Re: Interesting idea but with some problems I think.
Datakim Send a noteboard - 05/01/2010 03:03:04 PM
IIRC, the BA hunters found a flaw with this - when a channeler is bound by two conflicting oaths, the oaths do not cancel but rather they smother the channeler. So if an AS swore that oath and was then collared, they would be asphyxiated.
Umm, no.
The collar does not control the damane the way the rod does. Rather it relies on nausea and pain to help break the victim and then essentially creates a sort of unbalanced link between the two channelers (damane and sul'dam). The damane who is completely subservient at this point due to the torture cooperates fully.
We know this because it has actually been explained in the books. The AS are bound by the oath not to use OP as a weapon and the sul'dam have not been able to overcome this oath.
I remember a scene with Tuon's damane, Mylen I think, where there is a scene where this is mentioned (Mylen cannot attack) and Mylen is then comforted about how she is a good damane despite that and how she makes excellent sky lights or whatever.
An oath not to obey the sul'dam would not kill the AS. Well other than the fact that once the sul'dam realised what was going on, they would just execute the AS. Still, as Egwene said, death might be preferable. And this oath would mean that any captured AS could not be used against the tower.
A crackpot theory I have bandying about in my head
04/01/2010 08:41:35 PM
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Interesting idea but with some problems I think.
04/01/2010 09:50:28 PM
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Re: Interesting idea but with some problems I think.
05/01/2010 06:57:25 AM
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Re: Interesting idea but with some problems I think.
05/01/2010 03:03:04 PM
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If death is really preferable, how come the 50 captured by Ashaman have not committed mass suicide?
06/01/2010 05:34:55 PM
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I would think if Mat does that, there would be another bleakness.
06/01/2010 05:43:46 PM
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Neat. I think we are as a group starting to become more realistic about the future in this issue. *NM*
05/01/2010 12:30:27 AM
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