are you sure? my understanding was based only on my recollection. i could be wrong. could you find specific reference in the books perhaps?
Sheriam tells us abput it in TDR when Egwene is being tested for Accepted. It's 13 AS channeling through 13 fades
TDR
The Price of the Ring
Egwene had no need to count the Myrddraal. She knew. Thirteen Myrddraal, and thirteen Aes Sedai. Without another thought, she screamed in pure terror. Yet even in the midst of fear that tried to split her bones, she reached out for the True Source, clawed desperately for saidar.
and
Sheriam sighed, glanced at the other Aes Sedai again, then dropped her voice to a whisper and spoke swiftly. "This is something known only to a few, child, even in the Tower. You should not learn it now, if ever, but I will tell you. There is – a weakness in being able to channel. That we learn to open ourselves to the True Source means that we can be opened to other things." Egwene shuddered. "Calm yourself, child. It is not so easily done. It is a thing not done, so far as I know – Light send it has not been done! – since the Trolloc Wars. It took thirteen Dreadlords – Darkfriends who could channel – weaving the flows through thirteen Myrddraal.
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
13 and a Fade--SPOILERS
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Red Veiled Aiel
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Re: Red Veiled Aiel
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Those guys in the Blight are probably not Aiel at all
- 30/11/2010 06:28:43 PM
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mmm, but if they've been fiddled with, maybe their eyes changed
- 30/11/2010 08:24:42 PM
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It would be extremely silly
- 01/12/2010 01:14:23 AM
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I don't particularly think their Aiel either
- 01/12/2010 01:24:19 AM
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I think they are Aiel from a world reached through the portal stones.
- 01/12/2010 04:37:51 AM
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now that's an interesting thought. I hadn't considered that. *NM*
- 01/12/2010 04:45:34 AM
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It's 13x13. Not 13x1. *NM*
- 30/11/2010 09:47:06 PM
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Actually, it's 13+13. *NM*
- 01/12/2010 08:14:45 AM
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Actually, it's 13 =>13. *NM*
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Re: It's 13x13. Not 13x1.
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Here are the quotes
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