A: Well, my favorite character is whoever I am writing about for the moment, but I will tell you which characters I relate to. When I was growing up, I tried to be like Lan. Physically, and partly behavior, I was like Perrin, and behavior wise, I was like Mat. If he had a Harley, I'm sure he would ride one too (chuckles). My wife thinks that I'm "Loial to the life", but I don't see were she gets that.

A: No, that is totally bogus.

A: No.

A: They have 1 soul with 2 personalities. The reincarnation of souls does not mean reincarnation of personalities. The personality develops with each reincarnation of the soul. This is the cosmology that I came hobbled together.

A: I've never thought that. I'm still coming up with things as I go. As for when to start-flip a coin. I read a book on the history of salt. Because of a particular purpose, I thought it would be useful. Also, I used a good number of articles downloaded off the net. Historical uses, production of salt, every scrap I could find, and in the end I used about 6 words of it. I didn't need it, I had it in my head. I could have brought the story to a salt-producing town, and I wouldn't have had to go into many details, and you still would have known it was a salt town.

A: She'd been putting out feelers. All she had to do in this case was make the first contact herself with an agent of her Ajah, and word would begin to spread. Things are already winding down, so she became a focal point. You might say that the communication networks realigned themselves.

A: Read and Find Out.

A: That ones easy, son! C'mon. At that point, Taim was trying to find him like the devil. He knew pretty much what had happened from the beginning. Things were happening. The Aes Sedai disappeared from Cairhien. Perrin disappeared. Rand disappeared. Taim had an idea that something very bad was going on, and when you can Travel it becomes easier to start tracking out where did these Aes Sedai go and Bingo, we got something very bad going on down here, and I'm gonna come and tear the house down. It's very easy.

A: Read and Find Out.

A: Yes I did, yes I did. But did I plan every single detail? No! I knew the last scene of the last book. It hasn't changed in 18 years. I know where I'm headed. It's been difficult to get as much story into any book that I thought I could. It's why this has not been 5 books. I told Tom Doherty it would be, back when I got the idea: I don't think it will be more than 5, at most 6. I know the major things, and I know them from the beginning, but how I get from A to Z, and the minor things that will happen along the way, I don't plan in detail before. It's much more organic that way. I think it would become very wooden if I planned every detail. Sometimes the main thing that happens is not a battle. Sometimes it's that 2 people meet., and history changes. History changes because these 2 people met, and now the future will go a different way than if they did not meet. OK, one more question, then we'd better get to the signing.

A: Read and Find Out.

A: No

A: Jordan responded that Sammael was dead as of the end of Crown of Swords. Jordan felt that the character was a "louse" and didn't deserve a dramatic death ala Rahvin or Be'lal. He deserved a very vague death and was killed by something that he didn't pay attention to.

A: No.

A: The Aes Sedai were being forced to be subservient according to the circumstances and couldn't really help it.

A: The Jendai Prophecies are smaller in length but similar in scope to the Dragon Prophecies but limited to the Sea Folk.

A: There will be at least 3 more books. The next book will be in bookstores very shortly after I finish writing it and Michael Jordan is my kid brother whom I taught to play basketball.

A: Yes, the ashandarei comes from the Age of Legends.

A: When/if the taint is removed from saidin, further ill effects are stopped but what has already occurred remains.

A: Mat does not have memories only from the Trolloc Wars. Mat's memories extend all the way into the time of Artur Hawkwing 1000 years later.