It is a little odd. Maybe because channelers weren't united for a while?
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 03/02/2012 02:24:17 PM
First, it took a certain level of power to do.
Then the Breaking happened, and as far as I can remember, the world basically resembled the Isle of Madmen, in the sense that male channelers ran amok, while the females weren't organized, at all.
The Isle of Madmen really seems like it's the perfect place for "wizard-kings" and the like that aren't really seen in WoT. Isolated channelers, hoarding their knowledge, parceling it out to a few apprentices, using their power to rule, etc.
And Traveling is so incredibly useful that anyone who knew about it would be loathe to teach it to others...
On the other hand, we've seen how useless it is to try to keep that knowledge a secret- it's been what, a year? since Egwene rediscovered it?
Shrug. Author Fiat.
Then the Breaking happened, and as far as I can remember, the world basically resembled the Isle of Madmen, in the sense that male channelers ran amok, while the females weren't organized, at all.
The Isle of Madmen really seems like it's the perfect place for "wizard-kings" and the like that aren't really seen in WoT. Isolated channelers, hoarding their knowledge, parceling it out to a few apprentices, using their power to rule, etc.
And Traveling is so incredibly useful that anyone who knew about it would be loathe to teach it to others...
On the other hand, we've seen how useless it is to try to keep that knowledge a secret- it's been what, a year? since Egwene rediscovered it?
Shrug. Author Fiat.
I amuse myself.
This message last edited by beetnemesis on 03/02/2012 at 02:24:26 PM
How did Travelling become a lost Talent?
- 03/02/2012 09:09:39 AM
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It is a little odd. Maybe because channelers weren't united for a while?
- 03/02/2012 02:24:17 PM
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Re: How did Travelling become a lost Talent?
- 03/02/2012 02:49:02 PM
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Hey, why don't you reference ANY place in the series a character learns ANY weave from a book?
- 04/02/2012 07:42:43 AM
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i think it could be
- 03/02/2012 07:56:18 PM
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THANK YOU!!! Are we the only ones here who can see the obvious?!
- 04/02/2012 07:40:39 AM
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Re: THANK YOU!!! Are we the only ones here who can see the obvious?!
- 04/02/2012 09:56:48 AM
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Re: THANK YOU!!! Are we the only ones here who can see the obvious?!
- 04/02/2012 01:57:10 PM
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Have you read the Big White Book? It details some of the events that happened during The Breaking
- 08/02/2012 04:27:13 PM
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It's always struck me as a tool of the Author more than a good hard fact
- 04/02/2012 01:40:06 AM
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Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 07:34:45 AM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 09:48:52 AM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 03:04:48 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 06:58:41 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 12:00:05 AM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 04:05:57 AM
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I don't see why people are having trouble believing Traveling was lost in the Breaking
- 05/02/2012 05:53:32 PM
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Re: I don't see why people are having trouble believing Traveling was lost in the Breaking
- 05/02/2012 07:39:51 PM
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My point was that it's surprising only ONE Healing weave survived
- 11/02/2012 08:25:02 PM
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Re: I don't see why people are having trouble believing Traveling was lost in the Breaking
- 05/02/2012 09:11:04 PM
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I agree. I was going to respond but you covered most of the bases.
- 08/02/2012 04:13:20 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 09:52:35 PM
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You really need to read the BWB sections regarding this
- 14/02/2012 01:20:20 AM
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he needs to read it just to see it for his own eyes
- 14/02/2012 02:46:44 AM
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Re: he needs to read it just to see it for his own eyes
- 14/02/2012 10:15:46 PM
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I would agree with you on less structured parts of the series
- 15/02/2012 03:38:37 PM
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Re: I would agree with you on less structured parts of the series
- 16/02/2012 09:41:29 PM
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That I can agree with
- 17/02/2012 05:46:49 AM
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Re: That I can agree with
- 17/02/2012 09:26:50 AM
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Seriously! The Yellow should be ashamed
- 17/02/2012 01:49:07 PM
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Well to be fair to the Yellow (which generally annoy me as an Ajah)...
- 17/02/2012 06:20:06 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 09:02:28 PM
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Why would the AoL Servants of All build themselves a self-aggrandizing island-city-fort-tower?
- 08/02/2012 03:03:49 PM
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Re: Why would the AoL Servants of All build themselves a self-aggrandizing island-city-fort-tower?
- 09/02/2012 10:38:23 PM
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Re: Why would the AoL Servants of All build themselves a self-aggrandizing island-city-fort-tower?
- 11/02/2012 07:58:40 PM
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The White Tower began construction in 98 AB. Go read the section in the BWB
- 12/02/2012 01:48:58 AM
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The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Wills. *NM*
- 06/02/2012 02:38:36 AM
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I wonder if it'd possible to open gateways based on the memories of a previous incarnation? *NM*
- 07/02/2012 09:56:25 PM
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except for Rand/LTT and Birgitte, I get the impression that people don't have memories of past lives *NM*
- 08/02/2012 02:38:00 AM
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