“I won’t shout at you,” Nynaeve shouted.

You forgot the main arc twist for Nynaeve when she loses her block. As she is sinking into the river she tries to save herself with the power but since she can only use that when angry it does not work. So as she is drowning she accepts that she is about to die and surrenders for the first time in her life, which is the key to the female half of the power, so the power flows into her and after this she can use the power without being angry.

I think the main reason Rand feels guilty about the women dying around him is due to Lews Therins guilt at killing his wife bleeding into his personality.

Rand had textbook ptsd. Id bet money Robert Jordan had it and knew how to write about it.

That ending scene of the Seanchan invasion is one of my favorites in the entire series. The awesome terror of what Mat was witnessing was so vivid in my head. I really hope that scene makes it into the TV show and is done justice.

Thanks for these. I listen after finishing a book before moving on to the next one. Great refresher. RIP Nalesean.

Rand doesn't get an Asha'man body guard because he sees how powerful they are, Taim tries to get Rand to take many Asha'man with him for protection, Rand doesn't want them but Taim keeps insisting. Rand finally concedes choosing a single Asha'man at random to accompany him. Anyways thanks for your videos. Although I enjoy this series I have found it difficult to get through at times. Your videos are helpful when I pick up the series again after taking a break from reading them.

The crossed balefire was not aimed at Sammael, he was not in that scene. Rand and Moradin were both aiming at the mist.

A small correction: Rand is saved because of Cadsuane's, Samitsu's and Damer Flynn's healing, not directly because of Ishamael's wound. Damer manages to seal both wounds off to try and finish each other off, but without Cadsuane and Samitsu attempting healing, Rand would've died from Fain's wound and Ishamael's wound wouldn't have saved him

My favorite thing about these videos is I don't think other than Rand I pronounce anything the same. Lol

Wasn't taim the one pushing ashaman bodyguards on rand? He didn't dislike rand taking them, he even wanted to have him take a lot more, no? Can someone confirm?

What about May becoming the queens boy toy.

This was the 1st I read of this epic, way too many years ago. Since then it has been part of my life - finding the books and rereading again and the again. At times didn't want to leave the world Robert Jordan created-didn't want it to end. Don't stop Daniel. You keep this glorious world in my life. Thank you ! Thank you !

Great job dude! Sometimes it is difficult after a 800+ page book to distill what you've read to a coherent plot. Especially if there are...14..... 800+ page books! You helped me a lot with this one!

Getting into this book series not only introduced a new genre of books (movies and tv shows) for me to check out but brought me to this amazing community of fantasy lovers too. I'm loving fantasy KZfaq more than I thought I would.

Big fan of both you and the series, keep up the good work.

Thanks for these videos. Helps understanding the books, especially as I'm just reading them now for the first time. The story jumps all over the place so your synopsis helps keep the action straight

Just finished Crown of Swords!! Started reading it a year ago when I found your channel. I can’t explain the hype of getting to watch your summary videos each time I finish a book. Thank you!! ❤️

Thank you so much. I am on my first read through and I just discovered your channel. I was honestly a little confused by this book and this was super helpful. I am loving the series so far!!

I know I'm very much late to the party but technically gholams are not design to kill warders, because they didn't exist during the age of legends, 1 of the female forsaken mentions once how it is interesting that these lesser Aes Sedai did manage to invent something new, even though they forgot so much.

Guy didn’t see his heron marked sword until after the fight

Really need the updated version of this video. Your summaries are the reason I keep reading the series (not bothered by the spoilers).

Actually, the bonding weave wasn't invented (found?) until after the War of Power; I think I recall that one of the Forsaken (I forget who exactly) at one point remarks that even though the channelers of today are very weak, they are not without ingenuity, and uses that weave as an example. Thus, the golams cannot have been created to specifically kill warders, only to kill channelers while being pretty much immune to physical harm as well. Also, was Mat really doing so well against it? Wouldn't he just have been killed if it weren't for the medallion? Maybe I remember this incorrectly

Just finished this seventh WoT book. And loved it! Very fast paced and an array of great moments across the cast of characters. Highlights for me were the black ajah development, the sequence with the bowl of winds and the gholam, and the Mashadar/Sammael showdown at the end. Worth mentioning the 'Pedron Niall' moment at the start too - what a way to kick off an excellent entry in this series (imho) Personally, must admit I enjoyed this as much as TSR (if not more.......)

Found your WoT book summaries and really enjoy them. New sub! 😉✨

I eagerly await the resumption of these videos, and hope that your move went well! The Wheel of Time had just as big an influence on my life as yours it seems, (based on the ages you threw out in one of your earlier videos) and these have been a great way of reliving such great memories. Enjoy this sub, you've more than earned it!

It wasn't Shadar Harnan, or whatever, it was Moridin watching Sammael. When he talks about hiding in fancloth(warder cloak material), why would a Fade need fancloth, they are shadows.

One Red Sister died so nobody we care about? 😁

I don't think you can say Rand lost the duel fairly. It wasn't a fair fight from the start. "Your jacket will hinder your movement cousin." Rand shrugs. "Your gloves will cause your hands to slip cousin." Rand shrugs again. Rand loses the duel yes, but to call it "fair" isn't really...well, fair. Toram Riatin is one of the best swordsman in the land. He is top 5 according to RJ himself, and Rand goes pretty much even with him with gloves and and jacket hindering him.

These recaps are super helpfull! Thanks again Daniel!

Please keep going, I can't wait for path of daggers

can't wait until the read along episode for this book!

subscribed because you uploaded the video the next day as you said you would

Good job man keep it up!

Thanks and great job!

Finished the book and i am book to you again. And yes this felt really fast paced i though it just felt that way to me.

Cant wait for the review of 'The Path of Daggers'

Appreciate the recaps. I just had someone give me the entire set of Robert Jordan's works. I read a bunch of this series back in the 90's but could not remember where I stopped! Nice swazzees in the computer....the Jains are happy.

Just finished this book. I'll be honest it was my least favorite so far, the battle with Sammael was anticlimactic, the bowl search was really drawn out, Nyneave loosing her block was just going though the motions. Still love the series. More action please. Does this count as the start of the slog? It felt like it.

"Rand loses because he's not that amazing of a swordfighter yet" 🤦🏽‍♂️ several books ago Lan told Rand he was near the level of a blademaster, and Rand more than matched Toram. He was struck once only because he got distracted when Mashadar attacked. It's heavily implied Toram has had his mind warped by Fain/Mashadar into hatred for Rand, possibly explaining why he was so fixated on hurting Rand he ignored the threat of Mashadar around him

good job keep it up

- Envoy is just not the right word for Elaida’s mission to the Black Tower. Envoys are sent to talk, not kill. This is not nitpicking over Wheel of Time knowledge, this is plain English. - We do NOT learn about the connection between Sammael & the Shaido at the beginning of the book. Rather, we get Sevanna’s PoV on Dumai’s Wells, and her plans to meet up again with a stranger. She was NOT working FOR him, rather they are cooperating on a deal-by-deal basis and she isn’t doing anything at his behest. It is not until the end of the book that he sends them through gateways. We know exactly why Sammael does this, and he doesn’t think they are important enough to hate. He does it to place them in the southern area of the continent where they will cause chaos among the nations, and a large number of them will be in the path of Rand’s army that is invading Illian, which will slow the army down and make it take casualties. - Morgase is not suddenly suicidal out of nowhere. At the beginning of the book, she is enjoying herself hanging with Pedron Niall, in spite of her comfortable and polite captivity. Then Niall is assassinated and Valda takes over the Children of the Light. Later in the book, Morgase is depressed and feeling bad because we learn in a flashback that Valda let Raddam Asunawa torture her and then she agreed to sleep with him to prevent more torture. - At the point where Morgase contemplates suicide, she does so not out of depression or in response to long-standing abuse, but BECAUSE the Seanchan invaded and captured the Fortress where she is being held, and Suroth wants to use her as a figurehead to legitimize their future conquest of Andor. She speaks the words of abdication to prevent this, and also contemplates suicide to prevent them from doing it against her will. The invasion does NOT change her mind, it is what inspires her wanting to do it. - The comment about Morgase’s future implies that she’s in the Seanchan’s hands at the end of the chapter. In fact, Niall’s secretary, Balwer, who will be Perrin’s future spymaster, arranges her escape, which he had been planning to spite Valda, but which is now conveniently prepared to get her away from the Seanchan. - Rand is the PoV for a VERY few number of chapters. We follow Perrin’s PoV in the journey back to Cairhien, and only get to one Rand chapter when he sneaks into Caemlyn to order the invasion of Illian, another where he meets with the clan chiefs to demonstrate Merana’s subservience, and then Cadsuane shows up, a couple more chapters where he has the relationship talk with Min and visits the Sea Folk, and then a fifth and final chapter where he wakes from a coma from Padan Fain’s wound and goes after Sammael and kills him and takes the city of Illian. Five chapters out of more than thirty, is not being with Rand A LOT. There are a few chapters where he is present, in other people’s PoV, like four from Perrin’s at the beginning and a couple from Min’s when they visit the rebel camp, and that blurb where they have sex. So maybe a dozen chapters have Rand present. That’s less than one third of the book and we are in Rand’s head for less than half of that. They are not crazy random order, they are chronological order along with the other events of the book, This is a strictly chronological book, although the prologue overlaps a bit with the prior book, and the last chapter takes place after the next book. But all the events in the book take place in the order in which they occurred. - The stuff about Rand going around checking out the Maidens is not a look at Rand’s psyche, because it is from Perrin’s PoV. We know what he’s doing, because he established that behavior in a prior book. - Taim does not like the small size of Rand’s guard or their low ranks. He is not objecting to Rand taking an Asha’man escort, he wants it to be bigger and more prestigious. - “Some woman” has been a key background political figure for three books now. It IS important who she is, because Rand was trying to avert her death foretold in one of Min’s viewings and his impotence in that regard is another problem for his mental state. - The Berelain thing was not about Berelain’s ability to protect herself it was about her staying in Rand’s favor. Rand was sending her away because her service as his henchman was causing political problems which caused her assassination attempt, but also meant he couldn’t use her as governor. He’s perfectly willing to send her into danger if she wants to do it, which he does. And not because of some sexism argument, but to reassure her that he’s not going to forget what she’s done for him. - Rand isn’t hemming and hawing about lines of free consent, he simply believes he physically forced her. People in WoT are not all that concerned with those issues, and if it is a thing, nearly every sexual encounter of Mat’s life until he gets married involves that blurry line of free consent. - Min does not mold Rand into anything. The point of their relationship is that she puts no demands on him and does not make him do anything. She goes along with whatever he wants as long as he keeps her around and accepts their relationship with her. He doesn’t listen when she tells him something is a bad idea, and she doesn’t really try to enforce any of that, as long as he lets her come along. Also, emphasizing Min’s primacy as his love interest is a weird way to describe an incident which highlights that he loves two other women just as much as she. Two women who are much more narratively important to plot at that. - Rand knows damn well that his ta’veren nature is affecting the Sea Folk, he does NOT feel guilty and takes advantage of it and even goes on to the rebel encampment in the hopes of exploiting it further. His sole reason for leaving was the claustrophobic attack.

Keep it up :)

your views on Rand as a sword fighter at this point are strange. It has been two books since he routinely fought 5v1. To say he "isnt that good with a sword yet" is contradictory to your previous videos. Toram Riatin was a skilled blademaster and fanatically fighting rand who was not even into the fight. He had seen Padan Fain with Toram and that was why he approached him. The outcome of a fake duel at a party while a bubble of evil is less important than the fight itself where rand showed he easily matched Toram a known high ranking blademaster.

"He's an amazing swordfighter because he killed two warders on his own" - Next video "He looses because he's not really that good with the sword even though his worst enemy walks in front of him and distracts him" Bro u good? Rand defeated a swordmaster on a fair duel 4 books ago.

onto path of daggers! hope you remake these videos

Thanks for this. Listening to the audio books makes it hard to go back to find stuff. Plus I can't seem to keep all the side characters straight. So many sister. 😳

Ty!

Interesting how you prononce Birgitte. Being french (and reading the books in english) I always assumed her name was a variant of the french name « Brigitte ». If that was the case, Birgitte would be pronounced something like « Bir jitt ». Also, I love yoir videos. I’m reading the summaries on tor.com and watching your videos to pick up the series again. I dropped off at book 11 when Jordan died and thought the series would never be completed. Awesome work!

I usually enjoy these after finishing a book but this had a lot of spoilers for future books I.e rands future relationship with min, the forsaken not showing up again etc :(

Vintage Daniel Greene 😍

More please

I stopped reading mid way through this book. I think I might re read the series from the start bc I kinda stumbled through this series trying to remember everything that goes on. Hopefully the second time will make me have stronger understanding of everything. Daniel, if you read this, how many times did you reread each book before you finally finished it or understand everything that’s going on?

1:56 Chivalrous is the correct word

You spoiled a couple of things, it wasn't obvious it was moridin, also why did you say we never see sammael again?

I heard "Rand and men comfort each other" and I was very confused as to what I missed

I was reading these with my brother -- I got to book 10 and the slog broke me halfway through book 10. These summaries are nice because I can handle dedicating less than 20 minutes heh.

Hi Daniel. I'm curious, did you watch the tv series? I am in my third rereading of this series... and could only handle 3 episodes of the show.

The whole time you are talking I'm picturing chris Pratt acting out road house in parks and rec for some reason.

I think Jordan makes it clear that the fog takes Sam and not Rand.

Sammael spoilers

Great recap! KEYE-ree-EHN. I believe that Aginor created the Gholam (as well as all the creatures of the shadow?). Thanks for making these videos!

Padan Fain wanted all the smoke

I loathe the Seanchan with a vengeance. If I had Rand's power I would have destroyed their navy utterly and forbidden them to cross the Aryth Ocean ever again. They just remind me of the Empire of Japan with twisted magical beliefs.

Rand is chivalrous, and the entire point of chivalry is to respect women. Chivalry isn’t sexism.

Rand is my only light in the dark of the slog

Rand didn't duel the guy because his sword was spotted, he dueled him because the guy was talking mad shit because he felt threatened by Rands presence around Caroline Damodred. He also should have won that duel he was clearly the better swordsman. Anyone is going to be distracted by a giant hand made of mist coming down and snatching a woman into the air.

Thanks for the summary. Great job! One remaining question though, what's up with the swastikas in your computer tower?

Somebody tell me what to read next after WoT & Kingkiller Chronicles

Yo where are the next chapters man

Moghedien was fred by Aran'gar who is Balthamel reincarneted

I thought Rand taking the crown of Illian was because he felt he earned it. Just finished the book-I always watch these right after reading to try and get another angle on the book. Rand seized Cairhein and Tear by force, so he didn't feel that he truly deserved to rule there. In Illian, he seized the city yes but it seemed he intended to leave another puppet government there to help when the apocalypse came. But the Council of Nine offers him the throne because he shipped grain from Tear(a terrible move from a political standpoint in Tear) to stave off famine, and later Sammael as Lord Bren used it exclusively for the army. So the Council felt they were getting a just and noble ruler in Rand. Thus Rand felt he had truly earned the Crown of Swords.

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Didn’t Mashadar kill Sammael?

You deserve credits for being excited about this book... I didnt like book 6 because it didnt bring anaything to the series, this book is the same... it's just a bunch of women being jealous at each other and the plot is minimal... sad because i loved book 1-5

I really like your videos. we have different opinions but it is all minutia. BTW Gawyn is the worst character. I just need to say that.

well you didnt lie about more time

I found the ending very confusing. It seemed pretty anticlimactic. Especially in comparison to the end of "the lord of chaos."

Rand kills 2 warden, loses to some rando?

I think saying that rand is sexist is a very bad misinterpretation of his character. It is chivalry.

you skipped the end dahhhhh

the only thing I have to correct, because I know you love corrections :p Rand and dude from the rebellion don't exactly duel, they spar with practice swords. Everyone watching notes that Rand is a blademaster and is easily holding his own for the fight. He does end up slightly on the defensive towards the end but then people start dying, he looks away, and basically gets bopped on the head.

Honestly I was pissed at the Ebou Dar story line as it was so slow in the beginning and made reading parts of book 6 and 7 very tough to continue reading. However, once Mat moved in the queen's castle things picked up the pace and that story line unfolded beautifully. Probably one of my favourite storylines thus far.

Corrections from 6:49 on - The Cairhien rebels have noble allies from Tear, not Andor. There are some mercenaries who used to fight for Rahvin in the camp, but no Andoran nobles. Also Rand does not walk right in. He & Min are found by the leaders who are out hunting, and they take Rand & Min back to their camp, with only one of them knowing who he is. He does NOT know her at all, and does not pretend to be someone else. She (Carline Damodred, what is with the forgetting women’s names?) simply recognizes him because he has a distinctive appearance, in spite of his lame disguise (an ordinary coat and gloves). She is the one who gives him a cover identity. - Seriously, look up the word “envoy”. In this case, I think you meant “entourage” but he doesn’t have one of those, either, he has Min. - Some guy he ends up fighting is the heir of the last king of Cairhien, who was ruling when Rand first visited the city in the Great Hunt and whose death sparked a civil war. He challenges Rand, because he is jealous of Carline’s attention. - Rand does NOT lose the sparring match (it’s not a duel, since there is no asserted issue they are fighting over; Toram might have an intention of bullying him, but it is presented as a friendly practice match), he matches Toram stroke for stroke and his skill impresses Carline, at the least, who realizes he is a blademaster. Toram sucker punches Rand when a bubble of evil manifests and everyone is distracted by it, and then claims he won. - Daniel Greene is a moron of an armchair fighter. A great swordsman or any kind of great warrior should prioritize a real threat, which Rand does, turning his attention from the clown with a wooden practice sword, to the BUBBLE OF EVIL that suddenly starts killing people! - Padan Fain had NOTHING to do with the distraction. Rand saw him, he was nowhere to be seen during the duel and had nothing to do with the bubble of evil. The mist is not specifically malicious towards Rand and is not directed. It is clearly a random thing, which normal people and channelers are able to fight off with steel or the Power. - They do not HAVE to walk out, Rand is not familiar enough with the encampment to make a gateway out (and the low visibility presumably prevents him from learning it) and he is maintaining his cover as an ordinary relative of Carline’s, anyway. - Fain cuts Rand on the side, which is also where the wound from Ba’alzamon was. And as I recall, in a prior summary, Daniel also got the location of the wound wrong, despite showing a correct illustration in the video! - Rand does not die right away, because Cadsuane is there to Heal him, she has Samitsu & Corele help and calls them two of the best Healers, because she has not met Damer Flinn, Sumeko or Nynaeve yet. And then Osan’gar, who is Aginor transmigrated to a new body under the name Dashiva, has Flinn actually seal the two wounds away in order to fight each other. There is not a description of his wound as being gross, in fact, someone says that is like a cyst filled with evil INSTEAD of pus. - There ARE, not “is”, a lot of casualties. - Moridin and Rand cross balefire while fighting Mashadar, not Sammael. - The only thing Mashadar does is eat people, not a lot of horrible things. One thing. Eats them. - The balefire did NOT hit Sammael, because Rand would have noticed. Robert Jordan said in an interview that Mashadar got him. But Daniel does not read Robert Jordan’s books, so I can’t imagine he would read interviews. - The reason the Council of Nine gives for the crown is that Rand has been feeding the civilian population all this time when Sammael would have starved them to supply his army. They outright tell him that even if he conquered them, they might normally have elected a king to be subordinate to him. This is important, because it has to do with why Rand accepts the crown and it is a step on his path to hubris. - Stop saying “here” or “now” for transitions to different events and settings. You almost always are wrong. The book ends with Rand’s coronation. Elaida’s bit was much earlier. - The escape is not Egwene’s fault, and believe me, I would say if it was. If Egwene had made Moghedian's identity public knowledge, she would have been executed and all the advantage of having her prisoner would be lost. What’s more, people would have figured out where Egwene was getting the “new” weaves she was getting credit for “inventing” and the whole point of that subterfuge, to make the Aes Sedai take her more seriously, would have been undone. - Nynaeve & Elayne go to the Sea Folk, because Egwene tells them not to return to the rebel caravan after they find the Bowl, because of politics. They go looking for help from the Sea Folk, so they can use the Bowl once they find it. - The Sea Folk do not agree to help them look and have nothing to do with finding the Bowl. - They don’t ask for Mat’s help because of the Band, since the Band is following Egwene’s group. They ask Mat because he’s ta’veren. But at least we don’t have to hear Daniel say “TALveren” so I’ll count that as a plus. - Nynaeve is not present for the Aes Sedai meeting about the Kin. - The gholam was made by Aginor, not the Dark One. - The gholam is not designed to kill Warders, because it was invented before Warders existed. Moridin & Lews Therin both note that the Warder bond is something with which they have no experience. - Mat’s skill has little to do with the gholam, his success and survival is entirely due to his medallion burning the gholam and causing it to freak out. There really is no indication of it have much skill, since it has great physical prowess, it doesn’t need skill. Mat swings the medallion around so the gholam leaves, rather than risk another hit. The important thing is that Mat steps up against a dangerous foe because he promised to protect the gholam’s target. That’s the only reason, not because he is confident of his skill or ability to fight it, which makes what he does more extraordinary, and Elayne recognizes this which is why she does a 180 in her opinion of him, which had previously been shaped by Egwene’s trash talking him and Nynaeve’s disapproval of his lifestyle. - The Seanchan don’t attack while they are returning to the palace. They return, they have meetings, they try to persuade the Windfinders to leave the city to use the Bowl safely, Mat eventually convinces them with some ta’veren help, and then, right before they leave, he finds Olver has gone out into the city, so Mat & his entourage, with help from Thom & Juilin go looking for him, while the women leave, and during their extensive search of the city, Mat sees the Seanchan attack. In the next book, we see the women had time to travel to the Kins’ farm, use the Bowl, sort through the cache from the storehouse and do a lot of other personal interactions before they see the Seanchan are arriving.

Hey why did you make spoilers for the whole series??

They shot baelfire at Mashadar

I don't think it's sexism.... I think it's because Lews Theran killed his wife, and it stuck with him through the ages. But I find it interesting that you're calling Rand sexist, when all the women in this book treats men like their idiots..... So that statement was hypocritical lol

Well-said abt the Min/Rand relationship. Also, how young was I that i read these torture and rape scenes and wasn't just horrified = / feels kinda bad.

I pronounce it Care-HEEIN

Yeah Min is totally #1 Waifu.

Why are you saying what happens in later books? What's wrong with you?

Dude... you are putting all kinds of spoilers in the video... you've never done that before on the previous book summaries..

The humanizing of Rand in this book magnifies how awful of a character Richard Rahl is...

I'm a bit late but I cant watch you suffer anymore mate :L It's Care-High-en

how is rand feeling bad about women dying sexist?

calling rand sexist is pathetic. grow up.