The Great Hunt Chapters 1-10
Chapter 1 Book 2
For a month the party did nothing. Maybe RJ just isn't good enough to
solve a timeskip. Btw, how much time passed? 3 month? At least.
The answer to why Rand doesn't move though is: he has no goal. The author did not write him any. He is a passive protagonist anyway, without any of his own agenda or actions. Borrring.
Far Dalon ets visitors, the Amyrlin Throne herself, the chief sorceress. Rand panics.
The answer to why Rand doesn't move though is: he has no goal. The author did not write him any. He is a passive protagonist anyway, without any of his own agenda or actions. Borrring.
Far Dalon ets visitors, the Amyrlin Throne herself, the chief sorceress. Rand panics.
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Chapter 2-3 Book 2
Moiraine burns all Rand's clothes - this'll have some importance in a
moment. Thing is, his new clothes all show him as noble (and in the
prologue even Satan named him dragon), so everyone thinks he is noble,
thus important - thus the aes sedai manipulates.
Also, the fortress is under lockdown. Obviously because the Throne. But it also prevent Rand from escaping.
No idea why is here a chapter-break.
There is this annoying thing RJ does, that every single NPC asks "who else would give such command" obviously implying it wasn't from the supposed source, but this is no mysterie as we can not guess who was it then. It is just annoying, and makes us ignore parts of the anyway too long text.
Ya know, this exploring the fortress would be useful, if RJ would utilize it somehow. Who wanna bet who won't?
For some reason Matt and Perring gambles with dices. They've shown no such affinity before. Ok, it's some entertainment, but don't make a habbit out of it.
Fain is locked down, but it seems he is infecting the guards with his evil.
Also, the fortress is under lockdown. Obviously because the Throne. But it also prevent Rand from escaping.
No idea why is here a chapter-break.
There is this annoying thing RJ does, that every single NPC asks "who else would give such command" obviously implying it wasn't from the supposed source, but this is no mysterie as we can not guess who was it then. It is just annoying, and makes us ignore parts of the anyway too long text.
Ya know, this exploring the fortress would be useful, if RJ would utilize it somehow. Who wanna bet who won't?
For some reason Matt and Perring gambles with dices. They've shown no such affinity before. Ok, it's some entertainment, but don't make a habbit out of it.
Fain is locked down, but it seems he is infecting the guards with his evil.
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Chapter 4 Book 2
So, in this nonsense they make Elayne, Caemlyn's queen's daughter
another mageling. Let's hope they don't make her a character, we have
too many needless ones already.
There is a brown ajah, and they are devoted to knowledge. There is a yellow ajah, and a white ajah, and a green ajah. Add the already known red, black and blue ajahm and we end up with 7. As this is the number of the ajahs, the blacks are official. Beats me, but that's what's in the text of Book 2.
There is a brown ajah, and they are devoted to knowledge. There is a yellow ajah, and a white ajah, and a green ajah. Add the already known red, black and blue ajahm and we end up with 7. As this is the number of the ajahs, the blacks are official. Beats me, but that's what's in the text of Book 2.
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Chapter 5 Book 2
So the symbol of the mage clans is the white part of the yin/yang, and the black part is of the darklings. Cliché.
Other news is, the aes sedai is too ancient, too closed, too inward to fulfill its duty.
There is also a theme here of "You can't do anything but what Aslan wants". Horrendous concept, which takes out the tension from the whole story.
We switch to Tarabon, and learn that the Children do conspiracies, and are of no good. Some crusaders were sent here, to do a secret mission for some inquisitors. Ah, inquisitors. Therefor Bors is the head-inquisitor, Jaichim Carridin. Or maybe his assistant, second in command Einor Saren. That's like Satan leads the whole of the Children!
Ok, so here is some red aes, Liandrin, and she is a dangerously big pile of shit. 99% that she is black ajah.
Other news is, the aes sedai is too ancient, too closed, too inward to fulfill its duty.
There is also a theme here of "You can't do anything but what Aslan wants". Horrendous concept, which takes out the tension from the whole story.
We switch to Tarabon, and learn that the Children do conspiracies, and are of no good. Some crusaders were sent here, to do a secret mission for some inquisitors. Ah, inquisitors. Therefor Bors is the head-inquisitor, Jaichim Carridin. Or maybe his assistant, second in command Einor Saren. That's like Satan leads the whole of the Children!
Ok, so here is some red aes, Liandrin, and she is a dangerously big pile of shit. 99% that she is black ajah.
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Chapter 6 Book 2
Ninve has some daddy-issues towards Lan.
And rand IS Prince Charming.
There is a troll attack, inside, so someone let them in. We have suspicion who.
The trolls left a message, to lure the party to Toman head. Why? Who knows. Prophecy-reason. And they stole the Horn AND the dagger. Why? Because!
And of course turns out the command closing the fortress WAS a fake order. Well, I fail to see the significance aside creating extra, superfluous tension.
And rand IS Prince Charming.
There is a troll attack, inside, so someone let them in. We have suspicion who.
The trolls left a message, to lure the party to Toman head. Why? Who knows. Prophecy-reason. And they stole the Horn AND the dagger. Why? Because!
And of course turns out the command closing the fortress WAS a fake order. Well, I fail to see the significance aside creating extra, superfluous tension.
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Chapter 7 Book 2
Matt again gained some time from the curse. This in practice means he'll
not get screentime, or characterisation even in this book either. Why
is he in the story, I don't get it then. Assuming later he gets some
role why not just pack him up, and send to Tar Valon with the dagger?
And don't say because the dagger was stolen, because why was the dagger
stolen? How is the Horn and the Dagger being at the same place make any
sense narratively? They are practicaly made the same item. Worse, we
have no real interrest to get the horn back. It is unusable from what I
get from its lore. And we don't get deeper into its lore, so for us no
more part of the lore exists, therefor that's how much we care about the
Horn.
The Horn itself could have been the mcguffin for this volume, and that'd work. This doesn't.
We get a poem, a darkling prophecy. It starts with "The LAdy of the Dark" - this is obviously Lanfear. So she'll be the miniboss forsaken for this volume. And the poem goes on as a list, therefor that Luc is a Forsaken too. Given he was some noble "lost" in the Blight, that fits. nd there is some Isam too, he is some lost noble too.
We also get some loredump about King Arthur's lost army or whatever - I. Don't. Care. It's all white noise.
RJ is building up something between Egweene and Perrin (love interrest)? I've noticed it during last book's separation too.
Rand keeps strougling telling the guys he is a mage.
Forsakens:
1 Semirhage
2 Lanfear
3 Ishamael, the betrayer of hope (Elan Morin Tedornain)
4 Aginor <--- (dead)
5 Balthamel <--- (dead)
6 Demandred
7 Luc
8 Isam
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10
11
12
13
The Horn itself could have been the mcguffin for this volume, and that'd work. This doesn't.
We get a poem, a darkling prophecy. It starts with "The LAdy of the Dark" - this is obviously Lanfear. So she'll be the miniboss forsaken for this volume. And the poem goes on as a list, therefor that Luc is a Forsaken too. Given he was some noble "lost" in the Blight, that fits. nd there is some Isam too, he is some lost noble too.
We also get some loredump about King Arthur's lost army or whatever - I. Don't. Care. It's all white noise.
RJ is building up something between Egweene and Perrin (love interrest)? I've noticed it during last book's separation too.
Rand keeps strougling telling the guys he is a mage.
Forsakens:
1 Semirhage
2 Lanfear
3 Ishamael, the betrayer of hope (Elan Morin Tedornain)
4 Aginor <--- (dead)
5 Balthamel <--- (dead)
6 Demandred
7 Luc
8 Isam
9
10
11
12
13
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Chapter 8 Book 2
For fok sake, the chapter's title is Dragon Reborn too? This is so cheap and hamfisted.
Lan gives a crash-course how to act like an aristocrat to Rand. After meating with Siuan Sanche (is she mexican in secret?) the Throne Rand joins the search/rescue party of local soldiers who go for the stolen items.
Ok, so elves do not exist here, the aiels are just some hoomans.
Ah, so this "Satan kills time" thingy is that he can hten create his own Wheel, thus re-design the world on his image. And that'd be bad how...?
There is a constant internal strougle in Rand to be himself, not The Chosen Eternal Champion.
Ninive just realised she going to learn magic, heck, even wasting time here is against her duty in her village. Well, she looks at least a bit human for this. She grows some character, has some goal, and a way to get there.
Seems Lan is into Ninive, the feeling is mutual then. But some bushido prevents the whole thing.
There is this attitude between men an wamen. Men of WoT find wamen annoying, but wamen actualy call men DUMB. I understand why some would feel offended, especialy if you read with this breakneck speed of mine now.
It is annoying that it's like 200 pages now, and the story still did not start for this volume.
Lan gives a crash-course how to act like an aristocrat to Rand. After meating with Siuan Sanche (is she mexican in secret?) the Throne Rand joins the search/rescue party of local soldiers who go for the stolen items.
Ok, so elves do not exist here, the aiels are just some hoomans.
Ah, so this "Satan kills time" thingy is that he can hten create his own Wheel, thus re-design the world on his image. And that'd be bad how...?
There is a constant internal strougle in Rand to be himself, not The Chosen Eternal Champion.
Ninive just realised she going to learn magic, heck, even wasting time here is against her duty in her village. Well, she looks at least a bit human for this. She grows some character, has some goal, and a way to get there.
Seems Lan is into Ninive, the feeling is mutual then. But some bushido prevents the whole thing.
There is this attitude between men an wamen. Men of WoT find wamen annoying, but wamen actualy call men DUMB. I understand why some would feel offended, especialy if you read with this breakneck speed of mine now.
It is annoying that it's like 200 pages now, and the story still did not start for this volume.
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Chapter 9 Book 2
This "putting away the sword in the scabbard" thing is chekov's gun, right?
Our suspicion about who let the dogs in is confirmed.
They introduce Hurin the hunter, or siffer, or whatever. He can smell evil, and at least for this book he'll appearantly be important enough to remember his name.
For fuck sake. This Domon-guy is randomly written in, and if I don't use an ebook, so I have a search-engine, I'd've never found why the name stirrs me. He is the mrechant Team A travelled with on ship last book. Seriously RJ? I should remember all the hundreds of names of insignificance? Fuck you.
He is in Illian, and some shady people wants him to sail west. Seems he is a collector, and collected some BS they rly want. Randomly he has a Seal.
Our suspicion about who let the dogs in is confirmed.
They introduce Hurin the hunter, or siffer, or whatever. He can smell evil, and at least for this book he'll appearantly be important enough to remember his name.
For fuck sake. This Domon-guy is randomly written in, and if I don't use an ebook, so I have a search-engine, I'd've never found why the name stirrs me. He is the mrechant Team A travelled with on ship last book. Seriously RJ? I should remember all the hundreds of names of insignificance? Fuck you.
He is in Illian, and some shady people wants him to sail west. Seems he is a collector, and collected some BS they rly want. Randomly he has a Seal.
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Chapter 10 Book 2
Team A (the guys and the soldiers with the ogre) go across the desert,
and the trolls can run as orcs in LotR. And the enemy has weird pattern
of route.
They get to a ghost-village, where they notice a woman... Maybe.
They soon find the villagers, put on some tree Game of Thrones-style.
Ya know, we again get some lordump, and it gets disturb me, that I have no sense of order of the past events. Age of Legends is kind ye, there, but then World War Troll, Hundred Years War, King Arthur, the Aiel War, whatnot - I have no friggin clue. And without continuity all these loredumps are white noise.
They reach another now-empty village. Rand sees visions of what happened here.
Seems the dark horde rly wanna hammer their point. First the villagers before, now they did something similar to a myrdraal. C00l.
They get to a ghost-village, where they notice a woman... Maybe.
They soon find the villagers, put on some tree Game of Thrones-style.
Ya know, we again get some lordump, and it gets disturb me, that I have no sense of order of the past events. Age of Legends is kind ye, there, but then World War Troll, Hundred Years War, King Arthur, the Aiel War, whatnot - I have no friggin clue. And without continuity all these loredumps are white noise.
They reach another now-empty village. Rand sees visions of what happened here.
Seems the dark horde rly wanna hammer their point. First the villagers before, now they did something similar to a myrdraal. C00l.
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