She won't do this because she is not a complete and total moron. See, the VAST MAJORITY of enemies whom damane face are NOT channelers and NOT susceptible to shields. Logic would therefore suggest that since the Seanchan sul'dam and damane are USED to facing people whom they cannot shield, they have devised other methods of dealing with them. Lightning bolts. Fireballs. Crap like that. Your suggestion would result in 2000 dead Aes Sedai right quick. The ability to link did not save them from the Shaido Wise Ones or Asha'man at Dumai's Wells after all.
The Aes Sedai at Dumai's Wells did not link (except for those who held Rand's shield). Furthermore, the AS at Dumai's Wells did just fine against the Shaido Wise Ones. The only thing that beat them was the Asha'man and we see that the Asha'man greatly outnumbered the AS. Mazrim Taim brought practically every abled-body he could find that could channel.
When you link, you basically do nothing other than create a super-strong channeler. You trade a bunch of little guns for one big gun. The other people in the link are merely ambulatory magazines or batteries. Given their inability to fight without their lives being threatened, and their certain knowledge that the Seanchan would prefer to take them alive, the circles jumping into Seanchan territory will not have any first strike capability and very little practice using the Power as a weapon, whereas the Seanchan have institutionalized procedures and practices. Alivia's skill with weapon weaves might not be shared by all the damane, but you can bet the sul'dam have it all down. They view the White Tower as their greatest adversary and believe all other opposition they have faced thus far is connected to the Tower. Do you REALLY think they don't have contingency plans for an army of channelers appearing in their midst? After initial attempts to shield the sisters fail, they will simply start trying to kill them.
You contradict yourself from your first paragraph. With shields utterly useless, the only thing left for the Seanchan will be to try to kill the AS. At that point, the AS can fight back. And as we saw from Egwene, it is rather easy to stop ALL attacks from the Seanchan when you are in a linked circle.
If you don't like circles of 13, or as you put it, you like more little guns, then circles of 10 or 9 AS would be just as good. That would still be utterly unstoppable, and if the AS used circles of 9 or 10 they could increase their number of total circles considerably.
The Seanchan collar channelers primarily because they need them to fight other channelers - their top priority is control of all channelers, NOT having the Power. If they cannot leash the channelers, they will destroy them, rather than leave mareth'damane free.
And that is exactly why the AS linked could use deadly force. The Seanchan would have no way to stop the AS except to try to kill them.
This message last edited by Logain on 17/12/2009 at 02:42:17 PM
Learning traveling will help the Seanchan, but the AS still have the advantage.
- 17/12/2009 01:13:32 AM
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Re: Learning traveling will help the Seanchan, but the AS still have the advantage.
- 17/12/2009 01:39:32 AM
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Linking provides another benefit.
- 17/12/2009 02:02:05 AM
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Wow, if that happens, I will be her biggest fan 
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- 17/12/2009 02:10:01 AM
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- 17/12/2009 02:10:01 AM
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Me too! Destroying the White Tower would make even me like Egwene. *NM*
- 17/12/2009 11:36:03 AM
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Ideally, both would be destroyed! Along with the rest of Randland. Muahahahahaha!!
- 18/12/2009 12:40:55 AM
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What an utterly stupid idea.
- 17/12/2009 11:35:24 AM
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Your facts are incorrect.
- 17/12/2009 02:41:42 PM
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They were losing at Dumai's Wells. That's why they had to tie off Rand's shield
- 17/12/2009 08:18:32 PM
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The army of Night, fighting against the Seanchan Empire, surely have linked channelers
- 18/12/2009 04:34:52 AM
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Is that the Superpower they're looking for all along? *NM*
- 17/12/2009 02:02:25 AM
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No, the superpower is the "atomic bomb-like" weapon at the Kin's farm that melted sand.
- 17/12/2009 03:10:01 AM
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another linking advantage
- 17/12/2009 02:10:56 AM
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All that will do is take the best fighters out of action.
- 17/12/2009 11:55:55 AM
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I have to agree with Cannoli on this, but with a twist.
- 17/12/2009 02:46:03 PM
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Why mace of air?
- 17/12/2009 05:58:32 PM
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I can't compete with deathgates to outer space, but damane can be rehabilitated.
- 17/12/2009 08:10:17 PM
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So can soldiers. Lots of Taraboners, Altarans, etc in Seanchan army.
- 17/12/2009 10:08:32 PM
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Oh, yes. Because damane NEVER fight soldiers, and would thus ignore them. 
- 17/12/2009 09:00:41 PM
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- 17/12/2009 09:00:41 PM
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Re: All that will do is take the best fighters out of action.
- 19/12/2009 06:10:26 PM
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Do you really think the Aes Sedai would let them control the circles if they had a say?
- 21/12/2009 08:23:46 PM
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Re: Do you really think the Aes Sedai would let them control the circles if they had a say?
- 22/12/2009 02:04:11 AM
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Why did you post this?
- 17/12/2009 09:35:09 AM
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What post are you talking about?
- 17/12/2009 04:57:14 PM
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thanks for the credit... PS I'm a guy *NM*
- 18/12/2009 12:10:56 AM
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Ooops 
- 18/12/2009 12:48:22 AM
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- 18/12/2009 12:48:22 AM
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I'm totally teasing you ... I added the "sedai" to be snarky
- 18/12/2009 12:55:51 AM
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Yeah, I don't get that: Fantasy gender-nuetral honorific, plus Real World male name = female?
- 18/12/2009 05:35:17 AM
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Asha'man can' link either and they didn't have a problem moving an army
- 17/12/2009 08:16:48 PM
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Rand's campaign lasted more than a week. The AS could move the entire army in 5 minutes.
- 17/12/2009 08:28:40 PM
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