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  1. Maianel Istor

    morally gray characters

    Not just that, but I recall Gawyn having trouble swallowing the idea that he would have to play second fiddle to Egwene. . . . after being raised his whole life on the understanding that he would be playing second fiddle to his sister. . . . which I could understand if his issue revolved...
  2. Maianel Istor

    morally gray characters

    Galad to me is definable in D&D terms as lawful neutral. Whether that's "grey" or not probably depends on your own attitude toward the law and the importance of adhering to it. Gawyn to me is . . . look, my apologies to the people who love him, but toward the end of the series he went from...
  3. Maianel Istor

    Getting around the Karaethon Cycle

    Yeah, Mirror Worlds are the ones you get at through Portal Stones. But even if I go that route, there would still be a canonical text for the Prophecies of the Dragon in that world, and variants in alternate worlds (if I send the characters through Portal Stones or Tel'aran'rhiod, which touches...
  4. Maianel Istor

    Recent Developments!

    I was going to say Egwene's looks like a tower, but . . . yeah, that too. Mat's maybe vaguely has the shape of a dagger? Not that we know what the dagger will look like. I might have lengthened it to be a spear instead. But really, it looks like it's wrapping his left arm, which I can't manage...
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    Getting around the Karaethon Cycle

    Yeah, the idea is that they will find it out. If it were just the underpinning that only I know about, this would be much easier -- but much less fun. :-)
  6. Maianel Istor

    Getting around the Karaethon Cycle

    @Jocasta Braithe -- They're not huge book nerds, but the issue isn't getting it to describe Guaire (I could rewrite it that way easily), but getting it to describe Guaire . . . and Yurian Strongbow . . . and a handful of other failed Dragons along the way, without either having them all seem...
  7. Maianel Istor

    Getting around the Karaethon Cycle

    If you're someone who breaks out in hives at alteration to canon, look away, because this is going full alternate universe. :-) I have a yen to run a WOT tabletop RPG someday for my friends. The genesis for it came about thusly: - It would be interesting to run something set in Hawkwing's...
  8. Maianel Istor

    LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Television Series

    Oh, I didn't know that about Min's casting! Fantastic. I can totally see that working.
  9. Maianel Istor

    LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Television Series

    Oh, I don't think it's actually her quarters. I just think it would be weirdly charming if it were: in public she's this regal Amyrlin, and then you go to her private sanctum and it's basically a Tairen fishing hut at the top of the Tower.
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    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    Oof. I sincerely respect that you feel that way . . . but if so, I fear you're doomed to be disappointed and/or furious at the TV show, because that's likely to be the least of the changes they introduce. For me, an adaptation ought to respect the author's intention on a macro level, not a...
  11. Maianel Istor

    LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Television Series

    Maybe that's just how Siuan decorates her quarters ;-)
  12. Maianel Istor

    To prologue or not to prologue?

    Fair! For all we know, Siuan could be having Moiraine re-swear to make sure she isn't Black Ajah. Still, the exchange with Lan seems pretty cut-and-dried on the idea that we'll see the two of them before they arrive in the Two Rivers. (It could be flashback, but that seems weird and pointless...
  13. Maianel Istor

    "What They SHOULD Change" (Spoilers All)

    After some pondering, I've found the biggest thing I hope they'll change (well, apart from the pacing, which is pretty much a given just by the nature of the medium): Faile's kidnapping by the Shaido, and how Perrin ends that. I wouldn't weep to see that entire plotline go, since it always...
  14. Maianel Istor

    To prologue or not to prologue?

    Same! I could really dig occasional Age of Legends flashbacks, scattered throughout the series. There are plot-driven places to get a few of those, but more wouldn't be bad. I don't know that "Moiraine as sage" is going to be quite right. In the books you initially see her just through Rand's...
  15. Maianel Istor

    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    This! I'm bugged less by changes than by changes which don't take into account the effects they'll have elsewhere in the story. If the strands get woven into a differently-patterned but solid fabric, I'm generally fine with it. (Case in point: I was reading some reviews of various Dune...
  16. Maianel Istor

    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    Why should it? Will Trollocs not attack Emond's Field because Moiraine's uncertainty includes Egwene and Nynaeve? (Assuming, as others have pointed out, that they're among the five she's referring to -- we don't actually know.) Will the core cast not flee the Two Rivers? Will Rand not start to...
  17. Maianel Istor

    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    Right -- but that's how it was in the book. From the perspective of the show, and people who haven't read the books, they may not get that information right away, nor will Rand be used all the time as the viewpoint character. So for that audience, leaving it more of an open question for a while...
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    I'm sorry... One of the FIVE of you?!

    Eh, it doesn't bother me. It just broadens the setting a bit to say that the Dragon wasn't necessarily reborn as a male channeler. They're profoundly unlikely to rewrite the story to the point of having Rand not actually be the Dragon Reborn, so to me, it's really just a way of signaling that...
  19. Maianel Istor

    To prologue or not to prologue?

    (Apologies if this already got hashed out in another thread; I've been super busy and not around much.) I've always loved the prologue to TEotW. It was such a breath of fresh air compared to the Ye Olde Epick Phantasie Prologues of Yore (which were not-even-thinly-disguised encyclopedia...
  20. Maianel Istor

    Official trailer!

    Aaaaaaah, so excited! Except for the bit where the trailer playback kept getting choppy. I'll clearly have to watch it again to make up for that, yes, definitely. :-D The thing with the rings on the belt -- guh, that's awful. And very effectively so, in terms of finding a visual way to quickly...
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