DarkClaw82

So maybe I’m a late to this party, but the maidens that treat Rand as a son rather than a brother, could they be one that had given birth and gave their child to a wise one? It would make sense that they would treat Rand as a son. Or is it purely preferential?

This may have been discussed already, but I’m on my 4th trip through the books (audiobooks to be accurate). I had an idea for a possible use for gateways and wanted to see if my idea could work and thought this might be the best place to present it. So we have seen that gateways were used to observe a battle field in real time. My thought was could they be used to communicate. If a channeler had a device, maybe similar in size and shape to a makeup compact, could a gateway be opened in that device and a conversation be had across a multitude of miles. The item may have to be made of cuendillar to survive the gateway edges. Each person’s device would have to be unique. Would that work? Or does the gateway weave require knowledge of the larger area, not just the immediate surroundings of the gateway’s placement. It would almost be like a One Power cell phone.