Yes, I wasn't claiming this was a plot hole or anything...
Fanatic-Templar Send a noteboard - 25/04/2012 06:06:53 AM
... just that I found it incredibly strange. From the columns we know that channeling is noticeably absent from Rand's ancestry in the patrilineal line, and from the Queens of Andor's relationship with the Tower and Elayne's status as first channeling Queen in however long, we can deduce that Rand also has no noticeable channeling ancestry in the purely matrilineal line. That doesn't mean he shouldn't be able to channel, as you point out, I just find that to be a peculiar choice on RJ's part since he intended channeling to be genetic.
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Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
24/04/2012 08:48:40 PM
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24/04/2012 11:43:53 PM
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25/04/2012 05:29:45 AM
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The hair...
25/04/2012 05:14:52 PM
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Yeah, that was bothering me too.
25/04/2012 07:12:31 PM
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Yup ... Suppose the Moridin body switch theory would explain the dark hair
26/04/2012 12:28:42 AM
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Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
25/04/2012 05:57:02 AM
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Yes, I wasn't claiming this was a plot hole or anything...
25/04/2012 06:06:53 AM
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Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
25/04/2012 11:15:09 AM
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Re: Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
25/04/2012 04:11:55 PM
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Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
26/04/2012 12:26:39 AM
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26/04/2012 01:42:19 AM
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I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 01:38:32 AM
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I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 01:39:05 AM
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Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 02:17:17 AM
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True, but the odds of Channelers having children with the ability are vastly higher
26/04/2012 10:48:00 AM
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But in that very revelation, Nynaeve claims that "mother following daughter was rare"
27/04/2012 03:24:21 AM
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Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
26/04/2012 01:30:54 PM
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I believe there is a quote that the soul is only part of what determines the Channelers strength
27/04/2012 10:31:22 AM
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