WoT feels almost like historic fact to me. It feels like we should be able to get answers to our questions. Like the answers are out there somewhere and all we have to do is find them.
He spends an awful lot of effort showing us that its possible to turn someone against their will. He brings it up often in the beginning then lets us sit on it. Do you think he just wasted the words (he hasnt really done that with much else and I have read and re-read the series a few times) or...
I disagree with that actually. She may have been exactly the type of person they would have wanted to recruit, but that doesnt necessarily mean that she would have been the type of person who would swear her soul away to the shadow. Think of it this way. She loved Lews Therin, even after he...
I am in support of Mieren having been turned forcibly rather than willingly. Robert Jordan spent an awful lot of time in the first few books describing that it could be done and making a point of it but then not really referrencing anyone that had gone through it before. He is not the kind of...