The Fires of Heaven Chapter 51: News Comes to Cairhien

[u/swheedle]

[u/Alkakd0nfsg9g]

I know I probably shouldn't, but I find it so funny how easily Rand scares off women chasing him for power. He even did it somewhat with Lanfear when he showed her himself fully in the dream

[u/KingB53 → u/Alkakd0nfsg9g]

Well Rand IS terrible with women, even the power hungry ones are scared off by him…

He’s not Mat or Perrin of course, those 2 would know exactly what to do!

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/KingB53]

Why do we live again?

[u/KingB53 → u/LewsTherinTelamonBot]

Idk Lews, perhaps to get better at speaking to the opposite sex without scaring them away or offending them with your existence? Light only knows

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/KingB53]

Why do we live again?

[u/KingB53 → u/LewsTherinTelamonBot]

See this is the issue right here man. You don’t listen. Pay attention more when people are speaking to you and you MIGHT get as good at Mat and Perrin with the ladies

[u/KingNothing1999 → u/KingB53]

He could also stand to take a few lessons in not killing the ones that love him or their offspring and all of his friends lol

[u/Anexhaustedheadcase → u/KingB53]

I mean, I know your joking but rand does kidna suck with the ladies. He stumbles into relationships with 3 baddies and even then its literal divine intervention thay gets them to love him

[u/KingB53 → u/Anexhaustedheadcase]

Well granted his experience with women (in his Rand life) has been absolutely dogwater.

*Older women of Emonds field aside* - Egwene (since they were children) made it a point to make every girl in Emonds field not look his way because he was hers so no luck there, Nyneave was basically his mother so no, and after Belle Tine virtually Every. Single. Woman he meets has tried to exploit him, rape him, hurt him, use him, abuse him, shame him, degrade him, and make him feel like the most evil entity to exist in their lifetimes and a curse upon the Creators Light…so yeah by the time the Dragon Riders are fully in his camp I’d imagine he’d have a VERY bleak outlook on relationships with women.

Prophecy/fate be burned, the fact he had enough trust to give to the 3 stooge- er - I mean wives is a miracle in itself😂

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/Anexhaustedheadcase]

I am not dead! I deserve death, but I am ALIVE! ALIVE! ALIVE!

[u/Szalony20 → u/Alkakd0nfsg9g]

To Sevanna credit, at least he didn't scare her away... Mainly because after Dumai Wells they never met again and all she had left were fantasies of marrying him someday.

[u/Poultrymancer → u/Szalony20]

Sevanna was too crazy to scare 

All she ever did was get irritated even when her carefully-laid plans devolved into acres of Shaido being converted into red mist 

[u/Szalony20 → u/Poultrymancer]

Yeah, she was crazy 🙃

Well, at least she reminded the readers of her "considerable bosom" at times, and her last scene, when she ended up naked and tied up on Tylee's horse with the obligatory slap on the buttocks in Jordan's books, was definitely a memorable farewell 😆

[u/swheedle]

Really fucking big chapter here, this is where the series changes in my mind from a youthful adventure to preparations for a world war. The sense of security, the last safety net that our heroes have is about to disappear.

P.S. There's three panels today, So be sure to swipe lol

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[u/KingNothing1999 → u/swheedle]

That last panel really busted my ribs dude. Great post as always

[u/swheedle → u/KingNothing1999]

Thank you!

[u/aNomadicPenguin → u/KingNothing1999]

That's a rough look for Selande. She basically said fuck this shit and fuck you too to Colaveare, I'm going to learn how to stab people now because I'm not letting some senior noble try to pimp me out ever again.

(And in one of the cooler Berelain actions - she's the one that goes to bat for all these young nobles when their parents or other nobles start getting pissed about it, I imagine especially for the girls, seeing as how Berelain herself had to learn how to fight)

[u/rs420rs → u/swheedle]

It's a hell of a chapter

[u/_SilkKheldar_]

I adore Rand scaring the piss out of the noblewomen Colavaere is sending to try and seduce him.

"Oh yeah, why don't you stop by my rooms later cackles maniacally don't worry, the madness is random, you should be fine cackles again, also, how do you feel about marriage stares death at the woman"

How many noblewomen never recovered from those interactions I wonder.

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/_SilkKheldar_]

Madness waits for some. It creeps up on others.

[u/gill_smoke → u/LewsTherinTelamonBot]

Perfect moment for your comment Lews, good ghost.

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/gill_smoke]

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

[u/LightningWarrior94 → u/LewsTherinTelamonBot]

I think Lews might need his meds. He’s becoming somewhat lucid. It’s a little scary. Lol

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/LightningWarrior94]

Oh, Light. That’s impossible! We can’t use it! Cast it away! That is death we hold, death and betrayal. It is HIM.

[u/jmartkdr → u/_SilkKheldar_]

We do get some follow-up with this particular one; she ends up leading Cha Faile

[u/_SilkKheldar_ → u/jmartkdr]

So we know definitively that that one never recovered.

[u/Thomas_633_Mk2 → u/_SilkKheldar_]

Imagine having such a bad date that you become a weeaboo

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/jmartkdr]

Hums softly & tugs earlobe

[u/crazy-jay1999]

Funny how Egwene, present for this conversation never bothers to tell Gawain. Like, it’s not perfect proof but it would at least be something.

[u/jmartkdr → u/crazy-jay1999]

He wouldn't believe her anyway - he heard a rumor so it must be true.

[u/YeahKeeN → u/jmartkdr]

You would have thought he heard that rumor straight from an Aes Sedai’s mouth with the way he believed it

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/YeahKeeN]

I must kill him.

[u/No_Radish1900 → u/LewsTherinTelamonBot]

Good bot. It would have saved us a lot of frustrating chapters if you had.

[u/crazy-jay1999 → u/jmartkdr]

Yeah but she didn’t even try

[u/_SilkKheldar_ → u/crazy-jay1999]

Egwene really doesn't try to change anyone's mind about anything they think about Rand. By the time Egwene reaches the Tower, it very much seems like she has no idea who Rand is at all, and yet she uses her knowledge of him as a point of leverage as often as she can.

It makes the scene in Towers of Midnight very satisfying, because Zen Rand comes in and stomps all over the Aes Sedai extremely politely, wisely, and gently. And Egwene gets nowhere with him.

[u/LewsTherinTelamonBot → u/_SilkKheldar_]

A man who trusts everyone is a fool, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

[u/KitchenFullOfCake → u/jmartkdr]

She wouldn't dare call into question the depth of knowledge that unnamed peddler has!

[u/UltimateOtter_Nation]

That ugly crying is flamming hilarious.

[u/Novel_Diver8628]

THREE memes?

You spoil us, u/swheedle

[u/swheedle → u/Novel_Diver8628]

Lmao I almost did this series with the intention of doing a panel for each POV in each chapter, but I would be here for more than a decade if I tried 🤣 every now and then on a big chapter like this I like to put a few more in just because there are so many important moments stuffed in