Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

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failemyfalcon reblogged your post and added:

Ehh I don’t know, if you use that then it’ll be...

Okay! I’ll think of something else, then.

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failemyfalcon reblogged your post The symbol of the Aes Sedai in a Randl... and added:

Oooh this is really cool! My headcanon name for the third power is saidol, but this works too.

Actually, can I use that for this thing I thought of after making that post: What do you get if you channel a hybrid not of two powers, but all three? Maybe we could call that saidol. Is that cool with you?

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This is an earlier version of the three part version of the Aes Sedai symbol. Not that much different, but I like the current version more.

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Dovie’andi se tovya sagain.

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The symbol of the Aes Sedai in a Randland with a third section of the True Source, one accessed by non-binary people.

Saidin, saidar, saides.

I've heard 'saidan' for the non-binary part, but I don't care for having the name just literally in between the other two. So I came up with a different word. Different vowel and consonant entirely.

And the idea is, while there are three sections of the one power, there aren't just three kinds of channelers. There is as much variation in channeling as there is in the genders of the channelers.

A male channeler draws on saidin, but might channel from different areas of saidin, if you will, closer to saidar or saides. People with fluid gender will draw from different areas of the One Power depending on their current state.

If drawing on saidar is based on surrender, passiveness... and saidin is control, aggressiveness, then saides is not quite either. It's about a kind of patience, sculpting it. You embrace saidar, you seize saidin, I like to think of delving saides.

I think of regions of saidin closer to saidar being 'saidar-like' and drawing indirectly on saidar, but still being basically used as saidin. There are regions of all three powers closer to the others that do the same.

But then on the cusp between the two, also called 'saidan', a channeler would be right between the two. I call the cusps saidan, saidis, and saider. Vowel of one, consonant of the next (going clockwise).

They would directly access either at will, or have only one connection that acts as a blend of the two actually, it would depend on the person. Some would go one way, some another.

All of this would make a lot of channeling technique a lot more complicated. But going into the WoT verse with this gender binary stuff doesn’t make any sense to me, so.

In terms of the five powers, saidar has water and air, while saidin has fire and earth. Saides, then, has spirit, though it's closer to water and earth than fire and air. 

Part of learning to channel would probably be experimenting with how you actually get to the True Source. What balance of the different techniques fits you. And it would probably surprise a few people, what that says about them.