The closest example we have of this in the books, is when a member of the Black Ajah breaks their oaths. But that is bound by the oath rod, and attempting to break said oath, via the oath rod causes physical pain... as we saw described in New Spring. Book wise, I don't believe anything except other Darkfriends cause them to die if they break their oaths. They also have the whole Circle of 13 Black Ajah sisters, and 13 Myrddraal to force convert people to Darkfriends. (This happened to Grendel.) They do be writing themselves into a corner if all you have to do is somehow trick a darkfriend into breaking their oath. lol So, I believe the fox told Mat something like "You hear voices, we can fix that" and Mat's like "Yes Just fix me!" they said "Done". Later they said "You didn't set a price, and a price must be paid". So what I believe happened is that they "fixed" the uncontrolled voices/memories in his head. And instead, what they did is they erased huge gaps of his own memories, and filled them with memories of long dead generals. This opens up the possibility of the 2nd doorway happening for him to get his "answers" from the other Finn... assuming those give him Answers like in the books, and don't also grant "wishes" like this one did. The big question is... did they just place 3 doorways into the damn show? Since we've seen one in the white tower? Albeit that one looks a lot like the one in the Panarch's Palace? (And I believe the subtitles even mentioned both the Aelfin and the Eelfin in this episode)

Sure, but that still doesn't mean that the DO just "erases" said soul from existence. In WoT cosmology, there's the Creator, the DO, and then there's the Wheel. The show may well be doing it's own bloody thing, but even in the show logic, Ishy is a Liar. Lanfear is a Gas lighter. Moggy is a Manpilator. To paraphrase RJ... Why would we believe the Forsaken?

From a WoT cosmology standpoint, not even balefire completely wipes a soul from the pattern.. So this B.S. about breaking the dark oaths is likely that. B.S. Ishamal was literally the Lord of Lies. He gas lit every generation of dark friends, and the entire continent into "believing" this lie that you'd lose your soul if you broke your dark oaths... What better way to make sure you keep them? Specially when you literally see people DIE when they break them! Doesn't mean people don't get reborn at a cosmological level in the next turning. Maybe not the next age, or the age after that. But who would ever know? There's no soul keepers. There's no ledger. There's no way to track down a soul and find out a specific soul after it's reborn...

The dragon is one with the land. The strange weather in the books, is correlated to Rand's wound as much as it is to the DO's touch increasing as its seals weaken. Rand's corruption from the wound, and the taint from Saidin allows the DO a direct connection to the Land, which allows the DO to better manipulate the weather, and further affect things like weather and rot in the land effects in chaotic ways.

This is likely merging several characters and tossing them in front of Lan. One which is that DF character from New Spring, and Intgar's redemption arc that we didn't get in season 2 all rolled up in to Melindhra as an exposition vehicle to tell the audience more about Lan's background and culture to potentially drive the scene we better get that involves Nynaeve dropping Lan off in the middle of nowhere... People be shipping Mat and Min because of this, but dudes... that wasn't a kiss, and Mat just be horny. I don't think we're losing Salidar. Or rather, Salidar may become the Fish Hut. Note: We see the Mirror in the Amyrlin's room get moved, and we know that links to said fish hut. I think what we're going to lose, is Egwene getting captured on the boat turning the chains to Cuendillar. I think instead, she's going to get captured inside the tower, after going through the mirror. She might be trying to turn the chains from inside the tower, I don't know. Or some other purpose, but this could be a Season 5 thing. I honestly would have liked it better if they decapitated Moiraine. Not a big fan of losing Valda, Loial and Siuan all in one season. There's lots of people going on about how Rand being in a relationship with Elayne, Aviendha, and Min is all kinds of "icky and wrong", but it's "fine" if he's in a relationship with Elayne and Aviendha, and that's totally not a Haram either, but it is if Min is there. So now they're shipping Mat and Min. So here's an idea. Min = Jain Farstrider. Way back in Season 1, when Egwene was talking about her favorite book, she referred to Jain Farstrider as a she. Min is apparently already far travelled. She's been to Tanchico already apparently. Given that, why can't she be Jain Farstrider? And why can't Jain Farstrider be a Pen Name? And why can't it be a Pen Name that can be passed down from one Jain Farstrider to the next? Look at Jain Farstrider's "arc" in the books, and compare it to Min and her connection to Ishamael and Liandrin? There's a case here to be made that she can replace Jain Farstrider... and now you have your 3 for if Mat and Thom ever go into the Tower. Now we just have to push Moiraine and Lanfear into the doorway in tear next season...

It definitely was attached to a weapon.

On that front... It's hard to say? Merchandise existed before the show came out, and I think they had existing contracts with the Jordan estate not with REE. After show came out, SPT and Amazon entered the fray and they somehow or another were able to cancel everyone's pre-existing merchandising rights for whatever reason. I don't know if REE would get any residuals from merchandising, or if they'd just get a flat check from SPT/Amazon for each merchandising effort. (That's all in the contracts we'll never see). But given everything we might know of the situation, is that SPT and Amazon, were likely arguing over who/what/where and how much of the pie each got of the merchandising share. Amazon being Amazon, likely wanted the biggest pie, since they could control the entire supply chain, while SPT likely wanted a bigger chunk since they had the licensing rights... And if REE had any say, they likely wanted a cut because they want to fund their side hustles.

Thanks for that, I totally forgot to make this last night

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I think we agree on something there, lol. But I think you have to imagine, a guy who changed his name to "Larry Mondragon", sitting across from you, with contracts and at some point, you're probably not going to take him very seriously. RJ probably didn't either, much to his chagrin.

REE/iWoT are two guys, Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon. They probably took one look at the guys, and felt that they, being Amazon and backed by Bezos were the biggest dogs in the room and could get what they wanted, and would have all the leverage. They completely underestimated the sleaze of those two.

I did you one better. https://dragonmount.com/forums/forum/94-dm-mafia-games/ You can probably get @Verbal32 to help you move games from "Community Games" to "DM Mafia Games", and other random setup stuff over there.

Here's Adam Werthead's breakdown from back in 2020. What likely happened is that REE "optioned" their "IP Rights" to the TV Series to Sony/Amazon for a set number of years/seasons, and it's possible that contract has expired and it's time to renegotiate their "IP Fee" with Sony/Amazon... It's also possible that whatever contract Sony had with Amazon or vice versa has expired, so they're trying to renegotiate... or EVERYBODY is trying to renegotiate. Now, this is my own personal opinion and is NOT the opinion of Dragonmount, but I think if this hold up rests squarely on the shoulders of REE/iWoT, it's because they are ultimately Greedy (pissing in the soup again), and that they're just trying to renegotiate/siphon some absurdly stupid amount of money out of Amazon/Sony to fund their dumb AI projects... but again, this is just my opinion/speculation based on their past decisions and shady practices.

Myrddraal Dan is the fan name for the fade seen during Season 2's marketing.

Should be fixed now. I've fixed that damn spelling on Myrddraal and Shai'tan like 6 times. I think Discord is gaslighting me.

I'm just going to put this here. Pay attention to who the camera focuses on when Moiraine mentions Children, and Queen Eldrene. So if you're really going to put money on that... Consider the Season 1 foreshadowing that they laid into this episode just through Moiraine's speech, and their camera work.

Believe it or not, these are consistent. The fact that you can't see that, is because you don't see that you are the one that is constantly pestering everyone and won't stop beating a dead horse, until others believe what you do. So DROP IT.

What's the over under on Maksim making it to the series finale with Alannah?

Since it wasn't obvious enough, and y'all keep going on about it. Anymore posts about the a'dam bull crap will henceforth be removed from this topic.

The way they're going, of the 3 boys, I can see them Kill Perrin.

Remind me, why exactly are ya'll derailing this topic, which is explicitly about the events of S3E6, to debate once again... how a'dam may or may not work in the show?

Even the writers, casters, directors, actors, and producers directly involved in the product have their own biases that they very well may not know they have, and may even be blind to a type of criticism because they are too close to it to see it. E.g. there's a reason shows hire "Intimacy Coordinators" for sex scenes, because writers/directors are often blind to their own issues to determine what is acceptable on set for actors. E.g. it's clear this show lacks any type of Historical War Coordinator like you'd see on the show Vikings or Game of Thrones, but the Writers/Directors think they're experts on warfare, so "they've got it", and it shows in the final product.

He was absolutely fantastic as Valda, and I really can't imagine anyone else playing him. (I still wish they had given him one more season to really hate him!) That's also why I say I'm not an expert on that line of criticism, and I'll always defer to the experts on it. I've just seen things this last season that look like things that have been pointed out in the past and they have me wondering, "Is this that thing you're talking about? Cause it looks like it?"

Aye. I dunno either. I remember that stuff being brought up in season 1. I'm seeing a lot of the same stuff the people from those communities brought up back in season 1, happening in season 3. I'm also seeing a lot of the same horror movies tropes with shots lingering on POC getting killed, and I don't know if that's intentional, or just a side effect of the diverse casting. So it's more that I'm aware that I'm seeing similar stuff, and I'm not going to be shocked if people from those communities criticizing the show about it for those reasons, but I'm not going to make a big social media stink about it on Twitter either.