Chucky & Janica
2011-04-22 19:02:12 UTC
Here are a few specially-picked points for the specific benefit of the
Memory Man.
- The Gray Man scene in the White Tower. Here is the sequence of
events. Egwene and Nynaeve are heading back to quarters when Egwene
shifts her head unexpectedly and a crossbow bolt hits the wall where
her head would have been. They see someone running off, and Nynaeve
captures them in Air. By the time they run aroudn the gallery to where
he is, he is dead with a dagger in his chest. Sheriam turns up and
takes charge, never asking where the dagger came from or where the
second killer went. Now from this sequence of events, and knowing in
hindsight that Sheriam was Black Ajah, I surmise only that she saw the
attempted killing or knew it was happening, then realised the Gray Man
had failed and had been captured alive, and so she killed him and
covered it all up. I wouldn't see this as any sort of betrayal to the
Dark One: on the contrary, she was killing a potential hostage they
might have been able to squeeze for information or who might have
given away secrets just by his presence and behaviour. I don't think
she in any way attempted to save the wondergirls from being killed
here.
- Later on, and via second-hand information, we hear that a second
Gray Man - a Gray Woman - was found dead in Sheriam's bed, laid out as
if sleeping. I am not entirely sure what this one means, except of
course it puts Sheriam back in the middle of it all and it has sort of
Godfathery connotations. Theories? Maybe this one was sent to kill
Sheriam for some reason, or to do something else, and she killed it.
Maybe once the first Gray Man failed, she killed the other one too,
just in case it gave the game away in a similar fashion. And then she
contrived to have it found in her bed for some reason - moving it
would have been difficult? Maybe it was already in her bedroom and so
moving it around would have required a bit too much lying she could
later have been caught out in. I don't know. Maybe I'm watching too
much Columbo.
- More for the Memory Man, re: Egwene's Ajah. Egwene is mooning over
Galad, and Elayne convinces her that Gawyn is the better bet, and that
he likes her. Elayne says, "You could choose Green Ajah, you know.
Green sisters sometimes marry. Gawyn truly is besotted..." bla bla
bla. Anyway, Egwene doesn't comment. This is just a bit more Green
Ajah stuff, no sign of Blue. There's some more conclusive stuff later,
though.
- In Egwene's final Testing scenario, she is Amyrlin Seat. Beldeine is
her Keeper of the Chronicles, with a green stole. We learn that the
Keeper is always raised from the same Ajah as the Amyrlin herself, and
Egwene reasons that this must mean she was Green Ajah before she was
raised Amyrlin. Now, we know that she wasn't actually any Ajah in
reality, she was raised basically from Accepted ... but still, in this
scenario it was Green Ajah, and she remembers a Great Purge that wiped
out the Black Ajah. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what
they're going to call Egwene's cull following Verin's revelation, so
that much is true here. Then they go on to threaten to gentle Rand in
the vision, and Egwene has to leave before she can rescue him ... but
okay. This is the information we get. Green Ajah, prominent. Nothing
about the Blue. "*Her stole is green. That means she was raised from
the Green Ajah. The Keeper always comes from the same Ajah as the
Amyrlin she serves. Which means if I'm the Amyrlin - if? - then I was
Green Ajah too.* That thought shook her. Not that she had been Green
Ajah, but that she had to reason it out." Still not entirely
conclusive, but I'm seeing plenty of Green hints here and nothing
about Blue, so continuity stands - so far.
- After Egwene's Testing, she asks Alanna what it means to be Green
Ajah. Alanna explains about the Battle Ajah, and standing ready.
Egwene muses about what that meant, since she was Green in her vision.
"*Is that what I was? Or what I will be? Light, I wish I knew if it
was real, if it had anything at all to do with here and now.*" So
that's all we get. Still, she asked. About the Green Ajah.
C&J
Memory Man.
- The Gray Man scene in the White Tower. Here is the sequence of
events. Egwene and Nynaeve are heading back to quarters when Egwene
shifts her head unexpectedly and a crossbow bolt hits the wall where
her head would have been. They see someone running off, and Nynaeve
captures them in Air. By the time they run aroudn the gallery to where
he is, he is dead with a dagger in his chest. Sheriam turns up and
takes charge, never asking where the dagger came from or where the
second killer went. Now from this sequence of events, and knowing in
hindsight that Sheriam was Black Ajah, I surmise only that she saw the
attempted killing or knew it was happening, then realised the Gray Man
had failed and had been captured alive, and so she killed him and
covered it all up. I wouldn't see this as any sort of betrayal to the
Dark One: on the contrary, she was killing a potential hostage they
might have been able to squeeze for information or who might have
given away secrets just by his presence and behaviour. I don't think
she in any way attempted to save the wondergirls from being killed
here.
- Later on, and via second-hand information, we hear that a second
Gray Man - a Gray Woman - was found dead in Sheriam's bed, laid out as
if sleeping. I am not entirely sure what this one means, except of
course it puts Sheriam back in the middle of it all and it has sort of
Godfathery connotations. Theories? Maybe this one was sent to kill
Sheriam for some reason, or to do something else, and she killed it.
Maybe once the first Gray Man failed, she killed the other one too,
just in case it gave the game away in a similar fashion. And then she
contrived to have it found in her bed for some reason - moving it
would have been difficult? Maybe it was already in her bedroom and so
moving it around would have required a bit too much lying she could
later have been caught out in. I don't know. Maybe I'm watching too
much Columbo.
- More for the Memory Man, re: Egwene's Ajah. Egwene is mooning over
Galad, and Elayne convinces her that Gawyn is the better bet, and that
he likes her. Elayne says, "You could choose Green Ajah, you know.
Green sisters sometimes marry. Gawyn truly is besotted..." bla bla
bla. Anyway, Egwene doesn't comment. This is just a bit more Green
Ajah stuff, no sign of Blue. There's some more conclusive stuff later,
though.
- In Egwene's final Testing scenario, she is Amyrlin Seat. Beldeine is
her Keeper of the Chronicles, with a green stole. We learn that the
Keeper is always raised from the same Ajah as the Amyrlin herself, and
Egwene reasons that this must mean she was Green Ajah before she was
raised Amyrlin. Now, we know that she wasn't actually any Ajah in
reality, she was raised basically from Accepted ... but still, in this
scenario it was Green Ajah, and she remembers a Great Purge that wiped
out the Black Ajah. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what
they're going to call Egwene's cull following Verin's revelation, so
that much is true here. Then they go on to threaten to gentle Rand in
the vision, and Egwene has to leave before she can rescue him ... but
okay. This is the information we get. Green Ajah, prominent. Nothing
about the Blue. "*Her stole is green. That means she was raised from
the Green Ajah. The Keeper always comes from the same Ajah as the
Amyrlin she serves. Which means if I'm the Amyrlin - if? - then I was
Green Ajah too.* That thought shook her. Not that she had been Green
Ajah, but that she had to reason it out." Still not entirely
conclusive, but I'm seeing plenty of Green hints here and nothing
about Blue, so continuity stands - so far.
- After Egwene's Testing, she asks Alanna what it means to be Green
Ajah. Alanna explains about the Battle Ajah, and standing ready.
Egwene muses about what that meant, since she was Green in her vision.
"*Is that what I was? Or what I will be? Light, I wish I knew if it
was real, if it had anything at all to do with here and now.*" So
that's all we get. Still, she asked. About the Green Ajah.
C&J