WHY. WOULD. THEY. BOTHER? Her knowledge of the AoL would be useful for those who might want to write a book on the subject, but they are worried about Tarmon Gaidon. None of them will need, or be able, to go back in time to the AoL, so what good would a normal chick's memoires do them? Their sole interest in the AoL has to do with things she was not equipped to understand! Maybe if they HAD something used by a normal person, she could recognize it, but by the time they got the Ebou Dar stash, she had been around for months, and might have lost those memories. Before that, they had dream ter'angreal (knew what those did, and no soldier would), and a Seal from the Dark One's prison (ditto, not to mention, probably made after she died). What else could they possibly ask her about that she would have a reference they could understand?



No, she wouldn't. RtDB. In the scene in LoC, where Graendal points out the captive rulers of Shara to Sammael, and the reference to the binder is brought up, she is surprised he knows about it, because it is not generall knowledge. The man was a famous Aes Sedai (third name) and one of the top commanders of the Light before his defection within the last decade of the AoL, and the existance or function of the binder is not something he could be expected to know! How on earth would a grunt with no channeling ability be expected to have knowledge of a device that bears absolutely no relevance to non-channelers, when one of the leading channelers might not know about it?
Elayne: And what was this for Birgitte?
Birgitte: Ooh! I recognize this! I saw some Aes Sedai glaring at a woman who was holding it once, and I remember hearing rumors that she did something bad right before that. She seemed to have learned her lesson, since I never heard of her committing any crimes after that. And I somehow intuited that her lifespan which would far exceed my own ordinary life span would not be quite as long as she would otherwise expect.


Asking a norm about One Power matters would be roughly equivalent to asking a civilian from the 1940s to translate a military code from World War Two. You'd be lucky if they had even heard of the existance of thing you are asking them about. It is not even as simple as asking a modern person to explain our technology to pre-industrial people, because you don't need magic powers to make a computer or telephone or machine gun. AoL tech is NOT something ordinary AoL citizens or soldiers could have a general knowledge of, because there would never be any chance of them doing anything with that knowledge. It's not like she would have been trained to field-strip a shocklance, or jury-rig repairs to a jo-car or sho-wing, since she lacked the essential ability needed to make such things. It would be like asking a blind man to draw you a diagram of a device he heard some one using once.