Re: This occurs because it is a sa'angreal
Rurouni_Kenshin Send a noteboard - 12/11/2009 02:11:23 PM
This is the first time I've seen the leader of a circle using an angreal or sa'angreal AND commenting on it. Egwene can barely channel because of the forkroot, but with the novices linked with her she says she's almost as strong as she normally is. When she picks up Vora's sa'angreal she says that she's holding a huge amount of saidar, and it causes the novices to gasp. It seems that Egwene amplified the combined force of the circle while it was entering her, so that she became enormously powerful. Before this I would have thought it would only amplify her own small ability, but it seems it did not. With the sa'angreal she said it would take a whole circle to shield her, so it wasn't a bad choice.
Brandon said at the SLC Q&A, in response to a question about whether the Choedan Kal magnifies the user's power, that "my understanding is that it is a reservoir of power. It is not necessarily a magnification. A very weak person with a very powerful sa’angreal is very powerful." So rather than magnifying the channeler's power, a sa'angreal seems to allow the channeler to hold a total amount of power. That is, a sa'angreal grants the same amount of saidar/saidin to the user regardless of the user's strength. In contrast, an angreal seems to magnify the power available to the user.
This would make sense given that Rand and Asmodean each got equal amounts of saidin from the Choedan Kal in Rhuidean.
Furthermore it give access to a self replenishing reservoir, otherwise it would run out eventually.
When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.
Egwene and Vora's sa'angreal (some very minor spoilers)
- 09/11/2009 09:09:18 PM
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Interesting point
- 09/11/2009 09:25:53 PM
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Maybe that's the greater difference between angreal and sa'angreal *NM*
- 09/11/2009 09:35:33 PM
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I think sa'angreal are so powerful that even with a marginal Circle, it created an awesome reservoir
- 09/11/2009 10:02:14 PM
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That does not necessarily prove the novices are affected - they can sense the amount of the Power
- 10/11/2009 01:04:10 AM
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This occurs because it is a sa'angreal
- 10/11/2009 05:13:01 PM
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Thank you. Your explanation is also coroborated by events at the Bowl of the Wind
- 10/11/2009 05:56:59 PM
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Re: This occurs because it is a sa'angreal
- 12/11/2009 02:11:23 PM
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That "mistake" is in character for Egwene. You have the dream ter'angreal wrong, BTW.
- 10/11/2009 01:24:14 AM
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Huh.
- 10/11/2009 07:21:21 AM
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I thought only one sa/angreal can be used by a channeler at a time, so no double dipping *NM*
- 10/11/2009 02:20:54 PM
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Re: I thought only one sa/angreal can be used by a channeler at a time, so no double dipping
- 10/11/2009 04:53:44 PM
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technically, it is an angreal and a ter'angreal, so not two sa/angreal *NM*
- 10/11/2009 09:32:20 PM
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Re: Egwene and Vora's sa'angreal (some very minor spoilers)
- 10/11/2009 01:44:46 AM
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Novices are likely to overdraw if given such a fount of power. *NM*
- 25/11/2009 08:35:10 AM
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