My favorite scene is with the Malkieri merchants when Nynaeve shows up and convinces them to join lan.

 

That is the other one I was gonna include "The Golden Crane." Great. It got to me, but I figured it was mostly a personal thing.

 

I was in the military, and when I left all of my officers were kinda surprised, not unhappy, but surprised, and asked why, and I said "Because I'm the Worst kinda Marine. A true believer." and I left on my own terms fighting tears the whole time. when reading "The golden crane" I sorta had a feeling that I was being called back rather than being allowed to walk away.

 

It gets you right there, like a knife.

 

 

I served in the IDF. Never made a connection between that scene and my service before. However, thinking on it now it seems to eerily mirror the motivations that made me as an American volunteer in Israel. I had always liked it because Nynaeve had become one of my favorite characters and this scene cemented her at #1 for me. She is pretty much the only one that both accepted her new role while never once forgetting where she came from and what that meant.

 

This is all still true, however now I have something to think about.

i know this is off topic but why did you serve in the IDF?

“Remember, you fool! Remember your futile attack on Great Lord of the Dark!

Remember his counterstroke! Remember! Even now the Hundred Companions are

tearing the world apart, and every day a hundred me n more join them. What hand

slew Ilyena Sunhair, Kinslayer? Not mine. Not mine. What hand struck down every

life that bore a drop of your blood, everyone who l oved you, everyone you loved? Not

mine, Kinslayer. Not mine. Remember, and know the price of opposing Shai’tan!”

honourable mentions to verin confession to egwene, Galad vs valda and deposing of siuan as amyrlin