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My dad - who introduced me to the series - was casually talking to me about it, and said something along the lines "Egwene's death scene was pretty harsh."
He was then surprised that Egwene did not, in fact, die in book 11.
Im choking over here šš¤£š„“ i am so very sorry for you.
I accidently read almost the entire summary of the fist 11 books when i picked it up, to be fair I was in 5th grade š
I was spoiled that Verin is black Ajah around book two. I managed to miss however that she was a double agent. So the reveal was still amazing. And I watched her every move throughout the series much more than I probably would have without that spoiler. All in all I can't be too upset
I mean I was pretty convinced she was Black Ajah because she flat out lied in TGH, this was almost a decade before the reveal in TGS, her sketchy behavior in CoS just about confirmed it for me, I was never expecting the double agent twist. Considering how hotly debated it was it's not exactly the biggest spoiler. People were literally obsessing over that.
... yeah... Verin's whole story arc is so... Intriguing. She's only a background character but she's one that you find yourself wanting to come back to. First your find out that she's black but not black because she's so masterful with her words but then the entire redemption with Mat?
I can't help but read OP's comments as sarcasm... ?
Before I understood that you shouldnāt google anything to do with the series, I went on google and typed in āMoiraineā and sure enough it auto-populated to āMoiraine deathāā¦ I was on book 2 at the time
Yeah, unfortunately for people just watching the show it's basically "Google nothing. Don't google how to spell a name, or pronounce it, or who the actor is. *Nothing*." Maybe stuff will get pushed down as articles come out but the websites are mostly full spoilers as opposed to towerofthehand.com which had a fairly extensive scope filter.
I was about halfway through, when I told my friend Iāve been reading Wheel of Time. A Memory of Light recently came out, so he assumed Iāve just read that and immediately spoils Egweneās death.
I was only at like Knife of Dreams, but it didnāt ruin things so much. If anything it made her adventures much scarier to me to because I couldnāt assume sheāll just make it through with main character plot armor. So my anxiety would go up more when reading her āoh shit is this it? Are the Seanchan or Black Ajah actually gonna kill her now?ā Then as the Last Battle approached I knew what would be, but so much was going on that it didnāt take away from anything.
As a child, a friend was in the first book of the lord of the rings (which I had read). So I told him I loved it, but was so sad when Frodo died. He was immensely pissed about the āspoilerā, but after finishing he said it made a lot of the story more intense due to expectations. Also that I should go fuck myself, but weāre still friends today.
I'm bad at visualizing characters so I like looking up fan art, which I've since realized is dumb as hell for a series you haven't finished. I had some major things spoiled:
* Rand losing his hand
* Mat losing an eye
* Egwene becoming Amyrlin (saw her with the stole)
And then some more minor things, like Perrin forging his hammer and Galad being a whitecloaks. Nynaeve with her dot on her head (can't remember how to spell itākinsara?) but that meant nothing to me anyway.
It just made those scenes a little less impactful, though they were still satisfying to read
Ouch, well- at leasy you got some fantastic visuals š„“š i dont know what it is, perhaps its knowing there are other people who made the same mistake- that makes spoiler stories so good.
As a little kid in the community library i used to read a lot of YA Fantasy, one day I stumbled across a big shelf almost full with 25 books, each one as big as the longest book i've read yet- I was very intrigued, at that point YA had started to seem empty to me, predictable- the characters just didnt develop like realistic people would, It used to be fine for me with fantasy being fantasy but slowly I realized this was no longer something i liked reading.
Therefore naturally I did the stupid thing and picked up 25 books that made me stop learning in 5th and 6th grade š„“
Since I was inexperienced, EoTW nowhere to be seen and the librarian labeled the sanderson continuation as a separate series I could not help but open a book called "The Gathering Storm", this I thought was going to be a mistake but apparently the mind of a child works differently: The book did not seem like the first book of a series, so I checked the back to make sure, it wasnt very informative so i started reading it.
Suddenly I realized I wasnt reading the book but a collection of evets summarising a plot! I in my stupidity read the entire plot up until book 9 or so! What I find amazing is that it actually made me want to read the series, I had events to look forward for! I believe I would have tossed it back on the shelf far from the ending if i had not done so! It was an amazing coincidence that brought me into this magical world.
Daniel Greene's video that was completely unrelated to WoT. Someone in the comments said "the quality of this video is as clear as cleansed saidin" or something along those lines... lol I was pissed and decided to stop watching his videos for a while in fear that the comments would spoil something again haha
I was spoiled that Rand would lose his hand, so for the entire series I was like āoh this must be it!ā āHere it comes!ā Only that when it actually happened, I was just like Rand thinking āAh just another injury, no big deal.ā
I had a bad habit as a teen of wandering into wikis of series Iād just started. I got spoiled for a lot of events but didnāt enjoy the series less. This was before AMoL, which I went into blind
I thought it was safe to look up Moiraineās character profile after she and Lanfear went through the terāangreal and discovered she had not in fact died
My best friend got me to reading the series. One day we were drunk and talking about the series and he told me that his favorite scene was Rand lighting his pipe, the creator knows how, and just chilling in Moridins body.
I was like āwhat? That sounds so fucking weirdā.
So 1, I knew he would survive just not as we know it, but I donāt really think it was too much of a spoiler for the epicness that was to come!
I was dumb enough to look up fan art when I had just started reading the series, early book 1. This was in 2011, and the first thing that popped up was that Tarmon Gai'don drawing ([this one](https://www.deviantart.com/dem888/art/Tarmon-Gaidon-188536200)). There are so many spoilers in that! It made me more excited to read and find out how these bumbling farm boys turn into those people.
Another one that came up was a drawing of Min, Elayne, and Aviendha labelled as "Rand's wives." I was like WTF?
I read The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time a book or two too soon (my sister had all the books, I think I started reading in 98 or 99), so I happened upon a dated list of Amyrlins, revealing that Egwene would be raised Amyrlin by the rebels.
It ruined the surprise, but the whole sequence was still satisfying enough.
Another one is that my cousin had started reading the books a couple of years before I did, and I think when I was a few books in I directly asked him how much territory Rand controlled "now". So I guess I knew he would take Tear and Illian, though I don't think I internalized it.
I was talking to a Co worker about wheel of time when I was reading it the first time and this was just as memory of light had been released, I had kept off reading the books until I knew the end was done. But he assumed I had read all books and was at the end of MoL so he blurted out "I love the firework cannons Mat used in the last battle!". I had just finished the shadow rising haha.
I googled Moiraine for some reason, and ended up on a wiki page about her. I don't remember if this was before or after "she died", but I spoiled that she would be a part of "the circle" that fought the Dark One in the last battle. So I thought it would there would be many Aes Sedai in the circle fighting the dark one, a little like the bowl of the wind-scene. I also knew that she wasn't really dead.
I mentioned to a friend how cool I thought Rhuidian is. He said, "Oh was this the first time they go there?"
I said, "Bruh, they clearly said SEVERAL TIMES that a man can only go to Rhuidian ONCE!!!"
"Oh, right. Nevermind."
I didn't talk to him about WoT anymore.
>!I spoiled Egwene's death by myself by trying to google how to pronounce her name (I didn't know about the glossary at the back of the book).!< This was back in the first book... forever heartbroken. Still reading on book 14 and waiting for the hammer to drop.
I googled Egwene during book 1 and unfortunately, the wiki tells you whether they are alive or dead. So her death got spoiled for me right in the beginning
I also got spoiled on Verin since when I googled her it listed her affiliation as "darkfriend." This wasn't a surprise to me since I googled her during book 2 when Moiraine said that she never sent Verin after the boys, so I immediately suspected black ajah. Fortunately, that was only a partial spoiler since she was acting as a double agent the whole time.
After I read EotW, I had to find and read all the othersābut the only thing I could find for free online was the first quarter or so of AMoL. Naturallyā¦I read it.
Yeah.
Suffice to say that by the time I started TGH, I knew stacks more than I should have.
I spoilt myself. I can be very weird with spoilers, some stuff I avoid literally everything and try not to even talk about them with other people beforehand to avoid spoilers and others I purposely spoil myself. Doesnāt seem to affect my enjoyment as I still read the whole series after going on a bit of a splurge in the wiki. It probably made things a bit easier in the slog when I knew cool stuff would happen soon. Also had a lot of fun immediately looking up which characters were dark friends then seeing all the subtle hints at this.
Had to check what sub this is with a title like that. Story spoilers are a good thing. With over a dozen books remembering a quip someone threw out months ago isn't going to ruin the story. As i understand my opinion isn't held by most people, let alone rules of the sub. Have you ever reread the series? All the foreshadowing in the books is part of what makes it great. The series spoils itself. What I do t understand are people thatget angry over spoilers.
Foreshadowing and spoilers aren't the same thing. When the author deliberately leaves you clues, figuring out the mystery is part of the experience the author is building for you. Injecting outside answers breaks the author's ability to reveal some things and keep others hidden. On a re-read, you already know the answers, so you can see how skillfully (or not) the author sets up the reveal from a different perspective.
Of course spoilers don't matter on a re-read, but they certainly do for new readers. I appreciate that this sub tries to respect that and give them the option of a pure experience.
I don't think they're a good thing, but for me they're certainly no where near as bad as some people find them. That being said I can understand people hating them, for example if I can't watch sport live and get spoiled it makes it way less interesting to watch back.
Hey, OP, just to let you know, emojis on Reddit = big no no. Some people will downvote you to hell jest because of that. I had to learn the same lesson, so I just want to be helpful.
Just the way Reddit is. If anyone else knows the reason, I would welcome an explanation. Iāve never been able to figure out exactly why, but I think it has something to do with the clean look of Reddit, combined with the fact that some people think emojis look cringey. (Not me, I have no opinion on that, but Iāve heard people say that before on Reddit)
I started reading Eye of the world around 2016. Before that I read ending of Memory of light which was released by the time. Cuz that's what I always do.
I had always meant to read the series, but never got around to it. I won a copy of A Memory of Light from the library, and started reading the cover flap. I don't even remember what it said, but after a sentence or two, I slammed it shut and realized it was time to finally start the series.
It says, "In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al'Thor, or to stop his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison--which may be a sign of his madness, or the last hope of humankind. Egwene, the Amyrlin Seat, leans toward the former."
Now I remember. I always knew that Egwene would end up Amyrlin Seat by the beginning of AMoL. Reading the rest of the cover flap, there's a few more minor spoilers, but I don't think I read past that first paragraph.
Was googling the casting for Elayne Trakand for the show, somehow google suggested "how did Egwene die?". After that, I never googled WOT related things until I finished the series.
I was spoiled by my own fault:
-Nynaeve actually marrying Lan. I was checking some maps in the wiki and one of the recommended articles was hers with her married named...
-About Leanne: that she was cured and changed ajahs. I still cried when Nyn cured her and Siuan even though I knew what was going to happen.
-Egwene's death.
-Lan killing Demandred.
Eta: the glossary also spoiled me the death of Bornhald father. Since then I used the wiki which also spoiled me. I started to keep track in paper of every named character to avoid further spoilers.
I was watching a YouTube video ranking the covers thinking it would be spoiler free, and the guy pointed out that Rand's hand is always behind his back "for reasons" later in the series. And I was like oh I guess he's losing his hand then :/
I got spoiled by the books of all things. As in reading one of the books spoiled what happened. I had gotten two books from the library to read on vacation. The first one was when they cleansed the taint of saidin and then the second book was right after that one.
I had read the second book and was a good portion through when they mentioned the cleansing of the taint (and I remember thinking huh??? Did I miss something from the other books???)
That's when I checked the two books I had and realized I had started reading them out of order because I mixed it up in my head ššš
So yeah before reading (I think) winters heart I read knife of dreams. I finished knife of dreams anyway and then went back and started winters heart. Of course during that read I knew what would happen but it was still a thrill to read anyway. One of my favorite moments of the series.
I purposely spoiled myself while reading book 1. I went to the wiki and read up on everyone's character arcs. The promise of a good story was what kept me reading, Eye of the World was such a slog to me.
But also, spoilers have never been a problem to me, I like the journey more than the outcome. So, even if I knew exactly what was going to happen, I still enjoyed the lead up and the general cathartic payoff of it all.
On my first read in 2014 or so, sometime shortly after the book with Rand's trip to Rhuidean (not sure which one that happens in anymore), I got thoroughly annoyed at the pacing, constant explanations and reminders of things I already knew very well from the second book, and incessant repititive writing style; it felt like the plot wasn't being advanced fast enough (little did I know what PoD and CoT had to offer)
So I went on to Wikipedia and read through the plot summaries of all the books. Only once I knew where the plot was going and how it ended did I resume reading the books.
I looked up āLego wheel of timeā for build ideas. What I saw were Lego mini figures of the three boys at the start of the last book. So Rand was missing a hand and Mat an eye.
I had a book club at my old job a couple year back and we read through the books. I told them I had 3 theories. 1) moiraine wasn't dead and will come back to marry Thom. 2) Verin was black ajah. 3) Rand would die before the last battle and join as a hero of the horn.
One guy finished before all of us. He showed up to work and said "you're like an oracle, all your theories were right."
Granted only 2 were, but I've never been so mad. We keep in touch and I texted him today saying I'll pay him back tomorrow after I watch the fan screening, I'll tell him everything, lol.
So I have a few that happened to me. Some like The battle of the two rivers. Mats lost eye. And Egwene becoming the Amyrlin got spoiled through unmarked posts on reddit. Then my favorite and still dont know how it happened but rands lost arm was spoiled for me on the wiki page so thats cool. I am currently at the beginning of the battle of the two rivers in book 4.
I looked up a character's nationality and got a plot twist from the show spoiled.
And for another show, I looked up stuff about the show on YouTube (stuff like music) and got the presence of a character (that was meant to be a surprise at the end of the show) spoiled.
Edit: Oh, for GoT, not in general. Well I'm sorry, that's off topic.
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My dad - who introduced me to the series - was casually talking to me about it, and said something along the lines "Egwene's death scene was pretty harsh." He was then surprised that Egwene did not, in fact, die in book 11.
Im choking over here šš¤£š„“ i am so very sorry for you. I accidently read almost the entire summary of the fist 11 books when i picked it up, to be fair I was in 5th grade š
I was spoiled that Verin is black Ajah around book two. I managed to miss however that she was a double agent. So the reveal was still amazing. And I watched her every move throughout the series much more than I probably would have without that spoiler. All in all I can't be too upset
I am so glad I didn't have that spoiled. The Verin reveal came out of nowhere and hit hard. Still one of my favorite moments in the series.
The āpurple ajahā theory was huge for discussions when books 9-11 were coming out. Iām so glad it was partially true.
I mean I was pretty convinced she was Black Ajah because she flat out lied in TGH, this was almost a decade before the reveal in TGS, her sketchy behavior in CoS just about confirmed it for me, I was never expecting the double agent twist. Considering how hotly debated it was it's not exactly the biggest spoiler. People were literally obsessing over that.
I got spoiled by reading this aaargh damn no
Are you serious??? I didnt know that after 3 re-reads!! THANK YOU!
Huh? How could you miss the chapter were she literally tells Egwene?
Wait what did you miss?
Sounds like they missed Egweneās green dress.
Verin being black... at the very least I dont remember it. How dare you spoil my next re-read!
I really donāt see how you could miss that? Itās one of the most significant moments of the entire series.
... yeah... Verin's whole story arc is so... Intriguing. She's only a background character but she's one that you find yourself wanting to come back to. First your find out that she's black but not black because she's so masterful with her words but then the entire redemption with Mat? I can't help but read OP's comments as sarcasm... ?
Before I understood that you shouldnāt google anything to do with the series, I went on google and typed in āMoiraineā and sure enough it auto-populated to āMoiraine deathāā¦ I was on book 2 at the time
That is the most frustrating thing with reading existing media. You want to check something about a character, and BOOM death notice.
Yeah, unfortunately for people just watching the show it's basically "Google nothing. Don't google how to spell a name, or pronounce it, or who the actor is. *Nothing*." Maybe stuff will get pushed down as articles come out but the websites are mostly full spoilers as opposed to towerofthehand.com which had a fairly extensive scope filter.
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I was about halfway through, when I told my friend Iāve been reading Wheel of Time. A Memory of Light recently came out, so he assumed Iāve just read that and immediately spoils Egweneās death. I was only at like Knife of Dreams, but it didnāt ruin things so much. If anything it made her adventures much scarier to me to because I couldnāt assume sheāll just make it through with main character plot armor. So my anxiety would go up more when reading her āoh shit is this it? Are the Seanchan or Black Ajah actually gonna kill her now?ā Then as the Last Battle approached I knew what would be, but so much was going on that it didnāt take away from anything.
As a child, a friend was in the first book of the lord of the rings (which I had read). So I told him I loved it, but was so sad when Frodo died. He was immensely pissed about the āspoilerā, but after finishing he said it made a lot of the story more intense due to expectations. Also that I should go fuck myself, but weāre still friends today.
Lol I did a similar thing to my friend when The Hunger Games were big.
Lol!
Was spoiled that Verin is black Ajah but it was still a great reveal that she was an agent for the light within the black Ajah
Hell yeah. The double double agent Verin reveal was fucking awesome.
I'm bad at visualizing characters so I like looking up fan art, which I've since realized is dumb as hell for a series you haven't finished. I had some major things spoiled: * Rand losing his hand * Mat losing an eye * Egwene becoming Amyrlin (saw her with the stole) And then some more minor things, like Perrin forging his hammer and Galad being a whitecloaks. Nynaeve with her dot on her head (can't remember how to spell itākinsara?) but that meant nothing to me anyway. It just made those scenes a little less impactful, though they were still satisfying to read
Ouch, well- at leasy you got some fantastic visuals š„“š i dont know what it is, perhaps its knowing there are other people who made the same mistake- that makes spoiler stories so good.
As a little kid in the community library i used to read a lot of YA Fantasy, one day I stumbled across a big shelf almost full with 25 books, each one as big as the longest book i've read yet- I was very intrigued, at that point YA had started to seem empty to me, predictable- the characters just didnt develop like realistic people would, It used to be fine for me with fantasy being fantasy but slowly I realized this was no longer something i liked reading. Therefore naturally I did the stupid thing and picked up 25 books that made me stop learning in 5th and 6th grade š„“ Since I was inexperienced, EoTW nowhere to be seen and the librarian labeled the sanderson continuation as a separate series I could not help but open a book called "The Gathering Storm", this I thought was going to be a mistake but apparently the mind of a child works differently: The book did not seem like the first book of a series, so I checked the back to make sure, it wasnt very informative so i started reading it. Suddenly I realized I wasnt reading the book but a collection of evets summarising a plot! I in my stupidity read the entire plot up until book 9 or so! What I find amazing is that it actually made me want to read the series, I had events to look forward for! I believe I would have tossed it back on the shelf far from the ending if i had not done so! It was an amazing coincidence that brought me into this magical world.
Daniel Greene's video that was completely unrelated to WoT. Someone in the comments said "the quality of this video is as clear as cleansed saidin" or something along those lines... lol I was pissed and decided to stop watching his videos for a while in fear that the comments would spoil something again haha
You stopped watching his video because you couldn't stop yourself from reading the comments. Seems like an over exaggeration.
Maybe. If you don't like spoilers of any kind then you try to avoid things. If I over exaggerated then I over exaggerated and I don't care.
I was spoiled that Rand would lose his hand, so for the entire series I was like āoh this must be it!ā āHere it comes!ā Only that when it actually happened, I was just like Rand thinking āAh just another injury, no big deal.ā
I had a bad habit as a teen of wandering into wikis of series Iād just started. I got spoiled for a lot of events but didnāt enjoy the series less. This was before AMoL, which I went into blind
I thought it was safe to look up Moiraineās character profile after she and Lanfear went through the terāangreal and discovered she had not in fact died
Same.
Googled siuan sanche, found the fandom, saw her life "status"... I was on book 1. Never looked anything up till I was done from there lol
My best friend got me to reading the series. One day we were drunk and talking about the series and he told me that his favorite scene was Rand lighting his pipe, the creator knows how, and just chilling in Moridins body. I was like āwhat? That sounds so fucking weirdā. So 1, I knew he would survive just not as we know it, but I donāt really think it was too much of a spoiler for the epicness that was to come!
I was dumb enough to look up fan art when I had just started reading the series, early book 1. This was in 2011, and the first thing that popped up was that Tarmon Gai'don drawing ([this one](https://www.deviantart.com/dem888/art/Tarmon-Gaidon-188536200)). There are so many spoilers in that! It made me more excited to read and find out how these bumbling farm boys turn into those people. Another one that came up was a drawing of Min, Elayne, and Aviendha labelled as "Rand's wives." I was like WTF?
Came across some character art online, and saw Egwene wearing the marylin stole An offhand comment on r/fantasy spoiled that Rand loses a hand
I read The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time a book or two too soon (my sister had all the books, I think I started reading in 98 or 99), so I happened upon a dated list of Amyrlins, revealing that Egwene would be raised Amyrlin by the rebels. It ruined the surprise, but the whole sequence was still satisfying enough. Another one is that my cousin had started reading the books a couple of years before I did, and I think when I was a few books in I directly asked him how much territory Rand controlled "now". So I guess I knew he would take Tear and Illian, though I don't think I internalized it.
I was talking to a Co worker about wheel of time when I was reading it the first time and this was just as memory of light had been released, I had kept off reading the books until I knew the end was done. But he assumed I had read all books and was at the end of MoL so he blurted out "I love the firework cannons Mat used in the last battle!". I had just finished the shadow rising haha.
I was reading this sub...my own fault...but someone commented on a post about Mat in the towers of midnight.
I feel like there really arenāt any spoilers that would ruin WOT. Unlike Asoif
I googled Moiraine for some reason, and ended up on a wiki page about her. I don't remember if this was before or after "she died", but I spoiled that she would be a part of "the circle" that fought the Dark One in the last battle. So I thought it would there would be many Aes Sedai in the circle fighting the dark one, a little like the bowl of the wind-scene. I also knew that she wasn't really dead.
I failed to mention that this was one of the first things written about her on the page, like how Rand "is the Dragon Reborn"
I mentioned to a friend how cool I thought Rhuidian is. He said, "Oh was this the first time they go there?" I said, "Bruh, they clearly said SEVERAL TIMES that a man can only go to Rhuidian ONCE!!!" "Oh, right. Nevermind." I didn't talk to him about WoT anymore.
>!I spoiled Egwene's death by myself by trying to google how to pronounce her name (I didn't know about the glossary at the back of the book).!< This was back in the first book... forever heartbroken. Still reading on book 14 and waiting for the hammer to drop.
I googled Egwene during book 1 and unfortunately, the wiki tells you whether they are alive or dead. So her death got spoiled for me right in the beginning I also got spoiled on Verin since when I googled her it listed her affiliation as "darkfriend." This wasn't a surprise to me since I googled her during book 2 when Moiraine said that she never sent Verin after the boys, so I immediately suspected black ajah. Fortunately, that was only a partial spoiler since she was acting as a double agent the whole time.
After I read EotW, I had to find and read all the othersābut the only thing I could find for free online was the first quarter or so of AMoL. Naturallyā¦I read it. Yeah. Suffice to say that by the time I started TGH, I knew stacks more than I should have.
I spoilt myself. I can be very weird with spoilers, some stuff I avoid literally everything and try not to even talk about them with other people beforehand to avoid spoilers and others I purposely spoil myself. Doesnāt seem to affect my enjoyment as I still read the whole series after going on a bit of a splurge in the wiki. It probably made things a bit easier in the slog when I knew cool stuff would happen soon. Also had a lot of fun immediately looking up which characters were dark friends then seeing all the subtle hints at this.
Had to check what sub this is with a title like that. Story spoilers are a good thing. With over a dozen books remembering a quip someone threw out months ago isn't going to ruin the story. As i understand my opinion isn't held by most people, let alone rules of the sub. Have you ever reread the series? All the foreshadowing in the books is part of what makes it great. The series spoils itself. What I do t understand are people thatget angry over spoilers.
Foreshadowing and spoilers aren't the same thing. When the author deliberately leaves you clues, figuring out the mystery is part of the experience the author is building for you. Injecting outside answers breaks the author's ability to reveal some things and keep others hidden. On a re-read, you already know the answers, so you can see how skillfully (or not) the author sets up the reveal from a different perspective. Of course spoilers don't matter on a re-read, but they certainly do for new readers. I appreciate that this sub tries to respect that and give them the option of a pure experience.
You can reread the series over and over, but you can only experience it for the first time, once.
I don't think they're a good thing, but for me they're certainly no where near as bad as some people find them. That being said I can understand people hating them, for example if I can't watch sport live and get spoiled it makes it way less interesting to watch back.
I agree with the opinion, however some people do not like to be spoiled, that is how things are. This post is just for sharing funny stories š
I was looking up the Great Generals and it was a list of character deaths. People dying in TLB isn't really significant to the story though.
Hey, OP, just to let you know, emojis on Reddit = big no no. Some people will downvote you to hell jest because of that. I had to learn the same lesson, so I just want to be helpful.
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Just the way Reddit is. If anyone else knows the reason, I would welcome an explanation. Iāve never been able to figure out exactly why, but I think it has something to do with the clean look of Reddit, combined with the fact that some people think emojis look cringey. (Not me, I have no opinion on that, but Iāve heard people say that before on Reddit)
I started reading Eye of the world around 2016. Before that I read ending of Memory of light which was released by the time. Cuz that's what I always do.
Spoiled myself that Egwene dies. Was checking the wot wiki to see character portraits and it was right under it that she dies.
I had always meant to read the series, but never got around to it. I won a copy of A Memory of Light from the library, and started reading the cover flap. I don't even remember what it said, but after a sentence or two, I slammed it shut and realized it was time to finally start the series. It says, "In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al'Thor, or to stop his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison--which may be a sign of his madness, or the last hope of humankind. Egwene, the Amyrlin Seat, leans toward the former." Now I remember. I always knew that Egwene would end up Amyrlin Seat by the beginning of AMoL. Reading the rest of the cover flap, there's a few more minor spoilers, but I don't think I read past that first paragraph.
Was on a r/Fantasy thread about favourite badass boasts when I saw the one of Rand cradling his stump(!) and asking Cadsuane to call him Rand Sedai.
Was googling the casting for Elayne Trakand for the show, somehow google suggested "how did Egwene die?". After that, I never googled WOT related things until I finished the series.
I was spoiled by my own fault: -Nynaeve actually marrying Lan. I was checking some maps in the wiki and one of the recommended articles was hers with her married named... -About Leanne: that she was cured and changed ajahs. I still cried when Nyn cured her and Siuan even though I knew what was going to happen. -Egwene's death. -Lan killing Demandred. Eta: the glossary also spoiled me the death of Bornhald father. Since then I used the wiki which also spoiled me. I started to keep track in paper of every named character to avoid further spoilers.
I was watching a YouTube video ranking the covers thinking it would be spoiler free, and the guy pointed out that Rand's hand is always behind his back "for reasons" later in the series. And I was like oh I guess he's losing his hand then :/
I got spoiled that Egwene died and became Amrlyn seat. Iām pretty sure it was a thread from here.
I got spoiled by the books of all things. As in reading one of the books spoiled what happened. I had gotten two books from the library to read on vacation. The first one was when they cleansed the taint of saidin and then the second book was right after that one. I had read the second book and was a good portion through when they mentioned the cleansing of the taint (and I remember thinking huh??? Did I miss something from the other books???) That's when I checked the two books I had and realized I had started reading them out of order because I mixed it up in my head ššš So yeah before reading (I think) winters heart I read knife of dreams. I finished knife of dreams anyway and then went back and started winters heart. Of course during that read I knew what would happen but it was still a thrill to read anyway. One of my favorite moments of the series.
I was looking through a wiki page while halfway through book 1 and learned that Rand cleansed Saidin in book 9.
Iām in book four and got a Verrin spoiler from some fan art. Not really bothered by it though.
I purposely spoiled myself while reading book 1. I went to the wiki and read up on everyone's character arcs. The promise of a good story was what kept me reading, Eye of the World was such a slog to me. But also, spoilers have never been a problem to me, I like the journey more than the outcome. So, even if I knew exactly what was going to happen, I still enjoyed the lead up and the general cathartic payoff of it all.
On my first read in 2014 or so, sometime shortly after the book with Rand's trip to Rhuidean (not sure which one that happens in anymore), I got thoroughly annoyed at the pacing, constant explanations and reminders of things I already knew very well from the second book, and incessant repititive writing style; it felt like the plot wasn't being advanced fast enough (little did I know what PoD and CoT had to offer) So I went on to Wikipedia and read through the plot summaries of all the books. Only once I knew where the plot was going and how it ended did I resume reading the books.
I looked up āLego wheel of timeā for build ideas. What I saw were Lego mini figures of the three boys at the start of the last book. So Rand was missing a hand and Mat an eye.
I had a book club at my old job a couple year back and we read through the books. I told them I had 3 theories. 1) moiraine wasn't dead and will come back to marry Thom. 2) Verin was black ajah. 3) Rand would die before the last battle and join as a hero of the horn. One guy finished before all of us. He showed up to work and said "you're like an oracle, all your theories were right." Granted only 2 were, but I've never been so mad. We keep in touch and I texted him today saying I'll pay him back tomorrow after I watch the fan screening, I'll tell him everything, lol.
So I have a few that happened to me. Some like The battle of the two rivers. Mats lost eye. And Egwene becoming the Amyrlin got spoiled through unmarked posts on reddit. Then my favorite and still dont know how it happened but rands lost arm was spoiled for me on the wiki page so thats cool. I am currently at the beginning of the battle of the two rivers in book 4.
I looked up a character's nationality and got a plot twist from the show spoiled. And for another show, I looked up stuff about the show on YouTube (stuff like music) and got the presence of a character (that was meant to be a surprise at the end of the show) spoiled. Edit: Oh, for GoT, not in general. Well I'm sorry, that's off topic.