I starting reading SoT series, and really where WoT seemed like a traditional epic spoken by a true storyteller with a passion for the story, SoT read like some glossy magazine, the type truckers buy from a service station at 3am... The rape thing turned me off the whole series, it seriously seriously did, i mean when a major point of contention for your female lead is that she hasn't been raped "YET" or at least wasn't when i finished reading you really have to ask questions about how much depth you can really put into your characters. Some people should go through a application process for pen and paper, Goodkind is one of them, man is sick in the head. Rape happens, its disgusting and vile and while because of this reason i can understand and accept it in any work as a tool, a tool that is in its very essessence vile and disgusting. But with Goodkind? every third page someone is getting boned somewhere they don't want to be, man has issuses, big ones.

The link i believe is something wrought of the power, so its a sure bet it'd stop working, no biggie thou, the damae can't channel anyway. I really doubt a good proper Seachan damae would beat the crap out of her sul'dam...both of them would be to damned scared to do anything really..