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Marcon Interview
by Sorilea

Note From wotmania
Sorilea was at the Marcon 36 convention in Columbus on Memorial Day weekend of 2001. Below is her report of the Jordan interview there...

Well, I got to meet Jordan Friday and Saturday at the Marcon Science Fiction Convention in Columbus, Ohio. *Sorilea sticks out her tongue to everyone who said that Jordan was just a stoggedy old man who wouldn't talk to me.*

A picture of Sorilea and Jordan at the Marcon Convention. Check out that "got wot?" shirt! Come on, you know you want one...
He was very charming, and even more important, answered some questions that I thought were very interesting. Some of these were questions that some of you had asked when Dark Asha'man posted a question for non-RAFO questions...

Question (Asked by Ruriha Sedai)

"You've said before that the blue flashes during the fight with the Myrddraal in Whitebridge were not from Thom's daggers. What were they from?"
Answer
RAFO.
Sorilea's Comments
Wow... I agreed with Ruriha that I really thought we should get an answer to this. Jordan went on to explain that there are three types of ideas that are floating around in his head about the series. Things that he must include, because they are the major turning points for a character, story line, etc; things he wants to include, because he thinks they give a little more in-depth knowledge about a character, etc; and things that would be nice to include. Unfortunately he says that the explanation regarding Thom's daggers falls into the last category. But, on the chance that he will get to include it, he doesn't want to give away anything. So hopefully this means that at some point we will revisit Whitebridge and find out some more about it, as well as what the flashes were from.
Question (Asked by Ruriha Sedai)
"We know who almost all the Forsaken are, except maybe Mesaana and Demandred. Should we be able to work out who they are?"
Answer
"Ummm.. Yea."
Sorilea's Comments
Eeks... I hate those answers. Ok everyone, you heard him - time to get those books cracked open again, and let's figure out who they are!!!
Question (Asked by someone in the audience)
"Can you give us an estimate of how many books are left?"
Answer
"Well, I'd like to do it in three, if I can, but I'm not promising anything."
Sorilea's Comments
He had originally thought that the entire series was going to be only about five books, six at the most (That brought a big laugh from the audience, by the way.). He said he has always been overly optimistic about how mach material he can get in any one book. Which immediately sparked a follow up question by the moderator Friday night, "So based on what you just said, can we really believe you when you say 'Only about three more books?'" He basically laughed and said that he'd do his best, but again, was not promising anything.

Here is Jordan (and the moderator) sitting up on the podium at Marcon 36. Perhaps he was offering a RAFO answer at that moment...
Question (Asked by someone in the audience)
"About how much time has elapsed in the course of the books so far?"
Answer
"Depending on how you look at it, either one or two years."
Sorilea's Comments
The kids left Emond's Field in the Spring of 998. Winter's Heart takes place during the Winter of 999-1000.
Question (My own question)
"Any chance of another short story like New Spring?"
Answer
"Definitely a possibility. I have two ideas about other novellas. One would be about how Tam ended up finding the child on the mountainside and why he decided to return to the Two Rivers. The other would be about how Moiraine and Lan wound up in Emond's Field just in the nick of time."
Sorilea's Comments
Cool I can't wait.
Question (Asked by someone in the audience)
"At one point in the story we see Ishamael talking to Rand, and telling him that they have fought countless times in the past, but this is the final time. Is there anything about his Age that makes it special?"
Answer
"No... Every Age is repeated, there is nothing that makes this Age any different from any other turnings of the Wheel. The Wheel is endless."
Sorilea's Comments
This leads me to believe that this will not be the LAST BATTLE ever. It probably just comes about every turning of the Wheel, and since it has been such a long time ago, no one ever remembers it. Jordan explained that that is what a lot of the WoT is about, the source of legends, and how some legends are based in such a small bit of real history that no one really knows where they came from - if they are real or just made up.
I don't remember how we got on the subject, but at one point he made mention of the whole lesbian issue. Something to the effect of, "Well, you put fifteen year old girls in a tower filled with almost entirely women, with their hormones raging on overdrive, keep them away from men, because you can't afford to loose any of them, and what do you think is going to happen?" I think this answers the questions about whether there are really lesbians in Randland, and if they are intentional.

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