Egeanin and Tuon are high-ranking people. Should they be immune to the law because of their rank? This just shows that their justice is even-handed. A little pain for suspicious behavior is the price you pay for power in Seanchan. You seem to be assuming that they start slicing off fingers and breaking joints right away, rather than starting off with asking questions.

Wah wah wah. More weeping for the people who made the Empire and its Seekers look like a pleasant alternative.

She doesn't realize the solid facts of the matter, namely that channeling can be taught, and the sul'dam are those who could have learned. She thinks she is some weird borderline case, and there are no set rules for her. It is not that justice depends on a whim, it is just that she is in an area of the law that is open to interpretation - you note that the Seanchan DO err on the side of mercy and are NOT collaring women who apparently should be collared.

Yes, the fears of a guilty fugitive are SO informative of a justice system!

Yes, it's clear that Mat knows only rumors. He has no firm information, and is an enemy of the Seanchan to boot. What on earth kind of reliable source is he?

And Beslan is full of it. We later see that they are misunderstanding their position, as Tuon clarifies it to him in tGS. We even see from her own perspective that Suroth does not believe she has the power to force anything on Beslan, when his servants are disrespectful. The Seanchan really and truly see the Mitsobars are the rulers of Altara. The fact that an air-headed party-boy experiencing his first glimmers of political awareness doesn't graps this is hardly a condemnation of the Seanchan system.

Well, we don't know the particulars, but in light of Suroth's own views on the matter, it was probably another suggestion from her that Tylin took as a command. We see in WH that the Seanchan always ask permission of the Altaran soldiers to enter the palace, treating them as the legitimate authority. With all this evidence, Mat's lack of perspective is a better and more likely explanation of that incident. And too, we see that in the wetlanders, servants in palaces have ways of expressing their disapproval of guests with bad service. Suroth and the Seanchan seem to lean towards the more reasonable point of view that the person paying the salaries gets to decide what is appropriate, not the commoners with no education who have been given extraordinary presitigous and well-compensated jobs. Now the flogging might have been extreme, but we are talking about a Darkfriend, and someone whose slightest suggestions are taken for orders by the infamously craven Altaran nobility. For all we know, she was making a joke that Tylin was too afraid to laugh at.



Those are simply different ways. They are not the slightest bit more savage or brutal than the Aiel, but the PoV-Trap-ensnared readers on this site have no problem bashing Rand for not being more mindful of their sensibilities and calling kidnapping "kidnapping" rather than dressing it up as "protective custody" for the sake of these so-senistive desert thugs.