View original postA large part of what makes the Tower work is that it doesn't actually order the sisters' lives. There is the hierarchy and politics inside the Tower, but you don't have to put up with that if you don't want to, and can go about doing whatever vocation inspired you to become an Aes Sedai in the first place. If they started conscripting and assigning sisters, the politics turns in a whole different direction and there goes the unity.
Why would they need to conscript them? The Tower manages to find sisters to fulfil its ordinary functions - administrators, librarians, teachers - and they're not press-ganged into the work. Even if not every sister would be interested in doing a stint in a regional hospital, enough would be. And as the advantages to the Tower as a whole are so clear Sitters etc would be encouraging their Ajah members to volunteer, even if they disdained it themselves.
There's a similar logic behind opening schools and universities. The Brown Ajah would love it. I really think it just hasn't occurred to them.
Egwene's Evil Volume XIV: Towers of Midnight, pt1
- 23/05/2015 02:58:54 AM
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Re: Egwene's Evil Volume XIV: Towers of Midnight, pt1
- 24/05/2015 11:57:44 PM
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Because the sisters who would have to man them would not be interested
- 25/05/2015 12:43:35 AM
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I don't agree
- 25/05/2015 07:52:55 PM
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Well, that right there is the problem with the Tower in a nutshell
- 26/05/2015 02:37:46 AM
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Re: Well, that right there is the problem with the Tower in a nutshell
- 26/05/2015 05:56:38 PM
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