Trundling through my reread, and it occurred to me that characters shove knives up their sleeves about as often as we shove mobile phones into our pockets. The knives are arranged so they can be thrown at someone in a second. Then I started thinking about the mechanics of this, probably not something you should do too much of when reading WOT. Has anyone in the real world ever run around with knives in their sleeves? Do people do this? Is it plausible? How do you manage it without stabbing yourself? Or not being annoyed and impeded by having a bunch of heavy, metal things stuck to your arms? You're not sitting around watching TV, either. You have to ride, fight, run, etc. These aren't those mini Swiss Army knives that are little more than an inch long. They are plainly large enough to do serious damage. People carry many of them, and they stay put unless the wearer wants to throw them at someone. How? Special knife pockets? Do garment makers add these as a feature? You still have a bunch of heavy metal objects attached to your forearms. My sense of it is that RJ used knife-throwing in the way a writer of a thriller set in our era might utilize a firearm, but without thinking too much about the physics. If a character needs lethal force to defend themselves against a sudden attack, they can whip out a knife in the same manner a modern character would whip out a gun, and seemingly strike their foes with the degree of accuracy you would expect of James Bond. But what do I know. Not a lot about knife throwing.