Theoryland of the Wheel of Time

LOC Signing Report - Tony Zbaraschuk (Paraphrased)

What about those Warders in Caemlyn around Logain in The Eye of the World? Didn't Moiraine say that they were all Red sisters? Reds don't have Warders!

Tony Zbaraschuk

moiraine, aes sedai, warders, red ajah, logain, caemlyn,

Twitter 2009-2010 (WoT) (Verbatim)

Is Logain working for Demandred?

MATT HATCH

BRANDON SANDERSON

demandred, moridin, logain, rand,

Compuserve Chat (Verbatim)

Will we ever know the specifics of Logain's escape, or rather, are they significant at all?

Read and find out. Sorry about that!

logain,

Barnes and Noble Chat (Verbatim)

What was the "extra bit" in The Path of Daggers? Was it the kiss or the bonding? Please help settle this long-standing dispute.

The kiss is necessary, because that's how they learned to do it, because that's how the fellow that developed it did it. The extra bit is something in the bonding, and you'll find out what in Winter's Heart. You should have gotten a clue, I think, in the scene where the bonding took place.

winter's heart, asha'man, warder bond, logain, black tower, compulsion,

CNN Chat (Verbatim)

We know Taim isn't who he says, and so does Rand. But wasn't Logain supposed to reveal him as a liar? What happened to that?

Read and find out. Don't you love it, guys?

taim, rand, logain, black tower, asha'man,

KOD Signing Report - Kevin Dean (Paraphrased)

The NEXT guy asked how the bond the Asha'man use is different than the Warder bond of the Aes Sedai.

He explained that the bond is different because it contains that "extra bit" about obedience. Aes Sedai bound to Asha'man are compelled to comply with the demands of the men. While Aes Sedai can do this to their Warders, it requires work each time. He mentioned that Logain thinks that extra bit can be easily removed, but that the Asha'man feel this is EXTREMELY necessary. A Warder would not kill his Aes Sedai when she turned her back, but the Asha'man have NO such safety with their bound Aes Sedai.

warders, warder bond, asha'man, logain, aes sedai,

KOD Signing Report - Fomu (Paraphrased)

One question that I found interesting, although it slipped my mind last evening, if only for RJ's slick response. The question was about the differences between the Warder bond and the Asha'man bonding of an Aes Sedai.

Fomu

warders, warder bond, asha'man, logain, aes sedai,

Twitter 2011 (WoT) (Verbatim)

Hey Brandon—I always thought Logain had a cool character arc. How much of him do we see in A Memory of Light?

He will be seen. How much, or in what capacity, would be a spoiler, I'm afraid.

logain, a memory of light,

Goodreads ToM Fantasy Book Club Q&A with Brandon Sanderson (Verbatim)

There are some channelers who have lost strength in the Power (Siuan and Moiraine), is this something that can be Healed?

Cory

You have to still/gentle them again, and then have them "Healed" by a channeler of the opposite sex...thats why when Nynaeve healed Logain, he regained all his power.

That is a common theory. I do believe Robert Jordan RAFOed this very question, which is why I feel I need to RAFO it. It should be noted that Siuan doesn't want to try this, for various reasons.

stilling, gentling, severing, healing, siuan, logain, nynaeve,

RJ in the Netherlands - Marion Kippers (Paraphrased)

My question whether Logain knows Cadsuane (one of my main questions, a bit rephrased) got a RAFO, of course, and my question when Logain did arrive at the Black Tower got a quite confused answer. He said Logain had been there for quite a while now, but he would have to look it up in his chronology to find the exact period—not half a year, but some months. Which seems strange to me, since Logain only escaped from the Aes Sedai about two months before he captures Toveine (unless my timeline is completely off). So no real answer here. BTW, does anybody know what happened to Steven Cooper's "Chronology of the Wheel" website? I can't seem to find it at the old location anymore.

Steven Cooper's chronology.

logain, cadsuane, chronology,

LOC Signing Report - Edward Liu (Paraphrased)

I told him about the theory, which someone posted, that Taim is Demandred who will eventually be discovered and killed with Logain replacing him.

He sounded interested at first, but then he laughed (I think about the part of Logain replacing him as the teacher of the Asha'man). And of course he said, "Read and find out."

taim, demandred, taimandred, logain, asha'man, black tower,

SLC Signing Report - Matt Hatch (Paraphrased)

Will we have any Logain scenes/POV?

RAFO.

logain, a memory of light,

Brandon Sanderson's Blog: The Wheel of Time Retrospective: A Memory of Light: The Black Tower (Verbatim)

Rand and Logain

I made a few interesting decisions with the Black Tower sequence. The first was to not involve Rand. Though it would have been a nice narrative balance to have Rand come save the Asha'man in contrast to them saving him in book six, I felt that Rand was riding to the rescue too often. The Black Tower was about to lose him permanently, and if its members could not face their problems on their own, then thematically they'd be left at the end of the series hampered and undermined. Beyond this, I believed that Rand's personality (as shown in earlier books) would push him to avoid being pulled into a potential trap at the Black Tower. His argument that he couldn't risk a confrontation is a good one. Androl and company had to face their problems on their own—save for the help of an Aes Sedai, another thing I felt to be thematically important.

Perhaps the most controversial decision (among Team Jordan) that I made with this sequence was to push Logain toward being a darker figure. Following his extended torture, I felt that Logain would emerge as a different person—though he'd always been somewhat dark. Some members of Team Jordan felt he was past that, and I disagreed. Logan was a false Dragon, gentled then healed, head of a group of men going insane who owed loyalty to Rand—but who rarely interacted with him. There is so much going on with this guy that he could have carried an entire series on his own.

I wanted him to wrestle with all of this. Logain's life ever since his capture way back when seemed to have been one of being shoved this way and then that. He needed to decide for himself what kind of Black Tower he was going to rule, if he was going to earn the honor of men as was promised. (And yes, this had not yet happened at the end of the series.) Logain, so far as I know, never once let go of power in the series—it was always ripped from his fingers. In this case, he was allowed to choose.

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