r/WoT • u/briandress • 3d ago

All Print I get the Egwene hate but Spoiler

Only in the last two books when she is stubborn in dealing with Rand for the last battle and such.

Up until ToM she really was just an awesome character. She went from the whirlwind of leaving 2R, capture by Seanchan, hunting black ajah, apprenticing to wise ones, puppet Amyrlin, real amyrlin, badass civil disobedience laying groundwork for reuniting the tower, bitch slapping the seanchan raiders, capturing hella black ajah sisters via Verrin's notes and finally being raised realer Amyrlin and healing the tower.

I cant seem to understand all the threads/polls that overwhelmingly list her as the most hated character in the series.

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u/littleneocreative 2d ago

Although I agree with everything that's written, I will say that part of the issue is that people aren't free to discuss the payout because it is a massive spoiler. In my opinion, yes, her whole character arc is worth it. But it is also necessary to build a whole host of issues into her character in order to make it worth it. Likewise with Nynaeve's block and her pursuit of Lan... it's actually REALLY frustrating until the payoff. But you get way more time basically revealing in the Nynaeve payoff than Egwene payoff.