Not even Semirhage could actually overcome the oaths through torture alone. The problem is that it does not matter how much the subject WANTS to obey the torturer, the oaths work despite that. I suppose if you tortured someone for so long that they went utterly and completely insane then some of the oaths might be bypassed since the perceptions would be distorted.
I'm not saying she could torture someone to break an oath.
She likes to do her torture in a private, completely controlled environment. The Oath Rod could be used to create a more interesting, unique scenario. If she forces someone to swear "I will not give in to pain and will not cry" I bet she she'd find that an interesting experiment. Almost as good as testing what will happen if the victim's blood is removed...
Or lets say using OP as a weapon. The oath states that OP can be used as a weapon only in self defense, or the defense of a warder or _another sister_. If an AS damane could somehow be completely convinced that since she is property of the Empire, all female seanchan are her sisters, then she could use the OP as a weapon to protect any female soldiers in danger(her sisters).
I don't understand you logic here at all. In this context a "sister" is another Aes Sedai. Aes Sedai are sisters, Amyrlin is the Mother and novices are children. Property don't have sisters, they're not related to anyone.
Aes Sedai probably couldn't channel to save their biological sisters, because they all understand the Oath to mean just Aes Sedai sisters, and are thus bound by their interpretation.
The White Tower has all the tools to defeat the Senahcan...
03/08/2010 10:32:03 PM
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Re: The White Tower has all the tools to defeat the Senahcan...
03/08/2010 10:53:38 PM
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Why not take an oath...
04/08/2010 12:09:46 AM
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or just adapt the one power as a weapon oath to include a sister's freedom as well as her life
*NM*
04/08/2010 01:45:43 AM
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Perhaps they would die?
04/08/2010 09:10:42 AM
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Re: Perhaps they would die?
04/08/2010 01:43:02 PM
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Re: Perhaps they would die?
04/08/2010 07:14:24 PM
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Re: Perhaps they would die?
04/08/2010 07:44:10 PM
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Re: Perhaps they would die?
05/08/2010 08:33:18 AM
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Re: Perhaps they would die?
05/08/2010 01:15:47 PM
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Re: Perhaps they would die?
05/08/2010 04:33:25 PM
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Re: Perhaps they would die?
06/08/2010 12:02:16 AM
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they can't
04/08/2010 12:54:46 AM
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Re: they can't
04/08/2010 02:27:45 AM
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Re: they can't
04/08/2010 07:09:45 AM
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Re: they can't
04/08/2010 02:44:10 PM
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read the oaths again
04/08/2010 08:15:24 PM
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I don't think #1 is as simple as you say.
04/08/2010 02:22:25 AM
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For the most part, they can only defend themselves...
04/08/2010 10:59:23 AM
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Re: For the most part, they can only defend themselves...
05/08/2010 01:17:44 AM
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I think the BT would wipe the floor with the damane on their home turf
05/08/2010 08:19:38 PM
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Re: I think the BT would wipe the floor with the damane on their home turf
05/08/2010 11:57:43 PM
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Whoa whoa whoa!
06/08/2010 03:07:34 AM
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I actually think the opposite: the damane would wipe the floor with the BT
13/08/2010 11:27:21 PM
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My thoughts on the damane...
05/08/2010 04:11:35 AM
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How exactly would Egwene learn where the Damane are kept?
05/08/2010 07:57:55 PM
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Interrogate the Damane.
05/08/2010 10:32:17 PM
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