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There are a lot of inexplicable notes like this. Terez Send a noteboard - 14/11/2015 06:33:11 AM

View original postI can't imagine why the two things of which Nynaeve is cited as being ignorant would ever apply to her. Nobody, aside from themselves and their superiors, knew that Balthamel & Aginor were resurrected, and I can't imagine why it would need to be specified that Nynaeve doesn't know. Nobody but Moiraine & the Shadow knew about Asmodean, so, again, I don't see why there was a need to specify that Nynaeve didn't know. I could see needing to specify that Rand doesn't know about Moghedian, since he saw her in a collar with Nynaeve and used the term "Chosen" with what seemed to be deliberation, and Nynaeve noted a reaction from Moghedian. At the time, I thought that was sure to come up in LoC.

Also, the bit about thinking Moghedian was still a prisoner. Nynaeve learned about her escape the same night it happened, so that's a minuscule window for which that datum is relevant.

It seems to me like a whole lot of stuff changed from his mentality when writing the cards to what went into the books.


Sometimes I get the impression, reading these notes, that RJ wrote them half as an attempt to stay organized and half as a way to brainstorm plot points. He wrote them for himself and edited them haphazardly. In this case, he might have been laying out a bunch of things Nynaeve didn't know about in order to come up with something she could discover as a plot point in ACOS, but he did similar lists with a number of characters.

This is part of what makes the notes frustrating. In some ways, they're goldmines of curious nuggets that shed a lot of light on RJ's writing process with bits of plot and worldbuilding that never made it into the books, some of which are clearly post-canon, others of which are not. Alan and Maria apparently had a very difficult time sorting out which were which, and this led to several continuity questions when they had to decide whether or not to include something in the Companion.

But overall, the notes are a jumbled mess of information that, for the most part, has already been revealed in the books. Brandon posted about this a bit on Reddit (see link below).


Those notes are NOT easy to parse. The big problem is that they involve a lot of repeated information, most of it well known by now, so finding the tidbits like this is exceptionally difficult.

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