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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 158542" data-attributes="member: 360">[OOC: Lila's lecture, which follows, is borrowed heavily from Loial's in EotW and which he will be giving in a few hours; since Lila can read Ogier and is something of an expert in weird stuff, I don't think this is out of bounds]"Well, Shalimar has already heard this lecture, and I suppose it will do Sirsei no harm to hear it twice." The Aes Sedai said. For all her youth, she looked very much the teacher as she began. "It is a rather long story, though. And I think most of you will know some of this, but I do not want to repeat myself."So, to begin. At the end of the Age of Legends, when Lews Therin Telamon and the Hundred Companions closed the Bore and imprisoned the Forsaken, the Dark One's counterstroke tainted saidin, the male half of the True Source, driving the Dragon and the surving Companions insane instantly, and the other male Aes Sedai slowly joined them."Humanity scattered, as did Ogier, but some Ogier found their stedding again, and it was they who extended the first offer of sanctuary to the male Aes Sedai. In a stedding, they would not go mad, but they could not channel at all, nor even feel that the Source existed. In the end, though, none could accept that, which I can certainly understand, and eventually they all left the stedding hoping that the tain would be gone, though by the end they had to know that hope would be in vain."The Red Ajah claim that Ogier sanctuary prolonged the breaking and made it worse. The Blue claim that if all the men had been allowed to go mad at once, there would have been nothing left of the world. I am of the Brown Ajah; we do not seek to answer what would have been, but rather what was."To continue, before they left, the male Aes Sedai left a gift to the Ogier for their sanctuary. The Ways let someone travel from one Waygate to another in hours or days, covering distances that might otherwise have been covered in weeks or months. At the time, with the world shifting around them, the Ways were an even greater gift than it might seem now."And they left the Ogier Elders a final gift, a talisman that could be used for growing more. Each stedding has a Waygate, and so do the cities that had or have Ogier groves, though I believe that only in Tar Valon does the Ogier Grove still stand."She pauses for a second in her explanation.</blockquote>

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