Cadsuane’s and Nynaeve’s ter’angreal

[Kahsm]

Women wore them as different ornaments.Presumably men also wore pnets that looked different - jewelled boxer shorts perhaps? .

Cuff links and a tie clip!

[Orderofolde]

To be clear, a paralis-net is a group of ter'angreal designed to be worn as a defensive measure. That being said there is no 'male version of Cadsuane's paralis-net'. Cadsuane's paralis-net, and Nynaeve's, were made during the Breaking of the World in large part due to the dangers posed by male channelers--RJ has even stated that Cadsuane's swallow won't detect a cross-gender link because in the process of linking a man has submitted to a woman, and thus in the context of the Breaking would not be a danger, and we know that there are several ter'angreal in both sets that do things Age of Legenders did not know were possible.

 

From this we can infer that Cadsuane's and Nynaeve's sets were constructed by women, to help women, in the specific realities of the breaking. No woman was likely to create such a set for a man, and even if a man out there tried to create something similar for himself, it would not be a 'copy'--and frankly I reguard the concept as unlikely, though they did make the Ways, so who knows.

 

so the logical conclusion is that (most likely anyway) Nynaeve's set is a later and more powerful version of Cadsuane's paralis net?

 

My guess--and this is strictly a guess--is that Nynaeve's paralis-net was made by a student of the woman who made Cadsuane's paralis-net. Cadsuane's is more elegent, but less powerful. Nynaeve's has more rough edges, but seems to have concepts from Cadsuane's taken to a new level, plus seemingly has a higher level of practical function. So yeah, my guess is Cadsuane's was made by a true Age of Legends Aes Sedai, who had the training and the experience to want artistry in her work. Nynaeves was by a student trained by that woman, but with the more rough-and-touble lifestyle that grew up in the Breaking, but for all that a woman who had more time to develop the ideas in play, plus more practical experience in the world at hand.

 

Certainly the guady over-stated nature of Nynaeve's jewellery suggests an attempt at emulation by someone who doesn't truly know fine jewellery.

In ToM Rand tells Cadsuane that he thinks her paralis net is a post-breaking version. He speaks of being there when the first male sets were made and told her that he had worn the first (pre-breaking) set for males. Post-breaking sets were different, they included means to break weaves, track male channelers, sense hostility and anger. We might call them improvements. Pre-breaking we lacked the DO influence so there were logically wells, means to sense channeling and find direction, an angreal, they didn't need armor as there really wasn't fighting or even an army until the bore was drilled. Ter'angreal ran machines, stored and played music, and slowly they changed to protect people from evil, and guard against the shadow.

[TristanWebb]

If LTT was there for the making of the first, it is probable they were made for the War of the Shadow. Aside from specifically detecting males, everything else would of been of use against shadow sworn channelers. I would say the first would contain most things Cadsuane's does besides probably saidin detection.