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Wotmania

๐Ÿ“… 2004-04-27 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Can Moridin use a male angreal if he channels the True Power?

A: No.

Wotmania

๐Ÿ“… 2004-04-27 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Ishamael's corpse in The Dragon Reborn had only pits where his eyes and mouth once were. Was this a result of the True Power? If this is true, is the True Power the reason that Fades have no eyes, but some supernatural abilities?

A: The True Power is reason that Ishamael's corpse had no eyes, just as it was the reason that his eyes had been caverns of flame, but it not precisely the reason that Fades have no eyes. The True Power as well as the One Power was used in creation of Trollocs, which proved to be uncontrollable and useless as soldiers until the first Myrddraal were born, throwbacks to the human stock used in creating Trollocs, but twisted by the inclusion of the True Power in making Trollocs.

Wotmania

๐Ÿ“… 2004-04-27 ๐ŸŒ Online ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Does forkroot work with male channelers, too?

A: RAFO.

Dayton OH

๐Ÿ“… 2003-02-01 ๐ŸŒ Live ๐Ÿ‘ค Tim Kingston

Q: 1. Is Olver Gaidal Cain? 2. If so, is Is Olver too old?

A: 1. No. I didn't really think that this would last as long as it has. The timing is wrong. He has another reason for being there besides being a red herring, though.2. Yes. Time in T'A'R and the real world run at different rates, but it never runs backwards. You may spend an hour in T'A'R, and a day has passed when you get back, or you may spend a day, and an hour has passed when you get back, but you'll never go in on Tuesday and come back on Monday.

Dayton OH

๐Ÿ“… 2003-02-01 ๐ŸŒ Live ๐Ÿ‘ค Tim Kingston

Q: 1. Is the difference in time constant? (between Tel'aran'rhiod and real world) 2. It's different for different people, then?

A: 1. No. It's fairly random. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes the same as real time.2. No. It's fairly random. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes the same as real time.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Liandra

Q: Does Tar Valon mean White Tower?

A: RAFO

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Zaela

Q: Did Lan sleep with Myrelle?

A: yes

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Isabela

Q: Can the a'dam hold every sul'dam?

A: The a' dam can only hold sul' dam who have been sul' dam for a long time and so wearing the bracelet for a long time. Four months for example isn't enough. He said the circle helped them get to the point that's described in the book, as being on the brink of being able to channel, one foot stepped over or something.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Isabela

Q: In the tenth book there was a thought that Galad fancied Nynaeve. I thought by Elayne.

A: Galad did have a certain interest in Nynaeve early on. As sometimes happens that interest has shifted. He is obviously not attracted to Nynaeve anymore.In the beginning when he goes to Nynaeve room. At that time he was interested in her. And Elayne still thinks he is.. (Emma): But at that time he was interested in Egwene, I thought.RJ: no not yet. Not at that time.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: How do characters grow in your perception/imagination?

A: Not so much as growing in my perception. I had a thought about how I wanted those people to grow. The first vision that came to me was the ending of the last book. The next things that came to me was Emondsfield. And I realized the book was going to take these people to turn them into those people you see in the last scene in the last book. So I knew how I was going to change them. Not all the mechanism of the changes but I knew how I was going to change them.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Have you met with movie makers or directors?

A: There is a company called Red Eagle that has the options for the eye of the world to make the movie. I am waiting to see the outline from the screenwriters. Hmm, which is in effect telling me what of the book they want to keep and what they want to leave out of the book. Since you are not going to get the whole book into movie.But if it's actually going to be made. Even now I can't say. Some years ago NBC optioned the eye of the world to make a six hour mini series. Less than two years after we had signed the contracts. eh They came with the screenwriter, who did the miniseries Merlin. Than two years after the contracts were signed, all the people who brought the project together had left NBC.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Are Ogier being able to dreamwalk?

A: no Ogier cannot dreamwalk.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Do you have more hope that the movie is going to be made and is the movie going to be a miniseries or a movie?

A: Actually, I have to tell you, I don't really care. It would be nice, but if it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. I am not a moviemaker. I write books. I will just write more books.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Isabela

Q: How did Aginor manage to sense the Shadar Logoth dagger in the eotw?

A: That has to do with the end of Winters Heart. How many of you have read it?(everyone but one raising hand, well at least after asking who has not read it)It's an effect of resonance. The dagger is the same evil as the evil of Shadar Logoth. You can say it's diametrically opposite to the taint, that's the evil on saidin. Rand, in one point in Shadar Logoth feels it repulsing with each other. And especially in the wounds on his side. There is a resonance created. A positive and negative pulse of evil, you might say.(Emma): So it doesn't require actual channeling?RJ: no, but you have to be close to it. It's not something you can sense from a close distance use to track Padan Fain down.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Do Seanchan Ogier have the Longing?

A: The longing is a effect of being separated from the stedding for a long time during the breaking. At the parts that later became the Seanchan empire, there were much more stedding. (through chance) So they were not separated from the stedding for so long.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: So will there ever be a confrontation between the seanchan ogier and the other ogier?

A: They will meet..... (in other words RAFO)

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Do certain races have better ability at channeling than others? For example, the sea folk at very good at weather, the aiel have a high proportion of dreamers and the Seanchan can make ter'angreals?

A: the Seanchan can only make one kind of ter'angreal. They haven't thought about making another. Certain groups are better at some abilities but it's a matter of need. The Atha'an Miere are dependent on the sea, the wind and water and it would be natural for them to develop high skills to deal with control of weather and winds. For the aiel, dreaming is one of the ways to find new water, using need is how they find water. When the population in a hold is too great, and they have to find a new hold, the dreamwalker uses need to find it. So yes, there are more dreamwalkers there.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Tamyrlin

Q: The snakes and foxes seem to have a lot of powers. Do they also have the power. I have two questions: can they transmigrate souls? Two: can they hold the soul of an individual they have killed?

A: No to both.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: What's the favourite scene you wrote in the entire series?

A: My favourites scenes are the scenes I am writing. I like them all. (laughing)

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: How do the Atha'an Miere and the Amayar deal with male channelers?

A: They kill them..... actually the sea folk kill their male channelers. The Amayar don't channel themselves ? they see it as a violation of their water way and they commit suicide.