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oncerned Over Aviendha

by Refolder: 1998-10-05 | 3 out of 10 (14 votes)

Before Winter's Heart - Archive Only: Are they good or evil?

I'm concerned that Aviendha may be the DF close to Rand instead of Min (as postulated previously). My main reason for this speculation is something from TSR, Ch 5, "Questioners". While Eg and Nyn are questioning the BA Joiya and Amico, Avi sits in at Moiraine's request. She "abruptly and suprisingly "blurts out:
"Her face. Amico's face. She does not have the look she did, as if the years had passed her by. Not as much as she did. Is that because she was...because she was stilled?" (TSR,p117paperback)
But I can't find any evidence that she met Amico before she was stilled at the end of TDR. There doesn't seem to have been a chance they'd have met, since the Aiel didn't enter the stone until about the same time Eg had captured Amico in T'A'R. I've also wondered how she knew to gate to Seanchan-winter in "Far Snows Dance". With Traveling, you usually have to be familiar with a place gate to it, right?. If Lanfear or some other forsaken had gone back to Seanchan after a "visit" with Avi, or if she'd been there herself, it would explain her knowledge. (This part is, admittedly, more speculative than the first, but I've always been curious about it.)
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Tamyrlin: 1998-10-05

Hmmm...now that would definitely piss alot of people off. While the quote above is suspicious it may just be that she has seen Moiraine and knows of the 'ageless' look, and then sees Amico's face and notices the difference. But your point is a very good one.

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Theodrin: 1998-11-30

I'm writing in response to Refolders concerns about Aviendha being a darkfriend. He is suspicious about Avi's gateway to Seanchan. I would just like to point out that Gating places requires the channeler to be very familiar with the place they are gating from, not the place they are gating to. In CoS, Hill of the Golden Dawn, Rand and company gateway from Dumai's Wells to a hilltop outside of Cairhien. They did not know this place very well. One of the Asha'man asks why they don't just Travel from the hilltop to Cairhien and Rand replies that it would take hours to get to know the hilltop well enough to open a gateway to the correct destination. Skimming is the traveling method that requires the destination to be well known. The fact that Avi opened a gateway to an unfamiliar place should not be used as proof that she is a darkfriend.