Sure todd, welcome aboard! Start making you character asap!
Dagger75... I know how you feel! I'm still looking for mine, and I'm afraid that I'm going to have to replace it, and just for this game, since I have not played it with paper and pen even once since i had gotten the book! Yetch!
ES2... Think on this: Your father has told you that your brother is in the tower right now, training to be a warder. Unfortunately, this is only partially true. He was actually a wilder who was gentled and is being kept alive in the tower. The ammerlin knows this (of course) and has asked you to come down to Tar Valon to help the tower. Now, you really do not want to be associated with the one power. Especially since your mother is a telented Wisdom that can listen to the wind and do many meraculous things. If the tower brought everyones attention to your family with the power, it could spell disaster to everyone.
Of course, the summons held no such threatens, and was only a summons, but you KNOW that they hold the livelyhood of your family in their hands.
Feel free to change smoe/all to fit your purposes.
Andrew: The ammerlin would not go tell them herself, she would have someone they trust tell them. I would push it a little further. If you DO do this, then they will think about adding your name to the novice list. As it is, you would be too old for them to normally concider taking you in now.