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The Path of Daggers Book Tour

Report by Ryan R. - New York City, 20 October 1998[1] [2]

This is just a little info from the New York signing on Tuesday. I haven't posted it until now because I wanted to make sure it wasn't in the books.

I asked Jordan when a man with the spark would slow.[3] He hesitated and rubbed his chin, obviously trying to make up the answer on the spot, and doing it to be consistent with the books. The answer is: Women usually slow at twenty, sometimes a little earlier, but usually around there. Men wouldn't slow until 25, usually closer to thirty. He claims that they could go past thirty, but that probably depends on how early they start and how much they channel.

So, if Taim started at twenty or so, like Rand (actually, that's later than Rand), and channeled a reasonable amount, he would probably slow at twenty-seven or thereabouts. After all, Nynaeve started probably at sixteen or seventeen, and only channeled on the uncommon occasion that someone was dying in her presence of some disease, and slowed at twenty-three (that's the age Setalle Anan thought she was, but she's twenty-six). That's seven years or so.

Well, Taim looks thirty-five, according to Rand. He shouldn't. Even if he didn't slow until he was thirty-two, Rand still wouldn't have estimated him as being as much as fifteen years older than he was. So, my conclusion--Taim is Demandred.[4] Only a Forsaken could look that old, given the slowing. Yes, I know it's not solid, irrefutable evidence, but it's still good evidence. That's my two cents.

-- Ryan R. ryanr (at) ix.netcom.com "He Who Just Missed Coming With the Dawn"


Notes

  1. http://linuxmafia.com/~pam/POD_signings.html.
  2. Alternate link: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan/msg/d7def1f91b259f06
  3. Editor's note: by slowing the author of this article is referring to the slowing of aging that all channelers, male and female, experience as a byproduct of channeling.
  4. Editor's note: see article on Mazrim Taim for an authoritative explanation of why he is not Demandred
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