Post by gervaise21 on Sept 26, 2016 19:34:38 GMT
According to Cassandra, she received her Seeker powers after spending a year in meditation, emptying her mind of everything and at the end of it a spirit of faith touched her mind, bestowing the Seeker abilities.
Then after reading the Seeker History, she claims they made her tranquil (how is not clear) after which the spirit touched her mind and the rest followed.
Now we had previously been told that most Seekers are recruited as children and even Cassandra was considered old as a teenager.
Then we are told in WoT2 that Lambert was simply an ordinary Templar until the age of 25, when his negotiating skills on the Tevinter border with Magister Urian (later to become the Black Divine) so impressed both the Magister and his own superiors that he was recruited into the Seekers of Truth. So did he go through the same process as Cassandra?
What also puzzles me is the exact nature of the spirit that touches the Seeker's mind. Presumably it is a faith spirit but what exactly is it looking for? Single minded, fanatical devotion to the Maker? How do he Seekers attract it to the person? The bit that has me puzzled is that Lambert originally had a much more moderate view of mages and for many years was a good friend to Urian. Then when he discovered had Urian and his fellow Magisters had been deceiving him, he became hard line anti-mage and it would seem anti-spirit. So how does that work when you are actually getting your powers from a spirit (which he would have known as Lord Seeker)? Or is that something in the past; a once only touch of the mind that somehow protects it?
How does the type of faith spirit that creates a Seeker differ from the type of faith spirit that resurrected Wynne or aids the Inquisitor in the Fade? Any ideas?
