The Leafers

[torrente]

I wonder what will happen to them when Tarmon Gaidon starts?   

 

Are they allowed to support an army in any way?  Food, supplies, etc?

 

Poor Leafers.

 

 

[Fains nose]

The Tinkers will probably have some role to play, even if its just baby sitting children while the rest of humanity fights at TG. The Aiel who went back to the way of the leaf will support the Tinkers, and the Aiel who are servants, and gaishan who refuse to put off white will snap out of it and fight. I hope.

[Ozzie_aiel]

Drive the tinkers at the Trollocs! when they fall down and cower, they might trip the shadowspawn up :P

 

Just joking ppl!

 

not everyone will fight during TG, and I dont mean just the tinkers. I doubt seanchan settlers will be drafted, then theres the too young, the too old, the lame, anyone too far away and too isolated to be thought about.

 

Also remember that an untrained boy soldier poses a greater risk to his friends than to his allies

[Noreallyjustsomeguy]

I think the Tinkers will get to participate quite fully in one of the more enjoyable activities associated with the Last Battle, namely:

 

the coming post-war population boom.

[Ewandrina]

Maybe they will find the song and play/sing to all fighting.

[aunt_pol]

I'd say they'll run the crèche, the field hospital, general aid to the AS's doing the healing there, the food, and morale with all the singing and saucy dancing.

[Charlz Fel]

 

Also remember that an untrained boy soldier poses a greater risk to his friends than to his allies

 

Are you sure this is what you meant to say?

[aunt_pol]

Yeah Ozzie, guesin' your typing and your brain had a bit of a disconnect there!  ;)

[Durinax]

 

Also remember that an untrained boy soldier poses a greater risk to his friends than to his allies

 

Are you sure this is what you meant to say?

they would do more damage to allies than foes, they would be destroyed and be more likely to route which would kill allies moral which is usually what wins battles

[Ozzie_aiel]

exactly Duranix

 

Can you honestly expect a boy just handed a spear or pike to stand against a trolloc?

[aunt_pol]

@Durinax: We did know what he meant, we were just bein' smartasses in pointing it out. ;)

[RembrandtQ.Einstein]

Backward gypsies have a way of finding the short stick in times of war. They'll be eradicated or suffer horribly once the fighting starts.

[PatsNats28]

Maybe they find the song finally  ;)

[aunt_pol]

What's your woman's name, that was rounding up the frightened chickens sorry the Kin at the farm after they all used the Bowl of the Winds? Alise, was it? They should set her up outside Fal Dara, and give her all the Tinkers to help her. It'd be the best run battleground ever.

 

Or the majhere of the Stone of Tear - remember Thom thinks if they'd set her on the Trolloocs, she'd have had them out mopping.

 

Basically the Tinkers are gonna be sitting around waiting to help/die, whichever comes first.

[FarShainMael]

They'll be brought in to close the Bore by singing the Pattern whole. Possibly with the assistance of the Ogier.

 

[aunt_pol]

Eeeek...

[WolfTwins]

I wonder what will happen to them when Tarmon Gaidon starts?   

 

Are they allowed to support an army in any way?  Food, supplies, etc?

 

Poor Leafers.

 

 

I'd say they'll run the crèche, the field hospital, general aid to the AS's doing the healing there, the food, and morale with all the singing and saucy dancing.

  Are You sarcastic?

 

  I think that TG is something like a war. And normal people run and hide in times of war. And Tinkers aren't just "normal people", they are persecuted people.

  I don't remember something remarkable about Tinkers, like "baby sitting children", at the battle in Two Rivers.

  And because of the safety have Tinkers gathered near Ebou Dar.

  But..., maybe I make a mistake, in Almoth Plain hasn't come a Tinker's messenger to Rand..., ...Tinkers could have a council... - ...they could take a decision.

 

Edit:

http://www.encyclopaedia-wot.org/

Leya reports to Moiraine  on conditions on Almoth Plain. (TDR,Ch2)

[ravenfier]

ah when the last battle starts there going to take all the children to the se3afolk isle and baby sit them, then when everyone on the mainland has died humanity will be repopulated with passifics.

[Doselan]

Maybe they find the song finally  ;)

 

I agree.  I think this is going to have a huge impact.  Whether during or after TG, I feel they'll probably rediscover the song and the ogier and humans will sing life into the blight.  That's my guess. And perhaps the AS will make another Nym?

[aunt_pol]

To the tinkers, all life is sacred. So it's not at all sarcastic to suggest they'd want to help save as many lives as possible, in the biggest conflict in 2000 years.

[PatsNats28]

Maybe they could help heal (lower-case h) people?

[aunt_pol]

@Pats: precisely. Given Egwene's wish to organise ALL the channelers in the world, presumably under her control (hey, and I like the girl), I think the support services, so to speak, for this Last Battle are going to be somewhat prepared. That means some sensible kind of field hospitals, prob run by the Kin, as that's where all their channeling experience is, pretty much. It makes sense to have the Tinkers, as many as you can catch, minding orphaned children, running errands, helping keep the place clean, running the kitchens etc.

Every able body is gonna be snatched up for use. Channeling Tinker women are already AS, and no Tinker at all is gonna actually sign up to fight, but that doesn't mean they won't give what aid they can.

 

 

[Durinax]

I think tinkers are going to set up farms and such and foodstuffs are going to be their main addition to the war effort

[Bowden]

The Way of the Leaf will burn in Ba'alzamon's eyes!

 

Perrin is a dreamer after all...

 

and he has a beard like chuck norris so all your arguments are invalid.  :P

[Elend]

I wonder what will happen to them when Tarmon Gaidon starts?   

 

Are they allowed to support an army in any way?  Food, supplies, etc?

 

Poor Leafers.

 

 

I'd say they'll run the crèche, the field hospital, general aid to the AS's doing the healing there, the food, and morale with all the singing and saucy dancing.

   Are You sarcastic?

 

   I think that TG is something like a war. And normal people run and hide in times of war. And Tinkers aren't just "normal people", they are persecuted people.

   I don't remember something remarkable about Tinkers, like "baby sitting children", at the battle in Two Rivers.

   And because of the safety have Tinkers gathered near Ebou Dar.

   But..., maybe I make a mistake, in Almoth Plain hasn't come a Tinker's messenger to Rand..., ...Tinkers could have a council... - ...they could take a decision.

 

Edit:

http://www.encyclopaedia-wot.org/

Leya reports to Moiraine  on conditions on Almoth Plain. (TDR,Ch2)

 

Maybe I'm just misreading this part, but are you saying Tinkers didn't babysit the children in the Battle of Two Rivers? Because they most definitely did. They also nursed Perrin when he was injured by Trollocs.

 

http://encyclopaedia-wot.org/books/kod/ch12.html

 

Neald scoffs at the Tinkers for cowards but Perrin defends them telling how they protected the children when Trollocs attacked Emond's Field.

 

Frankly, I'd say aunt_pol's suggestion of what the Tinkers do to be the most likely, or I would if their hadn't been foreshadowing that they were a bit more significant than that.