And when has that ever stopped her?
Ummm... for a long long time?
How? Does being in a link make you invulnerable? All it does is sacrifice numbers for power. They don't need more power behind their weaves - all Aes Sedai are strong enough to kill a person, which is all the strength you need to fight. If the Seanchan can't leash channelers, they are very quickly going to shift to killing them. Their primary reason for leashing channelers is to keep them out of trouble, and gaining their power is merely secondary. All the links will do is create large groups of helpless sisters who will be unable to fight back, because their strength is concentrated in a woman with much influence in Tower or Ajah politics. It's like telling a squad of soldiers "Everyone turn in your rifles, we're selling them so that we can afford a single machine gun which the leader will use to protect the rest of the team." Meanwhile, the crack Seanchan troops with their lesser-powered but far more numerous and better-trained and experienced soldiers will waste the Aes Sedai.
Yeah, just like the numerically superior Seanchan killed Egwene and went their merry way... Oh wait!
Secondly, learn the proper meaning of decimate. It's probably not your fault, as you are simply aping the misuse, but it literally means to kill 10%. If you are being attacked by 100 damane, the fact that "playing it right" has reduced that number to 90 is small consolation.
That is not the only meaning. It is the original meaning, but it morphed to mean "destroy a significant portion of" more than a hundred years ago.
That's only if Bryne managed to match the Tower's recruiting goal of 50,000 and the Tower themselves reached that goal. It's not that many, and the situation Elayne describes regarding the Borderland army to her nobles in comparison with Andor's forces applies even moreso to the Seanchan in comparison with the Tower's forces. Elayne is talking part-time amateurs versus full-time amateurs. The Seanchan versus the Tower are professionals versus hobbyists.
We know Bryne had 50K soldiers around TV, and Elaida was forced to start recruiting in book 7, and given that soldiers were moving in even in CoT, it is doubtful they didn't meet their end goal of 50k soldiers.
And the thing with the Tower is that they aren't recruiting local farmers. Most of the people who join up come from other lands for the promise of wealth. The implication is that most are mercenaries.
Granted, these aren't going to be at the same level of the Seanchan crack troops, but 100,000 soldiers under a commander who's considered as good as Bryne are always going to be a threat. Also, a lot of the Seanchan's current soldiers are Taraboners, Altarans, etc. They're hardly going to be much better than the Tower's soldiers, even with a few months under Seanchan discipline.
Which is evil, but hey! When has that ever stopped her?
It isn't evil. The uses it can be put to may be evil, but the act itself is not evil. And if Egwene's aim is to use it to encourage captives and rescue them, then it most certainly isn't evil. Bah. We all know how Egwene feels about rescues.
Huh? She didn't want herself rescued since AS vs. AS fights would put an end to any quick resolution of the Rebellion. There is no such constraint with fighting the Seanchan.
Egwene will contact Elaida...
- 02/08/2010 07:08:06 PM
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- 03/08/2010 03:41:52 AM
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On the subject of linking
- 03/08/2010 05:22:10 AM
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Would you rather be shielded or incinerated? Some protection. *NM*
- 03/08/2010 12:23:29 PM
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Stuff like this makes me wish the series would last forever
- 03/08/2010 03:23:56 AM
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Read what I added - it's even sweeter when you play out other repercussions
- 03/08/2010 04:01:48 AM
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*NM*
Wouldn't it be dangerous for Egwene to enter Elaida's dream?
- 03/08/2010 08:09:19 AM
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