Pevara and co. showed the way to use the BA once you've got them. Bind them with new oaths of obedience. Remove the restriction of using the One Power as a weapon, put them under the control of the Aes Sedai and you've got a force that is completely expendable, but highly deadly.
The Seanchan are defeated, but certainly aren't in a truce with the Aes Sedai or Rand. Having them kept alive as cannon fodder to go toe to toe with the Damane if/when they next appear would have been sensible.
Or if you really do want them dead, send with a couple of minders who can Travel to Tarwin's gap and move into the blight with them ordered to destroy all Shadowspawn encountered - the minders stand back and Travel away once they are all toast. Let their deaths hurt the Shadow twice over.
With a couple of minutes that's two viable options. Surely Egwene in her almighty brilliance (using what Verin and co. handed her on a platter), could have thought a step beyond 'BA evil, die die die now now now!'.
The Seanchan are defeated, but certainly aren't in a truce with the Aes Sedai or Rand. Having them kept alive as cannon fodder to go toe to toe with the Damane if/when they next appear would have been sensible.
Or if you really do want them dead, send with a couple of minders who can Travel to Tarwin's gap and move into the blight with them ordered to destroy all Shadowspawn encountered - the minders stand back and Travel away once they are all toast. Let their deaths hurt the Shadow twice over.
With a couple of minutes that's two viable options. Surely Egwene in her almighty brilliance (using what Verin and co. handed her on a platter), could have thought a step beyond 'BA evil, die die die now now now!'.
After they died this way, what next? You are out of weapons now.
Do you recruit more DF channelers as your weapon? Should you convert non-DF to DF so you can bind them as weapons? Why bother with DF, you can be like seanchan and bind regular channelers using the Oath Rod and turn them into regular OP weapon. Or why not just turn them into personal army for your own glory and becomes the Army of Night, or why not just form a new BA so you can rule the world forever?
If you want people as your weapons, you MUST not treat them as expendable tools. It is evil. If the weapons know they will die and thrown away by you, they will just strike at you from the start, since they would die any way.
I thought our society has advanced enough so that veterns are not thought as mindless killing machines, but needs to integrated as part of society.
You treat criminals as criminals, and soldiers as soldiers. You treat soldiers with much more passion, and care. If you want the criminals to redeem themselves, and turn them into soldiers, you must treat them like regular soldiers and put as much care and passion into them as you would for regular soldiers. There is no half-way around it.
An open letter to Cannoli and the rest of the “Aegwenist’s" The Gathering Storm "SPOILERS"
22/10/2009 07:26:45 PM
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Well... this is a low blow, but funny. He can't reply if it has spoilers, can he?
*NM*
22/10/2009 07:53:16 PM
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Re: Well... this is a low blow, but funny. He can't reply if it has spoilers, can he?
22/10/2009 08:14:04 PM
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Why... Why...
22/10/2009 08:56:27 PM
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Re: Why... Why...
22/10/2009 09:01:53 PM
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Re: Why... Why...
23/10/2009 10:48:09 AM
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Just give in to it.
23/10/2009 07:15:50 PM
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Re: Just give in to it.
23/10/2009 09:20:03 PM
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Re: Just give in to it.
23/10/2009 09:35:37 PM
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holy snappin' crap!
22/10/2009 10:02:22 PM
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Which is why I always say it's better to rank possibilities in order of likelihood.
23/10/2009 12:15:47 AM
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Re: Which is why I always say it's better to rank possibilities in order of likelihood.
23/10/2009 07:08:26 PM
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Re: Which is why I always say it's better to rank possibilities in order of likelihood.
23/10/2009 07:40:14 PM
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Re: An open letter to Cannoli and the rest “Aegwenist’s" The Gathering Storm "SPOILERS"
22/10/2009 11:01:29 PM
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Just tell me a few things...
23/10/2009 12:42:38 AM
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Re: Just tell me a few things...
23/10/2009 01:05:02 AM
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Does this mean...
23/10/2009 03:04:22 AM
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23/10/2009 03:12:20 AM
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23/10/2009 05:40:40 AM
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I've not read it personally
23/10/2009 05:45:00 AM
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Re: I've not read it personally
23/10/2009 07:13:29 PM
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Well, I guess I got my daily dose of spoilers. And then some. *NM*
23/10/2009 02:36:21 AM
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Ruthless, yet ... stupid
23/10/2009 05:43:47 AM
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But that is the path to become BA yourself
23/10/2009 02:59:15 PM
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No, using evil against evil, is not being evil against evil-one is logical, the other Mordeth's path
24/10/2009 03:36:22 AM
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This is sounding like a Jedi moral argument from the STAR WARS prequels. Which is not fun.
24/10/2009 07:39:15 PM
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Bull!
28/10/2009 02:32:33 AM
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I would like some sort of statistical analysis
18/11/2009 01:11:21 AM
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Yeah, if anything the Aegwenist philosophers seem to be validated.
18/11/2009 08:46:35 PM
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