Prologue - Chapter 3
Questions
What is an Aes Sedai?
Thoughts
I love how Jordan manages to take so many real world cultures and mesh them to become a unique and believable one within this village.
He does a wonderful job describing Rands struggle with being a kid and adult without flat out saying that's what's going on.
The opening is slow, but it introduces things in a good manner so that you begin to understand this new world and all of it's intricacies without making the descriptions or explanations seem like some sort of instruction manual.
Predictions - Perceptions
It seems to me that this time through the Wheel turning the Dragon will be a good person. The prologue made it seem that the last time the Fourth Age was met everything was good until the Dragon appeared and eventually messed everything up. So this time the world basically sucks. I can see the Dragon coming to make things better this time.
I think the Dragon the Master Thain was talking about was a false Dragon and that Rand will be the real Dragon, but he won't know that until way later in the series.
I am currently seeing the end of the series as being the anti-prologue. It being something close to the opposite of the prologue of this book.
Anyway, that's what I got out of that section of the book. I'm done reading for a few hours, but I'll probably do some more later tonight.