overtherisingstar

Hiya all! I'm an accountant in my mid-twenties living on the West coast of Finland. To avoid misunderstandings, I think I should mention that I can't speak Finnish. I am a Swedish-speaking Finn who cannot, for the life of me, learn Finnish. I like chocolate, cats and fanfiction, though am unfortunately allergic to the cats. The fandoms I currently follow are The Hobbit, Sherlock (the BBC version), Marvel Cinematic universe and Harry Potter. Among others. My most recent new/old obsession is the humongous series that is the Wheel of Time.

[amaladlamini]

So whether this is my last day, or not, what I do know is that I want to spend it with those I love most. My family. Chloe Jane Decker, would you consider spending the rest of the day with me, and our daughter?

[marinettas]

Oh yes, Adrien’s perfect. I mean, um, I don’t know him very well but he seems—

[spookymage-deactivated20220116]

Lord of Chaos is, for many many reasons, not my favorite book, but I do think it is one of the single best written. So much of what happens still instills this sense of dread and terror in me, even though I know full well what’s going to happen. Lord of Chaos is where Rand’s trauma truly starts to be depicted in this incredibly detailed and real way, and being in his head, being aware of his thought process and how truly kind and compassionate he is, how he views that as a personal failing and works to bury, each new trauma adding confirmation he can’t be compassionate or kind and save the world too. Ugh. Lord of Chaos is great, even if it’s hard for me to read.

[overtherisingstar]

I'm currently rereading the series, and I spent basically all the books before Lord of Chaos on worrying about when I get to this book. I'm so relieved to be past it now, for all the reasons you describe. Right now I'm on Crown of Swords. :D

[spookymage-deactivated20220116]

I am so mad we don’t know anything about Kari Al'thor. Who was she? Where did her and Tam meet? Did she question where Tam got this random baby from?

And while where on that subject actually Tan fond a dead warrior lady on the slopes of the Scary Prophecy Mountain clutching a newborn and never thought. Hm. This weirdly matches the proposed rebirth of the savior of the world maybe I should read up on that and see if my newly adopted son is destined to fight Satan.

[elan-morin-tedronai]

Tam al’Thor didn’t exactly know he was gonna be in an epic fantasy series. It seems obvious to us readers, because of course we’ll be reading about the times when Prophesied things are happening, because people don’t write about centuries of peaceful sheep-herding. 

But who would actually, for real, even if they knew the details of the Prophecy, think that this thing foretold three thousand years ago is going to happen in their lifetime? Not many, I should think. And Tam al’Thor was no academic; he was more worldly than the average Two Rivers person, but even when he was abroad, he was a soldier, not a scholar. I don’t find it particularly unbelievable that he didn’t immediately jump to the conclusion.

[herenya-sedai]

Also, Tam (and Kari) were probably immediately swamped with becoming responsible for a newborn at very short notice, and then with the logistics of returning to the Two Rivers. I’d find it plausible that they had so much else to deal with – mainly of the practical, day-to-day variety – that initially they didn’t give Rand’s origins another thought.

Much later on, Tam would’ve had more space to ponder such things, but mightn’t have occurred to him to. Or he mightn’t have wanted to, preferring to to think of Rand as his own son – and preferring not to dwell on his memories of battlefields.

[wot-tidbits]

Rand’s New/Old Power

by  harveygreenfield  

Source.

Those last few pages gripped me into the late hours and wouldn’t let go. As a way to put my thoughts to bed this evening, I wanted to dig a little into Rand and that pipe of his.

How did he do it?

Keep reading

[herenya-sedai]

A Memory of Light, chapter 17 “Older, More Weathered”.

[ilyenamoerelle]

“Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?”

[letsiuanstopmakingfishmetaphors]

ATTA BOY RAND

[narcisseledecadent]

Let’s talk about… Rand’s mysterious pipe

SPOILERS

For some time now, I wanted to launch a series of mini-articles, discussions and theories about the Wheel of Time. Being currently not busy, let’s start!

As I was falling asleep yesterday, a detail of a Memory of Light kept popping up in my head. As Rand rides away after the Last Battle, he takes out his pipe, cannot channel (not the One Power nor the True Power) but by wishing it lit, the pipe is lit. Now, we know that the ending was written by Robert Jordan and that Sanderson, though knowing why and how, will not tell us.

BUT, if you read carrefully, one can find some clues. I’ll summarize the bits of information I thought useful for this theory :

The Wheel of Time is a cyclical time

The Dark One is sealed at the beginning of time

The Bore happens at the end of the Age of Legends when mankind opens the Dark One’s prison

During the fight with the Dark One, Rand “creates” realities, not by channeling but by using threads of the Pattern

All these infos, swimming in my head as I was falling asleep suddenly all clicked. Rand, during the fight, created the world again, after rejecting several possibilities. Hence the world, which could have stopped, is born again. As such, while it’s a bit of a stretch, a can theorize that Rand is the Creator (or at least an avatar of him) creating the world and sealing the Dark One.

If we take this theory as true, Rand’s pipe becomes much clearer. During the fight with the Dark One, he uses the threads of the Pattern and DOESN’T channel. And, for me at least, at the very end, he kept this ability to bend the Pattern’s threads and light his pipe with it.

So… that’s it, not much of a theory, but the epiphany seemed so important I had to share it.

TL;DR lol : Rand is so badass, that he becomes the mother-flamming Creator to finally get some peace.

[regent-valley]

“Only Perrin grew up,” Rand said. “Mat and I have simply learned to pretend to be grown up.” He hesitated. “Mat did not learn it so well.”

— A Memory of Light, Ch16 That is true

[watchthepopcornburn]

Mat Cauthon in a nutshell

Mat: That's it I'm leaving!

Rand: Okay I understand

Mat: For REAL this time!

Rand: That's cool buddy

Mat:

Mat:

Mat: okay just one more day

[letsiuanstopmakingfishmetaphors]

Sometimes a family is a hundred Far Dareis Mai and their adopted dragon son

[fell-the-aristocracy-deactivate]

honestly rand and nynaeves relationship is everything to me

[fell-the-aristocracy-deactivate]

you know what, I’m not done. this relationship is so wholesome, so real, so viscerally heartwrenching to me. rand and nynaeve are perfect in the characterization and development of their relationship. honestly i can’t belive this is the first time I’ve made a post about it

[fell-the-aristocracy-deactivate]

guess who’s still not done! Robert Jordan is interesting to me as a writer bc of his Thing with counterparts. yin and yang, saidin saidar. nynaeve and rand are counterparts. not just in a literary sense but in the theoretically more tangible power. there is a reason the yin yang is the ancient symbol and it’s them. and that becomes part of their relationship later. nynaeve, thrust into a position of power too young becomes harsh. rand goes literally crazy for a while. nynaeve, powerful beyond her own comfort and forced to be the rock for these kids because no matter what, she is their wisdom, pushing aside her own feelings. rand, who must save the world. rand, who uproots cultures and shatters traditions in order to save the world, who pushes and pushes and leaves in his wake the chaos of change and rebirth. nynaeve, who heals. no matter what, she heals. shattering expectations and pushing the boundaries of healing again and again because she heals. mat and perrin and loial are dear friends, his lovers the voices of leadership, egwene his tie to the past and hand to the future. but nynaeve. nynaeve is his wisdom, his elder sister, a mentor, a rock, a voice of reason. in the end, he knows they only want the same thing: to save, to heal. as two powerful people with strong personalities, they’re constantly butting heads, but at the last mile each knows that when they fall the other will stand in their stead. nynaeve is the one he chooses to cleanse the source with him because of course it’s nynaeve, it’s always been nynaeve. if there is anyone who will heal him, heal the power, cure him of the incurable, save him from the inevitable, it’s her, it’s always been her, it will always be her because he knows. nynaeves loyalty to her charges is absolute, unwavering, undeniable. her personality and the stress of her position make it difficult to see, but she will do everything in her power, which by the end is pretty considerable, to do right by them because even if they’re not hers anymore in technicality, in her heart she is their wisdom.

it’s not some coincidence that one of nyneaves tests is to leave emonds field behind and even if she walked away, in her heart they are Hers and nothing can change that and rand knows it. i dunno this isn’t very coherent but it’s how i feel.

[bartonsedai]

This analysis reminds me of this picture by @queen-serena.  (For those that don’t want to look, it’s a lovely fanart of Rand and Nynaeve representing the Dragon’s Fang and the Flame of Tar Valon respectively in the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai.)

[huttslut]

mat “i’m not a bloody hero, but i will swing down from this hayloft unarmed to mow down a group of men threatening this woman” cauthon

[huttslut]

Sometimes he thought women all belonged to a guild, the way craftsmen in cities did. Put a foot wrong with one, and the next ten you met knew of it, and disapproved.

one of the most hilarious and accurate Rand observations (The Shadow Rising)

[huttslut]

Wheel of Time:: One Chapter, One Photoset

The Eye of the World (Chapter Six: The Westwood)

“Tam was talking again, he realized, sometimes only murmuring, sometimes loud enough to understand. From time to time he stopped to pant for breath, then went on as if he thought he had been speaking the whole time.

’… battles are always hot, even in the snow. Sweat heat. Blood heat. Only death is cool. Slope of the mountain … only place didn’t stink of death. Had to get away from smell of it … sight of it … heard a baby cry. Their women fight alongside the men, sometimes, but why they had let her come, I don’t … gave birth there alone, before she died of her wounds … covered the child with her cloak, but the wind … blown the cloak away … child, blue with the cold. Should have been dead, too … crying there. Crying in the snow. I couldn’t just leave a child … no children of our own … always knew you wanted children. I knew you’d take it to your heart, Kari. Yes, lass. Rand is a good name. A good name.’

Suddenly Rand’s legs lost the little strength they had. Stumbling, he fell to his knees. Tam moaned with the jolt, and the strip of blanket cut into Rand’s shoulders, but he was not aware of either. If a Trolloc had leaped up in front of him right then, he would have just stared at it. He looked over his shoulder at Tam, who had sunk back into wordless murmurs. Fever dreams, he thought dully. Fevers always brought bad dreams, and this was a night for nightmares even without a fever.”

[Rufus Sewell as Tam al'Thor and Eddie Redmayne as Rand al'Thor]

[perseannabeth]

The Jackson Family and the Chase Family (no, not that Chase family) art by @viria