As RJ said, Cyndane knows a LOT more about the OP - Edit 1
Before modification by darius_sedai at 31/12/2010 08:34:20 PM
4) Alivia frightens Nynaeve with her strength, and Nynaeve has come face to face with several Forsaken.
5) Alivia is approx 400 years old, likely older than Cyndane ie Lanfear was and since the age of 12 or 13 she has been trained solely to be used as a weapon. Cyndane may know more weaves, but no reason to believe she knows more battle weaves.
6) Alivia commented that The Asha'man may be called weapons, but she was confident that she was far, far more lethal of a weapon.
Basically between her 388 years of battle experience, her ter'angreal and her quite powerful angreal it should have been like Rand dealing with Damer Flinn, ie: No Contest. Alivia should have actually been able to shield her quite easily.
Besides luck, and RJ just making Cyndane win how can you explain how Alivia came off the big loser in that fight?
5) Alivia is approx 400 years old, likely older than Cyndane ie Lanfear was and since the age of 12 or 13 she has been trained solely to be used as a weapon. Cyndane may know more weaves, but no reason to believe she knows more battle weaves.
6) Alivia commented that The Asha'man may be called weapons, but she was confident that she was far, far more lethal of a weapon.
Basically between her 388 years of battle experience, her ter'angreal and her quite powerful angreal it should have been like Rand dealing with Damer Flinn, ie: No Contest. Alivia should have actually been able to shield her quite easily.
Besides luck, and RJ just making Cyndane win how can you explain how Alivia came off the big loser in that fight?
First Nynaeve could not actually feel Alivia's strength, she is going off of what others say about her. Take into account that Alivia, while clearly stronger than Nynaeve, may not be significantly stronger once Nynaeve hits full potential (which she had not when she was told Alivia was "considerably" stronger). And even then she isn't in awe or fear, merely frustrated that she may not be strong enough to stop Alivia from helping Rand die. Big difference.
Second point. alive is trained in battle field fighting, big difference between that and a 1:1 duel with an OP master such as Cyndane. She may very well be a better weapon than the AM, but realistically that doesn't mean much beyond knowing combat weaves. She has no sense of how to adapt her weaves to fight a single combatant and since Cyndane is Reversing she can't see what Cyndane is doing... The ter'angreal only stops direct attacks.
Finally, Cyndane didn't just stand still and wait for Alivia's attacks. She sliced flows and ran her ass off. Oddly Cyndane didn't recognize the Paralis Net as both Semirhage and LTT did... But she clearly knew how to combat the thing.
It's no mystery that Cyndane won the fight.
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