Ok so I just have to say it...the way Grendal survived....that was really just incredibly cheap. I mean come on....and leaving that as a mystery for one book. Not cool. What did everyone else think about this? I mean I can see the crowd that thinks she killed asmodean going crazy but man that was just not a cool way to have that set up..

Did anyone predict in an official theory who messana was hiding as in the white tower? I loved that whole set up, but it seemed somewhat like we hadn't seen her before but the name was familiar..

Also not to any budding authors it is better to jump quickly from one scene to another when you are having important things happening at the same time as opposed to going back and forth in time.

Having perrins story start so seemingly out of touch with the rest...I mean it looks like it takes half of this book for him to catch up with rand in the end of the last one..assuming as I suppose we are supposed to that when he sees Rand go all glowy in the wolf dream was when we see him scream and become all buddha like (which I still say is very cool) at the end of the last book.

Finally...does anyone have a quote from the books where we hear the whole his blood on the rocks of shyl gual stuff...? I am beginning to wonder if we might all not have misinterpreted that massively. The whole importance that seems to be placed on Padin Fain using the dagger to cut himself and make himself bleed...from what I remember it never says in the prophecy that is was the dragons blood. Does anyone have an exact quote from the books where they are direcetly quoting the prophecy? Thanks!