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USA Today Interview January 6, 2004

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Comment from Robert Jordan: Hi guys! Glad to talk to you again. Who's up first?

Tulsa Ok: With the success of the Lord of the Rings movies, are there any plans to make Wheel of Time movies?

Robert Jordan: Well, that depends entirely on Hollywood. If someone comes to me and wants to do a movie, I'm totally open about it, but so far nobody has come to me in a major way.

Arlington, Virginia: Is New Spring meant to be a sequel to the 10th book or does this stand on its own? There are still loose ends in the 10th volume which I hope you'll clear up in your next book in the Wheel of Time. I love your books!

Robert Jordan: Thank you. "New Spring" is not a sequel. It is a prequel. The events of "New Spring" take place about 20 years before the events of "The Eye of the World."

evanston, il: I'm sure you've been asked this many times but, here goes, will I live to read the end of the Wheel of time series? I'm hoping for at least 20 more years of life. Will I make it?

Robert Jordan: Easily. It's not going to be that long. I very much hope to finish in two more main sequence books. It's not an absolute promise, but I'm very much hoping for it and I think I can do it.

dallas, texas: Is your book out today?

Robert Jordan: Yes, it should be in stores today. It's available right now!

san diego, ca: I've noticed that many names, items, etc. are similar, if not the same, as what could be found in material relating to the Holy Grail and other subject matter relating to catholicism, the Crusades, etc. Is this coincidence or intentional?

Robert Jordan: It's intentional. I have intended from the beginning that these books should be a sort of source for all of our legends and myths. That is the conceit that I'm playing with here.

New Palestine, Indiana: What books are waiting on your desk to read?

Robert Jordan: I'm reading at the moment a mystery by the name of a fellow named Les Standiford. And I just finished the Neal Stephenson "Quicksilver," and I'm waiting to get my hands on the next book of that sequence.

Atlanta, GA: Will you be doing any signings in Atlanta?

Robert Jordan: The only signing for this book is the signing in Charleston, S.C., tonight at 6 p.m. at the Barnes and Noble. And if anyone wishes to order a book from that store, they can reach that store today at 843.556.6561.

Neenah Wisconsin: I was wondering when book 11 will be coming out.

Robert Jordan: You've heard this before, guys, and now you're going to hear it again: I absolutely guarantee that the next book will be on the shelves, in the stores, very shortly after I finish writing it.

Atlanta, GA: Do you have plans to attend Dragon*Con this year?

Robert Jordan: No, I don't. I don't go to very many conventions. I spend most of my time actually writing.

delmar, ny: Besides your incredibly structured magic system, how would you say that your physics education has influenced your writing? Do you regret at all not taking english and writing classes in college instead?

Robert Jordan: No, I don't have any regrets about not taking college English courses. If you major in English, I believe you're well trained to teach English but not necessarily to use it. And my physics background also gave me a view of structure that I think has been very useful in writing.

Norfolk, MA: I know you've said you think you can finish in two more books, but there seems to be so much that needs to happen before the last battle. It seems like we're still in the middle of it all. Is that a fair assessment?

Robert Jordan: No, we're not in the middle. I hope I can finish in two more books. But you ought to realize that I will not be giving you an absolute completion. That is, the major storylines will be completed, but some of the minor storylines are not going to be completed, so that when you finish the last book, you will still have a sense that this world is alive and kicking and things are going on out there. It's always disturbed me to read a book where at the end all problems have been solved. And I get the feeling that this whole world needs to be kept under a bell jar somewhere to keep the dust off.

Miami Fl: Is it easier to wite fanatsy, since there are no boundaries, other than ones imagination.

Robert Jordan: Well, there are boundaries, and everything has to make sense. And it's not easy to take things that are unreal and which the reader knows are unreal and make them make sense. So I actually think it's probably harder to write fantasy than it is to write some other kinds of fiction.

Neenah, Wisconsin: Will the whole moraine situation be resolved in the next book.

Robert Jordan: Read and find out.

St. Louis, Missouri: Which is your favorite book in the Wheel of time series?

Robert Jordan: My favorite book is always the one that I am working on right now. It doesn't matter which one that is, because the ones I've finished with I've finished with.

Paris, Ontario, Canada: Wow your books are great!!! but they are hard to find and buy! i was wondering where the best place to buy them would be?

Robert Jordan: Well, I don't how the situation is in Canada. I know that in the U.S. any specialty shop that sells science fiction will have my books. And just about any bookstore at all will have copies on the shelves.

Carbondale, IL: Are there any plans for a video game made about the WoT that would do the series justice as in an RPG?

Robert Jordan: Well, there is a computer game out from Legend GTI, but there are no plans for PlayStation or Gameboy or those things. If I were approached by somebody who does that sort of thing, I would be amenable to doing a contract for that.

Allentown PA: First off - LOVE your writing - amazing in all aspects - question - How has the recent movement of fantasy from the traditional "geek" or "nerd" viewpoint to the mainstream affected YOUR personal views on the genre?

Robert Jordan: Not at all, really. I have always enjoyed fantasy, and I'm not certain that we have moved in the mainstream that much. There are a good many writers, from Doris Lessing to the magic realists, who write fantasy and they don't call it "fantasy," they call it simply "a novel," and they deny vehemently that they write fantasy at all.

London: Why did you decide to publish New Spring between the main volumes?

Robert Jordan: Actually, it was a way to take a little break. To still be writing, but write something that was a little different. I also thought I could do the short novels quickly enough that they would not delay the main sequence novels and would provide my readers with a book a little quicker than they would otherwise get it.

Laurel, Mississippi: In The Fires of Heaven, after Rand has his battle at the end, why is it that balefire works for his friends and not on his bites that have to be healed?

Robert Jordan: Beacause his injuries occurred in Tel'aran'rhiod. And what occurs there is different than what occurs in the Waking World. Different rules apply.

Carbondale, IL: What do you hope your legacy will be when all is said and done?

Robert Jordan: It's far too soon for me to be thinking about my legacy. I'm still thinking about the books I want to write! (P.S. I'm not THAT old.)

Warwick, Rhode Island: Will you retire when the Wheel stops turning, or will you still write other books?

Robert Jordan: I intend to keep writing until the day I die, and if I can manage to get a computer into the coffin, we'll see what I can work out.

Dallas, TX: You have a pretty big fan base here in TX but I have yet to see you tour Dallas. Any idea when you might?????? I would love to meet ya!

Robert Jordan: I go where the publisher sends me, and when I do a tour, the publisher has hundreds of bookstores apply for me to appear. I don't always makes the same stops ... how this is decided, I don't know. But I simply do what I'm told. The publisher says, "Go thou and sign," and I go thou and sign.

skokie, il: without telling us all the details, do you expect all the main characters in Wheel of Time to ultimately survive? Is it likely any of them will die before the end?

Robert Jordan: Read and find out.

Cheyenne Wyoming: Is there anyone particular Character that is your favorite or one you feel is more like you?

Robert Jordan: My favorite character is always who I'm writing at the moment, whether it's one of the good guys or one of the villains, because if I don't like that character more than any other, the character will not come across as real. As for who I think is most like me, Lan embodies the ideals that I aspired to growing up. While Perrin is, I think, most like me, on the other hand, my wife thinks I'm Loial.

Washington, DC: Can fans mail you books to be signed?

Robert Jordan: I would appreciate it if they did not.

Laurel, Ms: What is your favorit book(s) outside of WOT?

Robert Jordan: It would be very hard to point at one. My all-time favorite authors are Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, John D. McDonald, Louis L'Amour and Robert Heinlein. And as far as people writing at the moment, I will buy any book written by John M. Ford, Neal Stephenson, Robert Holstock ... there's a long list of people I will snatch up a book when I realize it's something of theirs I haven't read yet.

Baltimore, Maryland: After you finish with the WoT series, do you have any plans to continue the story with a series based on the Age of Legends and the events leading up to the Breaking or a series that takes place far in the future, perhapes in the next age or the next 3rd age?

Robert Jordan: No. When I have finished with this world, I will go on to something else.

NYC, NY: Wouldn't it be better if you finished in 13 books? Afterall the number 13 is a magical number in the series.

Robert Jordan: I have been writing these books for roughly 20 years, and I would like to finish.

Bristol: At present, do most of the people in the WoT world believe that Rand is dead?

Robert Jordan: At the present, most of the people don't know where Rand is or whether he's alive or dead. But many of them have erroneous ideas about where he might be and what he might be doing.

Carbondale, IL: Have you ever considered doing what Stephen King did with the Green Mile and releasing a book in multiple parts to keep feeding your rabid fans?

Robert Jordan: Well, I hate to tell you this, guys, but that's what I've been doing. If you look at it the right way, the "Wheel of Time" is one novel.

Hellertown, Pa.: I was in Iraq in 91 when I received a copy of the Eye Of The World. It was a spectacular read in the desert - wonderful fun reading. You went to the Citadel. Why did you choose that school?

Robert Jordan: Well, I went to the Citadel as a veteran student. And I was, frankly, going somewhere else, but Col. Bunch at the Citadel kept calling me after I came back the last time from 'Nam, and I went to talk to him, and he told me about the veterans' program there. And I knew they had a good reputation in engineering and the sciences, so I ended up going. I sometimes had the suspicion I might play football for them, but I was beyond that by that time.

Storrs, Connecticut: Did you get the name Robert Jordan from the novel, For Whom The Bell Tolls? If so, Why?

Robert Jordan: No, I got the name Robert Jordan from making lists of names using my real initials and taking one name from one list and one from the other list. I took a pen name because I wanted to keep the sorts of books I wrote separate, and I wanted to write a novel about my experiences in Vietnam and I was going to put my real name on that.

London, England: Do you ever visit any of the numerous fan sites on the web dedicated to The Wheel Of Time? Do you find it strange (or slightly unnerving) that people analyse your work(s) in order to create theories?

Robert Jordan: I find it interesting. It's not something I'd ever expected would happen, certainly.

Neenah, Wisconsin: What is it like driving your Porche

Robert Jordan: It's wonderful! Especially if I'm somewhere where I can get up to speed.

NY, NY: why was there a blue light flashing when Thom met the fade in whitebridge?

Robert Jordan: Because Thom's best knives are very special indeed.

Laural, Ms: If Hollywood made a movie of WoT, Who would you like to play Rand and the others?

Robert Jordan: I don't have a clue. I don't think I've ever even thought of that myself. I know other people have, but I have not.

Holland: What do Trollocs eat and how do they get enough food in the Blight to sustain all those Trollocs?

Robert Jordan: Trollocs eat almost anything, including other Trollocs. They are omnivores with a tendency toward being carnivores.

Aurora,Ontario, Canada: What are the other Short Novels you are thinking about doing before you complete the serries?

Robert Jordan: One would explain why Tam al'Thor abandoned a successful career to return to the Two Rivers and buy a farm. And the other one will, I hope, explain exactly how Moraine turned up in the Two Rivers just in the nick of time in "The Eye of the World."

Long Island, NY: Is Slayer a corrupted wolfbrother?

Robert Jordan: No.

Chicago, IL: What is your writing schedule like on an average day? Meaning, when you sit down to write, do you have a set goal of how many pages you want to write that day? How much is your average?

Robert Jordan: I have no idea how many words I write in a day. My usual schedule, seven days a week, is after breakfast I come back to my desk, I deal with the e-mail that has to be dealt with, and then I start writing. I try to remember to try to stop for lunch. Usually I don't remember until about four in the afternoon, which is a little too late for lunch, I think. Then at 6 p.m., I help my wife fix dinner. I used to work a more rigorous schedule, but wives don't like a husband who might be waking at 2 in the morning or might be going to bed at 2 in the afternoon and have an absolute disconnect with the sun. I don't know why she didn't like that, but I stopped it.

Zaandam, The Netherlands: First of all, I really, really enjoyed New Spring (it has been on sale here for a few weeks). Thank you for such a fantastic novel! My question: In “New Spring” you said Edeyn would be allowed to call herself el’Edeyn if Lan died and she and Lan were not even married. Is Nynaeve allowed to call herself el’Nynaeve al’Meara, now she’s married to Lan?

Robert Jordan: Yes.

Harrison, NY: I am sorry but it does not seem that you can tie up all the loose strings that you have laid out in two books. Are you planning on writing more than two more?

Robert Jordan: Well, we shall see. I sincerely hope it will be possible to tie everything up in two books.

Neenah, Wisconsin: I was wondering when you got into pipe collecting?

Robert Jordan: Many years ago, when I was young, I smoked cigarettes and I decided to quit smoking cigarettes about 35 years ago, I guess. And that was easy enough, but after about six months of not smoking, I realized that I had become so used to having a cigarette in my hands that my hands felt awkward and I was always fiddling with things.

I bought my first pipe and I trained myself not to inhale, and it was, in the beginning, just to have something to hold in my hand.

Baltimore, Maryland: When I finished book 10, I was a little upset that Rand and his story line was barely mentioned or developed anymore. Not that book 10 wasn't incredible, but was the reason behind this to catch the other story lines up to the present time?

Robert Jordan: Not so much to catch them up, because that was the way it played out in my head. This was what needed to be done now.

Wendell, Idaho: Do you have any plans for writing after this series is completed? If so, would you do another fantasy series or go for a different genre?

Robert Jordan: I've been thinking about what I want to write after WoT for about seven years now, maybe more. And I will be doing another fantasy series much more compact than "The Wheel of Time." I know some of you will be happy to hear that. But it will be fantasy, definitely.

NYC, NY: Has Perrin left his axe for good?

Robert Jordan: Read and find out.

Delmar, NY: Have you ever read or heard about the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind? After reading the series it is obvious many of the main ideas are copied from the WoT.

Robert Jordan: I'm aware of Mr. Goodkind.

Germantown, MD: I know you have always said that you have known what the ending will be since you started writing the series. Does that mean you know what will happen in the end, or do you actually have it written out now?

Robert Jordan: I do not have it written, but the final scene of the final book has been in my head for almost 20 years.

Philadelphia, PA: Okay, lets talk turkey, lots of comparison to you and Tolkien as the legacy and the new master. How do you feel about all these suggestions flying about? You both are easily my two favorite authors of all time (with Douglas Adams edging in to a close second!)

Robert Jordan: I feel a little nervous about them and quite pleased. I you're talking the realm of high fantasy,being compared to Tolkein is like being a musician and being compared to Mozart. That's the good part. The bad part is, I'm not Tolkein I'm not trying to write like Tolkein. So one one hand I'm pleased, the other hand ambivalent.

Monticello, Indiana: What's the most amusing and/or bizarre question a fan has ever asked you?

Robert Jordan: Well, I've had a couple young women ask if they could bear my child. That's not the usual kind of question I get -- that sort of took me aback, yes.

NYC, NY: Why are the women in your series very obnoxious? Does Harriet play a role in the characters of your women?

Robert Jordan: No, the women in my books are not obnoxious. The women in my books are strong. I grew up in a family where all of the men were strong, and the reason is the women in my family killed and ate the weak ones.

When I was a boy, just old enough to be starting to date in a fumbling way, I complained something about girls. And my father said to me, "Would you rather hunt leopards or would you rather hunt rabbits? Which is going to be more fun?" And I decided I'd rather hunt leopards.

Laurel, Mississippi: How much of your writing time is actually writing, and how much is spend rereading and researching?

Robert Jordan: I actually have an assistant to do as much of the research as I can. Most of the writing time is writing and rewriting, because I'm never satisfied with what I've written.

Detroit, Michigan: Have you been approached to allow your books to be turned into any animated (Anime?) format?

Robert Jordan: No. No one has approached me about that.

Providence, RI: Will there be Limited Edition releases of the the first three books? I have all the limited editions from The Shadow Rising through Crossroads.

Robert Jordan: For that, you'd have to inquire the publisher, Tor Books. I don't provide any input on that.

Lund, Sweden: Is there anything in the books that you regret , or wish to re-write?

Robert Jordan: No.

Zaandam, The Netherlands: Do you think your success changed you in any way?

Robert Jordan: I hope not, but it's hard to tell. I drink better wine and drive a faster car than I used to, I know that. I don't know if that's in the realm of personal change.

Carbondale, IL: Have you ever considered a personal site to keep in touch with us the fans so that we can get our fix?

Robert Jordan: No. I would have to spend way too much time maintaining a site and, frankly, I think most fans would prefer I'd spend the time writing, so they could get the books a little sooner rather than later.

Storrs, Connecticut: What advice can you give to an aspiring author?

Robert Jordan: Write. Send it to a publisher. As soon as you put it in the mail, write something else. Keep writing. Don't stop writing. If you can keep that up, maybe you can become a writer.

Comment from Robert Jordan: Bye, guys! Thanks for coming. It's been a pleasure talking with you.

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Writing on the Web 2002

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'''Put up or shut up'''

If you want to be a writer, go be an accountant. If you want to write, write.

I know a lot of people who want to be a writer, and it's a very different thing from wanting to write.

It doesn't do any good to think about writing. It doesn't do any good to talk about writing. It doesn't do any good to go to cafés and sit there in your black turtle neck sweater with a coffee or beer and impress the girls with the fact that you are a writer, if what you have is the same three chapters sitting in a drawer that have been there for the last five years.

You write. You send it to a publisher. And when you've put it in the mail, you start writing again.

You send it to a publisher because the act of creation is not complete until you have an observer. It doesn't matter whether it's writing, or painting, or sculpting. If a painter sticks a painting in a closet, if a sculptor throws a drop cloth over the sculpture, the act of creation is not complete. Completion happens when you put it in front of an observer.

I don't think so many people want to write—I think people want to be writers. Dorothy Parker said, 'I love having written, but I hate writing.' I think it's the same with a lot of people. And everybody believes that they have a story in them—everyone wants to believe that they could do it if they wanted to.

They think they have a story, and maybe they do. But just because you have a story inside you, doesn't mean you can write it, any more than having a gallstone means you can pass it. I no longer believe that everybody can write. It's not that easy.

When parents ask me how they can encourage little Johnny's talent for writing, I say that no good writer had a Norman Rockwell childhood. It's a truthful answer. I look at all the good writers I know personally, the good painters, the good sculptors, and they all had unquiet, even unpleasant childhoods. I say, 'Look. I can't guarantee this won't turn your child into a psychotic—but the psychotic may be a writer.'

My parents were not rich, not poor. My father was a police officer. When he was a captain, he resigned and went to work for the ports authority until he had to retire early for a disability.

He was a man with an eidetic or photographic memory. A card sharp—loved to play bridge, poker, anything. You could take a deck of cards face down and riffle it once in front of him, and then he would call the cards in order before you dealt the card.

He began to teach me poker when I was very young—when I had to sit on three encyclopaedias to see over the edge of the table. I was allowed to sit in on exactly three hands of poker when the game was in our house. No provisions made for taking it easy on the kid! My father staked me to the wagers. He would eat the losses, and the agreement was that I had to split any winnings with him. I did manage to win a couple of hands during that time! I certainly learned to play poker, I'll tell you. I miss him greatly.

My mother was very beautiful. She looked like Ava Gardner's sister—the prettier one. She was a housewife. The only job she ever had was in World War II when everyone was employed—she did something then in defense.

The added strain began when my mother had her first nervous breakdown, when I was eight. Those continued at regular intervals, necessitating her being hospitalized. I think that these two things—the fact that I was a precocious little monster in some ways, and that my mother had nervous breakdowns—in my case that was enough childhood stress to improve my chances as a writer, looking back at it rather coldly.

I learned to read when I was four. My parents would go out to gatherings of friends. Two, three or sometimes four nights a week there would be—I hesitate to call it a party—music and dancing, that was it.

My 16-year-old brother was sometimes stuck with babysitting the brat. He wanted to keep my hands out of his goldfish bowl and his terrarium, and keep my hands off his balsa wood planes. And he found that if he read to me and moved his finger along the line, I would sit beside him and stare at the page.

Now he was not about to read children's books: he was reading me fairly adult novels. I don't know when I made the connection between the words he was saying and the symbols on the page. But one night my parents came home, he stuck the book back on the shelf, and I wanted more. So I pulled the book down and struggled through to the end. 'White Fang': that was the first book I ever read, if you want to call it reading. I did get a sense of the story.

When my brother found out that I could do this, he started to supply me with books because that would keep me quiet. When he got guilty about letting me take books off my parents' shelves, he would bring me a book for a 10- or 12-year-old. My great uncles also supplied me with books, so I had a great clutch of pre-World War I boys' books.

I did think about writing when I was very little. But writers didn't seem to make a living in the United States as writers. All sorts of fellows wrote books but they all had something else they did for the money. That's the way it seemed. And those who did, lived in Cuba or the South of France or Italy. I might have been precocious but I wasn't so sure about moving to Italy. . .

School was very strange. The teachers finally discovered what was wrong when I was in the third grade, and tried to move me ahead three levels into the sixth grade. My parents said no.

By and large I found school boring. Most of the time I could do a solid B, B+, perhaps an A, without studying. And since I was an athlete, that was considered sterling! Shot and discus, track and field, American football, basketball, baseball—I was good at everything.

As for writing, I thought again about doing that, at 10 and 16 and 20. I said, 'It would be a useless exercise. What am I supposed to write about? I haven't seen enough of life, so anything I write is going to be empty.'

I went to university and discovered that trying to carry a very heavy load in academic subjects and play football, I needed to know how to study. And that was something I had never learned how to do, so I floundered quite badly. At the end of a year at university I went into the army and went to Vietnam.

I've always been a military history buff. But when I was in Vietnam I wasn't thinking history or strategy: I was thinking staying alive, and occasionally taking an R &R to Australia where I'd go to the beach and drink a lot of beer and try to meet a schoolteacher on vacation.

I sort of knew in a way what to expect because military service has always been a family tradition. All my brothers, my father and my uncles, my grandfather and my great uncles went into the military—'some enlisted, most as officers, some made careers, some did not. But you did your basic service and if there was any shooting going on, you went where the guns were.

Essentially I stayed in Vietnam until it was time to get out of the army. Then I went back to school and got my degrees: a Bachelor of Science in maths and one in physics.

I had everything lined up to go to graduate school for a doctorate in quantum optics: I was very interested in theoretical physics. But I was tired of school, and I wanted to get on with my life. The government at this point was recruiting engineers, physicists and others, who they then sent to a school to study nuclear engineering. So I became an engineer, and for a long time I designed procedures to test and overhaul reactors on United States naval vessels.

I had always said, 'One day I will write.' Then when I was 30 I was walking back from a dry dock to my office, and I had a fall and tore up my knee very severely. There were complications in the surgery, I nearly died, I spent a month in the hospital, and I spent three and a half months recuperating before I could walk well enough to go back to the office. During that time I reached burnout in reading. I remember picking up a book by an author I knew I liked, reading a few paragraphs and tossing it across the room and saying, 'Oh God, I could do better than that.' Then I thought, 'All right son, it's time to put up or shut up.'

And so I wrote my first novel. It has never been published although it's been bought by two publishers, and a lot of good came out of it, including meeting my wife.

I finished the novel within three and a half months, writing longhand on legal yellow pads. When I went back to work I typed it up in the evenings and made the changes, and sent it off to a publisher. The best I was hoping for was a letter saying, 'Not quite good enough but if you work at it you can get there.' I was very surprised to get an enthusiastic letter back offering to buy the novel. Then I tried to negotiate some minor points of the contract—I didn't have an agent—and I was equally shocked to get a letter back withdrawing the offer. (The publisher believed that a beginning writer should not quibble.)

It didn't matter, because I decided I would ignore the second letter. The first letter said I could write. There were things happening at work that I found very irritating. So I cleared my desk and I completed every project in the pipeline, and I laid down my resignation. 'You can't go!' I said, 'Read the resignation. I'm going.' I was told, 'If you do this, you'll never work for the United States government again.' I said, 'Could I have that in writing?'

My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!'

I leaped right into writing, and I know a lot of writers who have done that. Other people need to develop the facility.

I know as many different ways of writing as I know writers. To develop your own way of writing, read. Read everything you can get your hands on. Especially read what you want to write, and write what you like to read. . . because if you don't like to read it, you won't be able to write it.

I knew from the beginning how the story of 'The Wheel of Time' started, and I knew the last scene of the last book, I knew major scenes along the way, and I knew how I wanted my major characters to end up. But I underestimated the time it would take me to write the story, or overestimated how densely I could write. In the beginning I really thought I could do it in four or five books. By the end of the third I knew there wasn't a chance of finishing the story in six books, which led to confusion among fans. 'Oh you promised it would be finished in six!' They would like to have completion, and so would I.

On the computer are about two megabytes of notes on individual Aes Sedai, another two megabytes or so notes about Aes Sedai organization, the structure, the laws, the customs, their sexual relations. But the story itself is all up here in my head.

A lot of people are as fascinated with the individual characters as they are with the story. They talk to me about the characters as if they are people they know. I've tried to make them seem like real people—they're not perfect, they lie to one another sometimes, they try to put the best face on things even with friends. I've tried to make the world seem a place solid enough for people to visualize, not just a backdrop for the characters.

As soon as I realized I was going to be writing a lot from inside a woman's head, I wanted to write women that women thought were women. I thought getting myself into a woman's skin would be the hard thing.

Certainly I talk to my wife: she's my editor as well as my wife, so she's intimate with the books. Sometimes I'll ask her, 'Do you think this character would behave in this fashion?' I also read books written by women for women, I read magazines, and I eavesdrop on women sometimes. It's a low trick but it's the only way to find out how women talk when men aren't around.

One of the best compliments I got was very early, when I was touring for the 'Dragon Reborn'. Some women said that until they saw me they believed Robert Jordan was the pen name of a woman. I thought, 'All right, I did it!'

I've tried to write in layers. In addition I've tried to write each book so that every time you read it, you're standing in a different place, you're reading a slightly different book. And when you read the third book it shifts your position again. Things you thought were innocuous are important, and things you thought meant one thing, meant another.

Even if you do it unconsciously, you have to refer to religion if you're writing fantasy. You're stepping into the realm of the supernatural and so you're stepping into the realm of religion.

A few years ago I found myself thrown into the company of theoretical physicists on panels. I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to talk with these men because my knowledge of this field is 25 years out of date.' But I found that I could hold my own not by talking physics but by talking theology.

One of my themes is (and it's one reason I wrote the books as fantasies) there is good, there is evil, there is right, there is wrong—lit does exist. If you do that in a mainstream novel you are accused of being judgemental unless you've chosen the right political viewpoint.

Maybe it's not always easy to tell which is the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do. 'Good and evil—but relative to what?' This deconstructionism irritates the devil out of me. Situational ethics began as a way of making fine moral choices, but it's become this monster in so many people's minds: it now means there is no right, there is no wrong. 'Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.' That really doesn't work unless you intend to carry a gun all the time.

What I believe goes into my stories. I'm not trying to preach. I believe these things, but I'm trying to tell stories. All my characters of course believe things I don't believe.

To write, you have to have discipline. The discipline can vary. It depends on what other job you have. If you say, 'I'm going to write one hour a day seven days a week,' that's enough if you have another job. It's a commitment.

Maybe you'll say, 'I'm going to write one page that every day that I'm satisfied with. If I knock it out in ten minutes, I'll quit. If I have to sit there half a night, I'll stay with it.' If you do that, at the end of a year you've got 365 pages of manuscript and that is not a fat novel, but it's a novel.

For me, I write seven days a week, 8-10 hours a day, sometimes more. This is how I make my living. I don't have to go off to an office or a factory.

If my wife wants us to go somewhere for a day, that's fine. But there've been times when she's actually brought me down to the front porch where I've found a fishing guide waiting. She'll say, 'The man has already been paid to take you fishing. Go get in his truck. Go!'

I just see my life continuing until it ends. I intend to live! Most people exist. They simply do the job, go home, go to sleep, get up, go to work, go home, go to sleep. And it's understandable if you have a factory job—you can get very tired, you don't want to live. I'm lucky.

I know my life is going to end.

I was 19 when I realized I was going to die for sure. On my first tour in Vietnam the helicopter I was in blew up and threw me into the jungle. I got up and ran back through the lines of an NVA ambush—I didn1t know it was there—I just knew the other chopper was in that direction.

This knowledge changes your view of the world. I think it gives you a certain maturity. Perhaps maturity is the knowledge that everything is going to change, that neither you nor anything you see is going to go on forever.

Dragonmount Interview with Harriet December 9, 2002

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Question: Do you often correct inconsistencies in the books? Or does Robert do it himself?

Harriet: No, I don't correct inconsistencies. Robert has a wonderful assistant, Maria Simons, who helps enormously in this regard, together with her sidekick Alan Romanczuk. Robert writes long lists of questions for them, and they come up with the answers in time, so that inconsistencies mostly just don't happen. Maria also checks all proper nouns in the manuscript against our own super-glossary, and picks up the occasional glitch that way.

Question: Do you know what will happen in later books or do you have to "Read and Find out?"

Harriet: I know a bit, but for the most part I have to RAFO, too.

Question: Do you ever find yourself reading to find out what happens next and forgetting about editing?

Harriet: Yes! And so then I have to go back through it.

Question: Who is your favorite character?

Harriet: Bela, the stout, shaggy little mare.

Question: Favorite book?

Harriet: I love them all.

Question: Scene?

Harriet: Ditto.

Question: Your husband once commented that he could walk into the room and you would know who he was writing about. If this is true, do you ever make him wait outside until he can stop being someone, for example, Padan Fain?

Harriet: Well, I don't know EXACTLY who he's been writing, but if he's been writing somebody awful, like Padan, yes, I do know it. I never make him wait outside. I just hug him and give him a kiss, and he generally shakes himself like a retriever and begins to come out of it.

Question: How do you think his writing effects your relationship?

Harriet: It gives our relationship a tremendous amount of fun.

Question: What is your reaction to Robert telling people that all of the major female characters are partially based off of you? Doesn't that worry you a bit?

Harriet: No, it doesn't worry me. I am immensely flattered by it. And a bit amused. The cross wife who says, "you forgot to take the garbage out again": Is this REALLY Moghedien? Goodness!

Question: We've heard that you enjoy reading and writing poetry. Is that just a hobby for yourself, or has your stuff been published? If so, where can we find it?

Harriet: I have just begun (in January of this year) submitting stuff, and so far poems of mine have been accepted by Eureka Literary Magazine (ELM), Another Chicago Magazine, and Confrontation. I think Another Chicago Magazine will be out first, some time this winter, with a poem called North Georgia Woods. Other poems are on submission all over the place. I'm having a wonderful time with this!

Question: Who are some of your favorite poets?

Harriet: Galway Kinnell!!!! And Sharon Olds, and Mary Oliver, and John M. Ford and John O'Donohue. I've just bought James Tate to read, because of a yummy poem called Teaching the Ape to Write Poems. A friend has just given me Marina Tsvetaeva, but I haven't read her yet. I also want to read some more Billy Collins. Among the dead white males, I really like Tennyson and Hopkins. And of course Shakespeare.

Question: From a professional point of view as RJ's editor, how many books do you think the series will end up running?

Harriet: I think twelve.

Question: How much influence over that number do you have as an editor do you think?

Harriet: Something approaching Zip. It will depend on how many it takes for him to tell the story as he wants/needs to tell it.

Question: Do you ever call your husband Robert instead of his real name?

Harriet: Only on book tour.

Question: Even if you're mad at him?

Harriet: When I'm mad at him I call him a word that begins with A, with a lot of asterisks in it, or Warrior God, Perfect in Every Way. It is my contention that these mean the same thing....

Question: Do you know who killed Asmodean?

Question: No.

[http://web.archive.org/web/20030216132234/http://www.dragonmount.com/Interviews/2002-12-09_harriet.aspx From Wayback Machine]

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Mesaana

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	She is present with [[Graendal]] and [[Semirhage]] during the meeting with [[Demandred]], who tells them all of the Dark Ones plan for them and to let 'the Lord of Chaos Rule'.		She is present with [[Graendal]] and [[Semirhage]] during the meeting with [[Demandred]], who tells them all of the Dark Ones plan for them and to let 'the Lord of Chaos Rule'.

-	She keeps a tag on [[Alviarin Freidhen]] often visiting her and finding out what information is going through the [[Amyrlin]]. She obviously eavesdropped on those meetings anyway as she knows when Alviarin leaves out bits of information. She is behind any order that the Amyrlin "gives". She teaches Alvaiarin how to weave a gateway.	+	She keeps a tag on [[Alviarin Freidhen]] often visiting her and finding out what information is going through the [[Amyrlin]]. She obviously eavesdropped on those meetings anyway as she knows when Alviarin leaves out bits of information. She is behind any order that the Amyrlin "gives". She teaches Alviarin how to weave a gateway.

	When she appears she has a cloak of shadow around her so as not to be identified. A clue to her identity is given when she is in thought and taps a finger to her lips. Alviarin also noticed that she was wearing a bronze-silk dress with black scrollwork. Mesaana informs Alviarin about the Ajah Heads that are meeting each other secretly.		When she appears she has a cloak of shadow around her so as not to be identified. A clue to her identity is given when she is in thought and taps a finger to her lips. Alviarin also noticed that she was wearing a bronze-silk dress with black scrollwork. Mesaana informs Alviarin about the Ajah Heads that are meeting each other secretly.

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	She watches Rand's meeting with the [[Daughter of the Nine Moons]] from a distance and Travels in as back up when it is revealed that the Daughter of the Nine Moons is actually [[Semirhage]]. She [[Heal]]s Narishma after the fight.		She watches Rand's meeting with the [[Daughter of the Nine Moons]] from a distance and Travels in as back up when it is revealed that the Daughter of the Nine Moons is actually [[Semirhage]]. She [[Heal]]s Narishma after the fight.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Haindehl, Merise}}
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	She accompanies Rand and Cadsuane to [[Algarin Pendaloan]]'s house in [[Tear]], where Rand recovers after cleansing [[Saidin]]. She weeps in private over the loss of Eben.		She accompanies Rand and Cadsuane to [[Algarin Pendaloan]]'s house in [[Tear]], where Rand recovers after cleansing [[Saidin]]. She weeps in private over the loss of Eben.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Moseneillin, Daigian}}
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-	}}'''Annoura Larisen''' is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Gray Ajah]] and the Aes Sedai advisor to [[Berelain sur Paendrag Tanreal]], the [[First of Mayene]] .	+	}}'''Annoura Larisen''' is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Gray Ajah]] and the Aes Sedai advisor to [[Berelain sur Paendrag Tanreal]], the [[First of Mayene]].

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	Annoura assisted in the attack on the Shaido Aiel and the [[Wise One]]s in the [[Battle of Malden]] to rescue Faile.		Annoura assisted in the attack on the Shaido Aiel and the [[Wise One]]s in the [[Battle of Malden]] to rescue Faile.
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Tebreille din Gelyn South Wind

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-	She has big dark eyes with a straight nose and a strong chin. She has 4 earrings in each ear.	+	She has big dark eyes with a straight nose and a strong chin. She has four earrings in each ear.

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	She accompanies Mareil to a meeting of the [[First Twelve]] in [[Illian]] with [[Rand al'Thor]]'s ambassador [[Logain Ablar]]. She is concerned with the whereabouts of her niece, [[Talaan din Gelyn]], when she disappears from Caemlyn. Near the end of the meeting [[Cemeille din Selaan Long Eyes]] interrupts with the news of the [[Amayar]] committing mass suicide.		She accompanies Mareil to a meeting of the [[First Twelve]] in [[Illian]] with [[Rand al'Thor]]'s ambassador [[Logain Ablar]]. She is concerned with the whereabouts of her niece, [[Talaan din Gelyn]], when she disappears from Caemlyn. Near the end of the meeting [[Cemeille din Selaan Long Eyes]] interrupts with the news of the [[Amayar]] committing mass suicide.
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Taval din Chanai Nine Gulls

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	She is present when [[Harine din Togara Two Winds]] makes the Bargain with [[Rand al'Thor]], their [[Coramoor]].		She is present when [[Harine din Togara Two Winds]] makes the Bargain with [[Rand al'Thor]], their [[Coramoor]].

		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Chanai Nine Gulls, Taval din}}
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Talaan din Gelyn

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	== Appearance ==		== Appearance ==
-	She is very slim. She has no nose ring yet and has 1 earring in the left ear and 3 in the right.	+	She is very slim. She has no nose ring yet and has one earring in the left ear and three in the right.

	== Apprentice ==		== Apprentice ==
	She Travels with the the rest of the group lead by [[Nynaeve al'Meara]] and [[Elayne Trakand]] from [[Ebou Dar]] to the [[Kin]]'s farm with the [[Bowl of the Winds]]. She is part of the thirteen women who link up and channel into the Bowl of the Winds to change the weather.		She Travels with the the rest of the group lead by [[Nynaeve al'Meara]] and [[Elayne Trakand]] from [[Ebou Dar]] to the [[Kin]]'s farm with the [[Bowl of the Winds]]. She is part of the thirteen women who link up and channel into the Bowl of the Winds to change the weather.

-	She is only 19 years old, and there is a feud between her mother and her aunt which made her ask [[Nynaeve al'Meara]], her tutor, whether she could be a [[novice]] at the [[White Tower]].<ref name=wh11>{{wh\|11}}</ref>	+	She is only 19 years old, and there is a feud between her mother and her aunt which made her ask [[Nynaeve al'Meara]], her tutor, whether she could be a [[novice]] at the [[White Tower]].<ref name=wh11>{{9\|11}}</ref>

-	Nynaeve believes that Talaan has tremendous potential and could overpower her with a little more experience. Talaan also [[shield]]ed Nynaeve from the [[One Power]] once, at the command of [[Zaida]].<ref name=wh11>{{wh\|11}}</ref>	+	Nynaeve believes that Talaan has tremendous potential and could overpower her with a little more experience. Talaan also [[shield]]ed Nynaeve from the [[One Power]] once, at the command of [[Zaida]].<ref name=wh11>{{9\|11}}</ref>

	== Runaway ==		== Runaway ==
-	Talaan recently vanished, along with [[Merilille Ceandevin\|Merilille Sedai]]. <ref>{{cot\|14}}</ref>	+	Talaan recently vanished, along with [[Merilille Ceandevin\|Merilille Sedai]]. <ref>{{10\|14}}</ref>

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	She then goes with Harine, when Harine is summoned by the [[First Twelve]]. They go to [[Tear]], when the meeting was in [[Illian]] and [[Zaida din Parede Blackwing]] is elected [[Mistress of the Ships]]. Harine is punished for her bargain being found wanting with Rand. Zaida then summons the First Twelve again, where they meet with Rand's ambassador [[Logain Ablar]]. During this meeting [[Cemeille din Selaan Long Eyes]] comes with the news of the [[Amayar]] committing mass suicide.		She then goes with Harine, when Harine is summoned by the [[First Twelve]]. They go to [[Tear]], when the meeting was in [[Illian]] and [[Zaida din Parede Blackwing]] is elected [[Mistress of the Ships]]. Harine is punished for her bargain being found wanting with Rand. Zaida then summons the First Twelve again, where they meet with Rand's ambassador [[Logain Ablar]]. During this meeting [[Cemeille din Selaan Long Eyes]] comes with the news of the [[Amayar]] committing mass suicide.
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Renaile din Calon Blue Star

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-	She has wings of white in her dark straight hair. She has 3 rings in each ear.	+	She has wings of white in her dark straight hair. She has three rings in each ear.

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	When Elayne is captured by the [[Black Ajah]] [[Birgitte Silverbow]] manages to convince Chanelle and the rest of the Sea Folk Windfinders that without Elayne there is no bargain. They [[Travel]] to the area where the Black Ajah are riding a wagon with Elayne inside. The strike force ride towards the wagon, but are decimated by [[Balefire]] from [[Asne Zeramene]]. Birgitte finally convinces the Windfinders to actively attack the Black Ajah. The Windfinders all link with Chanelle in control and attack the wagon with lightning, killing Asne in the process. They shield all the remaining Black Ajah members so they can be taken captive by Alayne's troops.		When Elayne is captured by the [[Black Ajah]] [[Birgitte Silverbow]] manages to convince Chanelle and the rest of the Sea Folk Windfinders that without Elayne there is no bargain. They [[Travel]] to the area where the Black Ajah are riding a wagon with Elayne inside. The strike force ride towards the wagon, but are decimated by [[Balefire]] from [[Asne Zeramene]]. Birgitte finally convinces the Windfinders to actively attack the Black Ajah. The Windfinders all link with Chanelle in control and attack the wagon with lightning, killing Asne in the process. They shield all the remaining Black Ajah members so they can be taken captive by Alayne's troops.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Calon Blue Star, Renaile din}}
	[[Category:Sea Folk]]		[[Category:Sea Folk]]
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Nestelle din Sakura South Star

2009-11-20T21:17:48Z

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	An [[Atha'an Miere]] [[Windfinder]].		An [[Atha'an Miere]] [[Windfinder]].

-	She is captured during the [[Seanchan]] attack on [[Ebou Dar]] and made a [[Damane]]. [[Matrim Cauthon]] sneaks into her room where she is held in the ''damane'' kennels and frees her from the [[A'dam]]. In return he teaches her how to unlock the ''a'dam'' by herself. She is to then wait three hours and then release as many of the captive [[Sea Folk]] ''damane'' as she can and then fight their way to freedom.	+	She is captured during the [[Seanchan]] attack on [[Ebou Dar]] and made a [[Damane]]. [[Matrim Cauthon]] sneaks into her room where she is held in the ''damane'' kennels and frees her from the ''[[a'dam]]''. In return he teaches her how to unlock the ''a'dam'' by herself. She is to then wait three hours and then release as many of the captive [[Sea Folk]] ''damane'' as she can and then fight their way to freedom.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakura South Star, Nestelle din}}
	[[Category:Sea Folk]]		[[Category:Sea Folk]]
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Dorile din Eiran Long Feather

2009-11-20T21:17:22Z

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	== Appearance ==		== Appearance ==
-	She is slender and handsome. She has 4 rings in each ear, with one of them being connected to her nose and only a few medallions along this chain.	+	She is slender and handsome. She has four rings in each ear, with one of them being connected to her nose and only a few medallions along this chain.

	== Activities ==		== Activities ==
	She is present when [[Nynaeve al'Meara]] and [[Elayne Trakand]] come aboard ''Windrunner'' and when they bargain with [[Nesta din Reas Two Moons]] over the [[Bowl of the Winds]].		She is present when [[Nynaeve al'Meara]] and [[Elayne Trakand]] come aboard ''Windrunner'' and when they bargain with [[Nesta din Reas Two Moons]] over the [[Bowl of the Winds]].
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Eiran Long Feather, Dorile din}}
	[[Category:Sea Folk]]		[[Category:Sea Folk]]
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Chanelle din Seran White Shark

2009-11-20T21:16:14Z

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	When Elayne is captured by the [[Black Ajah]], [[Birgitte Silverbow]] manages to convince Chanelle and the rest of the Sea Folk Windfinders that without Elayne there is no bargain. They [[Travel]] to the area where the Black Ajah are riding a wagon with Elayne inside. The strike force ride towards the wagon, but are decimated by [[Balefire]] from [[Asne Zeramene]]. Birgitte finally convinces the Windfinders to actively attack the Black Ajah. The Windfinders all link with Chanelle in control and attack the wagon with lightning, killing Asne in the process. They shield all the remaining Black Ajah members so they can be taken captive by Alayne's troops.		When Elayne is captured by the [[Black Ajah]], [[Birgitte Silverbow]] manages to convince Chanelle and the rest of the Sea Folk Windfinders that without Elayne there is no bargain. They [[Travel]] to the area where the Black Ajah are riding a wagon with Elayne inside. The strike force ride towards the wagon, but are decimated by [[Balefire]] from [[Asne Zeramene]]. Birgitte finally convinces the Windfinders to actively attack the Black Ajah. The Windfinders all link with Chanelle in control and attack the wagon with lightning, killing Asne in the process. They shield all the remaining Black Ajah members so they can be taken captive by Alayne's troops.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Seran White Shark, Chanelle din}}
	[[Category:Sea Folk]]		[[Category:Sea Folk]]
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Caire din Gelyn Running Wave

2009-11-20T21:15:54Z

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	== Appearance ==		== Appearance ==
-	She has big dark eyes with a straight nose and a strong chin. She has 4 earrings in each ear.	+	She has big dark eyes with a straight nose and a strong chin. She has four earrings in each ear.

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	She accompanies Pelanna to a meeting of the [[First Twelve]] in [[Illian]] with [[Rand al'Thor]]'s ambassador [[Logain Ablar]]. She is concerned with the whereabouts of her daughter, when she disappears from Caemlyn. Near the end of the meeting [[Cemeille din Selaan Long Eyes]] interrupts with the news of the [[Amayar]] committing mass suicide.		She accompanies Pelanna to a meeting of the [[First Twelve]] in [[Illian]] with [[Rand al'Thor]]'s ambassador [[Logain Ablar]]. She is concerned with the whereabouts of her daughter, when she disappears from Caemlyn. Near the end of the meeting [[Cemeille din Selaan Long Eyes]] interrupts with the news of the [[Amayar]] committing mass suicide.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Gelyn Running Wave, Caire din}}
	[[Category:Windfinders]]		[[Category:Windfinders]]
	[[Category:Sea Folk]]		[[Category:Sea Folk]]

User:Mainphramephreak/Project

2009-11-20T21:12:37Z

Q-R: oops, forgot a single digit, NOW they are all done. :)

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	*[[:Category:Red Ajah]] - 36		*[[:Category:Red Ajah]] - 36
-	*[[:Category:Redarms]] - 11	+	*<s>[[:Category:Redarms]]</s>
-	*[[:Category:Royalty]] - 9	+	*<s>[[:Category:Royalty]]</s>
-	*[[:Category:Rulers]] - 14	+	*<s>[[:Category:Rulers]]</s>
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	*<s>[[:Category:Sailmistresses]]</s>		*<s>[[:Category:Sailmistresses]]</s>

Yseidre Tirado

2009-11-20T21:11:33Z

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	Over the course of the [[War of the Hundred Years]], Tear overcame its enemies and expanded to its modern size, with the notion of a council of [[High Lord\|High Lords and Ladies]] leading the country instead of a single ruler becoming cemented in law.		Over the course of the [[War of the Hundred Years]], Tear overcame its enemies and expanded to its modern size, with the notion of a council of [[High Lord\|High Lords and Ladies]] leading the country instead of a single ruler becoming cemented in law.

		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Tirado, Yseidre}}
	[[Category:Tear]]		[[Category:Tear]]
	[[Category:Rulers]]		[[Category:Rulers]]

Tyrn sur Paendrag Mashera

2009-11-20T21:11:17Z

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	The man claiming to be Tyrn sur Paendrag Mashera died in FY 1054 from a fever and his daughter [[Miselle]] became the First Lady of Mayene, beginning an unbroken line of succession that lasted a thousand years until the time of the current incumbent, [[Berelain sur Paendrag Tanreal\|Berelain sur Paendrag Paeron]].		The man claiming to be Tyrn sur Paendrag Mashera died in FY 1054 from a fever and his daughter [[Miselle]] became the First Lady of Mayene, beginning an unbroken line of succession that lasted a thousand years until the time of the current incumbent, [[Berelain sur Paendrag Tanreal\|Berelain sur Paendrag Paeron]].

		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Mashera, Tyrn sur Paendrag}}
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	[[Category:Deceased]]		[[Category:Deceased]]

Istaban Novares

2009-11-20T21:10:57Z

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	Over the course of the [[War of the Hundred Years]], Tear overcame its enemies and expanded to its modern size, with the notion of a council of [[High Lord\|High Lords and Ladies]] leading the country instead of a single ruler becoming cemented in law.		Over the course of the [[War of the Hundred Years]], Tear overcame its enemies and expanded to its modern size, with the notion of a council of [[High Lord\|High Lords and Ladies]] leading the country instead of a single ruler becoming cemented in law.

		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Novares, Istaban}}
	[[Category:Tear]]		[[Category:Tear]]
	[[Category:Rulers]]		[[Category:Rulers]]

Haren Maseed

2009-11-20T21:10:07Z

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	'''Haren Maseed''' was one of three powerful nobles who seized control of [[Tanchico]] during the [[War of the Hundred Years]] and founded the kingdom of [[Tarabon]] around it. He served as the first [[Panarch]] of Tarabon from FY 1006 onwards.		'''Haren Maseed''' was one of three powerful nobles who seized control of [[Tanchico]] during the [[War of the Hundred Years]] and founded the kingdom of [[Tarabon]] around it. He served as the first [[Panarch]] of Tarabon from FY 1006 onwards.

		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Maseed, Haren}}
	[[Category:Deceased]]		[[Category:Deceased]]
	[[Category:Tarabon]]		[[Category:Tarabon]]

Carewin Damodred

2009-11-20T21:08:48Z

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	She has a reputation as having been a fearsome ruler, her name still being used to scare children in Cairhien. Moiriane says that nobody ruled Cairhien for long without being capable of stooping to assassinations, kidnapping and worse.		She has a reputation as having been a fearsome ruler, her name still being used to scare children in Cairhien. Moiriane says that nobody ruled Cairhien for long without being capable of stooping to assassinations, kidnapping and worse.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Damodred, Carewin}}
	[[Category:Cairhien]]		[[Category:Cairhien]]
	[[Category:Rulers]]		[[Category:Rulers]]

Amathera Aelfdene Casmir Lounault

2009-11-20T21:08:24Z

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	After a skirmish with Darkfriends in [[Maderin]] Mat and the rest of his group decide to leave Luca's show. While riding through [[Altara]] they meet up with the [[Band of the Red Hand]] and begin to travel with them.		After a skirmish with Darkfriends in [[Maderin]] Mat and the rest of his group decide to leave Luca's show. While riding through [[Altara]] they meet up with the [[Band of the Red Hand]] and begin to travel with them.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Lounault, Amathera Aelfdene Casmir}}
	[[Category:Tarabon]]		[[Category:Tarabon]]
	[[Category:Rulers]]		[[Category:Rulers]]

Anarina Todande

2009-11-20T21:06:45Z

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	== History ==		== History ==
	Her House had held the [[Throne of the Winds]] for five generations before her fall. [[House Todande]] has become a very minor House now.		Her House had held the [[Throne of the Winds]] for five generations before her fall. [[House Todande]] has become a very minor House now.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Todande, Anarina}}
	[[Category:Historical]]		[[Category:Historical]]
	[[Category:Women]]		[[Category:Women]]

Tad Kandel

2009-11-20T21:05:36Z

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	== Activities ==		== Activities ==
	It is found out that he has deloped a boil on his backside, which has to be dealt with on the way to [[Ebou Dar]].		It is found out that he has deloped a boil on his backside, which has to be dealt with on the way to [[Ebou Dar]].
-	While at the building that contained the [[ter'angreal]] [[Bowl of the Winds]] in Ebou Dar, he is killed by the [[Gholam]].	+	While at the building that contained the ''[[ter'angreal]]'' [[Bowl of the Winds]] in Ebou Dar, he is killed by the [[Gholam]].
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Kandel, Tad}}
	[[Category:Band of the Red Hand]]		[[Category:Band of the Red Hand]]
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Lawdrin Mendair

2009-11-20T21:05:13Z

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	He has a drinking problem and is told to tip out all his brandy on the way to [[Ebou Dar]].		He has a drinking problem and is told to tip out all his brandy on the way to [[Ebou Dar]].
	While in the Rahad in Ebou Dar he is killed by the [[Gholam]] trying to locate the [[Bowl of the Winds]].		While in the Rahad in Ebou Dar he is killed by the [[Gholam]] trying to locate the [[Bowl of the Winds]].
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Mendair, Lawdrin}}
	[[Category:Band of the Red Hand]]		[[Category:Band of the Red Hand]]
	[[Category:Redarms]]		[[Category:Redarms]]

User:Mainphramephreak/Project

2009-11-20T20:57:06Z

M-P: crap

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-	*[[:Category:Malkier]] - 18	+	*<s>[[:Category:Malkier]]</s>
	*<s>[[:Category:Manetheren]]</s>		*<s>[[:Category:Manetheren]]</s>
-	*[[:Category:Mayene]] - 11	+	*<s>[[:Category:Mayene]]</s>
	*[[:Category:Men]] - 487		*[[:Category:Men]] - 487
	*<s>[[:Category:Merchants]]</s>		*<s>[[:Category:Merchants]]</s>

Tarwin's Gap

2009-11-20T20:53:45Z

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	Tarwin's Gap was also used extensively during the [[Trolloc Wars]] to transport Trolloc troops from the [[Blight]] into the [[Westlands]]		Tarwin's Gap was also used extensively during the [[Trolloc Wars]] to transport Trolloc troops from the [[Blight]] into the [[Westlands]]
	[[Category:Other features]]		[[Category:Other features]]
-	[[Category:Shienar]]	+	[[Category:Shienar\| ]]
-	[[Category:Malkier]]	+	[[Category:Malkier\| ]]

Weilin Aldragoran

2009-11-20T20:53:12Z

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	== Activities ==		== Activities ==
	[[Nynaeve al'Meara]] visits him in Saldaea telling him that the [[Golden Crane]] has been risen and that [[Lan Mandragoran]] rides into the [[Blight]]. Aldragoran decrees that Lan will not ride alone.		[[Nynaeve al'Meara]] visits him in Saldaea telling him that the [[Golden Crane]] has been risen and that [[Lan Mandragoran]] rides into the [[Blight]]. Aldragoran decrees that Lan will not ride alone.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldragoran, Weilin}}
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Seven Towers

2009-11-20T20:52:23Z

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	The Seven Towers refers to the seven towers on the walls of the capital of [[Malkier]], a [[Borderland]] nation lost to [[The Blight]]. The Seven Towers was located alongside some lakes near the [[Mountains of Dhoom]]. Today it's only a broken ruin.		The Seven Towers refers to the seven towers on the walls of the capital of [[Malkier]], a [[Borderland]] nation lost to [[The Blight]]. The Seven Towers was located alongside some lakes near the [[Mountains of Dhoom]]. Today it's only a broken ruin.
-	[[Category:Malkier]]	+	[[Category:Malkier\| ]]

Ryne Venamar

2009-11-20T20:51:41Z

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	Ryne accompanied Lan and [[Bukama Marenellin]] from [[Canluum]] to [[Chachin]] when they met [[Moiraine Damodred]]. Ryne was a [[Darkfriend]] and served [[Merean Redhill]] who was of the [[Black Ajah]], at [[Aesdaishar Palace]]. By her order he killed Bakuma and fought Lan. Ryne Venamar was killed by Lan in the fight, his body was disposed of by Moiraine Sedai.		Ryne accompanied Lan and [[Bukama Marenellin]] from [[Canluum]] to [[Chachin]] when they met [[Moiraine Damodred]]. Ryne was a [[Darkfriend]] and served [[Merean Redhill]] who was of the [[Black Ajah]], at [[Aesdaishar Palace]]. By her order he killed Bakuma and fought Lan. Ryne Venamar was killed by Lan in the fight, his body was disposed of by Moiraine Sedai.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Venamar, Ryne}}
	[[Category:Malkier]]		[[Category:Malkier]]
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Nacelle Kayam

2009-11-20T20:51:25Z

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	She has developed a weave for detecting the use of ''[[saidin]]''.		She has developed a weave for detecting the use of ''[[saidin]]''.
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		+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Kayam, Nacelle}}
	[[Category: Green Ajah]]		[[Category: Green Ajah]]
	[[Category: Malkier]]		[[Category: Malkier]]

Ki'sain

2009-11-20T20:49:50Z

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	* White: widowed		* White: widowed
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	[[Category:Culture]]		[[Category:Culture]]
-	[[Category:Malkier]]	+	[[Category:Malkier\| ]]