The following quotes on pages 30-31 explain the process:
from page 30: "In a method called 'seed singing,' Ogier (a separate race of beings gifted with the ability to aid and enhance growing things), Nym, and Da'shain Aiel worked as a team, focusing the One Power to insure perfect growth for every field they 'sang.'"
from page 31 (after describing chora tress as "constructs": The Nym, another construct, were sentient beings with the ability to utilize the One Power for the benefit of plants and growing things."
In other words, the Nym were living ter'angreals. The process probably had the Nym using the OP to focus the combined voices of Ogier and Aiel men blessed with the ability to seed sing to produce crops free from destructive insects or disease. With the last Nym dead at the Eye Of The World, the entire process falls apart. The Tinkers are NEVER going to find the song.
from page 30: "In a method called 'seed singing,' Ogier (a separate race of beings gifted with the ability to aid and enhance growing things), Nym, and Da'shain Aiel worked as a team, focusing the One Power to insure perfect growth for every field they 'sang.'"
from page 31 (after describing chora tress as "constructs": The Nym, another construct, were sentient beings with the ability to utilize the One Power for the benefit of plants and growing things."
In other words, the Nym were living ter'angreals. The process probably had the Nym using the OP to focus the combined voices of Ogier and Aiel men blessed with the ability to seed sing to produce crops free from destructive insects or disease. With the last Nym dead at the Eye Of The World, the entire process falls apart. The Tinkers are NEVER going to find the song.
The Song--how it worked and why it was lost--OGIERS ARE NOT ARTIFICIAL
- 06/05/2010 03:25:18 AM
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there is no Song. None. Nada. Zippo. Zilch. Bupkis.
- 06/05/2010 04:22:38 AM
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There is a song, and maybe Rand will return it to them.
- 12/05/2010 07:31:32 AM
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I don't feel like going into the Song nonsense again. As for the Tinkers/Jenn...
- 12/05/2010 11:51:34 PM
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They DID fail the Aes Sedai; at least in their own eyes.
- 16/05/2010 04:59:38 AM
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it seems more likely that the sin is giving up the Way of the Leaf
- 19/05/2010 11:14:38 PM
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because Rand was the very first person ever to see that at Rhuidan?
- 13/05/2010 05:04:40 AM
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I'm quite sure the Ogier are not artificial
- 06/05/2010 11:32:17 AM
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I thought RJ said something about the Ogier being from another planet?
- 06/05/2010 02:44:21 PM
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This can be inferred from discussion of the Book of Translation *NM*
- 10/05/2010 10:04:05 PM
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The song was "Hey Soul Sister" by Train. It was lost when the last ter'angreal Ipod broke.
- 06/05/2010 02:41:42 PM
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According To The Big Book Of Bad Art
- 07/05/2010 11:25:20 PM
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Re: According To The Big Book Of Bad Art
- 08/05/2010 08:29:39 PM
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Re: According To The Big Book Of Bad Art
- 09/05/2010 01:48:49 AM
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--Ogier--artificially constructed and clearly bad--killing/violence .....
- 08/05/2010 03:07:55 AM
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Re: --Ogier--artificially constructed and clearly bad--killing/violence .....
- 10/05/2010 09:59:42 PM
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How is there "No Song?"
- 09/05/2010 12:44:22 AM
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Re: How is there "No Song?"
- 09/05/2010 01:38:36 AM
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Oh, ok. But...
- 09/05/2010 05:26:54 AM
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I doubt it.
- 09/05/2010 06:38:39 PM
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LTT asked it because he was bonkers
- 10/05/2010 05:22:06 AM
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I agree.
- 11/05/2010 12:35:43 AM
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That's not how his insanity was portrayed.
- 11/05/2010 02:23:08 AM
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If it weren't a Seed Song, why're the Nym needed? if not needed why did they forget how to sing?
- 11/05/2010 04:48:12 AM
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From where did you get the idea that Nym were needed?
- 11/05/2010 05:11:15 AM
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I got the part about the Nym from a sub thread in this post. One you commented on. Keep up man.
- 11/05/2010 05:42:14 AM
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My only post in other subthreads is a joke response to File Leader, I think?
- 11/05/2010 06:52:22 AM
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The Voice is a talent like travelling for Aes Sedai. The capitalized Sing is for Aiel.
- 11/05/2010 01:41:10 PM
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Re: The Voice is a talent like travelling for Aes Sedai. The capitalized Sing is for Aiel.
- 11/05/2010 07:49:02 PM
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