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Interviews: COT Signing Report - Ted Herman
Summary:
Entries
15
Date
Jan 7th, 2003
Type
Verbatim
Location
New York, NY
TourCon
Crossroads of Twilight Book Tour
Bookstore
Barnes & Noble
Reporter
Ted Herman
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1
Question
Who is you favorite character, if you have one?Robert Jordan
Well, my favorite character is whoever I am writing about for the moment, but I will tell you which characters I relate to. When I was growing up, I tried to be like Lan. Physically, and partly behavior, I was like Perrin, and behavior wise, I was like Mat. If he had a Harley, I'm sure he would ride one too (chuckles). My wife thinks that I'm "Loial to the life", but I don't see were she gets that."Tags
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How did you know when you’d done enough world building to start? When did you decide it was a fully realized world?Robert Jordan
I’ve never thought that. I’m still coming up with things as I go. As for when to start—flip a coin. I read a book on the history of salt. Because of a particular purpose, I thought it would be useful. Also, I used a good number of articles downloaded off the net. Historical uses, production of salt, every scrap I could find, and in the end I used about six words of it. I didn’t need it, I had it in my head. I could have brought the story to a salt-producing town, and I wouldn’t have had to go into many details, and you still would have known it was a salt town.Tags
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[Who killed Asmodean?]Robert Jordan
There is enough evidence in the books to put together to find out who killed Asmodean. Think! Think! Some of you are Harvard folk! Think! Someone has found out, actually, but I will not tell you.Tags
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4
Question
Is Taim Demandred?Robert Jordan
No, that is totally bogus.Tags
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Question
The question is, with Rand and Lews Therin, do they have one soul or two souls in the body?Robert Jordan
They have one soul with two personalities. The reincarnation of souls does not mean reincarnation of personalities. The personality develops with each reincarnation of the soul. This is the cosmology that I have cobbled together.Tags
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Ted Herman
Could the Dark One have brought back Asmodean if he wanted?Robert Jordan
No.Tags
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7
Question
When you first started, did you know how it was gonna turn out?Robert Jordan
Yes I did, yes I did. But did I plan every single detail? No! I knew the last scene of the last book. It hasn’t changed in 18 years. I know where I’m headed. It’s been difficult to get as much story into any book that I thought I could. It’s why this has not been five books. I told Tom Doherty it would be, back when I got the idea: I don’t think it will be more than five, at most six. I know the major things, and I know them from the beginning, but how I get from A to Z, and the minor things that will happen along the way, I don’t plan in detail before. It’s much more organic that way. I think it would become very wooden if I planned every detail. Sometimes the main thing that happens is not a battle. Sometimes it’s that two people meet, and history changes. History changes because these two people met, and now the future will go a different way than if they did not meet.Tags
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Question
I enjoy reading about Lan and I was wondering if he, Malkier, and the Malkieri traditions play a bigger part in future books than they have so far?Robert Jordan
Read and Find Out.Tags
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9
Question
Moraine. Is she coming back?Robert Jordan
Read and Find Out.Tags
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Question
[How] did Taim track Rand down for the battle of Dumai’s Wells?Robert Jordan
That ones easy, son! C’mon. At that point, Taim was trying to find him like the devil. He knew pretty much what had happened from the beginning. Things were happening. The Aes Sedai disappeared from Cairhien. Perrin disappeared. Rand disappeared. Taim had an idea that something very bad was going on, and when you can Travel it becomes easier to start tracking down where did these Aes Sedai go and Bingo, we got something very bad going on down here, and I’m gonna come and tear the house down. It’s very easy.Tags
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If Rand is the reincarnation of Lews Therin, why does he have no contact with personalities before Lews Therin?Robert Jordan
Read and Find Out.Tags
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12
Question
Was Tam a war hero?
Robert Jordan
Read and find out.
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13
Ted Herman
Will a'dam work in a stedding?
Robert Jordan
Read and find out.
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14
Question
In The Dragon Reborn, how did the other sisters find Moraine in the Mountains of Mist?
Robert Jordan
She’d been putting out feelers. All she had to do in this case was make the first contact herself with an agent of her Ajah, and word would begin to spread. Things are already winding down, so she became a focal point. You might say that the communication networks realigned themselves.
Footnote
The question was incorrectly transcribed, it should read as "eyes and ears", not "sisters."
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Question
I thought that maybe Min’s viewings had some relation to them. RJ describes the Finn as looking, not at Mat, but at the air around Mat’s head. I thought this was similar to the way Min sees her viewings. Are they related?
Robert Jordan
No.
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