Wrap up everything? This is not some junior high school class where writers are taught that a story has a beginning, middle and an end. Jordan/Sanderson have risen far above that tired formula of foreshadowing, plot, climax and resolution. That's so passe.

Think of it this way, if Jordan was Michaelangelo, he would do about half the Chapel ceiling and then scribble some graffiti above a urinal in the Coliseum in a drunken stupor. Today's critics would declare him a genius for making such a bold anti-religious statement though he doesn't remember what that statement was.

Pick any page at RANDom in any book in the WOT. Well, any page that actually has a line of dialog on it. The one line will explain something, but will be stuffed between countless paragraphs of second thoughts or misconceptions. The authors apparently have some type of Turrets that keeps them from actually having a character take an action without delving into the regret, doubt, or unspoken passive aggressiveness that makes real life unbearable.

Unfortunately, it is all just a massive stall tactic that has become common in all forms of entertainment. TV shows have hour and a half specials that are just a one hour episode with more commercials thrown in . Or, they "develop" a character's emotions by having a conversation that adds nothing to the plot. Why? It is simply because they are giving us less product for the same investment. A series that would have taken 2 seasons to complete when I was a child, is now stretched out over 5 by creating endless subplots that lead to nowhere except a long break for the writers.

These "authors" are just bad at their craft. They are like a carpenter that builds a beautiful table with one leg sporting a hand carved angel on it. The table is useless but that one leg, boy, who else could have done it?

That was the long way home of saying no, they won't wrap up much of anything because they have lost control of the story and believe it is actually chic to leave loose ends. Apparently, many readers accept this just as we have accepted junk food as having nutritional value.

(I'm a little bitter about investing 2 decades into this series)