I'm half way through Book 3 now. Since this is a re-read through I know what's going to happen but it occurred to me that the greatest weapon that Shaitan's used in the previous 3000 years was his disinformation campaign against Aes Sedai.
Gleemen and others spread the stories about Aes Sedai being shadowfriends or near enough to them for years. The Aes Sedai unwillingness to speak plainly didn't help that either. They can't lie directly, but they can couch their lies in a veil of truth which added to the stories about them being basically witches. If the people of the kingdoms of WoT trusted them implicitly, then the ranks of Aes Sedai would have been much larger and it would have much harder groups like the Children of the Light to get a foothold.
I'm half way through Book 3 now. Since this is a re-read through I know what's going to happen but it occurred to me that the greatest weapon that Shaitan's used in the previous 3000 years was his disinformation campaign against Aes Sedai.
Gleemen and others spread the stories about Aes Sedai being shadowfriends or near enough to them for years. The Aes Sedai unwillingness to speak plainly didn't help that either. They can't lie directly, but they can couch their lies in a veil of truth which added to the stories about them being
basically witches. If the people of the kingdoms of WoT trusted them implicitly, then the ranks of Aes Sedai would have been much larger and it would have much harder groups like the Children of the Light to get a foothold.
I'm half way through Book 3 now. Since this is a re-read through I know what's going to happen but it occurred to me that the greatest weapon that Shaitan's used in the previous 3000 years was his disinformation campaign against Aes Sedai.
Gleemen and others spread the stories about Aes Sedai being shadowfriends or near enough to them for years. The Aes Sedai unwillingness to speak plainly didn't help that either. They can't lie directly, but they can couch their lies in a veil of truth which added to the stories about them being
basically witches. If the people of the kingdoms of WoT trusted them implicitly, then the ranks of Aes Sedai would have been much larger and it would have much harder groups like the Children of the Light to get a foothold.
Why don't the AS hire gleemen to spread positive stories about them?
On Mon, 06 Dec 2021 15:10:55 -0800, Timothy Bruening wrote:
Why don't the AS hire gleemen to spread positive stories about them?Who knows? It would seem logical that they would try to have some positive
PR or perhaps a band of yellows that went from village to village offering free healing while also looking for girls who could channel sort of like missionaries.
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