They don't have the spark. They won't just start channeling randomly one day unless they actually take the pains to learn how. That's how it works. As such, they aren't in danger of being mistaken as damane if they stayed. They were free and clear, if kept from actually wearing the bracelet by Surroth.
The Sul'Dam have see the Seanchan thrown back and defeated several times by the Dragon Reborn. it is conceivable that they don't view the conquest as inevitable and that there are always places to run and hide. after all, in the viewing Rand had of the possible futures, the Seanchan never visited remote backwaters like the Two Rivers. It is possible, if unlikely, to find remote villages to live in that might never be visited by the Empire.
If the white cloaks honestly considered the Aes Sedai creatures of the Dark One, they would not be planning an alliance during the final battle. It is that simple. They see the White tower and Dark one as two completely separate and unrelated powers. Most of their rhetoric is just that, trying to convince people that they're right and everyone else is wrong.
The Aes Sedai represent a different philosophy. Anyone who represents a different philosophy is wrong, and misleading and therefore to be killed on sight. Like many fanatics in religions in the last several centuries in our era.
And I doubt that they would knowingly elect a channeler as Lord Captain Commander. But Galad cannot channel yet. If leads the Whites Cloaks well and gains their respect and adoration, and then learns he can channel, that may just change their minds.
The Sul'Dam have see the Seanchan thrown back and defeated several times by the Dragon Reborn. it is conceivable that they don't view the conquest as inevitable and that there are always places to run and hide. after all, in the viewing Rand had of the possible futures, the Seanchan never visited remote backwaters like the Two Rivers. It is possible, if unlikely, to find remote villages to live in that might never be visited by the Empire.
If the white cloaks honestly considered the Aes Sedai creatures of the Dark One, they would not be planning an alliance during the final battle. It is that simple. They see the White tower and Dark one as two completely separate and unrelated powers. Most of their rhetoric is just that, trying to convince people that they're right and everyone else is wrong.
The Aes Sedai represent a different philosophy. Anyone who represents a different philosophy is wrong, and misleading and therefore to be killed on sight. Like many fanatics in religions in the last several centuries in our era.
And I doubt that they would knowingly elect a channeler as Lord Captain Commander. But Galad cannot channel yet. If leads the Whites Cloaks well and gains their respect and adoration, and then learns he can channel, that may just change their minds.
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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