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How channelers see the weaves - by RJ himself

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Dragon Reborn RP Community => White Tower (DR RP Group) => Topic started by: Elgee on 17-08-2010, 08:44:18

 

 

 

Title: How channelers see the weaves - by RJ himself

Post by: Elgee on 17-08-2010, 08:44:18

 

Maj posted this at the Discussion boards, and I thought y'all would be interested in seeing it too (if you haven't yet) :D

 

I'll work it into our official info somehow somewhere.

 

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Week 9 Question: When a person channels, where do the flows appear to originate from? Do they extrude themselves somehow from the person's body, or do they seem to appear out of thin air in the channeler's general vicinity? What do the flows look like to a person who can channel? Are they colored, clear or indeterminate, smooth or rough, wispy or solid?

 

Robert Jordan Answers: To the channeler, the flows seem to originate in his or her very immediate vicinity, not to emanate from themselves, although to another channeler, those flows do seem to be emanating from the channeler. The latter is the actual case, as the One Power is passing through the channeler, one of the reasons for individual limits on how much of the Power a particular person can handle. (And you have seen characters react as if to a blow from having a flow snapped or cut.)

 

A channeler sees the flows as colored very faintly, according to which of the Five Powers is involved (red = Fire, Blue = Water, green = Earth, yellow = Air, white = Spirit), although the "feel" of the flows are also different to a channeler, so that a channeler can tell one from another without actually seeing them. (That is how someone can tell that somebody else has channeled, say, Fire and Earth, in their vicinity without seeing the flows.) It isn't a physical feel; you might almost as well say that they have different flavors. They appear to be smooth and nearly transparent, tinged with color.

 

 

 

Title: Re: How channelers see the weaves - by RJ himself

Post by: Arath Faringal on 17-08-2010, 21:33:50

 

Yeah ... I've mentioned this before on the BT boards. Usually the response is 'Oh, okay', and then the person runs off and channels with green water and brown earth :P

 

 

 

Title: Re: How channelers see the weaves - by RJ himself

Post by: Elgee on 17-08-2010, 21:36:00

 

Which does make more sense ... lol

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