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My top 5 are all different from your list... - Edit 3

Before modification by Shannow at 21/11/2011 08:54:36 PM


Add your own if you have any...

- Semirhage appears as a living flame
- Mesaana appears in TAR as a vision of terror and majesty
- Graendal shields Aran'gar and escapes Rand
- Semirhage declares her identity to Rand and Cadsuane
- Moghedien balefires Nynaeve's boat
- Lanfear at the Docks
- Aginor gives his speech to Rand at the end of book 1
- Ishamael fights Rand who wields Callandor
- Moghedien tames the Black Ajah
- Asmodean fights Rand with the Choedan Kal
- Sammael torments Carridin


I enjoyed a different Forsaken experience. None of my top 5 moments are on your list. In no particular order, my top 5 are:

1. Rahvin lounging in his shirtsleeves, exuding Forsaken power, confidence and sheer "aura" like some lion or tiger languidly eying its domain. In that scene he toys with an Aes Sedai, and demonstrates a casual belief in his own power that truly set the scene for how I perceived the Forsaken from Book 5 onwards.

2. Demandred at the Pit of Doom. Enough said. The single most powerful Forsaken scene in the books.

3. Demandred's unconscious aura of superiority in the scene where he conveys the Lord of Chaos message to Semirhage and Mesaana. The bit where he cuts Mesaana off in mid sentence, telling her to wait until everyone was there, so that he wouldn't have to repeat himself brilliantly depicted his utter belief in his own supremacy. He considers himself so important that he feels it an imposition for anyone to expect that he should have to repeat himself.

4. Dashiva asking Rand if he wants him to "clear out the women". That's when Rand is abed in CoS, and the Aes Sedai are making themselves unwelcome pests as usual.

5. Asmodean's reaction when Rand recalled the day Sammael was named the Destroyer of Hope, "When he betrayed the Gates of Hevan, and led the Shadow into the Rorn Mdoi and the Heart of Satelle. Hope did seem to die that day. Culan Cuhan wept."

Asmodean's reaction to that had a very powerful impact on me.

As can be seen, I prefer Forsaken scenes that conveyed a sense of their psychological hierarchy towards one another, or somehow juxtaposed them to the insignificant gnats from the Third Age (like Dashiva casually offering to clear out the Aes Sedai with some powerful and very painful weave, as if they are simply nuisances to be swatted aside, or else scenes that somehow gave us some insight into their abilities, attitudes or stature.

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