@wheeloftimerook There are a lot of metaphors in the wheel of time and this interplay is dominant among them. Joseph Campbell and Jung were a likely influence but I haven’t delved into the epistemic etymology.
@wheeloftimerook Another is the one power and its associations with the sexes / energies, and the taint on Saidin vs the purity and accessibility of Saidar. Saidar is associated with air and water, Saidin with earth and fire. Interestingly, I’m on book 6 and noticing it’s only because Egwene was
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Captured and forced to learn what to do with her earth affinity that she was even taught some of those things: the White Tower’s main tools seem to mostly focus on air, water, and spirit. You’d think there’d be an earth/fire department
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Captured and forced to learn what to do with her earth affinity that she was even taught some of those things: the White Tower’s main tools seem to mostly focus on air, water, and spirit. You’d think there’d be an earth/fire department
@wheeloftimerook But there’s actually not much of one: there are individual tutors for the characters in the series mostly. And sometimes that learning is forced. These are the geniuses of Jordan’s books: he’s showing they partially get that way by the old system of apprenticeship and practice.
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But he also includes some references to experimentation, like when Egwene tests the One Power with Rand briefly to see if he can feel when she channels. And also talent that was nurtured by practice, IE Nynaeve. We are shown the creation of
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But he also includes some references to experimentation, like when Egwene tests the One Power with Rand briefly to see if he can feel when she channels. And also talent that was nurtured by practice, IE Nynaeve. We are shown the creation of
@wheeloftimerook Heroes one step at a time, showing us their value system: duty, their systems for exploring, challenging, and handling the world: science, engineering, testing, manipulation, virtuous habits - Rand practices the sword every day, Egwene dreams as often as she can.
@wheeloftimerook So he’s really portraying excellence as best he can from his historical perspective, and that is why his characters ring so true, relatable, and admirable (or detestable): they do their best to do their duty at every point and fail sometimes. This is in direct contrast to the
@wheeloftimerook Grotesque view painted by GRRM of a world where 20% of people are psychopaths, many of them at the top, and the rest are driven crazy by them, and everything generally ends horribly. In his world, no one can be a hero because they’ll be killed or sacrificed soon.
@wheeloftimerook GRRM is a fantastic horror fantasy uncle, but i’m kind of glad his imagination runs light in the magic department considering what he did with mundane implements
@wheeloftimerook Anyway, GoT asides aside, I am on book 5 of the WoT and having a lot of thoughts and feelings about the kind of world building and character building he did. There is so much relief from past pain in reading about characters who transformed their traumas into weapons for good
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