Shadowspawn are corrupted versions of real living creatures - humans/trollocs, wolves/darkhounds, etc. They breed and create their own offspring, hence the word spawn.
Draghkar? Jumara? Any number of nameless creatures in the blight? Only some shadowspawn fit that description...
A case can be made as to why gholams might be immune to gateway death, but that would require them being an exception to a rule that no artificial life-forms (constructs) can travel. Rand only says that shadowspawn are affected, but RJ extended that to all constructs.
A point here may be that constructs can't travel through Traveling Gateways because even though they don't feel the sensation Traveling may be essentially an unmaking and remaking process, you are transmitting your pattern through the pattern. Skimming on the other hand might well be different because the gateway is transmitting you into a different dimension just like the Ways do. And shadowspawn can travel the Ways. If Mat and Elayne were knowledgeable they might have put an end to the gholam with a traveling gateway instead of a Skimming one.
An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 04:52:54 AM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 10:23:23 AM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 03:41:10 PM
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I dissagree
- 24/12/2010 07:09:41 PM
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Yes, RJ confirmed that Shadowspawn can't survive gateways. *NM*
- 24/12/2010 07:39:02 PM
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And then BS confirmed that gholam are "more perfected" Shadowspawn which can. 
*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
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*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
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Why would them not being able to survive a gateway be a problem?
- 26/01/2011 05:36:09 AM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 11:29:33 AM
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"They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 12:27:02 AM
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Re: "They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 02:05:07 AM
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They prepared a place, and it just happened to be within walking distance of the attack?
- 25/12/2010 09:44:34 AM
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Please re-read the chapter. It expalins a lot.
- 25/12/2010 04:05:50 PM
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Your quote shows what happened.
- 26/12/2010 05:33:44 AM
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Likely picked from a handful of pre-determined locations based on where and when the attack occurred
- 31/12/2010 08:47:20 PM
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Perhaps, but I don't think so.
- 01/01/2011 01:19:12 AM
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Not realty. Caemlyn is huge by the standards of the time but realistically it's tiny
- 01/01/2011 06:05:06 AM
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The sizes I proposed are not huge (well, they would be by standards in the middle ages but not now)
- 04/01/2011 06:37:50 AM
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I believe Caemlyn is less than 300k people .... That's what .05% the size of London?
- 30/01/2011 06:02:50 PM
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You aren't seriously comparing modern population densities to medieval ones, are you? *NM*
- 30/01/2011 09:23:57 PM
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That would be an error if it hadn't been Skimming (the platform and what not) they were using.
- 25/12/2010 02:29:39 AM
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It is an error because they opened a skimming gateway to the house (from the skimming place)
- 25/12/2010 09:47:08 AM
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I'm confused now as to what you're arguing. They knew the location of the house.
- 26/12/2010 08:54:17 PM
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You need to know more than just where you are going
- 27/12/2010 06:59:21 AM
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Please find me a supporting quote in one of the books.
- 27/12/2010 12:48:45 PM
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Well, from Encyclopaedia WOT, and aCoS
- 28/12/2010 01:02:42 AM
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I stand corrected. Though I will say that the uses in the books don't match the definition.
- 28/12/2010 02:17:43 PM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 12:22:38 PM
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