Re: as we've discussed in the past, it's very loose
Sidious Send a noteboard - 09/01/2010 09:15:32 PM
I deleted the arguments that are purely opinion... no use going in circles over the our personal interpretations ... suffice to say I disagree with how you take words like "amazing" to mean Nynaeve must be 2x as strong. And we've not got a comparative quote about how brightly Egwene or Elayne shine, in fact we've never even seen them draw to full potential unaided so it's practically impossible to use quotes like that to quantify their strength.
Well for myself, I'd call a man amazing if he was physically twice as strong as me. If he was 20% stronger, I'd even consider challenging him.
In short, RJ's choice of adjectives doesn't cut it for me
I think they're valuable clues. *cough* bonfire.
Elayne and Egwene also comment on how massively complex Healing seems at one point or another, yet now they are re-discovering Traveling and making Ter'angreal. Egwene notes how she thought she'd never be able to weave 12 flows at once, yet now she can ... IMO Nynaeve and Rand started out at very close to full potential early in the series and Egwene/Elayne started from scratch.
Bah.
She flat out states that lifting them both would take half of the saidar in the Well. Seems pretty straight forward to me.
I'm saying that the well may have a limitation on how quickly it can be drawn upon.
We're talking brute force here, not some intricate weave, skill isn't exactly necessary to pick something up and move it.
What's recurrently mentioned as one of the hardest things to do in channeling?
Yet Egwene hoisted the SF women "Some ten or twelve paces above the surface" that's 3 or more Stories of a building. Even the Palaces in WoT are described as only about 4 Stories tall ... Nynaeve was only lifting Rand and Lan to a 3rd floor room, that's pretty much the exact same height Egwene describes.
Lol, this is getting kind of amusing. I thought the building was high - Rand said if he fell he'd die.
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Re: really? miscommunication seems to be woven into just about every sentence
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as we've discussed in the past, it's very loose
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Re: as we've discussed in the past, it's very loose
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Re: as we've discussed in the past, it's very loose
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Re: as we've discussed in the past, it's very loose
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Re: I don't think they were that bad back then, but still...
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