I tried to listen to a 4th Age Podcast for the first time ever yesterday and nearly clawed my eyes out after the first fifteen minutes over the overdone and labored "Yea, these be fantasy names and thar must be difficult to say" enunciation.

Every time the podcasters drew out one more hard to say "So, how do we think Caddswooannay will aid Laaaaaahn..." I died a little bit inside.

It's bad enough that Randland names and terms are overloaded with "exotic sounding" names with 17 vowels in a row, but to stamp down "official" ways is just too much.

I really feel that more fantasy authors should follow GRRMs footsteps and just say "Dudes, chill, and say the names as you want to".

Cadsuane is from Far Madding (unless I'm horribly mistaken).

And while she is ancient by modern AS standards, she isn't really that old. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 years.

The eldest Kinswoman was pushing 600, and LTT [Removed] died [in the - yoniy0] prime [of his - yoniy0] life [Removed].

So even if Cadsuane's potential lifespan has been halved/oaths, she doesn't really need to resort to necromancy at this point to extend her life.

"There are perhaps 20 other Sisters in Caemlyn at the moment, and all but me are Red Ajah." So who did the Warders belong to? Was this simply an error? I know it's possible for Aes Sedai to "lend" Warders, but knowing the attitudes of most Red Sisters, I really doubt any would have anything to do with Warders.

I have always assumed that there is a difference between being a Warder-trained man, and a bonded-Warder.

The tower has (or had, in the past before the new mass influx) a much, much larger force of trained warders than it did AS to bond them, and I assumed that they were under the overall command of the Amrylin seat. (Think Gawyn and his younglings under Elaida).

Since SS was Amrylin at the time of Logains capture, she no doubt sent along a few 100s of warders along with the red sisters to deal with him.