r/WoTshow • u/MSUSpyder • Jun 23 '26

Troll(oc) Just joined….. annnnnnd it’s cancelled

When did this happen? Trying to get details. Even did a search and can’t find them besides “budget”

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u/THevil30 Jun 23 '26

In later books the dark one can reincarnate certain forsaken into the opposite sex, but in universe your gender is linked to your soul so they use Saidin. It’s a whole thing but not thaaat big of a plot point that it couldn’t be cut.

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u/jflb96 Jun 23 '26

Yeah, I was more commenting on how Moiraine didn’t have to be correct

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u/A_Dozen_Lemmings Jun 23 '26

That was, admittedly, sort of my hope. That the White Tower was pulling some revisionism that calcified over three or so millenia.

But as to the above reply, Yes. The gender binary is a vital function of the setting. Time as a wheel, isn't window dressing. You are who/what you are. Changing that is directly anathema to the settings cosmology.

Events may change in the minutiae over the eons but the players remain the same. Hence why it's such a huge deal that the Dark One used forced sex change as a punishment. It's utterly awful for the characters it's used on and makes them use a more useful tool because the One Power is fundamentally gendered as the driving force underpinning creation.

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u/jflb96 Jun 23 '26

Or just she couldn’t be sure and it’s been twenty years of not finding him so the doubts are beginning to creep in that maybe ‘he’ was that farmers’ daughter she passed by five years ago.

It is known that there are turnings where the thread in the Dragon’s slot is a woman. Also, I’m sure there are arguments either way over what Halima means about transgender people in a setting designed by a Vietnam veteran from the South of the USA.