With the Black Ajah, you either agree to join, or you're murdered
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 01/10/2010 10:16:41 PM
- Verin is, as far as we know, the first Black Ajah who didn't really want to be a member. ...You can nitpick almost anything to pieces if you try hard enough.
The way they recruit, I don't doubt for a second that other members have been reluctant (although I'm sure they try to "scout" potentials as well as possible)
The very existence of the Black Oaths show that they fear betrayal from within.
In the (what? more than 2000?) years of the White Tower, you don't think anyone's ever gone "Join the Black Ajah, or die? I don't wanna die!" before?
(Yes, I know that's different from the reasons Verin joined, but it works out the same. A basically good person is now in the Black Ajah.)
I amuse myself.
Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 08:35:55 AM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 29/09/2010 11:52:10 AM
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As far as we know, they're just regular Oath Rod oaths. There's no surveillance
- 29/09/2010 09:50:16 PM
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It's poetic. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 11:59:05 AM
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agreed. "The hour of my death" sounds more threatening and foreboding. *NM*
- 29/09/2010 09:33:38 PM
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The Forsaken that created the Oaths in the first place must have messed up
- 29/09/2010 03:14:30 PM
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Most likely
- 29/09/2010 05:43:38 PM
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Although given how we know Oaths work, they wouldn't have to die.
- 29/09/2010 09:55:22 PM
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It's really, really stupid
- 29/09/2010 09:58:51 PM
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As with many previous similar debates regarding the Shadow
- 29/09/2010 10:18:03 PM
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Hah, Either they're SO SMART we just don't realize it... or they're idiots
- 01/10/2010 10:11:42 PM
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Jordan needed it this way to be able to write the deeply moving Verin confession scene
- 29/09/2010 10:39:22 PM
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it's not so much that they are dumb... they just have no common sense!
- 30/09/2010 05:57:03 PM
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It's less stupid than you think
- 29/09/2010 11:51:34 PM
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With the Black Ajah, you either agree to join, or you're murdered
- 01/10/2010 10:16:41 PM
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Translation error
- 30/09/2010 01:02:06 AM
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This would be awesome if true. Unfortunately, I don't think it is
- 01/10/2010 10:20:20 PM
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Re: Why is there a loophole in the Dark Oaths?
- 30/09/2010 04:20:05 PM
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Because no one is perfect.
- 01/10/2010 03:06:14 AM
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Padan Fain wasn't a mistake.
- 01/10/2010 03:56:28 AM
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Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 05:22:09 AM
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Re: Sure he was.
- 01/10/2010 06:39:26 AM
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse. 
- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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- 01/10/2010 07:13:03 AM
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I always hate that saying..ignorance is bliss! So it should be a valid excuse!
- 01/10/2010 07:36:52 AM
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