Timewaster's Guide Archive

First, even if most of the BT bondings are forced, the WT has a right to be upset. (Yeah, yeah, I know the bonded sisters were sent to destroy the BT, but still ....)

Forced bonding doesn't sound like the kind of thing that should be done except in the direst of circumstances. (I'll accept in in Birgitte's case, because it was to save her very existence.)

Remember, even now, most AS don't know the OS is clean. Now, they are going to have to learn to deal with men channeling again, but until the source was cleaned, it was completely understandable that they didn't like men that channeled.

(Though to be honest, I think it is time for the Red Ajah to be disbanded ... they no longer serve an acceptable purpose. Time for those sisters to think of which other Ajah they would feel most comfortable in.)

But as to Rand being the rightful AS, I do not see it. Explain, please.

Darxmeat, that is an interesting theory. I can see the time spent with Mordeth being involved in the changes in Elaida. It would go a long way to explain her change from slightly obnoxious to absurdly controlling and egotistical. And yet, I have to wonder, could Mordeth have such a strong influence with the relatively short time he spent interacting with her? Or would he have had to keep interacting with her?

Either way, it is an interesting theory to think on.

Guess I made a bit of a mistake posting this in the first place, and those who might have wanted to read it would have had a chance to, anyway, so this has now been removed.

You know, Ari, that sounds pretty interesting! It will be cool to see where that goes!

Like many of the others around here, I am also a writer, but unlike Brandon and all the others around here, I am nowhere near being ready to write any massive, involved fantasy books. Unfortunately, at this point almost all of my writing is in the form of short fiction. And writing short fiction, I don't really end up with in-depth magic systems.

If there is any magic, it is a minor side-point, and not something that you learn anything about how the magic works.

Instead, my short stories are usually a fantasy treatment of a non-fantasy setting. For example, I was working in a cellular provider call center for a few weeks, and really hated a lot of the stupid things they had us do, as a part of the job. I wrote up a humorous story about somebody working in a wizard's supply company off of the situation.

It's a short story, only three or four pages, and I enjoyed writing it quite a bit.

Would be glad to post it here, if anybody else would like to see it.

I just hope I'm not seriously annoying him.

I just like messing around, and misinterpreting things.

Fun place, and Brandon's writing is a fun backdrop on which to do it.

Why am I still reading this thread?  Better yet, why am I posting in it...

To annoy Kaz?

I'm fairly new here, but I think I'm already doing a pretty good job of annoying him.

Not as good as the person mixing Star Wars in, but still ....

It's a big book, and I couldn't read through the entire thing again, quite yet, but today I sat down and read the entire White Tower storyline, plus Veins of Gold.

I still love the way the whole White Tower storyline was written, and while I still fear Egwene will want to have too much control over Rand, I am a lot more open to her White Tower than to Elaida's.

But the part that got me thinking was reading for a second time the closing bits from the prophecy after Rand's time atop Dragon Mount.

Something along the lines of "And the one who was blinded shall see again, standing on his grave.""

Looks like we may not have to expect to see Rand lose his eyes ... it sure sounds like that might be metaphorical, and just came to pass. Other thoughts?