just a thought....?

[jaldy3]

This has been brought up before but with no clear resolution. Before crossing The Spine of the World, where did the Aiel get the wood for all the spears and arrows their warriors needed?

A consevative estimate of the warrior population is 750,000 across 12 tribes or clans. with each warrior carrying 3 spears and 2 dozen arrows.

 

 

This does'nt even consider the 1 foot of steel each spear needs.along with arrow heads, knives, and other iron or steel tools like cookpots, farming tools ect...

[Norm]

They allow peddlers to cross as well as trade with Shara.

[jaldy3]

They allow peddlers to cross as well as trade with Shara.

 

I am aware that they allow peddelers and trade with Shara. But could a peddeler

or trade with Shara keep up with demand. We're talking about ALOT of wood and steel. How do the Aiel pay? Except when they came across the Dragonwall to kill Laman, they have not been in the "wetlanders" world for nearly 3000 yrs.

There are no mines that we are told of, just a mention of a raw nugget of gold seen by Mat if merory serves. So what are the Aiel trading for all the wood and steel?

[rubbernilly]

If they have two customers, who are mutually exclusive from one another, they can make it work.

 

Buy silk in Shara, sell it for a markup to the peddlers.

Buy porcelain or books or whatever the Sharans might not have from the peddlers, sell it for a markup to the Sharans.

 

Somewhere in there that profit can be used for weapon material supplies.

[birtikidis]

plus they don't kill them so that's gotta count for something.

[scion9]

They allow peddlers to cross as well as trade with Shara.

 

I am aware that they allow peddelers and trade with Shara. But could a peddeler

or trade with Shara keep up with demand. We're talking about ALOT of wood and steel. How do the Aiel pay? Except when they came across the Dragonwall to kill Laman, they have not been in the "wetlanders" world for nearly 3000 yrs.

There are no mines that we are told of, just a mention of a raw nugget of gold seen by Mat if merory serves. So what are the Aiel trading for all the wood and steel?

 

Mat assumes there are mines.  I believe the readers are supposed to take Mat's observations as their own, and believe that yes the Aiel have access to precious medals, which they trade for valuables.

 

Overall the more implausible thing is the more than a million Aiel and virtually no water anywhere.

[Saguin Venart]

Sometimes fantasy books are just that.... Jordan was never good with Logistics. But its all about suspension of reality.

[Luckers]

This has been brought up before but with no clear resolution. Before crossing The Spine of the World, where did the Aiel get the wood for all the spears and arrows their warriors needed?

A consevative estimate of the warrior population is 750,000 across 12 tribes or clans. with each warrior carrying 3 spears and 2 dozen arrows.

 

 

This does'nt even consider the 1 foot of steel each spear needs.along with arrow heads, knives, and other iron or steel tools like cookpots, farming tools ect...

 

Just quickly, but we know that there are only between 300,000 and 400,000 algai'd'siswei amongst all 12 clans of the Aiel.

 

Other than that I don't see why trade couldn't supply wood for the Aiel. After all how many spears would one Aiel go through in his life? If he took care of them they might well last him his entire life.

 

And remember thats where all of the wood the Aiel get access to goes toward--with the exception of the chief chairs.

[Agitel]

Sometimes fantasy books are just that.... Jordan was never good with Logistics. But its all about suspension of reality.

 

I disagree with people's opinions on his logistics. I thought much of it was well, and people underestimate a lot of things about the world he created.

 

Also, we've seen that they can grow things in the Aiel Waste, and the Waste itself is massive, maybe 3/5's the size of Australia.

[jaldy3]

I guess it would depend on just how much fighting each warrior does. I could see a need for several arrows and or a spear or 2, every couple months.

Between fights and hunting I would think 6 or 7 arrows and a spear would be conservative.

I believe the chief's chair comes from the trading for sung wood at the stedding.