When Aviendha flees Rand via gateway from the Waste to Seanchan, the Seanchan learn of the channeling almost immediately.
I believe that the Seanchan have the entire continent warded so as to detect any "unauthorized" channeling from marath damane. First off, there's almost zero chance the Seanchan just happened upon the Gateway in the middle of the night. There was a giant blizzard that night and nobody would be out in that.
I admit it is possible they just stumbled upon the gateway in the early morning, but from the comments overheard by Rand and Aviendha it appears the Seanchan were alerted to Aviendha's channeling even though nobody was there and after they became aware of the channeling, the Seanchan sent some people to investigate it.
The amount of Power used to make a gateway is quite large. There's no indication that Avi's gateway is far from Seanchan civilization, it seems likely that the damane nearby simply sensed the creation of the gateway.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
How to disrupt gateways that are made into a battle zone...
16/11/2009 08:48:36 AM
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I might as well present my argument in full
16/11/2009 09:52:34 AM
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Both options can be valid, but here's why you MUST have the ward...
16/11/2009 10:10:55 AM
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Re: Both options can be valid, but here's why you MUST have the ward...
16/11/2009 12:08:30 PM
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I think there's some evidence in favor of the wards idea you are all missing.
16/11/2009 05:29:22 PM
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I disagree
16/11/2009 07:15:53 PM
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Except
16/11/2009 07:24:56 PM
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there's no indication that the gateway isn't almost on top of a city
17/11/2009 03:09:31 AM
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It's definitely possible that there can be a ward to detect a gateway opening.
17/11/2009 03:22:33 PM
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We know that, for e.g., Sammael could detect the location of a Gateway
16/11/2009 08:21:57 PM
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i think an automatic weave would be too complicated to cover any reasonable area.
17/11/2009 06:06:54 AM
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Re: i think an automatic weave would be too complicated to cover any reasonable area.
17/11/2009 12:53:19 PM
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I don't think you need to travel to the Gateway to disrupt it if the ward notifies you of location
17/11/2009 10:57:06 PM
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I believe that you cannot make a ward completely preventing Traveling.
17/11/2009 01:52:24 PM
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