{"id":1772,"date":"2025-08-30T20:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:25:40","slug":"chapter-35-stedding-tsofu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 35: Stedding Tsofu"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Rand&#8217;s group reaches Stedding Tsofu, where saving the world takes back seat to protocol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone can sense when they enter the borders of Stedding Tsofu. And there Jordan goes again. Tsofu? I&#8217;m imagining him sitting down for dinner at an Asian restaurant. He can&#8217;t decide between the Three Cup Tofu or General Tso&#8217;s Chicken, and suddenly he&#8217;s got a new weird name for his book.<\/p>\n<p>A female Ogier named Erith greets the party and asks that they leave the Shienaran soldiers on the outskirts. There is a bit of an attraction between her and Loial, which Mat thinks is all kinds of funny. But Loial isn&#8217;t laughing, because among the Ogier, arranged marriages are brokered between women with very little input from the men. He figures it&#8217;s best to keep it on the down-low that he left his <em>stedding<\/em> without permission, because he doesn&#8217;t need his mother coming over and devising a way to make him settle down.<\/p>\n<p>Erith takes the group toward the center of town, because apparently they have to ask the elders before they can use the Waygate? It doesn&#8217;t make sense. The Waygate isn&#8217;t even <em>in<\/em> the\u00a0<em>stedding<\/em>, so if we&#8217;re in such a big fucking hurry to chase after Fain, who gives a shit if the elders are okay with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand&#8217;s group reaches Stedding Tsofu, where saving the world takes back seat to protocol. Everyone can sense when they enter the borders of Stedding Tsofu. And there Jordan goes again. Tsofu? I&#8217;m imagining him sitting down for dinner at an Asian restaurant. He can&#8217;t decide between the Three Cup Tofu or General Tso&#8217;s Chicken, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-hunt","book-the-great-hunt"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}