ImpBo Said: I actually thought it was very impressive, the ability to not only come up with so many names and physical descriptions, but quirks, bits of personal history and personality traits... but after a while it kind of becomes white noise I hate to say. Normally you assume that anyone who gets such exacting treatment is or will be important and try to file them away... but eventually they just all start spilling indiscriminantly out of your head.

I agree with alot of that...the scope, the ability to personalize multitudes...all amazing ability, but, somewhere along the way, many of them started to blend together to me...especially the Aes Sedai and Aiel Maidens. The White Cloaks too - but too a much lesser extent.

I'll be honest, I still mix up Bair, Amys, Sulin and Sorielia all the time and I have a hard time distinguishing many differences between Toviene, Danell, Tarna, Beonon, Samitsu etc etc...

Joline was a bit different just because she seemed to have a bit of a crush on Mat, imo...

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Aram certainly seemed to be a case of build-up leading to very little promise in a rather abrubpt ending to the character.

Also for me the COUNTLESS descriptions of random Aes Sedai that are really not characters in the overall story, was probably the very first thing ever that began to tire me a bit.

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