Wild Theory #1!

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah. Most fantasy has a very clear line between good and evil... but WOT doesn't do that. It makes it more interesting, for sure, to have so many greyscale characters and sides... sure it does mean that things look very bad, as there are what, five or six truly good people in the world, but it makes the series a lot better to have so many people in the grey... its a lot more interesting and realistic.

The only truly good people are the main characters... and some of them are messed up or manipulated into doing bad things, so not even our main characters can be counted on to always be good.

As for evil... there are a lot of evil sides, but they aren't too friendly... there's the Seanchan, who aren't evil by choice but defend a flawed system, the Trollocs, the Darkfriends, etc...

So what do you think will happen? Can the good guys win? I don't know... it'd be lame to have a 'all the bad guys died and the Seanchan Empire saw the light, etc" ending unless it spends quite some time setting up what'll happen... even then I don't know. It should have a good ending, though... we'll see.

But I hope it keeps going for quite some time... its such a great series, I don't want it ending soon. :)