Why in the world do you assume that the end of the Breaking was an exact date, and the reinvention of channeling began only then?
The way it probably worked was, in the first 150-200 years of the Breaking (which itself officially started several decades after LTT's mission, remember. Latra Pose had time to round up other Foresaken and become a famous woman before enough men started going mad to start the Breaking proper), the AoL advanced knowledge was gradually eroded. More and more women received half-baked training at some basic weaves for survival, and special skills were ignored. Women probably got enough training so they won't kill themselves, then sent off (at which point they would be unlikely to be strong enough for Traveling). By the time the Breaking is done, all that survives is very basic knowledge.
By 98 AB, groups have formed, several with very non-overlapping skill-sets.
The entire knowledge base of the Tower at its founding was definitely NOT equal to its current extent. For one thing, several Earth and Fire intensive weaves likely were widely used then that were slowly ignored as women strong in Earth and Fire became rarer. But many weaves were also absent.
We know that there was a great deal of research since the Tower's founding and up to the Trolloc Wars, at least. Tons of ter'angreal were found and their functions determined. For 300 years, research was done on alternate ways to fight the taint than simply gentle men. Research was done into linked circles (and a non-AoL way was even found to make a forced circle, that was then lost), and so on. Nothing indicates that a lot of current Tower knowledge didn't come from those times. That, in fact, is far more likely than the Tower having a continuous knowledge base from the AoL, just one that shrank a lot.
The way it probably worked was, in the first 150-200 years of the Breaking (which itself officially started several decades after LTT's mission, remember. Latra Pose had time to round up other Foresaken and become a famous woman before enough men started going mad to start the Breaking proper), the AoL advanced knowledge was gradually eroded. More and more women received half-baked training at some basic weaves for survival, and special skills were ignored. Women probably got enough training so they won't kill themselves, then sent off (at which point they would be unlikely to be strong enough for Traveling). By the time the Breaking is done, all that survives is very basic knowledge.
By 98 AB, groups have formed, several with very non-overlapping skill-sets.
The entire knowledge base of the Tower at its founding was definitely NOT equal to its current extent. For one thing, several Earth and Fire intensive weaves likely were widely used then that were slowly ignored as women strong in Earth and Fire became rarer. But many weaves were also absent.
We know that there was a great deal of research since the Tower's founding and up to the Trolloc Wars, at least. Tons of ter'angreal were found and their functions determined. For 300 years, research was done on alternate ways to fight the taint than simply gentle men. Research was done into linked circles (and a non-AoL way was even found to make a forced circle, that was then lost), and so on. Nothing indicates that a lot of current Tower knowledge didn't come from those times. That, in fact, is far more likely than the Tower having a continuous knowledge base from the AoL, just one that shrank a lot.
How did Travelling become a lost Talent?
- 03/02/2012 09:09:39 AM
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It is a little odd. Maybe because channelers weren't united for a while?
- 03/02/2012 02:24:17 PM
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Re: How did Travelling become a lost Talent?
- 03/02/2012 02:49:02 PM
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Hey, why don't you reference ANY place in the series a character learns ANY weave from a book?
- 04/02/2012 07:42:43 AM
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i think it could be
- 03/02/2012 07:56:18 PM
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THANK YOU!!! Are we the only ones here who can see the obvious?!
- 04/02/2012 07:40:39 AM
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Re: THANK YOU!!! Are we the only ones here who can see the obvious?!
- 04/02/2012 09:56:48 AM
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Re: THANK YOU!!! Are we the only ones here who can see the obvious?!
- 04/02/2012 01:57:10 PM
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Have you read the Big White Book? It details some of the events that happened during The Breaking
- 08/02/2012 04:27:13 PM
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It's always struck me as a tool of the Author more than a good hard fact
- 04/02/2012 01:40:06 AM
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Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 07:34:45 AM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 09:48:52 AM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 03:04:48 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 04/02/2012 06:58:41 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 12:00:05 AM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 04:05:57 AM
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I don't see why people are having trouble believing Traveling was lost in the Breaking
- 05/02/2012 05:53:32 PM
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Re: I don't see why people are having trouble believing Traveling was lost in the Breaking
- 05/02/2012 07:39:51 PM
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My point was that it's surprising only ONE Healing weave survived
- 11/02/2012 08:25:02 PM
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Re: I don't see why people are having trouble believing Traveling was lost in the Breaking
- 05/02/2012 09:11:04 PM
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I agree. I was going to respond but you covered most of the bases.
- 08/02/2012 04:13:20 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 09:52:35 PM
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You really need to read the BWB sections regarding this
- 14/02/2012 01:20:20 AM
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he needs to read it just to see it for his own eyes
- 14/02/2012 02:46:44 AM
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Re: he needs to read it just to see it for his own eyes
- 14/02/2012 10:15:46 PM
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I would agree with you on less structured parts of the series
- 15/02/2012 03:38:37 PM
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Re: I would agree with you on less structured parts of the series
- 16/02/2012 09:41:29 PM
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That I can agree with
- 17/02/2012 05:46:49 AM
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Re: That I can agree with
- 17/02/2012 09:26:50 AM
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Seriously! The Yellow should be ashamed
- 17/02/2012 01:49:07 PM
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Well to be fair to the Yellow (which generally annoy me as an Ajah)...
- 17/02/2012 06:20:06 PM
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Re: Your theory is based on rather severely flawed assumptions
- 05/02/2012 09:02:28 PM
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98 years...
- 06/02/2012 02:27:08 AM
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Why would the AoL Servants of All build themselves a self-aggrandizing island-city-fort-tower?
- 08/02/2012 03:03:49 PM
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Re: Why would the AoL Servants of All build themselves a self-aggrandizing island-city-fort-tower?
- 09/02/2012 10:38:23 PM
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Re: Why would the AoL Servants of All build themselves a self-aggrandizing island-city-fort-tower?
- 11/02/2012 07:58:40 PM
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The White Tower began construction in 98 AB. Go read the section in the BWB
- 12/02/2012 01:48:58 AM
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The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Wills. *NM*
- 06/02/2012 02:38:36 AM
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I wonder if it'd possible to open gateways based on the memories of a previous incarnation? *NM*
- 07/02/2012 09:56:25 PM
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except for Rand/LTT and Birgitte, I get the impression that people don't have memories of past lives *NM*
- 08/02/2012 02:38:00 AM
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