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Re: Aviendha's babies LewsTherin10 Send a noteboard - 22/11/2010 04:19:20 PM

I was just pondering - what do you think is the point, narratively speaking, of Aviendha's babies? We were told they'll be quadruplets, and in ToM we learn they're born channeling - very odd, when channeling ability doesn't normally manifest until well into puberty. But why? The chances of a woman in a preindustrial society even managing to carry four children to term, never mind any of them surviving, are staggeringly low. Their channeling is entirely unprecedented, so far as we know. But nothing I read of them in ToM required four siblings, or even, really, that they be channelers at all.

I doubt it was put in as some sort of gimmick. Jordan must have had a reason for including such an astonishingly unlikely event, but I can't see us finding out what it was.


As far as I can remember the children haven't been conceived yet. Maybe we'll get an on-screen orgie scene with all of Rand's belles =D
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Aviendha's babies - 22/11/2010 02:16:38 PM 1391 Views
They'll be conceived while Rand is fighting the DO and channeling a lot? *NM* - 22/11/2010 02:56:49 PM 315 Views
Re: Aviendha's babies - 22/11/2010 03:38:59 PM 956 Views
She does have good childbearing hips. - 23/11/2010 11:32:04 AM 732 Views
Re: Aviendha's babies - 22/11/2010 04:19:20 PM 913 Views
WOT healthcare is far, far better than our own - 23/11/2010 05:49:15 AM 768 Views
It explains how they steered the Aiel into the war - 23/11/2010 11:39:41 AM 855 Views
Definitely also tips the hat to Dune. *NM* - 26/11/2010 01:27:03 PM 346 Views

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