She was already harsh, arbitrary, willing to bend or break laws, smugly certain of her own reasoning (particularly of her for-telling) and ambitious. Fain just added making her paranoid.

Dangerous pets are often muzzled. Except in the books people outside Shara and Seanchan have no concept of slavery at all - the closest they come is gai'shain and the information that after the Aiel war any Cairheinin trying to cross the waste are "sold as animals in Shara". The information from the Egwene point of view that she equates Rena's treatment as that of an owner for a dog is because it is how she thinks of it as a character who does not have any concept that one human can own another. This is not a problem for 21st century humans - as little as 160 years ago humans were still being openly and legally bought and sold and we have numerous fictional and documentary sources so that any reasonably educated adult is aware of this fact. We see such treatment an think of it as 1) ethically unacceptable and 2) how an owner treats a slave.

It took place out of any specific POV - Rand blacks out after making the new prison, Rand watches his own funeral from a new body.

The viewing was "she is going to help you die" - I think that requires a bit more than grabbing a horse, cash etc.

It is heavily implied that the transfer is achieved by the renegade damane for whom Min prophesies "she is going to help you die" not by Rand himself.

I think you are overlooking 2 things in these responses: The grey are also dedicated to law as well as negotiation - and most nations do have a reasonable code of law and respect for other nations laws (even if it is by tradition rather than written laws when implemented at the village level) and until the disturbances of the book era there is no widespread anarchy or banditry. As the main international body the grey are doing rather better than the UN at fostering international respect for law. The yellow are likely to be taking action in the event of any outbreak of communicable disease (hence having a spy network at all) - otherwise the 3000 years of history since the breaking ought to have several instances of widespread devastation from this and none are mentioned in the histories. While the disease theory of medicine appears to have been retained (e.g. the Emond's Filed plague house in the woods to isolate fever cases) this would really only help in rural communities. This just does not arise in the books. Also the relative size of each Ajah appears to be in line with the importance (red much the largest followed by green, white the smallest followed by blue).

In the book he "once wore the ring of Tamyrlin and sat in the High Seat" to be more exact. Presumably he stood down from that role (either according to some schedule as having to be the political leader for centuries would be irritating or to lead the armies in the war of power) so the only explicit change in the series is keeping the title the same instead of showing it had evolved over time to just "Amyrlin Seat".

Or more accurately that Logain in his madness sincerely believes them to be past dragons (but also believes that he knows better so he ignores their incitement to violent actions). In the books he earned the title "Telamon" (in the old toung literally "the Dragon") in the same way that other prominent figures earned a third, honorific, name for their acts (several of the Forsaken have these for example in their known original names). While there were other previous chosen ones they were not necessarily this soul nor were they necessarily known as the dragon. The Flashback scene in the show with the subtitles showing the reference to "dragon reborn" is either an error or a deliberate change.

The sea folk are a society with clearly defined gender roles - a woman cannot hold the cargomaster/swordmaster/master of blades role. While decisions such as where and how to sail belong to the sail mistress the decisions of equal importance on how to trade and how to fight belong to the cargomaster. They are matriarchal only to the extent that the position of the ships cargo master matches the consequence of the ships sailmistress (so if they are also e.g. the clan wavemistress he is clan swordmaster) but the same holds true for the position of the ships windfinder. Also man or woman (and regardless of the position of the parents) every sea folk starts at the bottom as a deckhand. What we know of their wider customs and marriage vows is of a society which has gender equality (but recognised difference). Far Madding is an example of an explicitly matriarchal (and misogynist) society.

Equally there appears to be near universal literacy in this world (which may be reasonable, certainly in the event of an apocalyptic event in our world the advantages to the survivors of their descendants being able to read and write would be sufficient that almost all parents would teach their children). The long term stabilising effect on language of widespread literacy is not something which has any historical precedent over such a timescale but the Roman Empire with most citizens being literate maintained a stable language for over 500 years.

Later on you see him from his own POV and he does clearly have a degree of madness in his thinking - but the nature of that (appeared to be megalomania with a bit of paranoia about not being sufficiently important or powerful) would have been suppressed or part of his depression while gentled in book 3.

More to the point the Myrddraal was already dead so the balefire only erased the ashes retrospectively. Had her attack been faster than the others it should have undone the deaths of the Aiel who had been stabbed by it seconds before. The re-direct could have been a rare weave that Lews Therin developed and that Rand used instinctively - later Asmodean explicitly states there are some weaves that only a few could master (he is referring to Rand blocking a gateway from closing, which Asmodean thought only Demandred had achieved). Be'lal was stated to be relatively weak in the power so perhaps not able to manage that particular weave.

I think Rand mused on how (relatively) short Erith was when meeting her in book 2.

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More likely she wants the efforts of the Red directed away from the group with her and thinks Mat is a slippery enough type to give them the run around for a while (and when they deal with him outside the hall of the tower give Suian more reasons to clamp down on them).

It may be the banner of the former nation of Almoth - blue for the sky, blue for the sea and the tree of life between them - still used by Falme.

I think it is more expressed that the degree of slowing in aging (compared to natural) is dependent on the strength developed in the one power. Nynaeve, who began early, looked around 10 years younger than her actual age at the start (and she had not been training so had not yet developed much of her potential strength). Later on when older novices are trained they do not regress in age (e.g. Sharina). The difference in unoathed lifespans tends to be cancelled out with the oaths since those who are stronger also tend to have shorter training periods and so take the oaths at a much younger age - the differences in training periods mentioned (as low as 6 or 7 years total even before the wonder girls for the likes of Elaida, Moiraine and Suan, compared to 20+ years as novice and again as accepted for a sister only just strong enough to be allowed to have tested) tend to cancel out what would have been a substantial difference in lifespan.

Laila is in the books - Perrin encounters her in book 4 as a young mother and specifically thinks about how he might have married her. Although she is an ordinary farmwife and not a blacksmith.

More to the point in the books Mat traveled with Thom for some months (and treated him as a trusted non-Aes Sedai source of information about the world) while in the show he only knew him for a few days. In the former the paranoid post-dagger Mat can reasonably trust Thom and ask for his company while in the latter there is less reason to.

That line of reasoning does not make sense to me in the world of WOT (show). Yes in our world (and hopefully mostly in the past now) gay people have entered into heterosexual marriages due to societal expectations but WOT (in the show) appears to be effectively clear of the type of social baggage that could lead to this. I could believe it in the two rivers of the books which does appear to have significant levels of prudery and effectively arranged marriage but the show shows open acceptance of personal choice (e.g. Rand's response to Dena in the tavern - to me he is surprised by her interpretation of their relationship but not offended or revolted by her suggestion he and Mat are a couple or surprised at the existence / her open acceptance of same sex relationships).

It is also one more aspect* of the loose interpretation put on "not use the one power as a weapon" oath - they use the one power to activate the oath rod when this will greatly shorten the life span of the one bound. By most legal definitions this would be using it as a weapon and the only reason they can do it is that they do not think of this as a "use as a weapon". If they are made to admit this is what shortens their life they should then be bound by their oath not to do it any more. *They also feel free to bind persons in air when anyone looking at a lasso, net or catch-pole used for such would clearly be aware these are weapons.