The Wheel of Time Season 2 Episode 5 Evaluate: Damane

Moiraine and Rand flee from Lanfear, a harmful forsaken.

The Wheel of Time repeatedly hints at the entire characters coming collectively, and The Wheel of Time Season 2 Episode 5 proved no totally different.

Now a few of our heroes are nonetheless in (and headed to) Cairhien, whereas some are in (and headed to) Falme.

Moiraine and Rand fortunately led Lanfear within the flawed route, however Moiraine revealed one of many highly effective Forsaken’s powers: Tel’aran’rhiod.

She will enter their desires whereas they sleep, and do as a lot injury to them there as she may within the bodily world.

Getting into somebody’s desires whereas they sleep, and probably harming them sounds terrifying, and apparently, Lanfear is tremendous highly effective.

We obtained a touch of her energy when she entered Ishamael’s dream in a while within the hour, and so they mentioned their plans and why Ishamael revived her.

In the meantime, the novices are taken by Liandrin to some acquainted enemies this season: The Seanchan Empire.

She revealed that she can be working with Ishamael, however she and the pinnacle basic of the Seanchan military don’t get alongside. Earlier than Liandrin left, she secretly used the One Energy to free Nynaeve from her binds, and woke the women up.

We now know much more about Liandrin than we did on The Wheel of Time Season 2 Episode 4, as do just a few of our predominant characters.

Whereas Nynaeve and Elayne obtained away, Egwene didn’t handle to run quick sufficient and obtained captured by the highly effective Seanchan summoners.

Nynaeve and Elayne discovered themselves in Falme, which excited Nynaeve (as a result of supposedly that was the place Loial and Perrin had been), however Elayne saved her head, ensuring they did not get caught.

However they did get caught. A person grabbed the 2 women, knocking them out and taking them with him.

After they awoke, we had been grateful to seek out out that an Aes Sedai’s warder grabbed them, and saved them protected of their residence.

Sadly, Egwene obtained collared by the Seanchan.

Whereas we aren’t precisely certain what the collars do, we all know they have an effect on the facility of somebody who can channel.

Egwene was put in ache by the collar, together with her energy being managed by somebody. We do not know precisely what these collars do, however both approach, we felt terrible for Egwene.

We all know that the Seanchan take channelers critically, and solely let the strongest and greatest ones reside, so Egwene can have her work minimize out for her if she needs to outlive.

We all know she’s a strong lady, so hopefully, she manages to carry her personal towards the merciless invaders.

We additionally know Nynaeve is close by and will not lie down quietly, and one other Two Rivers buddy is on his approach.

Perrin continued touring with Elyas earlier than he realized that Elyas was taking him the flawed approach on objective.

Perrin obtained indignant and stormed off, and ended up within the city that the Seanchan attacked that now obtained taken over by the White Cloaks.

We’ve not seen the White Cloaks since The Wheel of Time Season 1 Episode 5, and although they’re the “children of light,” they at all times creeped us out.

One of many White Cloaks helped Perrin a bit and advised him to keep away from the lifeless our bodies and the residing woman within the cage, however Perrin wished to assist the lady.

He freed the lady, named Aviendha, and the white Cloaks attacked them. Fortunately, Aviendha is a hardcore badass and took care of many of the White Cloaks, with Perrin helping.

They began touring collectively towards Falme, and whereas we appreciated her due to her badass abilities, we could not assist however really feel that Perrin trusted her approach too shortly.

It is a world the place he’d get hunted for being a Wolfbrother and has been separated from his pals for your entire season to this point.

Trusting a random lady who simply took out a big group of armed males might show to be factor, or she might activate him. Solely time will inform (though, if he is headed to Falme, he may have somebody tremendous sturdy on his facet).

Falme is crawling with the soldiers and troopers of the Seanchan, and anybody who goes towards them actually has their work minimize out.

Verin, somebody most certainly working for Moiraine, got here out of retirement to return to the tower, and most certainly be Moiraine’s eyes.

Her gentle snooping within the Tower led her to seek out out shortly that somebody within the White Tower swore their allegiance to the darkish facet, with considered one of her pals figuring out that the Black Ajah was actual.

Verin: Do you suppose it’d appear to be this if a weave of compulsion was getting used?
Yassica: Compulsion? However that will break the three oaths! It will imply that somebody within the tower has sworn to the darkish. That Black Ajah actually exists.

Whereas they did not know who the darkfriend was, Verin had a hunch that it was Liandrin (and we all know the reality, Liandrin is darkish, we simply do not understand how far she’ll go as a darkfriend but).

Liandrin’s plan labored, and her cowl story appeared plausible, however we do not suppose that her story goes to final lengthy.

We actually like to hate her, although, as a result of as talked about, she’s critically been a spotlight of The Wheel of Time Season 2, so whereas she did put the opposite women in peril, she needed to have motive, proper?

The one factor lacking from this episode was an replace on Mat and Min.

With the story leaping round to the entire totally different characters’ storylines, somebody at all times appears to get disregarded.

This go round Mat and Min obtained the quick finish of the persist with no replace on their journey to Cairhien. We wish to know what is going on to occur!

We have had the difficulty of scattered storylines with restricted updates for the reason that starting of the season, and our huge grievance from The Wheel of Time Season 2 Episode 1 was the restricted display time for every character.

We perceive the scope of the story but additionally really feel that there should have been a extra productive solution to inform the tales this season.

The scattered plots can turn into tremendous irritating, particularly when there’s not sufficient time for all of the totally different characters to get an replace.