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Aviendha might be able to figure this out. Rurouni_Kenshin Send a noteboard - 05/06/2010 09:52:31 AM
We know, for example, that tied off flows would last indefinitely unless the channeler specifically set an expiration date, so it seems that the standing flows for smaller objects and effects could be very discrete and on their own sub-level power system, while a larger use, such as powering an entire city's electric grid would be on a different and far larger scale.


That'd be hard to understand how the standing flows were disrupted in the WOS if they worked like that, no?

That sounds more like an alternative way to power up ter'angreal that wasn't used in the standing flows days, but that the Forsaken are using now to power up devices they must keep active for long.

It's more plausible in the AOL this worked with a worlwide network of devices creating a wireless net the ter'angreal could tap the Source through (and that could separate the flows), and only few ter'angreal had this mechanism incorporated instead (possibly the weapons like shocklances, and devices like the Finns portals etc.) or could only be operated manually (anything that involve complex weaves to operate like the BOW, and anything dangerous etc.).

Obviously, there were ways to activate/deactivate a ter'angreal that wasn't involving channelling, if it had access to the standing flows (movement or sound detectors, touching a specific area etc. - just like you described). Of course, these means are useless now, because ter'angreal are rather "jump started" by channelling the proper flow directly into them. Most likely there's something standard in the ter'angreal that could "tell" the SF what flow was required (the ter'angreal don't do this themselves, or they'd auto-select which flow they need whatever you channel into them), and it's likely this can still be "read" into the ter'angreal, but the knowledge how to do that is lost. AS have not found out how to know which flow must be channelled in which ter'angreal. The Forsaken don't seem to have that problem, and with the standing flows it's extremely unlikely they knew by rote how to power manually every mundane device existing - or that every AS knew enough about ter'angreal making to figure out by logic which flows it needs just by its function. They are able to tell, somehow - either just by looking at the object, or more likely with some kind of standard weave that is safe to channel on any ter'angreal and that let you know how to power it.
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What are "standing flows"? - 03/06/2010 03:23:59 PM 4181 Views
like a public water fountain perhaps? - 03/06/2010 03:38:57 PM 772 Views
more like our power grid - 03/06/2010 04:21:42 PM 856 Views
Yes. - 04/06/2010 04:43:36 AM 797 Views
That's what I always assumed, a OP-based infrastructure *NM* - 04/06/2010 06:13:43 AM 378 Views
Agreed - it was a wireless network - 04/06/2010 05:06:44 PM 702 Views
OP and electricity? - 04/06/2010 08:13:30 PM 740 Views
Re: What are "standing flows"? - 03/06/2010 08:29:09 PM 999 Views
I also think of them as energy units that were not connected to/stored in physical batteries. - 03/06/2010 09:46:13 PM 687 Views
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Aviendha might be able to figure this out. - 05/06/2010 09:52:31 AM 879 Views
Thanks everyone for the replies - 04/06/2010 05:05:07 PM 684 Views
Re: Thanks everyone for the replies - 04/06/2010 07:45:04 PM 675 Views

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