Seanchan sul'dam
refer to the a'dam
connection to a damane as a link. (TGH,Ch46) Rahvin thinks he is stronger than Graendal, but she would link with Lanfear if he tried anything. (TFoH,Prologue
) Asmodean teaches Rand about linking. Two men cannot link. It requires a woman. Strength increases with linking, but it is not additive. As many as thirteen women can link and they could then overwhelm any man. (TFoH,Ch3) Men are needed to take a link beyond thirteen, more than one to go beyond twenty-seven. (LoC,Prologue
) Sammael offers to link with Graendal but she refuses. For a man and a woman, the woman must initiate the link but then give control to the man. (LoC,Ch6) The Salidar Aes Sedai link to form circles to battle a bubble of evil. Once someone joins a linked circle, they cannot leave the circle until the person leading the circle releases them. (LoC,Ch14)
refer to the a'dam
connection to a damane
as a link.
- Rahvin thinks he is stronger than Graendal, but she would link with Lanfear if he tried anything.
- Men are needed to take a link beyond thirteen, more than one to go beyond twenty-seven.
- Verin is surprised to find that the Wise Ones now know how to link.
- Moridin wonders about the new discoveries of the current Age such as involuntary linking.
is that the Aes Sedai will teach the Windfinders how to link.
. The linkee prepares to embrace the True Source
, but does not. The linker draws on the True Source
through the linkee much as one would with an angreal. The linkee surrenders to the linker much as she would to the True Source
. The linkee cannot release the True Source
until the linker lets her. The linker can pass control of the circle to another by surrendering control.