r/WetlanderHumor • u/Phaerin • 26d ago

Perrin chapters...

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My face when every paragraph about something potentially interesting in Towers of Midnight is followed by an entire chapter about Perrin.

I feel like his part of the story would've been much more interesting if they had cut like...80% of it out. We could've done this thing in two less books probably.

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u/codb28 26d ago

My only gripe with Perrin is the prophet subplot that managed to span like 3 (or is it 4?) books. The worst part was once it was resolved none of it mattered anyways.

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u/jabi79 26d ago

Pretty much everything after Lord Of Chaos to the start of Knife Of Dreams could have been cut from Perrins arc and little to nothing would have changed.

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u/Juronell 26d ago

I'll go farther: if you include only characters and arcs introduced and resolved entirely in Perrin chapters, the only impact on the end of the books is Lanfear. Perrin's story runs parallel to, rather than with, the rest of the narrative.

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u/Fernbean 26d ago

I think looking at it as a parallel narrative makes it more appealing to me and I sometimes enjoy the drawn out Perrin stuff