Strangely, Tuon is pretty much the only Seanchan character I don't like. I wish Galgan had been the Emperor, it would have been so much better.
Tuon has been undesirable to me from the beginning of the series. She's everything that's rotten about a royal lineage with the strictest cultural boundaries.
After reading what other posters have written, I'm surprised we're reading the same series. She's completely inflexible and only believes things once she is literally overwhelmed with evidence. She only conceded to herself that Mat was perhaps more than a brigand in TGS when Rand and Nynaeve both told her that he's a good man. Mat is going to rue every day he's married to her. Her handling of channeling has been anything but flexible - she still intends to leash everyone and she attacked the Tower.
She's the biggest threat to the Light and has undermined them more than the Shadow has. She's very lucky Rand didn't destroy them, which he had every right to, though I think Egwene is going to take a nasty bite out of her.
Tuon has been undesirable to me from the beginning of the series. She's everything that's rotten about a royal lineage with the strictest cultural boundaries.
After reading what other posters have written, I'm surprised we're reading the same series. She's completely inflexible and only believes things once she is literally overwhelmed with evidence. She only conceded to herself that Mat was perhaps more than a brigand in TGS when Rand and Nynaeve both told her that he's a good man. Mat is going to rue every day he's married to her. Her handling of channeling has been anything but flexible - she still intends to leash everyone and she attacked the Tower.
She's the biggest threat to the Light and has undermined them more than the Shadow has. She's very lucky Rand didn't destroy them, which he had every right to, though I think Egwene is going to take a nasty bite out of her.
I stand by everything I posted higher up, but I'm defending Tuon the woman. Tuon, the character in RAND'S thread, is just awful. She deserves everything that comes to her. She does constitute the biggest threat after the DO, and her society is nearly as bad as darkfriends for all the cultural threat they pose to Randland. To us, her unwillingness to make peace with Rand is like another nail in the coffin of the Light. To her, she just refused to make a treaty with the people she came to conquesr under her rule. She's probably more than a little pissed too, based on her norms, to find that they have forgotten the oaths they swore, and that instead of being welcomed and honored by a united people, like she believed, she found out she had to subdue most of a continent one fractured empire at a time while they summoned their best to face her with. Just Tuon, the person, is highly likable. The role Tuon is playing in our main plot, and what her beliefs are leading her to do at this most critical point in history makes her a very effective villain.
She's completely inflexible and only believes things once she is literally overwhelmed with evidence.
^She could be an Aes Sedai!!! Or almost any other female in this series!!!
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. ~Birgitte
This message last edited by CatherineSedai on 20/07/2010 at 01:17:54 AM
Character discussion 10 : Tuon
- 18/07/2010 06:08:30 PM
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Most annoying, unlikeable, incomprehensible, irredeemable character in the books.
- 18/07/2010 06:44:14 PM
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I disprove your argument with one word. Coincidentally, it is a character.
- 18/07/2010 07:50:17 PM
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Re: Most annoying, unlikeable, incomprehensible, irredeemable character in the books.
- 19/07/2010 05:57:29 PM
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Re: Most annoying, unlikeable, incomprehensible, irredeemable character in the books.
- 20/07/2010 01:01:50 AM
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Re: Most annoying, unlikeable, incomprehensible, irredeemable character in the books.
- 20/07/2010 06:36:11 PM
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I really like Tuon.
- 18/07/2010 07:45:11 PM
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Re: I really like Tuon.
- 18/07/2010 07:56:22 PM
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I guess I should have said she and Egwene share positive personality traits
- 18/07/2010 09:01:50 PM
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- 18/07/2010 09:01:50 PM
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Re: I guess I should have said she and Egwene share positive personality traits
- 21/07/2010 01:26:03 PM
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- 21/07/2010 01:26:03 PM
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Cool character but has major flaws
- 19/07/2010 06:22:15 AM
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The a'dam and the 3 Oaths are a lot alike.
- 20/07/2010 01:01:49 AM
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Re: "She is a better ruler than most". Really? Can you provide the examples?
- 19/07/2010 06:58:46 PM
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Re: "She is a better ruler than most". Really? Can you provide the examples?
- 20/07/2010 12:39:15 AM
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Re: "She is a better ruler than most". Really? Can you provide the examples?
- 20/07/2010 03:59:30 PM
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You meant to say Graendal used Arad Doman as her base & destroyed it, right?
- 20/07/2010 04:14:41 PM
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There are plenty of examples
- 20/07/2010 08:59:19 PM
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Re: There are plenty of examples
- 21/07/2010 02:21:01 PM
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Does Tuon know sul'dam can channel or not?
- 18/07/2010 10:56:40 PM
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I'm laughing out loud. AS are normal women? Have you been paying attention to the AS she's with?
- 19/07/2010 01:35:08 AM
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A horrible woman
- 19/07/2010 07:02:45 AM
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Re: A horrible woman indeed!
- 20/07/2010 01:17:18 AM
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Yes - and the Seanchan Empire is ten thousand times worse than a White Tower-like organization
- 22/07/2010 03:24:28 PM
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I think she has the most potential for evil
- 19/07/2010 03:24:28 PM
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Tuon and omens plus other thoughts.
- 20/07/2010 05:20:26 AM
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On that note, I think she is a bit uncanny because she sometimes seems a bit insane
- 20/07/2010 03:52:58 PM
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One thing among many that really bothered me about Tuon
- 21/07/2010 08:07:57 AM
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