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Istor is literally "fiction," and I mashed things together to get "Maianel" -- I sort of wanted something starting with ma- to echo "Marie" (which, uh, can mean "important," but that wasn't my reason); feia is "speaker," and yatanel is "story," so smash smash fiddle tweak and I wound up with...

Thank you! I confess to mucking around with different root words from the Old Tongue to make it. :-)

Okay, so when I initially signed up, I didn't realize the whole arrangement around WOT-style names on the forum. So here I am with a shiny new name!

Thank you all! It's already feeling both fun and familiar, having a WOT fan community to interact with again . . .

I think it's a bit more than no account at all gets (from my vague memory of glancing at the forum before I got approved), but I get the distinct impression that there's more to the site, yeah. It's fine, I'm happy to wait!

Hmmmm, that's challenging! I know that when I did my re-read for the end of the series (and was looking at the story very much with a writer's eye), it felt to me like The Shadow Rising was the point at which the growing complexity was most feature, least bug, if that makes sense -- there was so...

Ah, I remember that! And I went off on all kinds of tangents about categorization and how our brains handle such things. :-)

JordanCon is great! I imagine it's even greater when it isn't happening in a pandemic, with all the restrictions and reductions that brought.

I have to shamefully confess that I can't even remember who invited me to the forum -- whoever it was gave me a lovely little care package of some candy and the Tarvalon.net cookbook, but it was right before the costume contest and my brain was in six places at once. So, uh, if that person is...

Big fan of Nynaeve, at least most of the time (there were a few bits where the whole "I'll just be angry all the time" approach got to be a bit too much). And I'm not going to pretend that the fact that my hair is hip-length and usually in a braid doesn't have some amount of connection to this...

Yes, that's a good way of thinking about it -- look at the in-story timeline, rather than the publication structure. Or my take was, figure out how many seasons you're aiming to do, decide what the Big Event will be at the end of each season, and then build everything else around that, figuring...

Oops, replies appeared while I was typing! Juliya, my snarky reflex is always to say that I am a Marie Brennan, but in context people are usually asking if I'm the fantasy author Marie Brennan, and the answer to that is yes. :-)

I've got to say I'm very excited for the show! It's going to be fascinating to see how they rework things to suit the medium -- because even if you could be sure you'd get fourteen seasons of the show and that you could fit the entirety of one book into a season (both of which are hahahaha NO)...

Greetings, all! I just got cleared to join y'all here, making it roughly, uh, twenty-three years or so since I was last part of any Wheel of Time fan community? Yikes. (CompuServe's WOT forum, if there's anybody else here who was a part of that.) Back in those days we were eagerly awaiting the...