Re: Traveling can be a huge advantage for the Seanchan
darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 05/12/2009 05:40:51 PM
They could very easily have one damane make the gateway as another flies through. Once again size being the only obstacle.
I don't think you realize how big these animals are! The smaller raken are large enough to carry two women in flight, wing span alone would probably make them too large to even fit through the largest Gateways any one individual could make!
The only advantage I can see in making huge gates is the ability to move very large items like siege weapons, otherwise an organized army could move just as easily through 10 smaller gates than a large gate with 10 channelers. The singular large gate might even have a smaller total area compared to the 10 single gates.
Yes they can move troops quickly, troops without equipment or food beyond what they can carry on their own. No wagons, no siege engines etc and some the exotics may not be able to fit through a Gateway ... S'redit seem doubtful ... this limits what they can use Traveling to accomplish.
IMO a force like Mats that can Travel is what they'll be able to field ... a few thousand men and horses who are more suited to raids and can live off the land... nothing wrong with it, but it's not like the entire Seanchan army is going to be able to appear in Sheinar tomorrow.
The collar should be able to tell them if the White Tower domane are telling the truth or not.
After months they still didn't really believe the Oaths are binding, the collar only gives the wearer a sense of the damanes emotions, no way to be 100% she isn't holding out.
They will doubt because even if they the individuals they have captured are believed, it's possible the just didn't know the weave(s).
The Seanchan had basic healing, now they should have the more advanced healing as well as the ability to heal severed damane, and (perhaps even burned out damane). Invisibility and illusion could be very useful many ways such as; information gathering, sneak attacks, hidden attacks, and confusion in enemy ranks. I am probably missing many more advantages, but the point being, the Seanchan have just become vastly more dangerous.
They had the standard AS Healing from their other captive but new weaves are not going to make the Seanchan people any more likely to accept it from a damane, it's been made very clear that these people would rather be bandaged up than be touched by the power. Better weaves that no one wants are basically useless.
I'm sure there are plenty of advantages to many weaves they will have gotten, but you are assuming they didn't already have something comparable. In any case, I think they will see that they had a minor victory. But ultimately they didn't really get the number one thing they came for (and never will), they didn't really gain all that many damane in the process and they lost some valuable assets to achieve what was NOT a decisive victory.
General Yulan will be praised for the attack, but it's not the kind of thing that will go down in History as a great battle the Seanchan won!
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
The Seanchan attack and the upcoming round 2
- 29/10/2009 11:39:16 PM
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I don't see it happening that way
- 30/10/2009 12:00:09 AM
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IMO the Seanchan take over Randland, but Rand forces them to drop the damane practices.
- 04/12/2009 05:58:56 PM
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I think they'll see it as a draw or minor victory
- 04/12/2009 11:33:16 PM
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Traveling can be a huge advantage for the Seanchan
- 05/12/2009 06:15:37 AM
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Re: Traveling can be a huge advantage for the Seanchan
- 05/12/2009 07:19:31 AM
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Re: Traveling can be a huge advantage for the Seanchan
- 05/12/2009 08:03:53 AM
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Re: Traveling can be a huge advantage for the Seanchan
- 05/12/2009 05:40:51 PM
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Re: Traveling can be a huge advantage for the Seanchan
- 05/12/2009 09:27:23 PM
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The raid could have been far more successful
- 05/12/2009 10:13:07 PM
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Re: The raid was hugely successful
- 06/12/2009 01:08:44 AM
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nope
- 06/12/2009 02:47:49 AM
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Re: Egwene's words
- 06/12/2009 07:12:59 AM
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The Seanchan are likely to feel the same way Egwene did
- 06/12/2009 07:54:38 AM
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