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Meanwhile in Tanchico a nazi named Egeanin sits around, and meets Loran Gelb. Is he Floran Gelbet, or simply similarly named? Who knows. He is hunting sultans for her. We also have The Most Usless Returning Character, Domon here too.
The nazi also works together with the darkfriend Bors. Or something. This book is very long, and the writing is sometimes very wishy-washy.
The nazi also does some poor's kitchen - y aknow, the usual face for a christian organisation while they are ****ing your children. Donate to a secular organisation, they'll use your money as you intended to.

The Inquisitor is hired to the (new) panarkha, co-ruler here, for not showin "cooperation" to the king. I dun rly care, but let's see if anyhting comes out of this.
Right after this the 134 black kicks the door on him. Liandrin just wants to live in a palace - this makes no difference to the above plans, so ye, wynaut. (They are also after a control-collar.)
Though I'm a bit disturbed that EVERYONE is here: darkfirends, Children, the black ajah, nazis... If you'd put here a Forsaken, that'd be literaly all "evil" factions from the series.

Blacks:
1 - Liandrin
2 - Chesmal
3 - Rianna Andomeran
4 - Joiya Byir <--- (dead)
5 - Amico Nagoyin <--- (dead)
6 - Temaile
7 - Eldrith Jondar
8 - Marillin Gemalphin
9 - Jaine Caide
10 - Asne Zeramene
11 -
12 -
13 -

This scene with the blacks perfectly illustrates how RJ works: no planning, figuring out stuff on the whim. That's why we don't have all 13 names, that's why not all existing names get a second name.

To Egeanin comes a Seeker of Truth. He doesn't have an angry sword though, so it is "entirely fine, no ripoff, it is inspiration". Eat your shiort, WoT-community.

Rj runs some BS trying to distort the name of coffee.

The nazi has a captured sultan (the sultans, a muslim controls demons - that's racist by the way), and bumped into the info the wamen core characters, that they can be leashed too. This somehow shakes her worldview. No idea in which direction though.

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Team C bumps into Domon, who reveals doing smuggling for the war-struck city. He now has many ships, but it's all good and dandy, because he donates to the poors' kitchen too.

Elayne gets drunk, and remembers Thom. So the full backstory RJ set up is this:
Thom was the lover or Morgese, and Elayne is actualy HIS daughter. The husband figured this out, wanned to kill the queen, Thom was faster, then his niece occured with the magic madness problem so he went there, the queen thought this was confession of murder, thus declared death sentence.
Good.
THIS can constitute using dozens of pages to Thom's backstory. And can be used later for a hearty reunion, what'd barely consitute having Thom in play still. Fits the Play of Houses frame too.
Next day she'll have a memory-lapse.

Ninive goes dreamworld, and meets with a legendary (dead) hero.

The gurls have a whole network at their hand by the way, as the hunter asked around the local lowlives, and Domon has his workers and such. Thom is entirely redundant.


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