Melissa Craib, this year’s JordanCon master of ceremonies, asked the Team Jordan members which parts of the story they had been surprised about.
Harriet told about an incident she has described before from when she was writing the blurb for the dust jacket of The Dragon Reborn and finally realized that RJ intended Callandor to be an analog of the sword in the stone. She yelled down to RJ, “You son of a ****, you’ve done it to me again!”
Maria said that she was surprised… well, actually I’ve forgotten what Maria was surprised about. Maybe somebody else remembers…was it from Knife of Dreams when Semirhage blows Rand’s hand off? That’s what comes to mind, but I don’t remember any details about why that surprised her, really, so maybe that’s not it. :s
Alan at first said that he wasn’t surprised by anything; he had figured it all out, of course. Then he owned up to being a little surprised about the scene in Crossroads of Twilight in which Perrin chops off the hand of one of the captured Shaido, because it showed the depths to which a person could go when pushed to the brink.
Peter said he was surprised when it was revealed that Demandred was… (yeah, he was messing with us).
Nalesean at Theoryland pointed out that Maria said that she was surprised by the death of Rolan during the battle of Malden.
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