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Therava is clever? Lordling Send a noteboard - 13/10/2010 07:29:09 PM
For me it's Therava. She's just so utterly pitiless. And unlike pretty much every other BA or Forsaken or Seanchan antagonist, there's no arrogance to her; she really is as hard and cruel and clever as she thinks she is.

I don't think we've ever seen any indication of her being clever. Forceful, scary, ascetic, intent, bondage lady..But she hasn't done anything actually intelligent. She did try to get one over on Sevanna, but still.

But you're right that Therava is scary, I think so too. I think the new Padan Fain (in ToM) may well be the new scariest character. Prior to reading the prologue I thought he was just a dull shadow wannabe.

A shame that these minor characters are the most frightening, that they have this human evil that is scary. The Shadow/Dark One/Ishamael should have been terrifying, but isn't. The DO is an impersonal entity and that isn't frightening. Ishamael could have been deeply creepy (a mad nietzscheistic (??) philosopher) but he isn't, at all.
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Which character do you find scariest? redqueen - 13/10/2010 06:39:28 PM 1937 Views
Therava is clever? Lordling - 13/10/2010 07:29:09 PM 1174 Views
Fain has always "scared" me the most. LadyLorraine - 13/10/2010 07:50:49 PM 1063 Views
Lanfear Yunalesca - 13/10/2010 08:07:42 PM 1117 Views
Lanfear always made me laugh darius_sedai - 13/10/2010 08:35:02 PM 990 Views
Yeah, i was talking to someone about Lanfear newyorkersedai - 13/10/2010 11:25:20 PM 1078 Views
Re: Yeah, i was talking to someone about Lanfear DomA - 14/10/2010 03:31:25 AM 1158 Views
You seem to mistake "plan" with "goal" Narg - 14/10/2010 06:23:07 AM 1097 Views
Re: You seem to mistake "plan" with "goal" DomA - 14/10/2010 11:06:14 PM 1101 Views
I love our conversations newyorkersedai - 15/10/2010 02:08:59 AM 1163 Views
Me too Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:31:43 AM 987 Views
We've discussed this before darius_sedai - 14/10/2010 09:48:26 PM 927 Views
Moridin/Ishamael, because he reminds me of me ... goddamn *NM* Velveti - 14/10/2010 04:25:04 AM 470 Views
Lanfear and Ishamael are both two sides of the same coin, and both crack me up. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 07:58:46 PM 1102 Views
I'd say this differently ... more like which character SHOULD be scariest to me... darius_sedai - 13/10/2010 08:51:45 PM 1194 Views
What he said. Plus one. Keira - 14/10/2010 02:21:06 AM 1026 Views
a very good point. *NM* LadyLorraine - 14/10/2010 04:29:28 AM 382 Views
Absolutely. Seriana Sedai - 14/10/2010 08:02:58 PM 919 Views
Nods in agreement *NM* darius_sedai - 14/10/2010 09:07:08 PM 503 Views
Bela Bookwyrm - 13/10/2010 09:09:26 PM 1117 Views
Far.AUT, Same here *NM* Nargs - 13/10/2010 09:53:23 PM 455 Views
Second that! *NM* lodlom - 14/10/2010 01:39:21 AM 577 Views
as a horse person and a future equine practitioner LadyLorraine - 14/10/2010 04:30:09 AM 910 Views
Bela is NOT a pony BlackAdder - 14/10/2010 04:32:25 PM 937 Views
well. do we actually know how tall she is? LadyLorraine - 15/10/2010 01:09:55 AM 924 Views
Egwene Cannoli - 14/10/2010 12:14:33 AM 1192 Views
I think you misunderstand Egwene *NM* Helene - 14/10/2010 04:52:18 AM 460 Views
Indeed Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:28:14 AM 959 Views
Even if she's a fraction as bad as I make her out, who is most likely to be around for a while? Cannoli - 15/10/2010 03:12:02 PM 968 Views
But she's not scary... her idealism is tempered by pragmatism - a benevolent dictator type. *NM* Helene - 15/10/2010 03:28:05 PM 469 Views
Someone who compromises her good intentions to keep herself in power - how is that comforting? Cannoli - 15/10/2010 06:22:12 PM 1020 Views
That is not at all what idealsim tempered by pragmatism is. Helene - 15/10/2010 07:56:10 PM 1074 Views
Dear heavens, let's hope so. Joel - 14/10/2010 04:50:37 PM 918 Views
Seconded. And the world is stuck with her for hundreds of years... lilltempest - 19/10/2010 07:59:31 PM 1225 Views
Welcome back. I was starting to feel like a voice crying in the wilderness. Cannoli - 20/10/2010 07:27:53 PM 884 Views
Thanks! With the new book coming, I couldn't leave you here alone with the Egg worshipers! lilltempest - 20/10/2010 10:02:28 PM 1222 Views
Fain was scary in the first 2 books eucatastrophe - 14/10/2010 02:13:44 AM 955 Views
Basil Gill *NM* Matrimony Cauthon - 14/10/2010 02:28:03 AM 465 Views
he moves surprisingly quick!!! *NM* LadyLorraine - 14/10/2010 04:31:41 AM 455 Views
Slayer Helene - 14/10/2010 04:53:01 AM 998 Views
Re: Slayer Timthetrolloc - 14/10/2010 08:38:16 AM 974 Views
I find Slayer to be a bigger joke than Demandred Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:41:48 AM 958 Views
Seconded. I never understood what all the fuss was about Slayer. *NM* RandAllThor - 14/10/2010 03:07:28 PM 403 Views
but he skins wolves in dreamland! ooooh scary *NM* darius_sedai - 14/10/2010 03:48:32 PM 428 Views
I agree. He is hilarious. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 04:16:18 PM 894 Views
I had the same lol reaction BlackAdder - 14/10/2010 04:40:24 PM 1176 Views
And even worse...he's related to Rand, Lan and Galad RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 07:33:45 PM 1018 Views
I don't know why, I just find him one of the scarier people. He reminds me of Freddy Krueger Helene - 14/10/2010 05:41:06 PM 823 Views
I think of Moghedien and Lanfear scarier in terms of T'A'R RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 07:38:58 PM 993 Views
That's an interesting point. The Ta'veren effect is rather scary if you think about it darius_sedai - 14/10/2010 09:47:02 PM 1031 Views
I don't find Shaidar Haran scary, because I'm not a channeler. *NM* Helene - 16/10/2010 08:15:49 AM 429 Views
Re: I find Slayer to be a bigger joke than Demandred Timthetrolloc - 15/10/2010 05:00:54 AM 1024 Views
Unfortunately, most of the points you listed aren't true, are unsubstantiated or show how weak he is RugbyPlayingAshaman - 15/10/2010 04:27:34 PM 1273 Views
Re: Slayer BlackAdder - 14/10/2010 04:42:10 PM 806 Views
Shadar Haran Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:28:44 AM 1001 Views
Shadar Haran is definitely the scariest RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 03:44:39 PM 906 Views
gholam makes it close though. Joel - 14/10/2010 04:54:46 PM 894 Views
If not for the same reasons, I agree this is the best of the conventionally scary characters. Cannoli - 15/10/2010 03:15:02 PM 993 Views
Narg: who else is both evil and genius? *NM* Lohikaarme - 14/10/2010 01:28:11 PM 441 Views
gholam *NM* Deadsy - 14/10/2010 01:55:18 PM 478 Views
second *NM* Foxhead - 14/10/2010 03:02:52 PM 417 Views
yep. *NM* mazza3 - 14/10/2010 06:51:15 PM 404 Views
Yes. Seriana Sedai - 14/10/2010 08:00:12 PM 914 Views
the gray man Deadsy - 14/10/2010 08:44:07 PM 875 Views
Good example! Seriana Sedai - 15/10/2010 01:00:57 AM 911 Views
sammael has this moment in aCoS Foxhead - 15/10/2010 11:36:07 PM 1008 Views
True. Seriana Sedai - 16/10/2010 10:23:15 PM 963 Views
Re: Which character do you find scariest? Evil_Monkey - 14/10/2010 08:00:39 PM 912 Views
Does the DO count as a character? If so the DO. *NM* Knightscape - 15/10/2010 12:15:42 AM 405 Views
As the books progressed, 'scary' changed Zaphod - 15/10/2010 06:31:43 AM 1012 Views
Of humans, Rhadam Asunawa moratcorlm - 16/10/2010 08:52:34 PM 887 Views
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