This is carrying the thread back to a discussion of how the AoL worked, governmentally, but in one of the later books when one of the Forsaken is thinking about Demandred, ("'almost' and 'not quite' where the story of his life") he has a line that goes something like

"he was born one day after Lews Therin, who became the Dragon" 

Regardless of the actual quotation, significance is put on the fact that Demandred was born one day later in regards to becoming the Dragon. 

I think that this implies that LTT inherited his position to an extent, which would raise some questions about how the AoL worked

The one major issue that I saw is that you put Sleete above Gawyn...

Gawyn repeatedly destroyed Sleete in a 2 on 1 duel.

I got into the WoT two years ago or so. I loved the series and have since reread it several times.

My favorite characters, without the ta'veran

1 Talmanes

2 Elan Morin Tedronai

3 Logain

Hon Mentions:

Lanfear, Rahvin, Demandred, Geofram

Books

1 EotW

2 LoC

3 aMoL

now, I know that there are a lot of other issues with Perrin and Faile, but they did actually interact before falling in love.

Not saying that theirs is the best.

Mat and Pips?

Here's a slightly more serious idea, but how about Rand and Lanfear? It's certainly one of the most interesting romances (it just doesn't have a happy ending) at least during the early series.

all right....

So, I've recently been reading Lovecrafts collected works. 

First and Foremost, that is not reminiscent in the least of any of his stories.

Second, I am impressed with that they actually got the green-stone-figurine of Cthulu pretty much right, It wasn't quite corpulent enough, I think, but close enough

Third, none of his characters were very competent with weapons, or were that kind of person. They were all reseachers, often old men, and usually insane by the end of the tale.

Furthermore, it just kind of feels off. I don't think it really captured the spirit of his novels. The entire ocean above him thing, and the cyclical path of him dying just aren't the sort of thing that I think Lovecraft would write.

In fact, if you really dig into the cthulu cycle, most of Humanities precursors aren't even very malevolent, with the possible excpetion of Cthulu's race. I'll grant that they do indeed demand a lot of human sacrifices, but the old ones, the outer ones, the great ones, (three of the various races he created) are just other civilizations.

The old ones eventually get killed off by the Shoggoths, amphibious carnivourous slimes, the outer ones, sentient fungi, really just want to mine gold on Earth, and to not be bothered. Then the great ones just want to not get killed by their ancient enemies and want to gather all of the knowledge that they can.

Then, some of the major dieties, Yog-Sothoth, is actually everyone. we are all facets of it. I don't think it really wants to kill any of us.

Then, Azathoth is just a mindless particle storm, or something like that. 

I think I might have gone off on a bit of a tangent....

Tl;Dr, it doesn't really seem like something Lovecraft would create, but I think I'd still play it, if only to get outraged at the inaccuracies.

cover without a doubt

Break of Dawn - Miracle of Sound

....wow. that was twenty minutes of my life...

Well, Thom's nephew wouldn't have been channeling for very long, he probably didn't have control of it yet. He still died from the depression. I would think that a lot of the Red Ajah's victims were gentled shortly after they started touching the true source.

I definetly heard the word "wise" but thats all I got. But, if he was trying to figure out who Nakomi was, he might very well have stopped by the Wise ones.

Solarz has a wonderful point. But, I can't think of anyone who has ever accused anyone in that arc of having much sense. 

I like Logain more. If we'd been given more time to get a good look at Taim, maybe that would've changed, but we didn't.

man, I love the 64. 

Also, .... Ducks?

On 6/16/2018 at 9:10 PM, Illian Tear said:

Just a question: do you like ducks?

sure, I guess....

I like the idea of a customizable character, but I rarely end up with one I'm satisfied with. The witcher games on my to-play list.

Lord of the Rings would be my best, I think

Come with me to the Other Side - Orden Ogan

I guess I'll sub, if the need comes up

First, The Aiel have about a somewhat larger population than the main randland nations which is all the AS have access to. True, the AS have a worse method for finding channelers than the Aiel but its still better than the Seanchan method.

The Seanchan only found people who had the spark, but they did find all of them.

They found a ton of channelers in Randland was because of the all of the people with potential to learn, plus all of the people who managed it on their own.

True, the AS would have found more wilders if they used the seanchan method, but that would take more control than they have, and they would have found less people who didn't have the spark.

As for the kin, remember that the AS have Standards if a person is too weak in some regard or another, out they go. That also explains why there are so few AS.

well, if all he had was potential and not truly the spark, she might not have. That being said, I don't think Galad will ever learn to channel

that last paragraph sums it up quite well

22 hours ago, Dave the Knave said:

Because the aiel are standing around in loose formation with weapons that are poor at countering cavalry. 

we see repeatedly in the books that this isn't true. It would seem that you undervalue the average skill of the Aiel.

On 7/20/2018 at 9:08 AM, solarz said:

 

We don't know when Aiel began to serve the Aes Sedai, but why wouldn't the AS want physically improved servants? Aes Sedai live hundreds of years, wouldn't they want their personal servants to live longer as well? AS can ignore heat and cold (again, no indication in book that non-channelers can use their trick), why wouldn't they want their servants to as well?

 

Moreover, we know that Two Rivers farmers kick ass because they have the ancient blood of Manetheren. What is "ancient blood" except genetics? Perhaps it wasn't only the Aiel who had improved genetics, but the Aiel were also genetically isolated.

 

Perhaps the genes aren't even engineered, but related to channeling. We know channeling is genetic, and in the Age of Legends, the Aiel produced a lot of channelers. Even in the Third Age, a single Aiel clan has hundreds of Wise Ones who can channel. In contrast, the entire White Tower only has 1000 Aes Sedai, and they are having difficulty finding more girls who can channel near the end of the 3rd Age.

 

Manetheren is another example. The Two Rivers has a trove of girls who can channel, and we know that traditionally, Manetheren queens were all Aes Sedai and the king their warder. Two Rivers people all seem to be amazing rangers, even Nynaeve can track Lan and she spends most of her time thumping people with sticks.

 

As for the Aiel and winters, remember that deserts are very cold at night. Aiel are used to the cold, if not the snow. Considering that the path they took during the Aiel War went from Cairhien to Tear to Tar Valon, they would not have experienced very harsh winters.

This is actually a very good point.

in that case, I think Cas might still search him out in order to see if they can figure out just why it happened, what he can do now, how he can used in WT politics, etc.

mm. I think we'll have to agree to disagree.

hm. So what is it? something similar to GTA5? Some open World Game? 

Also, I disagree with the voice-visual match-up of what appears to be the main character

Furthermore, I'm not really a fan of this kind of graphic.

However, despite those complaints, it still looks good.

Coming Down - Five Finger Death Punch