2) Per Terez: "Moridin is tip-top for men, and Lanfear for women. We're not sure from what we have seen how many levels are between them, but we suspect there are six male levels above Lanfear. (Not Cyndane.) RJ said that the male bottom and the female bottom are roughly equivalent. Moiraine appears to be rock bottom."
3) Terez: "It may be that Moiraine is not strictly rock bottom and there are as many as 3 levels below her, but in that case there would probably be fewer male levels above Lanfear (totally possible). We know of at least 3 male levels above Lanfear from the Forsaken notes of KOD era, Aginor being the only dead one included."
4) Terez: "The reason we have this 3-level error estimate is because we suspect RJ meant for there to be 72 total levels of strength. Team Jordan, if they do include strengths, might choose to simplify it to a 72-scale. (I probably would; RJ's way of doing it was entirely idiomatic and intended to avoid errors when he switched systems.)"
Thoughts?
Zzzzz...thud Ahem. Not to demean the work Terez and co did, not to mention Team Jordan, but from what was said in the prior post, it's all fairly irrelevant for anything significant beyond Aes Sedai interactions, and that only because of their moronic hierarchy....
I happen to agree, but 1) people were asking about it a lot, and 2) once I started working on filling out the list, it became something like putting a jigsaw puzzle together: a fairly pointless exercise, but still oddly satisfying.
