Daniel Lepage on 14 May 2003 02:13:01 -0000


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Re: [Spoon-business] Re: [spoon-discuss] Force vs. Source



On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 10:06  PM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

You should've copyrighted it when you had the chance! ;)

E did. Anything you write is copyrighted instantly.

Well, he should have licenced it properly. Anyway, it was a joke on the
whole
'Source' thing. I never read the books, though.

Once upon a time, those who could channel the One Power (and thereby do nifty magical stuff) banded together under the name of Aes Sedai. They devoted themselves to the study of the Power. Working together, they learned
how to do all sorts of stuff. This included the creation of Angreal,
artifacts which would increase the power of anyone who held them. They also made Sa'angreal, which were *really powerful* angreal. Then there are the Ter'angreal, items which use the Power to create some specific effect. Another thing they created was Heartstone, which also has an Old Tongue name that I forget. It can't be broken, and any of the One Power that is used on it it absorbs. The symbol for the Aes Sedai was like a yin-yang without the dots; the black half represented Saidar and the white half represented
Saidin.

Then the Dark One, a satan-like entity, started causing all sorts of
trouble, and even got thirteen of the most powerful fourteen Aes Sedai on eir side working evil. A coalition of Aes Sedai, led by Lews Therin Telamon, the most powerful of the loyal Aes Sedai, imprisoned the Dark One and the thirteen Forsaken (the evil Aes Sedai who worked with em) in a prison called Shayol Ghul, held in place by thirteen seals made of Heartstone. Sadly,
however, the influence of the Dark One was able to get out, and e has
supporters outside of Shayol Ghul. In the struggle that occured over the imprisonment of the Dark One and the Forsaken, Saidar got tainted so that any man who uses the Power except for the male Forsaken goes mad. This included Telamon, who killed all of his family and was given the nickname
"Kinslayer".

Heartstone is called Cuendillar, I think, and you've got the colors backwards - black for Saidin, white for Saidar - but overall, a very good, concise summary of the background. I give Teucer one point.

-Oh, and there are only seven seals on the Dark One's (a.k.a Shai'tan, Ba'alzamon) prison. And you forgot one more thing. Tolkien took all those ancient things - Rivendale, Orthanc, Isengard, the Shire - and DID NOT destroy them. Jordan blows up roughly one major city/fortress/ancient relic per book... okay, so he didn't actually blow up Falme, but damn did he try.-

Isengard gets thoroughly sacked partway through... uh... I think during book two. And although Rivendell is not actually destroyed during the course of the book, it's implied that it fades away afterwards.

Also, Tolkien was more about armies, and the one little powerless guy with a couple drinking buddies making all the difference. Jordan focuses more on a few really powerful individuals blowing the hell out of everything at each other.

--
Wonko

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