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A Memory of Light - Wheel of Time - SPOILERS

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Trills · 15/02/2013 14:11

Do not read this unless:
a - you have read all of the Wheel of Time books
or
b - you don't care about getting spoilers

OK?

Now feel free to spoil away.

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Trills · 15/02/2013 14:15

I am not sure I understand what happened to Egwene.

She invented anti-Balefire and turned to crystal?

Also, will all of her plans re the Kin and the Windfinders and the Wise Ones all be for nothing, or do you think Cadsuane will carry them on?

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WoTmania · 15/02/2013 14:27

I think Nynaeve will be involved in carrying on the kin. Whether Cadsuane is keen or not.
Not really sure with Egwene. I've just started a re-read and it's so different with the knowledge of the the last book, I'm amazed at how different the characters are.
I kind of wish there was more Mat but didn't like the way Sanderson wrote him. I'm also ebing reminded of what a selfish little shit he could be (despite him being one of my favourite characters)

Only on book one and none of the 'sniffing' etc has started yet

Trills · 15/02/2013 14:37

Cadsuane is one of the oldest Aes Sedai in recent times, right? I guess she'll want to live a longer life so maybe she would be keen on the whole release-the-oaths-and-live-a-few-hundred-more-years thing.

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ErikNorseman · 15/02/2013 14:51

Marking place...I'm gonna have a think and come back to you

WoTmania · 16/02/2013 18:51

Okay - Egwene: it was Taim who turned to crystal when she used the opposite to balefire weave. I think she felt Gawaine go and pulled more than she should have using a sa'angreal or angreal and so burnt herself out healing all the balefire cracks.

I don't know about Cadsuane TBH, she strikes me as the type of person so much an Aes Sedai that she'd rather die a couple of hundred years earlier as an Aes Sedai than give that up.

denialandpanic · 17/02/2013 08:01

Do we think Sanderson will write more? I was quite bereft at the end despite waiting years for it to bloody finish. It just didn't feel final enough

Trills · 17/02/2013 11:02

I think Egwene is a crystal pillar too - there was no mention of a body.

I actually quite liked Sanderson's books - they moved a lot faster. I hear there is a lot of material for prequels, but I don't know if it's in good enough shape for someone who is not Robert Jordan to write them.

Actually in my re-read I felt that book 11 was where things started moving again, and that was RJ, so maybe it would have happened anyway.

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WoTmania · 18/02/2013 11:33

I re-read that section once DH got home with the book. She turns into a pillar of light and feels her soul separate from her body I think.

I'm torn furhter books. Prequels I would enjoy and I would love to learn more about after MoL but would also like it to be left where it is.

WoTmania · 18/02/2013 11:35

I think it stopped moving much becuase he was bringing all the story lines up to date. Possibly Sanderson moved it quicker than RJ would have but not necessarily by much.

PeggyCarter · 09/03/2013 11:03

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Trills · 09/03/2013 11:10

Woohoo!
Well done.

The "sheathing the sword" manoeuvre is one that Lan teaches Rand right at the very beginning - I do love how much Robert Jordan plays the long game - you let the enemy stab you in order to get them close with their guard down. The way it was described, it's for situations where it's more important that the enemy die than that you live.

I guess Demandred's one stab was not fatal. (I also assume Lan got magical healing afterwards).

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PeggyCarter · 09/03/2013 11:23

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Trills · 09/03/2013 11:26

I don't think we heard anything about what happened to Egeanin/Leilwin, or to Baye Domon either. Probably unceremoniously bashed over the head by trollocs while Egwene was busy turning into a pillar of crystal.

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PeggyCarter · 09/03/2013 11:29

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Trills · 09/03/2013 11:31

Someone was musing that it was horribly unfair, all of the villagers had died, they weren't even soldiers, some of them were women and children...

I didn't twig at all. It was genius!

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