I know this is a very old thread but rereading both series (WoT for like the 7th time because of the TV series coming out and SoT just because I got into a rereading mood...) and found a glaring comparison:
From WoT (The Shadow Rising -September 15, 1992?
A wagon driver disturbed a small brown snake as they were making camp the fourth evening. A twostep, Aviendha called it later, and it proved its name. The fellow screamed and tried to run for the wagons despite seeing Moiraine hurrying toward him; he fell on his face at his second stride, dead before the Aes Sedai could dismount from her white mare.
And From SoT (Stone of Tears -June 11, 1995?
“And why didn’t he finish you?”
“Because I put a few ten-step arrows in him.” He pointed at his throat. “Here.”
“What’s a ten-step arrow?”
Savidlin reached to the side and pulled a barbed, fine-pointed arrow from his quiver. “One of these. See the dark stain? Poison. Ten-step poison. When it sticks you, you get only ten steps, and then you are dead.” He laughed. “My men decided to think of a different way to get those women to carry them.”
Similarities with WOT and Sword of Truth (SOT) Series
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I know this is a very old thread but rereading both series (WoT for like the 7th time because of the TV series coming out and SoT just because I got into a rereading mood...) and found a glaring comparison:
From WoT (The Shadow Rising -September 15, 1992?
A wagon driver disturbed a small brown snake as they were making camp the fourth evening. A twostep, Aviendha called it later, and it proved its name. The fellow screamed and tried to run for the wagons despite seeing Moiraine hurrying toward him; he fell on his face at his second stride, dead before the Aes Sedai could dismount from her white mare.
And From SoT (Stone of Tears -June 11, 1995?
“And why didn’t he finish you?”
“Because I put a few ten-step arrows in him.” He pointed at his throat. “Here.”
“What’s a ten-step arrow?”
Savidlin reached to the side and pulled a barbed, fine-pointed arrow from his quiver. “One of these. See the dark stain? Poison. Ten-step poison. When it sticks you, you get only ten steps, and then you are dead.” He laughed. “My men decided to think of a different way to get those women to carry them.”
Just sayin...