Aulrick Vendour
Gaidin
I am rereading some of the books before AMoL comes out, and I found this interesting thing I haven't noticed before:
There's no need to bring a quote about the Aiel year and a day serving as Gai'shain...
I wonder what is the meaning of a year and a day. Why that number? It can't possibly be coincidence, not with Aiel serving Aes Sedai before the breaking, and now both suddenly have that time of penance exactly the same?
Do we know what it means?
"You seem to be conversant with all the aspects of tower law. What penalty do rebles face?"
"For the leaders," Alviarin said slowly, "stilling." She frowned slightly, skirts swaying just barely as her feet shifted. Good. Even accepted knew this, and she could not understand why Elaida asked. Very good. "For many of the rest, too."
"Perhaps." The leaders might themselves escape that, most of them, if they sybmitted properly. The minimum penalty in law was to be briched in the Grand Hall before the assembled sisters, folloed by at least a year and a day in public penance.
There's no need to bring a quote about the Aiel year and a day serving as Gai'shain...
I wonder what is the meaning of a year and a day. Why that number? It can't possibly be coincidence, not with Aiel serving Aes Sedai before the breaking, and now both suddenly have that time of penance exactly the same?
Do we know what it means?