I had no idea how to read most of the pronunciation "guidelines" in the glossary when I first read the books and was trying to figure that stuff out. They make a bit more sense now that I can sort of, maybe, imagine how an English-speaker would read them, but personally, give me phonetic transcription any day over moor-GAYZ etc.

  On 5/7/2014 at 11:24 PM, Barid Bel Medar said:

I think the worse one for people has to be Taim. 

 

I mean, come on, everyone reads it as TAME.

...Well, actually... :D

I always read it as "time", because that's the Finnish pronunciation.

Sarene Nemdahl.

Guarded or not guarded during the funeral, I'd imagine "allowed to go free" includes the assumption that he was not chased down off-screen after the book ended. So the question isn't really about "why wasn't he guarded that very moment/prevented from leaving?" Or at least not just that.

Yeah alright, it probably wouldn't have been Aviendha who told Nynaeve at any point, but I do believe that Nynaeve would have been let in on the secret eventually. Either Rand himself telling her, or Elayne (with Rand's consent), at some point a bit later when things have calmed down. Same with Tam; I'm not buying that they would have just let him live the rest of his life thinking his son dead.

I don't think Aviendha would have told Nynaeve at that point. It was too big of a thing to be discussed in the middle of all the things going on, especially as it was not meant to become common knowledge. But I think Nynaeve suspected, and Cadsuane suspected something at least, and they probably wouldn't have spread the information on Moridin's identity too widely, either, because having a real live Forsaken in the camp would probably have caused someone to do something stupid. So I imagine his disappearance was probably relatively easy to gloss over.

Alrighty, thanks! :)

I'd be inclined to go with "mistake" on the Ilyena one, then, because Age of Legends doesn't strike me as sexist enough to make a woman give up her highly prestigious earned third name upon marriage.

I've been wondering about this for the past few days and finally realised that hey, I can ask here. Aren't I the bright one. Anyway.

In the Age of Legends people were born with two names and earned the third one. As we all know. But which of the names, on those known AoL characters who have three names, is the special earned name?

I used to just assume it was the last one, until I came across Ilyena's wiki page, which tells me that her full name was Ilyena Moerelle Dalisar until she married Lews Therin Telamon, at which point she became Ilyena Therin Moerelle. (I'm assuming this info is from the Big White Book because the wiki doesn't cite sources on this one. My BWB is sadly half a continent away so I can't check.) And it doesn't seem likely to me that they would give up the earned name upon getting married, so... Does this make it safe to assume that the middle name is the earned one?

This is your result in its entirety:

Blue Ajah: 6
Brown Ajah: 5
White Ajah: 5
Gray Ajah: 4
Green Ajah: 2
Red Ajah: 2
Yellow Ajah: 1

Hmm... Maybe, but I feel more close to the White Ajah at heart.

  On 11/5/2013 at 2:24 PM, Zhon said:

 

  On 11/4/2013 at 11:37 PM, Vieira151 said:

Question related to balefire. This is mainly a hypothetical question, and it's really just to use in a "Werewolf" game on another forum.

 

Let there be 4 people - A, B, C and D. 

 

The idea - B wishes to kill A. B shoots an arrow but C jumps in front of A and takes the arrow. C is injured and A survives.

 

Should D balefire C so that C did not exist prior to the jump, would A then be affected by arrow?

 

It depends on when B was balefire'd and the strength of D's channeling.  The stronger the balefire, the farther back time is affected.  If D's balefire is weak enough that it only affects time by a second or two, A would probably still be safe.  On the other hand, if D's went back by a minute or so, then A would probably be calling out "Message for you sir!"  as he drops dead from the arrow.

The bolded bit seems to indicate that Vieira meant the balefire to be strong enough to remove C from the pattern before they intercepted the arrow.

And yes, it would seem most logical to me that A would, in this scenario, be hit by the arrow.

  On 10/28/2013 at 9:24 PM, EmperorAllspice said:

Is it more or does it seem like Ishamael hasn't actually done much since the series began?

 

He killed a Ta'veren in Hawkwing. He started the trolloc wars and kept the world in this sorry state but since the series began he's been doing bugger all but fail. He was said to be saner as Moridin but he still hasn't been doing much and he's angry ALL the time.

 

Isn't he meant to be smart? Wasn't he all "Rand is dancing to my tune"

 

I was getting excited for a second there I thought he was up to something competent.

I read a very good post somewhere on these here forums about how Moridin seemed to spend most of his time towards the end of the series "getting high on True Power"... But I can't seem to find it again. (It was probably in the AMoL forum.)

As in, no, it's not just you. And damn, I really want to find that post again because I wanted to reference it somewhere.

I think there's still a tiny bit of miscommunication going on somewhere. Zhon, I'm fairly sure Suttree knows how the a'dam works. What he said he didn't understand, was 0rion's original question;

  On 10/17/2013 at 10:14 AM, 0rion said:

How you think Tuon gave to Joline a pain through the a'dam or here was something other?

And I didn't really get it at first, either, but I think it's a matter of punctuation. I believe what they were trying to ask is; How do you think Tuon gave to Joline pain; through the a'dam or some other means?

And the answer would be, through the a'dam.

About halfway through The Way of Kings, currently, and more than a little frustrated with most of the characters... x)