I have mixed feelings on Egwene's death. 

 

On the positive side, it was beautifully written (at least, her 'conversation' with Rand was).  Egwene was annoying at times, but she was fantastic in KOD and in Sanderson's books (it was a total character change, but it was for the better, in my personal opinion).  It's going to be so strange rereading the series, knowing that Rand is not the one to die at the Last Battle (well, not entirely), but Egwene. 

 

On the other, I was convinced Egwene was going to be an integral leader following The Last Battle.  Considering she freed Logain, he might trust her enough to work with her, so that the White and Black towers can coexist peacefully.  That trust would likely lead to Egwene sending Nynaeve to heal the mens madness (though that may have happened anyway). 

 

I'm... not convinced Cadsuane will be a good Amyrlin.  She's uncompromising and, whether she knows it or not, a good leader, but a diplomat she is not.  If I had to guess, I'd say her role in history is to enforce the changes that Egwene set down.  She likely won't hold the position for very long, considering her age.  I imagine she'll be remembered as a transitory Amyrlin.  Who knows who will take over after Cadsuane passes: perhaps Bode? 

 

One thing I'm very interested to hear from others: was it thematically appropriate for Egwene to die, in your opinion?  Will relations with the Seanchan and Black Tower suffer without her?  Looking back on the series (this I cannot do, as this is my first read of the Wheel of Time), does it feel "right" that Egwene is only one of the six (arguably) main characters to die?  As I said, I'm completely split on it.  It worked wonderfully in the sense that it was a shock; by the time Egwene died, I was convinced that Rand was going to do something that would bring back all those who died in the Last Battle, because RJ had been so reluctant to kill characters up to that point. 

 

Part of me wants to say I wish Elayne had died instead, but I don't really, because I liked Elayne so much less than Egwene, it would have hit me so much less. 

The bolded parts are probably my biggest beefs with Egwene dying.  I thought her death was very well written but at the same time, I kind of thought it ruined all the building of her character.  Truthfully, I don't know how else the Sharans could have been dealt with but I still feel the same way about her death.  Egwene's character was built up for so much.  I really did feel like she'd be around for a while, you know, to keep the tower on track and help guide the world after the last battle.  Her death, I don't know.  To me if feels like it made all of her build-up worth nothing.  I do think her death was very well done and that if she had to be killed, Egwene went out with a bang she deserved.  But I still think it doesn't completely make sense.

As to Egwene being the only main character to die, that's probably another reason why I'm not too fond of it.  If any main characters were to die, I'd have preferred it to be more than one.  The fact that it's just one while everyone else lives makes me both sad and kind of pissed off for some reason.

It's been mentioned in the books, possibly by Verin (sorry, can't remember) that the Dark One isn't fighting the war the way everyone thinks he is.  What's meant by this?  I mean, are there clues out there that kind of hint what this means or is this something that we'll mostly find out about in the last book?

What's so appalling about the Asha'man bonding the Aes Sedai? Is it mainly because it was men bonding women or is there something else I'm not getting?

Every time we come across Aes Sedai who are aware of what happened at the Black Tower, they all say it's an atrocity. The thing is, those Aes Sedai were their to kill the Asha'man. And at least those Aes Sedai are still alive. I can't imagine them thinking the Aes Sedai being dead preferable to them being bonded by men.

Now as for damane, I may be mistaken here but in most of WoT combining artifacts are not a good idea that tend to have negative effects of the explosive variety so I do not think that daisy chaining damane together would lead to anything but allot of dead or at least bayly wounded damane or some other similar unfortunate outcome. We also never see a sul'dam with two damane as far as I know, I may be mistaken here again but I think that if it was possible it would happen in the books at some point.

I think it might be in Knife of Dreams, not sure or maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but doesn't Tuon leash both Teslyn and Joline, one on each arm?

Off topic from the current discussion but, how much time passes within each book? Some books, like ACoS, are easier to tell while others, at least to me are sometimes more vague.