The Sea Folk are illogical that way. For them, bargaining is the first priority, and screw the impending apocalypse.
Sometimes Randland just doesn't make sense to me. I think that RJ used aliens in place of women around half of the time - from the planet Contrary.
Also, about that Far Madding suggestion a while back - the Guardian is fairly similar to a stedding and we know for a fact that channelers simply cannot live for long times in those - the Ogier tried it with the male AS during the Breaking and failed (or succeeded, depending on the...
Many thanks, spread equally among all of you, etcetera....
A little details about me - aged 23, a university student, came by WoT from seeing The Gathering Storm on a shelf in a bookstore and googling for more details. Favorite characters are Asmodean, Androl and Alivia.
Androl talking about the Black Tower (plural) and Logain's scene at the Last Battle's end, with the refugees. The thought of a place for men who were killed upon discovery for three thousand years, men doomed to go mad and harm those closest to them, finally having a place where they do not have...
Yeah, I somehow find it doubtful that things will be peaceful for long once the other problems are shoved under the rug(people in the Westlands seem to be really good at that).
I think it's essentially a case of bigotry and elitism, along with a granite-set mindset that things must always be done the way they were always done - the way they are done by Aes Sedai of course.
By the way, considering that Cadsuane is slotted to being Egwene's successor and her experiences...