"Courage for the obvious reasons, although I find myself agreeing with Alcatraz when it comes to the kind of courage that you need to go into the Tower of Ghengei. Fire hurts the Aelfinn and Eelfinn, disrupts their magic somewhat. Music can lull them, although it stops working once they get angry. Iron is just about the only material that can touch them."
"Kind of. Technically we need three things. 'Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to dazzle, iron to bind.' But courage can't be collected easily."
"I didn't really care about that. Maybe you did, but it was fine with me. I liked Mat more anyways, and he really comes into his own in that book."
"Yeah. If we're going to go to the tower, we need music, iron, and fire."
"Rand's less a character and more a plot point in that book. The Well of Ascension isn't really in WoA that much, but no one complains about that title. Everyone is looking for Rand, revolving around Rand, and at the end he appears. And I didn't really have a problem with the pacing."
"Minor changes? Right. Keep lying to yourself."
"I'll just make a gateway. Dimensional travel is difficult without an angreal, but I should be able to manage it heading back to my homeworld."
"You wouldn't last three seconds in there alone. Your options are either living like this for the rest of your life, or dragging me and Haly along to the tower with you."
"Yeah. It was on the list the infirmary staff gave me. I think it said something about foreign investiture exacerbating the damage to your soul." Nameless put another book down, moving on to one of the last few he hadn't read.
Nameless shrugged, dropping the books on the table in front of Haly. "TAAron wanted to see if there were any alternatives before we went for the more dangerous option."