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The Aes Sedai are one of the main powers in The Wheel of Time world, but they aren't a monolith. What are the seven Ajahs, and what does each focus on?

Well, it’s been over 90℉ in NYC the past few days but down in the 60s today, so I feel appropriately ready to tackle this week’s chapters as Nynaeve and her entourage finally escape Samara and head downriver towards Salidar. Sure, they’re still cooped up with a misogynist ship captain and a lot of fears and regrets, but at least they’re on the move. We’ll see moods lighten and a little bit of hope come back, not just for our protagonists but for some other folks as well. It’s a ni...

This week in Reading The Wheel of Time, we’re covering Chapter 46 of The Fires of Heaven. I often don’t pay a lot of attention to chapter titles, but I really like the title of this one: “Other Battles, Other Weapons.” I was drawing the same parallels when I titled last week’s post “One Battle Ends and Another Begins” without realizing it. What’s fun about this chapter is we get to see Rand do some impressive politicking with the Tairens and Cairhienin, which we haven’t seen ...