I've always taken the remnant of a remnant line to mean the beliefs of the Aiel rather than an amount of people or anything of that nature.  In one of the books right after Rand reveals the past of the Aiel, I think he makes a comment about the Aiel and swords and it being the last remnant of the Jenn Aiel (might not have been Rand, wish I could remember the exact comment).  Taking that with Aviendahs visions and what we know of the Dragon's Peace.  It sure seems stripping of the belief of no swords yada yada will be somewhere in the future of the Aiel.  Or maybe it will lead them back to being the Jenn Aiel eventually.  So could be right about the giving up of the spears, but I think it has to be even more significant than that, it has to be something of the hold over from Jenn.

A letter that I think that almost any wheel of time fan would wish to be able to deliver to the members of Team Jordan or even the man himself.

Thank you Jason for putting together such an eloquent piece of writing that expresses yours and so many others respect and admiration of this series, the author himself, and the tireless work he and so many others have put in and gave up to bring to us one of the best (and I do not say this because this is dragonmount, but my favorite series of books bar none) stories ever told.

A friend of mine recommended this series to me not long before book 8 came out 2 years ago. I picked up gardens of the moon and never looked back.... well of course except to reread garden twice. This is an increible and complicated series. The one downside was mentioned above but not really truly pointed out. Any and virtually every character be they a general, slave, or farrier can and probably will wax poetic about something involving the human condition at sometime within these books, and when they do it will remind any WOT reader of RJ describing Elaynes dresses.

Its much like WOT in that it has alot of characters in the begining that are following a few storylines, and eventually branches out to many more characters and many more storylines. Erickson also does a great job in these books with bringing out different sides of people and of nations, sometimes you'll see one person or gorup as villans and two books later they're heros, and your prospective wont have changed much.

There is a warning to be had for the later books if you do not like...*strong* language as the fbomb and a few others are dropped several times in the last 5 books.

If you want a new epic sereis and you havent read book of the fallen, go get Gardens of the moon, it drops ya off right in the middle of the war, and it will take you literally half the book to catch up, but its a fun read to catch up with.

Please also note that even though the malazan book of the fallen has finished with book 10, there are companion books for this written by Ericksons friend and world co-creater Ian C. Esselmont. There will be 5 books in this part of the series and while its not a series itself, it fills in holes in book of the fallen. The first book called Night of Knives is about the night the Emporer and Dancer are assasintaed around 7 years before the opening of gardens of the moon. The second book is called Return of the Crimson Gaurd (you'll meet them in Gardens of the moon) and takes place aroud the time of book 7-8 of Fallen, on another continent. The 3rd book in this part of the series is due out in a month or so and its called Stonewielder.

Also Erickson will be putting out 2 more trillogys set in the malazan world, the story of Kharkanas (sp? sorry dont reember how its spelled off the top of my head) and how the Andi and Mother Dark fell apart. After that from what I've heard will the story of the Toblaki.

Excelent work, excelent books, excelent author... probably my third favorite author (behind R.A. salvatore and RJ, and since this is a WOT sight I refuse to answer in what order they come heh)