#WoT season 3 spoilers

[rogue-rook]

imagine you have almost unlimited magical powers and live in a post-scarcity utopia with flying cars and teleportation and supposedly no illness or violence but that is slowly rotting over the course of a century because an entity of cosmic evil which no one knew existed before is corrupting people into doing theft and hatecrimes on each other for the first time ever so you decide to get yours while the getting is good so you swear allegiance to the cosmic horror corrupting your society but then you accidentally get trapped outside of reality in the pit of all evil and now that guy you were having fun playing cat and mouse with has been dead for what they say is three thousand years and there's no bitcoin to embezzle or biomedical research to fuck with and you’re stuck with these short lived practically illiterate peasants who don't even know what electrons are, much less have running water or know who you, fantasy bin laden, are or are capable of so they don't know they're supposed to be afraid of you. that’s the last month from the forsakens' perspective.

[kenzovitasinelibris]

[Elaida spilling the tea on Siuan and Moiraine’s novice private moments, thinking it’s offensive]

All siuaraine AO3 fic writers: "Excuse me, ma’am, could you go into more detail? I need to add that in the next chapter"

[differentluminaryllama]

so… is anyone else heartbroken by that scene in the river hut? Moiraine and Siuan promising one another to find each other in every life?

God, my heart. That’s so lovely and so sad???

and also: oh god, Moiraine telling Lan that she’s seen that she won’t be at the Last Battle and will probably die soon? And Lan and her sharing a drink and just trying to forget for a second?

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

Moiraine trying to tell Siuan that’s it, they broke whatever they had, they can’t be together. She is scared. She is mad. She needs Siuan to have closure. She is going to die.

And then she can’t do it. The “I love you.” The desperate kiss.

In every life Siuan will search. In every life Moiraine will wait.

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

My head cannon is that the Aiel War lasted a lot longer in the show, so that it was both Moiraine putting off the trip to Cairhien and them just…not being able to go because of the war. I feel like little Siuan arrives at the Tower as a kid and becomes a novice, then sometime as a teenager Moiraine shows up and Siuan goes into lovesick puppy mode. They get together as Accepted and then the war breaks out and they’re just sort of together in the Tower dreaming of their post-war future for a long time (decades?) before it all culminates in 2x07.

guys i know we’re traumatised by 3x05 but we’re sleeping on elaida confirming that (i quote) siuan used to fawn over moiraine like a lovesick puppy when they were novices which i think might be some of the best information to ever exist

[nervouspearl]

"Just a bunch of women in their 40s and 50s shredding each other, and it is wonderful to behold." - showrunner Rafe Judkins on the opening of The Wheel of Time season 3

[pillowfriends]

THAT FUCKING. THAT FUCKING EPISODE.

[glow-wine]

I love the Forsaken meeting because it's like

Rahvin: Hey, maybe we should stop infighting because this is what got us defeated the last time! Anyway, what's this meeting about? Lanfear: I was thinking that we should gang up on Moghedien.

And it turns out Rahvin is already conspiring with Moghedien.

[kenzovitasinelibris]

This is so beautiful!!! I don’t know why, but this episode has brought me so much peace and happiness. It’s beautiful… it’s overwhelming… it’s sweet… it’s sad… it’s hopeful… it’s a perfect love story… and I’m sorry if it sounds cheesy or silly, but it’s so precious to me, as a queer woman, to have the epic love story between two women, where their love will last forever.

Thank you, thank you for this edit OP!!!

I thought we would have more time.

[mushimallo]

Lord Gabril / Rahvin

[trollocks-in-my-bollocks]

Moiraine had Tairen tattoos on her arms in that first alternate reality segment, I can't.

[rogue-rook]

since I’ve seen some show-onlys confused about rhuidean, my thoughts about the effectiveness of the glass columns as a memory preservation technique is that there has to be a very high likelihood that every clan chief who goes through them sees the same memories of the drilling of the bore, the split of the aiel, the first killing, and the first clan chiefs in rhuidean. its believed that every person alive in the 9th century who had descendants is the ancestor of every european alive today; the farther back you go, the higher the likelihood is that you are descended from a particular individual who had other descendants survive into the modern day, and in a highly enclosed society like the aiel, its just almost a dead certainty that they all are descended from the same set of people countless generations ago, bc the family trees keep overlapping; 3000 years is a very long time. so maybe not everyone who goes through the columns sees the same tardaad clan chief who first went to rhuidean that rand did, especially if they are mostly descended from the members of a different clan from rand, but they have to have seen a clan chief from that time, or else they wouldn't exist; the clan chiefs that didn't go to rhuidean for the first time didn't have descendants and their clans died out. that memory is probably 500-1000 years ago (pure guessing); 800 years ago is genghis khan and 1200 years ago is charlemagne and we know studies estimate huge numbers of the world population are descended from one or both of those. the other memories are even farther back: the bore was opened 3000 years ago and the breaking lasted I think three centuries; to me it seems that the split of the aiel and the first killing couldn't have been more recent than 1000-2000 years ago (again pure guessing). so 1500 years ago is far enough back for lewin, the first aiel to kill, his friend, and the first maiden of the spear (wish that had been included in the show memory!), to be ancestors of all the aiel alive in the waste today. the memories in the columns shatter so many of the aiel who see it, and that just wouldn't happen unless they are all seeing the exact same earthshattering revelations

[kenzovitasinelibris]

It's so sad and heartbreaking…"The Wheel does not care if you are young or afraid, petty or weak. It certainly doesn’t care what you want. The Wheel calls you to this whether you can bear it or not."

[unreasonablereasoner]

Wheel of Time 3x04 spoilers.

I need to rewatch all the possible futures Moiraine saw. I’m glad they kept the implication from the books that she would be willing to forsake her own desires in order to keep influence over Rand via a sexual relationship. It shows how intensely devoted to the Light she is, and how desperate she is to retain her influence at this point. And it hits harder in the show since it’s implied she’s a lesbian. Her dynamic with Lanfear remains interesting. The show is really setting them up as a fucked up little trifecta. If I had to make predictions based on her visions, I think we’re going to see her release Lan’s bond this season and then the finale will be Moiraine doing her best to ensure that when Lanfear takes her out of the game it’s mutually assured destruction instead of Lanfear’s win.

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

If I saw a thousand thousand futures and a not insignificant percentage focused on my sex life I might have some questions tbh.

[nervouspearl]

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