my point is that they would not be able to recreate the friggin AOL
darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 22/08/2010 05:18:03 PM
What is the point you are trying to make? You seem hell bent on proving that Age of Legends Aes Sedai fleeing to another world would not be a good idea.
The undeniable fact is that whatever they are able to take with them, even if they just took the Age of Legends knowledge in their heads, they would still have a vast advantage over the scattered groups of half trained Aes Sedai who founded the White Tower hundreds of years after the Breaking.
On earth, no Aes Sedai from the Age of Legends survived the Breaking. And they had to survive centuries of destruction and chaos before they could begin to rebuild. They had no tools or technology left, but they still managed to create the White Tower.
Compared to the unfortunates who stayed behind, any Age of Legends Aes Sedai who escaped to a more stable planet would have been able to establish a White Tower or Hall of Servants or its equivalent IMMEDIATELY, with Age of Legends knowledge still intact.
Whatever the White Tower has achieved in the last 3000 years, a sizeable group of Age of Legends Aes Sedai would have been able to achieve vastly more on another, Breaking-free world.
The undeniable fact is that whatever they are able to take with them, even if they just took the Age of Legends knowledge in their heads, they would still have a vast advantage over the scattered groups of half trained Aes Sedai who founded the White Tower hundreds of years after the Breaking.
On earth, no Aes Sedai from the Age of Legends survived the Breaking. And they had to survive centuries of destruction and chaos before they could begin to rebuild. They had no tools or technology left, but they still managed to create the White Tower.
Compared to the unfortunates who stayed behind, any Age of Legends Aes Sedai who escaped to a more stable planet would have been able to establish a White Tower or Hall of Servants or its equivalent IMMEDIATELY, with Age of Legends knowledge still intact.
Whatever the White Tower has achieved in the last 3000 years, a sizeable group of Age of Legends Aes Sedai would have been able to achieve vastly more on another, Breaking-free world.
Survive, sure, but going to another world without the equipment or the men needed to recreate the AOL wouldn't be all that much better than staying where they were. They'd still be reverted to a tribal society scavenging for a foot hold. The only difference would be the world wouldn't be under attack from insane male channelers so they would be safer.
You have this idea in your head that they would be transport the whole AOL society with them, but that society was dead long before the Breaking. They no longer had the ability to create the wonders of even 20 years prior, they had lost the ability to link with men safely to make the marvels of the AOL. They would be no different than the AS who were in less affected regions of Randland.
Maybe they would have a few more weaves and probably 3000 years later they would have developed into a vastly different society than in Randland, but AOL is doubtful.
You are losing site of the fact that these people would still have been refugees. On a strange planet where they didn't even know the flora or fawna well enough to know what they could eat, or what might eat them!
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
Did Aes Sedai refugees flee via gateway circles to other planets to escape the Breaking?
- 20/08/2010 04:15:17 PM
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Assumes the Dark One can only affect Earth
- 20/08/2010 04:55:04 PM
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No...
- 20/08/2010 05:05:53 PM
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Even in this perfect world the AS would never be able to come back. No men to link with.
- 20/08/2010 05:38:06 PM
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Until now that Saidin has been cleansed...or Demandred has tracked them down...
- 20/08/2010 08:11:11 PM
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Unless this post-AoL society let the male channelers channel, under intense supervision.
- 21/08/2010 12:59:30 AM
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Re: Did Aes Sedai refugees flee via gateway circles to other planets to escape the Breaking?
- 20/08/2010 06:28:50 PM
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Re: Did Aes Sedai refugees flee via gateway circles to other planets to escape the Breaking?
- 20/08/2010 11:12:04 PM
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They could have, but they're not coming back.
- 21/08/2010 06:54:23 AM
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And the world has changed so much, their Gates probably wouldn't work.
- 25/08/2010 05:56:36 PM
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interesting concept
- 21/08/2010 06:05:25 PM
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The main point is that you need tens of thousands of male channelers to Break a planet...
- 21/08/2010 07:14:40 PM
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but none of the tools or equipment
- 22/08/2010 03:40:27 PM
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What's your point? Either way, they would be better off than the creators of the White Tower...
- 22/08/2010 04:03:33 PM
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my point is that they would not be able to recreate the friggin AOL
- 22/08/2010 05:18:03 PM
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Think logically for a moment...
- 22/08/2010 05:33:08 PM
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I think you are making a huge leap
- 23/08/2010 10:38:08 PM
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You don't think female channelers can pass on the channeling gene to male offspring? And vice versa? *NM*
- 24/08/2010 12:53:44 AM
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