There was near 2000 of them remember, few of them in Ebou Dar.
Well, that's pretty much the opposite of what the Kin is all about. You misunderstand how it works.
Aes Sedai chase women who ran away, not women they put out. Those last they live in peace unless they pretend to be AS, harm the Tower's reputation or gather in a visible group like the Daughters of Silence etc. It's not AS they need fear, it's WC and village bigots who will call them witches and will persecute these women (which is why some kinswomen insist on offering their help to Wilders too).
They don't live in Ebou Dar and become Wise Women for all their lives! They do that only for a "turn" as they call it - those who can heal anyway. The rest goes to the Farm.
Otherwise they live all over the Westlands and apart from one another, doing all sort of trades, especially ones that get them not to settle too much and attract attention. The whole purpose of the Kin is to help these women get into these new lives, and avoid being spotted as a channeler/someone who barely ages, and get persecuted for it.
To avoid the fact they barely age to be spotted, they move around and change identity as needed. When she needs it a woman come live in Ebou Dar a while to 'disappear'. While there a woman adopt her new identity, a new life, learns what she needs to learn (a new trade and such etc.) the she goes into the world again. During their "turn", some serve as Wise Women, some are at the farm and those who are elders among those present in Ebou Dar at a given time join the Knitting Circle and run the affairs of the Kin until their turn is over (like helping put out novices/accepted, dealing with problems etc.). The Kinswomen in Ebou Dar keep rotating like this, all the time. A few new ones arrive, a few leave etc.
What they do in Ebou Dar is like their charity work. They do their part so the Kin continues to operate, etc. Otherwise the Kin is not even an organization as such. A kinswoman lives most of her life away from the Kin and Ebou Dar. Except those on duty in Tar Valon itself and in Ebou Dar, most of the rest are not involved in the Kin as such, just when it's their turn to be. They keep in touch with the Kin, after a fashion, a bit like eyes-and-ears, but that's all (Reanne said in ACOS that it would take forever getting messages to all 1800 or so Kinswomen)
By the numbers they have, twice that of the Tower, they do appear to get a very large part of the Accepted/Novices put out of TV in their system. A few must return to their families, but most apparently don't wish to, after being put out. Fairly few must refuse their help.
Because, it seems to me that it takes a specific kind of person to want to join the Kin.
First of all, you have to live in Ebou Dar. An... intense... city, to say the least.
Second, you have to want to be whatever their equivilant of a Wisdom was.
Third, you have to live in fear that the Aes Sedai are going to come down on you if you're ever discovered.
First of all, you have to live in Ebou Dar. An... intense... city, to say the least.
Second, you have to want to be whatever their equivilant of a Wisdom was.
Third, you have to live in fear that the Aes Sedai are going to come down on you if you're ever discovered.
Well, that's pretty much the opposite of what the Kin is all about. You misunderstand how it works.
Aes Sedai chase women who ran away, not women they put out. Those last they live in peace unless they pretend to be AS, harm the Tower's reputation or gather in a visible group like the Daughters of Silence etc. It's not AS they need fear, it's WC and village bigots who will call them witches and will persecute these women (which is why some kinswomen insist on offering their help to Wilders too).
They don't live in Ebou Dar and become Wise Women for all their lives! They do that only for a "turn" as they call it - those who can heal anyway. The rest goes to the Farm.
Otherwise they live all over the Westlands and apart from one another, doing all sort of trades, especially ones that get them not to settle too much and attract attention. The whole purpose of the Kin is to help these women get into these new lives, and avoid being spotted as a channeler/someone who barely ages, and get persecuted for it.
To avoid the fact they barely age to be spotted, they move around and change identity as needed. When she needs it a woman come live in Ebou Dar a while to 'disappear'. While there a woman adopt her new identity, a new life, learns what she needs to learn (a new trade and such etc.) the she goes into the world again. During their "turn", some serve as Wise Women, some are at the farm and those who are elders among those present in Ebou Dar at a given time join the Knitting Circle and run the affairs of the Kin until their turn is over (like helping put out novices/accepted, dealing with problems etc.). The Kinswomen in Ebou Dar keep rotating like this, all the time. A few new ones arrive, a few leave etc.
What they do in Ebou Dar is like their charity work. They do their part so the Kin continues to operate, etc. Otherwise the Kin is not even an organization as such. A kinswoman lives most of her life away from the Kin and Ebou Dar. Except those on duty in Tar Valon itself and in Ebou Dar, most of the rest are not involved in the Kin as such, just when it's their turn to be. They keep in touch with the Kin, after a fashion, a bit like eyes-and-ears, but that's all (Reanne said in ACOS that it would take forever getting messages to all 1800 or so Kinswomen)
By the numbers they have, twice that of the Tower, they do appear to get a very large part of the Accepted/Novices put out of TV in their system. A few must return to their families, but most apparently don't wish to, after being put out. Fairly few must refuse their help.
So... did all Accepted who failed the Aes Sedai test just become Kin?
- 02/10/2009 05:23:47 PM
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Isn't the Kin spread out all over the Westlands?
- 02/10/2009 06:07:34 PM
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I don't remember, but I doubt it. Too large distances to manage communication (without Traveling) *NM*
- 02/10/2009 06:41:26 PM
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No; many of them died.
- 02/10/2009 07:18:03 PM
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Really? I don't remember that at all
- 02/10/2009 10:18:19 PM
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Yes. She is Healed of her scars from the thorn bushes and etc after she passes *link!*
- 02/10/2009 11:06:47 PM
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A very large number of them, most likely.
- 02/10/2009 07:42:05 PM
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Re: So... did all Accepted who failed the Aes Sedai test just become Kin?
- 03/10/2009 02:40:28 AM
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