a weave down"? NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 04:54:28 PM 1105 Views
How did Moiraine learn balefire then? *NM* Sidious - 21/08/2010 05:04:27 PM 1142 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 488 Views
That's a stretch - Moiraine never demonstrated any creative talent with the OP... DomA - 21/08/2010 06:15:01 PM 998 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 493 Views
I myself can't buy Vandene teaching that weave to any Sister RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 04:06:26 PM 1049 Views
Me neither... DomA - 24/08/2010 05:50:24 PM 1062 Views
Mispost.. *NM* RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:51:02 PM 548 Views
I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM 1018 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 1357 Views
But... fionwe1987 - 24/08/2010 06:40:39 PM 991 Views
When did she use that? *NM* Lord Haart - 25/08/2010 09:34:31 AM 470 Views
We know of her trick with stones and light from 'New Spring' IIRC RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:40:26 PM 1238 Views
Elayne did use Moiraine's coin trick. Gher - 25/08/2010 06:09:27 PM 1142 Views
Likely from Vandene DomA - 21/08/2010 05:58:31 PM 1403 Views
Something no one else is mentioning... that I saw... Phelix - 21/08/2010 07:15:49 PM 1079 Views
one thing i've noticed Yunalesca - 23/08/2010 06:37:48 PM 1021 Views
Simple: none were necessary for survival in Stone Age barbarism. Macharius - 23/08/2010 09:12:40 PM 1003 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 1179 Views
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