Their channeling is so far behind, not because they are bad channelers (their expertise with what they CAN do suggests the opposite), but because their channeling "institution" - for lack of a better word - was built from scratch, in isolation. Furthermore, with no competition or market forces driving innovation, with the Wise Ones avoiding letting normal people know they even CAN channel, there would be nothing to make them innovate. Even the difficulty of life in the Waste is not much of an incentive, when the Wise Ones run around telling their people that they are there to be punished.
One of the big problems that the Wise Ones had before Rand showed up is that as a rule the entire clan only gathers for very very important occasions or for a clan war. In more normal times the Wise Ones don't get to talk with a lot of other wise ones on channeling technique. Like wise my understanding of the matter was that apprentices train under one or two of the wise ones in their hold but they don't take classes from all the Wise Ones.
That is bound to leave gaps in their knowledge. Think of it as going to university where you can only take classes from one or two lecturers and you only have a class of one or two with the nearest other lecturers in another town and you don't have a car.
All of this is moderated as a fault, IMO, by the fact that they do not see channeling as their job. In addition, given what they tell Aviendha about Wise One's being equal and all that, I would hazard a guess that they would prefer each woman find her own path when it comes to channeling, rather than develop an internal teaching hierachy of the channeling Wise Ones. The way they handle it keeps it as just another skill, like herbs or laws or what not. Some have a particular aptitude and they are given cursory instruction by others with that skill and that is that.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
Non Aes Sedai Chanellers - - Life span - - Aiel
- 01/12/2009 11:33:48 AM
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The Aiel were never AS, so they would not have known the AoL weaves.
- 01/12/2009 04:17:21 PM
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Re: The Aiel were never AS, so they would not have known the AoL weaves.
- 01/12/2009 05:13:47 PM
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The Aiel were effected by the Breaking like the rest of the world
- 01/12/2009 06:01:26 PM
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Re: Non Aes Sedai Chanellers - - Life span - - Aiel
- 02/12/2009 01:47:16 PM
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Re: Non Aes Sedai Chanellers - - Life span - - Aiel
- 02/12/2009 04:54:53 PM
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Another good point.
- 02/12/2009 05:09:16 PM
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