Elysia wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:58 pm
Kitiara wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 11:20 am
RPly all Aes Sedai and bonded Gaidin should have it...
I'm not sure all Aes Sedai would, to be honest. In fact, re-reading the books, I'm not entirely sure bonded Aes Sedai get it, bookishly. Moiraine even comments in book one that if there's any spawn near, Lan will sense them at like 100 paces or something. The fact that she and Lan apparently woke up all of EF sensing Shadowspawn could arguably even be Lan sensing it and her sensing his alarm.
I just i finished rereading the books a month or so agi... but still delved into this deeper... there are a few things/ that seem contradictory about the sense coming from the Warder.
"It was Lan and Moiraine he was really interested in, though. They could sense a Myrddraal, or a Trolloc, or any Shadowspawn, before it came closer than a few hundred paces, but the Aes Sedai was staring distantly at the table in front of her, and the Warder was cutting a chunk of yellow cheese and watching her." - TDR
This one suggests Rand I believe thinks they can both sense.
"Lan came to stand in front of Perrin. “How did you know them, blacksmith?” he asked quietly. “Their taint of evil is not strong enough for Moiraine or me to sense. Gray Men have walked past a hundred guards without being noticed, and Warders among them.” - TDR"
This one Lan seems to imply that Moiraine can sense separate than him.
Moiraine also said she could only sense a Darkfriend if their soul was very tainted by the Dark One... and Fain was the only example of that to that point... regular Darkfriends were not tainted enough. But if she can sense the Dark Ones taint in Fain, she seemingly could sense it in shadowspawn. - edited to add this
Another example is the gray men in the Tower and in Illian. It was mentioned that the gray men must have been warded for them not to be caught (in the tower for Nynaeve /egwene and illian by Moraine&lan)
Rand is another example as he worked more with the Power he was able to sense even more acutely than Moriane or Lan... He was much more powerful in the One Power so that is likely why he could sense better. (there is also a theory that Men can sense better because the taint)
A Warder is just a man without the bond. It stands to reason that any ability received is from the One Power, and the One Power comes from the Aes Sedai. So while it does seem a bit murky in the books as to all channelers seasoned with the power vs. warders and the bond messaging, but I would give the weight of evidence stronger on all channelers.