1. She has never murdered anyone.

The most inept magical training program in fantasy is where you had to go to make Egwene look good?


Accidents of geography for most of them, and the others are an inept, deposed politician and a trio of savage harridans who are presiding over the dissolution and destruction of the people and culture they hold the responsibility for preserving.


Yes, there's a great mentor. Moiraine's version of planning is basically, flip a coin to decide between "run away" or "hide." Not to mention, despite her continued choice of the Tower over people who she is supposed to be loyal to, she still violates Tower principles and standards more than Nynaeve who dislikes the Tower and is only doing her part to earn their rather superfluous training.



Well, I'd have to go along with the guy who knows her best and trusts her least.


She has honed her talents and done nothing with them, while the others are too busy doing real deeds that benefit a lot more of the world than a clique of wealthy and powerful women, to waste time fine tuning their tools.


She discovered nothing that had not been already discovered by others, or without the aid that was provided to her by her superior friends.




She has NEVER been hunted by the Forsaken, and seldom harmed, except because of her peripheral connection to people who were a serious threat to them. Nynaeve and Rand are threats to the Forsaken. Egwene is swatted in passing because she was talking with or is mistaken for an associate of Rand or Nynaeve. They discuss her in their meetings because her course of action as a leader is vital to the plans of the Shadow. Without Egwene, they would not be able to achieve their own plans! Her capture is a major blow the Shadow's cause, and they only back off plans to rescue her when they find out her new plan helps them just as well. WELL DONE, EGWENE!


Look up the word "mortally" sometime. Since she did not die, and received no extraordinary medical attention, she was not mortally wounded by any stretch of the imagination. There is no proof that saving her friends was her motivation, and there is just as much evidence for her arrogance and foolhardiness as for any altruism on her part. She once again proves herself to be useless soldier, because she can't follow orders or do the smart thing in a fight.



She had her dream telling her that she would bond him - she did not run any risks with Gawyn. Even if he got really annoyed at her, she knew she'd have plenty of access to him to get back on his good side, and she had already had proof of his feelings before she had to lay anything on the line. And she promptly made up her mind to betray his trust. If she had NOT defended Rand that would have been one more wrong and evil thing for her. Aran'gar felt capable of slaughtering the entire rebellion, but she refrained. I guess that since she refrained from an even greater evil than Egwene did with Gawyn, that makes Aran'gar an even greater hero?



She knew her ass would be grass for an Aes Sedai lawn mower if she did fight back, she allowed Moghedian not only to live, but to escape and do mor evil, and it was Nynaeve's choice not to kill Renna, because Egwene was an incompetant wreck at that point. Even if we stipulate that she spared Renna, how about her decision to throw fireballs at some anonymous Seanchan while leaving, when she lacked the guts to kill the one who actually did something to her that would mitigate her killing in some small way?