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Re: A horrible woman indeed! CatherineSedai Send a noteboard - 20/07/2010 01:17:18 AM
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.


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
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Character discussion 10 : Tuon - 18/07/2010 06:08:30 PM 2126 Views
Most annoying, unlikeable, incomprehensible, irredeemable character in the books. - 18/07/2010 06:44:14 PM 1310 Views
I disprove your argument with one word. Coincidentally, it is a character. - 18/07/2010 07:50:17 PM 1101 Views
Bah. - 18/07/2010 11:51:48 PM 1096 Views
Actually, I like both of them. - 19/07/2010 06:41:12 AM 1027 Views
Re: Actually, I like both of them. - 21/07/2010 01:22:21 PM 945 Views
I really like Tuon. - 18/07/2010 07:45:11 PM 1221 Views
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Agreed. - 18/07/2010 09:11:19 PM 1027 Views
Re: I really like Tuon. - 18/07/2010 11:53:37 PM 1084 Views
well said *NM* - 19/07/2010 01:39:46 AM 501 Views
Re: I really like Tuon. - 19/07/2010 03:34:42 AM 1050 Views
I disagree. *NM* - 19/07/2010 08:04:45 AM 475 Views
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The a'dam and the 3 Oaths are a lot alike. - 20/07/2010 01:01:49 AM 1190 Views
Re: The a'dam and the 3 Oaths are a lot alike. - 21/07/2010 02:22:26 PM 895 Views
Also... - 22/07/2010 08:39:48 PM 1042 Views
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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 1011 Views
Yeah, What he said ^^ and... - 20/07/2010 01:05:49 AM 999 Views
Need better examples... - 20/07/2010 05:20:48 AM 963 Views
Re: "She is a better ruler than most". Really? Can you provide the examples? - 20/07/2010 03:59:30 PM 976 Views
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Yes. - 20/07/2010 05:17:32 PM 984 Views
There are plenty of examples - 20/07/2010 08:59:19 PM 1133 Views
Re: There are plenty of examples - 21/07/2010 02:21:01 PM 899 Views
Tuon carries out enlightened absolutism, then - 22/07/2010 11:24:22 AM 1058 Views
Re: Tuon carries out enlightened absolutism, then - 22/07/2010 03:32:54 PM 849 Views
The Seanchen as a whole are better rulers - 21/07/2010 04:21:09 AM 933 Views
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Answered my own question = Yes. - 18/07/2010 11:00:09 PM 1023 Views
one of my favorite characters - 19/07/2010 01:38:53 AM 980 Views
Like her - 19/07/2010 07:00:01 AM 1036 Views
A horrible woman - 19/07/2010 07:02:45 AM 1109 Views
Re: A horrible woman - 19/07/2010 08:39:05 AM 1051 Views
on this we agree - 19/07/2010 07:56:31 PM 1051 Views
Re: on this we agree - 20/07/2010 01:04:07 AM 977 Views
Re: A horrible woman indeed! - 20/07/2010 01:17:18 AM 904 Views
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Re: I think she has the most potential for evil - 21/07/2010 04:27:45 PM 905 Views
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