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I think it's a matter of perspective too darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 27/01/2011 05:12:29 PM
By that analogy, Nynaeve is around a hundred times stronger than Egwene...


Moiraine was also trying to impress Siuan with her find. They'd just been speaking about the prestige the Reds had received for finding Elayne, so she was likely exaggerating to make the Blue's future gloating seem all the better.

Still, I do believe Nynaeve to be a great distance ahead of Egwene and co, and not based on isolated quotes but a whole range of them.


When a woman like Reanne looks at Nynaeve and can feel a strength difference between her and another woman that is equivalent to 100% of Daigian's strength Reanne is going to see that as a pretty massive gap (that gap would be close to 50% of Reanne's total strength). But from the reverse side of it that's likely only about 20% of Nynaeve's total strength ... Reanne's comment about Alivia comes to mind ... Nynaeve's current strength could have been within 5% of Alivia's but from Reanne's perspective that felt like a "considerable" difference, when in reality they aren't all that far apart at all.

It's possible that a 5% difference in their raw strengths is equivalent to the total strength of a woman like Alise, so from the perspective of someone less than 3x Alise's strength that seems like a pretty big gap.

I assume the difference between Egwene and Nynaeve is about the raw strength of Daigian, which would certainly seem like a significant increase in the eyes of an AS, but in reality isn't as huge from the opposite perspective.
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It's a nice idea, really - 22/01/2011 07:04:03 PM 1206 Views
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*blows out the friggin candle* ... why does anyone take EoTW Moiraine quotes seriously? - 26/01/2011 09:41:53 PM 1064 Views
tGH, but I agree... - 27/01/2011 04:58:08 AM 1149 Views
Re: tGH, but I agree... - 27/01/2011 07:29:15 AM 993 Views
I think it's a matter of perspective too - 27/01/2011 05:12:29 PM 923 Views
Nynaeve temporarily holds Logain shielded on her own, while 5 average strength Aes Sedai cannot... - 27/01/2011 05:35:26 PM 853 Views
Another inconsistency ... since 4 women held a shield on Rand who is Stronger than Logain EDIT - 27/01/2011 07:47:31 PM 965 Views
Not an inconsistency and if you analyse it... - 27/01/2011 08:21:39 PM 1176 Views
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Re: Wait... what? - 28/01/2011 12:26:22 AM 863 Views
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Yeah, but... - 28/01/2011 12:53:26 PM 1002 Views
Therer is a direct quote in New Spring - 28/01/2011 02:20:40 PM 975 Views
Yup... *NM* - 28/01/2011 02:42:15 PM 512 Views
Thanks - 28/01/2011 04:05:47 PM 1029 Views
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right tGH but still! *NM* - 27/01/2011 04:02:57 PM 455 Views
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