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They could use Rand's trick from TGS. Gher Send a noteboard - 21/08/2010 01:06:33 AM
With the Breaking, locations were always changing, so Traveling from a point might have been difficult at best. I think there is a comment about trying to Travel from the deck of a ship as being hard to do. With the chaos, Skimming might have been the preferable means, but who knows what the gateway on the other end might have meant?
And what of the male channelers nuking everything in sight? How many Aes Sedai survived the Breaking?


And I don't think it was that chaotic that they couldn't stay in one place for an hour or two.

Although yes, they would never know just what was on the other side. But they could still teach and pass on the weave without actually using it.


However, I'll accept that it died out. Especially if I choose to believe that Ishamael actively tried to kill anyone with knowledge of the weave.
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How were all these amazing weaves 'lost' ? malekithe - 20/08/2010 04:33:43 AM 1826 Views
Ishamael may have had a hand in that... Froggles - 20/08/2010 04:45:39 AM 1161 Views
Agreed. Lord Haart - 20/08/2010 10:01:37 AM 1047 Views
You're right. It is merely a plot requirement, made ludicrous by the ease of mastering these weaves Shannow - 20/08/2010 10:08:10 AM 1159 Views
Re: You're right. It is merely a plot requirement, made ludicrous by the ease of mastering Evil_Monkey - 20/08/2010 03:40:16 PM 895 Views
These are good points. To some extent, it may be because our main characters are "gifted" channelers newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 08:57:49 PM 924 Views
The bigger problem is minor characters copying the weaves so quickly... Shannow - 20/08/2010 09:14:25 PM 962 Views
Lost Weaves Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:43:25 PM 1152 Views
Re: Lost Weaves *NM* Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:45:30 PM 562 Views
Not logical Shannow - 20/08/2010 01:50:32 PM 1128 Views
Re: Not logical Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:22:04 PM 948 Views
All I'm saying, is that Travelling would STILL be a very usefull survival tool during the Breaking.. Shannow - 20/08/2010 03:44:59 PM 1090 Views
All good points also. Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:48:49 PM 1419 Views
Re: Not logical Evil_Monkey - 20/08/2010 03:45:55 PM 919 Views
Re: Not logical mmcleod - 21/08/2010 04:20:41 AM 846 Views
you may have hit onto something with your last statement darius_sedai - 21/08/2010 05:06:59 PM 933 Views
Re: you may have hit onto something with your last statement Ashaman_Luc - 23/08/2010 05:09:06 PM 847 Views
If you go back and read the descriptions of the breaking, and think about the 3000 year cycle newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 04:37:02 PM 995 Views
I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge. Gher - 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM 950 Views
The need to learn a location to travel Ryan - 20/08/2010 05:58:48 PM 894 Views
They could use Rand's trick from TGS. Gher - 21/08/2010 01:06:33 AM 851 Views
You & Ryan make good points, esp on balefire/compulsion. In a shorter series, it'd make more sense newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 08:52:59 PM 959 Views
My only theory... Nameless Ashaman - 20/08/2010 06:02:14 PM 915 Views
The Strongest Died seems like a pretty valid theory to me... lodlom - 20/08/2010 06:14:29 PM 1056 Views
Maybe Aes Sedai treated weaves like Intellectual Property Helene - 20/08/2010 09:49:12 PM 866 Views
Trademark? Patent? Or Copyright? =P *NM* newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 10:19:36 PM 404 Views
If they are secretive and protective, it's not a huge stretch that knowledge would be taken into the Helene - 21/08/2010 10:27:15 AM 1002 Views
It doesn't have to be logical... scooter - 20/08/2010 11:50:17 PM 1022 Views
Idea? Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2010 12:47:52 AM 798 Views
But they weren't too weak malekithe - 21/08/2010 02:48:43 AM 884 Views
That's because most of the major people in WoT are powerful channelers. Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2010 04:13:04 AM 998 Views
How can you "write a weave down"? NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 04:54:28 PM 969 Views
How did Moiraine learn balefire then? *NM* Sidious - 21/08/2010 05:04:27 PM 1087 Views
figured it out on her own, don't forget that Nyn used it too against the Fades in TDR. *NM* NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 05:12:15 PM 436 Views
That's a stretch - Moiraine never demonstrated any creative talent with the OP... DomA - 21/08/2010 06:15:01 PM 883 Views
OK, I'll buy Vandene teaching it, but not learning it from a written description *NM* NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 06:35:46 PM 442 Views
I myself can't buy Vandene teaching that weave to any Sister RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 04:06:26 PM 922 Views
Me neither... DomA - 24/08/2010 05:50:24 PM 938 Views
Mispost.. *NM* RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:51:02 PM 499 Views
I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM 897 Views
Re: I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP DomA - 24/08/2010 05:32:11 PM 1233 Views
But... fionwe1987 - 24/08/2010 06:40:39 PM 870 Views
When did she use that? *NM* Lord Haart - 25/08/2010 09:34:31 AM 419 Views
We know of her trick with stones and light from 'New Spring' IIRC RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:40:26 PM 1046 Views
Elayne did use Moiraine's coin trick. Gher - 25/08/2010 06:09:27 PM 995 Views
Likely from Vandene DomA - 21/08/2010 05:58:31 PM 1245 Views
Something no one else is mentioning... that I saw... Phelix - 21/08/2010 07:15:49 PM 954 Views
one thing i've noticed Yunalesca - 23/08/2010 06:37:48 PM 891 Views
Simple: none were necessary for survival in Stone Age barbarism. Macharius - 23/08/2010 09:12:40 PM 876 Views
Passing on useful survival skills trumped esoteric lore during the War of Power and the Breaking RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 03:18:47 PM 1039 Views
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