Question about Rand and Lanfear's battle before Moiraine's game-saving tackle, and other ?s
_Big_Easy_ Send a noteboard - 04/02/2011 01:05:56 AM
I just returned this book to the library, so I'll have to [closely] paraphrase, but when Rand and Lanfear are fighting,
Rand "channels a club of Air to hit her in the head" and she slices his weave.
This seems a bit improbable to me, given that women are unable to even sense that a male has embraced the Source,
never even minding the fact that they can't see each other's weaves.
I know if she knows where the weave is, she can slice it without seeing it [she tells Rand that herself],
but I find it very unlikely she would KNOW a club of Air was going to be swung at her head, when there would be no warning, as there would be with a ball of fire or whatnot, where you could see it.
I know sometimes objects made with Air appear silvery-blue, but most times the Air weaves we "see" are invisible, e.g. bonds woven of air to hold people.
I dunno, that just kind of bugged me. I know it doesn't do the plot advancement much good if Rand knocks her out; Mo doesn't get to get stuck in Finnland, etc. But it just strikes me as implausible.
While I've got you here, did anyone find it strange the Wise One's had such a precise dream about the exact date everyone would show up at Rhuidean from Tear?
How did Moiraine know it was Sammael ruling in Illian, when from her own PoV we know she knows almost nothing about most of the Forsaken.
How did she know it was Be'lal in Tear?
I had others I had thought of, but they apparently leaked outta mah head when I wasn't paying attention...
Rand "channels a club of Air to hit her in the head" and she slices his weave.
This seems a bit improbable to me, given that women are unable to even sense that a male has embraced the Source,
never even minding the fact that they can't see each other's weaves.
I know if she knows where the weave is, she can slice it without seeing it [she tells Rand that herself],
but I find it very unlikely she would KNOW a club of Air was going to be swung at her head, when there would be no warning, as there would be with a ball of fire or whatnot, where you could see it.
I know sometimes objects made with Air appear silvery-blue, but most times the Air weaves we "see" are invisible, e.g. bonds woven of air to hold people.
I dunno, that just kind of bugged me. I know it doesn't do the plot advancement much good if Rand knocks her out; Mo doesn't get to get stuck in Finnland, etc. But it just strikes me as implausible.
While I've got you here, did anyone find it strange the Wise One's had such a precise dream about the exact date everyone would show up at Rhuidean from Tear?
How did Moiraine know it was Sammael ruling in Illian, when from her own PoV we know she knows almost nothing about most of the Forsaken.
How did she know it was Be'lal in Tear?
I had others I had thought of, but they apparently leaked outta mah head when I wasn't paying attention...
Question about Rand and Lanfear's battle before Moiraine's game-saving tackle, and other ?s
- 04/02/2011 01:05:56 AM
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I thought of another...
- 04/02/2011 01:10:23 AM
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The blue sparks are not necessarily the result of a power-wrought blade.
- 04/02/2011 01:59:46 AM
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I thought that RJ had confirmed at some point that Thom had power wrought knives. *NM*
- 04/02/2011 02:06:14 PM
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he may have, but it has also been implied that the blue light was because of something special/uniqu
- 04/02/2011 09:18:02 PM
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Re: Question about Rand and Lanfear's battle before Moiraine's game-saving tackle, and other ?s
- 04/02/2011 01:52:55 AM
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Re: Question about Rand and Lanfear's battle before Moiraine's game-saving tackle, and other ?s
- 06/02/2011 08:15:43 PM
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You're misapplying practices.
- 07/02/2011 01:08:22 PM
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Still disagree...
- 08/02/2011 06:11:38 AM
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Re: Still disagree...
- 08/02/2011 11:58:19 AM
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Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor?
- 09/02/2011 05:45:13 AM
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Have YOU?
- 15/02/2011 12:47:39 AM
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She doesn't have to overhear them to know that something is fishy
- 21/02/2011 10:35:41 AM
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Some ideas
- 04/02/2011 08:26:09 AM
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No, I think RJ just didn't think it through, seeing as Rand sliced Lanfear's invisible weaves too...
- 04/02/2011 11:42:38 AM
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it's different
- 04/02/2011 02:21:44 PM
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So what stopped Lanfear from flicking him against the skull with a surprise club of Air...
- 04/02/2011 02:33:53 PM
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Gestures and Weaves go hand in hand and since flows originate from the body you can logically
- 05/02/2011 05:45:00 PM
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In general, only third age Aes Sedai gesture when they weave - it's a block imposed by training.
- 07/02/2011 06:20:33 PM
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Not true
- 08/02/2011 01:54:17 PM
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Your example proved my point - LTT only said that it was needed for certain weaves.
- 08/02/2011 04:20:28 PM
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Hmm...
- 08/02/2011 05:38:13 PM
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It's a flawed and incorrect given all the examples we've seen in the books.
- 08/02/2011 08:36:32 PM
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Verin could not see the weaves
- 08/02/2011 10:16:56 PM
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Also...
- 08/02/2011 11:35:20 PM
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Well, that's partially the point I'm bringing up.
- 09/02/2011 03:19:07 PM
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I disagree that the better assumption is that she set complex and renewing wards
- 10/02/2011 06:12:07 PM
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I never said she could - I said she sensed them, and felt the woman's channeling.
- 09/02/2011 03:04:00 PM
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I think she had a ward to detect saidin, and when it was triggered, she guessed it would be Air
- 04/02/2011 04:40:46 PM
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