Hello, all!

[Thalia]

Actually, you have no idea how much the Supernatural comparison helped just now.  I love that show!  lol  And thank you for those summary points as well.  While I don't understand 100% of them yet, it's a great starting point.  I felt like there were two wires in my brain that just refused to connect, but I think you may just have done it. 

As for my character, I have a main one that has followed me since the early 2010s, and she's kind of grown with me.  I'd like to make her as "another thread in the Pattern" so to speak.  She always starts out as a Seanchan damane who has been rescued by an Aes Sedai and is training in the Tower.  My vague idea for her here is that she'd survive her channeling sickness, then be used by someone around her for her abilities by blackmail or financial means or something.  I don't know about details or where to stick her yet, but that's what I've got so far.

If it's helpful, one of my characters was also originally a former damane who I translated over to FA from an old character. In fact she has some other past lives through the various Ages now, because I like writing up past lives lol (you'll find a ton of that kind of stuff on the wiki). Once I figured out what in the FA setting could provide the same pressures for her, the bio clicked for me. And as Nox said, though we mainly write in the First Age, a character can have other rebirths in other Ages. Some characters are tied to real world mythology. So your 3rd Age character and whoever she becomes in the 1st Age can literally be the same soul.