The Oath Rod can forcibly control you.
If the Oath Rod could have been administered to AS men in the AoL they could have sworn 'Never to channel the OP as a weapon' OR 'Never to touch the True Source'.
You could only go insane by touching Saidin or continuing to use it.
Between the options of going insane, death, being severed or being forced not to use the OP as a weapon, or not touching the True Source at least the last option allows you to feel the True Source.
It makes you wonder why it was never tried as a possibility to control men who can channel.
If the Oath Rod could have been administered to AS men in the AoL they could have sworn 'Never to channel the OP as a weapon' OR 'Never to touch the True Source'.
You could only go insane by touching Saidin or continuing to use it.
Between the options of going insane, death, being severed or being forced not to use the OP as a weapon, or not touching the True Source at least the last option allows you to feel the True Source.
It makes you wonder why it was never tried as a possibility to control men who can channel.
They can't resist the urge to channel, but the Oath Rod prevents them doing so, creating a fatal impasse. We saw it with the BA Hunters when they tried to make the Aes Sedai from the Tower in Exile say she was Black: It wasn't true, so she couldn't say it, but they ORDERED her to, and she was compelled to obey as well. So her body and mind did the reasonable thing and proceeded to asphyxiate her.
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Slightly better than chocolate.
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LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Could the Oath Rod have been used on tainted men in the AoL?
- 01/10/2010 07:32:02 AM
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the oath rod requires comprehension to make it work
- 01/10/2010 08:18:58 AM
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Remind me some time to show you how to post something so long no one will read it. 
- 01/10/2010 09:46:46 AM
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- 01/10/2010 09:46:46 AM
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They could just be forced to take an oath to never touch the OP again.
- 03/10/2010 01:23:27 AM
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Re: They could just be forced to take an oath to never touch the OP again.
- 03/10/2010 02:12:43 AM
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Re: They could just be forced to take an oath to never touch the OP again.
- 05/10/2010 04:53:46 AM
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My bet is it would just kill them quicker.
- 01/10/2010 09:49:25 AM
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that was two oaths in contradiction though, i think that's different
- 01/10/2010 10:06:08 AM
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Right, because they had the physical capacity to resist channeling, at least for a while.
- 01/10/2010 10:42:00 AM
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Did ANY of you recall that IT DOES NOT WORK ON MEN?
- 01/10/2010 11:43:34 AM
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*NM*
just cause Sammael said that, doesn't make it true *NM*
- 02/10/2010 09:44:17 PM
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Do you REALLY think that with all the Tower's experiments on linking, they never tried it on men?
- 02/10/2010 10:11:11 PM
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yes
- 04/10/2010 02:16:52 AM
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Re: yes
- 04/10/2010 05:06:34 AM
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there are several ter'angreal that work for both men and women
- 05/10/2010 04:28:01 AM
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Re: there are several ter'angreal that work for both men and women
- 05/10/2010 04:36:04 PM
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Surely there must have been male oath rods *NM*
- 03/10/2010 10:37:57 AM
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Doubtful
- 07/10/2010 12:40:52 AM
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No. Balthamel was threatened with binding in the AoL. There was a binder of some kind *NM*
- 07/10/2010 01:35:23 AM
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