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I think you use the word Talent too liberally Sidious Send a noteboard - 08/10/2012 05:45:39 PM
Think it through guys. The most obvious examples we have of Talents that are anything BUT rare are Healing and Traveling. They both involve weaves and nearly every Channeler we've come across has at least some ability with them. The level of ability is what fluctuates from person to person. Greater Talent means greater ability to modulate the weave and thus create a wider array of effects than others. With Healing this generally means a woman can Heal more serious wounds, or like Samistu can lessen the shock to the patients body and perform a delicate healing with a fundamentaly blunt weave. On the flip side Egwene can't even close Gawyns wounds fully despite a massive strength difference. Same holds true for gateways. Androl can use a drop of the Power to make one large enough for a wagon, but Flinn pours exponentially more power into a smaller gateway.

This is not a case of the talent itself being rare, it illustrates that there are extremes with Talents. It also proves OP strength is not what determines the end effect of weave involving a Talent.

I wonder what would happen if Androl or Flinn were given angreal ... Would they be able to make larger gateways or would they simply be able to make more gateways of the same size ... Rand seems to think there is a limit to the size any individual can make, and he clearly reached his max size gateway with only a small portion of his strength and thus generates many at the same time. I suspect we would see multiple gateways of the same size rather than larger ones from Flinn, but possibly larger ones from Androl. At least until he reached the edge of his talent.


People who can Heal don't all have a Talent. Teslyn almost passes out when she Heals - and yet you would count her among your abundant Healers. No, a Healer is someone who can Heal miraculously with a fraction of her strength, like Nynaeve, Moiraine, Samitsu etc.

I don't agree that Elayne has a Travelling Talent just because she can Travel. The weave works for her, but you need to be exceptional to have a Talent. Egwene, and possibly Leane are the only women with cuendillar Talents. You can't count all those women who sit on a small piece of iron for an hour to make a piece of cuendillar.

I think a lot of our debate centers on our individual definitions of a Talent. Perhaps you think that anyone who plays the piano has Talent, but I personally think that most people can given practice and that true Talent lies only in the hands of exceptional musicians.
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Again THANK YOU! - 11/10/2012 08:35:10 PM 850 Views
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Because let's be honest, it's rarely a Talent and you both know it - 11/10/2012 04:44:27 PM 1015 Views
TY!!! - 11/10/2012 08:38:44 PM 1038 Views
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the fact that Egwene is proven incorrect on this any number of times? - 12/10/2012 04:14:35 AM 1028 Views
THANK YOU!!! - 11/10/2012 08:26:49 PM 961 Views
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Circles give added precision, remember? - 07/10/2012 11:27:05 PM 965 Views
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Circles of larger numbers give added benefit... - 08/10/2012 02:00:58 AM 1016 Views
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Highly doubtful... - 08/10/2012 01:36:47 PM 952 Views
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That has no relevance here - 09/10/2012 06:29:34 PM 876 Views
Beonin's Gateway v. Egwene's v. Rand's v. Aviendha and Elayne Edit: made a math mistake - 06/10/2012 08:34:56 PM 1361 Views
This debate is restricted by the "largest Gateway possible" issue. And some added points to consider - 07/10/2012 04:09:33 AM 921 Views
Re: This debate is restricted by the "largest Gateway possible" issue. - 07/10/2012 07:46:51 PM 1065 Views
I noticed that... - 07/10/2012 11:38:18 PM 1026 Views
Re: This debate is restricted by the "largest Gateway possible" issue. - 08/10/2012 05:47:57 PM 922 Views
Re: This debate is restricted by the "largest Gateway possible" issue. - 09/10/2012 05:08:34 PM 1157 Views
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True - 07/10/2012 10:01:42 PM 968 Views
Life skills and OP skills... - 02/10/2012 06:40:00 AM 862 Views
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And Egwene was training to be Wisdom ... I don't know that any of this is true 100% of the time - 02/10/2012 04:55:30 PM 1026 Views
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The point is the same regardless - 03/10/2012 05:14:36 AM 1023 Views
Here's an answer to your original question - 06/10/2012 07:21:27 AM 1055 Views
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