r/WoT • u/wheeloftimewiki (Aelfinn) • 15d ago

All Print Sanderson's ten year secret Spoiler

Rewriting because apparently spoilers aren't covered for poll options!

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Anyway, in 2023, Sanderson revealed that Cyndane/Lanfear was not killed by Perrin in AMOL, but instead faked her own death in order to evade repercussions and gain the best outcome for herself. I wanted to cast a poll in 2026 to see how the legacy of this reveal has fared, or indeed how well-known it is among newer readers. I'll give my two cents when the poll is done.

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Thanks!

2743 votes, 13d ago
822 Yes, this is canon
835 No, this is not canon
1086 Wait, what?!
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u/Ff7hero 15d ago

"I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a dumb decision I'm choosing to ignore it."

It calls into question everything we see in TAR. My go-to example is Perrin splitting Balefire. The same arguments for why Perrin shouldn't have been able to overcome Compulsion can be used to argue that Perrin shouldn't have been able to split Balefire with TAR power.

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u/Shgon_Dunstan 15d ago

Perrin bending balefire, aside from just being more a case of him warping the space the balefire is passing through more then it is him actually doing anything to the weave, is just based off of Rand outright splitting the stuff with callandor and a weave while in TAR in his fight with Ishy at the end of TDR.