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The palace of Caemlyn has changed layout? Interesting. Weird, but definitely interesting…

Great fun so far 🚀

Oh bloody hell, another cursed knife 🙄

Can Selucia channel? 🤔

Mat’s chapters continue to be great.

Moiraine’s letter is quite something.

I cannot recall any allusions to the Eelfinn and Aelfinn being snakes and foxes previously but it’s all over the last few chapters and ties into the prophecies, his medallion, the games with Olver etc.

Mat chapters are the best chapters.

I like the visual of Joline throwing things at Mat non-stop because she can’t just slap him around with the power 🤣

Anan is a stilled Aes Sidai, interesting.

Noal is Farstrider then? Seems like Mat knows it too.

So Faile just swore an oath to rescue her to adherents… while holding the oath rod. No one power around, but still seems like it could be significant.

I wonder if Arangar / Halima’s plotting will get them killed and Egwene will never know the truth 🤔

OMG, Moridin is Ishamael? I’m shocked! Or would be if ChatGPT had not spoiled it for me in its “spoiler free” summary of the previous books 🤣

The dead are walking.

Does Beonin mean to assassinate Elaida, or something else? 🧐

End of the first chapter 🤣

An Aes Sidai a gai’shain in the Shaido camp? Pretty damn weird.

I’m here on Tower business.

Oh well, off you go then, sorry for interrupting.

Come on, Perrin 🤦‍♂️

Interesting detail I had missed up to now: the stilled women healed by Flinn are restored fully, while those healed by Naeneve only partially.

I had completely missed Liandrin being with Suroth. Was it mentioned in the last book?

One problem with this series now is that you are told about something and then it is not mentioned again for another book and a half by which time you’ve forgotten 🤣 And I’m reading them back to back!

Gigantic first “chapter” here we come!

The end of this book caught me completely off guard - I thought there would be another chapter or two and some climactic event after Egwene was captured, but nope 😂

Mat and Perrin both having encounters with the dead. Hints that saidar is weakening or broken. Rand almost entirely absent, but the Seanchan are making a treat with… someone? Maybe Masema. Murders in Egwene’s camp and intrigue in Caemlyn.

All lined up nicely for the finale!

So Habor feels like a place from a different world 😂

There should be a WoT drinking game for when a new cadre of minor characters is introduced, put into positions of influence and then revealed to be a Darkfriend.

Also more hints that saidar is “not working” or weakening in some way.

“Halima” is not being very subtle yet somehow is above suspicion from Egwene and Siaun.

That won’t last long if “she” is stupid enough to try giving Egwene a headache in the presence of Rand or an Asha’man who can see saidin though 🤣

Nicola is 100% going to be a big problem at some point.

It’s as if saidar is failing? That sounds like it could be a problem 🤣

Elenia’s first chapter is a puzzle wrapped in an enigma; I assume we’re not supposed what is happening and that all shall be revealed.

I assume a Forsaken is involved.

Elayne may not be able to channel during labour? I wonder if that will be a factor 🙄

Something wonderful or something terrible. Same words as Annoura. I think Annoura is a Darkfriend and also suspect Vandene killed her own sister. We’ll see 🤔

So Sareitha is all for Mellar, eh? He’s a Darkfriend so does that mean she is too, and Adeleas’ murderer as well? The plot thickens.

Hard to keep track of this stuff between books.

The traditional mammoth length first chapter sets the stage nicely.

Yet another army thrown into the mix in Arad Doman, and Caemlyn under siege.

Exciting times!

This book gives a fairly detailed and interesting account of the early history of Europe and it’s interactions with Asia, and occasionally China and Africa.

Then somewhere around the Renaissance it starts to speed up, becoming less detailed and more of a conventional retelling of the age of empires and WW1.

Rand clears the taint from saidin using the statues with Nynaeve.

Various forsaken, including reincarnated Lanfear, try to stop him but fail. Arangar, posing as Dashiva, killed.

One of Cadsuane’s party, Elza, is a darkfriend.

Mat flees Ebou Dar with Egeanin, kidnapping Tuon at the same time.

Mistress Anan used to be Aes Sedai, or linked to the Tower in some way it seems. Joline’s reaction to the a’dam was odd.

It is all coming to a head, it seems.