I found the personality shift disturbing too.

I am trying to explain it away in my own mind as a young man suddenly becoming old with the wisdom that experience brings.

I believe that we all have personality changes (usually subtle) as we grow older. I am trying to believe that adding, who knows for sure, how many years of experience to his present in a nearly instantaneous fashion would be a shock and some of those personalities will wear through those memories.

Sakaea,

Everyone needs someone to hate.

Some readers are not in a place in life where they can appreciate a strong and confident character. Many of the leading female persons in Jordan’s world are infuriatingly confident sometimes while the male characters are shown through POV to be less self assured. The fact that most of the strong (this is only the case for the strong) female characters often not shown to have any self doubting introspection is threatening. I find this chafing in any character male of female and the characters become more real when we get to see moments of indecision or self doubt. Even the forsaken get more fail/doubt time that some of RJ's girls.

If is wasn't Faile it would be Egg. or Nyn.

Fixing bad spelling so my mother would be proud.