#wot the shadow rising

[pien-art]

I read @eve-is-obsessed ‘s fic “mysteriously missing moiraine” and my eyes have been opened to Moiraine / Melaine 👁️👁️ Everyone go read this fic (and every other amazing fic by eve bc hghn,, they’re really good)

I can’t wait to see Moiraine in the Aiel Waste with the Wise Ones in s3

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[bluenoisen]

currently reading through the Wheel of Time (and loving it) and this dynamic in The Shadow Rising is so funny to me, Rand get HELP!!!

[syl-stormblessed]

everyone loves talking about the batshit worldbuilding in WoT but I feel like everybody tends to overlook the Vaguely Evil Elves From Another Dimension that have their own officially licensed chutes and ladders-esque board game that you Cannot Ever Win

[toastandjamie]

Egwene’s inner monologue in chapter 35 of shadow rising about Mat having nothing to learn and wouldn’t want to learn anyways is really funny because she’s so close to the truth of it lmao

Mat does not want to learn, but he does anyways. He gets knowledge thrust upon him like a protagonist in an eldritch horror novel. He does not want this information, knowing it decreases his quality of life, but now he does know it and he’ll just have to live with it

[shitpostingkats]

They weren't lying. This Shadow do be Rising.

[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.

[dream-of-ravens]

Can I just share this meme I made back from book four.

[butterflydm]

wheel of time 3x1 speculation

We got that new hint from Rafe about the opening for 3x1, which was exciting.

So far I've seen two main speculations about what the event could be, and I fall on the side of it being our "this is what Liandrin is up to" answer that we were told we would get early in the season, as opposed to being the other big White Tower event that happens in TSR.

Given the other information that we already have (our speculated Elaida and Morgase filming in a castle with Andoran banners) plus the "likely audition scripts" for Elaida, I feel like it's unlikely that the coup will happen in the first fifteen minutes of s3, but Liandrin and her group raiding the ter'angreal room and then bouncing from the White Tower seems like it would fit pretty well.

Instead of the raid being explained to Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elayne months after it occurs, we would see it on-screen instead, which is more dramatic.

Here is what we know about that raid and escape:

“Do not invoke Liandrin’s name here, child!” the Amyrlin snapped. Leane watched them with a stern serenity. “Mother, Liandrin is Black Ajah,” Elayne burst out. “That is known, child. Suspected, at least, and as good as known. Liandrin left the Tower some months ago, and twelve other—women—went with her. None has been seen since. Before they left, they tried to break into the storeroom where the angreal and sa’angreal are kept, and did manage to enter that where the smaller ter’angreal are stored. They stole a number of those, including several we do not know the use of.”

“Theft,” the Amyrlin went on in tones as cold as her eyes, “was the least of what they did. Three sisters died that night, as well as two Warders, seven guards, and nine of the servants. Murder, done to hide their thieving and their flight. It may not be proof that they were—Black Ajah”—the words grated from her mouth—“but I cannot believe otherwise.

This event could also be how the dream ring comes into play -- it can be one of the ter'angreal stolen by Liandrin & co, and which will end up in Nynaeve and Elayne's hands afterwards once they confront Liandrin in Tanchico, allowing N&E to be able to communicate with Egwene in TAR further down the road.

If Liandrin has been openly outed as Black Ajah and violently fled the Tower, then this could explain why 'only Sitters' are allowed to call meetings with the Amyrlin now (as is said in the suspected Elaida audition script).

[highladyluck]

Wheel of Time theology:

“Oh yeah, the Devil is real and he’s been leaking out of Hell for the past 3,000 years. There was an industrial accident at the high-energy particle metaphysics lab”

[ofthebrownajah]

I do widely prefer Rand and Moiraine's relationship in the show but I also wonder how they're gonna handle things because of it. Moiraine's goal in the beginning here is to get all of his friends away from him so his only influence is her. Which like the Lanfear parallels there holy shit. Jordan should've done so far more with Moiraine and Lanfear as foils.

Show Rand is a lot more willing to listen to Moiraine's advice than Book Rand was but this doesn't mean I want him to always take her advice cause that wouldn't be interesting.

I suppose they could get more into Moiraine pulling strings next season especially considering Rosamund said how much she loves playing Moiraine when she's more manipulative. I guess we'll see.

Moiraine is a very ends justify the means character which is what Rand eventually becomes so it will be interesting to see that develop on this reread.

I think the show is effectively showing that with Moiraine so far just in a different way.

Tagging @markantonys and @butterflydm cause you always have good ideas on how they might adjust some things

[flo-n-flon]

"Do not let Lan follow me. He will try, if he sees me."

[cassandrablah]

Current book four review of Wheel of Time:

Everyone is horny and is being punished for it

[agardenandlibrary]

.... don't these women have anything better to do than fight over Perrin?

[toastandjamie]

You know, Mat’s Rhuidian adventure is really funny. Rand left him outside alone for about one minute before Mat was already considering going in after him and getting distracted by the red stone door- almost dies too.

Disaster boy, can’t be left unsupervised

[wot-tidbits]

[moghedien]

Love Elayne’s fruity ass journey with the Sea Folk, having her like “no, this is definitely awakening something in me”