There's actually a pretty good chance they aren't channelers, I think.
Joel Send a noteboard - 02/12/2010 02:45:41 PM
I'm at a bit of a loss to explain what they are unless the DO has been seizing and turning every male Aiel who runs north to "slay Sightblinder" when he learns he can channel. I don't really think they'd kill unveiled even then, but: Aiel Dreadlords; what a lovely thought....

Why not? It would certainly be a pretty awesome reveal for Demandred's position.
As for their twisted customs... the Shaido changed dramatically in less than a year (I think) so it's little surprise for me that the Shadow could twist Aiel so dramatically.
Finally, there's a chance that they aren't channelers, but are more or less indoctrinated to not feel emotion. If real world militaries can do that, why can't the DO?
That WOULD be a pretty impressive reveal for Demandred, and if we haven't seen him we probably haven't seen the site of his powerbase. Your point about the Shaido is well made, though even when they abandoned virtually all their honor they still veiled before killing. Of course, they weren't intentionally serving the DO either (technically we don't even KNOW these new Aiel are, though their arrival and actions amid an attack by the Shadow heavily imply it). They could simply be Darkfriend Aiel who answered a call to arms and found themselves in Kandor, mutilating themselves along the way (you have to admit, it's more distinctive and less likely to be mimiced as a false flag than red armbands are.
) That or captured and turned male channelers are the most logical and least complicated explanations for what are otherwise a new variable casually tossed in at the very end of the next to last book.
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The Turned Ashaman and Aiel - not 13x13
- 30/11/2010 10:20:07 PM
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Tarna's the only one we have a handle on
- 01/12/2010 01:39:28 AM
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The Aiel at the end are Aiel because they have veils (which they didn't replace before killing).
- 01/12/2010 02:01:17 PM
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Liah didn't veil in Aridhol when she killed some Trollocs.
- 01/12/2010 03:41:56 PM
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True, at that point she was essentially a feral animal.
- 02/12/2010 01:18:14 AM
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Re: True, at that point she was essentially a feral animal.
- 02/12/2010 11:08:16 AM
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There's actually a pretty good chance they aren't channelers, I think.
- 02/12/2010 02:45:41 PM
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Whoever she had been, she was surely no Aiel, not with that pale skin and /those dark eyes./
- 02/12/2010 12:34:46 AM
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"An Aes Sedai, perhaps. "
- 02/12/2010 01:59:32 AM
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The point is it doesn't look like an Aiel
- 02/12/2010 04:22:14 AM
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Perhaps the black eyes are due to something akin to the saa? *NM*
- 02/12/2010 11:12:03 AM
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Makes sense if they're Dreadlords, though, in a way, that would be disappointing.
- 06/12/2010 02:39:54 AM
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FIFTY quatloos on the oldcomers!
- 02/12/2010 02:37:19 PM
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- 02/12/2010 02:37:19 PM
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They did "ethnically cleanse"
- 03/12/2010 07:50:24 AM
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There's no evidence to that effect; on what do you base that statement?
- 06/12/2010 02:14:09 AM
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I suppose that means the guys who stabbed Demira in Caemlyn were Aiel too
- 05/12/2010 04:56:59 PM
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If these guys were trying to make it look like a failed AIel killing, they suck at it.
- 05/12/2010 06:10:32 PM
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Re: If these guys were trying to make it look like a failed AIel killing, they suck at it.
- 05/12/2010 11:26:52 PM
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Glad we're on the same page now.
- 06/12/2010 02:24:38 AM
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I'm not holding my breath that they are Aiel
- 06/12/2010 08:42:11 PM
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Seriously framed comments usually prompt responses in kind.
- 06/12/2010 10:12:08 PM
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Just pointing out that it's been a sure sign of shenanigans when RJ pointed to something as obvious
- 07/12/2010 03:52:46 AM
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I thought this was what it meant. Posted about it in another thread somewhere.
- 01/12/2010 03:12:19 PM
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