I'm really not sure what to blog about. I spent most of the day trying to wade my way through math equations that I was positive were right, but apparently just weren't. Stupid differential equations not being really easy. Oh wait, I shall blog about the Wheel of Time! Goodness knows I talk about it enough.
The WoT series is written by Robert Jordan, who I've always previously written about. It's my favorite series, currently thirteen books long. (Spoilers) It's about a group of people, primarily Rand al'Thor. Rand slowly comes into his destiny as the Dragon Reborn, a prophesied male magic user. This causes conflicting feelings among everyone, as the Dragon Reborn heralds the end of days, and all male magic users are known to go crazy with the tainted male magic and destroy everything that they can. At the same time, the Dragon is known as the only hope to defeat the Dark One at the last battle. Due to this, several forces try to manipulate Rand into doing their bidding, and he does his best to outwit them, despite having just been a poor farmer boy. The female magic users are just a snotty bunch, and many greatly fear the idea of male magic users for the first time in three thousand years. Their nightmares come true as Rand sets up a school for male mages, and unbeknownst to many, actually cleanses the male magic source.
My favorite character has to be Mat, Rand's best friend. He just has the most interesting, and yet the simplest, ability of all, luck. He performs all kinds of feat with his crazy luck, like tossing 50 coins and having them all land on their sides. His luck proves to be unlucky at points, as he very often wins too many poker matches and people try to attack him. Most of the time, Mat tends to go around to bars to drink, gamble, and stare at pretty women. He actually got engaged to a short, bald princess that wants to kill him in one of the more recent books, which sadly cut away from his typical womanizing habits. Mat is also a top weapons designer, mostly by accident.
I also like Min a lot. Min, short for Elmindreda, is one of Rand's lovers (he has three, but they're all good friends and completely okay with sharing him, no cheating). Min is a tomboy with the ability to predict the future based on the auras surrounding people. She develops into a notorious bookworm in the series, mostly to try to learn how to save Rand. She's one of my favorite characters simply because of how nice and honest she is. Whereas everyone else plots and schemes, Min simply reads and waits for Rand to finish with his political business. When Rand begins his descent into cold madness, Min continues to be the only person that can still make him smile.
I don't think I've really portrayed the series that well, but I have more blogs and not much interesting going on, so I think I'll have a part two of this.
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