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DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-02 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: If Galad and Rand were to fight with swords who would win? (laughter)

A: Well it's not going to happen. I would say Rand would, at least until recently.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Great Lord of the Dark

Q: You bio for dragon con shows you enjoy the sport of poker. Do you get the chance to play often, would you consider playing against fans, and how much would someone have to match you and raise the stakes by to get an answer to who killed Asmodean.

A: As to playing with fans, no, I don't want to take money from fans, and I don't want you to take mine. And as for the raise of the bet of who killed Asmodean, you do not have enough money collectively.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Aubrey

Q: Since we are unlikely to ever read of a raising of an Aes Sedai to the red ajah, can you tell us anything about the ajah secrets and/or rituals

A: I meant to strike that out because there might be something about that in the next book. Some of the reasons why I drop questions is there is a possibility I am going to use that so I like these things to come as a surprise, so read and find out.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Have any of the members of your fandom affected your writing. For example have any of the latter minor characters been reflections or poked fun of anything you have read.

A: No, no, I don't believe in poking fun at my fans. (Tells a short story about using a name or two of individuals he has met...he mentions a couple of Aes Sedai names, missing Aes Sedai, from names of some fans who sent a letter to him without a return address.)

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Frenzy

Q: How can Slayer know that Rand is his nephew?

A: The Shadow knows a lot about Rand, they know a lot about Perrin and Mat to, once they began to identify possibilities, they went hyper trying to get information because anything might be part of the key to controlling him.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Would you please name one character who did not kill Asmodean? Will you please name one of the following: Lanfear, Graendal, Moridin, Shaidar Haran, Padan Fain, Semirhage, Demandred, Mazrim Taim, Slayer? And why not that one you eliminate.

A: Padan Fain didn't because he wasn't in the right place at the right time. He would have if he had been in the right place at the right time, but he wasn't.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Isabela

Q: In the next book, Knife of Dreams, in comparison to the other books? book size

A: I would say it is the same length as Winters Heart, perhaps a little longer. Hello Emma. I still don't see that note from your mother allowing you to be here. Emma is only twelve, don't believe what she says, she is only twelve.*hehe, so funny, but sorry for this question. I posted this question before we got the information from dragonmount about the length of the book *

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Michelle

Q: What does it mean when dresses are slashed with a color.

A: There are two possibilities meanings to this. The most usual one is that there is an underskirt of the color that says it is slashed with. The outer skirt has a slit in it, a slash, which is sown in such a way that it is always open thus revealing its underneath color. The other way of doing this is there is this sort of pocket sown on the inside of that slash of the second color, so you are looking through the outer skirt into a depth, so it looks like it is a little pocket that other color in the skirt. This is not my invention, they did they during the renaissance, and I believe earlier as well.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: We know the Tower of Ravens located in the Seanchan capital city is used as an imperial prison especially for members of the blood, but there is also a reference to the first marath damane shaking the Towers of Midnight. Is that a prison also?

A: There are thirteen towers of midnight. The Towers of Midnight are a fortress complex, and were, at the time this happened, Shandar wasn't the capital, and the Towers of Midnight were the center of military might, or the forces that were beginning the consolidation before the conquest of Seanchan.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Sodas

Q: Is there anything you can tell us about Taim's choice to head to Andor after his escape.

A: Well, he really didn't have much other choice. He's a man who can channel. At that time as far as he knows any Aes Sedai that gets there hands on him will try to gentle him again. But the word is getting around, there are men gathering near Caemlyn, men just like him, and maybe there are enough of them that if they stick together the Aes Sedai will not be able to take them down. So he has no other choice. He can either spend a life on the run or he can enlist. He decided to enlist.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Frenzy

Q: Elaida slipped through the cracks uncaught by the red ajah scheme twenty years ago that had a name called the Vileness. How did Elaida and Galena for that matter manage to slip through when three sitters did not?

A: Elaida slipped through largely because she was minimally involved. Galena slipped through because there were enough Red sisters involved, at various levels that taking them all down would have decimated the red ajah. The decision was made to punish the ajah by exiling the sitters, take off the top. And it was supposed to be a life exile, you are out of here forever. The only reason they were not stilled was that the Tower was trying to hide what happened, it was a major atrocity carried out in the name of the Tower, and it didn't matter whether the Tower as a whole really wanted it or not, it was still a major atrocity and the tower was at the heart of it.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Why was the infant Isam sparred death at the hand of the Trollocs?

A: Possible political use later. You've got somebody who is related to the royal family of milkier and you can raise him exactly the way you want, you can instill whatever belief system you want. He's a blank slate and he might be a very powerful tool.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Was Isam raised by the shadow directly, by his mother, or by someone else?

A: By someone else. Read and find out.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Aubrey

Q: During the raising tests for Accepted and Aes Sedai, are the ladies taking the tests actually inside of the World of Dreams.

A: No...the...well, I am not going to say where they are for the tests for Accepted, that might be a RAFO, probably not, but it might be. For the test for Aes Sedai, they are in effect inside what you might call an uber-virtual reality device where what happens is entirely controlled in this case by the sisters controlling the device, but it is a virtual reality that is so terrific that it is reality for you. You die, you are dead. No game over, start again. You are dead.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: What is the title are used for the members of the Brown Ajah council?

A: Technically, they have no titles. It is the council and the head of the council. Informally, and this is strange, and it gives you an idea of the disorganization or the disinterest in organization of the Brown Ajah. First Chair is the informal title for the head of the Ajah, but this is as far as the Ajah is concerned. It is simply the council and the head of the council. As far as they are concerned there are more importants things than this organization stuff.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Sara

Q: When out of the three thousand year sleep, were the Forsaken still wearing the clothes from the time they were imprisoned?

A: Yes, they were.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Sara

Q: How does the process of waking up work, and were they conscious of it happening to them and or the other forsaken?

A: They were conscious of waking up, but remember that Lanfear said they were in a sleep so deep they were trapped so deep, that they were denied even dreams. Most of them were in fact in suspended animation. Balthamel and Aginor very close to the surface were not which is why they were so wasted when they are seen, and why they have a certain degree of madness as well. The others came out unaged, looking exactly as they did, but Aginor and Balthamel although wearing the close they wore, and the mask was an original he was wearing it when he went in, they were further wasted, you might say, preserved by being sealed in the bore, but close enough to the surface that they were aware of things going on outside.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Will we ever find out what happened when Elayne went through the arches?

A: Probably not, maybe, but probably not.

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Can a damane who has been burned out or stilled continue to be controlled by the a'dam?

A: no

DragonCon 2005

๐Ÿ“… 2005-09-03 ๐ŸŒ Q and A Session ๐Ÿ‘ค Unknown

Q: Who was the third blue ajah sitter who didn't make it to Salidar, what became of her?

A: Well, she died. She was one of the ones who was killed after Siuan was deposed and everything went to hell in a hand basket inside the tower.