Take a look at her in Book 1- she's as stubborn, wide-eyed as the rest of the Emond's Fielders, and only a bit more naive. However, she's also incredibly pissed off.

She loathes Moiraine, blaming her for everything. By book 6, she's all "It's not right for Moiraine to be bowing down to Rand like that"

She's gotten much, much better at holding her temper- Salidar helped with that.

Before her block broke, Nynaeve had NO self-confidence when it came to the One Power. It was mostly just "It works, so I'll pretend not to care that I'm the Randland Incredible Hulk." (Evidence: when whats-her-name is trying to break her block in Salidar, Nynaeve admits to herself how wonderful it would be)

She was constantly terrified, and worked to get incredibly angry to work through that terror. That's fine, but Nynaeve went through a whole thing where she convinced herself that she was weak because of it. Compare the Nynaeve that hides out in a carnival to the Nynaeve that operates in Ebou Dar. Both get pissed, but one is the insecure anger of a woman who's terrified, the other is the focused anger of a woman who knows what she has to do.

Finally, as you've noted, in the last couple books she's tried to become, of all things, a peacemaker.


There's even more, like the stuff with Birgitte, or her attitudes toward Mat, but I think that's enough.


Nynaeve has grown as a person, while never feeling "un-Nynaeve-like"