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Eegah2012-03-08 15:54:15

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Chapter 16: The Wisdom

Before they can see Nynaeve, Min pulls Rand away to tell him she saw the same “sparks” off Nynaeve as the rest of them, meaning she’s part of whatever Because Destiny Says So they’re all caught up in. Of course.

They meet in the same private dining room, where Nynaeve reveals her Offscreen Moment of Awesome being able to follow Lan’s expertly hidden trail, garnering praise from him that actually embarrasses her. Everyone in Emond’s Field sees what happened as a kidnapping, and she’s there to bring them back. This devolves into Ham-to-Ham Combat between Nynaeve and Moiraine, until Lan gets everyone else out so Jordan doesn’t have to bore us repeating the same points over and over.

After they don’t get anywhere, Nynaeve lets Rand know that Moiraine was also quite interested in whether any of them weren’t born in Two Rivers, bringing back that story of Tam’s that’s been on the backburner for a while. Nynaeve already knows it, and gives Rand a speech about how she saw how much Tam and his wife loved him, and they’re his parents. It would be a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming, except it’s also clear that she’s trying to get him to stop questioning it so he’ll be more willing to come back.

Here we get a branching out from the Lord of the Rings inspiration with this look at the immediate effects that these people leaving had on their hometown. It actually reminds me more of Watership Down, though it’s subtle enough that I don’t get the sense here that that was deliberate. Nynaeve comes from a pretty interesting position, as it’s really on the Aes Sedai themselves that no one trusts them, and she seems to believe at least part of Rand’s story, so I’m rooting for both of them in different ways. She seems set to become a Spanner in the Works, and a rather compelling one.

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Sabbo Since: Dec, 1969
Mar 8th 2012 at 6:06:56 PM
"Offscreen Moment Of Awesome", huh? Interesting. I remember reading a forum post somewhere a while ago (shortly before Robert Jordan died) which was kind of like an Abridged Series, only in writing (as would make sense for a book). It covered the tracking moment by saying how ridiculous it was for someone who's life regularly depends on not being noticed to be noticed by someone with what would realistically be only basic tracking skills. At the end of what was written there, the author (who had gone by the name of ISAM) claimed to be Robert Jordan himself.
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