Skimming
The ability to open a gateway to a dark dimension (not well defined or understood), move through that dimension, and open another gateway back into the real world in a different location. First mention is TFoH,Ch6. Anyone of sufficient strength and knowledge can Skim. Skimming requires detailed knowledge of the place one is Skimming to. Skimming was not even known as a lost Talent. (ACoS,Ch9)
-Encyclopaedia Wot - Talents
The ability to open a gateway to a dark dimension (not well defined or understood), move through that dimension, and open another gateway back into the real world in a different location. First mention is TFoH,Ch6. Anyone of sufficient strength and knowledge can Skim. Skimming requires detailed knowledge of the place one is Skimming to. Skimming was not even known as a lost Talent. (ACoS,Ch9)
-Encyclopaedia Wot - Talents
What Egwene had pried from Moghedien was a way to journey from a place you did not know well to one you did. Slower than Traveling, Skimming was not even one of the lost Telents...
-A Crown of Swords - Ch9, p186
-A Crown of Swords - Ch9, p186
There would be more in The Fires of Heaven when Asmo was explaining things to Rand.
This message last edited by rAndy aL on 28/12/2010 at 01:03:12 AM
An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 04:52:54 AM
2024 Views
Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 10:23:23 AM
1239 Views
Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 03:41:10 PM
1076 Views
I dissagree
- 24/12/2010 07:09:41 PM
1050 Views
Yes, RJ confirmed that Shadowspawn can't survive gateways. *NM*
- 24/12/2010 07:39:02 PM
455 Views
And then BS confirmed that gholam are "more perfected" Shadowspawn which can. 
*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
459 Views
*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
459 Views
Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 11:29:33 AM
981 Views
"They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 12:27:02 AM
880 Views
Re: "They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 02:05:07 AM
887 Views
They prepared a place, and it just happened to be within walking distance of the attack?
- 25/12/2010 09:44:34 AM
857 Views
Please re-read the chapter. It expalins a lot.
- 25/12/2010 04:05:50 PM
923 Views
Your quote shows what happened.
- 26/12/2010 05:33:44 AM
835 Views
Likely picked from a handful of pre-determined locations based on where and when the attack occurred
- 31/12/2010 08:47:20 PM
904 Views
Perhaps, but I don't think so.
- 01/01/2011 01:19:12 AM
732 Views
Not realty. Caemlyn is huge by the standards of the time but realistically it's tiny
- 01/01/2011 06:05:06 AM
772 Views
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
715 Views
I believe Caemlyn is less than 300k people .... That's what .05% the size of London?
- 30/01/2011 06:02:50 PM
752 Views
You aren't seriously comparing modern population densities to medieval ones, are you? *NM*
- 30/01/2011 09:23:57 PM
436 Views
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
817 Views
It is an error because they opened a skimming gateway to the house (from the skimming place)
- 25/12/2010 09:47:08 AM
813 Views
I'm confused now as to what you're arguing. They knew the location of the house.
- 26/12/2010 08:54:17 PM
799 Views
You need to know more than just where you are going
- 27/12/2010 06:59:21 AM
823 Views
Please find me a supporting quote in one of the books.
- 27/12/2010 12:48:45 PM
836 Views
Well, from Encyclopaedia WOT, and aCoS
- 28/12/2010 01:02:42 AM
918 Views
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
874 Views
Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 12:22:38 PM
955 Views