Birgitte and Min (just to show my hatred of Elayne, Egwene, Nynaeve (due to her early abysmal characteristics outweighing her later better ones) and Fail (spelt deliberately wrong)) is based on their personalities rather than their gender.

Thom, Tam Al'Thor (who is the coolest father ever IMO and who I like to model myself on inasmuch it is possible, with my 2 children.

Gawyn was a Tower trainee. He had some sort of obligation to the Tower as an institution. We are not told the exact nature of the trainees obligation to the Tower, but it almost certainly involved legal duties of some sort, formalized with an oath.

 

The President of the United States is impeached for high crimes, and removed from office by the Congress, which has the legal authority to do so. Certain senior military officers like the current President better than the alternative, and so conspire to unlawfully return the impeached President to power. A West Point cadet discovers this conspiracy and has the ability to stop it. You're claiming he should not do so?

 

Christ, I can't believe you're making me defend Gawyn.

I don't agree with the way you're viewing this. Gawyn wasn't a West Point trainee, if anything he was similar to a British (for example as I'm British) soldier who had been sent to West Point as part of a joint training exercise (it's not identical to this I know). When the President is deposed what right does the British soldier have to get involved in the internal politics of another sovereign country without direct orders from his own high command. Since he didn't receive orders from either Morgase (his queen), Elayne (Morgase's representative) or the Captain General of the Andoran Army (whoever it was who replaced Gareth Bryne) he should not have got involved despite having the ability to do so. You can imagine the political ramifications if a British soldier took it on his head to act in the way Gawyn did, while serving alongside US troops in the US.

Thanks Suttree and Manderson

When was Verin captured and turned to the Black Ajah? Was it before TEOTW or sometime during the series of books?

When you work with women who remind you of Aes Sedai you'd like to still and then banish.

When you wish you could use compulsion on your boss to get a pay rise.

When you plan to make sure your daughter grows up nothing like Egwene, Elayne or Avienda but like Min.

When you plan to make sure your son grows up like Mat or Perrin.