RE: [spoon-discuss] Proto-prop: Aes Sedai

["Baron von Skippy" <bvs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>Level  Male                  Female
>>>>0      Untrained             Untrained
>>>>1      soldier               novice
>>>>2      Dedicated             Accepted
>>>>3      Asha'man              Aes Sedai
>>>>4      advanced Asha'man     Sitter
>>>>5      M'Hael                Keeper
>>>
>>>How about if the equivalent of the current Jedi Lord be something like:
>>> 6      Dragon                Amyrlin
>>>
>>-That's what I said at the top of the message in the bit about the
>Ministries of Channeling. Those will be the other names for said
>>Ministers (well, I'll be using "Amyrlin Seat," but same thing), maybe. I'm
>not as sure any more. No one but the ministers starts with any
>
>I see. I had not read the top part, preferring to let the protoproposal
>stand on its own merits.

-Fair enough. It probably can, but there was a paragraph there summarizing the Ministries in case people asked where they were.-
>
>>real power, which seems a tad unfair, especially because the Ministers can
>OK any actions they choose to take. I had a different thought
>>today that adds more checks and balances to all of this. The Ministers will
>be plain ol' newbies like the rest of us, and they must be in
>>the /opposite/ gender from their ministry - the Amyrlin will, contrary to
>all sense, be male and the Dragon female. If that's too hard to
>>swallow, we could have a male Dragon oversee Aes Sedai and a female Amyrlin
>oversee Asha'man, which probably fits better with the way the
>>White Tower and Rand think anyway... so they'd have that control, but no
>more power than anyone else, and all of their actions have to go
>>through the other Minister. This sound feasible?-
>
>It sounds weird, is what it sounds.
>
>You could just declare that the Dragon is in charge of what the Amyrlin can
>do, and the Amyrlin is in charge of what the Dragon can do.
>
-But then who's in charge and who makes the decisions? Maybe the Dragon and Amyrlin should change once per unit, where a unit is defined as the length of time a Dragon or Amyrlin stays Dragon or Amyrlin without the position being given to someone else. That way, we don't get an entrenched ruler, and everyone gets a turn at being in power. You can refuse it, of course.-

[[BvS]]
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