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[chapters-and-chatter]

Wheel of Time text posts w/ full book spoilers

I’ve been hoarding text posts in a pinterest board for months. Time to release them into the world

All art credit to the original artists!

[unremarkable-gods]

i don’t know if anyones ever considered this (they probably have these books are older than me i’m reading my dad’s copies) but i’ve been wondering about galad being raised an aeil warrior bc tigraine went “i’ll leave my husband happily but my son is coming the fuck with me”.

because as far as we know, the only constraints were that she couldn’t tell anyone where she going and couldn’t return to andor, so if she just. never told galad where they were going and just took him with her. technically, it would be within the bounds of gitara’s fortelling.

galad as we know him would take to be being raised to follow ji’e’toh like a fish to water. one of the main things elayne has to say about him is that his honour and drive to do the right thing is almost always at the forefront of his mind, even at the expense of himself and others. it would genuinely be perfect for him. he may not have the look of the aiel but he would certainly have the conviction of one.

plus, being able to see him and rand develop a real brotherly relationship while they are both with the aiel would make his fight against demandred in tarmon gai’don — He is not here, but his brother is! — even more compelling. the siblings he didn’t grow up with need him, and he will be loyal to them to the end because not only is that how he was raised but, aeil or damodred or trakand, that is simply who he is.

furthermore a galad who didn’t have to suffer through taringail for longer than he absolutely had to would probably have a healthier childhood. janduin would have been able to have a pseudo/second?-son he would have adored. (though i doubt tigraine would have been able to directly raise galad after becoming a maiden, she would have still been in his life. he wasn’t born when she was a maiden so there would probably be some arguing but a compromise could be made i think)

post-rhuidean reveal galad would have jumped at the idea of a free first-brother and two free second-siblings. and maybe a even near-brother in mat, who would be a little freaked out but honestly has bigger problems at the minute so kind of just goes with it. galad and aviendha would have been bickering about the best ways to teach rand about aiel culture and poor rand would just be stuck in the middle of it. galad having a little sulk about the winespring brother’s shelter and not being able to go be with his baby first-brother.

i think i quite possibly need to write this now.

[parasitoidism]

being a fan of something with like 30 total fans on tumblr is funny bc you get like 12 notes on a post and you're like wow the gang's all here

[wibblyrlin]

SOPHIE OKONEDO as SIUAN SANCHE The Wheel of Time (2021-2025)

[faircastle]

Tel'aran'rhiod (S03E05) THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021—)

[neongreentoxicity]

Ok that was probably the most fanfic-ass series events I’ve ever read in a published novel.

Aviendha, who is (to the audience; he’s convinced she hates him, for maximum tension and Jordan Oppositional Sexism Moments™️) very clearly in love with Rand and one of the three women he’s destined to marry according to Min, has been forced into sleeping in the same room as Rand for Plot Reasons

She decides to wash up in the room they’re unwillingly sharing (this should not be a problem for her, since she’s Aiel and Aiel are very comfortable being naked around people of other sexes, but this is conveniently forgotten for the scene)

Rand comes back early and finds her naked. She is horrifically flustered and embarrassed by this, yelling that she has to get away, and in her desperation makes a Traveling gate. Traveling is a completely lost talent that no Aes Sedai has been able to use since the Breaking of the World (even Rand, the fucking Dragon Reborn, can’t quite figure out how to Travel, though he can do something kind of close). She’s so freaked out she just does it by instinct though and she runs through. Naked

Her Traveling gate has conveniently opened into the middle of a blizzard in northern Seanchan. Seanchan is a massive fucking ocean away from where they are in inland Cairhien, and is very conveniently the worst possible nation in the world to Travel to, since they either kill or magically enslave anyone who can channel

Despite suddenly finding herself naked in a blizzard half a world away, she’s just so embarrassed that she keeps running away from the gate and Rand when he comes to get her out of the fucking blizzard. She then immediately stumbles onto a frozen lake and falls in

Rand must now pull her out of the frozen lake and warm her up. The gate is too far away by now for them to survive getting back to, naturally, so they have to wait out the storm. Rand uses the Power to create a super-strong igloo and heat the air, but oh no! She’s not warming up fast enough. The only choice is for him to get naked and cuddle with her, using body heat to warm her up (the only choice, because conveniently Rand does not know how to Heal)

This works incredibly well, and very fast. Aviendha wakes up completely fine (and apparently quite energized), with no frostbite or lost extremities or anything, despite running a mile in a blizzard and falling straight into a frozen lake, and upon waking up naked cuddling with Rand, can no longer run from her feelings for him

They have sex

Robert Jordan how did you write this *checks dates* fifteen years before AO3 was invented. I’ve read this exact storyline at least fifteen times from authors who have never even heard of the Wheel of Time. Also why. It’s so fucking jarring.

[itsalbir]

Egwene al'Vere - Wheel of Time

Falling in love with saidar

[aaliasdrawingagain]

might cry actually this is so pretty

[pien-art]

Moiraine infodumping about Manetheren at the worst possible times (literally surrounded by a mob / on the verge of death) my most beloved. Truly THE character

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based on this post

[valkyrie-in-yellow-coat]

infodumping final boss! I love this SO much, look how cute they are! simply adorable:)

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

it must suck to be one of the Aes Sedai who can't Heal for shit. like Aes Sedai are widely regarded with fear and suspicion and it seems that largely the only reason ordinary people seek them out is for Healing so like... what are you supposed to say "uhhh sorry about the gaping wound, i don't know how to fix that. i can summon some rain and throw some fireballs if that'll help? no? well good luck i guess."

[mediaviewer]

[aurgenius]

Sometimes her delicate probing did nothing, but her first touch at the thing that looked like a blacksmith’s puzzle made of glass left her dizzy and unable to sleep for half the night, and a thread of Fire touching what looked like a helmet made of fluffy metal feathers gave everyone within twenty paces a blinding headache. Except for herself.

Elayne is basically a mad scientist.

[wotrot]

Audiobook listeners won’t have seen this, but if you read the prologue to Lord of Chaos and skim so you only really notice the Dark One’s speech, he comes off like a clingy ex harassing Demandred via text message. These are quotes from pages 4 – 5 in my copy of the book, caps and all (just gonna go ahead and add Captain Capslock to the many names Shai’tan is known by).

DEMANDRED.

DEMANDRED, HOW FARES THIS WORLD?

THE CHOSEN DWINDLE, DEMANDRED.

WOULD YOU UNLEASH THE BALEFIRE IN MY SERVICE, DEMANDRED?

DEMANDRED, STOP LEAVING ME ON READ*

*ok that one’s not actually a book quote, but you know if TDO had messenger he’d be sending that

[radiantmists]

you know that thing about how some yaoi is just because the work is too misogynist for the men to have meaningful relationships with women?

i think robert jordan was the opposite of that. he loved women so much he made thirty billion named female characters who all love women too.

[denkryn]

The Dark parts you wish you could ignore.

[denkryn]

The Dark parts you wish you could ignore.

[thewizardofozwel]

The way Robert Jordan writes about craft is so soft dude. Even when it's clear he doesn't 100% know what goes into making something he seems so invested in the pride and joy and skill and culture when it comes to making things. The way he describes hand carved wood, and embroidery, and fabrics is so fucking soft dude.

Like he isn't just going into the details of everything for no reason, he highlights stuff that the characters would notice or care about in their different crafts, Perrin noticing metal work, Matt's obsession with little complex mechanisms, Nyneave appreciating the way plants are used in different parts of the world as she travels and even all the little thoughts and comments about simple strong handspun wool cloaks or elegantly embroidered cloth.

I really am enjoying reading through this series, the story is really good, but I can't help just smiling like a little dork every time Robert Jordan talks about craft, makes me feel very seen.

[alianoralacanta]

This is verbose worldbuilding done well.