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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 2056 Views
Ishamael may have had a hand in that... Froggles - 20/08/2010 04:45:39 AM 1334 Views
Agreed. Lord Haart - 20/08/2010 10:01:37 AM 1214 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 1322 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 1044 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 1085 Views
The bigger problem is minor characters copying the weaves so quickly... Shannow - 20/08/2010 09:14:25 PM 1127 Views
Lost Weaves Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:43:25 PM 1350 Views
Re: Lost Weaves *NM* Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 01:45:30 PM 651 Views
Not logical Shannow - 20/08/2010 01:50:32 PM 1326 Views
Re: Not logical Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:22:04 PM 1112 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 1260 Views
All good points also. Ashaman_Luc - 20/08/2010 03:48:49 PM 1606 Views
Re: Not logical Evil_Monkey - 20/08/2010 03:45:55 PM 1091 Views
Re: Not logical mmcleod - 21/08/2010 04:20:41 AM 1002 Views
you may have hit onto something with your last statement darius_sedai - 21/08/2010 05:06:59 PM 1086 Views
Re: you may have hit onto something with your last statement Ashaman_Luc - 23/08/2010 05:09:06 PM 1006 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 1177 Views
I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge. Gher - 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM 1158 Views
The need to learn a location to travel Ryan - 20/08/2010 05:58:48 PM 1061 Views
They could use Rand's trick from TGS. Gher - 21/08/2010 01:06:33 AM 1030 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 1123 Views
My only theory... Nameless Ashaman - 20/08/2010 06:02:14 PM 1088 Views
The Strongest Died seems like a pretty valid theory to me... lodlom - 20/08/2010 06:14:29 PM 1239 Views
Maybe Aes Sedai treated weaves like Intellectual Property Helene - 20/08/2010 09:49:12 PM 1039 Views
Trademark? Patent? Or Copyright? =P *NM* newyorkersedai - 20/08/2010 10:19:36 PM 484 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 1162 Views
It doesn't have to be logical... scooter - 20/08/2010 11:50:17 PM 1176 Views
Idea? Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2010 12:47:52 AM 961 Views
But they weren't too weak malekithe - 21/08/2010 02:48:43 AM 1079 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 1158 Views
How can you "write a weave down"? NaClH2O - 21/08/2010 04:54:28 PM 1146 Views
How did Moiraine learn balefire then? *NM* Sidious - 21/08/2010 05:04:27 PM 1167 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 521 Views
That's a stretch - Moiraine never demonstrated any creative talent with the OP... DomA - 21/08/2010 06:15:01 PM 1045 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 521 Views
I myself can't buy Vandene teaching that weave to any Sister RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 04:06:26 PM 1087 Views
Me neither... DomA - 24/08/2010 05:50:24 PM 1113 Views
Mispost.. *NM* RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:51:02 PM 571 Views
I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP RugbyPlayingAshaman - 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM 1064 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 1401 Views
But... fionwe1987 - 24/08/2010 06:40:39 PM 1036 Views
When did she use that? *NM* Lord Haart - 25/08/2010 09:34:31 AM 494 Views
We know of her trick with stones and light from 'New Spring' IIRC RugbyPlayingAshaman - 25/08/2010 02:40:26 PM 1316 Views
Elayne did use Moiraine's coin trick. Gher - 25/08/2010 06:09:27 PM 1183 Views
Likely from Vandene DomA - 21/08/2010 05:58:31 PM 1454 Views
Something no one else is mentioning... that I saw... Phelix - 21/08/2010 07:15:49 PM 1125 Views
one thing i've noticed Yunalesca - 23/08/2010 06:37:48 PM 1076 Views
Simple: none were necessary for survival in Stone Age barbarism. Macharius - 23/08/2010 09:12:40 PM 1045 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 1230 Views
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