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Entreri

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  1. It is RJ's series, of course he would have done better, especially with his background. 

     

    Could another author have done better than Brandon? Debateable, but I find it very doubtful. The scale and scope of WoT would have made that difficult.

     

    I am just glad the series was finished.

  2. Gawyn sneak attack succeeding (very realistic given he had on 3 RINGS) or Lan gets near him via stealth...Demandred attacks with the Power and is shocked and gets stabbed through the heart by Lan.

     

    Not realistic that he would have one-on-one fights with 3 bladeamasters, like some anime movie or that he would be an insanely great bladeamaster. Blademastery in AoL was merely a sport, Demandred may have killed a few dozen with a Power wrought blade during the 10 year War of Power.  

     

    One Power fight would have been futile, unless it was Rand+Callandor.  With the 2nd most powerful sa'angreal+72 channeler, almost LTT, even Fain with Mashadar would have lost. Mashadar was nowhere near as vast as Shadar Logoth. 

     

     

    "Realistically" of course, given Demandred's sa'angreal+72 channelers and abilites/almost LTT, he would have wrecked the Light armies, gone to SG and finish the Light armies there, kill the distracted Rand et al, finish off Fain. The series ends. The series ends like a horror movie, that would have been cool.  Only thing that could stop Demandred was Rand+Callandor (no buffer)...but such a struggle would have depleted Rand or burned him out...

     

    The entire problem boils down to this: Demandred was build up for so long and given his tools, even RJ would have trouble imo.

  3. Fain needed a longer build up and his wrecking of the Dark and Light forces should have been more detailed. 

     

    The T-1000 Darkhounds were raping the Light forces prior to Fain...If only we had a pit, I would love to see a gholam vs. T-1000.

     

     

     

    Shai'tan proved weak and pathetic in the end, Rand only had to close his hand to annihilate it.

  4. Forgive the butchered quote, this is from memory:

     

    'If you have a sword, and an Aiel has his hands and feet, its an even fight. If you're good.'

     

    Yes, the Aiel were far under utlized for sure, from their tiny presence and the Wise Ones pretty much being absent in the battle field.  

     

    There should have been 400,000-500,000 Aiel and at least 2,000 Wise Ones that can channel.   The Shadio alone had roughly 400 Wise Ones that can channel, one clan!

     

    Gaul took out 8 armed men by himself in book2...While he is a top tier Aiel, the Aiel are considered the best fighters in WoT and they played a minor part. 

     

    I always found Sanderson's Aiel a bit off, from Soriela to Amys.  The Aiel are complex, so this is not a big deal, however, their numbers were butchered in AMOL. 

  5. Not entirely true friend. Rand in fact attempted to blow up a battlefront, and help out Rand, but they had channelers going straight for him whenever they saw him. Also, with demandred in a full circle, it's doubtful Rand would attack - thats why only the non-channelers had any luck with kicking his butt. Logain had a serious issue. 

    With no Shai'tan, the DR would have gone all out, use Callandor, game over.  The Power, skill and abilities of the DR is unmatched, expect in TAR.  The Forsaken are hardly a match for a farmboy, let alone LTT, forget about Rand Sedai. 

     

    Callandor, it has no buffer, at one point the amount of saidin wielded was greater than at the Cleansing (according to Logain's PoV).  He would smash Demandred and his little sa'angreal, full cirlce and his armies, main threat over.  Moridin of course will send reinforcements and come himself and get his ass whooped, again. Lanfear will get angry, throw a fit, make a futile attempt and die. Grandael and Moghdien will smartly flee in terror. Taim? Androl will finish him off, that sneaky little Gateway guy!

     

    After which, the DR would be dead tired from all the ass whooping and the Light forces would have to clean up the peasant leftovers, uh, Shadow followers. 

     

    With the final book done, there will be time for more ($$$). Rand Sedai will need to find and kill Grandael and Moghdien, those two sneaky little women (this could be whole other series!).  Mat and Tuon, Seanchan.  Lan and Nyaneve, rebuilding Malkier....etc

  6. The Creator can be killed just like Shai'tan.   

     

    What would it require? Saidin and Saidar by themselves may not be sufficient...Look what happened when saidin was used against Shai'tan.

     

    Saidin+Saidar+TP of Shai'tan or Creator = Death of either entity.  At the end, Rand was wielding more Power than he was at the Cleansing or even Dragonmount and it burned him out.  Also the fact that it appears he was also drawing "all" of the TP via Moridin. 

  7. Top battles:

     

    1/ Lan vs. Demandred

    2/ Perrin vs. Slayer

    3/ Lan vs. 2 Myddraal

    4/ Demandred vs. Gawyn

    5/ Demandred vs. Galad

     

    Lan was more pivotal than Mat in the Light vs. Shadow. Without taking out Demandred, the Light forces were doomed at FoM and I think Mat mentions this in his PoV. 

     

    Rand vs. Shai'tan sucked, same with Rand vs. Moridin, Mat vs. Fain.  Grandael vs. Teams was good. 

     

    What the entire series lacked was a prolonged epic Power battle...I was hoping Moridin or Demandred would provide that vs. Rand. 

  8. He was one of the greatest villians of all time in any form of media (Darth Vader so forth level), far greater than Shai'tan, Ishamael, Demandred, Lanfear and the rest, unique. 

     

    Only a few had expectations he would replace Shai'tan, however one would think he woud have a better showing.  What was the point of building up such a character for 13 books?

  9. WoT the numbers are off, especially the number of channelers. 

     

    There should be at least 2500 Wise Women that can channel for the Aiel, which is about 1/2 of the Shadio clan. 

     

    The Seanchan should have at least 1000 damane, looked like they had 1/2 that. 

     

    The Sharan army was overly exaggerated, no way it should have been bigger than the Seanchan. 

     

    I can understand Trollocs in the multiple millions but the Light channelers were there to offset some of the Shadow's far superior numbers...instead it appears they were barely equal in size to the Shadow channelers. 

     

    The size of the Trolloc Armies were never stated, but likely around 1 million for each front.  The Sharan army, probably 1 million as well.  Shadow Forces, 5 million. The Light Forces, 1.5 million or so.

  10. I think one of the biggest problems with Egwene is that she has come to embody every negative trait of the White Tower. She has a double dose of Aes Sedai arrogance, and a complete inability to relate to others.

     

    The difference between Egwene and Nynaeve is that Nynaeve is fully aware of her own shortcomings andy hypocrisies, and struggles to correct them (usually). Egwene can't or won't ... she seems to thrive off of them.

     

    /thread

     

    Not sure why this was brought back up but anyone who goes back in this thread can see it was soundly refuted at the time.

     

    Didn't realize this thread was that old.

     

    Regardless, Egwene is an arrogant kid that rubs nearly all the readers the wrong way, beside a handful of her ardent fans.

     

    I do give her credit for enduring and becoming the Amyrlin.

  11. I think one of the biggest problems with Egwene is that she has come to embody every negative trait of the White Tower. She has a double dose of Aes Sedai arrogance, and a complete inability to relate to others.

     

    The difference between Egwene and Nynaeve is that Nynaeve is fully aware of her own shortcomings andy hypocrisies, and struggles to correct them (usually). Egwene can't or won't ... she seems to thrive off of them.

     

    /thread

  12. The Aiel mistake was bringing in the soft wetlanders into the battle. They were easily conquered, they reaped many damane = end of the Aiel, far too many channelers to fight against. Think of Europe and the easy time Hitler had with all the countries except the UK.
    Russia gave him problems as well.

     

    Yes, Russia did.

     

    Hitler made the same mistake Napoleon did.

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