The Seanchan believe that the Aes Sedai are murderous monsters one and all. That if you goto sleep at night, there is a possibility of a Aes Sedai killing you in your sleep. The Aes Sedai are their bogymen, plain and simple. And the Sul'Dam did have a choice as Tuon made ever so clear - they could simply decide not learn to channel and disappear into the country and live quiet lives.
Tuon was insistent on what the Seanchan believe channelers to be, thieves and murderers and the worst scum the universe has ever created - to be imprisoned and controlled before they break the world anew. Given this cultural baggage, and other options instead the Sul'dam embraced channeling. They badgered the Aes Sedai, Evil Incarnate in the eyes of their culture, to train them.
Julian Sandar, a Tearian who was raised with a similar set of beliefs and same type of culture as the Seanchan and Children, with a few weeks of association with a channeler, realized that what he was taught was fundamentally wrong. That only took a matter of weeks.
On top of that there are the people who follow the Dragon Reborn. After three thousand years of hearing about what the Dragon did, and all the male Aes Sedai, people are willing to drop their preconceptions to follow this man. Men are willing to channel, and women who should be absolutely terrified of those prospects instead come and join their husbands as they learn to channel. They accept this new twist of events.
I submit that the hardest core and most twisted faction of the Children, those who will never change, stayed behind with the questioners when the rest of the children broke away with Galad. Thus, those remaining are far more likely to, if not lose, at least mitigate some of their hatred for channelers.
Tuon was insistent on what the Seanchan believe channelers to be, thieves and murderers and the worst scum the universe has ever created - to be imprisoned and controlled before they break the world anew. Given this cultural baggage, and other options instead the Sul'dam embraced channeling. They badgered the Aes Sedai, Evil Incarnate in the eyes of their culture, to train them.
Julian Sandar, a Tearian who was raised with a similar set of beliefs and same type of culture as the Seanchan and Children, with a few weeks of association with a channeler, realized that what he was taught was fundamentally wrong. That only took a matter of weeks.
On top of that there are the people who follow the Dragon Reborn. After three thousand years of hearing about what the Dragon did, and all the male Aes Sedai, people are willing to drop their preconceptions to follow this man. Men are willing to channel, and women who should be absolutely terrified of those prospects instead come and join their husbands as they learn to channel. They accept this new twist of events.
I submit that the hardest core and most twisted faction of the Children, those who will never change, stayed behind with the questioners when the rest of the children broke away with Galad. Thus, those remaining are far more likely to, if not lose, at least mitigate some of their hatred for channelers.
Is there anyone who *doesn't* think Galad can channel?
05/06/2010 02:36:20 AM
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It is just describing what a person goes through in a heightened sensory mode. He can't channel. *NM*
05/06/2010 02:49:39 AM
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Re: Is there anyone who *doesn't* think Galad can channel?
05/06/2010 03:17:56 AM
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He cannot. This passage is similar to one in New Spring
05/06/2010 03:36:19 AM
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uh, me. and thousands of others. it's called the void, which tam can do. *NM*
05/06/2010 07:09:52 AM
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Wait?? Tam must have some channeling genes since Rand is his son.... *NM*
05/06/2010 06:21:40 PM
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On the fence
05/06/2010 12:44:45 PM
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Re: On the fence
06/06/2010 02:22:35 AM
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Re: On the fence
06/06/2010 03:27:54 AM
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They still see channelers as Dark Friends.
10/06/2010 03:51:44 PM
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More likely they'd do what the Seanchan would when/if Tuon Channels
13/06/2010 12:21:12 PM
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As you pointed out
13/06/2010 02:08:34 PM
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Only for the short term
13/06/2010 02:48:54 PM
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Perhaps. Perhaps not. Nothing is completely static.
13/06/2010 05:41:59 PM
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right, cause in a few months they are going to change more tahn 1000 years of doctrine *NM*
13/06/2010 10:32:56 PM
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Yes. Exactly. In three days two Aiel clans ended a blood feud.
14/06/2010 03:14:42 AM
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None of these situations is really the same
14/06/2010 03:18:59 PM
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Re: None of these situations is really the same
14/06/2010 03:38:42 PM
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I think you are overstating the situations below
14/06/2010 06:02:12 PM
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Nonesense. The Sul'Dam hadn't started channeling.
14/06/2010 07:26:12 PM
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The sul'dam who have realized what they are know it's just a matter of time
14/06/2010 07:50:52 PM
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As sul'Dam they need to be taught to channel.
14/06/2010 10:38:33 PM
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hello, Seta and Bethamin took the leap on their own. sul'dam are right at the edge
15/06/2010 01:48:25 AM
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