So can someone give me the chapter where it's all explained?

As readers we should begin suspecting it as soon as TSR, when it's made clear that the WO channel all their lives without ever gaining that look.

The part about their life expectancies is spelled out by Nynaeve in WH10, but again we should suspect it earlier, when we learn for ourselves the ages the Kin live to. WO tend to live shorter lives because the waste is such a harsh place.

I don't think the 'harsh place' has much sway with the life expectancy...

The WO don't actually talk much about their age, so the ones that can channel can actually be hundreds of years old.

And Alivia is 400+ years old, and if you want to talk about harsh treatment or environment(I think she saw hundreds of battles), she can be a prime example.

Edit.

@Leyrann

Thanks for the answer. I wasn't considering that. Drat, I have to restart from scratch. And put my hands on those interviews to be on the safe side.

I thought the first Bubble of Evil was in Tear(all three at once). I know you are probably right about the answer, but I still have my doubts. For one, it wasn't...truly evil, Lan(which had a close encounter with a wave of air in NS) brushed it off and Moiraine didn't even mentions the thing, until a couple of books later.

But if RJ names it so, Bubble of Evil it is.

K, another question related to this:

What will they do about suldam, since now, with the forkroot testing, every the women(or man) that can channel, sparks or no sparks, are being outed out?

Since the adam works on suldam, forkroot will work as well, right?

They'll have too many damane and not a single suldam to control them. Poor Seachan.

Question 2.

I'm on another re-read and I'm trying to look all things from more than one angle. Until now, I was under the impression that DF stopped Rand from leaving Fal Dara, but now, after reading again the sparring incident with Lan(which I thought was the hand of the BA), it jumped at me that Moiraine was the only AS in town(the rest came a little later, and the BJ didn't knew who he was, just that they had to watch them).

Was Moraine the one that tried to wound him so bad that he was forced to stay there? Lan would have said something if he suspected BA, at least a vague warning to keep them on their toes. But he does absolutely nothing(well, he gives him advice later, but..).

Was it Moiraine?

actually, makes me wonder why couldn't someone just Heal Verin straight up? would that action trigger the "Oath Seizures"?

Since Siuan(low in power, Blue Ajah) managed to heal Bryne when he was poisoned by the Seachan ninja assassin, Egwene could have asked for some help, after moving her to another location.

I think Verin thought about that, but couldn't tell her because that would have nullify the last hour thing.

Maybe she made the "Oath Rod" comment so that Egwene could see she wanted to live, by using the rod or other mean(healing, etc).

Since it would been another's ideea, I don;t think they would have problems with the 'oaths seizures'. Since the DO was sure they can't betray him, I don't see why he would put a late activation kill switch in case someone managed to betray him.

Alas, no such luck. But by dying, her sacrifice had more meaning, unlike another fake self sacrifice I could add here.

I would have thought they could create a Travelling ter'angreal of some kind (you know, like a stargate or something). But the glimpses we get from the AOL suggest that that's not possible, as people only seem to be able to Travel if an Aes Sedai takes them along. You'd think they would have created such a ter'angreal if it was possible. Too bad, really!

I think Aviendha and Elayne can work something up if they work together.

After all, they did managed several things that weren't in the AoL.

Aiel Blademaster, on 07 September 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

 

 

But he discards everything and only thinks about the plow as a big step in the future. He really is a sheepherder.

 

 

Agriculture really does go to the heart of what makes us civilized. I can understand his reasoning easily enough.

 

Agriculture is the foundation for society and economy. Nomads are the only people who do not have an agricultural foundation, and they cannot advance in any meaningful way due to the sheer amount of effort being put into finding food.

Who needs flying and trains/cars?

I wasn't saying it's not important. It is. I'm saying he didn't put any thought in the others, although his incursions in the past(Aiel) and LTT's memories could have hinted to those. It seemed a little funny at the time I read that part. But he didn't stopped the research on the others either, so all is good in Randland.

Since I have first-hand experience with a plow and how one is used, I'll tell you that it will be extremely hard to use one of those without a large number of horses to pull it(they are attached to tractors). But they can merge the plow with that locomotive they already have and problem solved.

In LoC, Rand visits the school in Carhien in "A Taste of Solitude" to check on its progress. He thinks that a new type of plow that's being developed would be a good idea, and that he should tell Idrien to build it. But per one of Moraine's suggestions, he realizes he should go through proper channels and tell Berelain to tell Idrien to build it, unless he wants to undercut her.

 

Anyone notice that he promptly disregards that advice a paragraph or two later when he tells Kin Tovere to build his telescope? Maybe Rand likes Tovere enough to risk it, or perhaps this is just an RJ miss? Either way I thought it was amusing.

What I thought to be amusing were the other discoveries he discarded.

One was working on combustion for a locomotive.

Another was very close to make the first airplane/glider.

But he discards everything and only thinks about the plow as a big step in the future. He really is a sheepherder. And I think he had some of LTT memories at the time. And those Aiel memories of Jo-Cars. Sometimes, the girls are right. They really have to eliminate ten years to have the real age of a man.

He already worked with Tovere in the past, and he knew that it was a feasible idea. The plow was still a prototype.

Actually, as we mention from time to time, a Talent is something only a channeler can have. So Perrin isn't a Dreamerwalker per se, although he can indeed enter TAR at will (if not quite as easily as Egwene does) as a wolfbrother.

Dreaming, on the other hand, is the Talent of having prophetic dreams, which he doesn't have for more than technical reasons (he does see visions in TAR, but that's not the same).

 

Bair cannot channel, yet she is still considered a Dreamwalker. I've never seen it claimed before that 'Talent' only applies to channeling.

 

-- dwn

Some AS seem to think it is a Talent. You know how they are...

But the wolves are the real masters of the TaR, and they were from the dawn of time, when OP wasn't even used.

So Perrin(wolfbrother)>any other Dreamwalker(after he will complete his training, of course).