I mentioned explanations that were there only for the benefit of the audience. I felt such things were much better masked in AMoL. I don't consider more modern speaking to be a breach of the fourth wall, personally. There were a couple of times, though. "Arabesque." He used that word to describe a type of architecture somewhere. That is a breach. There weren't many of those that I noticed, though.

The word Arabesque is an artistic and architectural term dating from the 1500s.....I don't see the problem.

 

 

 

 

Anyone else really in shock now that it's over? I don't think it really hit me that this is the end until the day after I finished. I've been reading and following these books for so long that the thought of there never being any more is hard to get my mind around. 

 

 

Same here. For me the next Wheel of Time book has always been a thing to really look forward to, a beacon in the night... But now that its over its like something really special has been taken from me and I feel empty.. We all have been bonded to the series for so long and now its been severed... I'm satisfied and happy with the end, but was just expecting a bit more on the aftermath.. I was expecting a small snippet by RJ on how and where the main characters would be after say 10 years, but I guess he wanted to leave that to interpretation...

 

I really hope there is a TV series because I just can't imagine the end to the Wheel of Time... Its become a part of me now

 

 

Yes, it's part of me too and I think we can keep it there by re-reads and participating here. I'd love a pre-quel bout the 20 years where Moiraine and Lan were searching for Rand. I can only hope.

 

I think Brandon made it clear that there would be no outriggers... So all in all the only thing we can wait for is the encyclopedia... Other than that the series has ended for sure.

Yeah, authors and publishers say things like that all the time. Everyone once in a while the search for more money works out for us fans though. People would of course complain that they hated any new work as much as many complain about Brandon's work, but I'd be happy to at least give it a chance.

 

 GAWYN WAS ALREADY DYING, HE HAD USED THE BLOODKNIVE RINGS TO SAVE THEM WHEN OVERRUN BY THE SHARANS. His death was already assured, he was just trying to do what he could with the little time he had left.

That's not true. He didn't know what these rings can cause

Wrong, Leilwin told him that the rings kill their users with just one, and he was using 3 at once.

 GAWYN WAS ALREADY DYING, HE HAD USED THE BLOODKNIVE RINGS TO SAVE THEM WHEN OVERRUN BY THE SHARANS. His death was already assured, he was just trying to do what he could with the little time he had left.

The one bit of Egwene's arc which I really liked was her little conversation with Rand just after she'd died.  It somehow seemed like the old Egwene, rather than the ice-cold, inhuman Amyrlin.  I was really glad to see this.

Egwene isn't cold at all, she's just strong. I could see plenty of reasons to dislike her character, but I can't imagine how you could call her cold.

I was just thinking about it, and for their to be any chance at war not breaking out almost immediately after The Last Battle, Egwene had to die. Remember this conversation?

I laughed. I cried. I hurled...seriously I had food poisoning but I couldn't not read. I'm happy to be at the end of a journey that, for me, began almost 20 years ago in 1993. Although I wish, as everyone does, that Robert Jordan had been able to finish his masterpiece, I believe Brandon Sanderson deserves a great thanks. Completing a beloved and complex fantasy series such as this is a daunting task, and one he had to know who cause him to be hated by some people no matter what he did. Given that, the job he did was excellent. Honestly, there is too much I want to talk about the book to even discuss on a forum, I need to go hunt down friends of mine who also read  it to talk with face to face lol. However, I did have one thought that I wondered what people would think about.

Considering the fact that the Wheel of Time has already become the work of multiple authors, and how many stories there are left to tell, what would people think of an "extended universe" series of books in the vein of the Star Wars extended universe novels?