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Ter'angreal
While not as rare as either angreal or sa’angreal, ter’angreal are hardly common. Ter’angreal are constructed to use the One Power in a specific manner, as opposed to simply increasing the amount of the Power a man or woman can channel. Ter’angreal that require channeling are attuned to either men or women. Some ter’angreal, though, can be used even by those who cannot channel. Some ter’angreal seem to have rather pointless applications. One ter’angreal in the White Tower duplicates the chance-twisting effects of a ta’veren over a very small region. A coin flipped in the presence of this ter’angreal landed on edge hundreds of times in a row. Other ter’angreal have much more prominent uses. Among these are the ter’angreal which Aes Sedai use to raise novices to the level of Accepted, and the ringed ter’angreal used by those Aiel women who are to enter training to become a Wise One. These ter’angreal somehow show the users their worst fears, or possible courses of their lives. It is believed that these ter’angreal might somehow transport the user to one of the parallel worlds which can also be reached through the use of Portal Stones. Two of the most interesting ter’angreal are doorways. These doorways allow the user to travel to the land of the Aelfinn and Eelfinn. These peoples are completely alien to humankind and have extremely strange powers. Users can go through the door only once, though it is believed that one of these doorways has been destroyed. Some ter’angreal allow the user to enter the Unseen World, Tel’aran’rhiod. Some of these ter’angreal work without channeling. Others require the user to channel Spirit, the only thread of the One Power that can be woven while asleep. A good number of ter’angreal stored in the White Tower remain mysteries. Some Brown Aes Sedai dedicate themselves to the study of ter’angreal. But these studies are dangerous - channeling the One Power around ter’angreal can often have unexpected and destructive consequences. No small number of Aes Sedai have been stilled studying ter’angreal. Perhaps this is why so many ter’angreal lie untouched deep within the Tower. The making of ter’angreal had been lost since the Breaking of the World, but recent efforts by Elayne Trakand have changed that. She has succeeded in the creation of various ter’angreal, with the promise of more to come.
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