So, does anybody else find it weird that neither Rand's patrilineal ancestors (nor his mother, as Andor's requisite training in the White Tower would have undoubtedly detected even the potential to learn) nor his descendants through Aviendha after the first über-channeler generation could channel? None of them have the inevitable ability, and in some cases (Coumin, Ladalin) it is specifically mentioned that they could not even have been trained.
No. Rand is a special case. I don't think that needs explaining.
*MySmiley*
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Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
24/04/2012 08:48:40 PM
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24/04/2012 11:43:53 PM
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Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
25/04/2012 05:29:45 AM
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The hair...
25/04/2012 05:14:52 PM
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Yeah, that was bothering me too.
25/04/2012 07:12:31 PM
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Yup ... Suppose the Moridin body switch theory would explain the dark hair
26/04/2012 12:28:42 AM
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Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
25/04/2012 05:57:02 AM
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Yes, I wasn't claiming this was a plot hole or anything...
25/04/2012 06:06:53 AM
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Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
25/04/2012 11:15:09 AM
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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
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Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
26/04/2012 12:26:39 AM
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Re: Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
26/04/2012 01:42:19 AM
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Answer to the first question.
25/04/2012 04:41:40 PM
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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
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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
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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
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True, but the odds of Channelers having children with the ability are vastly higher
26/04/2012 10:48:00 AM
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But in that very revelation, Nynaeve claims that "mother following daughter was rare"
27/04/2012 03:24:21 AM
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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
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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
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