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Salóme Gunnarsdóttir as Melaine // The Wheel of Time S3E3 & S3E4

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as requested by @pillowfriends

The Wheel of Time (2021—) Seeds of Shadow (S03E03)

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All I wanted was to draw these beans again after watching the new season c: I love imagining what they'd look like in future~ 🖤 Links 🖤 Website | Shop | Patreon & more

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i love that the first time Egwene meets Bair in Tel’aran’rhiod she appears like a Maiden of the Spear

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wheel of time fr the gayest show out there cuz wdym we get siuanraine, avilayne and bair x lian in ONE EPISODE now settled in next week for Mat and his male admirer 😌

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How strong does Bair have to be to snap three spears over her knee like that my god

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More Wheel of Time S3 Casting News! some of these were leaked months ago, but for more its just confirming who the actors are playing

Spoiler free descriptions

Isabela Bucceri is Faile Bashere, a young noblewoman who is on a quest and, mild spoilers, becomes the love interest of one of our main boys. LOVE HER in the books, can't wait to see her on screen

Nukâka Coster-Waldau is Bair, a Wise One of the Aiel, and indeed most of these casting announcements are Aiel. Wise Ones in Aiel culture are martriachal leaders who resolve deputes between clans, and many (but not all) are secretly channelers. Bair is not a channeler but does have some supernatural abilities of her own. If her name sounds familiar Nukâka Coster-Waldau is the wife of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, from Game of Thrones

Salóme Gunnarsdóttir is Melaine, another Aiel Wise One, although she can channel, and is quite powerful, particularly when it comes to communicating and traveling through the dreamworld

Björn Landberg is Rhuarc, clan chief of the Taardad Aiel, and first major male Aeil (not counting Rand) we have gotten. Aiel society is divided into several clans, with chiefs nominated by Wise Ones in the clan, who must then undergo a dangerous ritual to prove they are worthy.

Synnøve Macody Lund is Melindhra an Aiel maiden of the spear, similar to Avienda and the other Aiel women we met in S2, and what Rand's mother was.

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Can we please talk about the fact that they tweaked Aiel culture just enough that open relationships/sharing a husband has become (at least in the one example we have) a poly relationship??

My heart is so full of appreciation for this ultimately small detail, but something that's so so important, especially considering what's to come

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Around his forearm wound a shape like that on the Dragon banner, a sinuous goldenmaned form scaled in scarlet and gold. He expected it, of course, but it was still a shock. The thing looked like a part of his skin, as though that nonexistent creature itself had settled into him. His arm felt no different, yet the scales sparkled in the sunlight like polished metal; it seemed if he touched that golden mane atop his wrist, he would surely feel each hair.

He thrust his arm into the air as soon as it was bare, high so Couladin and his people could see. Mutters rose among the Shaido, and Couladin snarled wordlessly. The numbers around the granite outcrop were swelling as more Shaido came running from their tents. Rhuarc stood with Heirn and his Jindo a little upslope; they watched the Shaido warily, and Rand with an air of expectation his uplifted arm did not lessen. Lan stood halfway between the two groups, hands resting on his sword hilt, face a thunderhead.

Just as Rand began to realize the Aiel wanted something more, Egwene and the other three Wise Women reached him, scrambling down the mountain. The Aiel women looked out of countenance at having to hurry and every bit as angry as Bair had been. Amys directed her glares at Couladin, while sunhaired Melaine stared blazingly at Rand. Seana just seemed ready to chew rocks. Egwene, with a scarf wrapped around her hair and spreadover her shoulders, stared at Mat and him half in consternation and half as though she had expected never to see them again.

"Fool man," Bair muttered. "All of the signs." Tossing the waterbag to Mat, she seized Rand's right arm and stripped back his sleeve, exposing a mirror twin of the creature on his left forearm. Her breath caught, then came out in a long sigh. She seemed balanced on a razor edge between relief and apprehension. There was no mistaking it; she had hoped for the second marking, yet it made her afraid. Amys and the other two Wise Women echoed her sign almost exactly. It was odd to see Aiel fearful.

Rand almost laughed. Not that he was amused. Twice and twice shall he be marked. That was what the Prophecies of the Dragon said. A heron branded into each palm, and now these. One of the peculiar creatures — Dragons, the Prophecy called them — was supposed to be “for remembrance lost.” Rhuidean had certainly supplied that, the lost history of the Aiel's origins. And the other was for “the price he must pay.” How soon must I pay it? he wondered. And how many have to pay with me? Others always had to, even when he tried to pay alone.

The Shadow Rising, by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time #4, Chapter 34: He Who Comes With the Dawn)

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Bair

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as requested by @ladyalysoftheblueajah

The Wheel of Time (2021—) Seeds of Shadow (S03E03)

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bair is actually so sexy which is something I never thought I'd say coming into s3

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Dick's Type: Red Heads

Koriand'r , Barbara Gordon, Raya Vestri, and Cheyenne Freemont

Tim's Type: Blondes

Bernard Dowd, Stephanie Brown, Cassie Sandsmark, and Greta Hayes

The boys know what they like.

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