Re: Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
DomA Send a noteboard - 25/04/2012 04:11:55 PM
... just that I found it incredibly strange. From the columns we know that channeling is noticeably absent from Rand's ancestry in the patrilineal line, and from the Queens of Andor's relationship with the Tower and Elayne's status as first channeling Queen in however long, we can deduce that Rand also has no noticeable channeling ancestry in the purely matrilineal line. That doesn't mean he shouldn't be able to channel, as you point out, I just find that to be a peculiar choice on RJ's part since he intended channeling to be genetic.
But going back to the Seanchan it seems plausible that as they now enslave both channeling genders that they would have quickly snapped up many of the recessive gene pool and thus culled the ability in others rather quickly ... This to DomA's point above that it doesn't take much for a double recessive gene sequence to be erased from a population.
What is a bit more surprising is that it won't take long post TG for the channelers to realize two channelers always produce a channeler, and for channelers to favor such unions (conveniently, most AS and a great deal of Asha'man are single...). In fact, the White Ajah already deduced that, they just couldn't make anything of their theory (except for BA Whites sparking strife and dissent by bringing up the idea even though it was non viable, which Alviarin precisely did.. with Sheriam fuelling the fire by accusing the Red of culling out the ability and Verin also involved in the debates...) because they feared producing some male sparkers (a PR fiasco) and increasing the odds of male sparkers in the general populace.
But not long post TG the channelers will know, and facing the Seanchan as they do in Aviendha's version of the future, you'd think they care to preserve the channeling lines as a matter of survival. But in Aviendha's future it seems the BT/WT have not reunited either. For that matter, it sounds like the world isn't united for very long to face the Seanchan. Aviendha's vision is really like a series of missed oppportunities and bad choices, there's more to it than the Aiel resuming the war.
This message last edited by DomA on 25/04/2012 at 04:15:13 PM
Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
- 24/04/2012 08:48:40 PM
1495 Views
Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
- 24/04/2012 11:43:53 PM
918 Views
Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
- 25/04/2012 05:29:45 AM
1032 Views
The hair...
- 25/04/2012 05:14:52 PM
1036 Views
Yeah, that was bothering me too.
- 25/04/2012 07:12:31 PM
805 Views
Yup ... Suppose the Moridin body switch theory would explain the dark hair
- 26/04/2012 12:28:42 AM
845 Views
- 26/04/2012 12:28:42 AM
845 Views
Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
- 25/04/2012 05:57:02 AM
996 Views
Yes, I wasn't claiming this was a plot hole or anything...
- 25/04/2012 06:06:53 AM
931 Views
Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
- 25/04/2012 11:15:09 AM
968 Views
Re: Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
- 25/04/2012 04:11:55 PM
918 Views
Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
- 26/04/2012 12:26:39 AM
792 Views
Re: Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
- 26/04/2012 01:42:19 AM
1024 Views
I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 01:38:32 AM
1044 Views
I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 01:39:05 AM
1154 Views
Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 02:17:17 AM
815 Views
True, but the odds of Channelers having children with the ability are vastly higher
- 26/04/2012 10:48:00 AM
886 Views
But in that very revelation, Nynaeve claims that "mother following daughter was rare"
- 27/04/2012 03:24:21 AM
943 Views
Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 01:30:54 PM
816 Views
I believe there is a quote that the soul is only part of what determines the Channelers strength
- 27/04/2012 10:31:22 AM
831 Views
