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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 2087 Views
Therava is clever? Lordling - 13/10/2010 07:29:09 PM 1303 Views
Fain has always "scared" me the most. LadyLorraine - 13/10/2010 07:50:49 PM 1170 Views
Lanfear Yunalesca - 13/10/2010 08:07:42 PM 1233 Views
Lanfear always made me laugh darius_sedai - 13/10/2010 08:35:02 PM 1105 Views
Yeah, i was talking to someone about Lanfear newyorkersedai - 13/10/2010 11:25:20 PM 1198 Views
Re: Yeah, i was talking to someone about Lanfear DomA - 14/10/2010 03:31:25 AM 1306 Views
You seem to mistake "plan" with "goal" Narg - 14/10/2010 06:23:07 AM 1214 Views
Re: You seem to mistake "plan" with "goal" DomA - 14/10/2010 11:06:14 PM 1208 Views
I love our conversations newyorkersedai - 15/10/2010 02:08:59 AM 1275 Views
Me too Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:31:43 AM 1126 Views
We've discussed this before darius_sedai - 14/10/2010 09:48:26 PM 1040 Views
Moridin/Ishamael, because he reminds me of me ... goddamn *NM* Velveti - 14/10/2010 04:25:04 AM 540 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 1216 Views
I'd say this differently ... more like which character SHOULD be scariest to me... darius_sedai - 13/10/2010 08:51:45 PM 1319 Views
What he said. Plus one. Keira - 14/10/2010 02:21:06 AM 1155 Views
a very good point. *NM* LadyLorraine - 14/10/2010 04:29:28 AM 442 Views
Absolutely. Seriana Sedai - 14/10/2010 08:02:58 PM 1041 Views
Nods in agreement *NM* darius_sedai - 14/10/2010 09:07:08 PM 569 Views
Bela Bookwyrm - 13/10/2010 09:09:26 PM 1233 Views
Far.AUT, Same here *NM* Nargs - 13/10/2010 09:53:23 PM 513 Views
Second that! *NM* lodlom - 14/10/2010 01:39:21 AM 632 Views
as a horse person and a future equine practitioner LadyLorraine - 14/10/2010 04:30:09 AM 1030 Views
Bela is NOT a pony BlackAdder - 14/10/2010 04:32:25 PM 1048 Views
well. do we actually know how tall she is? LadyLorraine - 15/10/2010 01:09:55 AM 1053 Views
Egwene Cannoli - 14/10/2010 12:14:33 AM 1309 Views
I think you misunderstand Egwene *NM* Helene - 14/10/2010 04:52:18 AM 525 Views
Indeed Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:28:14 AM 1065 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 1072 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 526 Views
Someone who compromises her good intentions to keep herself in power - how is that comforting? Cannoli - 15/10/2010 06:22:12 PM 1139 Views
That is not at all what idealsim tempered by pragmatism is. Helene - 15/10/2010 07:56:10 PM 1202 Views
Dear heavens, let's hope so. Joel - 14/10/2010 04:50:37 PM 1032 Views
Seconded. And the world is stuck with her for hundreds of years... lilltempest - 19/10/2010 07:59:31 PM 1349 Views
Welcome back. I was starting to feel like a voice crying in the wilderness. Cannoli - 20/10/2010 07:27:53 PM 1013 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 1343 Views
Fain was scary in the first 2 books eucatastrophe - 14/10/2010 02:13:44 AM 1066 Views
Basil Gill *NM* Matrimony Cauthon - 14/10/2010 02:28:03 AM 519 Views
he moves surprisingly quick!!! *NM* LadyLorraine - 14/10/2010 04:31:41 AM 519 Views
Slayer Helene - 14/10/2010 04:53:01 AM 1107 Views
Re: Slayer Timthetrolloc - 14/10/2010 08:38:16 AM 1092 Views
I find Slayer to be a bigger joke than Demandred Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:41:48 AM 1079 Views
Seconded. I never understood what all the fuss was about Slayer. *NM* RandAllThor - 14/10/2010 03:07:28 PM 471 Views
but he skins wolves in dreamland! ooooh scary *NM* darius_sedai - 14/10/2010 03:48:32 PM 477 Views
I agree. He is hilarious. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 04:16:18 PM 1018 Views
I had the same lol reaction BlackAdder - 14/10/2010 04:40:24 PM 1286 Views
And even worse...he's related to Rand, Lan and Galad RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 07:33:45 PM 1150 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 931 Views
I think of Moghedien and Lanfear scarier in terms of T'A'R RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 07:38:58 PM 1113 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 1144 Views
I don't find Shaidar Haran scary, because I'm not a channeler. *NM* Helene - 16/10/2010 08:15:49 AM 481 Views
Re: I find Slayer to be a bigger joke than Demandred Timthetrolloc - 15/10/2010 05:00:54 AM 1159 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 1383 Views
Re: Slayer BlackAdder - 14/10/2010 04:42:10 PM 934 Views
Shadar Haran Sidious - 14/10/2010 11:28:44 AM 1131 Views
Shadar Haran is definitely the scariest RugbyPlayingAshaman - 14/10/2010 03:44:39 PM 1014 Views
gholam makes it close though. Joel - 14/10/2010 04:54:46 PM 1002 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 1122 Views
Narg: who else is both evil and genius? *NM* Lohikaarme - 14/10/2010 01:28:11 PM 503 Views
gholam *NM* Deadsy - 14/10/2010 01:55:18 PM 539 Views
second *NM* Foxhead - 14/10/2010 03:02:52 PM 489 Views
yep. *NM* mazza3 - 14/10/2010 06:51:15 PM 460 Views
Yes. Seriana Sedai - 14/10/2010 08:00:12 PM 1025 Views
the gray man Deadsy - 14/10/2010 08:44:07 PM 995 Views
Good example! Seriana Sedai - 15/10/2010 01:00:57 AM 1030 Views
sammael has this moment in aCoS Foxhead - 15/10/2010 11:36:07 PM 1123 Views
True. Seriana Sedai - 16/10/2010 10:23:15 PM 1083 Views
Re: Which character do you find scariest? Evil_Monkey - 14/10/2010 08:00:39 PM 1020 Views
Does the DO count as a character? If so the DO. *NM* Knightscape - 15/10/2010 12:15:42 AM 464 Views
As the books progressed, 'scary' changed Zaphod - 15/10/2010 06:31:43 AM 1140 Views
Of humans, Rhadam Asunawa moratcorlm - 16/10/2010 08:52:34 PM 1028 Views
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