Damane don't need to have children to keep the channeling gene alive, sul'dam can also pass the abililty along.
then why does the White Tower notices that the number of Aes Sedai is decreasing year after year?
the Aes Sedai make few children --- the damane very likely make much less
the male channelers are hunt and gentled (and eventually they die) in the Wetlends --- they are hunted and killed straight away on Seanchan
So, again, while what you say should make sense, it actually contradicts what happened in the books. If the number of channelers decreases in the Wetlends, for the very same reasons it should decrease even more on Seanchan.
The number of channellers coming to the tower decreases.
As has been shown, there is no lack of strong channellers out there. They are plentiful among the aiel, the seafolk, the seancan. The Two Rivers was crawling with them.
The decline of channellers in the tower is due to the towers increasingly isolationist policys over the centuries.
This is clearly illustrated by the massive jump in numbers when Egwene orders active recruiting for the first time. They find almost a thousand novices in the space of a few weeks.
Same goes for the black tower.
Besides, if channelling is genetic, then nonchannelling siblings of aes sedai etc would be carriers. As would squibs.
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/Theory: Visions of the Future
- 30/11/2010 10:26:00 PM
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- 30/11/2010 10:59:43 PM
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- 30/11/2010 11:57:07 PM
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damane children
- 01/12/2010 12:46:05 AM
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Re: damane children
- 01/12/2010 10:04:51 AM
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- 01/12/2010 10:02:11 AM
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- 01/12/2010 10:13:42 AM
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wouldn't sul'dam live extra-long lives like regular channellers?
- 02/12/2010 05:34:39 PM
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The Seanchan are probably using leashed male channellers as damane too
- 01/12/2010 12:24:29 AM
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I dont recall - does it actually say they are still leashed? or are we only asuming? *NM*
- 01/12/2010 01:21:27 AM
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- 01/12/2010 03:21:40 AM
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- 01/12/2010 11:35:54 AM
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- 01/12/2010 04:23:54 PM
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In the Battle of Dumai wells, the Ashaman were fighting mostly against non-channelers
- 02/12/2010 01:42:47 AM
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The Damane
- 02/12/2010 07:20:20 AM
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The Ashaman's batting average against other channeler groups has been mediocre.
- 02/12/2010 10:05:51 AM
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- 02/12/2010 02:39:37 PM
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You forget that the Seanchan also know how to fight channelers with conventional forces.
- 02/12/2010 03:32:37 PM
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- 02/12/2010 04:04:36 PM
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I never said the Damane were better than Ashaman on 1 to 1 basis.
- 02/12/2010 10:59:34 PM
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Ya well I'm rubber and your glue :p
- 02/12/2010 05:48:06 PM
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