Thom. Asmo was a child prodigy who never actually lived up to his potential. Asmo likely has a much broader breadth of instruments given when he was living, but Thom seems to have done more with less.



I think RJ may have addressed this at some point ... but realistically it's a natural thing for a language to change over time. New Tongue IIRC was something along the lines of short hand and eventually became the norm.



I don't dislike her, but I'm not a fanboy either.



Pevara of the non-main characters, Verin of the main (only going with women who were AS when the series began).



Flinn.



Cadsuane of the "good guys" Cyndane of the "bad guys" ... otherwise I'm not sure I care too much about who lives/dies



I've never ready anything by this author



Well Aran'gar and Osan'gar weren't really ever characters as Aginor and Balthamel so it's hard for me to say I prefer either way. Moridin is less interesting to me than Ishamael is though and Cyndane is an insult to the already MEH Lanfear character. Guess I'd have to say Aran'gar if I had to pick.



Lull between books as well as these last books are answering old questions and wrapping things up so there is way less to speculate on or discuss on here. I'm pretty much just waiting for the last book to see how it all wraps up!