What part of "keeping an eye on" suggests action or interference?
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 22/01/2010 01:38:52 PM
What you are claiming is that these Sisters were in some way influencing Elayne's taking of the Lion Throne, but she did that with zero contact with any of those women! Show me any quote that they were doing anything outside of scheming for personal gain within the AS hierarchy and I'll believe it.
And if Elayne's situation was ever in serious trouble, they might have done something to preserve their Aes Sedai ruler. If she lost, they might have stepped in to make sure whoever defeated her was still under the Tower's thumb. Absolutely WHAT in everything we have seen about Aes Sedai makes you think they would, or even COULD act? Don't forget, Aes Sedai are forbidden from interfering with one another in public. As long as there was another sister in the Palace with Elayne, they could not approach her without the possibility of trespassing on someone else's turf.
I am not presuming to say they were there because that was their highest agenda. But even if they simply thought that due to the succession issues, it was a good place to wait out the Tower conflict, they still had the moral high ground over those who gathered an army and marched on Tar Valon, or sat back and allowed the Amyrlin to trample over sister's rights.
Cannoli
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- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
Was Egwene wrong to berate both Halls after the reunification?
- 12/01/2010 05:13:59 PM
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She was right, as long as she never mentions it again
- 12/01/2010 05:19:38 PM
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I didn't expect it, but it was absolutely the right thing for her to do.
- 12/01/2010 06:13:42 PM
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She was absolutely right and I love to hear good beratings.
- 12/01/2010 06:49:56 PM
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Like you'd say anything else. *NM*
- 13/01/2010 04:22:13 AM
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Like you'd say anything else. *NM*
- 13/01/2010 04:22:13 AM
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If the berating sucked, I would have complained. But it was pretty good to hear/read. *NM*
- 13/01/2010 04:33:29 PM
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Re: Was Egwene wrong to berate both Halls after the reunification?
- 12/01/2010 06:58:40 PM
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Reasonable in terms of power politics, but still somewhat deceitful.
- 12/01/2010 07:06:33 PM
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Re: Was Egwene wrong to berate both Halls after the reunification?
- 12/01/2010 07:20:30 PM
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I doubt it.
- 12/01/2010 09:58:40 PM
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It was a political move. It was the right political move, but not "morally" right.
- 12/01/2010 08:03:27 PM
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It was very clear where her sympathies lie. A lot of it was superficial.
- 12/01/2010 10:41:09 PM
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She didn't mention/berate the 300+ AS who ignored this whole facade of a plotline.
- 13/01/2010 01:27:02 AM
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it's not like they were there to berate! *NM*
- 13/01/2010 04:10:49 AM
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Wait until they come back and she slams them for "ignoring the Tower in its hour of need." *NM*
- 13/01/2010 04:20:55 AM
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She should
- 13/01/2010 04:22:13 AM
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They probably had more important matters than the privileges of a tiny group of powerful women.
- 14/01/2010 12:11:04 AM
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right, they were very very busy doing a whole lot of nothing
- 14/01/2010 12:13:06 AM
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Keeping an eye on the transition between rulers of the most powerful country IS more important
- 18/01/2010 12:19:17 PM
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they've been coming and going for months ... with no indication of what they are really up too
- 19/01/2010 06:24:27 AM
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What part of "keeping an eye on" suggests action or interference?
- 22/01/2010 01:38:52 PM
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It depends what she does next. It was really a tactical thing and politics can excuse the hypocrisy
- 13/01/2010 04:20:06 AM
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