The Aiel are Warders

[lyonardo]

Or at least, the Warder bond is a form of the connection that the Jenn Aiel had to The Dragon.

That is what Rand saw in Rhuidean. The Jenn were pledged, and so tough that they could take a lot of physical violence and simply ask you why you were hitting them.

Their descendants who survived into the fourth age were tougher, and had much more endurance than normal humans. They still find themselves pledged to the Dragon after hundreds of years. 

I'd say that the Warder bond that the White and Black towers dabbled in are a pale, incomplete version of the bond those first Aiel had.

[mb]

The relationship between the Dashain and Legends Age Aes Sedia; "bond" to me is the wrong term for that.  Not sure what would be the right term.

 

"incomplete" to me seems more accurate with the Dashain relationship.

With the warder bond, both could detect these::

-the relative direction of the other

-the emotions of the other

-the needs of the other

The first two of those if the bond is not masked (depending on who holds the bond).

And with the warder bond, both get certain powers from the bond.

With the Dashain relationship, none of that stuff seems to apply.

[Mr Ares]

Or at least, the Warder bond is a form of the connection that the Jenn Aiel had to The Dragon.

That is what Rand saw in Rhuidean. The Jenn were pledged, and so tough that they could take a lot of physical violence and simply ask you why you were hitting them.

Their descendants who survived into the fourth age were tougher, and had much more endurance than normal humans. They still find themselves pledged to the Dragon after hundreds of years. 

I'd say that the Warder bond that the White and Black towers dabbled in are a pale, incomplete version of the bond those first Aiel had.

The Jenn didn't have a connection to the Dragon. The Da'shain Aiel had a connection to the AS in general - this was later seen as a connection to the Dragon, as the head of the AS, but that perception is inaccurate. I don't see why pacifism requires a supernatural explanation - people have the exact same beliefs in the real world, without the Warder bond. Also, the Chosen POV on the bond is one of it being a new invention, something unknown to them, not as a more developed (and it would be more developed, it's the proposed Aiel bond that would be the "pale, incomplete version") version of something known to them.