Questions tagged [the-wheel-of-time]
The "Wheel of Time" series is one of the most popular fantasy series today, started by Robert Jordan and completed from Jordan's notes by Brandon Sanderson.
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Did Ishamael intentionally give up?
In the second season of the Wheel of Time TV series,
While Egwene is powerful, she is still just a novice at that point, and while Rand is even more powerful, his training is even less advanced, to ...
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Did Olver really beat the Snakes and Foxes game?
In the Wheel of Time books, there exists a child's game called Snakes and Foxes, which is said to have been deliberately designed so that one has to break the rules to win. However in one of the later ...
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Why does Ba'alzamon threaten Rand to strangle him with the corpse of the Great Serpent?
In The Eye of the World chapter 24 Rand meet Ba'alzamon in the nightmare. Ba'alzamon say:
The Light will not help you and the Eye of the World will not serve you. You are my hound and if you will not ...
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Who hired the burglars of Bashere's tent in CoT prologue?
In Wheel of Time Book 10, Crossroads of Twilight Prologue, Davram Bashere's tent is robbed and Deira Bashere is injured fighting off the robbers. The burglars are then found dead.
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What does a Trolloc 'scythe-sword' look like?
In one of his interpretations of the Wheel of Time's Trollocs, artist Wayne Barlowe drew the monster holding a blade that looks like a giant sickle, with the concave edge being the sharpened one- is ...
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Is it known that Flinn, Hopwil and Narishma betrayed Rand by the end of The Path of Daggers?
I just started reading Winter's Heart and I came across an odd passage, where Logain is told that there are new deserters that have to be hunted:
Gedwyn
Torval
Rochaid
Kisman
Dashiva
Flinn
Hopwil
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Is Compulsion or other weaves cancelled by a Stedding?
A stedding cuts a wielder of the One Power off from the source, stopping their power.
But what if a weave has been set? Would that also be ended iby a stedding? For instance, would a Compulsion, which ...
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What happened to the 9 Aes Sedai who tried to destroy a Waygate?
In The Shadow Rising (book 4 of The Wheel of Time series), Loial mentions that:
"Another attempt she wrote of, by only nine, during the Trolloc Wars, damaged the Gate in such a way that the Aes ...
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Why do the Seanchan value ore so greatly?
Slight spoiler for Wheel of Time book 2: The Great Hunt
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In The Wheel of Time, I understand production and the need for weapons 'n things, but why do the Seanchan value damane who can locate ...
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Why was Liandrin Guirale about to be punished by the Amyrlin Seat?
In the Wheel of Time series, I was confused about what went on when the troupe that brought Logain Ablar to Tar Valon reported to the Amyrlin Seat. To recap
Why was Liandrin about to be punished for ...
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Don't the Light's problems in the Wheel of Time just boil down to poor record-keeping?
(Super-spoilers ahead, kind of.)
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As the breaking of the world begins, civilization - and the Aes Sedai especially - have a very good grip on what's going on. They might not be aware of the ...
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Did Bayle Domon have the heartstone in Eye of the World?
Reading the series for the first time. I just finished The Great Hunt, chapter 9 “Leavetakings”. At the end of the chapter we’re reintroduced to Bayle Domon, the captain of The Spray. The narration ...
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Are the feminine/masculine associations intentionally swapped between the One Power and yin and yang?
In The Wheel of Time's setting, the magical One Power is comprised of a "feminine" half, saidar, and a "masculine" half, saidin. The One Power is often depicted using the symbol of ...
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Similarities between The Wheel of Time and Tolkien's Legendarium
Did Robert Jordan ever remark on the similarities between The Wheel of Time and Tolkien's Legendarium? Especially names from The Silmarillion (Hurin, Huan &c.) and characters/themes (not names, ...
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Why is every place in the Wheel-of-Time TV series a mixture of races?
I've watched a few episodes of Amazon's new Wheel of Time series. It has its pros and cons, but something strange about it is that just about every single place has strong ethnic variety, as though it ...
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