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  1. Although they just showed Ny protecting Eg by blocking Eg from providing more power (and providing more herself, thereby reaching the point of burnout). As you say it should all be impossible while in a circle but if one can do it so can the other.
  2. It appeared to me more like a (poorly depicted) version of what Asmodean did for Rand after he overstrained his channeling during the battle of Cairhien - pushing some raw Saidin (so in this case Saidar) back into the channeller to prevent burnout (in this case fatal burnout rather than losing the ability to channel). So not an unprecedented action.
  3. My point is that letting Nyn read it when Elayne is right there is not a relevant point as Elayne had no particular ability in the books to know what a ter'Angreal does - only an interest (and perhaps a talent) in learning how to make ter'anreal - it was Aviendha who found she had the talent to know what an existing ter'angreal does (and much later). Nyn got the sense of suffering when touching the male adam, in general if a male who can channel touches an active adam he and those wearing it suffer great pain, if the bracelet is put on a male who can channel while a woman who can channel is wearing the collar then both die from it. The male adam was designed to allow one or two females who can channel to control a male who can channel, there is no general adverse effect from females touching it, only Nyn got the impression of suffering.
  4. Nyn was the one who got impressions from objects in the books (e.g. the male adam equivalent in Tanchio), although Aviendha was able to read the purpose of the ter'angreal from the Ebou Dar horde.
  5. In the books they are no more threatening than the Saxville-Baggins' in LOTR. In the show they have added heavy drinking, womanising, gambling and an implication of Mat acting as a thief or gigolo (depending on your interpretation of how he got the jewelry he sells to Padan Fain). Overall a far more gritty two rivers compared to the shire-ish view in the books.
  6. Not merely meeting him, having a foretelling (which as ever she signally misinterpreted in line with her own prejudices).
  7. Since you are not watching it you probably do not care but it was Liandrin not Elaida and a random male channeller not Logain (who would have crushed 3 average Aes Sedai). I agree that the speech was rubbish.
  8. I thought it was only that first sisters who are both maidens of the spear will only take a lover if they share him - the instance of Gaul, Bain and Chiad where they wanted him to be their lover and he was only interested if they wanted him to marry both of them.
  9. Because that was a confrontation with other Aes Sedai and with Aiel, not with darkfriends and not a declared war. You may well say the position I suggest is nothing but sophistry but that appears to be at the core of being an Aes Sedai during the period of the novels. After all their interpretation of "I will speak no word that is not true" allows them to deliberately and intentionally mislead.
  10. In one of the closing books Egwene agrees with the Sitters that there is no need to apply the law of war to the preparations for the last battle because the tower is automatically at war with the shadow.
  11. Any use of a weapon against an opposing combatant in outright warfare (other than those already inacapacitated/surrendering) is considered permissible and the tower is automatically considered to be at war with the shadow (hence no need for a formal declaration and invocation of the law of war - unlike the declaration against Elaida). Therefore by extension any use of the one power as a weapon in warfare (including against any forsaken or identified darkfriend) could be considered to come under the "last defense of life" provision in the oaths, by tower law or established custom - as long as the sister believes that to be the meaning that is what the rod will enforce.
  12. That is never actually stated. Moiraine states that the thirteen weakest Aes Sedai could shield any male but there is a minimum strength threshold to be allowed to take the final test, so the weakest Aes Sedai are reasonably strong (e.g. Morgase so weak she could not touch the source consistently, and Sorilea stated to be too weak to be allowed to test). There is nothing special about there being thirteen other than that is the largest circle possible with all females (it would be stronger than 12 but not by as much as the 12 would be stronger then 11 - there are diminishing returns for unbalanced circles). Also all in character statements (even by non-black Ajah Aes Sedai) are subject to the unreliable narrator issue - an Aes Sedai can state as truth what she thinks is true even if she is wrong.
  13. I think the reference is to Shomesta the Green Man - the Nym may even have been a creation of Aginor before his conversion to the shadow. From the point of view of circular events it would be more accurate to say that (in Jordan's world) the mythical Odin was a remembrance of an earlier figure with similar characteristics to Mat in this cycle.
  14. Firstly it is repeatedly stated that bonded parties only feel detailed sensations when in close proximity, at long distance all they have is direction and the knowledge the other party is still alive unless there are very strong sensations involved, and after bonding Rand is not again in Elaine's proximity until her pregnancy is very obvious. Secondly it is noted by each of his bondholders that Rand is in constant agony from the twin wounds in his side - this would tend to lessen his ability to analyse less extreme sensory feedback from the others (in addition to making him slightly tetchy).
  15. It is a long way from being obligated not to say anything negative to being required to endorse something one does not support.
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