Probably, something really big would have to happen to change the view of the population. I mean most Seanchan are so horrified at the OP that they would not let it even touch them if they had a choice. I remember the scene where Perrin is about to be healed by Neald and Tylee is horrified at the very idea, and it is the use of the OP itself and not the taint that frightens her, that is made certain.

One idea that I had in that thread of mine a bit lower was the possibility that Mat will be responsible for the end of this. I mean he is tied to Tuon and Seanchan and he does potentially have a way of shaking the entire Seanchan empire.

He can blow the Horn of Valere and summon Hawkwing himself, the ancestor of Tuon and the ultimate founder of the empire and the one who the Seanchan revere and whose name they use to justify their actions.

Can you imagine the reaction if Mat were to bring forth the horn in a public meeting and summon Hawkwing, only to have him openly proclaim that his hatred of the OP and the Aes Sedai was the work of Ishamael and that what they are doing is evil and that it must stop. And also reveal that the prophecy about the Dragon having to kneel is a false one and ask Tuon to work with Rand to fight the DO.

And it just so happens that Mat now has a letter from Verin which may very well contain the location of the horn...



She might be partly in denial though. I mean she is a sul'dam herself. She has convinced herself that it does not matter so long as the sul'dam don't actually choose to channel. She ignores the fact that some people (sparkers) do not have the luxury of choice and the fact that in a way, by using the a'dam the sul'dam ARE learning to channel. That is why the a'dam collar does not hold them at first, but does after they have been at it for a while.

I would love to see Tuon herself collared and forced to channel. After that it would not matter if she were freed. She would have touched the source so she would be like the sparkers in that she would keep channeling, no matter how much she tried not do.



Sure, that idea would certainly work. We know that the damane has to be willing to do whatever the sul'dam wants. Normally that is not a problem since torture breaks the damane so completely that they actually want to obey the sul'dam. However if they are forcibly prevented from doing so by an outside source, the sul'dam cannot ignore the damane's resistance. For example it has been mentioned that captured AS simply cannot be forced to use the OP as a weapon since one of the three oaths prevents it.

The trouble with your idea is that the asha'man bond is a form of compulsion that the AS would probably find equally horrific as the a'dam itself. For the bond to be the solution to this problem would essentially mean exchanging one form of slavery to another. It would be no better. I seriously doubt the AS would EVER be willing to submit to it, even if it were to protect them from the seanchan.

We know that the traditional kind of bond that does not hold the compulsion element like the one between Rand and Min does NOT offer protection since as you said, it did not help against Semirhage. Granted the Domination Bracelets are a lot more hard core than the a'dam, but surely some of the captured AS have had warders and we have had no mention that it interfered. So a compulsion in the bond is required.

Though this did bring up another interesting idea. Why don't the AS simply swear a fourth oath on the oath rod. "I will not in any way obey a seanchan sul'dam". That would make any captured AS completely useless as a damane. We know from the fact that AS damane cannot kill that the seanchan cannot overcome the power of the oath rod. An oath that forcibly prevented the AS from cooperating with the sul'dam would render them useless, no matter how much torture the Seanchan tried to use since even after the captured AS damane had been broken and wanted to obey, the oath would prevent it.