TEOTW: Part 7 (Chapters 47-End)

[Bill]

Part 7

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[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

So Rand can channel the one power. No real surprise there. We already saw him do that in the Inn when escaping a Dark Friend.

It's interesting to me that Moraine is keeping it secret though. We don't know much about her, Lan or the Aes Sedai in general. SOP seems to be to gentle any Male channeler with extreme prejudice. Yet that's not happening so far.

I've always been a bit confused by this ending though. Mostly about who dies and how. I think it's because I have trouble keeping the Forsaken straight. I want to go find a good summary of either the book or the last few chapters.

All and all though, this book was as good as I remember it. That was a big concern coming in. My tastes in fantasy have changed a lot, but this reread kind of renews my love of epic fantasy. I'm definitely looking forward to rereading the next book.

[Bill]

The ending seems a bit rushed to me. It seemed like the Eye of the World/Green man were going to be hard to find but then they immediately find it. I wish there was more of an introduction to these two forsaken also. Don't think anything was gained by having them be forsaken instead of fades or darkfriends especially since we don't truly see Aginor get destroyed.

I really enjoyed doing a reread of this and getting to pick up on stuff that I missed the first time though I am sure I still missed things.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Yeah. I agree on the rushed ending. I think if this was a first read now, I'd be harsher on the rating and give it a 4.5 rounded down.

But despite that, it still remains a favorite. Maybe more for the impact it's had on my reading in general than just the book itself.

[Scott]

Agree about the rushed ending and I didn't much understand who the two dudes were at the end.

Rand whipping that sword of light at the dark one was pretty bad ass, though, not gonna lie.

I'm interested to see if/when we find out Moiraine's intentions with regards to Rand.

Hope we get to see some training school type stuff with Nynaeve and the other chick when they hook up with the Aes Sedai, that would be sweet

[Bill]

The two dudes were Forsaken which doesn't leave me too impressed with the Forsaken. For a group that is supposed to be really powerful and scary it wasn't a great first showing.

[Scott]

Bill wrote: "The two dudes were Forsaken which doesn't leave me too impressed with the Forsaken. For a group that is supposed to be really powerful and scary it wasn't a great first showing."

haha, yeah indeed.

[Teanka]

Well, in their defence I can say that they were shortly escaped from prison and didn't regain their full powers yet.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I've always kind of assumed they were just on the weaker end of the Forsaken power scale..

[Bill]

Moraine says that Aginor was supposedly second in power only to Ishamael among the forsaken. Obviously knowledge of the forsaken and the breaking of the world seems to have gotten twisted by time so this could just be another instance of that.

[Slick]

Mostly just a combination of years of weakened imprisonment and over confidence.... Although neither were that impressive to begin with, Aginor was quite powerful but he was more a mad scientist than a warrior and Balthamal was one of the weaker men and a pretty useless lech...

[Sumant]

I enjoyed the reading descriptions of the blight, I thought they were really written. I am waiting to read Ingatar in next book, because his character was really written.