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think youre misjudgjng the benefits of the link. they dont have to add up to 90. Onarishma Send a noteboard - 07/12/2012 12:34:59 PM
Have there been any established strengths for Logain, Narishma, and Flinn? I'm on Knife of Dreams in my re-read, and it just hit me that Narishma is described here as weaker than Merise, which surprised me...though he's not reached his potential, yet. Similarly, I'd be interested to see where Taim ranks, as well. I always thought of Logain and him as being about the same level, but is there any credence to that assumption?

(If I had to make guesses based on my current feelings, I'd rank them as such:

Narishma: 20?
Flinn: 40
Logain/Taim: 80

Does that make any sense at all?)

Theorize/correct away.


We don't know much about Narishma and Flinn. Rand sometimes says how they are becoming more powerful but he says once that no Ash'aman is close in power to him (though they are both probably not at full strength). Flinn is stronger than Gedwyn and Rochaid, both of whom think that together they could fight as strongly as Rand.

He says later that Logain and Taim are close to as strong as him, so they're both at least on 90 or higher.


I figured that they were both below the level of Aginor/Sammael, and certainly below Demandred. The reason I say this is that Rand thinks of Taim as being close to his strength in LoC, and he didn't hit his potential until the Cleansing.

The thing with Flinn, now that I think about it, is that he MUST be stronger than 40. He's in a circle with two AS at the Cleansing, (I don't remember who, exactly, but I figure they're both slightly above average for AS strength, so let's say 20 each) and with the linking penalty, their combined strengths would still have to be above 90 to give credence to Demandred's thought that their weaving is as strong as his own. So maybe Flinn's closer to a 55? Maybe his strength is part of why he's the best at Healing that we've seen yet (which we know, at least seems to be the case, since Cadsuane considers Samitsu "the best alive at Healing—at least until the appearance of Damer Flinn" (CoT 671) and Cadsuane knows Nynaeve as well).
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I really hate to bring up strength in the OP, but thankfully it doesn't regard Egwene or any women. - 04/12/2012 06:01:45 AM 1630 Views
My thoughts - 04/12/2012 07:15:44 AM 1023 Views
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81 then - 07/12/2012 08:11:34 PM 644 Views
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you don't actually have to tell us all you are a bitch - 07/12/2012 10:36:25 PM 769 Views
*NM* - 08/12/2012 06:22:49 AM 625 Views
think youre misjudgjng the benefits of the link. they dont have to add up to 90. - 07/12/2012 12:34:59 PM 726 Views
There is also no why to tell if Flinn hit Demandred with all the strength available to him either - 07/12/2012 03:05:38 PM 729 Views
the "circle" was stronger but the individuals weren't *NM* - 07/12/2012 06:58:38 PM 469 Views
that's what I just said *NM* - 07/12/2012 07:23:34 PM 399 Views
that was not clear *NM* - 07/12/2012 07:43:54 PM 489 Views
*shrug* - 07/12/2012 09:25:00 PM 607 Views
Re: *shrug* - 10/12/2012 11:27:42 PM 711 Views
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whatever ... didn't think it was necessary ... and with that I'm done - 11/12/2012 09:16:03 PM 632 Views
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Re: And they had plenty of spies around him and clearly knew that he managed - 08/12/2012 05:34:54 AM 652 Views
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Oops, double post. *NM* - 08/12/2012 09:34:36 AM 491 Views
Re: About Rand's strength... an important quote is being ignored: - 11/12/2012 11:36:51 PM 701 Views
Re: Rand v Aginor - 16/12/2012 01:46:08 PM 672 Views
Not a bad theory and I've read it before - 16/12/2012 07:42:31 PM 624 Views

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