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Re: I agree that B-Sand seems to have inserted Graendal into the Slayer plot line in TOM DomA Send a noteboard - 23/09/2012 08:19:02 PM
I think it would have been a better story to introduce Hessalam in TOM after her escape caused the death of Aran'gar. I worry that this new twist will simply give no time to really develop and may be distracting to the rest of the book unless something along the lines of what you describe turns out to be the case.

I do think we'll see the last vestiges of Mesaana's WT plots ... Perhaps carried out by Hessalam or Moghedien. Hard to say if Mesaana had subverted Novices (I would actually like to see that), but at the very least there are still like 100 BA women floating around out there in need of a Boss ... Alviarin and her group will likely be little more than sacrificial lambs, but that is one loose end I can't imagine being left unresolved.


I get the feeling the BA will be undetrained in the OP and mostly useful because of all they know about the Westlands at the higher levels - good for hit-and-runs and targeted missions and so on. I expect Demandred's women will rather be full soldiers, trained WoS style. Aside from Shadowspawn, I frankly don't expect Demandred to have bothered much with non-channelers. Why would he? They hold down channelers for transportation, they need to eat and they can't be equipped with advanced weapons that would let them face channelers as it was the case in the WOS.

The Light has two big disadvantages over Demandred, and that's the fact most of their armies are "traditional" and mundane, and unlike the Shadow they have tons of cities and population to defend, all over the place.

To save Caemlyn, it would have taken a mixed gender force bigger than what Rand had at the Pendaloan manor, as many of those mass destruction weaves just couldn't be used in a city where you mustn't kill the population.... and that was mostly just Shadowspawn, I dread to imagine what it will be like when the Shadow puts its dreadlords on the field en masse.

Now pretty much all the Light can do for Caemlyn is send the channelers to raze it so the Shadow doesn't hold a city in the heart of the Westlands.





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AMOL Prologue : Analysis of Forsaken section *major spoilers* - 19/09/2012 05:47:21 PM 3081 Views
You left out that Taim and Demandred have met before. - 19/09/2012 06:19:01 PM 1330 Views
Part of me keeps screaming Logain, though that can't be right... - 20/09/2012 12:14:00 PM 1285 Views
I thought of Logain as well... - 20/09/2012 06:10:58 PM 1159 Views
We have our answer as to why Cyndane and Moiraine are reduced in power. - 20/09/2012 05:14:01 AM 1244 Views
It was spelled out before. - 20/09/2012 05:25:05 AM 1106 Views
And some of us guessed that's what happened, we just didn't have evidence. *NM* - 20/09/2012 12:04:18 PM 647 Views
Nor a lot of support for the idea... - 22/09/2012 06:28:14 PM 1083 Views
Really? Seemed like the obvious series of events - 23/09/2012 02:32:35 PM 1034 Views
I know... - 23/09/2012 05:30:42 PM 1076 Views
I'm not so sure - 24/09/2012 05:32:50 PM 1055 Views
Why question it? - 25/09/2012 01:40:39 AM 957 Views
Re: Why question it? - 25/09/2012 06:12:32 AM 911 Views
Six Chosen... - 20/09/2012 05:19:17 AM 1258 Views
It's fan fiction, but it's cannon fan fiction - 20/09/2012 06:55:18 AM 1223 Views
Demandred - the wasted Forsaken - 20/09/2012 08:14:15 PM 1132 Views
RJ's writing was bad. Sanderson's is far worse. *NM* - 21/09/2012 06:19:04 AM 651 Views
Re: Demandred - the wasted Forsaken - 22/09/2012 07:23:19 PM 1022 Views
Talmanes - 23/09/2012 12:42:27 AM 1432 Views
Re: Talmanes - 02/10/2012 03:27:05 PM 881 Views
Two interesting Forsaken issues you haven't raised - 22/09/2012 06:21:34 PM 1292 Views
Seems to me that Taim himself was behind going to Rand - 23/09/2012 02:53:32 AM 1022 Views
Re: Seems to me that Taim himself was behind going to Rand - 23/09/2012 05:50:48 PM 1027 Views
I think I rebel against this thought process because of the Taimandred Red Herring - 23/09/2012 06:35:19 PM 966 Views
Re: I think I rebel against this thought process because of the Taimandred Red Herring - 23/09/2012 07:46:59 PM 1208 Views
The first time we hear about Transmigration is in LOC - 23/09/2012 08:50:10 PM 1211 Views
Why was Ishamael reinstantiated as Nae'blis after his death? - 02/10/2012 10:17:03 PM 1035 Views
I have to wonder at Hessalam - 23/09/2012 01:20:13 PM 1222 Views
Re: I have to wonder at Hessalam - 23/09/2012 06:52:10 PM 1277 Views
I agree that B-Sand seems to have inserted Graendal into the Slayer plot line in TOM - 23/09/2012 07:17:15 PM 986 Views
Re: I agree that B-Sand seems to have inserted Graendal into the Slayer plot line in TOM - 23/09/2012 08:19:02 PM 992 Views
EDIT ... Demandred has only had about 9 months (according to wotchron) - 23/09/2012 09:13:44 PM 1108 Views
Re: I have to wonder at Hessalam - 24/09/2012 05:18:29 PM 1456 Views
I don't think she's old. Just really really really ugly! - 25/09/2012 03:22:56 AM 942 Views
Re: I don't think she's old. Just really really really ugly! - 25/09/2012 06:13:51 AM 991 Views
So based on this new info, what is Demandred's big game? Shara or Isle of Madmen back on the table? - 23/09/2012 08:01:03 PM 1037 Views
Re: So based on this new info, what is Demandred's big game? - 23/09/2012 08:52:48 PM 1162 Views
Interesting... - 23/09/2012 09:06:18 PM 983 Views
Re: Interesting... - 23/09/2012 11:31:31 PM 1184 Views
Just one comment.. - 23/09/2012 11:53:09 PM 1655 Views
If I had to take a guess right now I'd say he has been setting up various Shadow armies thought the - 23/09/2012 09:30:34 PM 980 Views
I think at the very least he has recreated the One-and-Eighty male channelers from the AOL... - 23/09/2012 09:34:56 PM 1079 Views
As I said he will almost certainly have Channelers - 23/09/2012 09:47:53 PM 1218 Views
All he needed to do was train 10 guys personally.. - 23/09/2012 09:51:46 PM 883 Views
It took Taim nearly a year to train a dozen men to a place where they could teach - 23/09/2012 10:00:40 PM 852 Views
The world is 25,000 miles by 25,000 miles in size... - 23/09/2012 10:15:22 PM 961 Views
That is just far fetched ... I think I would laugh out loud if that is the case - 23/09/2012 10:43:37 PM 952 Views
Direct quote from Demandred refutes this... - 23/09/2012 10:49:10 PM 928 Views
Demanded is much more like Mesaana in his ways - 23/09/2012 10:55:00 PM 954 Views
Re: Demanded is much more like Mesaana in his ways - 23/09/2012 11:36:54 PM 958 Views
Not really - 24/09/2012 12:31:48 AM 1016 Views
"My rule is secure." Could Demandred be ruling an entire Mirror World? - 23/09/2012 10:43:51 PM 1045 Views
I can certainly something like this happening - 23/09/2012 10:50:35 PM 849 Views
I'm not sure it's possible... - 24/09/2012 03:02:26 AM 987 Views
I think ... - 24/09/2012 05:36:38 PM 969 Views
The changes in Moghedien - 25/09/2012 03:29:15 AM 841 Views
I believe she commented on Graendal's strength, comparing it to Nynaeve or something? - 25/09/2012 11:07:24 PM 992 Views
Well.. - 25/09/2012 11:15:21 PM 859 Views
Thanks for the quote, but reading that, it kind of implies the opposite, to me... - 25/09/2012 11:35:53 PM 1168 Views
Hmmm.... - 26/09/2012 12:00:33 AM 914 Views
Hehe, that old argument again. - 26/09/2012 12:09:25 AM 809 Views
Yes. - 26/09/2012 12:58:03 AM 807 Views
I agree the Forsaken are all pretty close in effective Strength - 26/09/2012 04:11:16 AM 896 Views
Re: I agree the Forsaken are all pretty close in effective Strength - 26/09/2012 08:53:02 AM 859 Views
Well... - 26/09/2012 09:09:38 AM 824 Views
Re: Well... - 26/09/2012 10:17:03 AM 955 Views
Nice speculation. I like that type of calculation. - 26/09/2012 10:59:43 AM 883 Views
Re: Well... - 27/09/2012 03:12:06 AM 836 Views
Re: Well... - 27/09/2012 08:17:07 AM 827 Views
Re: I agree the Forsaken are all pretty close in effective Strength - 27/09/2012 03:00:04 AM 902 Views
Re: I agree the Forsaken are all pretty close in effective Strength - 27/09/2012 07:23:11 AM 868 Views
Actually...... - 26/09/2012 02:30:00 AM 962 Views
Agree with this.. - 26/09/2012 06:12:34 AM 778 Views
Not sure that's completely true.. - 26/09/2012 06:42:51 AM 838 Views
Re: Not sure that's completely true.. - 26/09/2012 03:02:41 PM 978 Views
This is what I've been saying for years! - 26/09/2012 05:48:01 PM 712 Views
Re: Not sure that's completely true.. - 27/09/2012 03:17:00 AM 856 Views
Probably something like this - 26/09/2012 08:36:40 AM 859 Views
Probably true, but maybe a hint from a Sanderson interview should be considered here... - 26/09/2012 08:56:32 AM 830 Views
Re: Probably true, but maybe a hint from a Sanderson interview should be considered here... - 26/09/2012 10:01:08 AM 778 Views
Graendal almost has to be Stronger than Nynaeve - 26/09/2012 05:57:35 PM 1022 Views
One thing about that... - 27/09/2012 02:58:56 AM 925 Views
Possible, but I find it unlikely - 27/09/2012 06:16:56 AM 820 Views
The reason I think that... - 27/09/2012 06:25:48 AM 859 Views
I always assumed Nynaeve at the top was a list he later revised as he decided to bring in - 27/09/2012 06:39:35 AM 931 Views
Of course that's the correct answer, yes. - 27/09/2012 08:12:45 AM 1002 Views
I wasn't making a Strength comparison ... I was commenting on her lack of cowardice - 26/09/2012 03:45:36 AM 900 Views
Re: I wasn't making a Strength comparison ... I was commenting on her lack of cowardice - 26/09/2012 05:30:36 PM 970 Views
That is the question I was getting at - 26/09/2012 06:00:03 PM 927 Views
Re: That is the question I was getting at - 26/09/2012 07:01:34 PM 951 Views

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