Lady_Yasha

APPLAUSE FOR YOU AND YOUR WoT SPOILERS! Dangit. Personally I don't bother with fan-fiction, purely because I don't think anyone can write the characters as good as the author himself. Fan-fiction set in the world, yeah, that's why I'm a member of MBI, but I've never searched out fan material around the main characters before; mostly I wouldn't agree with the perspective anyone wrote. I imagine there's not a lot of FF for this relationship for what RainbowRose says: people might not have been affected by the romance as much as you were. I found the dynamic between the two interesting but it wasn't developed as obviously as some romances I've read.

While I study:

Usually it is. It's either a false positive or someone might have uploaded an image from a dodgy website. Where exactly does it happen? What virus protection do you have? Also, I suggest questions like these go in the Tech Discussion area next time

Is it a decent series? Wheel of Time is perhaps the biggest influence on the fantasy genre besides Tolkien. If you've read Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion you can expect much the same, albeit different. There are no elves, but WoT does follow the typical "Hero's Journey," but consider the time when this was written: in the 80's when such a thing was not yet cliché. Walk into Eye of the World as if you were reading it back in 1990 and you were reading of the farmer-to-legend story for the first time. The similarities I quote with Tolkien are the vast world detail you'll find. Robert Jordan included a comprehensive history - it is a living, breathing world that adapts throughout the books and Jordan has done a masterful job of invoking imagery of his world. That is one of the things Jordan does better than most all other writers that he can craft such a vivid world with an incredible amount of information tucked away on the pages. The last 3,000 years, at least, have a long and detailed history, that while not all of it is explained in the books, Jordan drops a few subtle hints to the way it was. Perfectly so. Wheel of Time focuses a lot on language - there is a fictional language created by Jordan that is seen quite regularly beyond the fourth book: the Old Tongue - culture, geography, nations, and how all these have evolved and matured or mixed. But it is the characters that drive the story. Often, these people do radically unexpected things leaving others and themselves to deal with the repercussions. I'm not feeling that any one character has ever been a Mary Sue, even Egwene who I loathe actually has a dynamic character archetype. But be prepared to have your head wrapped around hundreds of different plots and politicking (all of which are interesting and woven well), and ten times again the number of characters. Seriously, there are literally thousands of characters (don't worry though, we only see from the eyes of ~10 per book). I'm honestly trying not to be biased here, but I've yet to read another fantasy epic that I could suspend my belief in reality to feel as though I'm reading an account of our own ancient history, only more Homer's Odyssey than Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. You'll also notice that Jordan's work is a little "darker" to how Brandon wrote it. There's still some darn fine moments by Brandon ("Veins of Gold", for those who've read it) but there was more... malice, to the evil in Jordan's writing. But yes, Jordan could also lose himself in prose, often with long-winded descriptive narrative, but I don't think Jordan ever wrote something without subtle intent. You won't notice it on your first read through, and yes that will make many chapters feel boring and dragging, but when you re-read those passages after reading the entire series you'll notice some crafty insertion; Jordan was a master of foreshadowing. The books you have heard drone on will be around #7-11, but all are equally important to the story as those around them. You have many finer character moments in those books; characters go through some of their most intensive changes. I will say it now that Winter's Heart (book #9), is my favourite amongst the entire series and is one often criticised for being one of those "slow" books. I loved it. And Crossroads of Twilight (#10) is full of character development but very little plot progression, as it's supposed to be the events alongside those in Winter's Heart. Anyway, I hope that helps ^^ EDIT: Dang, didn't realise how long this was until I posted it v.v

Dude, stick SPOILER tags everywhere on this shizzle. I know it's obvious what it is but still...

I pre-ordered and got mine today ^^

Big Bang Theory, and Sheldon's just called a black HR officer a "slave to her sexual urges" and re-iterated that she's a "slave." I nearly put my fist in my mouth. Sheldon has no clue what he just insinuated xD

I'll allow all of you to bask in its glory a day early:

More oral satisfaction me thinks. Everyone else, in light of his previous behaviour, feel free to let your imaginations wild

As we've seen Aes Sedai held by the Three Oaths can still lie if it is a lie they believe as truth. I imagine if someone knows an act is impossible they can supersede the Oath because they believe flying is impossible. "To serve the Great Lord" - Thevara is not the Dark One, and Lina would know this. Maybe if Thevara had said, "The Dark One commanded you to do this..." she could still use the loophole of believing that Thevara ordered her to do it and not the Dark One. The Oaths, as far as I've gathered, work on subjective rationale rather than objective fact.

I wasn't looking for ground-shaking or engaging. As far as first lines go I treat them as I do any other line in a book. I mention what the book is later and it becomes important even later. Vaul's a scholar, so it's meant to show you he has an interest in books, nothing more.

Another NaNo novella. The prologue's opening sucked so I posted the first chapter's.

And they say I'm a bad influence.

Well someone's going to be facing jail time after China banned time travel.

6-7 years ago I was in high school dear and before that I didn't know what a book was. I'm 22 on Saturday so the time I've spent on this series constitutes a third of my life in proportion. And I can't help but get the general feeling that my opinion has been invalidated because I came to the series so late. I'm as emotionally invested in this story as much, if not more than, someone who has read it since the first release in 1990. These stand as the greatest books in my library and I have literature that set the standard of their time to compare it to. Being a newcomer to a series has never diminished the impact received from reading them. Heck, I was astounded with Dune, which I still hold as the greatest science fiction ever written besides Arthur C. Clarke's work. Age has no bearing on the investment you can give a book. Heck, how many Tolkien fans could claim to know who Melkor was? I have poured over Wheel of Time and Middle Earth lore more than most. You have no indication of how strongly the ending will affect me based solely on my years of commitment. In the face of my undying love and devotion to devouring the lore I am more than capable of having an opinion. Maybe it lends more weight if I say that Robert Jordan was the one who inspired me to read fiction, and also to start writing. Without Wheel of Time I may not have the enthusiasm I have for writing these days.

It's always asked for Meg :)/> When you do edit keep it formal however, and don't insert emoticons. I take it you've read the basic reference tag that you can use? There are others, which for the general syntax it would be: {{ref|b|mb2|c|20}} So in the example above, chapter © 20 of Mistborn: Well of Ascension (mb2; shorthand) will be referenced. A complete list of parameters can be found here, and a list of short-hand forms for each book here. Normally you will have to Google your information and find independent resources. There might even be something on our own forums that you can use, but take care in separating established fact to theory and clarify when something is only theoretical. Brandon's own annotations might provide the answer you're looking for. If not you might find them on Theoryland's Interview Database. For further reading on wiki syntax for referencing you can use this link: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Help:Cite As for book editions Joe will have to clarify that for you as I don't know what he wants doing about them. Hope this helps, and happy editing =D

Bela's had more screen time than all but the major characters

Also, you're forgetting that the continent is as large as America is and if you've ever been to America it's sprawling cities surrounded either by smaller towns or big swathes of nothing and trees. Considering that Randland has had to deal with hordes of Trollocs, malevolent magic users, the Forsaken tampering with governments, and recovering from a near-apocalyptic event, the population recovery rate is going to be drastically different than our world. Sure, we've fought wars since the dawn of time, but when have we ever had to fight off packs of thousands of blood-thirsty polar bears from the Arctic in armour, wielding swords, scythes, and axes? Randland is set roughly in our 17th century; looking at statistics there was only between 500,000,000 and 600,000,000 people around the globe. When you consider a country as large as America holds half that and there are other lands such as Shara, the Sea Folk, Seanchan - were a large contingent of Randlanders were sent to by Hawkwing - combined with the aforementioned threat of constant war and conflict and the recovery after the Breaking then that estimate is going to be lower for their world. It doesn't surprise me that there are sparse lands around the continent. And of course then you have to deal with pestilence, plague, disease, famine; all of which might have arised from the Dark One's touch on the world and natural causes like lack of technology and knowledge of modern science.

Holy French! Day 37's is epic. That has to be the best line I've heard so far. Save for the ending Also, Faile in distress, Bela being all cool: more justification for Bela being the Dark One.

Not at all; Wheel of Time has over-shadowed my life for the past 6-7 years and I'm grateful for such wonderful literature to have been written. I am sad to see it end, but I'm also glad we finally get to know the ending. And what an ending it will be if I can believe the reviews. Seven days to go? Bring it on.

Day 35: "The Blight had consumed the Two Rivers." o.O

Day 34: What did you do when the One Power failed, the thing you relied upon to raise you above common folk? Now now. I'd like to think that is Rand being unable to tap the One Power at some point, possibly when he was bound. But I'm leaning to this being Rand destroying the One Power somehow.

Back to my Dragon Age addiction again.

I bought some cinnamon tea and it is gorgeous.