As far as we know the oath rod is infallible. Is it though? Perhaps an oath limits ones methods are more reliable than one that completely voids the possibility. The oath against lying does not stop one from being deceptive. The oath against using the one power as a weapon and even the one against the creation of weapons both have exceptions. I would believe there was a reason for this. In fact, the only oaths we have that leave no choices to the bound person are Galina's oath of obedience and she is devoid of any will to fight against it.
What is the loophole in the oath against creating weapons? Do you mean "for one man to kill another"? And thus they can make it for one man to kill a woman, one woman to kill a man, or one woman to kill women etc etc etc?
I think the Dark oath loophole is a plot contrivance for Verin's scene because we never knew what the dark oaths were before that moment.
However Aes Sedai being Aes Sedai it stands to reason that whoever instituted the oaths should have realized they could wiggle out of it in a hundred different methods and used something like the oaths of obedience that the Sitters used on the BA and Therava used on Galina
Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 08:35:55 AM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 11:52:10 AM
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As far as we know, they're just regular Oath Rod oaths. There's no surveillance
- 29/09/2010 09:50:16 PM
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It's poetic. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 11:59:05 AM
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agreed. "The hour of my death" sounds more threatening and foreboding. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 09:33:38 PM
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The Forsaken that created the Oaths in the first place must have messed up
- 29/09/2010 03:14:30 PM
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Most likely
- 29/09/2010 05:43:38 PM
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Although given how we know Oaths work, they wouldn't have to die.
- 29/09/2010 09:55:22 PM
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It's really, really stupid
- 29/09/2010 09:58:51 PM
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As with many previous similar debates regarding the Shadow
- 29/09/2010 10:18:03 PM
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Hah, Either they're SO SMART we just don't realize it... or they're idiots
- 01/10/2010 10:11:42 PM
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Jordan needed it this way to be able to write the deeply moving Verin confession scene
- 29/09/2010 10:39:22 PM
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it's not so much that they are dumb... they just have no common sense!
- 30/09/2010 05:57:03 PM
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It's less stupid than you think
- 29/09/2010 11:51:34 PM
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With the Black Ajah, you either agree to join, or you're murdered
- 01/10/2010 10:16:41 PM
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Translation error
- 30/09/2010 01:02:06 AM
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This would be awesome if true. Unfortunately, I don't think it is
- 01/10/2010 10:20:20 PM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 30/09/2010 04:20:05 PM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 30/09/2010 10:13:25 PM
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Because no one is perfect.
- 01/10/2010 03:06:14 AM
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Padan Fain wasn't a mistake.
- 01/10/2010 03:56:28 AM
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Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 05:22:09 AM
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Re: Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 06:39:26 AM
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse. 
- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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I always hate that saying..ignorance is bliss! So it should be a valid excuse!
- 01/10/2010 07:36:52 AM
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