Re: I think all the Companions were high Forsaken strength
RugbyPlayingAshaman Send a noteboard - 27/09/2011 04:25:14 PM
The BWB says they were powerful and young. The Forsaken also comment on the fact that he no longer has the Companions, meaning that they were a terrible force to be reckoned with. Two thirds of them survived the strike on the Bore so they must have been very dangerous indeed.
LTT does seem to make something out of strength, for instance his condescending comment to Moiraine being a 'Little Sister'.
I think to become a Companion you had to be a passionate, young male Aes Sedai who wanted to be part of the 'club'. I agree that it was more of an activist group but I think they were all immensely powerful, and that LTT would not have had someone of a lower tier in the group.
However, there is absolutely no evidence or commentary regarding their strength, so I think it's a stretch to assume that just because great power would have been ideal for a member of this group that each member of the group would have this characteristic is a jump in reasoning. It would have been convenient, but I think the point was that Lews Therin had his own private army of loyal channelers and it was access to a loyal group he could depend on that made them so dangerous. Even survival of the Strike doesn't say much for their strength - survivability has as much if not more to do with skill, experience and luck than just strength. You can't really generalize that individual members of a group have a characteristic when we don't know if that characteristic was necessary to be a member of the group. It would be very different if we were told that "only the most powerful young males could join the Companions". As it is, the most we can say is that they were very loyal and would follow Lews' orders absolutely.
P.S. I still think it is funny that we are told that only younger male Aes Sedai joined the Companions. If we didn't know that Lews Therin was heterosexual, I'd almost think he was robbing the cradle.
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26/09/2011 01:47:16 AM
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you forgot about those that took refuge in the steddings
26/09/2011 02:30:41 AM
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the strongest all went insane immediately though, prolly had sa'angreal too. *NM*
26/09/2011 03:45:26 AM
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I don't think strength affects the onset - the Hundred Companions went nuts right away by proximity *NM*
26/09/2011 01:54:52 PM
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Agreed - might even be the opposite
26/09/2011 06:04:50 PM
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Also, we're told that it effects everyone differently. Some men aren't affected for years.
26/09/2011 10:29:25 PM
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And how strong was the guy who flipped out on his first day in the Black Tower? *NM*
27/09/2011 02:42:26 AM
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But the Companions were probably the hundred strongest male channelers of the day *NM*
26/09/2011 09:19:58 PM
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I don't think so. The Companions were young and only 113 out of a few hundred thousand Aes Sedai men
26/09/2011 10:14:22 PM
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I think all the Companions were high Forsaken strength
27/09/2011 03:52:18 PM
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Re: I think all the Companions were high Forsaken strength
27/09/2011 04:25:14 PM
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IIRC they were more of a faction or activist group than a top-tier classification or elite unit
27/09/2011 02:41:20 AM
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Channelers are very powerful & can do large-scale damage that lasts a long time
27/09/2011 04:06:00 PM
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