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Terez

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  1. For the record, I made those tweets before I saw the notes. Not saying there was anything in the notes about it. :wink:

     

    The way I see it, if Slayer was in the flesh as Isam when the Horn was blown (in TGH), then there should be no conflict. Luc's soul has to be dead and in Tel'aran'rhiod for the theory to have any purpose (i.e. for it to explain Slayer's powers). If he was in the flesh as Luc, I imagine he'd disappear.

  2. Well, RJ always did say that he hated stories that wrapped everything up neatly at the end. I realize most readers aren't familiar with the things he said in interviews and on book tours, but he said that stories like that made it seem as though the world and the characters might as well be on the shelf under a bell jar collecting dust. He didn't want to read the story again, because the characters were no longer living, their lives having been summed up too neatly. It was one of his most repeated lines over the years, and he always talked about how the last scene would have a hook in it, to make readers think there would be a sequel (and for most of those years, he said definitively that there wouldn't be; it wasn't until he got ill that he started talking about outriggers).

  3. Well, the going impression is that the last scene with Rand was intended by RJ to actually be the last scene in the book. But what's interesting is that when Brandon was actually working on the book, he implied that the epilogue material was intended to be 'after the last scene'. I'm not sure if this was a misunderstanding on his part (which was cleared up by Harriet) or whether they decided to make that the last scene just because RJ always said it would be the last scene, and they didn't want to get into a semantics battle with the fans. And no telling whether RJ would have been quite so short with the epilogue stuff if he'd finished it.

     

    http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=46#38

     

    Austin Moore (23 September 2011)

    You recently said you were just over 60% finished with A Memory of Light; how much % will RJ's ending take up when you put it in?

    Brandon Sanderson (23 September 2011)

    I'm guessing about 10%.
    Austin Moore
    Is it gonna get slid right in or are you going to adjust it some to fit into how you're leading up to it?
    Brandon Sanderson
    The ending scene will work fine, no changes. I've targeted things that way, as I didn't want the ending scene to change.
    Brandon Sanderson
    However, he left a TON of 'after the end scene' type stuff that is probably epilogue material. That I'll need to modify.
  4. To an extent, yes. I tend to think that the implications of the future would have been stronger and more interesting if RJ had actually managed to finish it. Delivery is not something you can summarize. Even the scenes he actually wrote were in draft form, and those that were dictated needed even more modification. I think we got the bare bones of RJ's story, and a little more. I'm thankful to Brandon for bringing it to us, but it's difficult to judge RJ on a story that is inevitably quite different from what he imagined.

  5. It's not explicitly stated in the books; it's just assumed because she'll have a much shorter natural life-span than the channelers, and Brandon implied that Rand would still live centuries. He doesn't know that for sure—RJ didn't leave too much info on the fourth age in the notes—but apparently he thinks there is no reason to assume Rand will not live centuries.

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    I distinctly remember an interview which said this turning of the wheel was unique, that Padan Fain was unique

    You are misremembering and piecing two different quotes together. In fact RJ said that there was nothing unique about this turning. His thoughts on the matter mirrored Herid Fel's almost to a t. As for Fain he called him a wildcard, but there very well may have been others in the past.

     

    I apologize if this was addressed, but my computer is lagging to hell and back and so I just CTRL-F'd 'suttree' to see if you were quoted. You're right on the first point. On the second, he did say Fain was something unique to this Age, in the sense that each Third Age follows roughly the same pattern. The smaller details are different, and Mordeth/Fain is one of those details. But people read a lot (too much) into that, thinking that RJ was hinting that Fain, being unique to this Age, was therefore destined to help Rand break the Wheel. But RJ didn't even really imply that; I think he just wanted to establish that the evil of Shadar Logoth is not one of the repeating 'big players' of the Grand Cosmic Showdown.

  7. RJ always referred people to the BWB for the rules:

     

    In most cases, either a man or a woman can control the link - this is called leading, focusing, or guiding - but in the case of a circle of seventy-two, a circle of only one man and one woman, or in most circles of up to thirteen which contain more than one man, a man must lead. Excepting the examples given above, and other circles of thirteen or less, a woman must lead where the minimum number of men are present.
  8. Not new at all, that's how all the Fades and Trollocs got to the Two Rivers in Perrin's glory days. Perrin got Loial to lock the Waygate remember? Which would have worked out if not for Slayer.

     

    Edited to add: Also when Graendal attacked Perrin and Galad, they were using a Portal Stone then to Port the Trollocs in. As RJ (or was it BS?) said, foreshadowing goes back as well as forth.

     

    No, I meant new as in pre our story. Them using waygates and portal stones started when Fain came with the trollocs. Before that, I got the impression they really didn't use it, so I suppose the Fade walked cross country with his pony (why would he do that when he could just shadowtravel)

     

    Why would you assume they weren't shadowtraveling?

  9. I think there are battle scenes where Fades were killed and their horses survived them in full physical form.

    I'd love to see that quote, if you can.

     

    I'll try :smile: But if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. And it would be easier if you can refute my presumption if you're certain that the horses are not real.

     

    There's one here:

     

    Hurriedly, Rand searched for more targets, but he realized that Lews Therin had stopped channeling. He could still feel the goose bumps that told him Cadsuane and Alivia held the Power, still feel saidin in Logain. but the other man was weaving no more webs either. Outside, the ground lay carpeted with bodies and parts of bodies from the fields almost to the manor house walls. Within paces of them. A few horses belonging to Myrddraal still stood, one holding up a foreleg as if it were broken. A headless Myrddraal staggered about, flailing wildly with its sword, and here and there a Trolloc jerked or tried to lift itself and failed, but nothing else moved.

     

    PS—This passage just makes me laugh, especially the foreleg.

  10. If there was no violence in AOL, pre-bore, then what were the Daishan known for? I mean, what made the Way of the Leaf so special in a world with little or no violence?

     

    Part of the Way was giving; Aiel had traditions of sharing everything they had with those who needed it, and they were mostly known for (in that philosophy) serving the Servants. In a time when Aes Sedai truly were the most prominent Servants of All, that was an important role for the Aiel; the Aes Sedai and the Aiel were the glue that held the utopian society together. We don't know the details of the First Covenant, but I'm betting it was a lot more than simple non-violence. Also, RJ said that crime and violence were not unheard of before the drilling of the Bore, but war was unheard of, except among historians.

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