None of this is a twisting of the Oaths. Her actions stick to the letter of the Oaths.
fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 04/12/2009 04:29:44 AM
I cannot remember one instance where Moiraine used the Power on civilians and justified it as self defense.
That's not what I said. At all.
What I said was that Moiraine was prepared to defend herself at any moment, because of her mission. She did not indiscriminately start attacking people because of it, but her life has been in danger more than once, and often not on battlefields. Recall that Lan mentioned carrying her all the way back to the Tower with an arrow in her back, and her doing the same for him. Considering the nature of her mission, I believe they were in situations where anyone and anything could be an enemy.
You'll also recall that when she met Balthamel and Aginor, she didn't wait for them to attack - the fact that they were Forsaken and were in front of her was enough for her to start fighting them with killing weaves.
Mesaana was easily able to get past the Oath Rod.
01/12/2009 09:35:07 PM
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I'm not convinced. I don't believe she'd want to subject herself to being sworn.
01/12/2009 09:54:40 PM
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Not just that, but in the AoL, the Oath Rod was used to "bind criminals". *NM*
02/12/2009 05:41:35 AM
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I thought...
01/12/2009 10:11:45 PM
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To be honest, though, any Sister can defeat the Three Oaths.
01/12/2009 10:37:29 PM
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Well, that's just one oath. The other two are not as easy to circumvent.
02/12/2009 01:19:53 AM
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But given free will, they can interpret "danger" to mean "clear and present" or "potential danger"
02/12/2009 04:54:26 PM
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Last defense of life cannot mean potential danger. *NM*
02/12/2009 05:51:27 PM
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Yes it can. It all depends on interpretation.
03/12/2009 12:22:47 AM
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Ummm, what?
03/12/2009 02:23:08 AM
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Re: Ummm, what?
03/12/2009 11:15:20 PM
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None of this is a twisting of the Oaths. Her actions stick to the letter of the Oaths.
04/12/2009 04:29:44 AM
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Here's a couple quotes from BS
01/12/2009 11:57:16 PM
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Trouble is that would put a person into stasis
02/12/2009 04:14:31 AM
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It only has to be maintained long enough to take the Oaths. *NM*
02/12/2009 04:51:34 AM
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Eh, from what we've seen, Keepings don't really work like that
02/12/2009 06:42:19 AM
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