By Linda When Rand asked the Aelfinn how to cleanse saidin he received a riddle for an answer; a riddle that, according to Herid Fel, stated...

By Linda Cadsuane is one Aes Sedai who has been instrumental in getting people to serve Rand and keeping them there. Verin is another. The d...

By Linda In Winter’s Heart, Slayer attempted to kill Rand on the orders of a Forsaken, but killed two other people instead. All Forsaken kn...

By Linda One of the impressive things about Jordan’s writing is that even quite minor characters are rounded and have character development....

By Linda And so we come to the long-anticipated arrival of the (at the time) future Empress who, while she won’t live forever will, after sh...

By Linda Many of the westlanders deride the Aiel as savages; in Sevanna we have a noble savage - although not quite in the usual sense of th...

By Linda In Winter’s Heart, Rand re-visited the Academy of Cairhien after his campaign in Altara and Illian. Rand’s aim in establishing aca...

By Linda The hunt in the White Tower for the Black Ajah is one of my favourite sub-threads. I like the Sitters' blend of personalities a...

By Linda This is the second of two posts on my embroideries of Rand’s coats. The previous post on Rand’s black and silver coat is here . Nea...

By Linda Today I am republishing an article from the old Wotmania FAQ on the parallels between The Wheel of Time and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The ...

By Linda The many domestic scenes Jordan included in the books add realism, while often making a point. The laundry scenes, for instance, sh...