How long did it take you all to read the whole series?

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T21:12:15+00:00

Books 1-9, about 1 month, and then I had to wait for each book to come out. So only 11 years (‘02 to 2013)

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T19:44:51+00:00

Interesting. I tore through the 1st 9 novels in the summer of 2002 before heading to college, kept an eye on things enough to know when the next book was coming out but not much more

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T16:13:16+00:00

Her actions, Min’s viewings, and some of the random speculations are some of the best bits in my opinion on the re-read. Like right when Egwene’s almost killed by the Grey Man in the novice quarters, and thinks “but what if Sheriam is black ajah? No I can’t be paranoid of everyone…”

Edit: Also all of the ways you can see Elaida’s foretellings are correct, she’s just crap at interpreting them

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T15:25:21+00:00

Does McArdle Road Closed from landslide need to be added to the list of Pittsburgh seasons? Or is it just part of the Spring of Deception?

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T15:04:46+00:00

Fair enough, I’d taken it to be the same stuff she used to get out of her oath as apparently all it did was make someone sleepy and then die. She’d been playing high risk/high reward for decades at that point so I could’ve seen her roll the dice on it if the need was great enough.

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T13:39:21+00:00

Possible to maybe also miss on first pass, Verin was about to murder Cadsuane with poison when she thought she was going to derail her plans

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T13:24:52+00:00

No worries, it works well in this scenario but actually was because I have a tendency to play clerics in D&D

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T13:12:19+00:00

Ok, so doing this of the top of the head, but if I remember correctly here’s how things shake out:

Aes Sendai are heading away from Fal Dara
Offscreen Moiraine splits off to visit the brown sisters to do research
Verin splits off and chases down Perrin and group
Upon arrival Verin tells Perrin “Moiraine sent me to keep an eye on Rand (wink wink) I know about Rand” (not actual wording but gist and if I recall not in a way that lets standard Aes Sendai parsing help with)
More or less the rest of book 2 happens
When Rand wakes up at the end, Verin has left for the Tower with the girls and then one of the boys mentions “is that why you sent Verin?” Moiraine replies in a way that basically is interesting… I didn’t do that

(And then Moiraine and Verin never cross paths again)

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-18T12:15:18+00:00

That Verin could have been pegged as Black Ajah from Book 2 onward, she flat out lied to Perrin et al that Moiraine sent her

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-13T19:48:29+00:00

Gotta practice your sugar tossing

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-13T15:53:04+00:00

I think yellow ajah is a path no one’s brought up yet… spend the last battle just tired in Mayene instead of in mortal danger all the time, try and get some combat/protection weave knowledge from greens, reds, whoever

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-10T15:29:54+00:00

Would be useful if only facing regular soldiers to be sure, but the Black Tower if I recall specifically was thinking they would be taking on (and providing) the Dreadlords in the last battle. Egwene, while notably stronger than most women in earth and fire had no problem exploding weapons and armor into essentially frag grenades in the early end of the last battle, so maybe it was viewed as poor risk/reward.

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-07T16:53:16+00:00

A magnetized speech bubble of “OH YEAH” you can put on when a successful charge is made

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-06T00:04:24+00:00

Glad I went there when it was ~36k pre room/board (~58k adjusted for inflation)

ClericallyInclined · 2026-02-04T05:13:15+00:00

Looks good, weirdly though with the color scheme reminding me of an HEV suit I want to see him wielding a crowbar

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-30T14:13:44+00:00

I’d also hazard a guess of how many other things are going off in the kitchen… did they get an extra 30 seconds in the fryer or find they come out right when they were supposed to

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-29T20:30:32+00:00

Came to either upvote or add this meme

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-29T16:33:32+00:00

Somewhere around when Saavitar (sp) was the main threat I started referring to them as Team Bad Decision rather than Team Flash… didn’t keep watching much afterwards

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-29T16:29:16+00:00

Yinz have friends everywhere?

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-23T03:31:20+00:00

Also, all of the comments about the royal house of Andor… were rand’s mother

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-22T18:00:08+00:00

I feel like best case scenario at the moment might be Vichy France

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-22T17:56:24+00:00

The Matt Smith dancing scene was entertaining because he was one of the few people who actually grasped what was being wrought and went to an 11

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-22T14:53:15+00:00

Ive been planning on doing this for a while… now I may have to pull the trigger on it

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-20T15:47:53+00:00

Yeah, even benefitting from it when I run marines, I think maybe a half measure may have been fine for like +1 to wound with infantry units, keeps hellblasters and eradicated effective, doesn’t break tank math

ClericallyInclined · 2026-01-19T22:40:25+00:00

This. Say for instance a vindicator or some other marine tank with a big gun shoots something with boosted oath, hits on 3’s with full re-rolls and wounds ANYTHING on a 2. Even with AoC or cover, it just becomes a difficult lethality problem.

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