View original postDidn't Mat give him a route or something when he sent the junior foxhead?

View original postAs RJ said, he keeps a list of who's stronger than who, not because it matters to the outcome of any battle, but just so he remembers which Aes Sedai should defer to which sister, and how the strength of a novice, Accepted, Windfinder, Wise One, wilder or freed damane will affect a particular Aes Sedai's reactions and behavior towards that channeler. Character, not tactics.

View original postAnd yeah, I remember wondering at times where this "Wolf Guard" had come about, before I recalled that it was Perrin's little band of buddies that originated in tSR. The way that name was tossed around in the battle scenes, it didn't fit a bunch of country boys with bows and some scrounged or inherited pieces of armor.

View original postI wonder if that was supposed to be another one of those things about where legends come from. Maybe there was supposed to be something in the book or epilogue or whatever about the Fourth Age recalling the mythical bands of heroes who played an important part in Tarmon Gaidon, like "the Children of the Light, shining paladins of justice, the Band of the Red Hand, whose superweapons were the marvel of the Age and the mighty warriors of the Wolf Guard." When of course, the reality is a bunch of Perrin-groupies who happened to be born in the one place where they grew up weilding the deadliest pre-industrial weapons known to man. And maybe Sanderson misread the notes or hints.

View original postAlso RJ had always been careful to specify when Seanchan soldiers were local auxiliaries from Tarabon or Altara or Amadicia, but Sanderson seems to be thinking of the Seanchan as relatively homogenous, and I don't recall too much mention of those soldiers from subordinate nations.