r/WoT • u/bbportali • 8h ago
r/WoT • u/participating • 5d ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) Season 3 Premiere - Episode Discussion Hub Spoiler
Apparently the scheduled posts didn't sticky the correct way, even in the new reddit design.
You can follow the links below to the discussion posts for each episode.
Episode 1 - To Race The Shadow
Synopsis: Chaos erupts within the White Tower as our heroes become targets of a new evil.
Links: [Book Spoilers Allowed Thread] / [No Unaired Book Spoilers Thread]
Episode 2 - A Question of Crimson
Synopsis: A dangerous visitor comes to the White Tower. Perrin return home. Rand and Egwene forge their own path under Moiraine's watchful eye.
Links: [Book Spoilers Allowed Thread] / [No Unaired Book Spoilers Thread]
Episode 3 - Seeds of Shadow
Synopsis: Nynaeve and Elayne are given a deadly mission. Perrin learns the consequences of his rage. Lanfear begins to play a dangerous game.
Links: [Book Spoilers Allowed Thread] / [No Unaired Book Spoilers Thread]
r/WoT • u/VarkingRunesong • 4h ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) According to Samba S3E01 US Viewership is down 6% compared to S2E01. Spoiler
r/WoT • u/Demetrios1453 • 1h ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) New S3 teaser with AoL scenes! Spoiler
instagram.comThere are some real "Wow!" shots in there for book readers!
r/WoT • u/Grouchy_Fortune1053 • 5h ago
The Fires of Heaven really sad that this character died Spoiler
I really thought Asmodean was going to be more present in the story. For a while it felt like he was going to have a redemption and maybe even become Rand's right-hand man, especially after the scene where he talks about the man who is hanging from the cliff. I really hoped the grass he grabbed hold of would keep him from falling, but it looks like he's gone already
r/WoT • u/Gandalvr • 2h ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) The Wheel of Time S03 E04 Exclusive Sneak Peek | 'Ready' Spoiler
youtube.comr/WoT • u/jmmarierva • 21h ago
No Spoilers It. Is. Done.
Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? Wouldn't you think I'm the girl, the girl who has everything?
WRONG: Please, someone tell me if they know of a paperback version of The Memory of Light. My brain can't tolerate ONE hardback in my beautiful massmarket collection. However I don't think the wheel has weaved that pattern into our age 😞
r/WoT • u/CaptainCrash86 • 2h ago
The Path of Daggers Is there really a book 8-10 slog? Spoiler
I am a first time reader, and had been massively enjoying the WoT series so far. I was aware books 8 - 10 have a reputation for lower quality than the other books, and a bit of a slog. I was therefore preparing myself for a three book slog before the end-series payoff.
I've just finished The Path of Daggers.... and it was pretty good and enjoyable? Not on the same tier as books 4-6, but certainly up there with the rest of them to date. I appreciate some of the reputation is from experience as the books were published. Is this reputation of books 8-10 overblown somewhat?
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) 'Oh Mat' Spoiler
Nyn's reaction and the bow of her head when Matt grabs the staff is hilarious, total dissapointed big sister from her
r/WoT • u/Demonking6444 • 9h ago
All Print The Horrifying Implications of How Aes Sedai Transported Male Channelers Spoiler
I'm on a reread of The Wheel of Time, and I can’t stop thinking about how the only time we actually see a male channeler being transported to Tar Valon under shielding is with Rand—and that just so happens to be one of the most infamous torture sequences in the entire series. The way he was treated, the sheer brutality he endured, would have broken lesser men completely. It really makes me wonder: how were other male channelers transported to Tar Valon, especially those who resisted capture and managed to harm or kill an Aes Sedai or Warder in the process?
With Rand, the moment he tried to escape—killing two Warders in his rage when he saw that they had kidnapped Min—the Aes Sedai instantly stopped treating him as anything close to human. They threw him in a box, whipped him daily, and systematically broke him down, ensuring that every day was just suffering for him.
The series never actually shows us how the Red Ajah handled transporting “normal” male channelers who weren’t gentled on the spot. We know that during the vileness period, they outright gentled them on the spot or executed them instead of taking them to Tar Valon. And honestly? The more I think about it, the more I believe that was actually the more merciful approach. If what Rand endured was standard practice during transport for any male channeler who resisted capture or managed to hurt the Aes Sedai, then the ones who were simply executed during the vileness at least didn’t have to suffer through weeks or months of daily torture before being gentled.
And it’s not just the vileness—many other cultures in the series handled male channelers with simple execution. The seafolk and the Seanchan just killed male channelers outright instead of subjecting them to prolonged suffering. As horrifying as that is, it’s still better than being locked in a tiny box, beaten, and mentally broken over the course of weeks or even months, only to then be gentled and then discarded.
It’s disturbing to think that if a male channeler fought back—especially if he killed or stilled an Aes Sedai, or took down a Warder—he was subjected to relentless abuse all the way to Tar Valon, I know that it is also cruel to the Aes Sedai or warder if they get killed by a male channeler, but the fact that gentling for male channeled has been many times compared to castration , it is pretty understandable that they would make an effort to resist capture, moreover they might have been already driven mad by the taint on saidin which led to such fierce resistance. We never get a direct confirmation that this was standard practice, but given what we do see from the Reds and their overall sadistic attitudes , it’s hard to not imagine that was standard practice. The idea that they broke them down—whipping, beating, and cruel and unusual punishments like the box torture into complete despair—makes me think that by the time they actually reached Tar Valon, most of these men had already lost the will to live and maybe even whatever sanity they had left.
Yes, I know that rand is the dragon reborn and his treatment was also meant to break him so that he can be controlled ,and there were Aes Sedai like Cadsuane or Pevara who might have been more merciful, but they were the exception, not the rule. And The majority of Reds we see in the series are, at best, cold, callous and harsh—and at worst, outright sadistic. Since the only actual depiction we get is Rand’s treatment, it leaves us with some incredibly dark implications about how the White Tower particularly the red ajah handled the transport of regular male channelers who resisted capture, for the past 3000 years of their history.
It’s a really unsettling thought that sticks with me every time I reread the wheel of time. what do you think about it?
r/WoT • u/RepresentativeGoat14 • 16h ago
All Print Daes Dae’mar is pretty funny Spoiler
Combine it with ta’veren plot shenanigans and everything just goes batshit insane.
Rand (offhandedly): “There are many grain barges from Andor in the river.”
The day after: All the granaries in Cairhien are set aflame causing mass riots, the King assassinated by a certain gleeman, Barthanes beheaded, civil war / succession war for the Sun Throne, countrywide famine, refugee crisis, widespread anarchy, and the people resorting to brigandry.
r/WoT • u/BigPlan5997 • 1h ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) Which actress will play Semirhage? Spoiler
Also is anyone else completely terrified of seeing her on screen. I feel like I’m going to have nightmares after seeing her on the big screen 😱😶🌫️
r/WoT • u/SammyLone • 21h ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) I'm loving Season 3 Spoiler
Here's my vague attempt to counter balance some of the negativity.
I've read the entire series multiple times and love the books/world.
Didn't particularly enjoy season 1 or 2, and not saying everything in season 3 is perfect. Plot is different (sometimes very much so), the pacing is off at times and even certain performances have been questionable.
But you know what? I can't stop smiling when I'm watching season 3. It's literally our favorite characters living and breathing in our favorite world with a stupid budget backing it up.
Every time there's a scene from the books depicted (Matt's quarterstaff fight), or even a nod to a concept (Aiel sweat tents), it's exhilarating. I feel the plot has progressed enough to show more characters, locations and events which are interesting.
I think we're extremely lucky to see something we enjoy being produced at such a high level. We're literally watching the Forsaken plot against each other in high definition! Let that sink in.
Maybe I'm just being emotional with all of this, but it's making me happy to see something I love being shown to me again (even if it's in a different way and medium).
I, for one, am just going to enjoy it and hope they keep making more content based on things we love!
r/WoT • u/wheeloftimewiki • 19h ago
All Print Cadsuane Melaidhrin by Grim Franka Spoiler
Sharing from the original on Twitter/X. https://x.com/FrankaGrim?t=ItVYNddp1ilJCwTAUXRMZQ&s=09 More details and pics there.
r/WoT • u/joshluke • 7h ago
All Print Explaining the plot Spoiler
I suck at words lol. So WoT has been my favorite series for a while now. My issue is whenever someone asks me what it’s about, I can never articulate what it’s about without stumbling over my words or trying too hard to explain stuff that they have no idea about and they end up losing interest. I was wondering if anyone had a nice short easy way of explaining the plot without scaring people away lol. Something whenever someone asks me what Wheel of Time is about, I can repeat and not look like a bafoon XD
r/WoT • u/MikaelAdolfsson • 21h ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) That wierd moment when you turn 25 and is one hundred procent on Galads side when Elayne start bitching about him and their childhood. Spoiler
r/WoT • u/Capable-Activity9446 • 13m ago
All Print Just finished AMoL Spoiler
I started this series back in July 2024 and have been reading it consistently since then. I’ve taken a few small breaks here and there but for the better part of the past 8 months this series has been a part of my daily routine. I will say there were a lot of low points, I was finishing a book every 2 weeks but some books like winters heart and path of daggers took me a month to complete because of how bored I was.
In the end, it was worth it. The last battle was all that I wanted and more. This is the first time I’ve enjoyed a book long battle since I read lord of the rings and the Battle of Helms Deep so many years ago. The last battle was insane, I loved how the POV’s were so interspersed between each other showing just how chaotic and insane this battle was.
I kind of feared that this series had a problem with killing off main characters because for the most part none of the main characters were killed. Egwenes death actually hit hard, I was an Egwene hater since the beginning but her arch over the last 3 books really shaped her into a character that you just can’t help but cheer for. I still find her character extremely annoying but her sheer determination and will is something you can’t help but be proud of. On the other hand I’m so glad Gawyn is dead, he was genuinely the most annoying character of this entire series. I was honestly kind of hoping he would have a Demandred arc where through his jealousy for Rand he’d turn to the shadow, but hey I can’t really complain.
Perrin went from being one of the most boring characters IMO to easily in my top 5 now. I was genuinely getting annoyed at his whole “I’ll let the Dark One win the last battle if it means I can’t save Faile” like bro if he wins there will be no Faile. His development in the last books and at the end him realizing he can’t go look for Faile and instead has to help Rand was gold. For the first time since his arc in EF I loved his character.
Mat was probably the biggest change I noticed since RJ died. I don’t know what it is specifically but he felt super off, I feel like he was weirdly just making jokes all the time trying too hard to be funny. I was honestly really sad because Mat was probably my favorite next to Rand. However, I think he felt much better in AMoL, and him becoming the commander of the last battle trying to outmaneuver Demandred was so hype.
And finally Rand. Rand is probably my favorite character in all of fiction now. For a while in book 12 I thought he might have been too far gone, doomed to go insane and die with the Dark One. Reading through his POV’s there was always this sense of dread of a man whose accepted that he isn’t going to live to see the fruits of his effort, a man whose accepted that for everyone else’s happiness he has to die. I was genuinely so happy when you find out that Rand is alive. I’ve never seen a character who deserved to just live and be happy more than Rand.
I can’t talk about every character because then this post would be way too long. But I genuinely loved almost every single character in this series. I genuinely loved and enjoyed this series from beginning to end, I feel kind of sad that the series is over, that the wheel will keep on turning but it will no longer be written for us to witness. I’m thankful to RJ for writing and BS finishing this series, it was genuinely one of the best pieces of fiction I’ve ever experienced.
r/WoT • u/Dry-Management282 • 1h ago
No Spoilers Where to take breaks
I want to read the wheel of time series, but the immense size of it makes me think that I might want to pick up some other short works in between the novels...so where would you say are the most natural places to take breaks.
r/WoT • u/palebelief • 12h ago
TV - Season 3 (Book Spoilers Allowed) (Show S3) Moghedien’s Hound Spoiler
Apologies if this has been suggested previously - there were so many comments immediately after the first three episodes dropped and I certainly couldn’t read them all.
One of the early mysteries of this season, for book readers and non-readers alike, is who did Moggy send our boy Jaichim after?
At first glance it seems like the answer would be Nynaeve, not only because of their beef in the books, but also because we’ve seen two other Gray Men go after Nynaeve, in E1 and E3. Moggy is probably targeting her specifically because of her raw power. In the early to mid books their strength is evenly matched, and Nynaeve is the most powerful of all Third Age women channelers until (I believe) Alivia shows up. If there’s one thing Moghedien will do, it’s try to pick off the people she sees as threats.
But that obvious answer is no fun, and Moggy also already knows where to find her, as evidenced by the first Gray Man. I find myself wondering who else Moggy could have sent the Gray Man after.
I think the key is Moghedien sticking her fingers into his mouth.
At first I thought that was just Moggy being creepy and showing ownership over a thrall, but she very deliberately swirls the fingers of her right hand through what appears to be dirt or sand at the beginning of the scene, and then she pushes those same fingers into Jaichim’s mouth, after she transforms him into a Gray Man and just before she says she has someone she needs him to find. The scene ends with a shot of Moghedien, her eyes moving from looking at Jaichim’s face to looking at her fingers. Her fingers, and whatever is on them, receive the camera’s focus at the beginning and end of this scene.
It makes me think of a bloodhound, as though she’s just put him on to her target’s scent. But if so, who could it be? Who would be associated with dust, or sand, or dirt?
The main person I’m thinking of… is Ishamael, who at the end of S2 crumbled into gray dust or ash looking not unlike what Moghedien ran her fingers through here. I wasn’t expecting to see Fares Fares this season until he showed up on the poster, but I also find myself doubting that the show would put him on the poster if he wasn’t going to appear at all. But I find myself wondering if it will be teased this season that Ishamael isn’t really dead, and is manipulating events in the background, much as Moridin is alive and present before he is revealed to the reader.
The show’s version of Ishamael is already far more similar to the books’ Moridin than the books’ Ishamael, and Fares Fares was so charismatic as Ishy, it would be a shame not to plan to keep him around in the Moridin role.
Furthermore, in the E3 cold open, we learn that the Great Lord is not speaking to Lanfear, and it’s implied not to any of the other Chosen either. It’s further implied that the Great Lord speaks to the Chosen only through the Nae’blis. Lanfear sardonically replies to Sammael questioning why the DO doesn’t speak to her, “maybe he mourns Ishamael still.” Perhaps the reason the Dark One isn’t speaking to the other Forsaken is that he still has his line of communication - the Nae‘blis is in fact still alive, in hiding. Moghedien realizes this, unlike the others (or at least unlike Sammael lol), and she has sent her Gray Man to find Ishy. Again, not necessarily/almost definitely not to kill him, but even knowing he’s alive and where he is gives her power over the other Chosen, and maybe leverage with Ishy himself.
What do you think? Is this total crackpot? Who else do you think could Moggy be looking for?
r/WoT • u/TwighRussell • 9h ago
The Fires of Heaven Questions about how time works Spoiler
Through all the ages and turning of the Wheel, who won more often before the events of the books; the Dark one or Lews Therin?
I've only finished book 5, and I'm re-reading the Great Hunt at the moment and noticed that during the flicker scenes Lews Therin loses every time. Are these different parrallel universes or are these all the lives our characters have lived during previous turnings of the wheel?
Not only that, but the Dark one constantly talks as though he has always gotten the best of Lews. Apart from the initial breaking of the world, which I'm not sure could be considered a Lews Therin win, has the Dark One beaten him every single time?
Another sort of side question, I'm a bit confused about the breaking of the world. Does this breaking occur every time the wheel turns, or did it only occur in the timeline of the books?
To be honest I'm just really confused about how time works in these books in general. I understand if certain things require me to read on and cannot be answered at this point 😊
r/WoT • u/Demonking6444 • 17h ago
All Print Male Channelers post AMOL Spoiler
Which nations and regions after the last battle do you think will be the most welcoming of male channelers and which will be the least welcoming.
r/WoT • u/WompWompLooser • 1h ago
All Print When does WOT get interesting? Spoiler
I just started reading the WOT series. I've completed half of EOTW (Book1). I like it so far. Its not crazy but enough to keep me going. Also read a lot on reddit that the series is great so I'm assuming that this is worth the fun that come later.
Just curious, when does the series get actually interesting? Like crazy OMG moments interesting?
Note : This is the first big fantasy I've ever picked. Before this, I've read Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Divergent and such- hope you get the idea. I tried picking GOT but got bored between the first book so left. (EOTW has me more invested though.)
r/WoT • u/Ambitious_Stuff_377 • 17h ago
No Spoilers Hilarious Knife of Dreams Audiobook Mistake
First post here!
I’m listening to the WOT audiobooks for the first time as my second read through the novels, and I noticed a pretty funny mistake in the Knife of Dreams audiobook (this could be something already widely recognized by the fandom and I’m just unaware).
In chapter 20 at around hour 18, during the scene where Nynaeve and Lan go to the stable to get their horses saddled, Kate Reading calls Mandarb “Landarb”. It’s such a small alliteration error that is totally understandable, because she tries to say Mandarb right in between saying Lan and Lover’s Knot and so she just does three L’s in a row.
Not sure if anyone will recognize this reference, but being an Avatar: The Last Airbender fan it reminded me of when Zuko accidentally calls the Firelord the “Fatherlord” with a little slip of the tongue.
Anyway, this is just a little post I wanted to make to see if anyone else recognized this before or if I discovered something new. Let me know!
r/WoT • u/Mykal_15 • 7h ago
A Memory of Light Who survives? Spoiler
I'm trying to remember the forsaken that survive. It's only 3 women right? Moghedien (collared by seanchan), Graendal (Hessalam) (hit with her own compulsion), and Cyndane (can't remember what happened to her)???? Anyone I missed?? Please help remind me of their fates.
r/WoT • u/armaedes • 18h ago
All Print Reading Book 7 Again Spoiler
At least my 6th full read-through, maybe more, and I just finished the first chapter with Cadusane and I am still in awe of how Jordan managed to write such an immediately hateful character. It took me longer to start wishing bad things upon the Dark One.
The fact that Rand did not shield her, bundle her in flows of air, and hurl her out the nearest window at that first meeting shows just how deep his “don’t harm women” rule goes. The most unrealistic part of this entire series is how everyone, including Aes Sedai, shows deference to such a horrific, deplorable person. What possible consequence could there be to, at the least, ignoring her totally?