Wheel of Time Books

As I am beginning to listen to the audio books for the first time, I felt like rereading the WoTFAQ as I went, and wondered if there was ever a final version of it, with the questions all answered as best as they could be? The last I have found is dated 2010, and was before A Memory of Light was published. An e-Book of it would be a-maze-ing! (hint, hint) Pretty please!?

im currently on WH and was curious... Does and Adame trump the oath rod for AS who have been leashed? Seanchan use damane as weapons however aes sedai are bound to not use OP as a weapon except in certain cases. Just wondering what the thoughts were or if I just haven't reached a point in the series where that will be addressed.

I've only read to The Gathering Storm, so please -- NO SPOILERS PAST THE END OF KNIFE OF DREAMS!! The Forsaken infighting has been one of the most engrossing subplots thus far in my eyes, mostly because we by necessity only see it in brief glimpses or by the shadows that it casts. Though sometimes the Forsaken strike me as incompetent peacocks who do nothing but sip punch/mulled wine/brandy and sneer while muttering "so-called Aes Sedai" and chopping naked people in half with gateways to annoy Graendal, at other times they're so remarkably good at their jobs that I can't understand how anyone on the side of the Light has a chance (Rahvin's utter domination of …

So, I'm halfway through tSR on my re-read. The Aiel have claimed a fifth of the loot from Tear, and it's mentioned that in the Waste they take a fifth when taking an enemy hold. From other Aiel. Which made me wonder... How often would a hold get taken? The Aiel defending their hold wouldn't stop until every last one of them was dead, so why bother leaving 80% of the loot for the corpses?

My favorite is Fal Dara, because it's near Tarwin's Gap. A man there must always be alert, watchful and skilled with weapons. His only purpose is to fight the Shadowspawn. I think Borderlanders are honorable and true to their cause. Their cities are built to withstand many attacks and it's in their blood to fight when needed - just remember the first part of the "prologue: what the storm means" from TGS when a farmer (Renald Fanwar (fan of war?? )) and a blacksmith (Thulin) with their families go to join the army which is gathering somewhere to the north. They know their purpose and they don't flee from fighting. I believe that it's better to live in that kind of envir…

So Elayne's potential lifespan I've read has been estimated at 300 years. Given that she's not guaranteed to have children that will channel as strongly as she, how does that work out for her potential heirs. To put that in comparison. Prince Charles is 69 years old and people keep talking about how he should step aside for William. Now imagine a little less than 4 Charles and one William (or I guess Camilla and Kate if you want Gender correct). That's gonna be a lot of royals waiting around and doing nothing. Does she retire at some point?

So I've just finished the series and wondered about Perrin's strength in the Wolfdream. He is very powerful and seems to have the abilities of any channeler in Teleranrhiod. Is the Wolfdream and Teleranrhiod the same thing? Given that he meets Egwene and stops Balefire there and she is amazed at his ability.

Taking into account you would not be living the life of a high born noble, but a regular person. Where would you want to live, and why?

So I'm doing a reread for the first time in a while, and just finished TDR, and at first thought it was strange how the book literally called 'The Dragon Reborn' barely contains any POV from Rand. Thinking on it though, the whole book still completely revolves around him even though you don't see him much. There's the obvious note with Perrin's party literally chasing after Rand and seeing the effects he has on people/towns if course. Then Egwene, Elayne, and Nyn going to Tear to chase Black Ajah, but why to the Black Ajah want them there? To bait Rand into coming. Mat's is the least direct where he's technically chasing after the girl…

Elayne says "Should and would build no bridges", but the obvious response is that there are tons of woulden bridges. Discuss.

"The lions sing and the hills take flight The moon by day and the sun by night Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool Let the Lord of Chaos rule" At first I thought this rhyme was just a cool way to insert the title. But then I got to thinking about the words used and such. So let me explain line by line what I think it means. "The lions sing and the hills take flight" For me, I think this alludes to male channelers and the Breaking. Note that RJ use the word lions instead of lionesses. Of course, lions is the word in general for these animals, but it is most perceived and understood as male. So male lions "singing". Now, saidin h…

After years of my friend bugging me to read the Wheel of Time, I finally broke down and read the first book and after reading it it had me interested in where the characters are headed even after the daunting journey they had taken, I know the story has just begun for them and they all have their own destinies to carry out before the end of it. It's going to be a long job of reading it all since its fourteen novels long, but I'm a big fan of large fantastical worlds. I am a reader of the Lord of Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, and the Indigo series. And I'm impress by the depth of Robert Jordan's fantasy world and I have only scratched the surface. …

If memory serves the Black Tower is in Andor. Obviously they want to be equal with the White Tower and will probably want their own nation, just like the Aes Sedai have. Do you think it likely they will try to relocate, possibly using the One Power? I seem to remember Loial mentioning how during the Breaking even cities shifted location due to the One Power. Or maybe they will find humbler means to pack up and leave, possibly to an abandoned portion of the Aiel Waste now that most of the Clans have decided to stay in the Wet Lands?

So I am re-listening to A Memory of Light and it hit me. Does Brandon Sanderson dislike Min Farshaw? After her near-death by Rand's unwilling hands, she kind of fell off the narrative map. In A Memory of Light, Rand has very close, somewhat tender (I'm sorry, I find Sanderson's prose lacking) scenes with Aviendha and Elayne. But not Min. In fact, her final scene with Rand (Conscious, and in his original body) has Cadsuane in it, asking the boy what he gave Min. Rand never answers this, either to the Aes Sedai, or to the reader. Shortly after the woman who flipping sees visions in things is merely acting a clerk, a clumsy way (IMO) to get her to the Seanc…

It's been a decade or so since I've read the series and I never did get past... whichever book it is where literally nothing happens, and the Aes Sedai all stand around a field. (Description may be inaccurate, but damnit, I remember what I remember), so anyway, time for a re-read. I enjoyed most of tEotW well enough, seeing lots of things that jogged my memory, enjoyable threads set spinning this early, so on and so forth. But then it came to the end. (Um... Eye spoilers, ahead) The ending really didn't mesh well at all with anything i remember of the story going forward. The one Forsaken death was fine, Green Man valiantly…

At the end of Chapter 36, Rand kills a merchant and her guards. I understand that he's feeling (and is being) hunted, but the text gives no indication that these people were anything other than ordinary travelers. There's a Gray Man corpse among the dead so as the reader we're supposed to understand that these were nasty people that just needed some killin', but Rand himself had no knowledge of what he'd just killed. There's not even any indication that the group knew what they were traveling with. The guards were surprised at his hostility as he slaughtered them all. If they were hostile, they'd have been at least a little bit ready for a fight…

In Crossroads of Twilight Chapter 1, Time to be Gone Noal says: I also wish to know where. Any help will be appreciated.

(Warning: if you find writing process/character construction stuff boring, then this ain't for you...) I recently reread ToM, and I gotta say Zen Rand was far...stranger second time round. And he was strange enough the first time. Now don't get me wrong; he had his moments (Rand Sedai and his talk with the Borderlanders, for example) but I spent a fair amount of the chapters he was in just thinking 'this isn't Rand'. I just had to cringe at the amount of monologuing he did about himself. Wearing his heart on his sleeve in front of randommers like Ituralde or Siuan, for example? Extremely unRandlike, and kind of weird to boot. It was obviously to be expected after…

assumption 1. Warder training is top of the top, no one in the world matches. Fact 1. Galad sticks out as being best of the best in this group. assumption 2. Hammar is a blade master Fact 2. Gawyn kills Hammar Fact 3. Galad is way better than Gawyn as a student. assumption 3. Galad continues to grow in his skill until he fight Valda. ? what the heck is going on in that fight ? how can it be Eamon has a chance ?

I'm in the process of rereading the series for AMOL, and there are times when I find myself literally laughing out loud. What are some of your favorite, most hilarious, quotes from the series? Here are a few to get us started: "You could weave silk from bristles but you couldn't make a man anything but a man." - Elayne Book 4 "She almost giggled hysterically. I will keep control of myself. I will not let him see me behave like a moon-eyed girl. I will not." - Elayne Bk 4 "BOTH of them? Mat sputtered. 'Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!" Bk 4 "Not drunk? I'm juicier than a fiddler's whelp." -…

I remember hearing that Robert Jordan was having trouble writing the first book. He ended up changing rand form a middle aged man to a young man and it all worked out. As i was reading the Androl part of the story i couldn't help but wonder if the inspiration for him came from the original older version of rand. Has anything been said that would confirm or deny my suspicion?

We never hear about them from anywhere but the Black Tower. You would think there would be some comment about it during Perrin's POV's. Possibly even some questions to his Asha'man about them. Does anyone know how the time frames match up?

I don't know if this topic has come up before but it just occurred to me, having read several threads in which people offered suggestions about the WOTworld being our world and the Ages of the Wheel ending in 'our' age. Having that in the back of my mind and working on the Ogier Group for my RP Division (so re-reading stuff in the BWB and such). The combination made me consider the possibility of Earth being a giant Stedding. How probable is it that this might have been the thought pattern of RJ? I admit, I haven't read all his interviews and such, so this may all be water under the bridge, but maybe there are others around like me that haven't been part of any prev…

Since the last book has just come Out I've noticed consistencies in them Roran uses a hammer like perrin A poossible direct reference in Inheritence I will have more in a bit Sheep

For a while now, I've been wondering what's up with the large amount of love that Mat keeps getting and larger amount of hate directed towards Perrin. I don't have much of a preference towards either, you see. Or so I thought. I realized that I looked forward to Mat's POVs much more than Perrin and Perrin-related POVs. Here's why (let me know what you think): -Cast. The characters Mat meets are usually familiar ones (I'm referring exclusively to LOC and beyond). See, Mat goes off to Salidar (with Avi, another very familiar character (VFC)) where he meets with Nynaeve, Eylane, Egwene, (briefly with Siuan and Leane) a.d Thom and the Tairen thiefcatcher dude. We've…

When Moiraine and Siuan were raised to Aes Sedai, there is a curious comment: I don't know what sets the order either, and it's been bothering me since I first read it. Since I often re-read parts of New Spring, this bothers me even more. The more simple list of departure is here, leaving out the Blues since we have no idea where they'd be in the hierarchy: Yellow Green Brown White Gray Red What I've determined is this: It has nothing to do with the order of the colors on an Accepted's dress; It is not in relation to Ajah size Potential: It MAY be related to the Portal Stones,…

Er, where to start? Few months ago Bud Spencer got a statue in Budapest. (Video1, video2 - eng sub.) It does not look like him at all, but maybe the fact that his effect on people was acknowledged in a way is more important than its realness. (We have a Columbo/Peter Falk statue too, which is also terrible... ) I cannot size up Robert Jordan's popularity in the USA, but I think he deserves something similar. What are your thoughts? 1. Unnecessary. 2. Bad timing, 'we' should wait a few years. (Right now confederate monuments are coming down and he was from Charleston, South Carolina...) 3. I'd love to see it! …

Hi, Currently rereading The Gathering Storm, and just encountered Sleete the Warder. His story of his post Dumai's Wells journey refers to his being at risk of being sold, while injured, to a local band of bandits who had spread word they would pay for the handing over of any survivors of said battle. After recovering enough to depart, Sleete ensures these bandits trouble the village no more, so they seem to be real. Who were they, and why did they want to pay to secure any survivors of Dumai's Wells? ?

What do people think of the Ashaman pins from Badali jewelry? Does anyone own one? http://badalijewelry.com/Wheel-of-Time/asha-man-dragon-pin-8482-24k-gold-plated-bronze.html Also, what do people think of the enameled versions? I don't have the books with me any longer and so can't check but I want to ensure they are accurate before I ever buy one. I'd always envisioned them as essentially enameled little versions of the dragon on the Dragonbanner - but these look rather different. Thoughts? Is a pin that looks like the dragonbanner available somewhere else? I do quite like their Dedicated pins - and I am really quite irked that every flipping …

I love this series. I grew up with it. I started reading when I was 11 years old. I finally found this forum this year, and quite honestly it is dying, if not already dead. Surely there are many like me who have a passion that burns brighter than the flame of tar valon for this series, so how do we bring the forum back? I want it to flourish just as the asoiaf forum does.