Wow, that's just awful. I mean, that just destroys some of the core logic, lore, and plot of the series. Fuck this.
Without getting too much into spoilers, the entire post-Breaking history of the world has been dominated by the occasional rare MALE channeler who BELIEVES (or pretends) he is the Dragon Reborn. They are brutally put down by the Aes Sedai before they go mad, etc etc etc. The Dragon Reborn is, literally, Lews Therin Telamon reborn.
If a woman could have claimed to have been the Dragon Reborn, then in WoT cosmology there would have been women channelers attempting to seize power. The Aes Sedai mission to find channelers would need to operate completely different and on a completely different scale given the danger of a new Dragon.
They are brutally put down by the Aes Sedai before they go mad
Thing is this isn't even hyperbole. They literally go mad and they literally Broke the world. There are no metaphors happening here. The catastrophic fallout of the attempted sealing by Lews Therin and the 100 Champions because no female Aes Sedai would join them meant a literal Dark Ages because the world was repeatedly and literally set on fire, turned upside down, flooded, and every other Apocalypse level disaster you can think of. They're a genuine, tangible threat to the world continuing to exist and if left alone would potentially sink continents if they didn't kill themselves through burnout or inexperience channeling since post Breaking there are no more tutors for male channelers so fucking up will inevitably happen by Wilders.
Wow, that's just awful. I mean, that just destroys some of the core logic, lore, and plot of the series. Fuck this.
Without getting too much into spoilers, the entire post-Breaking history of the world has been dominated by the occasional rare MALE channeler who BELIEVES (or pretends) he is the Dragon Reborn. They are brutally put down by the Aes Sedai before they go mad, etc etc etc. The Dragon Reborn is, literally, Lews Therin Telamon reborn.
If a woman could have claimed to have been the Dragon Reborn, then in WoT cosmology there would have been women channelers attempting to seize power. The Aes Sedai mission to find channelers would need to operate completely different and on a completely different scale given the danger of a new Dragon.
So yeah, just fuck this.
Thing is this isn't even hyperbole. They literally go mad and they literally Broke the world. There are no metaphors happening here. The catastrophic fallout of the attempted sealing by Lews Therin and the 100 Champions because no female Aes Sedai would join them meant a literal Dark Ages because the world was repeatedly and literally set on fire, turned upside down, flooded, and every other Apocalypse level disaster you can think of. They're a genuine, tangible threat to the world continuing to exist and if left alone would potentially sink continents if they didn't kill themselves through burnout or inexperience channeling since post Breaking there are no more tutors for male channelers so fucking up will inevitably happen by Wilders.