Unlike Elayne and Rand, for Gawyn, marrying someone like Egwene means his line will count as commoners (She has not a drop of Ishara's blood), no longer holding any power or able to marry any noblewoman, but that issue isn't even raised in the series - even Elayne is beside herself with joy at the prospect of Gawyn and Egwene as a couple (you would rather have expected, in a real world setting, that Elayne would at least have lamented the fact she lost Gawyn for a political wedding between the future First Prince and the daughter of a House with a strong bloodline, Norwelyn for example).
Since when all the nobles in Andor are required to have Ishara's blood, and only matrilineal descent counts for that? All those hundreds of years there surely have been plenty of commoners raised to nobility. Elayne made Birgitte a noble and she doesn't have any Ishara blood.
Commoners can marry nobles in Andor anyway, even the Queen.
Besides, politically her brother getting married to the Amyrlin is about the most useful marriage possible for Elayne. Sure, she and Egwene are already best friends, but an additional link doesn't hurt at all, strengthen this tie and makes the connection public.
This message last edited by Zeratul on 03/04/2012 at 03:01:09 PM
Bad Elayne! No biscuit!
- 18/02/2012 10:13:54 PM
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You are assigning your 21st century view onto people with totally different circumstances
- 18/02/2012 11:33:56 PM
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You are assigning your knee-jerk assumptions to my post
- 19/02/2012 03:29:02 AM
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As per usual you choose to assume the people of WoT have your belief system when you comment on the
- 19/02/2012 05:31:57 PM
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It has nothing to do with a specific system of morality, but basic natural law.
- 19/02/2012 11:26:13 PM
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Where were Mat and Rand when they found Domon? In a wilderness along the RIVER.
- 20/02/2012 12:40:38 AM
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Re: Where were Mat and Rand when they found Domon? In a wilderness along the RIVER.
- 22/02/2012 01:10:54 AM
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Just read the books. Including the BWB ... It spells it out for those who care to read.
- 22/02/2012 02:48:45 AM
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The Queen of Andor lost all authority over the Two Rivers when she failed to protect it. *NM*
- 25/03/2012 02:53:23 PM
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Which is why they elected their own lord
- 25/03/2012 06:25:31 PM
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Yes, absolutely. I remember saying this back when I first read the book.
- 18/02/2012 11:44:19 PM
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Re: Yes, absolutely. I remember saying this back when I first read the book.
- 20/02/2012 03:11:14 AM
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Re: Yes, absolutely. I remember saying this back when I first read the book.
- 20/02/2012 06:22:21 AM
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Re: Yes, absolutely. I remember saying this back when I first read the book.
- 22/02/2012 06:23:36 PM
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Re: Yes, absolutely. I remember saying this back when I first read the book.
- 22/02/2012 09:03:53 PM
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"Damn sister married the Pope instead of my chosen Lord Ohsoimportant"
- 25/03/2012 03:50:06 PM
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Nobles and Ishara's blood
- 03/04/2012 02:59:03 PM
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Okay, I admit it, there is no way I am reading such a long post about Elayne.....
- 19/02/2012 08:14:53 PM
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The Caraline treatment.
- 25/03/2012 02:41:12 PM
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Do you Colavaer Saighan? I don't recall Caraline having her lands and titles stripped
- 25/03/2012 10:44:57 PM
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I think she did an admirable job protecting Andor in very challenging circumstances.
- 11/05/2012 12:05:25 AM
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Re: I think she did an admirable job protecting Andor in very challenging circumstances.
- 11/05/2012 02:10:01 AM
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Re: I think she did an admirable job protecting Andor in very challenging circumstances.
- 24/05/2012 06:45:19 AM
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Generally, I think both her means AND ends were correct; reconciling them was the challenge.
- 30/05/2012 03:55:00 AM
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