If you look at her behavior and thoughts in this book, it's obvious what she wants - to control everything and everyone. She has become a manipulative version of Darth Rand, who only cares about obedience, shows little or no respect to anyone around her, and who is convinced that she has the right to impose her will on everyone because she believes she knows everything. The contrast between her "leadership" style and Rand's in this book is glaring; Rand has become a true leader, showing the utmost respect to those following him, listening to them when they have advice to offer, but remaining firm about things he knows are correct. On the other hand, we have Egwene, who forces her friends to use her title even in private, constantly goes on about how she knows best, plots against those who pose a threat, and wants absolute obedience from everyone.
Hehehe, she could learn from Rand, and she will

Egwene has, in effect, become the very thing Nynaeve warned her about after the testing. She has set herself so far above and apart from everyone that she sees everyone as pawns in her own personal game of power. What Nynaeve told her was right, but she didn't hear it and refuses to acknowledge it because behaving that way serves her purpose of making the WT the ruling organization of the world (and her the tyrant, ruling all), that no one dare disobey.
Does she realise how her nature has changed?
There was a reason the Hall could convene without the Amyrlin - if she becomes a tyrant (which she is well on her way to being), they could deliberate about it and try to limit her power. What she did, in effect, was to ensure that no one can move against her - ever - no matter how bad she gets because she can be there to bully them into backing off. There have to be checks on her power, yet she is removing them all. That is a huge problem, as is the fact that she seems to be turning into another Emporer Palpatine. I don't like the Seanchan, and likely never will, but Tuon, at least, has someone at her side who will slap her ass down if she gets out of control. Egwene has nothing of the sort. There is no one to stop her, and she has never been one to question whether she has the right to do what she wants; she just does as she pleases and justifies it in her mind, no matter how deluded she ends up sounding (like her claim that Rand "wants" her to stop him when we see, from his POV, that he wants nothing of the sort and will break the seals no matter what she says).
Um, the other poster said something nice about the effects of this law. I am still in two minds about this. Undue importance and self-delusion have been Egwene's hallmarks since TEotW. Egwene has met the Aiel, the Aes Sedai, and the Tinkers. And still, she behaves the way she does. . As does the ass slapping, birching is long due for this Amrylin, eh?

Isn't everyone in WoT re-born?
"She knew Egwene wanted Cairhien..."
05/11/2010 03:22:29 AM
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Do you have a reference that we can look at?
05/11/2010 03:24:39 AM
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Re: "She knew Egwene wanted Cairhien..."
05/11/2010 03:49:16 AM
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Re: "She knew Egwene wanted Cairhien..."
05/11/2010 01:42:54 PM
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Not if it allows the Seanchan freedom to conquer Randland. I'd rather have Egwene over the slavers.
07/11/2010 07:32:20 PM
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We all know Egwene is going to save the day while getting everything she wants and more
05/11/2010 04:14:55 AM
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Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father
05/11/2010 04:25:43 AM
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Re: Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father
05/11/2010 01:53:17 PM
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Re: Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father
05/11/2010 02:00:37 PM
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why?
05/11/2010 03:10:39 PM
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Re: why?
05/11/2010 04:23:16 PM
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That didn't sound like madman's ramblings at all....
05/11/2010 05:00:59 PM
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Hail Amrlyin Palpategwene
06/11/2010 02:05:09 AM
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They're the ones who raised her this way! That's the last thing she needs.
06/11/2010 03:38:17 PM
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Um, can we assume her parents raised her that way?
08/11/2010 04:57:05 AM
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She's a short, female, youngest child of influential parents. Arrogance would come naturally to her.
09/11/2010 02:08:29 AM
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Huh
09/11/2010 07:56:15 AM
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Wow. What the fuck did your parents do to you? *NM*
09/11/2010 03:35:07 PM
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09/11/2010 06:14:30 PM
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I try to avoid projecting myself onto fictional characters. Or real people.
09/11/2010 06:45:14 PM
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Why don't you compare her to a summer's day while you're at it?
*NM*
09/11/2010 07:45:20 PM
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well...
09/11/2010 08:18:08 PM
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I'm teasing you because you lay it on a little thick sometimes
*NM*
10/11/2010 01:10:39 AM
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So?
05/11/2010 09:53:22 AM
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i agree. and this is part of the reason why i don't understand why people have a hard time w/ egwene
05/11/2010 03:56:48 PM
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Because many of us don't see trying to achieve power for its own sake to be a good thing
05/11/2010 06:53:27 PM
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She didn't say that. You changed the wording and read it without context.
05/11/2010 03:29:27 PM
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So?
05/11/2010 04:04:54 PM
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The engima that is Egwene
06/11/2010 01:41:43 AM
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I wonder if...
06/11/2010 05:17:45 AM
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You might have paid more attention than me when reading
06/11/2010 06:50:46 AM
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The reason rand didn't tell Egwene about why he needs to break the seals is simple
22/06/2011 10:49:25 PM
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That's the problem with Elayne that has emerged.
06/11/2010 03:31:41 PM
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Or, you know, she's being cleverer than you give her credit for...
06/11/2010 04:45:10 PM
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This is the problem with rulers - what is smart for them equals increasing their power. Which is bad
06/11/2010 08:40:19 PM
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The Andoran houses should ask one question of Elayne - and remove her if she answers wrongly
08/11/2010 02:03:08 AM
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Maybe it's typo
08/11/2010 06:38:26 PM
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I was proven to be right - it's typo since it was corrected in the Ebook version
02/06/2011 11:59:02 PM
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