Look at what Rand learned when he saw through his ancestors' eyes: Aiel were once like the Tinkers; they had planes; Lanfear was a good but damaged woman who found the DO in an experiment to find a power that men and women could tap; Avendesora was in every town; Ogier, Aiel, and Green Men protected crops through singing a Song. This is all stuff that apparently no one but Aiel chiefs and Wise Ones might know.
It has been mentioned that people knew there were ways to fly with the One Power. What good would it do for Rand or Birgitte to say so? Who cares what Lanfear used to be like (and I question your assertion that she was good - that would only be true in the sense of "Not Working for the Dark One" whom no one at the time even knew existed, so it is not like that's a virtue. It's kind of like being an 8-year-old who's never committed rape). What good would it do to tell everyone this stuff? What POSSIBLE use is there in any of this information? It is merely curiosities for ivory tower academics.We don't even know if anyone but Rand has a clue as to what LTT and the 100 did at Shayol Ghul! We've all read the Strike at Shayol Ghul (probably), but don't know that anyone in our novels really has the same info to any degree.
As a matter of fact, this was addressed early in tGS - he tried to get the information from LTT what went wrong so he could try to figure out how to get it right, but LTT wasn't playing. How would a non-channeling woman have the slightest clue about the nuts and bolts of a war-winning battle plan? This sort of thing is highly compartmentalized in time of war, and there were US generals & Congressmen and cabinet members whose first knowledge of atomic weapons came when they heard about Hiroshima. Even the Vice-President didn't know what they were doing until he became the President and someone filled him in, and he was the man who eventually ordered the bombing! And we were probably the most open and least censored society of any of the nations that mattered in that war. Now with this in mind, what on earth could an ordinary soldier, an NCO at best, know about LTT's plan to strike directly at the Dark One?Birgitte might not remember previous turnings of the Wheel (we don't know how many times she's been reborn in the last two ages). But she has a wealth of info that no one else knows, and asking about it seems pretty dang obvious. That's all.
She doesn't, actually. At last count, she had already forgotten stuff POST-Breaking. As far as when she DID have her AoL knowledge, they caught Moghedian shortly after, and that was far more useful data. Why interview a grunt, when you have a general and technical expert?
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
What you notice when you skim through encyclopaedia-wot
22/03/2010 12:42:03 AM
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A good point.
22/03/2010 01:05:55 AM
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Re: A good point but...
22/03/2010 04:28:38 PM
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I don't think she knows everything, dude
22/03/2010 11:09:21 PM
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It's all trivia
24/03/2010 10:48:15 PM
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I see that your reply
25/03/2010 01:12:25 AM
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Sorry, I thought you were making a point. I didn't realize you were tossing out irrelevant examples.
25/03/2010 03:02:32 AM
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And yet you're still here, still typing, and still rude. Thanks, "teach"
25/03/2010 10:21:23 AM
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It's obvious by now that the WoT characters are far dumber than your average WoT reader. *NM*
22/03/2010 05:24:08 PM
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Would she know all that, though?
24/03/2010 10:17:54 PM
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Re: Would she know all that, though?
25/03/2010 01:16:38 AM
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Not even the Forsaken all know what a binder is, so why should she?
25/03/2010 02:43:44 AM
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