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RJ has one loophole - it might be different for women and men... Shannow Send a noteboard - 17/12/2009 10:03:14 AM

Rand Travels to meet Mat on one occasion and then says he needs to hang around for about an hour before he can leave. He clearly did not learn the place when he Travelled there.


Maybe the fact that women make the two locations "identical" means they get to learn both places, whereas men don't, since they simply bore a hole to the place.

That would explain RJ's quote about Nynaeve and Lan, but it would still mean that Sanderson's "trick" in tGS is a contradiction of the earlier books.

As for RJ's quote about Rahvin, the question put to RJ was why Rahvin was still lounging around in his throne room when he had felt Rand's gateway triggering his traps in the city below.

RJ explicitly said that although Rahvin knew Rand had arrived in the city, he did not expect Rand to know that you can Travel short distances even if you don't know a location. Hence Rahvin's surprise when Rand rocked up in his sitting room.

So to me that means that while Rahvin knew Rand had Traveled into the city, he knew that this does not make you know a location, and that he did not expect Rand to know about the "short" gateway ability in unknown locations.
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Does Traveling TO a place make you "know" that place? Shannow - 17/12/2009 08:46:39 AM 1292 Views
Here you go from RJ himself Light in the Night - 17/12/2009 09:23:44 AM 909 Views
Is that a substantiated quote about Nynaeve, because I've never seen it before... Shannow - 17/12/2009 09:30:37 AM 851 Views
As far as I can remember Sidious - 17/12/2009 09:55:01 AM 796 Views
How about Galina remembering Ashaman leaping out of holes in the air at Dumai's Wells? Shannow - 17/12/2009 09:58:41 AM 788 Views
Re: How about Galina remembering Ashaman leaping out of holes in the air at Dumai's Wells? darius_sedai - 17/12/2009 08:14:14 PM 770 Views
Mark should remember this Light in the Night - 17/12/2009 10:23:34 AM 967 Views
Well that pretty clearly states that according to Rahvin, Rand should not know the ground in Caemlyn Shannow - 17/12/2009 10:27:18 AM 883 Views
IIRC Light in the Night - 17/12/2009 10:38:30 AM 763 Views
Actually... Shannow - 17/12/2009 10:41:54 AM 767 Views
That's not what I meant.... Light in the Night - 17/12/2009 10:45:04 AM 733 Views
Yes, but... Shannow - 17/12/2009 10:47:41 AM 735 Views
My bad *NM* Sidious - 17/12/2009 03:40:47 PM 761 Views
I think it's a contradiction Sidious - 17/12/2009 09:53:31 AM 854 Views
RJ has one loophole - it might be different for women and men... Shannow - 17/12/2009 10:03:14 AM 872 Views
I just searched for the Rahvin quote - and it turns out, RJ adressed it to YOU! Shannow - 17/12/2009 10:14:24 AM 912 Views
Traveling never made any sense to me in the first place Bryn - 17/12/2009 10:37:24 AM 825 Views
I always thought the same thing too. *NM* j-whitt987 - 17/12/2009 01:38:41 PM 332 Views
I could have sworn that had been mentioned multiple times in the books. *NM* callandor1000 - 17/12/2009 06:59:15 PM 363 Views
Re: Does Traveling TO a place make you "know" that place? Jim - 17/12/2009 08:12:23 PM 813 Views
Apparently rAndy aL - 18/12/2009 12:19:30 AM 741 Views
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