#angreal

[gl00mytuesday]

she’s so baby girl coded

[wot-tidbits]

[ofthebrownajah]

Another thought I've been having since the sneak peek is something I've actually been wondering since s1 and the sneak peek brought it up again for me.

In 1x08 Moiraine gives Rand a sa'angreal, rather than an angreal.

Now in the 3x01 sneak peek Verin says the 13th Depository stores the Tower's collection of ter'angreal and sa'angreal (no mention of angreal)

So my guess is that angreal and sa'angreal aren't separate things in the show, they've just merged them into one category of Power based objects

[iliiuan]

I didn't catch it before, that one of Bayle Domon's treasures is a saidin angreal. The man who sold it to him claimed you would start to feel warm if you held it long enough, but it never worked for Bayle or any of his crew.

[ofc-fics]

Dancing in Dragonmount

Masterlist

The pair of them were on the other side of the mountain and Helena seemed shocked at the damage. It was as if everyone picked up and left. No one bother to clean up the battlegrounds which were once homes. This was not Manetheren. No one was coming back, no one would claim this land, except an Aes Sedai and an Aiel who deserved it. She remembered the loss and she dared. It was theirs. Helena wondered if others would move up the mountain. Then, she doubted it with how demolished the land was. But even as she had the thought, her Power was called to her fingers and she was trying to fix it, as she did with everything. But this was accidental. She hadn't meant to so the magic was erratic, trying to piece every home this side of the mountain back together. Meeting places, forts built in the woods, workplaces. She tried to assemble it all, but the depth of the magic was too far and she did as she was so loathe to.. and gave up. She let the magic go, nothing changed. The mist faded from the air. 

Moiraine silently turned to her wife and offered her hands. She could see that Helena wanted to fix this place, like she has fixed everything else here. It was theirs, and they held no heart to allow the shadows to stay. The darkness was nothing they could allow, even hours of travel away from the house they claimed as theirs. Their fingers locked. Channelling together was ancient Aes Sedai practice, rarely used and cursed by many. The power one could draw was enough to terrorize cities if they wanted, and together the magic was feared, as no one knew exactly how powerful the outcome could be. The Cairhienin still possessed the angreal she has taken from the tower over twenty years ago. And slowly their magic weaved again, silver mist through a broken land.

Once it was promised to burn the houses, the woods, all the places people lived at, and to drench the dust in salt so there may never be life again. Their magic pulled the evil from it. They both let the power go at the same time. It was pulling them still, like it always did, tempting to use it further. But the women were no novices anymore, they knew the limit.

Moiraine brushed her hands along Helena’s side as she first took a careful step forward. The sun shone onto wide fields of green and purple, yellow and red. Flowers, trees, nature in its prime. “I wonder if it could ever rain here”, she spoke her thoughts, “Or snow.” The weather didn’t appear to affect their place. She took Helena again by the hand. “Come love.” 

They continued their walk through the healed land. Helena looked about contemplatively. "It would have to," she eventually concluded more solemnly than Moiraine knew she was capable of. "For the plants." She squeezed Moiraine's hand. "You could practice a bit more with your weather control, if you'd like, bring rain and not lightning, snow but no blizzard," she offered. 

They walked in a bit of silence before Helena's eyes were turned to a soft birdsong from away from the repaired village. "Have you ever had a familiar?" she asked curiously. 

"I had a dog who never left me alone in my novicehood," Moiraine answered after a moment thinking. 

The Grey didn't respond. It didn't provoke one. She simply hummed, observing the sun in the sky. "It's only midday, but we should make our way back if we wish to return home tonight." As if on cue, her stomach let out the lowest rumble. Blushing, she covered her abdomen with a hand, looking around for any edible plants. She spotted another cluster of the blue berries, unsweet as they were, and pulled Moiraine over to it with a giggle. "It's your color so may as well," she quipped, kneeling to pick them into her hand. 

“I was five when I learned that betraying some noble men can get your head chopped off, so I assume my Ajah has been chosen for me with birth.” Her tone was a little dry, but the corner of her lips tilted up. “I didn’t want to be bound to a place. Most Ajah are. But as I don’t hate men the red would be a little too tiring, and as a green I would have lost my mind, because clearly, I don’t like men that much as well. Some red say most blue feel more important than they are, and I think I can admit to my wife that I do like the feeling, yes.” Well that was a little blunt. She inevitably started to grin. Another reason might have been Siuan, who she wanted to be as close to as possible, but that she didn’t say. Instead she yawned under a raised hand and looked up, before eying Helena from the side. She moved her hands, and very gently it began to rain. A warm summer rain. 

She laughed again at seeing the redhead look up to her with big eyes. “What, not the right time?” the blue asked with a smirk. “I thought I might start to practice. The bonus is your dress sticking to you.” 

Helena looked down at her dress which was quickly becoming drenched. She looked up at her love with a flat face and the woman almost feared she'd get angry. Until the woman pulled off her coat, hanging it in a doorway to keep it and her Ajah dry. "This!" she started, standing out in the rain with her arms out and facing up, just catching the rain on her. No magic. "...is dancing weather." She held her hand out to Moiraine who paused to hang her own coat and Ajah up. She joined the woman and they found a cobblestoned center of the city to dance on without slipping. Their hair quickly plastered to their scalps so the Blue ran a hand through hers to peel it back. Helena was a smartass who used her own hair to tie it into a ponytail. It fell flat, heavy with the weight of the rain and the sheer amount of hair she possessed. They got into a rhythm and the shorter woman was barely screwing up, and yet kept looking down, mostly to get a rise out of the brunette. 

Their spinning ended like it did most of the time; with both women laughing as they held onto another, moving less the harder it got to catch their breaths. It was still hot despite the weather and eventually the two stood still in it, leaning into a kiss that was only broken when Helena giggled again and Moiraine put a hand on her cheek, smiling fondly. Maybe the young girl inside them both felt weightless, drowning in happy dizziness, at what would be a core memory one day.

Next Chapter

[thoughtlessnesslessness]

Angreally

decided to extend and edit my comment I made on 13depository

We know that Moiraine’s ivory bracelet angreal is “almost a sa’angreal“ and that with it she can reach the top female level.

I’d say that the bracelet is an example of what defines angreal and sa’angreal, since it is on the border between the two. Therefore, if an object would help Moiraine “jump” the whole scale then it would be a sa’angreal. It makes sense for angreal to have a “potential” of their own, since we are told they are created with a seed which lets a channeller “instil their power” in an object. So, if an angreal helps a channeler from a level +45 reach, for example +20, then this will mean that a channeller from level +30, will reach +5 with it. And a channeller from level +10 will go off the scale with 15 “units”.

It would make sense then, since a sa’angreal helps a channeller “jump” the entire scale and more, that sa’angreal were created by more than one person and were rare, even in the Age of Legends.

It doesn’t really make sense why some sa’angreal can’t be used by very weak channellers, since a very weak channeller could lead a very strong circle. The only possible explanation would be that an angreal or sa’angreal requires the channeller to draw the Power in themselves and a circle lets them use it, channelled by other people.

Then, a very weak channeller could “use” a very strong sa’angreal in a circle with someone strong enough channelling it *for* them.

So, there needs to be a second value, which shows how much a channeller can draw with a sa’angreal. I.e. a sa’angreal which gives a very strong channeller, for example 120 levels to their strength, will only give a weaker channeller, for example, 50 or 60 levels to their strength.

But it's best to approach this from the sa'angreal itself.

For angreal we could deduce that they give a channeller x to their level, no matter what their level unaided is, and for sa’angreal, that they provide a x times the sa’angreals lower limit to their level. So, for the Choedan Kal, the magnification would be for Elaida/Lelaine +x since they are at the lowest level possible to activate it, and for Nynaeve, it would be her strength level +x times the difference between her and Lelaine. I.e. the stronger you are, the more you are provided.

It would explain then why some sa’angreal have a lowest strength requirement, i.e. someone beneath the limit would be burned out, that they’d need to be able to take in the lowest limit themselves to be able to be magnified by “+x times the difference between them and the lowest limit”. In other words, the channeller is forced to take in the minimum amount required for the sa’angreal to work and then get magnified according to their strength level.

The Power has been shown to have similarities to how functions work, e.g. “reverse weaves cancel each other”, so this is one possible explanation of the provided strength that angreal sa’angreal give that I think works.

In other words, the magnification would be a function of the potential of the channeller and the Power they get will be the definite integral between the lowest level of strength needed from a person to activate it and the person's potential with respect to the amount of Power they are holding.

All we can’t figure out is how much the magnification is, the “times the difference between the channeller level and the sa’angreal minimum level” part, only that for stronger sa’angreal it would be >1, and for the weakest sa’angreal it would be 1.

It would help to think of it if it were between zero and 1. I.e the stronger you are the closer you are to the sa’angreal’s magnification potentital, but then again, that might be the case just for sa’angreal that have a buffer. For Callandor and Vora’s sa’angreal that would be a number >1 magnification, i.e. however much you want to draw, you get, having in mind the risk for the channeller.

We have the definition from the glossaries that "the Power provided by a sa'angreal compared to that provided by an angreal... ". But that is merely a comparison and something told novices or Accepted so that they realize sa'angreal are more powerful. In reality, they might differ a lot more and the Tower isn't aware of that many sa'angreal to be able to tell. Nor would they let novices in their storerooms and show them how individual objects match.

But back to the ivory bracelet, we know that "Moiraine didn't like [it]". What does this mean?

Most angreal we see are figurines, most often of people: men - male angreal, women - female angreal, and also animals, brooches, flowers. Something pretty, because angreal could be given (maybe bought???) as a gift in the Age of Legends. The ivory bracelet is a female angreal in the shape of a man, whose hands and ankles are bound - that is most likely a sign that it's a post-Breaking creation. It is unlikely that a Darkfriend Aes Sedai (then - all called Forsaken) would limit her Power for a significant amount of time to create an object others could use, so we can rule out that it is a Shadow's creation. But it *is* very powerful and probably created to help even a very weak woman match a rather strong man. It's an odd piece and definitely very dangerous to have lying about. Not easily likeable at all.

[crunchy--milk]

Wait those dice Mat has, the ones that are all connected together at the corners, I've always figured they were some sort of angreal or Ter'angreal (I love how the guy who dislikes the power most keeps accidentally collecting objects that use the power). But, are those dice where his luck comes from?? Not from being Ta'veren, but from an angreal? Guys, guys am I crazy or is this a thing? I literally cannot think of what else those dice could be for. And we already know the entirety of mats character is "do not take things at their surface value". All this time I thought the pattern just had his back but WHAT IF man, am I crazy to have not thought of this sooner?

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

I rewatched Thor Ragnarok the other day, and when Odin tells Thor that the power isn't on Mjolnir, it's a focusing point for his power. So basically what I got from that is that Mjolnir is an angreal.