{"id":1815,"date":"2025-09-01T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:55:37","slug":"chapter-40-damane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 40: Damane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liandrin’s betrayal is laid bare. The Seanchan capture Egwene and Min, but Nynaeve and Elayne escape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The institution of\u00a0damane<\/em> and their\u00a0sul’dam<\/em> handlers is a central pillar of what makes the Seanchan so deliciously evil. They believe, as a society, that all women who can channel should be enslaved and treated as property.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>When Liandrin emerges from the Toman Head Waygate with Egwene, Nynaeve, Min, and Elayne in tow, it quickly becomes apparent that she is making a delivery. High Lady Suroth is there with a contingent of soldiers and\u00a0sul’dam<\/em> who stand ready capture Egwene and Nynaeve. Fortunately for our heroes, Liandrin is a villain who has all of the tactical foresight of a toddler trying to put a square peg into a round hole. Suroth’s thug grabs Min and Elayne, and Nynaeve’s anger level explodes from zero to insanity. She unleashes a tornado of unbridled fury, and chaos erupts. Elayne and Nynaeve escape, but Min is knocked to the ground and one of the sul’dam<\/em> manages to get a collar around Egwene’s neck. You see, Egwene? This is why we don’t follow strangers into dark alleys.<\/p>\n

Liandrin is upset. Based on the words she and Suroth exchange, it sounds like they both serve the Dark One, and their instructions were clear: bring Egwene and Nynaeve to the other side of the Aryth Ocean and keep them there. I’m guessing they’ll play a critical role in supporting Rand, so the Shayol Ghul strategy department wanted them out of the picture. Oopsies — they captured the butterfly and left a pissed-off hornet out there flying around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liandrin’s betrayal is laid bare. The Seanchan capture Egwene and Min, but Nynaeve and Elayne escape. The institution of\u00a0damane and their\u00a0sul’dam handlers is a central pillar of what makes the Seanchan so deliciously evil. They believe, as a society, that all women who can channel should be enslaved and treated as property. When Liandrin emerges […]<\/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-1815","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\/1815","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=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}