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

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 06:53  PM, Craig 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.

--
Wonko

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