IIRC, in the AOL, the oath rod was used to bind criminals and the ageless look was a kind of mark. I think it's safe to assume that not every single criminal in the AOL could channel and, so, would need the help of an AS to swear to the oath rod. Now, my question is: What would happen to the criminal if the AS who channelled the OP to bind them to the oath rod was stilled/burn out/died?
Only channelers could be bound with an oath rod. There were other ter'angreal that could bind non-channelers.
so egwene had almost all the aes sedai loose and reswear the oaths
- 23/03/2010 04:45:00 PM
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Re: so egwene had almost all the aes sedai loose and reswear the oaths
- 24/03/2010 03:08:21 AM
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Re: so egwene had almost all the aes sedai loose and reswear the oaths
- 24/03/2010 12:32:05 PM
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I had a related question about the oath rod:
- 24/03/2010 10:07:52 AM
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Non-channelers cannot use oath rod
- 24/03/2010 12:04:53 PM
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Too bad she didn't take the opportunity to drop the Oaths altogether.
- 25/03/2010 02:14:32 PM
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Agreed
- 25/03/2010 07:30:46 PM
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I disagree. The Oaths are among the least irritating of the many irritating things about Aes Sedai.
- 27/03/2010 09:56:34 PM
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I'm with ya Templar. They have ways around everything. *NM*
- 29/03/2010 06:07:00 AM
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Except when they're leashed to an a'dam 
*NM*
- 29/03/2010 08:28:05 AM
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*NM*
- 29/03/2010 08:28:05 AM
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I would have loved it if Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne went off and started their own organizations
- 02/04/2010 06:04:30 PM
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