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Plausible darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 20/01/2010 09:45:21 PM
We'd have heard by now if she was weaker in her new body than in her old one. But who knows ... anything is possible at this point :)


I actually proposed that idea a long time ago, to explain Cyndane's lesser strength. The idea being that the body can affect the strength of female souls, but not male souls. So, Cyndane is (unluckily) weaker than before, but Moridin & the 'Gars are the same strength as before (even though Aran'gar is in a female body, she's a male soul so the body doesn't affect her strength).

One of the reasons I liked that idea is that it could explain why men are, on average, stronger than women. That is, although male and female souls are, on average, equal in strength, when the souls are put in bodies the men are always as strong as they can be, whereas the women aren't, because of the body issue (which ALWAYS reduces their strength some variable amount from their soul's max capability, so that they can never be as strong as the strongest man). This would cause average female strength to become less than average male strength, without having to say that their souls are inherently weaker. That appeals to me.

Anyway ... BS's comment didn't make a distinction between male souls and female souls, so this idea seems rather unlikely, now. But maybe not totally impossible, if he wanted to reveal this info in the books, and so was deliberately vague when answering the Q&A.


I'm not sure why, but this theory has always felt wrong to me ... perhaps because RJ has so many small women and very large men in the series and that he goes out of his way to pack a lot of strength into women like Nynaeve, Moiraine, Egwene, Yukiri etc... feels like that is cheapened by making mere body size part of the equation.

I can see a body just having less potential than another body, but I don't know that it's really linked to how large that body is ... like I said I have no good reason not to like this other than it feels wrong to me ... you could be totally correct.

RAFO I suppose :)
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
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So Glossary or character? - 22/01/2010 10:22:15 PM 692 Views
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Re: That idea has also been disproven ... - 21/01/2010 05:12:45 PM 881 Views
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Doesn't fit with BS's words - 21/01/2010 04:27:43 PM 832 Views
Also ... - 21/01/2010 04:32:58 PM 795 Views
I don't think BS words or Cyndane's comments really prove anything. - 21/01/2010 04:42:59 PM 940 Views
BS says that Cyndane is truly weaker. So, this theory is out. *NM* - 21/01/2010 04:46:48 PM 574 Views
Re: BS says that Cyndane is truly weaker. So, this theory is out. - 21/01/2010 04:49:09 PM 916 Views
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actually if one really wants to figure out what happened to Cyndane - 21/01/2010 07:00:33 PM 1056 Views
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That's what I thought. *NM* - 21/01/2010 10:05:38 PM 515 Views

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