– Aes Sedai marry as seldom as Wisdoms. Few men can live with so much power in a wife, dimming them by her radiance whether she wishes to or not. – Some men are strong enough. I know one such.
Based on that teaser for ep 5 with Lan screaming, running through the hallway, and the missing dagger from that one shot. I think Stepin is gonna take his own life after the death of Kerene to drive home how strong the bond is between Aes Sedai and Warders.
WOT FIC: A Sword-Arm and Confidant (Moiraine, Lan, 1.4k)
A Sword-Arm and Confidant: Moiraine, Lan, their friendship, and the aftermath of 1x08
(spoilers for the entire season)
“It’scuendillar,” Moiraine explained.
Lan took the white fragment from Moiraine’s hand. He said, “I thought heartstone couldn’t be scratched,” and lifted it toward the faint dregs of morning light reaching into the Eye. It almost seemed to shine. “That nothing—not even the One Power—could break it.”
“So did I.”
“What does it mean?”
Moiraine looked at the ruined mosaic on the floor. It was the ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai, though the people of this Age separated it into the White Flame and the Dragonfang. Created from a substance believed indestructible, it had lain untouched at the Eye for three thousand years. Now, it was blistered and cracked from the sheer force of Rand’s power.
It should have been impossible. Perhaps Rand was impossible.
“That this wasn’t the Last Battle,” Moiraine confessed. She had miscalculated somewhere, misread the evidence she had so carefully compiled over the last twenty years. “I fear it was the first.”
