A Memory of Light
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Who better to keep the surviving monarchs in line after Rand's departure from the limelight?
Maybe, maybe not. Tam DID kinda show her she was fucking up with Rand, after all, and she learned from that. As for Rand, well. She knows he's alive, but she also chose to leave him be. I think they'll be fine.
I'm rereading the series now, and I find it interesting how the details I'd missed before are now adding up. Like how in The Eye of the World, Min had a viewing of a broken crown around Perrin... and in A Memory of Light, he ends up de-facto King of Saldaea.
Maybe, maybe not. Tam DID kinda show her she was fucking up with Rand, after all, and she learned from that. As for Rand, well. She knows he's alive, but she also chose to leave him be. I think they'll be fine.
I'm rereading the series now, and I find it interesting how the details I'd missed before are now adding up. Like how in The Eye of the World, Min had a viewing of a broken crown around Perrin... and in A Memory of Light, he ends up de-facto King of Saldaea.
There were a lot of things like that lined up like that, Jordan really planned long term in his books (or at least had a lot of help).
But then there are so many things that weren't talked about.
1) Elayne's kids (we didn't even get names),
2) Aviehndia's kids,
3) the whole Seanchan taking over the world bit,
4) Almost nothing about Lan/Nyn and Malkier,
5) the Perrin/Faile kingdom thing was only really hinted at,
6) Oliver and the Horn,
7) Galad and her Lady First,
8) Tom was pretty much ignored at the end (for shame)
9) The whole Black Tower was kinda just thrown under the rug
10) Where is the Red Ajah going..
The list goes on... They spent several chapters or at least emphasized in several scenes at least some of these characters/organizations and then just didn't even address them in the Epilogue... I was kinda disappointed in that chapter.
-TS
But then there are so many things that weren't talked about.
1) Elayne's kids (we didn't even get names),
2) Aviehndia's kids,
3) the whole Seanchan taking over the world bit,
4) Almost nothing about Lan/Nyn and Malkier,
5) the Perrin/Faile kingdom thing was only really hinted at,
6) Oliver and the Horn,
7) Galad and her Lady First,
8) Tom was pretty much ignored at the end (for shame)
9) The whole Black Tower was kinda just thrown under the rug
10) Where is the Red Ajah going..
The list goes on... They spent several chapters or at least emphasized in several scenes at least some of these characters/organizations and then just didn't even address them in the Epilogue... I was kinda disappointed in that chapter.
-TS
Moiraine kind of got shafted after her initial showing in the book at Rand's meeting. Then she goes to Shayol Ghul and while both Nynaeve and Thom each got at least a PoV she got nadda.
Something else that disappoints me is that we really got no exposition about the history behind Taim and Demandred. Demandred says he recruited Taim but that's about it, no real indication of how Taim got noticed, if he was already claiming to be a Dragon before or after to create chaos, if Demandred gave him any training whatsoever, etc.
Something else that disappoints me is that we really got no exposition about the history behind Taim and Demandred. Demandred says he recruited Taim but that's about it, no real indication of how Taim got noticed, if he was already claiming to be a Dragon before or after to create chaos, if Demandred gave him any training whatsoever, etc.
Indeed. In fact, that was literally the first thing I said in this thread, so needless to say I agree with you. 
Also, can someone else comment on the blocking Balefire with rocks thing? Had that happened before that scene and I just missed it or did it actually come as far out of left field as it felt?
Also, can someone else comment on the blocking Balefire with rocks thing? Had that happened before that scene and I just missed it or did it actually come as far out of left field as it felt?
I'm pretty sure that that was intentional. From what I heard, RJ was always going to leave threads hanging.
This was the story of The Last Battle, from the pre-war prep all the way back in EotW, to the finishing blow in AMoL.
Anything else is extra.
As for a couple of threads - I'm pretty sure the next step for the Seanchen is to retake/stabalize their homeland. I'm pretty sure RJ was planning to write a book about it.
As for the BT, they are implied to be on the rise as an equal of the WT.
This was the story of The Last Battle, from the pre-war prep all the way back in EotW, to the finishing blow in AMoL.
Anything else is extra.
As for a couple of threads - I'm pretty sure the next step for the Seanchen is to retake/stabalize their homeland. I'm pretty sure RJ was planning to write a book about it.
As for the BT, they are implied to be on the rise as an equal of the WT.
Yeah... I mean what really phases you after you've died... been retconned back to life, died again, brought back to life again...Let fox people rip out your eyeball... Killed an unkillable jello/Freddy Krueger mix and married a empress who decides she wants to screw you in an open garden in front of all her personal guards.... .
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You forgot to add "May she live forever" after mentioning the Empress
So Perrin basically gets to rebuild Saldaea, possibly being conjobbed into taking over most of the former Borderlands since like all their kings are dead (I can't remember who's still alive), Lan and Nynaeve get to rebuild Malkier, Mat and Tuon get to entrench control over their own lands then go back to Seanchan and stabilise that again, while Elayne probably gets influence over most of the remaining lands simply by virtue of controlling both Andor and Carhienin, being an Aes Sedai Queen, having the Black Tower in her lands (while they're independent they probably won't fuck around if anybody still wanted to fight and squabble and invade Andor), her half-brother is probably getting hitched to Berelain, and has an Aiel first-sister which may get her an in with the Aiel. And she has two of the Dragon Reborn's children.
Fun stuff.
So Perrin basically gets to rebuild Saldaea, possibly being conjobbed into taking over most of the former Borderlands since like all their kings are dead (I can't remember who's still alive), Lan and Nynaeve get to rebuild Malkier, Mat and Tuon get to entrench control over their own lands then go back to Seanchan and stabilise that again, while Elayne probably gets influence over most of the remaining lands simply by virtue of controlling both Andor and Carhienin, being an Aes Sedai Queen, having the Black Tower in her lands (while they're independent they probably won't fuck around if anybody still wanted to fight and squabble and invade Andor), her half-brother is probably getting hitched to Berelain, and has an Aiel first-sister which may get her an in with the Aiel. And she has two of the Dragon Reborn's children.
Fun stuff.