Query

[Just another pawn]

I'm sorry if this has been asked/dealt with before (and if it has can someone please post the link for me :) ) but how did Moridin see Aviendha unweaving the gateway in A Path of Daggers? As a male he should only be able to see saidin weaves. Is this a talent? (sweet talent would give you a huge advantage in a Power fight), is it a side effect of holding the True Power? Is it just a little creative lisence to further the plot by rj? Thanks for your input.

[algspkr]

It didn't close properly. Rather than rotating closed like a normal gateway it wavered out of existance. He made the assumption that she unwove it.

[Guest Majsju]

The gateway was of course immidiatly effected when Aviendha started to pick it apart. That's what moridin saw.

[RobertAlexWillis]

The gateway was of course immidiatly effected when Aviendha started to pick it apart. That's what moridin saw.

 

Yes, it wavered visibly while she was picking it apart, and then, rather than rotating shut, melted.

 

From The Path of Daggers, chapter 2 Unweaving, Moridin's POV:

 

He was about to turn away when the outlines of the gateway suddenly began to flex and tremble. Transfixed, he watched until the opening simply - melted. [skipping down] Nothing would make a gateway behave that way. Unless ... Could she actually have unravelled the web?

 

So there was a visible effect which anyone, channeler or not, could have seen. He didn't actually see the threads that she was picking out, he just deduced what she had done from the effect that he saw.

[chemteach1977]

And IIRC, he was terrified of the possibility. Partly because the "primitives" kept doing the "impossible." And also because of the unpredictable consequences if she failed. He could have been killed in an explosion or severed.

[Just another pawn]

Thanks :)

[RobertAlexWillis]

And IIRC, he was terrified of the possibility.

 

Well, at the risk of being picky, he was more pissed off than scared. His next thought, after the part I quoted, was:

 

Death held no fear for him.

 

Moridin, like the Dark One, doesn't like it when things aren't in his control.