Olivia
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I think they will merge somewhat. Which makes me huff because I don't like the Asha'man.
It seems reasonable considering the increasing, uh, "interaction" between the two groups. Also, didn't Egwene have a Dream in ToM or TGS where she saw the new rose window in the Hall featuring the united Flame/Fang symbol instead of just the White Flame? I agree that they could never live in the same building though. 
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I never really gave much thought to that. I think you're right that it's false; I always assumed it was simply the Seanchan revisionist version of the Prophecies. It especially seems unlikely considering now that Rand is all Jesus-ified and people ridiculously seem to be awed just by his "presence" and wouldn't expect him to kneel to anyone. Tuon's appearances as Empress have almost the same tone in that her people treat her like a magnificent god-figure, but the readers know that Seanchan culture (and Tuon) are deeply flawed and unjust. So to have Rand kneel before Tuon would symbolically be like having Jesus kneel to a false idol, something that (based on their use of Jesus parallels) I think both RJ and Sanderson would probably object to. (yeah, I mentioned Jesus on an internet forum, prepare for incoming flamewar...
)But if the kneeling does happen, I'd think it'll probably be as some sort of deception or ploy to gain Seanchan alliance for the Last Battle, rather than genuine genuflection (lol someone slap me
). On the other hand, given how ToM played out, maybe Rand will just make a simple plea for alliance and the Seanchan will be so blown away by his "presence" that they'll just agree.It might not even be the real Dragon Reborn who kneels, as a lot of fans have pointed out that foreshadowing indicates that Rand will appear to be dead and another may take his place for a time.
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(I couldn't think what other thread to put this in and didn't want to make a new one just for this. Forgiveness if others have posed this question before and I merely blocked the stupid out of my memory.)
So I was flipping through NS today when I had a really really stupid thought...
We know RJ made some pretty horrible puns on occasion (Lan's daori springs to mind, and Suffa but I'm willing to blame Sanderson for that one), but this is a pretty bad one. It's not Moiraine's fault, exactly, but...
What if kesiera is a corruption of "que sera", from the well-known Spanish expression "Que sera, sera" = "What will be, will be" ... In other words, her favorite, "The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills" ...?
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Hopefully your Dreaming isn't as accurate as Egwene's and this terrible dream will never come to pass.
Also, was 8-year-old Moiraine a cute-pie?
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Haha, "Nynaeve needs help". That was a fun little vid, good job.
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Oh. 956, of course. I am slow, forgive me.
(I guess I just think of the WoT timeline in relative terms, like "20 years before the main series" or "Lan is 3 years older than Moiraine", since I'm too lazy to keep all the birth years of the characters straight.) -
In the past I've thought of getting CMLVI on my ankle.
... 956? What does that signify?
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Happy birthday, Vertex you troll.
I hesitated over wishing you a happy birthday as I seem to recall you once lying about your birthday just to get a bday thread, so I was skeptical, but oh well, you deserve at least one birthday a year. Again, a very Happy Birthday to you, and may you have many happy returns. 
That cake looks straight out of My Little Pony.
But how does the birthday boy cut it with those dangly things in the way?-
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A hardcore Moiraine fan would get a keseria and chain tattooed across their forehead.
Less nerdy though, you could get a Great Serpent circle tattooed somewhere, or a White Flame, or one of the chapter icons relating to Moiraine.
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Cool flowchart!
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Jan and Vertex sitting on a curb together! So cute! Looks like you two had a lot of fun
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I think you're right, Erika, considering he's beaten Gawyn, Galad, a bunch of Aiel, Myrddraal all in single combat, plus he has the memories of men who were also probably spear and/or sword masters.... so yeah, Mat's probably at the level of a blademaster. I don't know a whole lot about the subject, but my assumption is that Mat's ashandarei is bit slower to maneuver than a sword considering it's much longer, and in ACoS he mentions it's a bitch to use in close quarters, so those are probably weaknesses when compared to a sword-wielder.
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I think you're both right, Perrin is more natural in the World of Dreams due to his Wolfbrother-ness. Perrin might be better at adapting his environment, but I think Egwene is better at adapting/manipulating other people and their actions in the World of Dreams, like in her fights with the BA and defeating Moggy's trap back in, like, TFoH I think.
She's also better at other aspects of the World of Dreams, such as watching others' dreams, speaking to them in their dreams, and interpreting her own dreams as a Dreamer, whereas Perrin seems less adept at figuring out what his "windows" in T'A'R foretell.
And yeah, Ekho, Moggy is definitely the best evil dreamwalker out there.
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So that's... 10pm to midnight for we Californians?
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:bowdown: ALL HAIL THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS LEADER, MAY SHE REIGN ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF GLORY.
Heh, happy birthday, Marie!
Many happy returns! Hope you enjoy your special day with lots of cake and booze. 
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Who here pictured Moiraine with blond hair because of the EotW cover art?
That art looked more like chestnut hair to me, but I always pictured her with dark hair because of her description, though for some reason my mental image didn't catch on to the description of her hair as curly/ringlets until later in the series.
As for Lan, I pictured him as a somehow blue-eyed Plains Native American warrior (Weird, I know, but that's what jumped into my head because of the "tall guy with long dark hair held by leather cord and very stoic, angular face"), but wielding a samurai sword.
Also, now you've given a momentary mental image of blonde Moiraine. My brain go tizzy-spinny.
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Oh dear!
Poor, poor Kaitlin. 
Make it an angry red eyepatch like Uno - it'll be quite fetching. I hope it heals soon! -
Okay, here goes... Inspired by Whitty's "you-know-what".
"FINE!" said Nynaeve. "Be that way if you want! Huff."
And she went home, taking her toys with her.
Nynaeve staggered under the weight of the huge iron toychest. The walkway was not paved as smooth as she would have liked, and she felt a tingle of nervousness at the thought of tripping and dropping all her precious toys into the mud.
The sun was sinking luxuriously into the horizon like a fat guy in a bubble bath when Nynaeve finally made it to her house. But something stopped her before entering. She almost dropped the box in shock at what she saw. What bloody milk-eared anal queef had dared to paint the Dragon's Fang on her door?! How could they think she was a hideous Darkfriend?
Wait a minute, wasn't the Dragon's Fang supposed to be painted in black? This one was white. And the paint looked... sticky. She decided not to investigate it further. She gave her braid a long, furious tug.
Unfortunately, freeing one hand for her ritual braid-tug - it was in fact her secret fetish, but no one seemed to notice the quick orgasms that slipped out of her in angry little snorts whenever she tugged - meant that the toychest she carried became unbalanced. Tilt, slip... SMASH.
"O HAI, NYNAEVE!" Egwene exclaimed happily as she bustled out of Nynaeve's house, where she had been waiting for her old fuck-buddy former mentor to return. "I came on urgent business with dire import for the Amyrlin Seat; the entire Tower may be at stake! What I need your help with is, do you think this dress makes my bottom look chubb-" She cut off when she saw Nynaeve scrambling around in the mud, frantically trying to toss all her toys back into the chest they had fallen out of.
Nynaeve was about to distract Egwene with something, anything, perhaps to tell her that no one would ever think her bottom was chubby because they were too distracted by her Trolloc-fat thighs. But it was too late...
"Are those... I mean... when you said you liked 'toys', I thought..." Egwene stammered, pale in the face. "Oh, Light!"
Nynaeve blushed furiously. Then she snatched one of her "toys" up and threw it at Egwene's stupid judgmental high-and-mighty Amrylin face. That would teach the self-righteous bitch! The dildo slapped right into Egwene's face and ricocheted off.
Nynaeve kept snatching and throwing, dildos, butt plugs, anal beads, nipple clamps, ball gags, probes, iron shackles, even yanking her queening stool from the mud and menacing Egwene with it.
The Amyrlin Seat covered her head under the onslaught and ran back inside the house, screaming.
Nynaeve huffed. That would teach them, teach them all! No one would dare make fun of her toys again. She went into the house after Egwene.
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Fabulous.
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Hooray for the return of the Pillow Friends theme!
Thank you so much for all your hard work, Marie! 
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and don't forget that she made Perrin horny.
Perrin was a virgin boy just out of his teens. Suggestively-shaped fruit probably made him horny.
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This post makes me feel perverted.
Me too
There's a line in NS where Lan regards her body, and for some reason I interpreted it as Moiraine being well-endowed for her size. I think it was something like "However childishly she behaved, the slim body inside that blue silk belonged to no child". Since he mentioned "slim" I assumed that to mean she doesn't have big womanly hips and booty (did I really just type that?), therefore more bosom?
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There probably isn't enough meat on one rabbit to make enough for three people to eat and have some left for the morrow. But knowing Mat's luck, he can probably just catch more.
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You can be like Egwene and get told to give up the Dream but secretly go back into the Dream when the Wise Ones aren't watching. Though you might end up like her having to be strapped by them later on...
Moiraine and Aes Sedai ranking
in Kesiera
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Good point, Erika! I think she probably will.
I think other factors will also help change the Aes Sedai rank system. Most notably the Tower's new Egwene-sponsored alliances with the Kin, the Wise Ones, and the Windfinders, who all base their ranks on merit or age/experience.
On a broader note, it also reflects WoT's changing political system. I know I'm probably regurgitating stuff people already know, but European-style feudalism is dying on the mainland, as you have new, more powerful central rulers with standing armies (Elayne, Tuon, Darlin) slowly absorbing smaller regions with local lords and non-standing armies. And a lot of people are dying/going to die in all the famine and decay (and the Battle), meaning the surviving peasants have more bargaining power with their labor, like serfs after the Plague years, so more power to the people. Rand's universities and international trade (what with all the conquest and unifying going on, plus swifter travel through steamwagons) are on the rise, meaning the rise of an educated, larger middle class. Rand has made laws apply equally to nobles and commoners, such as in Tear. Gunpowder means highly-trained noble cavalry and such are less important than large, conscript armies wielding the new weapons (see English longbow/ Two Rivers longbow vs. French knights, or 19th century guns vs. Samurai).
The point I'm trying to make (it's late and I'm tired, forgive me for this post being so disjointed
) is that the essentially ancient/medieval idea of birthright authority, whether it's nobility or strength in the power, has been challenged worldwide and will probably eventually decline over the next few centuries. And Moiraine's sheer awesomeness will help change things Tower-side. 
edit: can't spell for crap