Haven't watched the video yet but if one of these facts isn't that tar valon is shaped like a vulva I'm gonna flip

@@henryc6632 Boy do I have news for you...

I know you go all in on the Star Trek thing, but my head canon is that Sa'Khan is actually a reborn Shere Khan and there's nothing you can do about it.

It's probably pronounced Reece , like the Welsh name ?

@@fearghalburke6104 it is the Welsh name.

WAP is a better song.

"Sorry, we cannot play "Baby it's cold outside" because it's sexist, Anywhere here's Wet Ass Pussy by someone who admitted to drugging and stealing from men"

Wet Ass Time, Wheel of Pussy Both sound very uncomfortable but also intriguing

@@block4562 only one sounds uncomfortable, and that only depends what you're into

Here's a few more. It has super powerful magic, but based on rules. The books get a bit too slow and complicated later on. But it then has one hell of a finale.

Remedy that. You won't be disappointed... at least for a few months.

I've to reread them all about once a year. It isn't really based on rules, though. There is a lot of "Somehow, he (insert thing that saved everyone)" There are a few books that I read because its like watching an awesome movie scene. Chaos Rising, Winter's Heart, Fires of Heaven, and the last 3 (mainly the first of them) which are the equivalent of watching Neo get shot, die, then wreck the agents after seeing in code.

@@CNNBlackmailSupport you re read them once a year? Damn dude how fast are you?

@@seanassociateproductions1691 I don't sleep unless I read until I pass out, so I do an hour or so a night. It isn't that tough with 7x56 hours and then whatever at lunch or on days off and such.

Is this a spoiler to AMOL? i havent got there yet.

@@THX-bz8bi Depends on how strict your definition of a spoiler is. This easter egg is completely inconsequential to the plot or any character's arc or development, so personally I don't think of it as a spoiler

It was a good scene, showing how an outsider could both want and not want to be in the Ta'verens' position. Noting that while they are wild and amazing and awesome... the shit they had to go through to harden themselves from young boys into these legends wasn't something anyone should want to go through. Fantastic dual purpose scene of giving you perspective and also honoring Dannil's original character before Robert Jordan changed it.

@@THX-bz8bi no, it isn't. Unless knowing Dannil lives is a spoiler. I don't think he is mentioned again. The line is specifically meant to reference Dannil not making the cut, so it's more of an easter egg for the sake of a neat reference and not a plot point.

The real juicy tidbits in the comments as always :)

Ahh I love that idea

But then the rest of the series would need to live up to that, otherwise it would just be a cheap trick.

Congratulations, how long did it take?

Bryan Wegner I read the first 3 books the summer of 2019, then took a break because of work. With the pandemic, I was really able to dive into reading. I read the remaining 12 Wheel of Time books in about 6 months, after which I started and have gotten though quite a few Cosmere Books and other series’ as well.

@@172Mojohero did you pick up the latest stormlight archive book

Christopher Yoder Yes I did, beautiful book! I am making my way through the series currently! Will get to Rhythm this month, I am very excited!

I’m only on book 1 but it’s all good I’m likely to forget any spoilers i hear 😂😂

It is, more or less. It's Welsh, so the pronunciation will be different, but it's better than Daniel's attempt.

Lol there a professional MLB player named Rhys Hoskins that's the only reason I said that

@@michaelpantalone171 I grew up in Wales, so I knew a number of people named Rhys lol. I'm just happy Jordan didn't include much in the way of Welsh lettering, or Daniel would have been really in trouble. "Ch" and "ll" are fun to watch people try and pronounce.

@@CantStopTheMadness thats awesome. I spent 5 weeks in the UK a little over a year ago. Loved Wales. Went to Cardiff, Newport, Caerphilly, and another place I can't remember. Seriously can't wait to go back

Was gonna say this

Ew.

awesome answer

I'm right there also. 🤯😱 chapter 33. Crazy stuff...

Geeze thats fast! Back in my heyday I couldn't even go through the audiobooks that fast.

Took me good 14 months to read it all :D

@@Dogbehu I started on 20th of February and now I'm finishing book 13. Probably done by new year

But it also shows how vonurable even the Forsaken are and how they interact with each other.

@@weleho yeah true but that trade off, for me at least, didnt outweigh Asmodeon's potential he could of had to the overall story. There was so much jordan could have done with Asmodeon. He could betrayed rand when he was getting his powers back, he could of turned good, or sacrificed himself, or turned crazy and done some damage...hell he could of replaced masma as rands crazed prophet and perrin could have fought him i mean the possibilities were endless

I wanted him to come back in differnet body like other forshakens did.. with him going back to light with redemption arc that he already might have been ..

@@mr_noob5931 yeah def lots of potential for that character in my opinion that were wasted for a "whos done it"

@@michaelperillo9316 i like to believe that robert jordan just forgot the character...

yeah, also he gets the swors from "the stone" lul. I always thought merlin was more a mix of moraine and thom merillin. This also fits with the repeating circle, they have our stories as legends, but we have their story as a legend too

yo waddup me too

BE WARNED! Some people give up around book 9 - 10 (due to some plot lines stretching out too long) but they are definitely worth it when you start hitting books 11-14. Brandon Sanderson did an awesome job finishing the series.

The series does get a bit long winded for a couple books, then it's all awesome. But even the slow books have some awesome stuff happen. Sometimes in my rereads, it goes to some side characters, and I'm annoyed; trying to figure out who these people are, and wondering if I really should care.

I found Crown or swords to Crossroads of Twilight tough reading, but mainly because the narrative shifts to some bullshit right when the one you are reading (that WAS the bullshit 200 pages ago) gets good. My favorite scenes from that entire section are of Perrin going HAM for Faile, which isn't a spoiler so much as a character trait.

Wtf im exactly halfway as of today

Also the word shaitan in hindi means rogue or scoundrel, probably a loan word from Arabic that arrived when mughals invaded India?

On a similar note, Satan is a swedish word for the devil, and el toro is spanish for the bull. Linguistics is fun kids.

Also, also, alsooo, Ishamael comes from the Talmudic figure Samael an archangel, known to be 'the seducer' and 'the destroyer' - thought to be Ha-Satan, the opposer, or the adversary. A figure that is not necessarily evil, but one that plays the opposition (in a judicial context) to God. Obviously there's also the the link to Ishmael the first son of Abraham (Ha-Satan appears in the story of Job)

Yeah, Shaitan means DEVIL in hindi too

@@psykedude Yep, spanish has many loan words from Arabic due to it's longstanding occupation by the early Islamic Caliphates

You are correct. Here in Wales, there are loads of people called Rhys.

@@bluesmanfromWales lovely welsh name 💕

It pops up in Discworld too, but I understand thr difficulty in seeing it for a first time without knowing the pronunciation. Like ALL wheel of time names it seems sometimes. Love to see some Welsh viewers in here! Part of my family heritage is Welsh so double yay ;]

I agree more Sci-fi would have been cool. After a while fantasy books get repetitive and are too similar to one another. Sci-fi never gets old to me.

@@totallysick88able Yea, I swap between reading sci-fi and fantasy every few months, or when I finish a series. But I'm reading Dune at the moment and I don't really know what it is! It's kind of both, but also neither..

I thought paris...

And I’m just past the halfway point of Sandman 😁 also loving it

Just do it definitely worth it

No she got her way enough without help. She would be too broken if she was taver' en

@@mattbinkowski2095 Being Ta'veren would help explain some of that though. Egwene being Ta'veren would also fit with a huge motif of the story, Balance.

completely biased opinion: i agree

@@DudeWheresMyJo-Car True, but I think the idea of Egwene going through her arc off her own merits and development gives a lot more weight to her story. It would also be a plot complication to have a Ta'veren in such a high position of power as she attains, as that might be a moral contradiction to the values she promotes when she's fighting in the White Tower. Where the 3 boys are sort of village folk who stumble along in the beginning and the Ta'veren-ness is used to add mystery and tie everything together, I think if Egwene was Ta'veren, here character would try to utilize it more as a tool more often which I think would damage the gravity and struggle of her story.

@@Echidna23Gaming I understand that you feel giving Egwene the Ta'veren luck mode cheat code would undermine her accomplishments. Normally, I would agree that plot armor gives less weight to a character's choices and actions, but I think WoT is different because this is already baked into the way the WoT world works. Since I don't discount Rand, Mat, Perrin, or Lews Therin's accolades for being Ta'veren, then I couldn't discount Egwene her accomplishments had she been Ta'veren too.

Hopefully they do that for the tv-series

I agree

Eh, Shara was out of left field, but Taim as Demandred is literally the first thing anyone who reads it will think. It is so obvious it would be stupid to stick with. I mean, they are the same fucking guy, down to the looks and jaw clench. Taim earned his rank, and Demandred was the practical effects version of the man Taim was only a pencil sketch of. The part where Taim realizes Demandred is nuts is awesome, because it parallels historical warfare. Taim is essentially the Ghengis Khan, to Demandred's Darius/Alexander. Both incredibly dangerous powers, but one maintains the veneer of honor while fielding a completely dominant army, while the other one could not care less about honor because he is all about winning. To understand what Taim represents... Imagine, if you will, a soldier in a city guard that has spent countless hours perfecting his battle skills in preparation for an attacker of roughly the same type of force. He is faster than anyone with his sword, spear, and shield. He is bigger and stronger than everyone else. He can fight for hours without rest... and then Khan rolls up with some fuckers shooting arrows from horses. Can't beat the range of the bow, and even if you could, EVERY TARGET is moving, and horses are too fast to catch with melee weapons. Imagine the realization that occurs when you are staring at the business end of a lost arms race. He doesn't have a chance to even fight back a little. Complete domination from the start. Taim brings the single most deadly force on the evil side, with most of the Black Tower and almost half of the white tower. He is, however, a one trick pony. Macedonia became a power because of weapon technology as well, but in a different way. Traditional battle units and formations were used, with a single devastating modification. The Macedonians used 3-5 feet of wood to become unstoppable in a bid for one of the single most impactful "duh... why didn't I think of that" moments in history. The 3 to 5 feet of wood was placed between the head of a spear and the person holding it, extending the spear's range. Thats right. Their big idea was basically "what if we had longer spears than the other guys?" The answer, as it turns out, is "We can kill them before they can kill us." Despite their incredibly effective spear modification, they still saw battles like a boxing match. Two opponents step into the ring and fight like men until one is knocked out. Sure, it was the equivalent of a 300lb body builder against a blind junkie, but it was an honest battle. If the junkie chooses to get in the ring, they should know what to expect. Demandred has no problem using his entire army against forces that never had a chance of winning. To him, a larger and more powerful army is just proper planning and preparation. It isn't his fault if you didn't prepare, so he isn't going to show any mercy. He uses tactics and formations that put both armies into pitched melee battles, because it favors his army of monsters and Sharan's. He wants to dominate the battlefield more than he wants to kill specific people. Killing Rand isn't good enough. He needs to annihilate and break Rand's forces to prove he is better in some way. Three personal duels and dueling armies wouldn't work without Demandred having a massive advantage. The Sharans are the massive advantage.

Very China inspired even if it is actually the remnants of North America post Breaking

Fun stuff! I wish those books had continued. I would have really loved a prequel series to see how that universe came to be.

In the same boat here. I am now 100 pages in The Dragon Reborn, where I read the other two over the past year in between other books. At the end of each of the previous two books I was hyped for the next one, only for that hype to die out quickly into the next book. I guess I am just waiting for anyone to actually do anything, rather than have circumstance thrust them into action, especially with a concept like ta'veren. For example, Rand meeting Morgase only happens because Rand decided to go out and then climb that wall. However, most other events are just our protagonists being forced to head in a certain direction, be it through enemies, allies or vague writings, only to deal with whatever they find there.

It do be like that sometimes 😔

Me who liked them 🤔

Try the audio books. They're great but my god the way Perrin says FAILE!! FAILE!! is just so awful.

Audio books help me get through Faile and Elayne

@@Mrs.Tincher sounds like a fail

there is no way several people looked at that through the design process and no one mentioned it.

@@DanielGreeneReviews True and he was definitely happy to run with it but I got the impression he hadn't *intended* it when he came up with the idea. I could be wrong though :D

@@DanielGreeneReviews I remembered reading somewhere that Harriet saw the map and knew what her husband intended lol.

I mean, if he didn't make the maps himself (did he?) but just described it to someone, I could easily see how he'd miss it until he was presented with a drawing, at which point it would be fun to just run with the joke.

@@thehoogard True, but the description from the text was pretty dead on with the map. So yeah.... on his map has a dick next to a vag.

Asan'gar is the Non-Binary

@@Shiva182Katarina I thought the books were very clear about how he identified himself (not writing it out because of potential spoilers), unless I am misremembering. Going over the list of POV characters, the Gholam might have been the more likely answer perhaps? (Although I do recognize sexless, genderless and non-binary are three separate things)

The black wind

10/10 suggestion. Would buy, then never wear for fear of thoroughly embarrassing my wife.