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Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 45-50 Well,women who can channel are dangerous, something needs to be done about them. The AS kind of leash themselves to the 3 Oaths, which doesn't stop them from being a political power and meddling everywhere. Only mistake: the Seanchan should allow the...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 45-50 I am also with Min, although she isn't really nice in the confrontation with Egwene. But then, she is on edge, as anyone would be after what happened. Fact is, Egwene made a head over heart decision right at the Eye of the World, and now she is kind of...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 45-50 You didn't miss anything at all - the title of ToM is just grossly misleading. From the meeting with Urien in Ch. 28 and drawing his own conlusions. Both Loial & (presumably) Erith make it home after the LB - at least, he really writes his book...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 31-37 Yes, Thom did it and got away with it!:p As to who killed Barthanes, we will never know for sure. Plausible speculation points to either Galldrian or to some DFs on orders by Fain.

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 31-37 Yes! And I guess they never got it ...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 24-30 @Maibella Rhoiden: Thank you for the correction - so it remains a mystery.

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 17-23 I guess that is a good theory. Neither does the author explain much about it - the scenarios are somewhat like TAR, dreamshards produced from the memories of the women who go though the ter'angreal. But what exactly does Nynaeve do? (1) She visualizes...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 17-23 Glad to have you back! Yes, and this also holds for Ingtar. It's Baal'amom / Ishmael speaking, and he says "this age or one to come" (some plan B, "it's never done"), which makes Bors angry - he wants power and immortality NOW. No, but as Toral...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 10-16 @Wil Cambrae: In the books, both Siuan and Rand are convinced the arrow was for Rand (and the text suggests that a sudden movement of his horse made the arrow fail). You will remember how he used this event as a conversation opener in ToM: "You caught...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 10-16 Well,maybe. I didn't remember the episode in WH. I rather followed a practical line of thinking: Lanfear could have watched from a hiding place, and seeing into which house Rand went, set the weave up on the fly. Fain, absent, would have had to...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 10-16 While I'm at it, some more reading notes: Ch. 9: Who was the arrow for? Dominic at the 13th Depository has developed quite a convincing argument that the arrow was meant for Siuan, not for Rand (read the article). In short, he says that Baal'zamon had...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 10-16 No, he doesn't want them to know - he's just got that enhanced sense of smell (which will serve him well on many occasions to come), and he picks up traces Hurin doesn't get (and vice versa, he does not have Hurin's talent). No explanation provided...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 10-16 You're right with that - let's say roughly two and a half years. Beltine / Winternight was late March 998, and that year ends with the end of TGH and the beginning of TDR - it's spring in the lowlands when Rand goes off to tear. The year 999 ends with...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 10-16 She's a nice one, all through the series. That encounter with Perrin is good fun. She did not tell her about meeting the two forsaken. Or at least we don't read about it. She doen't know about the Seanchan yet. - For me, this thought is just the...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 2-9 This scene is rather muddled (with Eg and Mat left alive but conveniently unable to remember anything), but let it be so. RJ said in an interview Ingtar freed Fain and brought the fade and the trollocs to the dungeon, and we better believe him instead of...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 2-9 Yes, I rembember that episode well (and RJ had to quieten concerned readers in an interview by declaring they were all DFs all right, not just the Grey Man among them). But yours is a very special criterion of mental sanity - angry men sometimes do...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 2-9 @unseen eyes - onset of madness: Is Rand ever going mad - aside from his struggles with Lews Therin? I'd say no, not really. But now some chapter notes: Chs 2/3: Due to insufficient briefing, Rand panics and does things he'll come to regret. Blame on...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 2-9 @ Toral Delvar: I classified Liandrin as "highly likely" because of her later activities: at one point it is said she had very speciic commands. Verin? I don't know - just because she was on the spot? THat remains a guess. @ Irian Saronin, re unseen...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, 49-53; TGH Pro & 1 Knowing them indicates a suspicious interest in unwholesome things. @Mat: She was pretty, but she must be nearly as old as Nynaeve. 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...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, 49-53; TGH Pro & 1 @Rhed al'Tere: I didn't say you made it up, that would be silly. RJ made it up, and I said this was not quite his brightest idea. Let's quote it, Moiraine says: "willing to fall in with whatever I wanted": that sounds heavy to me. That he...