Welcome to One Power Basics. This is where you will learn some fundamental weaves with each of the five Powers - the bare bones of channeling. These will be one-on-one lessons, written specificly to meet your needs while teaching you.
The teachers, usually one Accepted and one Dedicated, are chosen on a rotational basis. Contact Elyscia Mordel Sedai or Anahi Asha'man if you are interested in helping teach this class.
To join the class, post to the sign-in sheet and then please post a message in which your character arrives in the private classroom in the lessons thread. Good quality of roleplay is expected, as are posts of decent length. One Power Basics is meant to meet four simply goals:
-to evaluate a student's current knowledge of the One Power
-to explain the differences between saidar, saidin and the Five Powers
-to walk a channeler through touching the True Source for the first time
-to walk a student through channeling for the first time.
If the student already knows how to channel, then they should demonstrate their proficiency by preforming a simple weave.
In order to pass this class the student must make 6 posts of 200 words each, minimum. Once a student has completed the class, their teacher will send him/her a certificate, so that it can be used as a raising requirement.
That said, this class is meant to be enjoyable. This is also a good time for the instructor to put any fears or concerns a new channeler may have about the One Power more at ease. I hope you have fun! If you have any questions, feel free to email the Mistress of Novices or Master of Soldiers
After a few breaths which completely failed to be deep or calming, Sappho knocked briefly and entered the small classroom. A tall, somewhat severe-looking woman was already there, waiting. Sappho curtsied politely to the Mistress of Novices, her head bowed, but her eyes flashed around the room, checking for any sign of danger. Finding nothing untoward, she straightened from the deep curtsy and folded her hands in front of her. Her head remained bowed, and apart from the occasional glance at the door, she was the very picture of patient readiness. She wanted to get this over with. Surely, when it turned out that she couldn’t channel after all, Sappho could go back to South Gate. It would be perfectly safe now. Better there than with all these accursed Aes Sedai and Asha’man and Warders... so many men... It would have to be safer at home than here. There was no evidence of what had happened anywhere but in Sappho’s mind, now. Her mind, and the mind of her mother. That was safe enough. Just as soon as she proved to this Aes Sedai that she didn’t belong here.
Still eyeing the door, she waited for the Mistress of Novices to speak.