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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...
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Question about Rand and Lanfear's battle before Moiraine's game-saving tackle, and other ?s _Big_Easy_ - 04/02/2011 01:05:56 AM 2048 Views
I thought of another... _Big_Easy_ - 04/02/2011 01:10:23 AM 1239 Views
The blue sparks are not necessarily the result of a power-wrought blade. Cannoli - 04/02/2011 01:59:46 AM 1373 Views
I thought that RJ had confirmed at some point that Thom had power wrought knives. *NM* HyogaRott - 04/02/2011 02:06:14 PM 731 Views
he may have, but it has also been implied that the blue light was because of something special/uniqu mazza3 - 04/02/2011 09:18:02 PM 1035 Views
yes *NM* Jim - 05/02/2011 03:04:19 AM 473 Views
Re: Question about Rand and Lanfear's battle before Moiraine's game-saving tackle, and other ?s Cannoli - 04/02/2011 01:52:55 AM 3306 Views
Re: Question about Rand and Lanfear's battle before Moiraine's game-saving tackle, and other ?s _Big_Easy_ - 06/02/2011 08:15:43 PM 1192 Views
You're misapplying practices. Cannoli - 07/02/2011 01:08:22 PM 1177 Views
Still disagree... _Big_Easy_ - 08/02/2011 06:11:38 AM 1106 Views
Re: Still disagree... Cannoli - 08/02/2011 11:58:19 AM 1081 Views
Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor? _Big_Easy_ - 09/02/2011 05:45:13 AM 1192 Views
Have YOU? Cannoli - 15/02/2011 12:47:39 AM 1361 Views
She doesn't have to overhear them to know that something is fishy Lord Haart - 21/02/2011 10:35:41 AM 1047 Views
There are ways of detecting a man's weaves. ˥ɐ ʎpu∀ɹ - 04/02/2011 04:49:55 AM 1138 Views
Some ideas Sidious - 04/02/2011 08:26:09 AM 1019 Views
No, I think RJ just didn't think it through, seeing as Rand sliced Lanfear's invisible weaves too... Shannow - 04/02/2011 11:42:38 AM 1088 Views
Re: It might not be that hard Watcher - 04/02/2011 12:20:02 PM 1143 Views
it's different Sidious - 04/02/2011 02:21:44 PM 1090 Views
So what stopped Lanfear from flicking him against the skull with a surprise club of Air... Shannow - 04/02/2011 02:33:53 PM 1174 Views
nothing Sidious - 04/02/2011 02:45:52 PM 1115 Views
Gestures and Weaves go hand in hand and since flows originate from the body you can logically darius_sedai - 05/02/2011 05:45:00 PM 1110 Views
In general, only third age Aes Sedai gesture when they weave - it's a block imposed by training. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 07/02/2011 06:20:33 PM 1187 Views
Not true darius_sedai - 08/02/2011 01:54:17 PM 931 Views
Your example proved my point - LTT only said that it was needed for certain weaves. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 08/02/2011 04:20:28 PM 1913 Views
Hmm... Sidious - 08/02/2011 05:38:13 PM 1049 Views
It's a flawed and incorrect given all the examples we've seen in the books. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 08/02/2011 08:36:32 PM 1025 Views
Verin could not see the weaves darius_sedai - 08/02/2011 10:16:56 PM 1045 Views
Also... fionwe1987 - 08/02/2011 11:35:20 PM 956 Views
Well, that's partially the point I'm bringing up. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 09/02/2011 03:19:07 PM 1011 Views
I disagree that the better assumption is that she set complex and renewing wards darius_sedai - 10/02/2011 06:12:07 PM 1165 Views
I never said she could - I said she sensed them, and felt the woman's channeling. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 09/02/2011 03:04:00 PM 1000 Views
I think this is the crux of the matter Sidious - 09/02/2011 03:32:18 PM 1050 Views
I think she had a ward to detect saidin, and when it was triggered, she guessed it would be Air RugbyPlayingAshaman - 04/02/2011 04:40:46 PM 1019 Views
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