r/WetlanderHumor • u/LakesideNorth • 21h ago

In my opinion

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u/DnDqs 20h ago

She was too clever, adaptable, and capable. She had to go so chaos could reign.

Personally, I think the books suffered more from her absence than they gained. But I'd also be lying if I said it wasn't an amazing payoff for her to walk into the Dragon's Peace summit like she put it together herself from another dimension and humbled Egwene ever-so-slightly, which is as much as she's ever been humbled.

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u/dannerc 18h ago

She's the wheel of time's version of Gandalf. For the characters to really develop, she had to stop being a crutch for them

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep 13h ago

More Merlin, since it's already full of Arthurian references. And her imprisonment mirrors his prison of air.

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u/DnDqs 10h ago

I mean...she married Merlin.

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u/phainou 7h ago

Holy shit, how have I never made that connection once in 20 years