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I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge. Gher Send a noteboard - 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM
Much like creating modern gadgets isn't common knowledge today. Moggy didn't seem to know how to make Cuendillar, other than the basic theory (unless she was lying, but at that point, I think she was too scared of Egwene). Nor have we seen any of the Forsaken try to make any kind of ter'angreal or angreal. I think it required specialized channelers, complex weaves, links and laboratory/workshop facilities for the more complicated 'angreal.

As for Compulsion and Balefire, it's not surprising that those fell out of common usage, and even there, we don't know how common those weaves were during the AoL. Both sides stopped using Balefire, and were afraid to use it, so they were unlikely to keep teaching it, and Compulsion is heavily frowned-upon, not to mention extremely complex.

Travelling and Skimming are the hardest to understand or accept. But I've seen quite a few theories or explanations put forth. The land could have been in such a constant state of upheaval thanks to the Breaking of the World, that people avoided using Travelling to avoid attracting the attention of insane male Aes Sedai or remnants of the Shadow's armies. Or they were more focused on survival and less on finding and teaching new channelers. Or Ishy suppressed the knowledge. I don't know. I think even a combination of all these answers is still insufficient, but I'll accept it. Maybe Ishy worked very hard to get rid of the knowledge.


But even still, we've seen that some of the weaves were passed down. Moiraine probably learned or figured out the weaves for balefire after visiting Vandene and Adeleas in TGH and reading from their library. And Compulsion seems to be somewhat instinctual, at least in very primitive forms.
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How were all these amazing weaves 'lost' ? - 20/08/2010 04:33:43 AM 1703 Views
Ishamael may have had a hand in that... - 20/08/2010 04:45:39 AM 1070 Views
Agreed. - 20/08/2010 10:01:37 AM 965 Views
Lost Weaves - 20/08/2010 01:43:25 PM 1041 Views
Re: Lost Weaves *NM* - 20/08/2010 01:45:30 PM 513 Views
Not logical - 20/08/2010 01:50:32 PM 1040 Views
Re: Not logical - 20/08/2010 03:22:04 PM 858 Views
All I'm saying, is that Travelling would STILL be a very usefull survival tool during the Breaking.. - 20/08/2010 03:44:59 PM 993 Views
All good points also. - 20/08/2010 03:48:49 PM 1335 Views
Re: Not logical - 20/08/2010 03:45:55 PM 836 Views
Re: Not logical - 21/08/2010 04:20:41 AM 749 Views
you may have hit onto something with your last statement - 21/08/2010 05:06:59 PM 852 Views
Re: you may have hit onto something with your last statement - 23/08/2010 05:09:06 PM 762 Views
I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge. - 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM 863 Views
The need to learn a location to travel - 20/08/2010 05:58:48 PM 804 Views
They could use Rand's trick from TGS. - 21/08/2010 01:06:33 AM 760 Views
My only theory... - 20/08/2010 06:02:14 PM 809 Views
The Strongest Died seems like a pretty valid theory to me... - 20/08/2010 06:14:29 PM 967 Views
Maybe Aes Sedai treated weaves like Intellectual Property - 20/08/2010 09:49:12 PM 786 Views
Trademark? Patent? Or Copyright? =P *NM* - 20/08/2010 10:19:36 PM 351 Views
It doesn't have to be logical... - 20/08/2010 11:50:17 PM 935 Views
Idea? - 21/08/2010 12:47:52 AM 720 Views
But they weren't too weak - 21/08/2010 02:48:43 AM 801 Views
That's because most of the major people in WoT are powerful channelers. - 21/08/2010 04:13:04 AM 799 Views
How can you "write a weave down"? - 21/08/2010 04:54:28 PM 848 Views
How did Moiraine learn balefire then? *NM* - 21/08/2010 05:04:27 PM 1036 Views
figured it out on her own, don't forget that Nyn used it too against the Fades in TDR. *NM* - 21/08/2010 05:12:15 PM 389 Views
That's a stretch - Moiraine never demonstrated any creative talent with the OP... - 21/08/2010 06:15:01 PM 803 Views
OK, I'll buy Vandene teaching it, but not learning it from a written description *NM* - 21/08/2010 06:35:46 PM 396 Views
I myself can't buy Vandene teaching that weave to any Sister - 24/08/2010 04:06:26 PM 814 Views
Me neither... - 24/08/2010 05:50:24 PM 861 Views
Mispost.. *NM* - 25/08/2010 02:51:02 PM 455 Views
I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP - 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM 807 Views
Re: I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP - 24/08/2010 05:32:11 PM 1136 Views
But... - 24/08/2010 06:40:39 PM 774 Views
When did she use that? *NM* - 25/08/2010 09:34:31 AM 369 Views
We know of her trick with stones and light from 'New Spring' IIRC - 25/08/2010 02:40:26 PM 947 Views
Elayne did use Moiraine's coin trick. - 25/08/2010 06:09:27 PM 904 Views
Likely from Vandene - 21/08/2010 05:58:31 PM 1141 Views
Something no one else is mentioning... that I saw... - 21/08/2010 07:15:49 PM 877 Views
one thing i've noticed - 23/08/2010 06:37:48 PM 813 Views
Simple: none were necessary for survival in Stone Age barbarism. - 23/08/2010 09:12:40 PM 770 Views

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