And I think people are so quick to burn Egwene at the stake for this that they forget that this has been done before, for centuries - it is called being "Sealed to the Flame", and is a way to ensure silence and loyalty when given missions of the utmost importance to the Tower.
The same happened with the Sisters originally sent to hunt for the Dragon Reborn, info about the 13th Depository and other secrets.
Egwene basically set them a penance which demanded that these Sisters regain their honor by proving their loyalty - but she didn't want sycophants; she wanted them to learn the Aiel Way, where your word is your bond, not a Compulsion set by a ter'angreal.
The same happened with the Sisters originally sent to hunt for the Dragon Reborn, info about the 13th Depository and other secrets.
Egwene basically set them a penance which demanded that these Sisters regain their honor by proving their loyalty - but she didn't want sycophants; she wanted them to learn the Aiel Way, where your word is your bond, not a Compulsion set by a ter'angreal.
As DomA said, Egwene was merely reinstating their compulsory Oaths, which is loyalty to the Amyrlin Seat.
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Egwene - hypocrite
- 10/12/2009 01:20:24 PM
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Not the same at all really
- 10/12/2009 02:12:36 PM
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I agree.
- 10/12/2009 03:03:49 PM
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What crime? Accepting her unethical promotions? Being afraid of the Hall's injustice?
- 10/12/2009 03:51:05 PM
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But...
- 10/12/2009 05:54:39 PM
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She threatened, or made an implied threat, to reveal what they had done.
- 17/12/2009 12:11:43 PM
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Re: What crime? Accepting her unethical promotions? Being afraid of the Hall's injustice?
- 10/12/2009 09:08:08 PM
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It does NOT violate Tower Law, as Myrelle herself said, and Siuan admits.
- 17/12/2009 12:23:25 PM
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I can't decide if you just don't understand the books at all
- 13/12/2009 05:14:22 AM
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I have doubts about RJ's brain if he actually believed some of the crap he has characters spew
- 17/12/2009 12:26:52 PM
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Let he who has no sin cast the first stone
- 10/12/2009 04:34:06 PM
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Not really
- 10/12/2009 03:06:30 PM
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But what the Amylin said is law, like how she raised those Accepted.
- 10/12/2009 04:42:51 PM
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Re: But what the Amylin said is law, like how she raised those Accepted.
- 10/12/2009 11:04:47 PM
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No she was right, and even her blackmail, as reprehensible as that was, was not an act of tyranny
- 10/12/2009 03:56:41 PM
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Actually, I agree.
- 10/12/2009 06:47:22 PM
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I like Egwene
- 10/12/2009 07:08:24 PM
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That really disappointed me.
- 10/12/2009 07:29:14 PM
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funny, I'm more of the mind set that both groups were right
- 11/12/2009 12:02:50 AM
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Not the problem.
- 11/12/2009 12:13:26 AM
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I do agree with DomA and the others on the point that
- 11/12/2009 07:13:31 AM
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Re: I do agree with DomA and the others on the point that
- 11/12/2009 08:20:19 AM
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*shrugs*
- 11/12/2009 02:06:47 PM
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You have no basis for that assertion.
- 11/12/2009 07:12:03 PM
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They refuse to reveal the Ajah Heads to Egwene, despite her express orders. Doubt Meidani could...
- 12/12/2009 09:44:23 AM
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Ah, true that.
- 12/12/2009 07:20:04 PM
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Who said she wasn't wrong?
- 12/12/2009 09:02:55 PM
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Re: Who said she wasn't wrong?
- 13/12/2009 04:16:56 AM
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Re: Who said she wasn't wrong?
- 13/12/2009 08:12:25 AM
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Re: Who said she wasn't wrong?
- 13/12/2009 07:35:10 PM
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I agree with most of your point
- 10/12/2009 09:49:18 PM
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Of course she is a hypocrite
- 11/12/2009 05:22:56 AM
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The same can be said of Nynaeve and Mat
- 11/12/2009 07:20:47 AM
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Probably because they're all human
- 12/12/2009 12:43:53 PM
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- 12/12/2009 04:05:13 PM
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- 12/12/2009 04:05:13 PM
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