Slowing

[shortkut]

I remember someone mentioning or posting a quote that a channeler starts slowing when they start channeling. If Avi's kids were essentially born embracing the source, shouldn't they have started slowing as infants?

[LoLPoR]

No, no, no people start slowing after they reach a certain age and they've been using the power. The novices don't start slowing right away it usually starts after 18, atleast that was my take on it.

[Mr Ares]

Avi's kids are already an exception to the rules. Ordinarily, people only start channeling afte rusing the Power for a time, but ordinarily people only start channeling after a certaint age, so we don't know what the effect of channeling in early life would be. They apparently haven't slowed, but we don't know why.

[Nightstrike]

Normally they die when their apparent age is 65. Non-channelers die when their apparent age is 75-100 or something. If they live until they die of old age, that is. Maybe the slowing doesn't affect the maturing processe that don't have to do with cell damage? I think I've read that aging starts when you're about 15. Aging is probably a whole range of different things.

[yoniy0]

I think of Slowing as a result of OP use on the aging process. Something like the effect melange has in Dune. It wouldn't make sense for a person to mature any slower because of that -- this is a completely different (and positive) process which I don't see any reason for the OP to suppress.

 

Of course, this is high speculation.

[Knivy]

I think of Slowing as a result of OP use on the aging process. Something like the effect melange has in Dune. It wouldn't make sense for a person to mature any slower because of that -- this is a completely different (and positive) process which I don't see any reason for the OP to suppress.

 

Of course, this is high speculation.

 

So Im not the only one who thought of it that way :)