Can you just re-read books 1-5 over and over so we can keep talking about Moiraine?
If not that, perhaps I can try to force you to dwell on later mentions of Moiraine, no matter how unimportant.
…and it took me a long time but I’ve narrowed the “something” about Moiraine down to the fact she rarely uses contractions.
Let me know what you find. One thing to note—RJ didn’t use contractions in narrative, but I do. A stylistic difference.
I noticed it in The Great Hunt with Moiraine and Siuan. Siuan uses them left and right because she’s not uppity enough to say “do not”.
It’s a good point, and probably part of that Cairhienin reserve. Or at least, it helps portray it.
Deadsy had mentioned before that she found something ‘off’ about Moiraine. Also, not much later the graphic novel version of New Spring was released, and in it was a correspondence between RJ and the Dabel Brothers, and he mentions that Moiraine never uses contractions.
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