If I had to guess, I'd give even odds it's Tam.

Traditional weapons, but not ones from the age of the main story-line. I've got a few ideas as to what the Lance of Mosk might be, and it would sure as heck do a number on a Fade, as well as whatever happens to be within a hundred miles of it.

Happy birthday!

Bayle Domon - passionate about old things and Archaeology.

Mat. The heck with his potential as a warrior or a general or whatever, I just want to hit the town with the guy.

Ishamael/Moridin. The Forsaken are all made out to be super smart and dangerous, but I get the feeling he's the only one who truly understands the nature and plans of their Master.

Hard to say. I reread certain parts dozens of times. The more tedious parts of the Aes Sedai plotting, or, say, Egwene brushing her hair... those bits might get glossed over. There's also about 20 pages of tFoH where the print in my book cut off the bottom two lines, so I only read that part once at the library. Same for the part of CoT where there are like 50 pages that are bound upside down, and I feel stupid reading it in public.

I bought the first book for my mom on mother's day - I was very young, and I think it was the first holiday where I bought gifts with my own money. I was at a used book store, looking through the titles I could purchase for the half dozen quarters I was carrying around. I didn't know much about fantasy at the time, but the Eye of the World had the best page to dollar ratio of any of the books on the shelf and in my juvenile mind anything over 100 pages equated to Literature with a capital L, so I grabbed it. A few years later I had just finished the Belgariad by David Eddings and was looking for another world to dive into, and Rober Jordan provided.

Well, I'm a guy, but if I weren't - the Red Ajah. Before Saidin was cleansed, the hunting of men who could channel was one of the most important tasks before the Tower. The damage caused by false Dragons attests to that. Now that the Source is cleansed, well, I think the Red must play a key role in the eventual acceptance of the Black Tower - there's a saying that goes, "Only Nixon could open China." The idea is that, when making amends with an old and hated enemy, the most effective diplomats are those who were the most hawkish, because their motives are beyond reproach. Sure, the Grreens might get along with Asha'man, but everyone knows the Greens are man-lovers. If the Reds recognized them, on the other hand... If the Black Tower is ever to gain serious credibility in Tar Valon, there would be no better vehicle than the Reds, and that might just make them the most important Ajah around, going into Tarmon Gai'don. If they ever get their act together. Which they would, under my glorious leadership.

The scene in tDR when Mat meets the Aelfinn and asks the questions about his destiny. It's a decent insight into his character when it becomes obvious that the part about him getting married bothers him way more than dying and living again or sacrificing half of the light of the world.

Yeah, I saw Moraine and Thom from miles off, and I'm generally not the most adept at picking that sort of thing out. The tone of the letter she gave him certainly suggests it, though. As well as the way she acts in the Dragon Reborn when she's revealing how much she knows about his past.

Mat and Tuon have got to be my favorite and least favorite couple. They're cute together, I must admit, and Mat refusing to anybody who will listen that the whole thing is going to make him soft rates with the funniest moments of the series. But there isn't a whole lot of POV from Tuon, and nowhere is there much to suggest that she's anything more than fond of him. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't she just marry him because his releasing her completes the final omen or whatever? I'm pretty sure I even remember a chapter where she considers that she might one day grow to love him but doesn't really believe it. There had better be something to remedy that in AMoL, of I'm going to spend the whole book feeling bad for Mat.