Do you need a hug?

Again, it is more than semantics. He isn’t Car’a’carn until the clan chiefs say so. I don’t care how pedantic this for y’all…I will die on this hill…at this point in the story, ain’t no Aiel saying “that’s my Car’a’carn right there” especially without the dragon tats. Of course, the show may change adapt things with the Aiel, because “the stone that never falls will fall to announce his coming”.

Then in the live scene, it looks this:

It every other scene it looks like this.

They turn out to be the same person, but it is more than semantics. Arriving from Rhuidean at dawn doesn’t make a person Car’a’carn. We will just have to disagree. It does seem like more adaptive changes are on the way in this regard. From an interview at https://decider.com/2023/10/07/wheel-of-time-showrunner-rafe-judkins-dragon-reborn/ “Well, we talked about Aviendha’s character in this moment. The important thing for her is seeing the proclamation of Rand and what he is and what that drives for her into the next season,” Judkins said. Does this mean they wrote this way to set-up character development?

Actually, as far as I can tell, the heron is only on the hilt for one scene. It’s as if someone asked “how does Turak know there is a heron on Rand’s sword? That line doesn’t work.” So the solution was to glue one on the hilt or vfx?

Car’a’carn? They declared him Chief of Chiefs right there in the Stone did they? No they did not. It’s more than semantics, they were looking for and believed him to be He Who Come With the Dawn. We will have to WAFO to see if they change the Rhuidean Prophecies in the show. Maybe HWCWtD isn’t a thing and prophecy says you will know the Car’a’carn when you see the fire dragon atop a rower . That would make sense.

Fair enough. How do you feel about her individual belief that he is car’a’carn. To me, it doesn’t make “book-sense”. I don’t see how she, or any Aiel, would straight-up believe that at this point. However, this is the show and maybe they are foreshadowing? Maybe she is a dreamwalker and has already seen him and recognizes him.

How you do you feel about Aviendha naming him car’a’carn at the end of season 2?

Don’t bet on it.

Am I wrong in hoping for less Moiraine going forward? If so, why?

My book-loving self cringed hard at this.

To show that she is BA?

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I don’t really care about the tattoos. Why bother creating a “language of tattoos” for the Tairen culture? That is not adaptation. That is creation.