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LTT was correct. eucatastrophe Send a noteboard - 18/11/2010 11:12:52 PM
Nynaeve can Heal the taint. This isn't a new ability despite what some people think.


Well we've never seen it before so I don't know what you're talking about!

EoTW (Dragonmount) - "A pity for you... that one of your Sisters is not here. I was never very skilled at Healing... but even one of them could only give you a few lucid minutes."


You're confusing the insanity and the taint-induced madness. The 100 Companions went insane because of the DO's counterstroke: he touched them directly.

The madness male channelers faced pre-Cleansing was typically gradual.

Rand is shocked that Nynaeve can Heal the taint and he says that even in his Age, diseases of the mind were very hard to cure. That said, Lews Therin has no knowledge of the taint and the efforts to cure it, considering he was the first man ever to go insane.


Yeah, which is why I find your first statement odd.

It seems that very gifted Healers could probably remove the effect from a tainted male just like Nynaeve did.


Don't know. Given all the evidence, I doubt you're right. We see that channelers try everything (staying in stedding for example) to escape the taint so I don't see why skilled Healers wouldn't try and cure the taint even for few "lucid" moments. Something is better than nothing. If anything, it would better contain the crazy companions.

The problem is that the taint still existed on saidin, and within minutes of being Healed they would become tainted again. Its more than likely that they were even more open to the taint after being tainted once, and thus their ability to buy the man only a few lucid minutes. It thus became a self-limiting and futile exercise. In Nynaeve's case it's a wonderous cure, and in their case a silly one considering the disease was waiting to reinfest the man again.


Yeah, I disagree. It was the counterstroke that drove the Hundred companions mad, and the taint on saidin that drives male channelers mad eventually.

AoLers probably could have Healed the taint and kept Healing it to provide men reasonably pleasant lives if they were truly skilled.

Nynaeve has worked a miracle.


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Nynaeve's new ability Sidious - 18/11/2010 01:41:38 PM 1507 Views
Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though. RandAllThor - 18/11/2010 02:19:06 PM 768 Views
Re: Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though. HyogaRott - 18/11/2010 02:59:17 PM 653 Views
Re: Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though. Datakim - 18/11/2010 10:51:02 PM 563 Views
Re: Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though. Voscaia Sedai - 19/11/2010 09:37:23 AM 502 Views
Re: Nynaeve's healing seems more permanent, though. Lordling - 19/11/2010 02:37:37 PM 544 Views
Training kills spontaneous innovation Lohikaarme - 19/11/2010 05:47:10 PM 451 Views
Re: Training kills spontaneous innovation Datakim - 20/11/2010 10:19:38 AM 500 Views
funny I was thinking about this just the other day and have much the same opinion darius_sedai - 18/11/2010 02:19:45 PM 749 Views
That's not my interpretation. Fanatic-Templar - 18/11/2010 06:14:02 PM 675 Views
Re: That's not my interpretation. Watcher - 18/11/2010 07:11:02 PM 516 Views
Even if we were to accept that as true... Fanatic-Templar - 18/11/2010 10:55:31 PM 469 Views
Maybe... fionwe1987 - 18/11/2010 11:18:08 PM 433 Views
Could be... Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 03:01:35 AM 448 Views
None. fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 03:20:35 AM 461 Views
As you wish. Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 05:24:29 AM 444 Views
We're told exactly the opposite... fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 05:47:31 AM 497 Views
Exactly. Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 06:02:52 AM 454 Views
What are you arguing? fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 06:50:58 AM 445 Views
Though I dread doing this, perhaps an analogy? Fanatic-Templar - 19/11/2010 06:16:30 PM 454 Views
You were right to dread... fionwe1987 - 19/11/2010 10:02:05 PM 487 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Fanatic-Templar - 20/11/2010 06:25:53 PM 466 Views
Re: You were right to dread... fionwe1987 - 20/11/2010 08:18:53 PM 541 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Fanatic-Templar - 21/11/2010 11:34:28 PM 572 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Sidious - 22/11/2010 08:36:24 AM 557 Views
Re: You were right to dread... Fanatic-Templar - 22/11/2010 07:32:04 PM 552 Views
I'm not really sure that healing the taint and the mental Restoration AOL Aes Sedai had are the same RugbyPlayingAshaman - 18/11/2010 10:01:01 PM 479 Views
Re: I'm not really sure that healing the taint and the mental Restoration AOL Aes Sedai had Datakim - 18/11/2010 10:41:07 PM 536 Views
The answers to your questions are all in the Big White Book and other characters POVs RugbyPlayingAshaman - 19/11/2010 04:11:03 PM 503 Views
Re: Nynaeve's new ability Datakim - 18/11/2010 10:27:47 PM 778 Views
LTT was correct. eucatastrophe - 18/11/2010 11:12:52 PM 676 Views
except, as noted, the taint was constantly reoccuring LadyLorraine - 23/11/2010 08:09:08 PM 394 Views
Hmm. I think we don't have enough information. Skeeve the Great - 19/11/2010 07:40:30 PM 518 Views
Lots of reason to believe that the Taint was much stronger straight after the Breaking Lord Haart - 26/11/2010 01:24:17 PM 446 Views
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