On May 6, 12:15=A0am, Galad Damodred <crapats...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Let's face it, they're not really humans. They're genetically altered
> > life forms created by the Aes Sedai in bygone millennia.
>
> I know you were joking when you wrote this but there maybe an element
> of truth in this. The Aiel are exceptional people in pretty much every
> way. They could well be geneticially modified humans from the age of
> legends. After all weren't trollocs engineered in the same way?
One of the best parts of the series in my opinion was Rand's flashback
sequence through the Aiel tattoo-parlour ter'angreal where he got his
Dragon inks.
In that, he flashes back to the drilling of the Bore, back at the end
of the Age of Legends. He's an Aiel. Somebody bumps into him in the
street, he has the Way of the Leaf so he doesn't react in any way and
the guy basically says "get out of my way" until his girlfriend says
"hey, look at his hair, he's an Aiel".
This Aiel ("Aiel" meaning "Dedicated" in the same way that "Aes Sedai"
means "Servant to All") was Mierin Sedai's personal Aiel, and she
turned out to become Lanfear once the Bore was drilled (incidentally,
Mierin Sedai was working on a "new form of Power" that turned out to
be the Dark One, and she was working with this character named
Beidomon, about whom nothing more is learned...). So the Aiel were
connected quite directly to the Aes Sedai, and they were quite
special. Even though at the time, they were totally pacifistic.
Then we have the sequences with the Aiel and the Ogier, singing in the
harvest. I'm sure some sort of magic was involved there. If nothing
else, the Nym had some sort of power.
C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wait. Argument. Um, well I can come up with something later. This
is good ****.
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