<One of the things I found quite annoying in WoT is that it seems that amongst ‘good’ (and by that I mean nondarkfriend) characters there are two sets of behavior. One is generally unambitious, kind, with emphasis on loyalty to friends and (often unpleasant – if only to character in question) duty as well as always keeping common good above personal. Failing to meet that standard means that character will be deemed as ‘going dark’ or ‘overproud’ or just plain jerk. On other hand we have behavior that can be summed up as ‘me and my stuff first’: characters are pursuing personal (or group) interest at expense of common good or, sometimes, don’t even seem to be aware that there is a difference between common good and their interest. They will be shown as bad or misguided. Except in your two examples. Now, what annoys me is not that they act in that way but that books don’t seem to acknowledge that they fallow second set of behavior. I wonder where RJ and Sanderson were going with that too.