Re: An a'dam is a link that the damane cannot escape
LordScimitar Send a noteboard - 11/11/2010 02:15:17 PM
The flows are controlled by the sul'dam, even if (highly unusually) all the Power comes from the damane. But the Aes Sedai damane is prevented from forming any flow that violates the Oaths, so she is useless in battle unless a way around the Oaths can be found.
I'm pretty certain Jordan has commented on the same being true of any ordinary (i.e. voluntary) circle. The leader (Aes Sedai, Wise One, Windfinder, Ashaman, whatever) cannot draw power for a weave that violates an Oath.
I'm pretty certain Jordan has commented on the same being true of any ordinary (i.e. voluntary) circle. The leader (Aes Sedai, Wise One, Windfinder, Ashaman, whatever) cannot draw power for a weave that violates an Oath.
In the damane example, the flows are controlled by the sul'dam, but it's still the damane making them.
In the circle, once you've given up your power, you've lost control to do anything. I don't see how the oaths can do what isn't naturally possible--by preventing someone from forming the weaves when you're linked with them and pass along the power.
The 3 oaths cannot make the user do something impossible. It can only prevent in physical ways. Choking them so they can't speak the lie. Not letting them form the weaves of something forbidden. But, to actually stop someone leading a circle? That, as far as we're aware, is impossible. Once you've given over power--its theirs to do as they wish, for as long as they wish.
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- 10/11/2010 09:57:02 PM
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Re: You missed something with Perrin's scene - those were Wise Ones, not Aes Sedai
- 11/11/2010 02:16:08 PM
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An a'dam is a link that the damane cannot escape
- 11/11/2010 03:20:03 AM
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Re: An a'dam is a link that the damane cannot escape
- 11/11/2010 02:15:17 PM
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