Imzadi Hopewind
Aes Sedai
Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, 49-53; TGH Pro & 1
Yeah, I wonder excatly the same as you Lan's or Rand's sword?
Yeah, I wonder excatly the same as you Lan's or Rand's sword?
Knowing them indicates a suspicious interest in unwholesome things.I think I'm missing something. What exactly is so dangerous about the names of the false Dragons?
For a boy of 19 a woman of 25 (Nyn's age) is beyond the horizon - she would usually be married and have one or more children.Really, Mat? :arch I thought Nynaeve was young since there was that whole thing about her being young for a Wisdom.
All's well that ends well - and if the Arthurian parallel holds true, she'll take good care of him and he will die old in bed.I'd forgotten how early the Nynaeve/Lan relationship begins. For some reason, I'd always thought it was later in the series. I'd somehow forgotten that Nynaeve basically proposes to Lan in the first book. Poor Nynaeve.
Yes, me too.I love how Lan still treats Rand the same even after events at the Eye.
Andoran? Where? The Green Man is just one more person to name him Child of the Dragon, i.e. Aiel.We get foreshadowing of Rand's Andoran blood.
Most theories say it's the Creator speaking. Umh. As I wrote earlier, I could well do without that.-What was the voice talking to Rand while he was channeling???? That part really confused me. :scratch I know the whole Chapter was a bit confusing, but I really didn't know who that voice was supposed to be.
He is talking about his own sword, the sword of the Malkieri kings - which is power-wrought but not heron-marked.-When Lan's talking about power-wrought weapons, he says "One of those swords, a plain soldier's sword, became something more." Is he talking about his own blade?
In the Great Hunt prologue. Bors is looking at the images of the three boys:Murun said:Andoran? Where? The Green Man is just one more person to name him Child of the Dragon, i.e. Aiel.
Sooo... very light foreshadowing since he mentions three others places he could've gotten those light eyes, but I thought of it as such since he mentions Andor as a possibility first and then specifically dismisses it as unlikely.Bors said:Blue eyes could mean the nobility of Andor-unlikely in those clothes-and there were Borderlanders with light eyes, as well as some Tairens, not to mention a few from Ghealdan, and, of course.... No, no help there.
how do we know this? Weiramon is the only High Lord Darkfriend we know, and Ingtar might mention it later, but why Liandrin and Verin?We know the Aes Sedai were Liandrin and Verin, the Shienaran was Ingtar, and the Tairen High Lord was likely Weiramon.
The gamblers were looking at him, he realized. All of them, still kneeling against the wall, had turned to stare at him. Shienarans of any class were almost always polite and correct, even to blood enemies, and Ogier were never any enemies of Shienar. Shock filled the gamblers’ eyes. Their faces were blank, but their eyes said what he had done was wrong. Part of him thought they were right, and that drove their silent accusation deep. They only looked at him, but he stumbled out of the storeroom as if they were chasing him.
Oh, Oh, Oh! I found proof that Sheinarians are the Canadian Borderlanders.
Also of note somewhere in chapter 4 I found at that it has been a month since the end of Eye of the World. So Randhas had several weeks worth of training under Lan. Not enough to go to advanced tactics, but with Tam's teaching and Lan's additions, I don't think Rand's mastery of the sword is too much of a reach. Once he knows the Forms, and has even the ability to call up the Void, I believe he is a match for most people. Most of being a Blademaster can be put down to experience and the ability to learn your opponents. Also Rand might have gotten lucky with Turak's being a bit overconfident.
Wasn't that Patches O'Houlihan's technique? If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!I would like to note that Lan's training seemed to be "Beat the snot out of Rand till he learned"
Wasn't that Patches O'Houlihan's technique? If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
Another thing I didn't catch at first is just how many people Fain ends up influencing... I mean, he gets close to Whitecloacks, even Niall himself, Elaida, and several rebel nobles...
I wonder if Elaida's reign would have been different had she not been exposed to Fain. I think it certainly made some difference, although Elaida was not pleasant person even in the first place.
Oh, that's an interesting question, Iria. Plus Elaida had the influence of Alviarin and the Black Ajah behind her.