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The Sad Bracelets

(Survey Says)

Luke Mankin tells us more about the bracelets:

• (TSR: 55, 920, Into the Deep, 638):
  "Egeanin touched the collar, pushed the bracelets away from the collar. If she felt the emotions trapped in them ... ability to channel. `It is not a'dam,' the Seanchan woman said. `That is made of a silvery metal, and all of one piece.'"
• (TSR: 52, 866, Need, 600):
  "...-a necklace and two bracelets of jointed black metal-..."
• (TSR: 54, 905, Into the Palace, 628):
  " ...dull black collar and bracelets... ...wide jointed collar..."

The last we saw of the bracelets/collar was Egeanin and Bayle going off to dump them in the ocean, near the Aile Somara. That just happenned to be where High Lady Suroth was camping out at the time. Since we assume that the Seanchan will get the collar, what will they do with their male channeller? Or, will the BA get the collar and bracelets through the Darkfriend connection? Wouldn't the best means of destroying them be separating them and throwing them in say the sea, a volcano, and such? (Survey Says)

Now, of course, the Sad Bracelets can be used on any of the poor sods who signed up to become asha'man.

Did Sammael somehow get ahold of the Sad Bracelets? In ACOS: 20 Patterns within Patterns, 354 "What I have will control him once he is taken, but it cannot overcome him." This description applies to the Bracelets, but it could also apply to a "binding chair", or something like that.

Survey Says

Who will the Sad Bracelets be used on?

• Rand: 33% (75)
• Demandred: 3% (7)
• No One: 31% (69)
• Sammael: 3% (7)
• Taim: 7% (15)
• Mat: 2% (4)
• Logain: 5% (13)

Will/did Bayle Domon lose the Sad Bracelets in the ocean?

• Yes: 29% (64)
• No: 56% (126)
• Undecided: 12% (26)