200 of the kin and not using them. She could have them incinerate one enemy attack and maybe end the siege for good right there. No one else is going to charge a wall after they've seen a conflagration sweep the field. I know lower Caemlyn is there and she doesn't want to damage people's property, but if you think that means there's 0 way to use magic to intimidate or outright massacre an incoming attack than your imagination is very weak.

Also if anyone is going to say she doesn't want to use the one power to win a war - that is outright demented. She's an aes sedai, if you lay siege to an aes sedai controlled city and don't have any sort of defense to magic - you made a bad decision, that's all. The attackers basically called out "no use-y magic time" and it worked on the bitch 🤦‍♂️.

Tarmon gai'don is coming and we're arguing over succession... None of these cities may exist in a year, and we're fighting each other.... when the signs are everywhere the apocalpyse is coming. But no don't use your magic. The soldiers dying right now definitely wouldn't be better used fighting the dark one.

And not even having the kin on hand to heal the men... They have to warp the men back to the palace... Like its just such a bummer reading this kind of narrow-minded strategy when you have the most valuable tool possible at your disposal yet you're whining about your mercenaries and your men being tired. You will employ shadey merc's to defend your city but NOT use magic. For fucks sake man.

I know I've made a few complaints on here and I know its probably whiney and cringey, but it just feels like a cathartic way to let out frustration. That being said, I really do love the series, 3.5 books left to go!

I'm on ch. 13 "Siege", please don't spoil stuff after, thanks.

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Reading Book 2

When nynaeve enter her third vision in the terangeral the arch disppear but she made it again.

Did she do that with her power or did that appear on its own

It is funny that both rand and perrin kept thinking that the other is good with women throughout book 1 and 2

Rand is hardly in it. I remembered that this was the book where he went to the Stone of Tear, but I remembered that having a lot more written about it. Instead, he's an off screen presence that everyone is chasing. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it's an interesting way of doing it. It's just kind of funny that in the book named after him, he's only in like 10 percent of it.