#tuon

[outlandidol]

First drawing of the year! Starting off by adding Tuon to my WoT collection. Tried some new stuff with this one - I plan on doing a lot of experimenting with my process this year.

[zadrinz]

Tuon Paendrag From The Wheel of Time

[adamreadsthewheeloftime]

New WoT art! Why am I obsessed with Furyk Karede? Can't say, but it was fun to draw him with his sole reason for living. I took a liberty, as he would obviously never rest his hand on the person of the Empress. But deep down, he's just a protective step-dad; maybe that's why I love him. Anyway, enjoy fellow WoT-heads!

[scarletkaoru]

I desperately wish we had the tuon POV of her just wandering the hallways like “maybe i’ll see that hot twink today”

[iconicplottwist]

some peg dolls I made a while ago

From left to right:

Selucia, Tuon, Mat, Olver, Thom, Moiraine, Lan, Nynaeve, Egwene, Perrin, Aviendha, Elayne, Rand

I plan to make more eventually

[thisisablogshockedemoji]

Just finished Wheel Of Time

What a ride.

My only major complaint really is that the truth of sul'dam being able to channel was not exposed to the wider Seanchan society. We did get the Egwene-Tuon (may she live forever) confrontation and the treaty where damane can "choose" to leave if they want, but as far as I understand that was not actually put in place. I have hope that Mat and Min will be able to make some changes once they go back, but I guess we'll never find out.

I really liked all the military strategy that was discussed in the Elayne, Mat and Lan perspective chapters. The only knowledge I have on this topic comes from playing civ 6, so I am quite proud of myself for being able to follow most of it. I was a bit worried for this as the strategy shown in the Cosmere books ranges from non-existent to interesting but niche. But from what I can tell, that aspect was executed very nicely.

I honestly did not mind the Padan Fain death at the end. Ill probably change my mind once I get to rereading the series, but the solution just being that Mat got vaccinated is really funny to me. I was completely burnt out emotionally after Egwenes death (got that spoiled for me beforehand but still hurt) and I just wanted to finish by that point, so that confrontation being so short was not horrible.

I am really happy that Rand got his happy ending. I really hope that someone from his harem told Nynaeve the truth.

I have a somewhat minor complaint about how Alivia was set up to be extremely important for Rands final confrontation, but ended up doing nothing. Admittedly, I did predict that that was how it was going to go just because I have seen this exact thing happen in other stories, but still disappointing.

Also, do we get anymore information on who the women that Aviendha talked to on her way to Rhuidean was? I think I missed something because I read everything after Egwenes death extremely fast, excluding the sealing of the dark one.

[wot-tidbits]

Someone wants to be made da'covale.

[catcauthon]

Mat/Tuon drives me crazy because on a watsonian level, I hate it. I want better for Mat. He deserves more than an abusive relationship with someone who uses slave-breaking tactics on him under the guise of flirting and finds enjoyment in humiliating him! But from a doylistic perspective? They are so interesting.

'The man who remembers Hawking's face' and the woman who leads the remnants of his old empire, remnants that worship an idealized and corrupted version of his image. 'The man of the Red hand' who has that title because of the lives he saved, because he couldn't walk away when he saw people in danger despite the personal cost, VS the 'Daughter of the Nine Moons' who has hers because of manipulation, because of her success in the Imperial Assassination games and as a slave-breaker. The man that unwillingly creates an army held together by trust, and the woman who proudly inherits an empire that runs on paranoia. The man who claimed selfishness as he risked everything to free slaves, VS the woman who breaks and trains slaves to calm her fears that it will happen to her while claiming what she's doing is kindness.

And yet...Both asked for answers about their future, and were given foreboding prophecies of marriage to someone they never would've chosen, someone they don't really want. But they're stuck with them, and they know it, so they try to figure out what to expect, how they can make it work. In doing so, they discover that there's more to this person than they initially thought. They find a mutual love of stones, horses, and bars. They begin to enjoy spending time with each other, despite the fact that the other is on the opposite side of a war. To convince themselves that it can work, and maybe to excuse their own growing affection, they tell themselves the other person is only like this, only on the wrong side because of the backwards environment they were raised in. But they'll change them with time. Bring them around and make them understand what they're doing is wrong. But they're deluding themselves. They might be an unstoppable force, but they're acting on an immovable object.

They're narrative opposites placed into the same weird situation, and for all the (mutual) destruction it's going to cause, I can't help but be intrigued.