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The "Wheel of Time" series is one of the most popular fantasy series today, started by Robert Jordan and completed from Jordan's notes by Brandon Sanderson.
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How can cuendillar become stronger if it is already indestructible?
To me it sounds like foolish hyperbolic language to say that any attempt to destroy it only makes it stronger. But this may contain a seed of its nature; It may be that Cuendillar is some form of pu …
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What was not allowing Egwene and co. to leave Tel'aran'rhiod in Towers of Midnight?
It was the dreamspike keeping them from shifting away. They couldn't shift to a different place outside of the dreamspike's reach, though they could shift location inside of it.
It doesn't, however, …
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Why can’t Nynaeve see the glow of Saidar?
It is indeed her block. She cannot do anything related to Saidar unless angry, except use an a'dam.
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The Oath Rod in the Wheel of Time
The biggest reason I believe, given all of the commentary in the books, is that Aes Sedai simply didn't believe it was possible for an Aes Sedai to be a darkfriend. The Black Ajah simply is not ackno …
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Are these characters' names foreshadowing, or just coincidence?
I wouldn't consider this to be foreshadowing at all. The al' is merely a holdover from the culture of Manetheren. al' means 'son of'. Just as today Jurgensen is a surname and does not mean 'Son of J …
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Had the Breaking of the world happened before?
It should be noted that The Wheel Of Time having 7 spokes for seven ages (time without end) is an in-universe cosmology. For the 'reality' of what is happening, I only really consume what Robert Jord …
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Is it discussed how saidin and saidar work together?
If the question is: When a man and a woman link, how do weaves happen, then the answer is two-fold:
The person who is guiding the flows either uses their power (saidin/saidar), and the opposite powe …
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Could any of the "Chosen" have ever turned back to the Light?
Yes. Anyone can turn back to the Light. Its just that almost no one does. There are only two known cases of turning back to the light in the books, and each lived out the myriad of lives
There s …
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Is Rand al'Thor one of the Heroes of the Horn?
Some of Rand's commentary after Veins of Gold seems to indicate he has memories from times between dying in the AoL and the 'present'
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Do Aes Sedai wear tallitot?
The shawls are not really described to that extent. In the Wheel Of Time, our time's influence on their time is minute at best, just as their time's influence on hours is minute at best.
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Were saidar and saidin influenced by the sides of the Force?
They are based more on the concepts of yin and yang:
Yin, the negative, passive, female aspect
Saidar, the female half of the True Source, which is embraced, yielded to, and which cannot be forced to …