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After Egwene parished fighting the sharans, olver sounded the horn of valere. I thought for sure that egwene was going to come back in all her amyrlin splendor as a hero of the horn.
 

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That would have been so awesome!
 

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I think that would have taken away the sadness, and a bit of the awesomeness away from her death. (Not that her dying is awesome, but the MANNER of her death certainly was :pleased-1:)
 

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I think the Hero who was added to the ranks was awesome enough :) I agree with Aduiavas with regards to Egwene joining the Heroes.
 

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On the one hand, yes, it would have removed some of the impact of her death for us readers. But on the other hand, what would qualify to add you as a Hero if not saving the Pattern from being literally ripped apart at the seams?
 
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Maybe I just wanted to justify her death, instead of feeling like I just got punched in the gut.
I will have to say, when I first read the Eye of the World, I liked egwene the least of all the characters. By the time I turned the final page of a Memory of light, she was my favorite by a mile. Her story arc was by far the best in the whole series.
I was sad to see her heroic demise
 
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I really loved Egwene in the last several books so her death was hard to take but it was also really awesome.
 

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I started off liking Egwene, by book 14 I struggled to stand her, depending on what she was doing :p

Perhaps her manner of dying precluded her being bound to the Horn? If it worked almost like balefire in the sense that she ceased to exist? It's been a while since I read the book, so that may not be the case. But I thought she pretty much turned to energy? Perhaps there was nothing left of her to bind?
 

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Maybe I just wanted to justify her death, instead of feeling like I just got punched in the gut.
I will have to say, when I first read the Eye of the World, I liked egwene the least of all the characters. By the time I turned the final page of a Memory of light, she was my favorite by a mile. Her story arc was by far the best in the whole series.
I was sad to see her heroic demise

That's exactly how I felt. :fistbump

I really didn't see her death coming. Lots of other characters, I halfway expected it. But Egwene, she had so many things in the works...I just didn't see it at all. :(
 

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Yeah, I really want to know whether her bargain with the Wise Ones and Windfinders ever actually happened... and whether the deal with the Seanchan happened too... I don't want Aviendhas visions to become true :look:
 

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I had never noticed that before. I wonder if there's something about being a channeler that precludes it, or if we just haven't heard of one. If they can't be bound, why not?
 

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What if Egwene's death was similar to Obi-Wan's in Star Wars (ep. 4)? She gave so much of herself to Saidar while wielding the one weave that creates and heals that when she would have burned out after using too much she was instead revived. Eventually the strain was too much on the weave and herelf and she was absorbed into the One Power.
 
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When I finished AMoL, I wanted some answers, and Google gave me some: http://www.tor.com/2013/01/23/brandon-sandersons-wheel-of-time-answers-from-torchat/ I hope that helps answer some things.

Yeah, I really want to know whether her bargain with the Wise Ones and Windfinders ever actually happened... and whether the deal with the Seanchan happened too... I don't want Aviendhas visions to become true :look:

I think somewhere in AMoL, they said that Aviendha's vision couldn't be true since she killed Rhuarc, and in her vision Rhuarc's child was there. I remember that there was a conversation between the Wise Ones about this, but I can't remember all the details. I believe they agreed that it was a warning of what could become if they weren't careful. As for the Seanchan, Mat would dissuade them from doing anything drastic. I would think that the Wise Ones would go on with their plan, they wouldn't just forget. The Windfinders definitely wouldn't, we all know that. There were also other Aes Sedai in that meeting, too, so it seems most likely that they could continue as planned.
 

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Yes, but the agreement was made with the condition that they all had to get it through their leading bodies, the Aes Sedai Hall, the other Aiel Wise Ones, and the First Twelve of the Sea Folk :look:
 
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I realize that this thread hasn't been active for several months but i am new to this site and and really feel the need to weigh in here. Egwene has been my favourite character since relatively early on in the series (around book 3 or 4) and her story arc was by far the most enjoyable for me to read, especially after events in Lord of Chaos. Her ability to learn what was required of her and put it to use after being dropped into an impossible situation with people trying to use and manipulate her on all sides was inspiring. Even after being taken captive and held prisoner in the Tower, she managed to comport herself in such a way that her enemies eventually became some of her staunchest supporters. By the end of the series, she truly was the greatest Amyrlin to have ever lived, which is why i find her death at the end of the last book extremely dissatisfying.

When i first bought the book, it accidentally flipped open to the page where she died and i read the exact line of her death by accident when i went to close it. I almost didn't want to read it after that and it took me forever to finish because i was dreading getting to that point. The worst part of it for me is that it really didn't need to happen. Yes, it was well written and it made for a dramatic and heart-wrenching resolution of her story arc, but she had so many great things planned, had worked so hard to get to where she was, that i just feel like it was a tremendous waste for her to end like that. Don't get me wrong, the manner of her death was badass and in typical Egwene fashion (similar to her fighting the Seanchan when they attacked the Tower), but i feel that with her death, all of the great things that she had planned, which would have changed the world after Tarmon Gai'don and helped to usher in the new Age, were thrown out the window.

I guess it all came together in the end, and don't get me wrong, it was a GREAT book, but Egwene's story arc resolution gets me every time i think of it and it is the only thing from the series that i can still say makes me angry, sad, shocked, and leaves me screaming WHY?! in my head.
 

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A short time ago I would have agreed with you Kyredon, but recently I have been following this liveblogger, Neuxue, and she literally predicted Egwenes death after about book 1 :look:

And I think that this way, she will be remembered as a great Amyrlin, and her memory would live on longer... If she had continued on for a long time, that would inevitably have faded a bit...
 
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Hmm, ill have to look her up and to see how she was able to predict so far into the series after just one book.

And i can kind of see where you're coming from, it just would have been nice to see some of her plans come to fruition. I guess we wouldn't have seen that anyway since the series ended but it would have been nice to think that they could have happened.
 
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Although I wasn't happy to see her die, I did think it was fitting with the story.

Also, I kind of like the idea of going out in a blaze of glory, at the height of your success. It is a wonderful way to be remembered for all the amazing things she did. If she had lived, she would have inevitably been drawn into more drama, for better or worse. And although she may have been an incredible Amyrlin, with things happening the way they did she is THE incredible Amyrlin that all others will be compared to and who no one can outshine. IMO. :D
 
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A short time ago I would have agreed with you Kyredon, but recently I have been following this liveblogger, Neuxue, and she literally predicted Egwenes death after about book 1 :look:

And I think that this way, she will be remembered as a great Amyrlin, and her memory would live on longer... If she had continued on for a long time, that would inevitably have faded a bit...

Although I wasn't happy to see her die, I did think it was fitting with the story.

Also, I kind of like the idea of going out in a blaze of glory, at the height of your success. It is a wonderful way to be remembered for all the amazing things she did. If she had lived, she would have inevitably been drawn into more drama, for better or worse. And although she may have been an incredible Amyrlin, with things happening the way they did she is THE incredible Amyrlin that all others will be compared to and who no one can outshine. IMO. :D

My mind agrees with you both, but it still makes my heart hurt:cry
 
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