#while I wait until I can watch the new bts footage here's some loc commentary!

[damn-oh-dread]

Prologue: Lord of Chaos

So I actually finished this book (whoops) but here is all my written commentary I did while reading it. Why was this prologue so long? It did not need to be 100 pages. Anyways!

- very excited that we are meeting all the forsaken now! Not going to lie I actually forgot there were more we hadn't been introduced to yet (for some reason I was convinced there were only 7?) But no it's actually closer to being like the 12 evil disciples. (+1)

- *said with as much sarcasm as possible* obsessed with all the miscommunication in this series! Actually I have very mixed feelings about all the miscommunication. On one hand, miscommunication can lead to very very sexy dramatic irony. On the other hand the amount of times people believe or do not believe someone important is dead in this series is too much. I think these characters should just start to only believe someone is dead if they see their literal corpse and only then.

- NYNAEVE FLINCHING AT THE NEWS OF MOIRAINE BEING DEAD!!!! I love love love Nynaeves love-hate relationship with Moiraine and how she shaped Nynaeves life for better and for worse and just overall the complicated place she had in Nynaeves life. Amazing *chefs kiss*

- okay brief rant: I absolutely despise how the only big thingTM about the green ajah is that it's the only ajah where you can have more than one warder. NO! This might just be the lesbian in me but I hate that the green ajah is reduced to boysTM and being hot when there are literally so many other cool reasons to join. IT IS THE BATTLE AJAH! PEOPLE IN THE BATTLE AJAH TRAIN TO FIGHT IN THE FINAL BATTLE! Why can't they play up that angle more? So many Greens are generals or pros at battle tactics! They are a group of warriors! And really, you should be allowed to have as many warders as you want in any ajah for protection and whatever UNLESS it goes against the ajah mentality which I feel like it only really does for red. (WHY DO AJAH PHILOSOPHIES INCLUDE HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT MEN? WHY DO WE CARE?!) So, which is just to say, I do think Elyane would do well in Green I just don't like how she chooses it for the sole purpose of having more than one warder when there is so much cool history to the ajah outside of that.

- I missed Perrin last book but you know what, I think I might actually retract that statement. Just *gestures* everything. Going on with Perrin and Faile is. A lot.

- Gwayne my worstie! Can't believe I like your WHITECLOAK BROTHER more than you! I can not articulate why but something about Gwayne just gets on my nerves. I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate him but we just do not vibe.

- Calling it right now Messana is going to be my fav. She really was denied a teaching position at a university and decieded that would be her villian origin story. Absolute girlboss.

- fuck, lanfear is back? Rip Moiraine dying for nothing 💀 I mean she was the mentor character and extremely competent so she was going to need to die eventually but oof.

Already this feels a little more like a set up book for later parts of the series but people seem to really have a lot to say about this one so I'm excited!