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Your search for the tag 'stilling' yielded 15 results
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Interview: Oct 11th, 2005
KOD Signing Report - Pary (Paraphrased)Question
Someone asked if someone who was stilled can use a Well.Robert Jordan
No.Tags
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Interview: Oct 11th, 2005
KOD Signing Report - Yhooders (Paraphrased)yhooders
Then I asked what would happen if Siuan was re-severed and Healed by a man.Robert Jordan
And he answered, Read and find out.Tags
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Interview: Nov 1st, 1998
SciFi.com Chat (Verbatim)Moderator
Here's a longish question from Linda that somehow fell in between the cracks... Part One from Linda: Since the ability to channel seems to be primarily linked to the soul, if a channeler is gentled/stilled, will this affect his/hers soul in a follow life as well, as in, will the ability to channel still be lost? Did THAT come through??Robert Jordan
No.Moderator
Hmmmmm.. Linda, I TRIED.Robert Jordan
(that was the answer...the answer is no)Moderator
Oh!! Duh!Neptune
I think Linda is asking if the soul is immortal in Jordan's world.Moderator
So...is it??Robert Jordan
Yes, the soul is immortal.Tags
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Interview: Apr 8th, 2001
Elf Fantasy Fair - Aan'allein (Verbatim)KuraFire
Can burned out channelers still sense the Source? (This was because of that debate that pops up every now and then, where because of that one glossary entry people just won't believe that burning out and stilling really aren't synonyms. From now on this should be settled forever.)Robert Jordan
Ah, burned out? No. The difference between being burned out and being stilled... We use the term as if it is interchangeable, but they aren't. Technically, "stilled" means something that is being done to you deliberately. "Burned out" is an injury that you received accidentally.Question
Is it the difference between a clean cut and a cauterized wound? (From memory, the background noise here got too loud for my memo-recorder; a problem throughout this signing.)Robert Jordan
Yes, and if you're burned out, you cannot sense the Source.Tags
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Interview: Sep 3rd, 2005
DragonCon Report - Isabel (Verbatim)Question
Previously you have made it known that an individual who is stilled will retain the ability to channel in his or her subsequent life, which connects the ability to channel with the soul. How does burning out affect one's ability to channel in the next life? Specifically, will an individual born with the spark but who burns out during his or her life, have the inborn spark in a subsequent life?Robert Jordan
I don't think I have said if you are born with the spark you would have the have the spark again. I have said if you were born with the ability to channel, to learn or with the spark, you will, when your soul is born again, you will have the ability again, whether with the spark or without. And neither burning out or stilling affects that except in this lifetime, your current lifetime.Tags
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Interview: Sep 4th, 2005
DragonCon Report - Matt Hatch (Paraphrased)Question
With regards to Healing stilling vs. being burned out. There are a lot of theories online that you can Heal stilling but you cannot Heal being burnt out. Is that true?Robert Jordan
Read and Find Out.Tags
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Interview: Oct 20th, 2005
KOD Signing Report - Robert Mee (Paraphrased)Question
Siuan and Leane being stilled again and Healed by a male to full strength...Robert Jordan
"RAFO, because I might decide to use that as a plot device!" (That got a few chuckles).Tags
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Interview: Oct 28th, 2005
KOD Signing Report - Frenzy (Paraphrased)Frenzy
But what I DID get to ask, was this: Can a person who hasn't actively channeled yet be severed or stilled?Robert Jordan
Jordan's response (paraphrased) "No, you have to have something to take away something, so a person has to have an active connection to the Source to be able to have it cut."Frenzy
Oh, the mayhem I can have with this little nugget.
small: This explains why the Reds haven't summarily tried to gentle every boy at birth or every man by 30.
big: If it takes an active link to the Source to slow, or to be stilled, then what about all those other attributes that sul'dam gain with use of the a'dam? Where do they come from? How did they get there?
bigger: Is it possible that those attributes are NOT directly linked to the Source? Could it be merely the exposure to the One Power that gives sul'dam that ability? What about a Warder? Could a same-sex non-channeling warder develop those attributes over time?
I need sleep now, I'll ponder this more later.
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Interview: Oct 31st, 2005
KOD Signing Report - Ursula (Paraphrased)Question
Another man asked about Siuan's Talent of seeing ta'veren. Was she able to see them after she was stilled?Robert Jordan
No.Question
Could she see them after she was Healed?Robert Jordan
Yes.Question
So, if the ability to see them was based on the Power, what about the Ogier Elder who knew Rand was ta'veren?Robert Jordan
For Siuan, yes, for the Ogier, no. The Ogier was able to see (or feel, I can't remember which RJ said) the Pattern shifting around Rand.Tags
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Interview: Jun 10th, 2010
Luckers
In Lord of Chaos Ch. 30, "To Heal Again", Siuan, after being healed, says to Nynaeve that 'if she could heal her to half of what she was' she would be better off. This has led to the perception that Siuan and Leane are less than half their original strength. Yet in Crossroads of Twilight Ch. 19, "Surprises", we find out that both women stand several steps above the Aes Sedai minimum strength. This seems problematic—the range of Aes Sedai strength does not appear to be so great as to allow for this. So the question is, did Siuan and Leane in fact lose such a large amount of strength as they appear to have?Maria Simons
Yes, they did lose a large amount of strength. The range of strength is greater than you think, I believe. At the beginning, Siuan was near the top (and Leane close behind); if she were half the strength she used to be, she'd be in the middle. Instead, she's somewhere in the lower half, but not absolute rock bottom, nor nearly as low as Daigian Moseneillin.Tags
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Interview: Dec, 2010
Jet
There are some channelers who have lost strength in the Power (Siuan and Moiraine), is this something that can be Healed?
Cory
You have to still/gentle them again, and then have them "Healed" by a channeler of the opposite sex...thats why when Nynaeve healed Logain, he regained all his power.
Brandon Sanderson
That is a common theory. I do believe Robert Jordan RAFOed this very question, which is why I feel I need to RAFO it. It should be noted that Siuan doesn't want to try this, for various reasons.Tags
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Interview: Feb 20th, 2013
AMOL Signing Report - JaimieKrycho (Paraphrased)Question
Regarding burning out, is it Healable?
Brandon Sanderson
Not in the same way that stilling is Healed. All it says in the notes is what I just said. And that Nynaeve would not be able to Heal Setalle. Being reborn would heal burning out, but transmigration would not. That's why even though Lanfear shifted bodies, she was still reduced.
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Interview: Apr, 2013
Waygate Foundation Q&A (Verbatim)Question
Can someone burned out be Healed, be it similar to the severing healing process or not?Maria Simons
No, someone who is burned out will stay that way. It cannot be healed.Tags