Where is Bella?

[Maximillion]

1 minute ago, Elder_Haman said:

Uh, no. Lan rode Mandarb and Moiraine’s horse followed. 

Followed where?

Did they not run off from the place that Lan and Moiraine were in?

[Elder_Haman]

You said “somehow the horses were outside again”. As if they magically appeared. But Lan rode Mandarb out. Moiraine’s horse (Aldib?) was with him when he rode. 

[MasterAblar]

Lan and Moiraine's horses never ran off. Whichis true to the books at least where there's basically nothing that scares them.

[Maximillion]

8 minutes ago, Elder_Haman said:

You said “somehow the horses were outside again”. As if they magically appeared. But Lan rode Mandarb out. Moiraine’s horse (Aldib?) was with him when he rode. 

 

 

I thought the horses actually ran off from where they were inside Shadar Logoth, but just checked again and Moiraines and Lan's horses just stood there waiting.  Only 3 of the horses ran away.  So yes, they didn't just magically appear, they just weren't that fussed about Mashadar.

 

 

Edited November 29, 2021 by Maximillion

[MasterAblar]

Pretty sure Mandarb eats Mashadar for breakfast to be fair. 

[Maximillion]

2 minutes ago, MasterAblar said:

Pretty sure Mandarb eats Mashadar for breakfast to be fair. 

 

Definitely not fussed by it , that's for sure.

 

[2RiversFan]

3 minutes ago, MasterAblar said:

Pretty sure Mandarb eats Mashadar for breakfast to be fair. 

Mandarb is the Chuck Norris of horses in the WoT-verse... but he does bow down to Bela, who he recognizes as the Creator's avatar.

[sierramekate]

11 hours ago, phoenixtrinity said:

Oh no. I thought Bella was the white horse that got away from Shadar Logoth along with Mandarb and the other dark horse. But if that wasn't Bella, I'm now realizing I have no idea which horse IS Bella ;__;

 

Lan was on one horse holding Moiraine, & had one horse follow, neither was Bella.

 

The third horse that Lan, Moiraine, & Nynaeve had going into the Aes Sedai camp surely must have been brought by Nynaeve. Unless we are assuming she tracked Moiraine & Lan on foot & caught up with them. They may be trying to hype Nynaeve in the show, but I don't think they are trying to have the audience think she can on foot keep up with a horse ?

 

[mogi68]

Mashadar can't harm the Creator...

[Sabio]

I will never understand why that horse became so popular.  Pretty sure that Bela dropped "horse biscuits"  along the way that allowed the Trollocs to follow.  Bela is in league with Fain so stop worshipping her.

[Ralph]

3 minutes ago, Sabio said:

I will never understand why that horse became so popular.  Pretty sure that Bela dropped "horse biscuits"  along the way that allowed the Trollocs to follow.  Bela is in league with Fain so stop worshipping her.

 

Darkfriend!!! 

 

[SinisterDeath]

1 hour ago, Sabio said:

I will never understand why that horse became so popular.  Pretty sure that Bela dropped "horse biscuits"  along the way that allowed the Trollocs to follow.  Bela is in league with Fain so stop worshipping her.

The forces of light would have failed if Bela hadn't brought the horn to Mat.
She had no right to move as fast as she did. The Creators Intervention throughout the series can be seen in the little things Bela did that went unnoticed. 

[Guire]

1 hour ago, Sabio said:

I will never understand why that horse became so popular.  Pretty sure that Bela dropped "horse biscuits"  along the way that allowed the Trollocs to follow.  Bela is in league with Fain so stop worshipping her.

To me Bela is a grand symbol.  I think RJ saw Two Rivers the way many people in military see home.  It becomes more than what it is.  It is a place of safety.  A place of predictability.  A place where good resides.  We mythogize home and make it a talisman.  Bela is the Two Ruvers made flesh.  She is fuzzy stubborn bland constant that doesn't have an agenda, isn't going to abandon you, and is there to give you hope when all seems lost.  Yep can't fathom why people like her.  

[chri5]

On 11/29/2021 at 5:55 AM, Maximillion said:

So, Bela is very smart indeed to evade Mashadar and find an exit.

FTFY

 

i don’t even like horses, but Bela has to last more than one season!

[Daenelia]

I think Bela and the other horses deserve their own spin off! Could be animated! Kinda like MLP but BETTER!

[TheDreadReader]

6 hours ago, Daenelia said:

I think Bela and the other horses deserve their own spin off! Could be animated! Kinda like MLP but BETTER!

 

The Bela Christmas Special?

 

(Yes, I remember watching the Star Wars Christmas Special on TV.)

 

 

[Agitel]

Bela is to the Creator what Shaidar Haran is to the Dark One.

[grayavatar]

I'd like to know what horses Rand and Mat are riding in episode 4 and where they got them? Or is this just a movie trope where characters get horses out of nowhere?

[WhiteVeils]

5 minutes ago, grayavatar said:

I'd like to know what horses Rand and Mat are riding in episode 4 and where they got them? Or is this just a movie trope where characters get horses out of nowhere?

 

This one was actually explained...both where the horses come from, and I think where they go.

In episode 4, Thom says to Mat, "I thought you were better rider."  To which Mat responds, "I thought you were a better horse thief." 
Thom stole the horses they were riding.

In the trailers for Episode 5, Rand and Mat are walking, BUT they have cloaks and Rand is carrying a bag he didn't have at the Grinwell farm.  They must have sold the horses to buy food and clothing for the journey.

[grayavatar]

It hasn't really been explained that Mat is a horse expert in the show. maybe they will make it that Abell is a disreputable used horse salesman.

[Daenelia]

28 minutes ago, grayavatar said:

It hasn't really been explained that Mat is a horse expert in the show. maybe they will make it that Abell is a disreputable used horse salesman.

No, but he had pretended to be a horse trader, remember? I think Thom is referencing that ?

[WhiteVeils]

59 minutes ago, grayavatar said:

It hasn't really been explained that Mat is a horse expert in the show. maybe they will make it that Abell is a disreputable used horse salesman.

We don't know how long they were riding before they reached the Grinwell farm either...he could have been a better rider early in their trip and got worse later (as the corruption from his dagger grew) and that's what Thom is talking about.

I've currently got a working theory that in the series, Mat is going to start 'skimming' some expertise, especially in things like fighting, horses, and of course strategy and tactics, off his previous lives/memories, but attribute them, unconsciously or even consciously, to a father he no longer really remembers.  He knows a lot about horses, so he thinks his father must have be a horse trader and taught him...how else would he have learned.  The fact that a good cavalryman needs to know everything about horses is just coincidental.

 

[TheDreadReader]

The only real continuity error that has stuck out to me so far is Rand's bow.   He doesn't have it.  He has it.  He doesn't have it again.

 

One cool note, in the picture of Rand with the cloak, I think you can still see his jacket poking out from under it.

 

[WhiteVeils]

He has the bow when he escapes from Shadar Logoth.  I keep assuming he went back to fetch it in Breen Springs.

[Mnemosyne]

It doesn't seem like anyone has posted in this thread so far about Rafe's response to the Bela question in the Reddit AMA:

 

Q: Thank you so much for including a Bella name drop in episode 2. Can we assume that you, as a proper fan boy, will be keeping her entire story arc in place as the creator’s avatar on Randland?

 

A: Literally, everyone in the horse department knows everything about Bela. There are many elderly Czech men who have an eye on Bela's long-term arc in the show and they don't even know what the Wheel of Time is.

 

So I think we're safe.