Various 1996 Signings
Q: How is the universe driven?
A: Saidin and saidar work against each other.
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Q: How is the universe driven?
A: Saidin and saidar work against each other.
Q: How big are the continents?
A: Randland size: Randland is approximately 4500 miles across.Seanchan is as big as Randland, the Aiel Waste, and Shara all puttogether (a single empire the size of North and South America).
Q: Are Ogier genetically engineered?
A: No
Q: Can Slayer channel?
A: No
Q: What happened to the inhabitants of Shadar Logoth?
A: Everyone in SL killed each other.
Q: When did Mashadar appear?
A: Mashadar occurred after everyone in SL was dead.
Q: What does Machin Shin do to its victims?
A: Machin Shin eats the souls and memories of the people itcatches.
Q: Does a Gray Man have to go to the Pit of Doom to surrender his soul?
A: Yes...at least that's the way I've always thought of it.It's not easy to remove someone's soul.
Q: How big are the Randland cities?
A: Let's see...Well Tar Valon is 500,000 people and cities like Caemlyn and Tear are around 300,000 or so.I've envisioned a seventeenth century society and you've got to remeber that for those times 300,000 would be huge.Some Asian cities of that period had populations near one million but nothing in Europewas even close.
Q: Is the Blight a part of the Normal Universe or can it be entered from Tel'aran'rhiod?
A: Blight: you can not enter it from TAR because it is apart from NORMAL UNIVERSE and can not be touched.The Blight is not part of the normal universe.
Q: Have any Aes Sedai ever been refused admittance to any Ajah?
A: No.
Q: What do members of the White Ajah actually do on a daytoday basis?
A: Think.Study philosophy.
Q: What are the actual requirements for being raised to the shawl?
A: RAFO
Q: Who was the one who is no more?The innkeeper or the guy on the barrel? Is the innkeeper an exAes Sedai?
A: *an amused look* RAFO
Q: Once and for all end the ageless look thing. Is it obvious that it istied to the oath rod?
A: RAFO
Q: Was Else always Lanfear?
A: No.Else did exist as a separate human but was played by Lanfear after Else was expelled.
Q: New dreadlords?Via True Power? What are limits of True Power?When did we see itused before?
A: Access to the True Power is a matter of wanting it and the dark one letting you.NOT black cords.In Prologue to EotW we saw True Power to heal insanity.The OP can not be used to heal insanity. True Power used at SG will fry you instantly.
Q: How dangerous and how ambitious is Faile?
A: Exceedingly dangerous, not particularly ambitious.Perin is duehis due as lord of the two rivers.She has been raised as a noblewith noblesse oblige.Perrin has been pushed into lording and shedoesn't like him ducking out of what she sees as his obligations.She doesn't understand why he doesn't understand this in his bloodlike she does in hers.
Q: Is "Ogier" from to sing Ogier?
A: No. Its to sound like Ogre but not be exactly the same.Name of family in charleston.
Q: How could Nynaeve hold half power as ten sisters with a Sa'angreal but not handle two black sisters herself?
A: Some people have shielding talents.