I do not recall seeing any restriction of that kind on Skimming. You do not have to be 'very familiar' with the place you are going to - you just have to know where you want to go.
Yeah, didn't Rand skim to Illian, where he had never been before? I can't recall what method he used, and I don't have the books handy.
Also, the Kin could have skimmed either way. i.e. they could have opened the gate in the house to a place they knew, or they could have skimmed from a place they knew to the house.
Rand travelled to Illian with a regular gateway.
Neither Skimming or Traveling require you to know where you are going well.
Traveling requires you to know where you are leaving from so that you have a starting point to match the one side of the pattern to the other(whether to bore a hole or make similar)
Skimming doesn't require much of anything because you are stepping into the void(T'A'R most likely) and you don't have to decide where you are going until you are there.
An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 04:52:54 AM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 10:23:23 AM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 03:41:10 PM
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I dissagree
- 24/12/2010 07:09:41 PM
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Yes, RJ confirmed that Shadowspawn can't survive gateways. *NM*
- 24/12/2010 07:39:02 PM
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And then BS confirmed that gholam are "more perfected" Shadowspawn which can. 
*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
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*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 11:29:33 AM
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"They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 12:27:02 AM
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Re: "They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 02:05:07 AM
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They prepared a place, and it just happened to be within walking distance of the attack?
- 25/12/2010 09:44:34 AM
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Please re-read the chapter. It expalins a lot.
- 25/12/2010 04:05:50 PM
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Your quote shows what happened.
- 26/12/2010 05:33:44 AM
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Likely picked from a handful of pre-determined locations based on where and when the attack occurred
- 31/12/2010 08:47:20 PM
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Perhaps, but I don't think so.
- 01/01/2011 01:19:12 AM
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Not realty. Caemlyn is huge by the standards of the time but realistically it's tiny
- 01/01/2011 06:05:06 AM
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The sizes I proposed are not huge (well, they would be by standards in the middle ages but not now)
- 04/01/2011 06:37:50 AM
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I believe Caemlyn is less than 300k people .... That's what .05% the size of London?
- 30/01/2011 06:02:50 PM
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You aren't seriously comparing modern population densities to medieval ones, are you? *NM*
- 30/01/2011 09:23:57 PM
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That would be an error if it hadn't been Skimming (the platform and what not) they were using.
- 25/12/2010 02:29:39 AM
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It is an error because they opened a skimming gateway to the house (from the skimming place)
- 25/12/2010 09:47:08 AM
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I'm confused now as to what you're arguing. They knew the location of the house.
- 26/12/2010 08:54:17 PM
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You need to know more than just where you are going
- 27/12/2010 06:59:21 AM
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Please find me a supporting quote in one of the books.
- 27/12/2010 12:48:45 PM
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Re: Please find me a supporting quote in one of the books.
- 27/12/2010 03:11:26 PM
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Skimming
- 27/12/2010 06:24:12 PM
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Well, from Encyclopaedia WOT, and aCoS
- 28/12/2010 01:02:42 AM
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I stand corrected. Though I will say that the uses in the books don't match the definition.
- 28/12/2010 02:17:43 PM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 12:22:38 PM
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