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"red is dead" okay that's a little on-point!

Yesss callback to the Old Tongue lines :D

Mat's mom is the Wisdom in the second arch, oh no

That is certainly a...bold artistic choice. (Not showing the third arch.)

"You'll never be allowed to return." Okay well. Interested to see where this goes, I guess. :/ Bearing in mind that they fakeout-killed her in 1.1.

Oh and this sets up a Nynaeve/Lan reunion, niiiiiice. (I would be impressed if this was all a fakeout and we were still in the third arch.)

"I could come with you, if you'll have me" okay yeah, this is not Lan, we're still in...

Yes! Okay I'm not that bright but I'm proud of myself for calling it when the plot deviates from book canon.

I like that we're doing the "cut to credits" move...20 minutes into a 69 minute episode. more of an aesthetic choice at this point.

"Stolen land" This is...a take.

I definitely like the pyramid-palanquin aesthetic, I don't remember this from the books but it's a cool piece of worldbuilding/swag.

"Avert your eyes." "But I only have one, ma'am."

Ingtar: our pride is not worth more than our lives. Is this an accurate summation of his character or is he just like "whatever, I've got a lot bigger problems than this empire, I don't really care if I say some things I don't mean"?

Same question for Perrin, why is he the one to defy rather than being like "meh, whatever"? (I mean, it's because he's ta'veren, but still.)

Okay now here is a gleeman with a real gleeman's cloak, missed that with Thom.

There's a queen in Cairhien right now and they have their own version of the hunt, not just the one in Illian? (The books have a king at this point, he's not much of a king, so maybe this is going somewhere intriguing.)

"I don't even know you, I don't want you here" Pretty relatable from Egwene at this point :(

"A sister died today" What is this. She can't possibly mean to let him go to Egwene and compare notes?

"You are an insidious coward who mistakes his moral failure for cunning and wit" Okay this line is going to go viral, lol.

"The girl who knew her place, who knew the dangers of overstepping" Egwene is the smart one for sure, but I would not agree with this assessment of her.

This rococo ballroom is a very Cairhien aesthetic, nice

"You can't just kick people out of their homes" is this a commentary on the Seanchan situation?

Fireworks! Okay the Illuminators Guild better be here.

Okay and now Ishamael is just...creeping on Perrin while he's been captured by Seanchan? This escalated quickly.

"The more wolf you are, the more you're mine" this is probably not true "I'll be watching your progress with great interest" now we're officially in prequel memes territory. What happened here. Like, I like the Shienarans, but this plotline needs a little more...fleshing out.

Okay Elyas is here. Good, give us some exposition.

Ohhh Min is being Liandrin's lackey here. This...actually makes more sense than her being trapped in Tar Valon for five months, tbh. Like I was thinking between episodes, for someone who distrusts Aes Sedai and doesn't want to give them power over her, why would you get a job in Tar Valon??? Anywhere else is better.

Selene is in "crazy jealous girlfriend mode" now, note that.

Egwene what the bleep are you doing. Just because you went OP saving Nynaeve in 1.8 does not mean this is going to work. How did you even get down there.

Oh and here comes Elayne to say the logical thing, thank you Elayne.

Elayne: "didn't we have a Nynaeve fakeout death in 1.1? I watched the first season."

Oh noooooo what if it's been years in Arch time. That's even worse than book canon tbh. :/

Egwene is mentioned as having chosen Green in this AU.

Oh and now it's the role reversal with baby!Elnore D: