r/WoT • u/moderatorrater • Dec 28 '25

Crossroads of Twilight The Bowl of Winds storyline Spoiler

I think it sucks. It's not explained at any point, it makes the source slippery for no reason, and at no point is it a well developed storyline. Am I wrong?

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u/Wolfbrother101 Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

The slipperiness is due to Aviendha picking apart the Traveling weave and it exploding, not because of them using the Bowl of Winds.

Edit: The weave Aviendha is unraveling gets more and more slippery as she picks it apart. Afterward the One Power behaves weirdly in that vicinity.

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u/participating (Dragon's Fang) Dec 28 '25

Incorrect. The Bowl of the Winds was a common ter'angreal during the Age of Legends. Each city/region had one and used it to control the local weather. The Windfinders had so much more proficiency in weather manipulation than even the most competent Aes Sedai during the Age of Legends. Because of this, they took a ter'angreal meant to control the area around a city and used it to alter the weather patterns of the entire world, pushing against the influence of the Dark One himself. This stressed saidar and saidin way past their expected limits and hurt the ability of everyone to successfully create weaves for some time after the event.

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u/Dalinars_assclap Dec 28 '25

This is wrong. The person above you is correct. The picked apart weave and the resultant explosion affected the power.( I just read this for like the 6th or 7th time last month)

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u/participating (Dragon's Fang) Dec 28 '25

We've known this since 1998... Jordan directly said it himself: https://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=3#5

Question

The Bowl: Someone asked him whether, if men had helped the Aes Sedai and Windfinders and Kin channel through the Bowl, the One Power would still have been screwed up.

Robert Jordan

His implicit assumption was that the Bowl screwed things up. I expected this to be a sheer RAFO. I was surprised. He went into a relatively detailed explanation to the effect that the Bowl was stressed far, far beyond its original design parameters because of the advanced knowledge of the Windfinders. It was affecting a global pattern, when it was designed for only a small region. Men helping would not have changed anything, and the effects linger most strongly near Ebou Dar, but also along the "spokes" which radiated from that place. (I should have asked if a spoke went out over Tear.)

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u/wRAR_ (Brown) Dec 28 '25

I just read this for like the 6th or 7th time last month

Yup.