Rhed al'Tere
Aes Sedai
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Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: The Shadow Rising Chapters 36-42
Chapter 35
Chapter 35
- Egwene totally lied about keeping her word. She's likely to blow her cover or instill mistrust in Aes Sedai.
- I loved seeing Amys putting Egwene in her place.
- I feel sorry for Aviendha having to spend every waking moment with Rand. Whatever she saw in the rings was as bad for her feelings for him as the Accepted test is for Accepted who come out hating Aes Sedai.
- Egwene compares Moiraine to ice, but that's Moiraine's way of processing the rings. Aviendha's angry and sullen, while Moiraine takes it all inside (as Aes Sedai are trained to do).
- Did Aviendha read Elayne's letters? (Would it have made a difference?)
- Kadere seems to be a legit peddler whom Lanfear Compulsed.
- Mat gets his hat.
- Even disguised as Keille, Lanfear wears all white.
- Rand knows there's something off about Kadere et al.
- Mat starts thinking about improvements to weapons (crossbow).
- Mat: "None of which he was sure had ever existed." Could some of the memories be fake? Does Mat have memories from our Age? Can you imagine Mat remembering dancing in a nightclub, or using a machine gun?
- Second mention of Mat being invited to play Maiden's Kiss, but he actually asked to play.
- Mat was tricked into talking about everything by Jasin/Asmodean.
- Egeanin eventually takes the name Leilwin, the name of a noble who was kidnapped and who Egeanin sent to be a slave.
- Egeanin doesn't like that the Whitecloaks are answerable only to themselves.
- The Seanchan don't let people go hungry.
- Pedon Niall is setting the Whitecloaks against Dragonsworn.
- Contrast between Seanchan (Egeanin) and Whitecloaks (Carridin) -- the Whitecloaks don'e care about people. (Even if they're not Darkfriends.)
- Jaichim Carridin = Bors.
- Is Bors more afraid of the Black Ajah than Myrdraal?
- Ugh: Bors tells where to find his sister, sells out his family to be killed. Obviously that's not a thread to hold him to his task, just a way to count down to his death should he continue to fail.
- Liandrin does have the trick of opening people to suggestion. I'm sure she used it on Juilin, and I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that her trick comes with the unwillingness to disappoint her.
- Seekers for Truth -- the mark of the raven is forever, even through generations.
- Seanchan have the same misconception of the Breaking as the Whitecloaks -- that it was all channelers and not just male channelers.
- In the testing for damane, how do they tell the damane from sul'dam? They can't just slap the collar on everyone -- that would catch future sul'dam as well. Maybe if you have to learn to channel, the collar doesn't work on you until later, once you've learned to channel. Or, rather, learned to control a damane... which is the same thing.
- Egeanin's worldview is starting to shift.
- Domon recognizes Thom.
- Elayne thinks about eating to much jelly, and too many sweets in general -- this is something Aviendha mentions in the first sister ceremony. So it's not just out of nowhere.
- Nynaeve, at least, has an awareness that the further east you are, the later in the day it is. It didn't occur to me that they'd be aware of this.