It makes sense that there would be a lot more space for AS
darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 08/06/2010 01:21:45 AM
I'm sure someone here knows exactly how many novices the Tower was built to hold 
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Chapter3 - Practice
Moiraine's perspective:
"Perhaps the numbers would not have come to mind now except for Gitara's Foretelling, yet she had thought about them before. They were etched in her brain as if with acid. Space for above two hundred Accepted, but the second well had been shut up since time out of memory for any living Aes Sedai, and barely more than sixty of these rooms were occupied. The novices' quarters also had two wells, with rooms for almost four hundred girls, but one of those was long closed too, and the other held under a hundred. She had read once that novices and accepted had both been housed two to a room.... The Tower had been built to house three thousand sisters, but only four hundred and twenty three were in residence at the moment, with perhaps twice as many more scattered across the nations."
Unless I'm reading that wrong, this means there are four hundred rooms for novices and two hundred rooms for Accepted
800 novices 400 Accepted. 3000 sisters.
It's the 3000 sisters part that makes me think I'm reading it wrong. Perhaps there are 800 rooms for novices (making a total count of 1600)?
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Since Novices/Accepted quarters are only occupied for about 10 years for each woman ... and AS quarters would be occupied for about 200 years.
Like I said above, won't take long with open recruiting practices for the Tower to be overflowing with women. Converting Elaida's palace into a secondary living quarters would help a lot.
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
Building Materials for the Amyrlin's Tower
- 07/06/2010 12:00:04 PM
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use it to rebuild the chain towers that will have to be ripped out to replace the cuindar chain? *NM*
- 07/06/2010 12:07:06 PM
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There is still the theory the Tower will be built after all
- 07/06/2010 12:28:00 PM
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Possible that they may just use it to house all the new Novices coming in too
- 07/06/2010 12:47:43 PM
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WT probably has rooms for a few thousand more novices
- 07/06/2010 02:42:02 PM
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According to Egwene they would have to open up the second kitchen
- 07/06/2010 04:21:52 PM
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I don't entirely trust your logic here
- 07/06/2010 07:29:27 PM
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true, it's not unheard of for there to be shifts in the kitchens
- 08/06/2010 12:19:18 AM
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Re: true, it's not unheard of for there to be shifts in the kitchens
- 08/06/2010 02:52:19 AM
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Are you implying there's only 13 million people in the Westlands?
- 09/06/2010 12:48:40 PM
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How many novices the WT can hold
- 08/06/2010 12:51:03 AM
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It makes sense that there would be a lot more space for AS
- 08/06/2010 01:21:45 AM
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Do you REALLY think the world will have a surplus of building material after Tarmon Gaidon?
- 07/06/2010 07:07:36 PM
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