WoT 7 - A Crown of Swords
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primeidealThis is the one main-series book I don't own after my dad's latest book sale run, so I had to wait for the e-book to come in because quarantine. But here we are!
This isn't actually as draggy as some of the future books will be, since most of the POV characters are people we know.
3. "Perrin hoped there would be none of that (war) today. Sometimes he dreamed of a world where there never was."
I know this is probably just using dream in the generic sense, but I wonder if this has to do with Tel'aran'rhiod and/or foreshadowing the "dream" worlds in Rand's showdown with the Dark One at the end.
7. Fedwin has a "bar" (can't use the Power at a distance), is this the equivalent of a "block"?
9. Siuan and Leane both appearing to be in their "prime childbearing years" after being stilled and healed. Siuan is 40ish and Leane is probably older in terms of real time. So there's discussion about agelessness/slowing and when RJ decided the Oath Rod was different from channelling per se. But the real question is, are Aes Sedai getting periods for 200 years?????
12. Egwene gets a bunch of fealty oaths too :/ In the interests of fairness, I don't like it for her any more than I do for Rand.
13. Stereotypes: Sea Folk believe Aiel women have to kill a man every day, and tie them down when they have sex; Aiel believe Sea Folk eat their dead
15. "foreigners are the first people who are blamed when things go wrong, followed by neighbors on the wrong side of grudges, women who sell herbs and cures, and people with no friends, especially who live alone." good take.
17. "Merilelle used to lecture us and dig for the answer she wanted." I've had professors like that.
21. Mat to Birgitte: "if this is about Olver" --suddenly remembers the horn
22. Elayne and Nynaeve make their promises to be nice to Mat, blah blah blah, see Egwene above.
24. Nynaeve learns that there's a reason that she's preternaturally young-looking and people back home never believe she's as old as she looks, and is so relieved she wants to cry. TBH I relate to Nynaeve at times. (I mean, sometimes contemplating mortality and the inevitability of aging is scary, but as far as appearance specifically goes, there are occasions where like Nynaeve I would like to be taken more seriously as an adult...)
34. There are mentions of Rand being the Coramoor to fulfill the Jendai prophecies of the Sea Folk, this comes up a couple times in "don't ignore the Sea Folk, please meet with them" but that thread doesn't really go there.
38. Nynaeve: "Sumeko knows so much about healing! maybe now they will leave me alone..." is a little more engaging at least this time around than the sense of "here are a bunch more people who are actually cooler than our protagonists." It also makes sense that the Kin would be more numerous than the Aes Sedai if their aging isn't capped.
-Cadsuane makes her debut here, not sure how annoying a source of power creep she will be
-Sanderson or someone has confirmed that the craziness that led to the bodyswap begins in the last chapter here, when Rand and Moridin (Ishamael) try to balefire the same thing and cross the streams. It's actually a very minor event here--Moridin isn't identified, he's just like "IDK I don't want Sammael to kill you right now it would mess up everything." Some people praise the fact that the Forsaken are so busy fighting each other that they accomplish almost as much as the good guys in the fight against evil (see also: Vissers One and Three from Animorphs), but for me it feels like a kind of lazy plot device.
Fic idea for this one is Lan, maybe parallels with Birgitte and/or Mat, Mat's off on his own as of the end of this one so I may need to read ahead/read one of the synopses to see when they meet back up to have a missing scene.
This isn't actually as draggy as some of the future books will be, since most of the POV characters are people we know.
3. "Perrin hoped there would be none of that (war) today. Sometimes he dreamed of a world where there never was."
I know this is probably just using dream in the generic sense, but I wonder if this has to do with Tel'aran'rhiod and/or foreshadowing the "dream" worlds in Rand's showdown with the Dark One at the end.
7. Fedwin has a "bar" (can't use the Power at a distance), is this the equivalent of a "block"?
9. Siuan and Leane both appearing to be in their "prime childbearing years" after being stilled and healed. Siuan is 40ish and Leane is probably older in terms of real time. So there's discussion about agelessness/slowing and when RJ decided the Oath Rod was different from channelling per se. But the real question is, are Aes Sedai getting periods for 200 years?????
12. Egwene gets a bunch of fealty oaths too :/ In the interests of fairness, I don't like it for her any more than I do for Rand.
13. Stereotypes: Sea Folk believe Aiel women have to kill a man every day, and tie them down when they have sex; Aiel believe Sea Folk eat their dead
15. "foreigners are the first people who are blamed when things go wrong, followed by neighbors on the wrong side of grudges, women who sell herbs and cures, and people with no friends, especially who live alone." good take.
17. "Merilelle used to lecture us and dig for the answer she wanted." I've had professors like that.
21. Mat to Birgitte: "if this is about Olver" --suddenly remembers the horn
22. Elayne and Nynaeve make their promises to be nice to Mat, blah blah blah, see Egwene above.
24. Nynaeve learns that there's a reason that she's preternaturally young-looking and people back home never believe she's as old as she looks, and is so relieved she wants to cry. TBH I relate to Nynaeve at times. (I mean, sometimes contemplating mortality and the inevitability of aging is scary, but as far as appearance specifically goes, there are occasions where like Nynaeve I would like to be taken more seriously as an adult...)
34. There are mentions of Rand being the Coramoor to fulfill the Jendai prophecies of the Sea Folk, this comes up a couple times in "don't ignore the Sea Folk, please meet with them" but that thread doesn't really go there.
38. Nynaeve: "Sumeko knows so much about healing! maybe now they will leave me alone..." is a little more engaging at least this time around than the sense of "here are a bunch more people who are actually cooler than our protagonists." It also makes sense that the Kin would be more numerous than the Aes Sedai if their aging isn't capped.
-Cadsuane makes her debut here, not sure how annoying a source of power creep she will be
-Sanderson or someone has confirmed that the craziness that led to the bodyswap begins in the last chapter here, when Rand and Moridin (Ishamael) try to balefire the same thing and cross the streams. It's actually a very minor event here--Moridin isn't identified, he's just like "IDK I don't want Sammael to kill you right now it would mess up everything." Some people praise the fact that the Forsaken are so busy fighting each other that they accomplish almost as much as the good guys in the fight against evil (see also: Vissers One and Three from Animorphs), but for me it feels like a kind of lazy plot device.
Fic idea for this one is Lan, maybe parallels with Birgitte and/or Mat, Mat's off on his own as of the end of this one so I may need to read ahead/read one of the synopses to see when they meet back up to have a missing scene.
