This video is awesome

A great video, one of the things I've always liked about Wheel of Time is that you're lucky if all you face is an 8 ft tall genetically engineered killing machine. I would say you were pretty spot on with the list too, figured Gholam wound top the list; those things are insane.

When reading the books, I felt that the Golam had the opposite of plot armor. It was an enemy so powerful that the plot had to limit it for reasons that don't really make sense. It's afraid of crowds or being seen for... REASONS. It's also following the only person in the world that, as far as we know, possesses the means to injure it. Why didn't they just send it to the white tower? None of the Aes Sedai or warders would have had any chance of stopping it. It could literally kill everyone there. Or send it to assassinate various world leaders. Or just send it into battle against literally anything. It's almost a plot hole.

In the Eye of the World the worms are "afraid of what lives in the high passes". I want to know what those things in the high passes are. I always pictured someone that could fly, maybe a jumara with wings?

Video idea: covering people with talents that are not power related. Ie Mats luck, Min's viewings, dreaming, the wolf talent, etc

Great video! I'm loving watching these. My one comment: I don't know exactly where I would put it, but I would put the Draghkar higher. I get that you're dealing with book content. But I've always felt that in the books the Draghkar were underplayed and characters got lucky with them, very unrealistically. You have a creature that can swoop in from the air near-silently, and all it has to do is make a sound and if no one else is around that didn't hear that sound to help you, you are 100% worse than dead. That's a horrifying creature. Personally, I feel like Jordan realized he made something way too powerful so he just threw them into situations where characters got lucky and then mentioned them less.

Great list! I agree completely. Gholam are also the only Shadowspawn that can pass through a Gateway without being killed.

This is a video I’ve been wanting to see from any KZfaqr for years!! Thank you Nae’blis for finally bringing it to the table! 👍

That whiteboard in the background is AWESOME!

So glad you guys finally got together to have a chat! It was a great episode of WoT talk and this video was killer too

Are you planning on doing a video on Mashidar? He was one of the more fascinating creatures we encountered in the series. I had a theory that he was at one point a Gholam who had survived the War of Power and the Breaking. He was described as having similar characteristics to a Gholam but different enough that I figured he was, like a jumera, an evolution of the larval Gholam.

Rip Nalesean.

Just saw your vid w/ Daniel Greene. It was pretty good. Keep up the great work!! I love the WoT and your videos!

Mat's gholam is still falling... ha-ha!

Trollocks should be 2 categories, wolf heads or "minds" as the borderlanders call them and normal trollocks like "beaks" and "horns".

All you have to do is tickle the taint, to stave off the madness.

Can you do the top ten generals/military leaders? Please

To answer your back wall question? No. I would pledge to him immediately.

I don't remember #2 at all in the books. When or who encounters one of these crazy creatures?

As recently as a few years ago, I learned that a gray man is a real thing. In the prepper world, a gray man is someone who can move through crowds without drawing attention to themselves. It’s basically a good skill to have after “the shit hits the fan” as the preppers say. It’s good to be able to move through a town without making the people suspicious. I tried to research it to figure out where the idea originated

Given that the Worms and Jumara are unable to leave the Blight (and therefore unable to participate in the Last Battle) I would bump them down personally. Gholam's absolutely 100% deserve the #1 spot though. Question though - How were the Gholam's put into a stasis box in the first place if weaves cannot touch them?

This may be over kill but darn that music in between!!!!!

The moment I saw the title of this video, I immediately thought of the Gholam as #1

Thank you for this video and for the respect you gave Aginor at the beginning. It makes me wonder, with so many trollocs and myrdraal, are shadowspawn constantly created or is it just the breeding of the trollocs that keep the world populated with myrdraal and trollocs? Plus, are all the other shadowspawn just waiting at shaol ghul or are they created for each purpose the forsaken had for them.... i.e. samael and the dark hounds.

I'm a little late but if you include gray men then you should also include the corrupted Aiel in the final battle. Probably one step above myrdraal.

I hadn't scrolled down to Daniels video before seeing this one and found out about the collab from this vid. beaming

I did not know there were female Trollocs used for breeding. Where does that happen?

Reading the books I thought Gholams were waaay too OP.

Can you do a video explaining everything you know about the jumara? Because i dont remember it and was wondering wwhere it appears

Seems like the Jumara should be higher than the Gholam. The Forsaken use Gholam, reluctantly, but they would never even dare use a Jumara for anything. Spoiler, sorta: Does Demandred kill a Jumara to get Sakarnen?

Good video, agree, thanks.

I would go insane if I felt the Dark One's taint. So so so insane. lol

Amazing!

So my very first thought while watching this was the Darkhounds, primarily because they can't be killed except by Balefire and that every time they showed up in the books, I was like "oh shit no". LOL So when I saw them at number 4, I was running out of ideas of what could be next. I totally forgot about number 2 (Honestly, I have to look them up because I don't recall when they are introduced in the books. It's been a while since I read that...). Your number 1 pick, I do agree with, but wonder... if they were made to kill Channelers, why was this particular one after Mat? Anyway, Great video. I just got finished with Daniel Greene and you on his WoT Talk. Glad you guys got together and did that! I hope you do more. I also want to join your Discord and am trying to figure out how to.

So...something to ponder. Would Zomara be the only Shadowspawn you *don't* want to kill? Because it seems to me that beings like them would be very useful, particularly for nobility.

Great list!

Great video! Thanks!

Very good list!

Do we ever see a Jumara in the books?

those actually look like Trollocs, as opposed to some of those drawn on the book covers. So why didn't the Gholam just go out and hunt down all non black ajah channelers? And what happened to the worms and jamarah after the last battle?

The sacrificed human (for the Tha’kandar blade) doesn’t get to actually die, if I remember correctly.

If something was 8-10 feet tall, it would be so hard to kill. 2-3 million trollocs would be unstoppable

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I respect the gholam as well...but...would a gholam defeat a Jumara? I should think not.....therefore. Switch 1 and 2....lol...love these lists great one. I don't have a great yearning for power, I am happy to serve under you after the last battle.

Why didn’t the myrddraal just kill rand in chapter 1?

Nil gonna be surprised if gholam aren’t 1

Not sure if he counts but I would put Slayer just above myrddraal...

I only watched this, because there are not 10 Shadowspawn and I wanted to see what the list was. Now I see it's because there are three non-Shadowspawn on it. The forgers are clearly made with the power specific to the Shadow, but the zomara are not definitively known to be so. They might be an ordinary construct like the Nym. In any event, they aren't really shadowpawn like the others. You might as well put the Myrdraal swords on the list. And Grey Men are not shadowspawn. If they are on the list, the Forsaken should be as well. Both are ordinary humans, spawned by testicles and uteruses, who make a deal with the Dark One. So really, this is the top 7 list, which was only achieved by breaking the initial rules by including the worms and jumara, who never appear in the main sequence books and are cheating to split one creature into two different entries. Also, Draghkar are not incredible assassins. We only ever see them succeed outdoors and at night, there is no especially about it. Grey Men, on the other hand, can penetrate incredible levels of security, and can strike at people both indoors and out of doors. No one loses a fight to a draghkar, so it's not like their inhuman talents make them all that effective. Draining someone's soul is also a far more time-consuming process, which is not exactly ideal for an assassin. For the record, the Wheel of Time Companion names jumara and worms as the same creature, does not list the zomara as Shadowspawn or a creature of the Dark One, as it does Trollocs, Darkhounds, Myrdraal & Draghkar.

I called my boyfriend a shadowspawn when we were arguing today lol 😂

Wish we could have seen a juhara.

How would you rank Padan Fain/Mashadar among dangerous shadowspawn(?). The entire world dodged a big bullet with Mat's luck on that one.

Why are Ravens and rats controlled by the dark one on this list? Once they are taken over have they not become his creation?

So trollics came from humans does that mean the murdwral would be people able to use the one power?

Gholam can easily kill off all white walkers and witch king

Wait, 5% of Trollocs become Myrddraal? That doesn't seem right... There isn't nearly enough Myrddraal for the number of Trollocs we see. While reading, I always had the impression that there was about one Myrddraal per 200-300 Trollocs. I know that not all of them would be with Trollocs, but I don't think it would compensate all the difference.

like the list how about weave lists

No music in between please

Aren't there only about a dozen types of shadow spawn any way?

Spicy

What about those red veiled Aiel?

SPOILERS***************** If gholam are so fast, then how did a wounded Mat scare off one in Ebou Dar? I know he had a necklace, but still. He didn't it use for a large portion of the fight, he has no superhuman speed (unlike a gholam), he has no superhuman strength (unlike a gholam). This is the problem with creating overpowered enemies for our heroes. On one hand, you want them to be powerful, so they can be an obstacle for our heroes. On the other hand, our heroes must somehow survive/defeat them. And in this case, well, Mat should be dead and buried.

I thought jumara were the worms, and jumara'nai were the mutated one.

Do Dreadlords count as shadowspawn? What about the red-veiled Aiel?

the title of this video is "Top 10 Most Dangerous Shadowspawn", not the most powerful. Thus, I don't think the Zomara even deserve the #10 slot; they're harmless.

What is the link to your discord server?

Padan Fain character examination

Like the channel. But fantasy casting is something im not interested in. News all about. Having a convo about best hollwood actors in a show we know they wont work on. Not so much. Good channel. keep up the new content

Cool channel jsut hate the music in between

I would have put the Jumara before the Gholam. The Gholam is more of an assassin. While he is pretty much unstoppable and could have killed the entirety of the white tower, so could the Jumara. And it would have been faster, bloodier and more destructive. If you wanted to defeat an army and you had the choose either one of them, I would want the Jumara by my side. I would have loved to, idk, see Demandred ride it during the Last Battle or something. Other than that, great list. But, uhm, why didn't you put the swarms on the list instead of the Somara?

I would be very interested in your thoughts of the most powerful users of Tel'aran'rhiod. I've had several debates with myself on who the strongest would be in that realm. I think the top 2 would be a toss up between Perrin or Egwene. Thoughts?

Would you go insane also if you felt the dark ones taint? 🤣🤣🤣

I hate the music in between.... Please stop it.

Great videos, but the jingle gets annoying very quickly...

You stop the music to early every time!

So glad to find this channel. Daniel Greene got to be unbearable after just a few videos