#rand althor

[alverelover]

[ofthebrownajah]

Lews Therin attempting to take control of the body away from Rand seems to be happening a lot more frequently

[toastandjamie]

I’ve thought this for awhile but decided to share with the class; this sound is just Mat and Rand’s dynamic in book 2

[b1gg1e]

Robert Jordan has got to be one of the most insane writers to date. He’s one of my standing favourites, simply because of three simple things that he does right that I find more modern pieces of writing struggle with.

//Spoilers for WoT

In book one, Moiraine describes how people who use the One Power without guidance—kind of “in the wild” type channellers—end up feeling very sick or getting ill afterwards, which we see with Rand after the scene where he channels the lightening in the room. But this theme is recurring. Later on, in book 8-9, Rand begins to feel sick when he channels the One Power, the sickness and the power becoming combined like Moiraine said it would. She said Aes Sedai don’t get this sickness because they’re trained to handle the power safely. This is reinforced with Rand from book 12-14 when he and Lews Therin become one person. Lews Therin who, mind you, was a trained male Aes Sedai who could safely handle the One Power. Rand no longer feels that sickness from that point onwards.

Perrin, Mat, and Rand’s character arcs are written very well. The gradual change into the people they are by the end of the series. Anyone who has gone from book 14 back to book 1, there is an obvious transition. Mat, who was originally a big prankster, still has that joking side to him at the end of the series but he also has this maturity he didn’t have before. Granted, he still pisses people off frequently, but he isn’t as childishly naïve to his antics like he had been. Perrin grows into himself. He gentle in an awkward way and, though well aware of his strength and size, he grows into it and we see him become an almost more authentically gentle and tender person because of it. He gains this deep understanding of himself. Rand’s curious by nature and that doesn’t go away, but is instead presented through different ways. His interest in learning about the Aiel, his testing of how far he can push himself, his bafflement at the way other cultures and people work. He always had the makings of a leader in him, seen in book one with Shadar Logoth when he was working out how to lead the group out, with Mat on the way to Camaelyn. Rand has always had the makings of a king, it just became more apparent.

The world building. Every single country, nation, organization, gang, army, band of robbers on the street, cluster of hills, mountains, rivers, everything feels like a part of the world itself. Often times in fictional series, things feel condensed and like the whole world is in view when you read it. Robert Jordan brought a vastness to a world that is very rare to see in modern works. It felt like a real world, with uncertainty and events happening at the same time throughout the world, even off screen things happened. It’s clear that he put thought into how things worked and how to represent them and I will forever adore the series for that.

I love Wheel of Time, guys. It’s my favourite thing ever.

[scarletkaoru]

rand while in an incredibly high stress situation: I wish i was a worm

[purplepotatobread]

The Wheel of Time but take a shot every time Mat, Perrin, or Rand thinks that they are bad with women and that the other two are better.

[theoldshadow]

WOTS2WEEK - DAY TWO- FAVORITE COSTUME - RAND'S SWEATER

[mushimallo]

Go to therapy please!!

inspired by this tweet ;-;

[wheeloftime-wheelofthoughts]

Sorry I've been kind of slow with my reading. I had to start reading something else as well, so I'm sort of split reading at the moment. And I'm already a slow reader as is, haha.

Anyways. I love the idea of certain characters kind of becoming unreliable narrators. Like, Rand especially is slowly becoming less and less reliable in terms of him slowly going mad. Him repeating over and over like a mantra "I'm not mad yet," while behaving ENTIRELY differently, and everyone else around him believing he is. 10/10.

(Except plz don't go mad too quickly Rand. I actually quite like you.)

[ofthebrownajah]

[toastandjamie]

So Wheel of Time fans who are also Dragon Age fans… let’s put all our favorites into different dragon age factions! Now some of these are easy, like the Wondergirls being in the Circle or Galad being a Templar, but let’s get silly and goofy tonight.

Personally, I want to put Mat into the Lords of Fortune, Rand into the Grey Wardens and Perrin into the Veil Jumpers

[asexualarkhamknight]

*Spoilers for Lord of Chaos*

Omfg bonding Rand against his will under the guise of Healing him was such a bad move. I feel like there is no chance of him trusting any Aes Sedai again at this point or ever allowing one to Heal him again. He already didn’t trust them per Moiraine’s advice but now this might ruin the alliance with the rebels. I want all Aes Sedai nowhere near Rand. Watch Alanna turn out to be black Ajah, that would be the cherry on top

[crunchy--milk]

min is the girl in a horse girl movie, and rand is the horse no one else believes will be able to win the race

[astaroffire]

Ok but what if....

Instead of Rand having a relationship with Min, Elayne and Aviendha separately, the TV series just made them one big happy polyamorous OT4??

(I just really want to avoid them doing love triangles and pitting our girls against each other for TV value when they could all be happy)

(I mean Elayne and Aviendha basically have a wedding ceremony in Winters Heart...)

[kerek-the-unhallowed]

Tactical disasters of Elaida

Elaida is powerful and intelligent, but tactics and strategy..not so much.

Blunder and disaster in this sense with regard to how badly it affected her own position

1. Setting up a coup without full support of the hall and deposing/stilling Siuan and her uppers without a trial and disbanding the blue ajah therefore causing the schism

1B. Ends up causing the Aes Sedai to break into 3 factions decidedly weakening the tower as a whole

2. Attempting to capture and leash Rand, ended up having multiple sisters killed more stilled and completely alienating him and causing him to hate her faction and enslave some of her sisters

2B. More casualties from the Shaido attack

3. Ignoring her scouts protests and sending an attack force to round up the Ashaman and instead having a strategic catastrophe as the entire force of between 50-100 sisters captured by a force of at least double that of male channelers.

3B. Many of the captured sisters defect to the dark or dragonsworn anyway, some bond to the ashaman.

4. Seanchan raid on the tower. Need I say more?

All this without mentioning Alviarin. Elaida was not a good leader. A leader who has to constantly remind everyone she leads us not a leader at all. But merely one who ruled because she has the biggest stick at the moment. Always paranoid the ones near her will have a bigger one

[mushimallo]

Happy Wheel of Time Day!! Already binged all the episodes 🥲