The bell curve fits. It's a graph of channeler prevalence, not absolute strength. We should have mentioned that at the beginning of the debate, but I didn't know it until someone told me.



I think one should be careful here. Daigian is the weakest Aes Sedai, but quite strong compared to almost one third of women. It's important to remember that only a fraction of women become Aes Sedai - and it's based largely on strength. Other Accepted and novices are sent away, or fail the tests. Daigian is a capable channeler - she managed to pass the test for the shawl anyway, and that requires combat.

Almost all of Egwene's novices are considerably weaker than Daigian, and yet Asmodean claims that thirteen of them would overwhelm most men. Therefore, even if they had a strength of 1 each, and a combined strength of 13, it seems like the circle advantage is massive and can shield men of relatively high strength, much like the gateway with thirteen women is so large.



I wouldn't go higher than 50 with Egwene either.



Well we know that two can hold Egwene, and Liandrin is sure that three can overwhelm Moghedien. Moghedien is somewhere between Nynaeve and Egwene.



I've only moved Nynaeve up, not the rest of the Forsaken. BS pretty much said that she's a woman of incredible strength. She's stronger than most of the female Forsaken. Lanfear might be her only competition, though I think Graendal is too. Was.



I have doubts. RJ doesn't have much respect for high strength levels - he sometimes just shoves teenagers like Talaan in, and he's made men like Logain/Taim as strong as AOL legends like Demandred and Sammael. It wouldn't surprise me if there is only one level above Nynaeve and it's occupied by Lanfear, Sharina and Alivia.



It came up because of mathematical incompetence on both sides. The bell curve merely speaks about channeler prevalence. It does not display absolute strengths. Furthermore, outliers are possible especially when discussing the strongest people in the whole AOL who survived.