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Or, you know, she's being cleverer than you give her credit for... fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 06/11/2010 04:45:10 PM
Let us, for a moment, ignore your perception of Egwene and her plans for the White Tower.

Think of this from Elayne's perspective: She is a queen of two nations, mother to the children of the Dragon Reborn, technically the liege to Perrin Aybara and the Two Rivers, currently the employer of the Band of the Red hand and its canons, currently the only ruler to have Channelers around her to aid her in Healing and trade. And she is one of the most powerful Aes Sedai in the world, the only maker of ter'angreal (thus making the Tower beholden to her), extremely skilled in working the weather, and short of the Amyrlin Seat, the most powerful woman in the White Tower organization, and likely to be seen as her equal in influence and power.

So she has two options. Make a needless fight with a woman whom she respects and who respects her, with whom she has shared a multitude of dramatic experiences, who would make a promise to treat the Windfinders the same as Wise One's based on just her word, who offers her soldiers to win her throne even when she herself is soon to enter a difficult siege, who has clearly shown herself to be adept at playing politics and who has shown no care that Elayne usurped her authority and burned the rings of the Black Ajah sisters...

Or, she could use the close relationship she has with this woman to their mutual advantage. Together, they form the single most powerful entity in the world, be it in therms of number of channelers or wealth or armies or political influence. She is in the innermost councils of a woman who apparently can successfully call the rulers of the world to her with their full armies even when they are sworn to the Dragon Reborn. She has already been able to influence this woman in powerful ways (Windfinders, the Bowl of the Winds...). While she herself can also be influenced by Egwene... why should she care? All evidence to date has shown that they have only benefited from cooperating. The Tower and Andor both are today much more stable than they have been in a long time. Rather than dealing with the Tower and the Amyrlin Seat as unreachable entities as most rulers mush, she is instead part of a small council of women who are truly running the Tower. She's be an absolute moron to want to change that.
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"She knew Egwene wanted Cairhien..." - 05/11/2010 03:22:29 AM 2471 Views
Do you have a reference that we can look at? - 05/11/2010 03:24:39 AM 993 Views
Chapter 45 - A Reunion, Page 669 - 05/11/2010 03:59:25 AM 1172 Views
Ok, now I've checked it. - 05/11/2010 04:07:20 AM 1043 Views
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Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father - 05/11/2010 04:25:43 AM 944 Views
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she's the youngest child - 07/11/2010 07:51:20 PM 843 Views
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Hail Amrlyin Palpategwene - 06/11/2010 02:05:09 AM 1017 Views
They're the ones who raised her this way! That's the last thing she needs. - 06/11/2010 03:38:17 PM 1026 Views
Um, can we assume her parents raised her that way? - 08/11/2010 04:57:05 AM 875 Views
She's a short, female, youngest child of influential parents. Arrogance would come naturally to her. - 09/11/2010 02:08:29 AM 972 Views
Huh - 09/11/2010 07:56:15 AM 994 Views
Wow. What the fuck did your parents do to you? *NM* - 09/11/2010 03:35:07 PM 481 Views
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I try to avoid projecting myself onto fictional characters. Or real people. - 09/11/2010 06:45:14 PM 882 Views
too bad - 09/11/2010 08:20:04 PM 860 Views
Why don't you compare her to a summer's day while you're at it? *NM* - 09/11/2010 07:45:20 PM 404 Views
well... - 09/11/2010 08:18:08 PM 796 Views
I'm teasing you because you lay it on a little thick sometimes *NM* - 10/11/2010 01:10:39 AM 540 Views
You are seriously mis-perceiving a number of things. - 10/11/2010 01:30:47 AM 1049 Views
So? - 05/11/2010 09:53:22 AM 914 Views
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Re: So? - 06/11/2010 09:06:49 AM 846 Views
She didn't say that. You changed the wording and read it without context. - 05/11/2010 03:29:27 PM 1058 Views
So? - 05/11/2010 04:04:54 PM 897 Views
The engima that is Egwene - 06/11/2010 01:41:43 AM 915 Views
I wonder if... - 06/11/2010 05:17:45 AM 896 Views
You might have paid more attention than me when reading - 06/11/2010 06:50:46 AM 891 Views
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That's the problem with Elayne that has emerged. - 06/11/2010 03:31:41 PM 1080 Views
Or, you know, she's being cleverer than you give her credit for... - 06/11/2010 04:45:10 PM 950 Views
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So fragmentation is the reply? - 06/11/2010 09:59:47 PM 888 Views
Checks and balances IS diluting power. - 09/11/2010 02:16:18 AM 907 Views
The Andoran houses should ask one question of Elayne - and remove her if she answers wrongly - 08/11/2010 02:03:08 AM 962 Views
Hear, hear. - 09/11/2010 02:18:49 AM 946 Views
Maybe it's typo - 08/11/2010 06:38:26 PM 1121 Views
Yes, I'm pretty certain it is. - 09/11/2010 09:00:32 AM 855 Views
Agreed - 09/11/2010 07:05:09 PM 808 Views
i thought it was a typo too *NM* - 10/11/2010 09:11:10 AM 512 Views

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