Talent
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Talents are the collective name for special abilities innate to those who can channel. Talents are innate and cannot be learned, unlike most weaves. All Talents are relatively rare, and some are unpredictable.
One of the more commonly known Talents is Foretelling, which causes the user to experience trance-like states in which they perceive future or present events. The ability to see ta'veren is also a Talent, as is the ability to enter the World of Dreams (commonly known as dreamwalking or Dreaming). A recently-discovered Talent allows the user to "feel" the effects or intended use of a ter'angreal through simple physical contact.
[edit] Some other Talents
- Cloud Dancing - Controls the weather. Atha'an Miere windfinders call this Talent "Weaving the Winds".
- Healing - Possibly the most common Talent, which all members of the Yellow Ajah must know.
- Listening to the Wind - A term used in the Two Rivers for the skill of foretelling the weather and also predicting the abundancy of crops. While all Wisdoms claim to have this skill, it is a manifestation of saidar; and so only those Wisdoms who, almost always unkowingly, have the ability to channel can actually Listen to the Wind. See also Wilder.
- Reading Residues - A channeler with this Talent can read and duplicate a weave even days after it was woven. The only way to leave no trace of a weave is to Unpick it, one strand at a time, which is very dangerous.
- Skimming - Related to Traveling, allows travel from unfamiliar places.
- Ta'veren Seeing - Allows the channeler to see Ta'veren in a golden light.
- Traveling - Opens a portal to another place; can only be used to travel long distances when the place that the Traveler is leaving from is well-known to them.
