I don't. I didn't even know about WoT then.

I think you might have told me that before, but I couldn't remember.

@Csarmi - Were you one of the people interviewing RJ in Budapest? Or do you know any of those people?

Thanks yoniy0. We've had a few volunteers already, but of course we have many more interviews needing transcription than volunteers. I'll email you some time before Wednesday (we might get more volunteers in the meantime, so I'll have a better idea closer to then which ones still need transcription).

Indeed, that's not the right quote. :) (Being lazy is fun.)

I may have just put it on the Aes Sedai page then, and probably on the Tel'aran'rhiod page. (Again, I'm being lazy, sorry.) It's an RJ quote.

 

I can't wait until the new database is done; it should solve all of the remaining 'can't find it' problems, especially once we really go over and perfect the tags. (It will be a search engine, but you can also view full interviews, and there will be tags on each question/entry that work like the categories on the current database, but more specific, since making more categories doesn't inhibit the process in any way, unlike with the current format.) And speaking of that, I should get to work...

 

That's pretty awesome. Thanks for your (and whoever else is working on that project) hard work.

Matt aka Tamyrlin and his brother-in-law have been working on the design. (Which is awesome, despite a few kinks which we have been working out as we go along.) Marie Curie has taken over research for me the last year or so, digging up old RJ reports and even old Brandon reports and putting them on the Wiki (the only editing we do there). Ted aka WinespringBrother is helping with data entry, and hopefully a couple of others (including Marie) will jump in on that soon. That's what I'm doing right now; I'm entering everything from Twitter since that's the pain-in-the-ass stuff (because of all the links and short clips of text) and I want to get it over with. I'm almost caught up to March where I stopped keeping track. Can't wait to be done with that; entering signing reports will seem like a breeze after that. I'm also supervising the project to make sure everything is consistent, organized, and pretty. Also, I'm recruiting help on Theoryland because we have a bunch of untranscribed interviews from audio and video, both Brandon and RJ stuff, but no one has done anything yet.

Oaths can be removed by unswearing on any oath rod, I believe. They can even be removed (or sworn) by using an oath rod dreamt up in TAR.

 

What makes you think that?

Can't remember the exact reference or find the quote but it was clarified. I'm sure Luckers or Terez et al will dig it up.

No, because we are lazy. It's in my sig > reference library > interview database > one power

 

There is no such quote there. I got to that page and searched for 'oath'.

I may have just put it on the Aes Sedai page then, and probably on the Tel'aran'rhiod page. (Again, I'm being lazy, sorry.) It's an RJ quote.

I can't wait until the new database is done; it should solve all of the remaining 'can't find it' problems, especially once we really go over and perfect the tags. (It will be a search engine, but you can also view full interviews, and there will be tags on each question/entry that work like the categories on the current database, but more specific, since making more categories doesn't inhibit the process in any way, unlike with the current format.) And speaking of that, I should get to work...

Oaths can be removed by unswearing on any oath rod, I believe. They can even be removed (or sworn) by using an oath rod dreamt up in TAR.

 

What makes you think that?

Can't remember the exact reference or find the quote but it was clarified. I'm sure Luckers or Terez et al will dig it up.

No, because we are lazy. It's in my sig > reference library > interview database > one power

If she was Black, she wouldn't be likely to bring that little detail to anyone's attention voluntarily. Even Siuan was devious enough to keep that information to herself.

Anyone ever though that this particular prophesy:

* "How can I win the Last Battle and survive?"

* "The north and the east must be as one. The west and the south must be as one. The two must be as one. If you would live, you must die."

That the "To Live" might mean to live in the next turning of the wheel? meaning his next incarnation not this Age? Not "live through the last battle"?

His question was 'how do I win and survive the Last Battle'.

Hint: of those most known in the fandom for expertise...none edit the Wiki.

Brandon hinted that we might find out who stole it in AMOL:

Driving Mr. Sanderson 17 April 2011 - Terez reporting

 

Terez: Will the fat man turn up again?

Brandon: Um...I've always had an affection for that little fat man angreal.

Terez: (pause) That's a good answer.

this has been probably asked before.

can u channel both TP and OP simultaneously?

We don't know. I'm guessing probably not, since one fills oneself with either Power when using it. They probably wouldn't get along.

I thought Mazrim Taim's identity was really obvious, but everyone on this site seems convinced otherwise. I've read the books more than once, but sometimes I do a lot of my reading post ambien, so I'm wondering if I've missed something in the books or if it was just in an interview I never read. I thought he was one of the forsaken or Moridin (I haven't read them in a while, and I get kind of confused with the forsaken because I get a little bored with them, but whichever one was seen in the red and black room). Can someone please tell me what I'm missing?

 

Taim's identity is still a secret to us all, except that he is not Demandred, because RJ has said so multiple times (just straight out: Q: Has Demandred ever posed as Mazrim Taim? A: No.).

 

I can, of course, not be 100% sure he is a secret to us all. Maybe Terez has a theory about him?

Thanks! Who is this ubiquitously mentioned Terez? I'm pretty new to the online scene of WoT.

That would be me, for whatever it's worth. I believe that Taim is probably just Taim, but there are a number of people who think he's Moridin. I tend to think that's unlikely for several reasons, but I could be wrong. The main reason I think it unlikely is that Demandred was more or less acting as Nae'blis in LOC, which wouldn't make sense if Moridin had already returned. Of course, Moridin could have been incognito the whole time, but why would Moridin and Taim give different orders in WH? Another argument against it is that Moridin doesn't seem the type to do grunt work if he can make someone else do it, and running the Black Tower - building it from the ground up - was a lot of work. There are other arguments against it, but I believe there is a structured discussion thread on this if you're interested. (I'm not, really, since I believe Taim is probably Taim.) They don't like this thread to get too diverted on one topic. I tend to think that most of the Mazridin evidence is pretty weak (like the black and red thing, and the hand behind the back in TOM - jeez!), and the rest explained by the idea that Taim was trained by Ishamael before he declared himself the Dragon (the same evidence that originally inspired Taimandred).

Egwene, Alviarin and the BA hunters.

How could they NOT figure out that Alviarin is Black Ajah? Either her or Elaida should be and Egwene has Alviarin's letter as a clue (with lies).

 

Is that a plothole?

No, because they considered it based on that logic and tried to watch her.

Doesn't a Dream show the future?

They show possible futures. Dreams can be prevented. Prophecies and Min's viewings are absolute. (Though prophecies can be recorded wrong or misinterpreted, and Min sometimes misinterprets her viewings as well...but for Min, the words come with the viewing, so you have to go by what she says rather than what people think about it - like with Alivia, for example.)

An enormous sphere made of the finest crystal on a dark hilltop. It sparkles in the light of twenty-three enormous stars. There are cracks in it and it is help together by ropes. Rand walks up with a woodsman axe and chops the ropes. The sphere breaks apart, falling to pieces and Rand shakes his head.

 

Anyone have any idea of the "twenty-three enormous stars", in Egwene's dream of Rand breaking the seals? Aiel clans plus nations of the world? 11 Clans. 4 Borderlands. 5 under Rand; Arad Doman, Andor, Cairhein, Tear and Illian. 3 Seanchan control; Altara, Amadicia and Tarabon. Then Ghealdan. That's 24 total without counting Murandy if indeed it is under Demandred.

 

Thoughts?

 

The Aiel, probably. Someone said their council has 23 members.

Also, the crystal globe might be symbolic of the Aiel essence in the Rhuidean ter'angreal. The ropes holding the Aiel together represent ji'e'toh. Rand destroys the Aiel by taking away their way of earning honor (in battle).

Once upon a time there was speculation that Min's viewing abilities were related to the Aelfinn/Eelfinn, or even that she was part *Finn herself somehow. It's possible that was one source of an "Evil Min" theory.

Perhaps, but RJ debunked that for one, and for another, I don't see why that would be an indication that Min was a Darkfriend.

(you can find the archives in Google Groups)

Trust me, I know. I've spent a lot of time digging in those archives for signing reports and the like.

There are a lot of joke theories at Theoryland (though I've never heard of that one). Berelain=Moiraine, for example. Evil Min. And then there's Felix/Dida. You can never be sure if all his theories are a joke or if he really believes them.

I heard someone reference the Evil Min Theory somewhere & out of sheer morbid curiosity I spent hours searching for it both here & other places (including theoryland) but the closest I found was people saying things like "that's as crazy as the Evil Min Theory", never the actual theory. Do you happen to know the link to where this guy put it fourth & it was discussed?

It's before my time, so I'm not sure really. I don't pay much attention to loony theories in general. This one comes up a lot among the older members of the site, many of whom prefer lite WoT discussion. I found this from 1998, which is the year Theoryland was created, but I imagine someone posted a 'real' version of it, and it probably got eaten by the hamsters.

There are a lot of joke theories at Theoryland (though I've never heard of that one). Berelain=Moiraine, for example. Evil Min. And then there's Felix/Dida. You can never be sure if all his theories are a joke or if he really believes them.

Non-immediate relations are not given that much importance among the Andoran nobility. Galad has some Mantear relations, but there's no indication that they were in any way close.

Nynaeve's test was far less prophetic than Egwene's, I think.

The problem with that is that you're basing a theory on the assumption that Egwene's testing was a foreshadowing.

No, I'm not.

During Egwene's Accepted test, she had a dream ter'angreal nearby which caused a "resonance". Could it also have caused something else, i.e. make Egwene's visions from the testing more relevant plot-wise (as a foreshadowing)/ prophetic than Nynaeve's or Elayne's?

I don't know. Nynaeve did see Sharina and a threat to the TR in hers. Of Elayne's we know practically nothing.

 

Thanks! I've forgotten about Sharina - all I remembered from Nynaeve's visions were Aginor, "evil Wisdom" in Two Rivers and Lan, which seemed different from Egwene's experience. It seems the visions were combinations of foreshadowing and "fleshing out" the characters for the readers.

Nynaeve's test was far less prophetic than Egwene's, I think. But Brandon said it was significant that Nynaeve could remember how to channel and do so without burning out, so maybe there is something to her test as well. (I think it has to do with Nynaeve's strong will and ability to resist Compulsion.)

They are designed by someone else, but chosen mostly by Harriet. I think Brandon indicated he had more influence on chapter icons than on chapter titles (which are all Harriet).

Sorry, I'm not very familiar with ToG, which is that?

 

On a side note, why can Perrin wolf-telepathy Boundless when he is actually a Man?

I considered that he might be dead (I can't recall anything that contradicts it, though it might seem highly speculative to some to assume that Noam would go, or stay there when he died). But yeah, it could just be because he gave in to the wolf. Elyas never really did - not like that. Perhaps even less than Perrin. He just found a balance.

I think Perrin notes that Boundless is in a physical location outside TAR?

LIke I said, I don't remember. He did encounter him in the same region as he left him, that that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Sorry, I'm not very familiar with ToG, which is that?

 

On a side note, why can Perrin wolf-telepathy Boundless when he is actually a Man?

I considered that he might be dead (I can't recall anything that contradicts it, though it might seem highly speculative to some to assume that Noam would go, or stay there when he died). But yeah, it could just be because he gave in to the wolf. Elyas never really did - not like that. Perhaps even less than Perrin. He just found a balance.