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Wheel of Time Season 2 - First 3 Episodes Discussion Thread [Spoilers all Books and Show] (lemmy.ml)

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The first 3 Episodes of the show were released earlier this evening. This thread is for discussion of all 3. Book and show spoilers may be posted unmarked in this thread.

No spoilers for episodes past episode 3 may be posted here.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think book Lan would absolutely lose to 2 fades in the dark who are working together. Fades get to teleport from shadow to shadow. It's seriously underutilized in the books, but it's established early on.

Remember that the borderlands all have laws that require towns be lit well at night, in large part to prevent fades from doing their twleporting and doing sabotage. But also so that if they get attacked at night the fades are less threatening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forget he goes toe to toe with one of the best swordsmen from the age of legends and defeats him (though bad things happen to him after)

Also, if Mat can fight a Gholam to a standstill, Lan should havent have had trouble.

A Gohlam would shred a fade, no question.

Fain nails a fade to a barn door in the books.

I don't think I'm out to lunch here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He very specifically does not beat Demandred. He does, in fact, lose. He wasn't there to win though. He kills Demandred but was fully expecting not to survive the fight. Also, Demandred was interested in having a fair fight, and Lan had on a Medallion stopping him from cheating with the power. Against 2 fades at night he has NONE of those things, and the fades are free to teleport around him at will.

Mat fought the gholam to a standstill because he had the ONLY weapon on the planet that could harm it. If he hadn't had that, he would have been absolutely shredded. But because of the Medallion, the gholam was holding back because it was afraid Mat could maim or kill it, which was something it had never faced before.

The fade nailed to a barn door because he had crazy mind control powers, he didn't have to fight it. Fades will do what they're told when ordered by someone they fear enough, even go into certain death.