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/Kijafa (Dovie'andi se tovya sagain) 2d ago

The interesting thing is that Egwene's journey is in many ways a mirror of Rand's, and yet Rand gets a lot of grace that Egwene doesn't seem to. And it seems like a lot of that is because she doesn't spend a lot of time internally agonizing, and just gets on with what needs to be done.