However we don't know. We don't have Jordan's notes. The trouble I'm seeing is that its been around so long that we accept it as cannon. What we're getting now with the Gathering Storm is potentially challenging this idea.
There are three possibilities:
A) It is cannon and Brandon Sanderson made a mistake.
B) It is cannon, but we don't have the full picture yet.
C) It is not cannon, and we've been thrown a red herring which Jordan is notorious for.
There are three possibilities:
A) It is cannon and Brandon Sanderson made a mistake.
B) It is cannon, but we don't have the full picture yet.
C) It is not cannon, and we've been thrown a red herring which Jordan is notorious for.
Q: "Why saidin, why not saidar, was tainted?
RJ: Because there were only men in the party that made up the party that made up the Strike at Shayol Ghul, that were setting the seals. In the act of setting the seals, there was a backblast that affected the people doing this. As I pointed out in something…I wrote a piece called The Strike at Shayol Ghul…there was a great division at the time – I don’t know if all of you have read it…or have none of you read it?"
Qs: "Yes, yes."
RJ: "Okay, then you know about the political struggles that were going on, and the different plans to try and end the War of the Shadow, and seal up the….and why various groups thought that one plan or the other was the best way to go. And in the end, what resulted was the so-called “Fatal Covenant” [It was actually the “Fateful Concord” – Terez], which had the female Aes Sedai swearing not to go along with Lews Therin’s plan, that they would not support it. The result of this was that Lews Therin carried out his plan with only male Aes Sedai, so there were only male Aes Sedai channeling there, which was a lucky thing, because if there’d been women as well, then both saidin and saidar would have been tainted. And his plan worked, except for that one side effect of the backblast which tainted saidin and caused him and the men there with him to go mad there and then, and other male Aes Sedai to go mad slowly as they touched the Source and began to absorb bits of the taint. But that’s why saidar was not tainted, because there were only men there channeling during this act of sealing up the Dark One’s prison."
He obviously treats SaSG as canon here, and I think it wouldn't make much sense to write this piece to explain the readers what happened then (apparently RJ couldn't put all the info into the series that well), but that this explanation is actually wrong. But as said, while it isn't explicitely stated, I think it's possible that ta'veren or the influence of the Pattern was also a reason, why the women refused to help LTT, besides the political quarrels.
This message last edited by Etzel on 19/01/2010 at 02:51:31 PM
LTT and the bore.
16/01/2010 02:50:34 AM
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I think there is a scene in KoD or CoT
16/01/2010 02:57:13 AM
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It's in KoD, but I don't know exactly what it's got to do with this?
18/01/2010 06:51:37 AM
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Re: It's in KoD, but I don't know exactly what it's got to do with this?
19/01/2010 05:13:26 AM
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You'll need to provide the quote then ... otherwise I'm not sure what you are talking about
19/01/2010 06:14:20 AM
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It had to be a circle of six men and six women...
16/01/2010 03:18:16 AM
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Here's the quote...
16/01/2010 06:02:49 AM
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Re: Here's the quote...
16/01/2010 04:00:11 PM
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I think it's more like a woman of Sorilea's strength than Nynaeve's that he worried about
16/01/2010 04:19:24 PM
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It could be that the Pattern Made LPD a Ta'varen for a period of time...
16/01/2010 04:03:14 AM
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I think...
16/01/2010 11:31:18 AM
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Re: I think...
16/01/2010 01:27:40 PM
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In my view...
16/01/2010 01:50:03 PM
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Re: In my view...
16/01/2010 02:11:20 PM
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We know...
16/01/2010 02:43:41 PM
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Its presented as fact
16/01/2010 03:00:33 PM
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Here is a quote by RJ
16/01/2010 03:10:28 PM
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Re: Here is a quote by RJ
16/01/2010 03:26:13 PM
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In my opinion
16/01/2010 03:51:02 PM
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RJ was as slippery as an AS!
16/01/2010 04:31:02 PM
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Re: We know...
16/01/2010 03:17:54 PM
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It's in any case clear...
16/01/2010 03:27:49 PM
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Re: It's in any case clear...
16/01/2010 03:44:33 PM
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I don't think
16/01/2010 03:56:25 PM
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I spent a lot of time thinking on the population issue too. I think it was a matter of ...
18/01/2010 07:51:31 PM
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My Thoughts
16/01/2010 09:43:33 PM
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Wow, that's an interesting point. It's even more signnificant since T'A'R is supposed to ...
18/01/2010 07:36:35 PM
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