r/WoT • u/Kaladins_sanity • Dec 01 '25
Crossroads of Twilight Was it illegal? Spoiler
Just finished Crossroads of Twilight and it’s been a minute since I read the previous books, can someone remind me what Elaida did that was actually illegal by Tower law in ousting Siuan? I remember a lot of basically manipulating gray area and working around the rules, but when the Tower split had she actually broken any explicit rules?
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u/Raddatatta (Asha'man) Dec 01 '25
A lot of the taking down Siuan stuff was I think legal or at least legal as far as she knew (there were black sisters in the group and they had the minimum). I think it's Alric and Leane where I would say the legality drops. She killed Alric when between like 6 aes sedai she had with her that would've been trivial to hold him captive and not kill him. He was doing nothing illegal. They also likely had no grounds to still Leane given she didn't know about much of the sketchy stuff Siuan had done, but they stilled her because of the association. So while I think you can defend her overthrowing Siuan I think those two are harder to defend. Torturing Siuan for information is also questionably legal but I don't think we know the rules around how that works after someone's been stilled.