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Re: Some things to consider Sidious Send a noteboard - 10/12/2015 05:50:17 PM


To make a trend, you need a wide sample, with no bias. Our sample is based on Forsaken, who were the best channelers of the AoL, and the heroes who were born to fight them. Rather selective, to make any conclusions.

It's based on every channeler stronger than Moiraine.
He may have been unskilled in combat, but he obviously could use the OP to achieve incredibly complex genetic alterations. There is zero evidence for him being unskilled.

Or skilled. We don't know how he made his genetic alterations. In all likelihood they were made with machines or ter'angreal and his brain is to blame.
Based on? We come across their Talents more, because they are major characters. But we've seen plenty of weaker channelers with great, or even incredible Talents, and strong ones with no particular Talents at all.

The major character reply is a bit of a cop out. I agree we have seen weak channelers with Talents, but not many. Berowin, Sumeko, Androl.

We have also seen that more than half of the women who have been dragged into making cuendillar are Yellow ajah, and that the key is strength in Earth. Thus a whole cluster of strength in a flow and two Talents. Very skewed and not coincidental. Egwene is strong in all the flows and the Power and has a whole host of Talents.


Huh? You've never seen Nynaeve struggle? She doesn't practice, so she is quite unskilled. RJ even said that while Elayne and Egwene would pass the Aes Sedai test with considerable ease, Nynaeve would have difficulty. Talaan easily defeats her. Cadsuane says she is quite abysmal outside of Healing. Sumeko even calls her Healing clumsy, though that is probably only true in comparison to Sumeko herself.

Once Nynaeve does start practicing, she improves. But not before. There's no default skill because she's so strong.


Her problem was her block and her total disinterest in anything that wasn't Healing. As early as TSR she was a direct match for Moghedien in combat. Alivia also only knows how to destroy things with the Power but she picks up things almost instantly. Her ability to see and apply herself with saidar worried Cadsuane, which means that it is not a common skill. And then, of course, Alivia's ability to equal Cyndane's skill with an angreal is proof that strength by its self is a type of skill that can overcome channeling adversity. Which is why Siuan Sanche and Moiraine have used angreal and sa'angreal to Heal in the past.

We've also seen Rand split his flows more than ten ways and weave incredibly complex weaves without training, before Asmodean taught him. Yet he couldn't do much else. There is innate ability there, albeit uncontrolled.


Undoubtedly. But what makes you think this is weighed towards stronger channelers? We have direct evidence contradicting that.

We have trends that confirm that, and exceptions that prevent us from making a rule. I don't want to make a rule. I'm perfectly happy with "tall people find it easier to change lightbulbs but there are some short people who are really good at it too."
Since Cadsuane made the observation?

I'm not familiar with that quote.
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Then there would be some mention of it, yes/ fionwe1987 - 06/12/2015 08:56:10 PM 1352 Views
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This is a flawed list Sidious - 11/12/2015 05:14:47 AM 1275 Views
and you are just rationalizing to make your point seem plausible darius_sedai - 11/12/2015 03:10:12 PM 1410 Views
another point about Talents (unrelated to the Strength question) darius_sedai - 11/12/2015 06:06:42 PM 1476 Views
Not really Sidious - 11/12/2015 09:09:41 PM 1387 Views
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