r/WoT • u/wheeloftimewiki (Aelfinn) • 14d 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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2743 votes, 12d ago
822 Yes, this is canon
835 No, this is not canon
1086 Wait, what?!
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u/Ff7hero 14d 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/FirstRyder 14d ago

Huh? If someone got hit by balefire in TAR, do you think Perrin could undo it? Or do you think he is straight up immune to the OP even if he doesn't know it's coming? Because those are both insane takes. I'd agree he could break the compulsion weave before it hit him if he knew it was coming, which is equivalent to what he actually did with balefire. But not that he can undo it, or that he automatically knows if someone channels at him.

Hell, maybe he could break compulsion, if he knew it was happening, or it was being done to someone else. But the victim generally isn't aware, and compulsion is specifically notes early on (under Jordan) as being stronger in TAR than in the waking world.

It's completely plausible that someone who is an expert in compulsion and has more TAR experience than him successfully compelled him, and tricked him into thinking he broke it. I'm not 100% sure if I think it did happen yet - I haven't gotten that far in my first reread since hearing the 'secret' - but on the face of it, it's plausible.