#young moiraine

[pien-art]

some wot sketches :3

#lost all my brush settings so im just experiencing with new ones rip #my art #wot #the wheel of time #wheel of time #fanart #art #wot fanart #lan mandragoran #moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #young moiraine #staffraine #moiraine smoking as uhhh a treat #its weed ive decided #i lost my fav shading brush and texture overlays SO i will uhh figure somethink out #bear with me #🐻 #twot #realising now the last mo's proportions are a little weird IGNORE

[thatordinaryoddity]

Character study of Moiraine and Siuan, inspired by the newly released trailer for S2! And because they make me feel things, here are my random brainrot thoughts:

Two young souls, brimming with love and freedom, but suddenly entangled in a destiny that ripped them apart. Still, they carried each other in their hearts for all the endless years of their journey, drawing strength from the memories of their time together and shared dreams. Their destiny may have driven them apart, but their love endured, a beacon of hope in the face of adversity.

#character study #because I‘m totally normal about the trailer release #young Moiraine #young Siuan #moiraine damodred #siuan sanche #siuanraine #moiraine x siuan #sophie okonedo #rosamund pike #the wheel of time fanart #wot season 2 #wheel of time fanart #artbythorod

[moiraineswife]

Moiraine + That Pesky First Oath

1x06 vs 2x05

#moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #rosamund pike #wotedit #rand al'thor #wot on prime #wheel of time prime #wot show spoilers #wheel of time spoilers #wot gifset #moiraine gifset #LOOK SHE'S REALLY TIRED OKAY LET HER /LIVE/. #moiraine really out here like: #'and i would have gotten away with it too! if it hadn't been for my meddling oaths!!!!!' #rosamund pike really just fully committed to the face journeys in both of these scenes #truly a delight #this woman dumped charisma as a stat like 'eh when will i ever need that?????' #and then was forced to deal with 5 of the world's prickliest young adults #also appreciation again for how WRECKED she is in ep 5 #remember when we were all watching ep 7 like 'LOL LOOK HOW EXHAUSTED AND UNHINGED SHE IS' #and now look at her #2x05 Mo would literally kill to have 1x07 Mo's sleeping pattern/eating habits #also brief F in chat for randal in that second gif #really was all excited/hopeful like 'oh what's she gonna say about me!?' #and then #.............rand #ty to the discord squad that i polled to determine if i had enough '....'s or not #my gifset #my gifs #mine

[diver5ion]

#the wheel of time #moiraine damodred #siuan sanche #the fishwives ;c #rosamund pike #sophie okonedo #i liked this scene #so young so happy #//

[stillabookworm-ifonlyinspirit]

Moiraine Sedai IS THAT A JOINT??

#young lady moiraine damodred smoked weed confirmed #wheel of time spoilers #wot on prime spoilers #wot show spoilers #wheel of time #wot on prime #the wheel of time #moiraine damodred

[sadhorsegirl]

oh shit i knew i forgot something not going to tag it bc that's a little too rude but the new spring inspired section. ugly

#like genuinely the styling is not great and visually.....p bad lmaoooo #also felt like it had the book problem of characters acting way too young for no reason #which was even more confusing given the ages/timeline changes for moiraines birth order to make sense

[asoulunbound]

@fullintenticns asked: [ EYES ]:  sender  makes  receiver  look  them  in  the  eyes. For Moiraine from Aragorn (oc)

Moiraine was not a woman avoiding eye contact. She had often been told that she would be able to stare down the Dark One himself. But something about her argument with Aragorn had rubbed her the wrong way, and the Aes Sedai had determined it would be better to keep her eyes on the forest behind him. Even as he moved to get her back to look at him. It was rather annoying. “Would you stop this!” Finally, her large, dark eyes settled on him, sparkling with fire. No doubt, Lan would be able to feel all of this through their bond even if the warder had decided to leave the two of them and the tension between them alone. “You’re flapping around like a fish out of water.”

#&& the wheel weaves as the wheel wills (Moiraine): interaction #fullintenticns #(I don't know why but I feel he would bring out young hot-tempered Moiraine. LOL)

[drewsaturday]

liandrin in moiraine's home reminiscing over portraits of her before ruthlessly telling moiraine's nephew he's gotta kill his aunt is something that can be so personal

#wot tag #wot spoilers #man that moment from moiraine's siter toooo #like no matter how messy their relationship is #and how hurt she is by moiraine's actions #the fact she sees moiraine that way is just #hhhh #they did so well also establishing the sister's pride over her own hard work #the idea that maybe moiraine was GIVEN powers and set up from a young age and abandoned her #but she still managed to make a name for herself and her family without any special treatment #only for her own son to undermine that

[shutupineedtothink]

Let me tell you I love the implication that Lan is like… a free-range Warder?

Bc we see young baby warders training in the white tower (or at least that one guy who talked to Nynaeve), which to me says there’s probably a warder selection and training process just like there is for aes sedai. I mean I don’t see the aes sedai system leaving that up to chance for the most part. They want the best of the best so there’s gonna be hoops to jump through for these dudes.

And then there’s Lady Moiraine Damodred Sedai out here and she just happens to stumble across Lan an-actual-king-trained-super-warrior Mandragoran, and she goes yeah I’ll have that one. And forever after every other aes sedai and their warder(s) are just like, ??? So confused about them and rightfully so.

In conclusion they’re so weird I love them so much.

#the wheel of time #moiraine damodred #wheel of time #moiraine and lan #lan mandragoran #wot on prime #wot #as soon as I had the thought ‘free-range Warder’ I was like oh my god #they’re just built Different

[pien-art]

they're young and they're happy and they're in love and they have not a care beyond chores and lessons ;-;

s2 gave us (and them) so much pain and suffering but they also gave us: novice/accepted quarters <33

prints available here!

#my art #listen they hurt me sm i NEED to imagine them young and innocent and waaaahhh ;-; #wheel of time #the wheel of time #novices #art #fanart #wot fanart #twot #wot on prime #fishwives #siuaraine #moiraine x siuan #siuan sanche #moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #young moiraine #young siuan #digital art #wlw #pre series

[markantonys]

an underrated detail about moiraine and rand's relationship in season 2 is that you might expect her to lecture him about being foolish enough to fall for lanfear's seduction scheme, yet she never once does so. i love this because it shows momraine's kind heart; she knows her son is young and naive and was preyed upon by a forsaken and she knows it wasn't his fault, so she won't give him a hard time about it.

i also love it for the wlw/mlw solidarity because you KNOW she was internally going "yeah i probably would've fallen for it too were i in his shoes"

#moiraine damodred #rand al'thor #lanfear #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time

[wyrd-syster]

I’m rewatching wheel of time s1 ahead of starting s2 and I forgot how much I love lan mandragoran’s whole dynamic. like “hello yes I am Lan, this is my bratty young bride, Nyneave and my lesbian soulmate, Moiraine, and they are mortal enemies.”

#lindsey posts #wheel of time #nynaeve al’meara #al’lan mandragoran #moiraine damodred #lanaeve

[nalebifrie]

Moiraine and Siuan repeating, what they realized in that moment, to the kids ...

Tell no one my sisters. You must find the Dragon reborn and prepare the world to follow.

Your life isn't going to be what you thought.

I didn't choose this path for myself any more than you did, but I will follow it because I must, because I know what is right.

I know what it is to feel you deserve something different than what this life gives you. To wonder why you couldn't just stay home, love the people you love, grow old with them, protect them, support them. Threads weaving in and out of the pattern without consequence.

But the truth is the two of you have been called to greatness. The fate of all of us rests on you now.

The wheel does not care if your young or afraid, petty or weak. It certainly does not care what yiu want!

The wheel calls you to this whether you can bear it or not.

#the wheel of time #moiraine damodred #siuan sanche #siuan x moiraine #moiraine x siuan #wot on prime #wheel of time #wot show spoilers #wot #wheel of time on prime

[ladylingua]

i think the WOT show just did such a good job of making the characters feel so grounded and real and like, moving past classic fantasy beats to touch more universal experiences so you feel connected to the characters during the utterly unrelatable high fantasy sequences

like I already blathered on about moiraine's cigarettes, it's such a wonderful moment that Pike gave her all to, like we have all come home from college and found that old pack of cigs (or that album you weren't supposed to buy or that joint or whatever your version was!) hidden away in our sock drawer and taken a moment to savor the memory of when we were young and invincible

or this vulture recap waxing poetic about how nice it is to have a scene that starts with Lan pissing on a tree and the humanity of that

or my other personal favorite, when Anvaere yelled at Moiraine that she was their mother through and through and I needed 0 context to go "oh shit," because don't we all know exactly what it means when your sibling tells you that you are exactly like your parent during a fight??

and then moiraine stomps over to slam the door, like, THAT IS THE UNIVERSAL SIBLING FIGHT MOVE, IT IS INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE

#wheel of time #wot season 2 #moiraine damodred

[asha-mage]

Anaiya nodded. "We understand your reasons for disliking Elaida, even hating her. We do understand. But we must think of the Tower and the world. I confess I do not like Elaida myself. But then I have never liked Siuan either. It is not necessary to like the Amyrlin Seat. There is no need to glare so Siuan. You have had a file for a tongue since you where a novice and it has only roughened with the years. And as Amyrlin you pushed sisters where you wanted and only seldom explained why. The two do not make for a very likeable combination."

-The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 27: The Practice of Diffidence

Re-reading The Fires of Heaven has made me increasingly confident in the show's read of Siuan's character being book accurate (an opinion I originally articulated here). I always encourage re-reads of the books, but I would very much encourage re-reading The Shadow Rising and The Fires of Heaven specifically if you are doubting the choices the team made in episode 7.

Cause the thing is, Siuan's central character flaw- the one Anaiya is trying to gently cite above, the one on heavy display all throughout both books via Siuans treatment of those around her, is her complete lack of trust paired with a willingness to force and browbeats others into doing what she thinks is best.

It is, ironically, a trait she shares with Rand- both are unafraid to use their power (physical, magical, political- what have you) to make others obey, and both also are unwilling to demonstrate trust and good faith out of a fear of showing weakness. It's something born inherently of their shared insecurities about their respective positions of power- Siuan's young rise to the Seat and the fact that she is carrying on her conspiracy with Moiraine and Rand's belief that he isn't strong enough/good enough/hard enough to be the Dragon Reborn alongside the tendency of the people he cares about to get hurt or have their lives ruined by simple proximity to him.

Throughout both The Shadow Rising and The Fires of Heaven Siuan uses primarily tactics drawn form the same playbook that would later also lead Rand to disaster in the back half of the series: she comes to view those under charge more for their value to her agenda then as people she should be looking after, forcing Min to remain in the Tower against her will, refusing to make any effort to console or reassure those who care about Elayne (Gawyn, Galad, Morgase) that she is well, and engaging in many actions because their are expedient without regard for their moral implications (ordering Mazrim Taim's execution without trial, lying about Logain being set up by the Red Ajah, manipulation Logain so he has no choice but to follow along with her plan). And I don't think it's a mistake that many of those actions either lead to, or directly follow, Siuan's downfall in the Tower.

In fact, Siuan begins to make the turn in her character after encountering Mistress Tharne, which largely sets in motion Siuan's character arc for the remainder of the series: realizing that she can not force the word to conform to her will, not least of all because she is no longer the most powerful woman on the planet, but more over because it's wrong. Mistress Tharne's rough treatment of Siuan, her complete lack of respect or deference, is a wake call to Siuan that gives her empathy and understanding of the way she treated others when she held power. Much of her arc there after is about emphasizing that point, first as a stilled woman serving Aes Seadi, then as a restored but drastically weakened Aes Sedai.

In this way Siuan gets a taste of what it's like to be on the other side- forced and expected to obey, constantly fighting against a system rigged against her from the start, meant to keep her out of circles of power and away from the ability to make decisions as a woman who can not channel, and then as a Aes Sedai who does not stand high enough in the hierarchy. More over it gives her perspective on why things like the Oaths and the Tower's traditions matter- on the ways the Oaths protect ordinary people and the way Tower traditions like 'staying out of the business of other Aes Sedai' and 'respect secrets of individual sisters and Ajahs' help keep Aes Sedai working together and functional. But it's really her friendships, which she is able make on now even terms, with Nynaeve and Egwene, that help her gain empathy and understanding, and in particular allows her (via her mentorship of Egwene) to try and positively influence the Tower's future via reforms to make it more equitable, less mired and fractious and cracked.

As Amylrin, we're told, Siuan ruled by playing one faction in the Tower against another, widening the cracks between Ajahs and within them so that no one was able to effectively oppose her and her agenda- that is until someone came along who could rally support, to take advantage of those simmering frustrations and angers in order tear her down. But that person, Elaida, shared many of her faults and few of her virtues- instead of playing one faction against and brow beating, Elaida (with the Shadow's help) turned the Tower into armed camps ready to lash out at each other. Siuan's tendency (often cited by even herself) to send sisters to do penance on farms for opposing or annoying her, became Elaida using the same tool to humiliate and punish her enemies and using edicts to demote them to Accepted for being weak, and Siuan's precedent for keeping secrets and working around the Hall became Elaida plotting to kidnap Rand and 'make him supple' via Galina's embassy.

And it's a neat closing of the circle, the kind Jordan really likes to play with, that Siuan's redemption for this is her training of the woman who will replace both her and Elaida. Someone who will actually fulfill both women's ambitions of leading the Tower in the last battle- Egwene. Siuan's justice against Elaida is to help prepare an Amyrlin that will be more then either she or Elaida ever could- someone who will be free of their faults, who will be able to unite the Tower as both women dreamed of doing but never could- who can guide Rand and bind the nations to him, who can serve as a general of the Light strong enough to balance the worst of the Shadow. Siuan teaches Egwene how not to do the things she did, to fall into the traps that brought her down- the arrogance, the pride, the domineering, the compromises with her own morals- and it's that teaching which, in part, gives Egwene the ability to persuade the Tower that still saw her as a Novice....to raise her to Amyrlin of it's own accord.

Siuan still should have been allowed to kill Elaida though instead of the Suffa stuff, I will die on that hill.

#WoT #Wheel of time #WoT on Prime #Wheel of time on Prime #WoT Book Spoilers #TGS Spoilers #Siuan Sanche #Egwene al'vere #Rand al'Thor #wot meta #I'm stil baffled #months later about the reaction to Siuan's actions in episode 7 #Part of that is a 'oh everyone says they support women's wrongs until their a little mean about it' but more then that #Complex situations without easy answers causing characters to make bad choices is a STAPLE of Jordan's writing #And what Siuan does is STILL not nearly as morally grey as what Rand and Moiraine do in that same episode via recrutiing Lanfear's help #anyways everyone should go back and re-read TSR and TFOH #their great #send tumble

[pillowfriends]

new PFP because young Moiraine smiling is so precious. the New Spring graphic novel is the gift that keeps on giving.

look at my girl!!

#wheel of time #new spring #moiraine damodred