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Dortamur
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posted January 18, 2003 06:06 PM      Profile for Dortamur      Edit/Delete Post
How easy is it to break an A'dam collar or bracelet?

How easy is it to break the chain that connects both of them?

ie; In a campaign, if someone tries to break that chain using tool of air, or even a normal sword, would it break?

Also, what would be the required roll and DC check for figuring out how to release an A'dam collar & bracelet?

Just trying to get some feedback and clarification, before some of these issues undoubtably come up in my campaign over the next few sessions... [Big Grin]

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JosephKell
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posted January 18, 2003 06:31 PM      Profile for JosephKell   Email JosephKell    Edit/Delete Post
From what I've read, the catch to open the neck piece is quite easily located, and that the only reason Damane don't do it themselves is that they get noxious just thinking about freeing themselves.

A'dam seem to be pretty sturdy, but Nyv, used a weave whip (tool of air?) to pop open a damane's neck piece on the street.

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posted January 19, 2003 10:57 AM      Profile for Heron_Marked_Blade      Edit/Delete Post
As an a'dam is a ter'angreal, I would say the a'dam material is as difficult to break as any ter'angreal (see the rulebook for further details).

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Kari
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posted January 19, 2003 10:07 PM      Profile for Kari   Email Kari    Edit/Delete Post
The a'dam is a ter'angreal (just a very specialized one.) As such, like most, its probably the next best thing to impossible to destroy... At least, the collar and the bracelet. The chain, however, is probably just normal silver.

(As a note, the catch is nearly impossible to locate and open. It took Mat hours to do so. Nynaeve's whip of Air worked because she got, well, 'lucky'. But that was forcing just the latch, rathar than trying to open it properly.)

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Heron_Marked_Blade
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posted January 20, 2003 05:19 AM      Profile for Heron_Marked_Blade      Edit/Delete Post
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Originally posted by Kari:
The chain, however, is probably just normal silver.

I don't know...the whole thing is one seamless piece, unless my memory deceives me. I'll have to look up the reference, but I'm pretty sure that's how it was described.

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posted January 20, 2003 07:29 AM      Profile for Freya      Edit/Delete Post
I do seem to remember a mention of -someone- (maybe a normal soldier) cutting the chain between damane and sul'dam in a battle (Falme?). I can't remember the exact description, but I seem to remember it not being good...either both began writhing in pain, or one/both died immediately.

As for the clasp, I too, remember it being hard to disengage. It had a 'trick', that once you figured it out it was easy to do again. In book 9, Mat had to show the Sea Folk damane a few times before she could do it every time. So, a hard DC for the first time to open it, then decreasing to a set mid-level DC for times afterwards.

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