By Linda At the Con, I was surprised when Alan of Team Jordan asked a question of me, rather than the other way. Alan : This is something ...

By Linda First up, I want to thank the JordanCon team for letting me be a panelist. It was an honour. All the sessions I attended, including...

By Linda Having fun in Atlanta! The weather is good, the people are welcoming. Well worth the agony of the 20 hour flight and 31 hours with ...

By Linda An article on the possible sources of all place names, current and historic, Origin of the Place Names , is now published on the Th...

By Linda First up, here are the answers to Old Salt's difficult quiz that I posted yesterday: 1 c, 2 b, 3 a, 4 d, 5 e, 6 b, 7 b, 8 d, 9 ...

Old Salt also cooked up a difficult quiz for the New York booksigning. 1) What is the name of the Aiel grub that is sweet and crunchy and ha...

Old Salt was a Stormleader at the NY book signing and devised this quiz for that celebrated occasion. Since there's only a bit over a we...

By Linda Today I've posted the section on Aes Sedai modes of dress to the WOT Costume article. This means slashes, shawls and rings! De...

By Linda The article on possible sources for character names starting with L has been published in the Reference Library. There are a few b...

By Linda Today I'm posting the introduction to a series on Costume in the Wheel of Time , illustrated and augmented from the one I wrote...

A new article is now available in the Reference Library: Matter of Britain 2: An Arthurian Who's Who. Matter of Britain 1 was about the...

By Linda The article on possible sources for character names starting with K has been published in the Reference Library. Rand's mothe...

By Linda The article on possible sources for character names starting with J has been published in the Reference Library. Jahar Narishma an...

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...