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Sarecule
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posted October 22, 2002 05:39 PM      Profile for Sarecule      Edit/Delete Post
Hey everyone!

My friends started a Wheel of Time game about a month ago, and I decided to play a Male Wilder. Well, everything was going along alright and we all got up to level 2, when a few more friends of ours decided to join the game with one of the them deciding to play a Female channeler with a level of Wilder and a level of Initiate. Now, my ambition is for my character to eventually become an Asha'man, while the female channeler wants to become an Aes Sedai. Now, I'm wondering, is there any legitimate way that our two characters, once they obtain these prestige classes, can actually adventure together without....well....killing each other? ^_^

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Nae'blis' Chief Eunuch
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posted October 22, 2002 11:32 PM      Profile for Nae'blis' Chief Eunuch   Email Nae'blis' Chief Eunuch    Edit/Delete Post
YES they could adventure together.

However certain agreements would at a minimum probably need to be met.

1) as players you sort of both have to agree that neither of you are going to try to kill each other off. Then simply invent in game (with DM help/approval) circumstances that will allow your characters to work together.

ideas could include a brown sister wanting to track the progress of tain in a man, a white sister wanting to understand how the taint and madness effected a males ability to reason, a blue could support the Dragon Reborn Rand and choose to support one of his Ashaman, a Green could assume that the Last Battle draws near and an Ashaman would make a good warder, a grey could seek to establish some sort of formal NON HOSTILE relationship between male and female channelers and so try to help the Ashaman, the Yellow could be seeking to understand Healing weaves better through understanding the male side, and a red could arguably use the Ashaman to betray his comrades or those male channelers who are actuall insane.

The Ashaman could seek the company of an Aes Sedai to learn, not the HOW but what is possible ie most normal people and therefore wilders probably have never heard of shielding, but once they know it is possible, then could figure it out.
An ashaman could also fear going mad and so have the Aes sedai around to help ward off the madness, or at least restrain him when things go really bad.

etc

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Dortamur
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posted October 23, 2002 03:51 PM      Profile for Dortamur      Edit/Delete Post
How about having the Asha'man bonding the Aes Sedai against her will initially, but then have a friendship blossom between them.

Emotions are funny things.

The only Accepted in our group (a group of 8 characters) is QUITE fond of the only male Wilder in the group - and is also the only one in character to start suspecting what he really is. Interesting times ahead. [Big Grin]

(I suspect she'll bond him as a Warder before he gets anywhere near Asha'man status though...)

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Harkael
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posted October 23, 2002 04:28 PM      Profile for Harkael   Email Harkael    Edit/Delete Post
It really comes down to you, the pc's.How you roleplay your characters and such. It is quite likely that both characters grew up with a severe prejudice for one another. Nearly all have come to distrust the powerful secretive, and manipulative aes sedai. And anyone with a half decent upbringing has learned to fear the male half of the one power, the force that broke the world it self. But maybe your characters can see past legend and story and make their own decision.
ok that was long winded and not helpful but basically as i said, it depends on what kind of character you are playing.

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posted October 23, 2002 04:33 PM      Profile for Harkael   Email Harkael    Edit/Delete Post
oops! in my stupidly inane speech dealie i somehow managed to forget to really answer the question. The answer being yes, if you care more about the group working well and not slowing things down (or blowing them up!) but if your stuck on playing your character to a tee then it might not be feasable, although your characters knew eachother before becoming aes sedai or ashaman......

once again you'll have to forgive me, knowing people might actually read what i say puts me into a bit of a powertrip.....or something......yeah im done

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