To me it makes sense that every Channeler would have numerous angreal if possible.
Only fairly weak channellers would really need personal angreal, and it sounds like having one was a sign of weakness as most of them are disguised to pass unnoticed as brooches or rings and such, or decorative items you could keep on display and pick up if you need them at home, or carry in a purse. Among the Forsaken, flaunting an angreal is probably the same as admitting you're in fear of the others. The Chosen even mocked (privately or not) those who sought to acquire the big stuff like Callandor. They all wish they had stuff like this, but they won't admit it to the others.
The AOL seemed to favour cooperative efforts (mixed gender ones incl.) over the use of angreal. There's one obvious reason for this: the OP is very addictive. Using angreal regularly isn't a good thing. Another reason was probably that there was no lack of Aes Sedai to join circles back then.
The more powerful stuff, that your average AS never needs except on duty for his or her local Hall, were probably in storage at those local Halls, with even more powerful stuff in the keeping of the Guild's central administration, or at facilities like research centers, factories etc.
As for the Forsaken not coming to SG with a whole arsenal, it seems to me the answer is pretty obvious. They probably all had a collection in a hidden place somewhere, but RJ described the DO as the ultimate paranoid control freak... He totally forbids the use of the OP near the Pit of Doom, killing anyone touching the Source without questions asked... You'd have to be a complete moron to go there with anything ressembling a OP object, especially anything like a OP magnifier...
You always have an answer to everything that makes it seems like RJ never did anything without a reason that made sense in WoT.
Well how about the truth for once?
The Forsaken didn't get angreals, they don't have angreals and they magically ignored all the ones in the Tower because that's what RJ wanted. If they did have them then it wouldn't make much sense why they havent already incinerated Rand and Co.
There, the truth, not some hokey pokey PC answer.
This message last edited by malekithe on 11/05/2011 at 07:36:22 AM
How come every Forsaken wasn’t loaded with angreal when they were sealed in the Bore?
07/05/2011 02:35:18 AM
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Several reasons exist
07/05/2011 08:49:41 AM
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Re: Several reasons exist
07/05/2011 03:09:51 PM
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Or another question
07/05/2011 04:07:31 PM
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There's no reason to pack heat for a meeting at SG
07/05/2011 06:08:53 PM
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They probably left them all at home.. .and not by choice...
07/05/2011 08:48:50 PM
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Uh whatever!
11/05/2011 07:35:54 AM
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Re: Uh whatever!
11/05/2011 10:02:40 AM
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Meet malekithe.
11/05/2011 08:06:01 PM
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But the Dark One could control what the One Power did in Shayol Ghul
11/05/2011 07:14:43 PM
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it could also be that he told them to, because he could.
11/05/2011 10:18:34 PM
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Re: it could also be that he told them to, because he could.
11/05/2011 11:50:27 PM
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I was under impression they weren't very aware of the "destroying reality" part
12/05/2011 06:06:56 AM
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RJ stuffed up...
08/05/2011 02:13:15 PM
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Re: I don't think so
08/05/2011 03:09:29 PM
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Good points
08/05/2011 03:13:57 PM
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well, given that we don't really KNOW how Cuendillar was made...
09/05/2011 06:11:32 AM
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Re: well, given that we don't really KNOW how Cuendillar was made...
09/05/2011 10:57:45 AM
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I suppose that depends on what you want to get out of a fantasy book. *NM*
09/05/2011 10:28:48 PM
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my personal theory with other thoughts
09/05/2011 08:10:34 PM
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Re: my personal theory with other thoughts
10/05/2011 08:07:50 AM
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Some people would.
11/05/2011 02:42:25 PM
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Re: Some people would.
11/05/2011 03:01:01 PM
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It definitely wasn't common.
11/05/2011 03:45:45 PM
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My personal theory is that angreal and sa'angreal require Circles of male and female channelers
11/05/2011 07:24:34 PM
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Re: My personal theory is that angreal and sa'angreal require Circles of male and female channelers
11/05/2011 07:45:03 PM
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Er, though -
16/05/2011 06:08:55 PM
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Re: Er, though -
17/05/2011 12:38:14 PM
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Don't think so
17/05/2011 01:09:36 PM
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Re: Don't think so
17/05/2011 01:15:53 PM
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I imagine they could
17/05/2011 01:45:03 PM
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Re: I imagine they could
17/05/2011 01:49:53 PM
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That makes sense
17/05/2011 02:16:05 PM
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Re: That makes sense
17/05/2011 03:46:04 PM
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Re: That makes sense
17/05/2011 04:21:11 PM
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Re: That makes sense
18/05/2011 01:18:43 PM
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We don't really know how the a'dam are made (I see this brought up in the other posts, though)
23/05/2011 03:11:18 PM
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