It is said at various points in the series that wisdoms who can listen to the wind and who are exceptionally good at healing are in reality channeling. Why are there no indication that these women live to be very old? One would expect at least some of them to become several hundred years old.
Given how superstitious the common folk can be, I would think that a wisdom who realised she wasn't ageing normally would move away before everyone else noticed and she ended up with a Dragon's fang on her door, and then repeat the pattern every decade or so for the rest of her life. Or find herself a farm in the middle of nowhere, like Cadsuane's toothless old wilder.
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Old wisdoms
- 27/12/2010 10:21:39 PM
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Women who could channel but were not properly trained did not live long *NM*
- 27/12/2010 11:41:15 PM
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The ones that are channeling picked up by Kin
- 28/12/2010 08:19:51 PM
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Nope, the Kin only accept those who have studied in the White Tower
- 28/12/2010 11:01:11 PM
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Re: Old wisdoms
- 29/12/2010 09:07:26 PM
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They likely leave the area before people really figure it out.
- 31/12/2010 07:15:02 PM
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Those women...
- 02/01/2011 11:29:48 PM
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I agree with you ... which is why I pointed out that most of these women leave the area
- 09/01/2011 08:09:39 PM
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Them leaving and moving to a different area is the only reasonable explanation.
- 09/01/2011 02:08:33 AM
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Actually, it's worse, because she wouldn't be a long-lived OLD woman, but rather a forever-young one *NM*
- 09/01/2011 01:36:48 PM
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