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Matai Gaidin
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posted January 08, 2003 12:25 PM      Profile for Matai Gaidin      Edit/Delete Post
Say a PC uses Folded Light to conceal herself and then doesn't move. She must be a channeler using saidar, obviously. Well, then an Aes Sedai walks by. Since the AS also can sense and see saidar, would she see the screen of invisibility (even though she wouldn't see the character), or is the screen invisible after the weave has formed?
It seems the weave is kind of useless against channelers of the same gender, unless you can Invert. Seeing as how that takes special training and low-level PC's (and therefore NPC's as well) can't do it.
How do you play it?

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Heron_Marked_Blade
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posted January 08, 2003 01:18 PM      Profile for Heron_Marked_Blade      Edit/Delete Post
Pretty much that way. It would be pretty useless to use Folded Light against another channeler of the same gender unless you knew how to Invert the weave, did so, tied it off, and released the One Power.

Inverting the weave would hide it from other channelers, tying it off would allow it to remain in place, and releasing the One Power would keep the PC from being sensed (at a distance). It is important to note that a channeler WOULD be able to sense the PC if he/she walked close enough to the PCs location, even if the PC was not holding the One Power.

That's part of the balance channelers have to keep, though. As overpowered as they are already, to have it (seeing/sensing the One Power, and weaves like Folded Light) function any other way would be Godlike.

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posted January 08, 2003 02:52 PM      Profile for aleshandre   Email aleshandre    Edit/Delete Post
Then there is the Lost weave that allows the channeler to mask the ability(which by default must be inverted or it does no good). combining these two would make the character virtually invisible to another channeller - even one of the same gender. The problem is that only the Forsaken are likely to have the knowledge to accomplish this...and Nyneve & Elayne (thanks to holding Moghedien prisoner for so long). [Big Grin]

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