Wheel of Time - Page 34

It was actually Hawkwing's son that conquered Seanchan, Artur didn't live to see the Conquest through. Artur probably would be interested to see that his worldwide unification campaign only met with lasting success across the Aryth Ocean, in the one place where his empire failed utterly to bring the native culture of the land in line with his own. Tuon would probably collapse and beg him to assume the Crystal Throne, and Artur would explain that he was bound to the horn, you silly girl, and needed to disappear back into Horn-limbo pronto.

As far as the Land of Madmen, yeah, future generations won't be insane, but those that are already still are. Plus, the other defining characteristic of the LoM is near-constant volcanic and seismic activity. It's not clear how much of that is channeling-related and how much of that is just wonky geography, so that might not go away. In any case, nothing interesting will happen in the LoM for a long, long time. The main problem with it isn't that there's lots of madmen, it's that there are so many that civilization never managed to reestablish itself after the Breaking; it's been over 3500 years since then, and no semblance of social order has arisen. Just primitive villages, no contact with the outside world, chaos, and more chaos.

1. Can someone explain to me how the mists didn't kill Mat and he can just walk up to kill Fain?
2. In Winter's Heart wasn't Alivia said to be super strong and equalled Lanfear or something? How can Graendal just hold off her + Cadsuane wtf.

1. Being exposed to the dagger made Mat immune to the whole Mordeth/SL/Mashadar-type evil.

2. Not sure about this one, but note that Graendal had access to the True Power at this point.

Was she not also linked to some people or something? I mean after Aviendha travels with her alone I believe she says /thinks something like that Graendal has not been fighting using her own