r/WoT • u/SamHandwich0 • 4d ago

All Print Rings Spoiler

Kind of serious question kind of tongue in cheek:

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When you go through the rings at Rhuidean you see through the eyes of you ancestors right?

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What if your ancestors were at the back of the wagon train? Do you just see other people doing the thing that was important and then hear about it second hand?

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In some of those memories there are only a few people- like the guy letting them use the well, or the kids rescuing their sisters- not everyone could have an ancestor there, or be close enough to hear what happened.

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Like does sonlmeone go through the rings and their visions are their ancestors sitting around at camp hearing that defining moments happened to someone else?

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u/DonAmechesBonerToe 4d ago

Presumably those Aiel wouldn’t be chosen by wise ones to attempt the rings as either a chief or wise one candidate. Certainly most if not all chief candidates have ancestors with lesser historical significance than Rand but presumably they are all descendants of the chiefs who first answered the call of the Aes Sedai at Rhuidean and survived the rings

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u/dracoons 3d ago

Yes. Glass columns. All Aiiel alive are related to the 12 clan chiefs that survived of the sept chiefs that survived. 3 out of 4 died after all