Re: The One Power Bell Curve: - Edit 1
Before modification by taura-tierno at 27/12/2009 10:05:48 PM
I agree that a scale of 1-100 where 100 is twice as much as 50 could possibly work.
I don't have a quote right now (i'll try to get one soon), but I remember Siuan thinking about her new strength. She thought something like, that if she'd been returned to two thirds of her former strength instead of what she WAS returned to, she would have been much better off. That means she'd be below 2/3 of her former strength. If she'd be at, say, 60, that means shed be below 40. And she's not the weakest Aes Sedai. To me, it doesn't feel like there's enough room for that.
Also, there's this quote (I got it from 13thdespository):
[Alviarin] considered drawing Zemaile to some secluded corner where she could be questioned and disposed of, but then she noticed another Brown, a round woman even darker than Zemaile, watching them from farther down the hall. Aiden and Zemaile were weak in the Power, yet overcoming both at once would be difficult if it was possible at all...'
-Crossroads of Twilight, A Mark.
That means that Aiden and Zemaile would, their strengths combined, be close to Alviarin in strength. If she had been several times stronger than them, she would probably have been able to defeat them and though the attempt to be outright impossible. As it now, she believes that it might be possible, but she's not certain enough to take the risk. As such, should Alviarin (a middling) not be somewhere around twice as strong as strong as two weaklings?
I don't have a quote right now (i'll try to get one soon), but I remember Siuan thinking about her new strength. She thought something like, that if she'd been returned to two thirds of her former strength instead of what she WAS returned to, she would have been much better off. That means she'd be below 2/3 of her former strength. If she'd be at, say, 60, that means shed be below 40. And she's not the weakest Aes Sedai. To me, it doesn't feel like there's enough room for that.
Also, there's this quote (I got it from 13thdespository):
[Alviarin] considered drawing Zemaile to some secluded corner where she could be questioned and disposed of, but then she noticed another Brown, a round woman even darker than Zemaile, watching them from farther down the hall. Aiden and Zemaile were weak in the Power, yet overcoming both at once would be difficult if it was possible at all...'
-Crossroads of Twilight, A Mark.
That means that Aiden and Zemaile would, their strengths combined, be close to Alviarin in strength. If she had been several times stronger than them, she would probably have been able to defeat them and though the attempt to be outright impossible. As it now, she believes that it might be possible, but she's not certain enough to take the risk. As such, should Alviarin (a middling) not be somewhere around twice as strong as strong as two weaklings?