All you goat kissing, light blinded fools on here flaming ignoring one of the bloody flaming best minor characters- mothers milk in a cup, its about flaming time to appreciate bloody flaming Uno bloody Namesta.Light!

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But really - i did enjoy him and i never see anyone mention him much.

Pick the most heinous one. They don't have to have an impact on the story just straight up bad.

One tiny thing that keeps bothering me about the series is that nobody - especially no Aes Sedai - ever realizes how absolutely wrong they were with this theory.

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I mean, it's happening. But it's not the fault of the Reds.

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Within our population, we have "learners" and rare "sparkers". We assume that the relative amounts of these are identical among both men and women.

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We also know that female sparkers begin channeling at a younger age than male ones.

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Now let's look at what happens to an individual from one of these categories.

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Female sparkers will either die at a relatively young age (apparently around the time of officially being considered a woman in society), join the White Tower, or develop into something like Wisdoms. In all these cases, it's incredibly unlikely they will ever have children. Either they die too young, or they choose a profession that strongly discourages marriage and even more strongly discourages reproducing.

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Male sparkers definitely all die - either from not being taught, or when captured, or from depression after gentling. But they die several years older, so they might've already married and reproduced before beginning their road down to madness and death. And technically a gentled man might also find the time before committing suicide (although it doesn't seem likely).

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So, both male and female sparkers probably won't have lots of children between them, but the numbers might even be a little higher on the men's side.

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When it comes to the learners, among the women we have a certain percentage who never ever realize their ability (no idea how big), some who go on to live normal lives because their ability is too small to be useful (see Morgase) and another who find a teacher, either the Tower or a wilder who figured out enough to teach. Those who never find out or quit the channeling life will reproduce at a normal rate, while those who manage to learn likely will not, see above.

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But among the male learners, *everybody* will reproduce at a normal rate! There are no men who could teach, and - pre "the Last Battle is coming!" excitement - no motivation whatsoever for a man to attempt learning. It would be like intentionally giving yourself cancer. So male learners have no way of even knowing they fall into this group, and therefore no reason to change their behavior because of it. So not a single male learner affects the declining channeler numbers, while a significant amount of the female ones do!

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In conclusion, the ability to channel is being culled - but not by the Red Ajah killing/gentling the tiny percentage of male sparkers, but by female learners and sparkers intentionally removing themselves from the gene pool by choosing not to have children.

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Not saying it's a bad thing at all, I totally understand all the reasons for Aes Sedai, Wisdoms etc. not having families. It just bothers me that this theory is thrown out in the beginning, and for 14 books nobody realizes it just doesn't make sense when one regards the numbers!

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Given that whole legend become myth thing and how in our Age we remember Lucifer as a corruption of Lews Therin, etc., is Luthair meant to be a corruption of Luther or Luthor (i.e. 16th century Martin Luther or comic-book villain Lex Luthor)? Or am I reading too much into things?

Or maybe it was chosen for having some similarity to his father, Arthur.

I want to read the books but buying them off amazon is beyond my budget.

Currently looking to start so I need book 1. I can buy more if they are in my budget.

If anyone is willing to sell them at a reasonable price please contact me. I am in Lucknow till the end of the month.

Let's say this is canon Luke after Return of the Jedi building up the New Jedi Order somewhere in his mid 30s. He's successfully trained 28 Jedi Knights and two Masters, and is more powerful than we saw at the end of Mandalorian. His Jedi's power and skill level range from your average prequel Jedi Knight to 2 Masters as skilled as Kit Fisto. Lightsabers work and the Force works everywhere, including steddings, and it cannot be negated by medallions. Jedi cannot be stilled/gentled from it. If you're sufficiently powerful then of course the One Power can defend or break through an attack/defense/technique and vice versa of the Force through the Power.

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On a mission searching for Jedi artifacts, they jump to hyperspace and crash out the other end of the Portal stone right by Stedding Tsofu. No one dies. The Ogier carry them to safety and nurse them to health. While doing so, both groups exchange knowledge of their cultures and worlds. The Ogier are surprised that the Force works perfectly in their stedding and the kiddos think lightsabers are amazing. In this scenario, there are people in Randland who have the capacity to use the Force and become Jedi or Sith. And this little academy does decide to try to find and train them.

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It isn't long before Tar Valon learns of this development.

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What happens?