Welcome! I am currently in the middle of a reread/first read through (long story), but I could not agree more with WoT never leaving me alone. Glad to meet you and look forward to seeing your reread thoughts.

Maybe a third of the way through FoH and surprised at how I remember everything except Rand in this one lol. The things I did remember I didn't realize were all in this book, though. Like I thought we didn't join the circus until later, but I guess it makes sense because there are loads of things that I know are going to happen, and I only read through book 10 all those years ago. And I am looking forward to circus shenanigans. I remember finding them fun. It's funny how it's like I had some pieces to a thousand-piece puzzle, but no idea that I was missing so many of them. And I am loving this world (and Rand surprisingly). I want to stay here with him and Nyneave forever. It's easy to say that now I guess...

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There’s a fine/lone balance between prewriting and writing. I use a good old notebook and oen to keep track of workdbuilding/character development…but I also make sure I get words on the page EVERY DAY even if I have to put **City Name** or whatever other detail I don’t have sorted yet in every now and again. You can spend a life time building a world and making characters, but it won’t mean anything until you get words on the page. No one cares about a brilliant half written thing, but they are interested in an okayish finished work.

Pure spoilers ahead, although without how long the books have been out, uh, no apologies here. Light burn me if I didn't start crying at the final battle of Two Rivers! I think the only thing I remembered out of this book was Nyneave getting the best of Moghedien. Now THAT scene was a joy to reread. Everything else is a mix of the usual fuzzy half-remembered plot points, but not the details (The White Tower schism happening and Siun getting stilled, but not how it was with Min, Laras, AND Gawyn's help that they escaped). How Robert Jordan handled revealing Lanfear's birth name is the perfect example of how to reveal information without it being an info dump. It's also such a nice detail that Lews Therin is reincarnated as a descendant of someone who served Lanfear before she bored into the Dark One's prison. That was definitely a detail my friend and I missed when we were young teens. I think what I'm noticing now is that Lews Therin clearly did care for her, which is an interesting perspective I never considered before. I always had it fixed in my mind that it was more of an obsessive stalker situation, not him stepping away because he genuinely had feelings for her, and she just cared about his power and how it could elevate her/them.

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I think I am starting to see the problem that happens in the later books…it was in the opening chapter of The Shadow Rising. I didn’t meantion earlier because I didn’t know how to puzzle it out, if that makes sense. The obvious thing is we wind up with too many POVs and it’s like he loses track of whose story this is, but each scene and chapter needs to have conflict (conflict being defined as an obstacle to what the character wants). Robert Jordan gets away with it a bit in the earlier books with worldbuilding stuff, but the opening chapter in this book made me ask “Is this needed?” once or twice. My hypothesis is this will get worse as time goes on and is why certain POVs are a struggle to get through. If not, well, it’s just more evidence that my MA in Writing is worth about the same as frame it sits in.

People hate Nyneave? Let me at those wool brained lummoxes.

Almost two hundred pages into The Shadow Rising, and Rand just tried to save the unnamed little girl's life with Callandor. I have been waiting for this scene! For some reason, I thought it happened at the end of TDR and have been really confused/impatient to get here. I love it for many reasons (including how it makes me tear up). It's a very important reminder that, despite all of their power, people who can use the One Power are still powerless over death, just like the rest of us.

I'm sure there's a discussion for this somewhere, but what about this game: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_wheel_of_time

Yeah, they touch on it being its own dimension in-between place in The Dragon Reborn.

Just finished TDR! I love, love, LOVE the Aiel. Curious as to why I never RP'd as one...maybe because there's a lot of shade and water tags I can't keep track of? I don't know, but it's definitely something to think about for the future. Was pleasantly surprised to see Perrin and Faile fall in love. I didn't remember their courtship at all. I knew who she was when she showed up, but I guess for some reason I thought she and Berelain showed up at the same time, and it was more of a choice on Perrin's part instead of him being already in love with Faile? I'm happy with these misremeberings, though, and at this point I just need to accept this is not a reread. My brain is stubborn, though, and continues to insist I have read ten of these books before in spite of the evidence showing otherwise.

Halfway through The Dragon Reborn, and this one I remember more of. Although I have to admit I thought Tear and Callandor happened a book or two later, so not only have I forgotten a bunch of stuff, I also jumbled up the order of events. I am surprisingly missing Rand's POV. Mat is fun, and I am down for anything WT related, but Perrin...idk, the wolves have so much fun potential that I feel is being wasted, but already his POV is starting to seem like filler to me. I mean, I get why we are getting his perspective, and I'm not saying it doesn't have valuable plot stuff, but his POV feels more like observation as opposed to direct action. Maybe that's why I forgot the first few chapters of this, but I can remember Mat's POV and Egwene getting the ring ter'angreal and all of that pretty clearly. I didn't remember the Accepted going off to Tear, which it looks like they are about to do (I thought they met up with the Sea Folk and did the Aiel stuff first), so this is going to be a fun ride.

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I remember relating to Verin my first time around, like, here is a "real" Aes Sedai. I did catch on that she was a darkfriend around book 7 or 8 iirc. I distinctly remember that there was an inconsistency in something she said, and I was like, "Hold up, did she just lie? OH SHIT SHE DID WTF!" I don't remember the book or the details, just my reaction. That was one of the spoilers I searched online to see if I was right about, because I stopped reading before the big reveal. Yes, that seems like a stupid, crazy loophole the Dark One would leave for someone to get out of their oaths with. I like to think that it's the Creator's hand at work to combat the Dark One. They do say that no one is too far gone in the Shadow that they cannot be redeemed after all. By the way, you can start to pick up her mini lies and inconsistencies in The Great Hunt. Since I knew she was Black Ajah, I was on the lookout. Very slight and subtle, but they're there.