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I would also guess Lan.  Perrin has to get Elayne's mom to Galad, reunite with Child Byar et al. and save Rand from women channelers one more time? borderlander BA??? and perhaps be of some help with the Seanchan.

Yes, Faile is annoying enough that many more readers would mourn Bela's passing than Faile's.  Gawain is another character that has become pretty irritating, due to his stupidity, but i suspect he will redeem himself n the final book.  I am afraid that the cost of getting rid of the shaido, namely 200 more damane for the Seanchan may be a lot for the enemys of the Seanchan to pay, but suspect that there will  be atruce between Rand and Tuon that will revent that from being a problem.  If the Aiel are really as tough as Jordan presents them to be, perhaps they will be able to resist the suldam and their training methods enough to create a problem and help the Seanchan change there policy re leashing channelers.  However, fitting it qall into one book will be difficult when all the other unresolved issues remain.  Obviously there will be one big reunion scene with Morgaise, Galad, Perrin and Child Byar that will be interesting. Seanchan vs the White tower, Egwene vs Elaida,  Matt Thom and Moraine. The golden Craine, The final battle.  No wonder it has grown to a probable 2 books.

Thanks, Necro.

Joe, keep sharing.  It's easy to remember the really awesome scenes like the battle in the stone culminating with Rand and the little girl, but your posts  also remind me of the many merely awesome scenes in the books, LOL.

or into outer space.  Wrap yourself in a cocoon of air and attach yourself to something solid, then open a gateway into space and have vacuum suck everything in the room out to nothingness. 

I think much like in the alien movie when the alien was sucked into vacuum, that might be best way to defeat a worm in the blight.

Oh, and Ryan, if iw was going to be so easy for BS to wrap it up and save the series, he would have done it in his 400,000 work estimate.  Why does that estimate now stand at 600-700,000 words and climbing with 2 books now in the offing instead of one.  Guess there is a lot there to fit together.

Ryan, did you read the last WOT book?  Sounds like you must have gotten bogged down a book or 2 previously.  I thought Book 11 was great.  To each his own I guess.  WOT is an amazingly complex, gargantuan series and what sets it apart form other series to me are the many emotionally charged incredibly written scenes that  are just as powerful and moving to me when I read them for the 10th time as the first (The golden crane flies for Tarmon Gaidon, Gallad  challenging the leader of the Whitecloaks and bringing the Whitecloaks back to the light,   Mat blowing the horn of Valere, Rand fighting his first 2 forsaken in TEOTW and realizing what it means, Rand entering Ruidean, the redemption and death of the darkfriend Shienaran in the second book, Ran d saving his father and draging him through the woods in the beginning, etc...)  WOT is filled with these great scenes because the characterization is so detailed.  Granted we have to wade through the detailed descriptions of lots of dresses and way too many scenes of Faile to get to these great scenes, however, Brandon has not yet written a book to rival the WOT is scope or power.  We will see how Brandon does.  My guess is he will do well, because he is a very good writer, appears to be a very hard worker and is a fan of the series.  He will also be helped because he has lots of notes from RJ and Harriet as editor so the transition has the potential to be relatively seamless.  But to suggest that because Brandon wrote a shorter less in depth and hence fast pace series (relative to WOT)  means Brandon will, therefore, save WOT is disrespectful to RJ and a relatively huge leap.  Brandon has never attempted to write a book like Memory of light.  He has stated as such many times in his blog.  As a big fan of WOT, RJ and now BS as well, I wish him well and believe he will do a great job.  However, I disagree with you that naiming BS to finish WOT will save the series from the ruination that RJ left it in, LOL.  RJ IMWO was doing just fine and would have written an incredible ending if he had lived.

Aludra has given him grenades, but at the end of KOD he has promised Aludra to bring her to Rand for him to ok commissioning of cannons from multiple nation bellfounders to make cannons