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The Wheel of Time - Trolloc Wars

@Sanctus Spooki, you are relieved from this RP.

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@LadyTabris Best of luck coming up with a block- let me know if there's any way I can help.

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@LadyTabris Sure! Poor farmers in the middle of nowhere are not detailed upon in any of the stuff I've read about the Trolloc Wars, so you have a lot of freedom there. From what I can remember, there's nothing saying that a woman couldn't become an Aes Sedai without overcoming her block, but I'll have to do some more research on that. Like you said, it may depend on whether anyone knows about it, or what it is. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

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@Ezmeralda I do, and a Yellow would not be sent to retrieve something like that. That would likely be the duty of a Blue, or a Brown, depending on the circumstance.

Read more about Healing here, since they explained it really well: 13depository.blogspot.com/2002/02/weav..

This is the passage that interests me the most:

Complex Five Powers Healing

Unlike in the simpler forms of Healing, different weaves are used to Heal different illnesses. It takes longer, but all the strength comes from the Power and not from the patient and Healer. This is the Healing used during the Age of Legends, and men were better than women at some kinds of Healing (Lord of Chaos, Prologue). Flinn and a few other men can use the Power to remove deeply embedded objects (The Path of Daggers, Fog of War, Storm of Battle).

The channeller can choose to Heal one particular condition and leave everything else as it was (Crossroads of Twilight, Glimmers of the Pattern). This complex Healing can even cure insanity to a limited degree (The Eye of the World, Prologue), but psychiatrists were probably preferred to treat most patients (Lord of Chaos, Threads Woven of Shadow).

During Healing, the patient feels both hot and cold at the same time (The Dragon Reborn, Threads in the Pattern), perhaps due to the presence of Fire and Water in the weave.

In other words, yes, standard simple healing and delving can be learned, but the complex healing- for which the Yellow Ajah is known- is much more involved than just one weave that can be applied to any situation. Every single ailment, injury, illness, what have you, has a different weave, and is dependent on the patient. It takes years of practice and a full understanding of the human body and the different things that can affect it.

You've got to remember that during the Trolloc Wars, people- Aes Sedai especially- remember the wonders of the Age of Legends, and they try to uphold them still. And I would expect that that would hold true in the Yellow Ajah, that they would train their Aes Sedai in all known permutations of the complex Healing weaves.

This is an instance of me saying no, by the way. If your Aes Sedai is 31, and of the Yellow or Green Ajah, then she will be confined to the White Tower.

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@Ezmeralda I would normally agree with your first point, except that it doesn't make sense, given my point that you cannot put all your eggs into one basket. Additionally, during the Trolloc Wars, plenty of Aes Sedai stayed behind in the White Tower to defend Tar Valon- there were four major assaults on Tar Valon, so they had to keep significant forces at their home base. Novices, Accepted, and the younger Aes Sedai were among those who stayed at the tower.

I don't remember that quote, but the series is hella long, so I don't remember a lot of quotes, lol. And yes, Healers can be very weak, but the White Tower would train them to their full potential before letting them out into the world. And if your character becomes a novice at the youngest age that I've seen in reading the Companion (which is 16), then does her training in half the time other people do, that still gives her only 5 years so far that she could train in Healing. And I do not think that that could get anyone to their full potential- again, a 31 year old Aes Sedai is the equivalent of a 6 year old child.

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@Ezmeralda To phrase it better- the war's been going on for over a century now, and sending out the untrained Aes Sedai risks losing invaluable assets. It only makes sense that the White Tower would wait for an Aes Sedai to reach their full potential before sending them out into battle, lest they risk an untimely and ultimately preventable demise.

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@Ezmeralda It would be strange, in times of war. From the books, we know that the Yellows are very cautious- and they likely wouldn't risk losing one of their Healers in training when they aren't ready for battle. You can play a Healer, sure, but if they're that young, they will be stuck in the White Tower/Tar Valon, learning, for the duration of the RP.

I don't expect a healer to be a battlemage- it takes a lot of training in universe to become a Healer to the full capacity needed to help adequately on the battlefield. Unless you're Nynaeve, since she's... the best. Ever.

By the way, I do give Healers credit. I always play defense or heals in games... what was your evidence that I don't???

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@Ezmeralda The thing is, this RP will last in-game only a few months. That's really not enough time to grow as an Aes Sedai to the point where she could actively participate and contribute to battle in a meaningful capacity. She would pretty much be confined to the White Tower, for the duration of the RP. And I don't think that would be fun for you.

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@Sanctus Spooki, you are relieved from this RP. I hope you have fun elsewhere.

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I do not want to RP with someone who is going to insult me by insisting that I am mentally compromised due to a disability.

@Sanctus Spooki, you are relieved from this RP. I hope you have fun elsewhere.