Hey guys. I'm 308 pages into Crown of Swords. Unfortunately this book is moving a bit slow and not a whole lot is happening. But I did promise to do more updates so here is one!
-Elayne, Nyneave, Aveindha, Birgitte, The Ebou Dar Aes Sedai, and the Kin used the bowl terengal to fix the weather. I liked this scene but I didn't understand where the bowl channeled saidin from. Is it already in the bowl or was one of them really a man?? (the whole Halima thing has me second guessing everyone LOL) Anyways, they are soon attacked by the Seanchan who must have felt such a huge amount of channeling from so far away. After getting everyone through a gate made by Elayne, she starts to unravel the weave thread by thread. This was something that Merillile yelled at Aviendha NEVER to do again because of how dangerous it is. Unless you let the weave dissapate, then it could fall into any weave it wants to and might explode. This is exactly what happens after a great battle scene when the Seanchan are coming through the gate and it collapses on itself and blows everything to bits within a couple hundred yards. Luckily the gals are alright but the group of Seanchan that were trying to kill them were wiped out. I thought the whole thing about carefully unwinding a weave to avoid a channeler reading the residue of the weave was interesting. Aviendha did it so they would not be followed because she thought she was being watched. She was, by Moridin. He's decided to stop them from using the Bowl of the Winds at any cost. Too late lol.
-Perrin, Faile, and his soldiers and Aes Sedai have met up with Queen Morgase, Lini, Tallanvor, and her soldiers. Though Morgase's identity remains a secret from them. I'm glad Morgase has met up with them because her story throughout the last 2 books has seemed too irrelevant. You only got snippets here and there and there didn't seem to be much of a relation to the BIG story. It doesn't even seem like she wants her throne back. She does not seem to be actively pursuing it at the moment, she even agreed to be Faile's servant!! I'm very curious to see where this storyline is going to go.
-Graendal is introduced to Cyndane by Moghedian. Unfortunately, it has already been spoiled for me that Cyndane is Lanfear reincarnated. Oh well, I'm stoked to see Lanfear back in action. Apparently she is under Moridin's control now and they instruct Graendal to return to Shayol Ghul and to be under Moridin's control too. When she finds this rediculous, Shadar Hairen appears and pretty much puts her in her place. I really like the scenes with the Forsaken and I wish there was more of them. The interaction with eachother is fascinating and they always seem to be on the edge of killing one another.
-Last I left off, Rand was trying to get Sammael's old soldiers to swear fealty to him, the new King of Illian. He is noticing that some of his Asha'man are acting weirder and weirder which brings up the cleansing of saidin in his thoughts. I remember him thinking about this earlier in the series and I can't imagine how much that would change things. I don't know how he'd do it without killing the Dark One....who put the taint there. Maybe it has something to do with the Eye of the World which is a pool of pure saidin. I hope this is developed more.
Well like I said, this one moves along slowly but I am not giving up. I am still truly enjoying this story and I hope you guys still enjoy these posts. I should have another one on Thursday.
