Asha'man Shar'aman
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1 hour ago, Wolfbrother31 said:
I'll let @Illian Tear or @Lavandula take the first crack at this one. Though I think I have the answer the shadowy part of the tower is really getting crushed this month.
Yeah. I thought the Light would be getting crushed, since we are so few compared to the Shadow.
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2 hours ago, SinisterDeath said:
I really need to re-read these specific chapters.
One thought I have is maybe the connection the weapon has to the user is important? E.g. are they actively holding it? Is it "there" weapon, or a newly obtained one that they don't really feel ownership of?Well, in the SR, Perrin had the axe, which attacked him, and in ToM, he had his base hammer, not Mah’allinir.
Everyone else’s weapons attacked them, regardless of how long they had had them, so I don’t think ownership is the case, but an interesting thought!
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On 6/24/2021 at 8:12 AM, Wolfbrother31 said:
@Asha'man Shar'aman Yes. You are correct. That is Verin Sedai.
I like that idea - I didn't think I had the authority (to give individuals in the BT points) though - so if that can be done as part of the game- I think that's a great way to encourage participation.
Hey. I’m really sorry I’ve been absent for a couple days. Life just hit pretty hard this week, and I had to take care of some things. I’ll try to post that I’ll be gone in the future.
When in doubt, it’s always better to air on the side of caution. So the way it normally works, is the person who started the game is given ten points, and if they state in the rules that you get points for doing this in the game, and the points are within reason, people will get points. If the points are unreasonable, then chances are a FL or Mod will tell you to make them reasonable.
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On 6/18/2021 at 12:05 PM, SinisterDeath said:
Check the link I posted in this topic.
As far as Ranks on DM, we're still playing around with naming them, how many "points" are needed to gain ranks, and how points are generated. (Same goes with the Badge system)
On the flip side, if anyone has any suggestions for naming ranks, or types of badges, feel free to post them!
I totally forgot I hadn’t replied to this. Sorry, SD. Perhaps we could name the ranks after WoT things? For example, maybe the lowest rank could be novice or sheepherder. Then you can move up, making the rank names progressively more powerful until you reach Asha’man or something of equivalent power?
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1 hour ago, Hayl3y said:
She's very high on my list XD
She must be soooo patient lol
@Skelos oooh nice once O.O
Even though I'm a bit curious, I have never eaten /tasted rhubarb ?My grand parents grew some in their garden but my little brother used to *erm* empty his bladder on them. I never dared to try because of that ?
No kidding! I have a friend like that who is basically Pepper with all of my nerd ranting. So glad I have them.
My dad would make rhubarb pie. It is definitely worth a try, if you ever find some, but I don’t blame you for not wanting to try before!!!
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23 hours ago, Wolfbrother31 said:
Sorry it took me so long to get the next one going - I was on a long trip & didn't have my computer just my phone! But here we go for the next character. Shadow faction - ya'll better step it up. @Illian Tear needs to rally his men (and women Asha'man?)!
Don’t worry about! Before I answer, here’s a thought, Wolfbrother. What if at the end of the month, which ever Faction had the most pints, everyone who participated in the game from that Faction got said number of pints? For example, what if the Shadow won with 10 points. Then everyone who participated would get that many points as part of the game. Thoughts?
Also, that character is Verin.
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8 hours ago, Elgee said:
I think Pepper would go for a Flaming Ferrari. I mean, she loves Tony Stark ?
Is Pepper a favorite character?
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7 hours ago, Wolfbrother31 said:
This is another really good one - but since I did listen to half of TSR on my trip ... I'm pretty sure it's Siuan Sanche! Am I right? @Asha'man Shar'aman?
You got it!!! Way to go, Wolfbrother!
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6 hours ago, Hayl3y said:
Found it ! The iron man cocktail ?
2oz Grenadine
2oz Drambuie (- i have no idea what that is XD)
4oz Orange Juice
2oz Scotch
That totally looks like something Stark would drink. Nice!
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33 minutes ago, Hayl3y said:
Davy Jones was a pretty cool antagonist ?
I have heard that Disney's working on a new one... I wonder what they have in store for us O.O
He was. Barbosa was more interesting, in my opinion, but DJ was still cool.
Ooo! I hadn’t heard that. Hopefully it’s going to be good!
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37 minutes ago, Hayl3y said:
For Iron Man, you'd need a little umbrella or something alike to pimp the drink XD
Scotch sounds quite good for him ! And nothing too sweet...
I saw this one for the Hulk and found it quite fitting - the sweet berries hidden deep inside ?
Yeah, you probably do. Definitely if this is pre Mark one.
Yeah, that works great for Hulk! Awesome!
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9 hours ago, Hayl3y said:
For beaches, I could talk about the Pirates of Caribbean... but I watched these movies so many times that I got a bit tired of them ?
The first one was very cool, the first time I saw it lol
Pirates of the Caribbean is great. The first movie was probably the best, but I still love the "I've got a jar of dirt!" from the third? one.
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What kind of cocktails do you think would represent some of your favorite heroes? These could be DC heroes, Marvel heroes, or any kind of heroes really. Post a pic, or give a description, and let's discuss!
I imagine that Tony Stark would go for something flashy, so maybe a flaming drink. He had been seen drinking single-malt scotch a couple times, so that might be his drink of choice, but I can totally see him going for something epic too.
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On 6/18/2021 at 6:20 PM, Wolfbrother31 said:
I cant until after my road trip. So @Asha'man Shar'aman should go again!
Okay!
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2 hours ago, SinisterDeath said:
Huh, I wonder how many others even caught that small detail.
I dunno if that makes him immune to Bubbles of Evil. Perhaps his Ta'vareness protected him in this one instance?I can't recall, was this before or after one of his bouts with Slayer running in and out of T'A'R?
Probably not many. Of course, there are so many things I must have missed, so it’s not like I’m better in any way or anything like that.
Why didn’t it protect him when the same bubble of evil attacked him the first time? Or why didn’t it protect Rand?
He had already fought Slayer in TAR, but not in the flesh yet like I heard he does in aMoL.
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@SinisterDeath, do you know what is up with the new rank system? How do you get points? What exactly do the ranks mean? Not sure, and I couldn't find the info elsewhere. Thanks.
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On 6/16/2021 at 2:59 PM, SinisterDeath said:
I know he was channeling the "weaves" to make it happen. The problem stems from his inability to see what he was doing. It just happened. We assume that weaves are an exact science, but I rarely see anyone question whether wanting/willing something to happen with the One Power, causes the weave to form, and then those that can see what they're doing can copy that weave.
Imagine that cross-stitching example. Rand just does all that blindfolded. But what would have happened if Logain had been around to see what Rand was doing? He'd "see" the weaves, and would be able to replicate it.I still think it's more of an instinctual thing. Kind of like how you already know how to breathe when you are born, or how to eat. You just get better at it the more you practice. And even if it isn't, who's to say the Pattern didn't make Rand do it?
On 6/16/2021 at 2:59 PM, SinisterDeath said:I misread what you said then.
What book chapter? I don't recall him being "Immune" to a bubble of evil?
Chapter 29: A Terrible Feeling. Weapons start attacking people, and you either have to break them, or shower them in dirt to stop them. Later on, Perrin doesn't want to think about why his hammer didn't attack him. This is before the forging of Mah'allienir. Nobody else was immune to it, and Perrin had had his axe attack him before, in the Stone of Tear in the Shadow Rising.
On 6/16/2021 at 2:59 PM, SinisterDeath said:RJ called portal stone worlds "mirrors". Different from "parallel".
https://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kw=portal+worlds
I recall that hellscape world they found Lanfear in while pursing Fain. Time and Distances were wonky. I looked at it as a "layer" as the idea was the "Further" that reality is from your own, the more "wrong" it is.
Like how an Onion is crispy/white and full of juice on the inside, but flaky, dry and inedible on the outside.I'll be honest. I am even more confused after reading that link. Your idea kind of makes sense, but Tel'aran'rhoid isn't super weird, and it connects all worlds, so I don't know how that would work. Thoughts?
On 6/16/2021 at 2:59 PM, SinisterDeath said:It's possible.
It's also possible they have access to both. (If you ever garden, you'd know some plants are both male and female!)Both are totally possible. Someshta was described as the "Green Man" but this could very easily be a mistake made by the people of Aman'dhol (Randland).
On 6/16/2021 at 2:59 PM, SinisterDeath said:*Shrugs*
It really is hard to say. I often go with Occam's Razor, but sometimes the more wacky theory can be fun to play with. ?Wacky theories are definitely fun to play with. Most often they tend to be wrong, but its fun to think they might be correct for a minute.
On 6/16/2021 at 2:59 PM, SinisterDeath said:So, Book 3 Rand's Battle. When Rand teleporting all over the place, they were fighting in either T'A'R, or Dream Shards (or both!).
In T'A'R, if you believe the air is Lava, it's Lava.I'll have to check the companion but this is what the wiki says on them.
https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamshard
Also the last 3 paragraphs to this one.https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Moridin
I have no evidence to suggest you can change a person brought into a dreamshard. But the fact that the dreamshard creator has absolute control over what happens in their dreamshard, suggests the possibility that you could twist someone brought into one physically. It's an interesting idea at the very least. ^_^
I am pretty sure it was TAR, because dream shards probably require a large amount of concentration to hold, and Rand didn't immediately fade out of it when Ishamael died.
It does seem possible. I suppose evidence for it could come from most of the Shadowspawn, but Aginor wasn't a Dreamer, and we don't know if it is possible for a non-Dreamer to create a dreamshard. Very interesting idea to think about.
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20 hours ago, Wolfbrother31 said:
Thanks! I've been enjoying this. Next month I'll have to come up with another game for the BT - I'm about to do a 20hr road trip -- so I guess I'll think on it!
Lots of time to think then!
6 hours ago, Harldin said:Sorry guys I haven’t had a chance to get back to this. If someone else wants to post a picture please go ahead and ill do something next time.
Any takers? @Wolfbrother31, @SableSage, @Arie?
6 hours ago, Harldin said:You could listen to half a WOT book on Audible on a trip that long
HA! You really could. It seems odd that 20 hours is only half, right?
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5 hours ago, SinisterDeath said:
Just checked my companion, and yep it does say that. Goes to show that ya just can't trust everything in the WoT Wikia. ?
Yeah, you can't. Kind of sad, really.
14 hours ago, Sabio said:According to the companion Oath Rods could be used on non channelers. They weren't necessarily used to stop you from channeling just to prevent you from commiting your crime again and to also make you possibly spend the rest of your life, if necessary making restitution. They were used on the worst criminals those incorrigibly violent, because of personality flaws, or madness. The older one was when bound the more it restricted. It was considered the death penalty since it was going to cut your life short. A forsaken strength channeler could live to 800 but with the oath rod it was around 300 so it could really cut your life short. Sadly RJ didn't leave much explaining why it cut ones life short.
Thanks for all the info. It really is a shame that RJ died before he could finish the series. There's so much we aren't going to know, now.
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7 hours ago, Wolfbrother31 said:
@Harldin you could also download a pic, save it under another name and then choose files to attach! If you can't figure it out, perhaps, @Asha'man Shar'aman can go again? Since technically, nobody got the last one right!
If you continue to have trouble, @Harldin, you could make a post, and PM me the character you want to post, and I could post the picture for you, and then I wouldn’t participate for that round, since I would know.
As a side note: Wolfbrother, you have been running this thread really well, navigating problems and such. I think that deserves a thank you, as well as five points. Good job!
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2 hours ago, Harldin said:
Please ignore last post, having trouble putting a pucture up
No worries. I deleted it for you. Next time you want something deleted, tag me please. Makes sure I can help out.
Try to find an image, then copy and paste it here. Works fine for me.
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On 6/14/2021 at 8:14 PM, SinisterDeath said:
Book 1.
Rand "wills" Bela to run faster. (Not only did he heal her "stamina", I actually think he fundamentally changed Bela at the genetic level)
That was Rand channeling the weaves to make it happen. It's possible that he got the knowledge from Lews Therin, without realizing it, as LT was likely in his head to begin because LT appears in Rand's head speaking perfect Third Age Tongue.
On 6/14/2021 at 8:14 PM, SinisterDeath said:Same goes for Nyneave when she was younger, and "healed" people without even knowing what she was doing.
People can do things instinctively. Moiraine made her eavesdropping trick without any AS training, and it is highly likely the Pattern needed Nynaeve to channel like that, so it made her know the weaves.
On 6/14/2021 at 8:14 PM, SinisterDeath said:Perrin is "immune" to them in TAR, not "reality".
My thought is that true DO's " evil manifests "nightmares", and with the veil between Reality and TAR thinning, has allowed those nightmares to manifest directly into reality.
No. He was immune to the weapons-attacking-you one in his camp in the waking world, not TAR.
On 6/14/2021 at 8:14 PM, SinisterDeath said:I'd say the portal worlds are the layers. The further you get away from your reality, the "weirder" the world is to your perception, both spatially and temporally.
Well, we don't have a way to prove this, so I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.
On 6/14/2021 at 8:14 PM, SinisterDeath said:I've always taken the True Source and the One Power as synonyms. We know the OP stems from the True Source, but does that means there's more "powers" that stem from the One Power? I dunno.
Either way, it seems to me that the Nym channeling the OP (doesn't say Saidin or Saidar), has to mean they used both halves/combined? They couldn't have used a new power that stems from the true source, else they would have already found it and there's never have been a breaking in the first place.
Perhaps that's related to the Green Man's injury? Half tainted, half not...
I honestly don't know. It is never explained, for being such a big deal. Maybe constructs of the OP don't have the saidin and saidar divide?
On 6/14/2021 at 8:14 PM, SinisterDeath said:
This debunks the life force fueling.
So I'll have to go with it reduces the life span as part of the punishment.
This is probable. Thanks for the info. It is possible that my theory is still correct, but it's not very likely, so we should probably go with your version so as to be more accurate.
On 6/14/2021 at 8:14 PM, SinisterDeath said:Dream shards you can create rules for what happens inside them.
You are also "in the flesh" while inside it.
If you dictate that time stops while Inside of one. It's within reason that time stops for them.
The tricky part of all of this is, if you enter TAR in the flesh and "change" something about yourself, does that take affect after you leave?
Where does it say those things?
I have no idea. This is definitely something I've thought about a ton, but I still don't know. Can you give yourself the ability to channel in TAR and take it to the waking world? I would assume no, because someone surely would have tried that, and it would have been mentioned by LT or one of the Forsaken. So maybe stuff doesn't change about your mind, just your physical body?
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7 hours ago, Harldin said:
Im not sure how that works but if all i have to do is declare which one it’s definitely Light faction.
Morly Hardlin who i have named myself after was one of Logains Ashaman so definitely Light.
PS : yea i know i misspelt my name
I think that’s cool to name yourself after an Asha’man! Besides, Harldin sounds way better than Hardlin.
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1 hour ago, Wolfbrother31 said:
Mmm. Good one. I vaguely remember that now. I should really good back and reread New Spring!
New Spring is awesome. I thought he might be a little hard, but not this hard. Sorry.
The Box
in The Black Tower
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Curiosity is the bane of every WoT fans existence.
I’m gonna put your post in spoilers markings, just in case.
I liked him a little too. Not as much as I like Logain, but he’s interesting.