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I kind of feel like Seanchan was setting up for the "outrigger" stories. MrFarstrider Send a noteboard - 31/05/2017 10:46:53 PM

While nothing significant happens with the Seanchan invasion in the story we have, it feels like RJ left a lot of that story on the table intentionally.

With Mat's popularity to the reader, the potential for conflict between Randland and Seanchan, and some of the promises that were made to Rand by the Seanchan, I feel like an entire series or at least a small saga could've followed on if RJ felt like writing beyond the last WoT book.

It would take the series plot in a different direction while maintaining the WoT setting. RJ had always mentioned the possibility of him writing future outriggers based on Seanchan, I would presume in Randland and Seanchan-actual. Leaving so much Seanchan story left on the table would be a great way for him to lead into follow-on stories.

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Which Part of WoT Plot Did You Dislike the Most? MrFarstrider - 30/05/2017 02:49:26 AM 1763 Views
The internecine warfare in the White Tower should have taken up about one fifth the size it did. *NM* Ghavrel - 30/05/2017 06:01:47 AM 617 Views
It felt like such little payoff for staying devoted to such a terrible storyline MrFarstrider - 31/05/2017 12:33:43 AM 1033 Views
The real annoyance with the WT stuff. Is not knowing if it never meant much, or just died with RJ. Dunstan - 31/05/2017 06:36:57 PM 1083 Views
Almost everything to do with the Seanchan. *NM* Mix - 30/05/2017 07:51:53 AM 1129 Views
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Perrin rescuing Faile HyogaRott - 30/05/2017 04:11:10 PM 1141 Views
A Sanderson book, not a Jordan book, just as a point of fact Cannoli - 30/05/2017 11:55:53 PM 1207 Views
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Have you read Vellum by Hal Duncan? It was worse. *NM* Tom - 01/06/2017 09:03:08 PM 610 Views
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So, you mean most of the Aes Sedai stuff? *NM* Ghavrel - 30/05/2017 08:22:05 PM 602 Views
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I didn't Cannoli - 30/05/2017 11:52:05 PM 1325 Views
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That's true, but she WAS an innkeepers daughter. nossy - 31/05/2017 10:49:04 AM 996 Views
Which simply made her all the more reckless in attempting to NOT be until she wasn't. *NM* Dunstan - 31/05/2017 04:22:46 PM 594 Views
It was the direction he took her. random thoughts - 31/05/2017 03:04:21 AM 894 Views
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I kind of feel like Seanchan was setting up for the "outrigger" stories. MrFarstrider - 31/05/2017 10:46:53 PM 1100 Views
that fact that you are probably right makes it worse random thoughts - 05/06/2017 03:44:23 PM 1037 Views
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I'm always impressed by people who can keep them straight. nossy - 31/05/2017 10:59:09 AM 1000 Views
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Your geekery knows no bounds. nossy - 31/05/2017 06:37:42 PM 999 Views
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Luca's circus...I mean "menagerie" Cannoli - 30/05/2017 11:53:54 PM 1186 Views
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It treated her as somekind of Wheel high priestess... And everone just went with it... Dunstan - 31/05/2017 07:12:40 PM 1035 Views
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The ludicrous amounts of subplots and minor characters. Bergioyn - 11/06/2017 09:32:32 PM 1291 Views
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