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The point is it doesn't look like an Aiel moratcorlm Send a noteboard - 02/12/2010 04:22:14 AM
If it looks like an Aiel, lopes like an Aiel and wears a veil like an Aiel, in my book, it's an Aiel.
I chose that quotation because it's pithy.

Aiel have light eyes and light hair, almost universally. We have never seen an Aiel with dark eyes before. So faced with five data points (black and brown clothing, red veils, spears on their back, dark eyes which are glassy and hard, pointy teeth) one of which is disqualifying and only one of which is common to Aiel (spears), I say they're plainly not Aiel and another explanation is needed.

"Loping" crouched-over while reading tracks is an Aiel attribute? A unique one? Sorry, I don't think that's grounded in fact. Many societies veil, including the Taraboners and the Sharans, and Aiel veils are black, not red. Cadin'sor are tan, not black. What in the description of these "Aiel" (provided by someone who thought they were Myrddraal seconds earlier and "not Aiel" seconds later) is recognizably unique to the Aiel? Nothing.
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