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Minor nitpick- Inverting vs. Reversing beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 12/08/2015 03:01:06 PM

17: Egwene spends the aftermath of the Sharan attack hiding because she believes she can’t channel without being detected. Because she STILL has not learned from her screw-up with the harbor chains! Inverting her weaves should protect her from detection, since the Ayyad are not up to detecting a female channeler hiding under the debris ( Though honestly, you’d think that would have been a critical item on the checklist of any force securing a location seized from enemy channelers). It’s kind of humorously ironic, that with all the male & female stereotypes to which WoT adheres faithfully, Egwene bucks the trend by falling into the typical male fault of being so obsessed with big flashy destructive displays of Power, she completely overlooks the value of subtlety & discretion in combat channeling.

As I recall, there are two facets to "stealth channeling." There's inverting a tied off weave- that's when you channel something normally, and then tie it off so it can't be seen/sensed.

Then there's "reversing," which is when you actually channel without being seen.

It's definitely been a while since I've read the books, but I believe that Egwene has learned inverting, but that the the good guys (at least the women) never learned reversing- it's what freaked them out so much about fighting Cyndane in WH. They knew she was channeling saidar, but her shit was just APPEARING without the normal telltale signs of channeling.

I amuse myself.
Inverting vs. Reversing
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