My point was that it's surprising only ONE Healing weave survived
darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 11/02/2012 08:25:02 PM
Clearly there are a vast array of Healing weaves and various Talents in the area... So it is not a shock that at least some was lost. But it defies rational thinking that every scrap of Healng knowledge with the exception of one Weave was lost. Traveling is essentially one weave that requires a Talent and/or a level of strength that makes it reasonable to assume that it could have died out quickly during a time of upheaval. Healing on the other hand seems to have been an entire field of study during the AoL ... Certainly areas that require rare Talent or great Strength or specialized equipment would be lost, but to have the entirety of a Profession disappear seems more I plausible to me than the loss of Traveling. Especially when it is a field of study that would be critical in a cataclysmic event. Seems funny that the Printing Press survived the Breaking, but something as critical as the healthcare system devolved to what we would essentially think of as sticking leaches on someone to draw out disease.
We all understand the hows and whys of Nynaeve's discovery and that not all Sisters with the "standard" Talent will excell at the new weaves, but there have also been dozens of women who show great promise with the Weaves ... So this Talent is obviously not as rare as something like Dreaming or Fortelling, and clearly these new Weaves don't require massive Strength as many women are already using it. Not to mention during the Breaking with little if any education women likely were put in positions on an almost daily basis where the standard Weave would not be useful, or would kill someone ect... As the saying goes necessity is the mother of invention ... You'd think some woman along the way would have discovered alternative methods.
We all understand the hows and whys of Nynaeve's discovery and that not all Sisters with the "standard" Talent will excell at the new weaves, but there have also been dozens of women who show great promise with the Weaves ... So this Talent is obviously not as rare as something like Dreaming or Fortelling, and clearly these new Weaves don't require massive Strength as many women are already using it. Not to mention during the Breaking with little if any education women likely were put in positions on an almost daily basis where the standard Weave would not be useful, or would kill someone ect... As the saying goes necessity is the mother of invention ... You'd think some woman along the way would have discovered alternative methods.
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
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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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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