Verin and portal stones

[he who comes with a bong]

So i was reading the ebook version of the great hunt. I dont know why i have never seen this when i have read the regular paper editions of the books but, in one chapter Verin says that she knows of 3 portal stones one of wich is in the waste. She then tells rand that she has only been to one of them and thats the one in arad doman. My question is how did she find out about the one in the waste and when did she find otu about it, and was she lying yet again when she said she had never been to it.

[bsmnt23]

Didnt she say she was able to briefly question an Aiel about an image she had found in a book and that he had recognised it but refused to speak of it?

[he who comes with a bong]

ill have to look cause now i cannot remember for the life of me

[baalsmistress]

I remember a picture painted by a trader of Rhuidien that showed a portal stone

[Sharaman]

In TSR Rand finds a book in Tear with a description of a portal stone near Rhuidean. IIRC Verin doesn't reveal how she knows whatever she knows, of portal stones. Just states it flatly in TGH with a tinge of regret that she can't question "Selene" about her readings on the subject. ( That would have been fun indeed though I suspect Verin might not have survived).

[rand4747]

well Verins questioning involves a hack job of compulsion so not likely :P Its not one that can be done quickly or on someone who isn't vulnerable to it (trusting)

[1Brotherbill]

Aes Sedai know a lot about the Aiel but surprisingly they don't know about Wise Ones. Interesting.

[Suttree]

Aes Sedai know a lot about the Aiel but surprisingly they don't know about Wise Ones. Interesting.

 

Much like the Windfinders by custom Wise Ones have avoided all contact with AS so they can't recognize them as channelers.

[RandA lThor]

Aes Sedai know a lot about the Aiel but surprisingly they don't know about Wise Ones. Interesting.

 

Much like the Windfinders by custom Wise Ones have avoided all contact with AS so they can't recognize them as channelers.

 

I thought that the Aiel avoided contact with anyone too. The Aiel rarely left the Three-fold Land, and aes Sedai were not allowed in their, so I think that what they knew about the Aiel wasn't from meeting them too much.

[Suttree]

Aes Sedai know a lot about the Aiel but surprisingly they don't know about Wise Ones. Interesting.

 

Much like the Windfinders by custom Wise Ones have avoided all contact with AS so they can't recognize them as channelers.

 

I thought that the Aiel avoided contact with anyone too. The Aiel rarely left the Three-fold Land, and aes Sedai were not allowed in their, so I think that what they knew about the Aiel wasn't from meeting them too much.

 

Well yeah, obvs the Aiel don't mingle much but the part about WOs comes straight from the BWB...

 

 

By custom these women avoid all contact with Aes Sedai, probably to prevent the Aes Sedai from recognizing the channelers among them...

[RandA lThor]

yeah, but I think that it was more than just the WO that were keeping their distance. Their toh to the aes sedai might have kept them away.

[Bromo Sapien]

She probably got ahold of an Aiel during the War, which Wise One's wouldn't have been involved in. Wise Ones never participated in battle until Dumai's Well so there would be no reason to come.

[Sharaman]

Yes, must have been during the Aiel War if at all, or maybe in a stedding meet sometime earlier. Lots of people go to Chaendar (?) - gai'shain of WO, random clan members accompanying somebody who wants to have a bash etc. Maybe they wold speak of it since it is not Rhuidean directly. But she'd have to have either pried out a description of the locale and recognised it or shown the Aiel a picture.

[RandA lThor]

Yeah, I think she could just tell by the look on their face because they are definitely not allowed to speak about Rhuidean to wetlanders.

[1Brotherbill]

Are Peddlers able to set up camp at Chaendar? I can't remember if they were not able to got there. It would be a thing that would draw them though.

[TristanWebb]

Kadere almost fainted when he was told he was approacing Rhuidean, so I assume not.

[rand4747]

They are probably told they may not go there, if they do they wont return. and from the post above they know its called Rhuidean but probably not what it is.

[1Brotherbill]

Kadere might be an abnormal case being what he is. And the portal stone isn't in Rhuidean. In fact until Rand and Asmodean lifted the fog outsiders might never connected the two dots on Rhuidean and the fog. The Aiel were and are great at keeping secrets.