#Daise Congar

[faircastle]

Goldeneyes (S03E07) THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021—)

[hush-pup-py]

can somebody make a commemoration gif set for Daise Congar?

she’s the one who shielded Alanna when she got hit and I’m pretty sure she was in 1x01 saying to a Trolloc: “you want a real feast? Come and get some of this!”

an iconic ass lady and Two Rivers’ legend and I’m sad to see her go

[iviarellereads]

Lord of Chaos, Prologue - The First Message - Part 2

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In which that was a lovely break, now it's time to get back to work on the page.

PERSPECTIVE: Faile ni Bashere t’Aybara(8) is holding court in the greatroom of her and her husband’s new manor house, as she does every afternoon. She's grumpy that Perrin is evading his responsibilities in the matter. The idea of passing judgement on people he'd grown up among horrified him, so he left it all to her whenever he could.

The communities have taken in many refugees from Almoth Plain, Tarabon, Arad Doman. Faile tells two women fighting over Wil al'Seen to go tell Daise Congar what they're doing, knowing the Wisdom will tolerate no wasting of her time. Cenn Buie puts forth an argument against a roof-tile maker whose business competes with his thatching. Faile reminds Cenn that he hasn’t finished thatching the manor’s roof yet, and silently swears Perrin will do his share of this if she has to tie him to his chair to do it.(9)

She does her duty to the people, though, judging fairly and directing people to start their businesses or mines with her blessing. Then some of the Women's Circle show up and express worry about the lack of rain, and the Wisdoms, who claim to all Listen to the Wind, can no longer. All the signs are wrong, it isn't natural, what's happening.

Faile recounts something Perrin told her before she came here: that 2Rs people come back. Hail flattens the crops, winter kills half the sheep, they buckle down and keep going. The women know this, they say it themselves, but sometimes you need to hear such reassurances from someone with authority, even if that's normally yourself.

The daily audiences done, Faile joins Perrin on a balcony on the third floor, watching Tam and Aram train at swordwork. She sees the Tuatha'an caravan in a field half a mile off. Perrin says he can feel Rand's influence tugging at him again. He says he'll leave in the night, but Faile says "we" can't leave that quickly, they need a proper escort. Perrin thinks it best if she stays here, as the Lady, though she knows from the way he started that he was going to say it will be too dangerous. She allows that they'll do what he thinks best, then starts planning how to make him see what's best: that she goes with him, with a proper entourage of his people to defend him. She muses that he still hasn't learned what it is to have a Saldaean wife,(10) but mourns that their quiet time together has to be so short.

PERSPECTIVE: Gawyn Trakand is checking new recruits to his troops, the Younglings, those who were in Warder training before the Tower schism. Gawyn himself is only a few years past twenty, but he thinks the recruits are very young. They're on the way to Cairhien with the White Tower delegation.

Three Shaido Wise Ones emerge and come toward the hill, almost sneaking up on them, and go to talk with the Aes Sedai. One looks much younger than the other two. He wonders what they're talking about, and grumbles about all the rumours he's heard about the terrible things Rand al'Thor has done to the world, and how strange it is that Elaida would want to declare support for him after all that. He also thinks about how Coiren Sedai had sworn him to secrecy about this mission, and she seemed somehow afraid of what she was saying.

A peddler approaches, alone and leading a single mule. He tells them news that it's said Morgase is dead, and some say the Dragon did it. Some say the Daughter-Heir is dead alongside her. Gawyn excuses himself and privately swears vengeance on Rand.(11)

PERSPECTIVE: Katerine Alruddin, part of Elaida's embassy to Cairhien, is eavesdropping on the meeting between the Shaido Wise Ones and Coiren, the leader of the embassy. She overhears that the young woman is named Sevanna, and she's making a deal to "see his face, and have him see [her], when he is defeated" to ally the Shaido with the Tower. Katerine thinks there are no allies to the White Tower, simply those who serve its ends willingly and those who serve unwillingly.

She starts speculating on Gawyn's thoughts, sitting on a rock away from the others, and wonders what he’d think if he knew that he and the Younglings were only here to get them out of Tar Valon.(12) Galina Casban, the de facto leader of the Red Ajah, interrupts her. Seventeen years, Katerine has been Aes Sedai, and twelve years a member of the Black Ajah, but it wasn't until the day they left that she learned Galina was Black Ajah as well,(13) because they conduct business with voices and faces disguised so as to not be able to give away anyone else's identity. She wonders if more Black sisters are in the group following a day's journey behind them, as well, and wonders why her orders are to keep the Dragon Reborn alive.

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(8) Naming conventions! "ni" puts me in mind of "née", like the way news articles for people who changed their names at marriage would say "Faile Aybara (née Bashere)". And she's married t[o] Aybara. This is the Saldaean custom, as you may be able to tell since nobody else in the Two Rivs uses it. It’s sweet that Perrin adopted it for her too. Work together respectfully and take the best of both your cultures! (9) It's only fair, Perrin! (10) That's a little ominous. (11) Lack of reliable, long-distance communication is such a MASSIVE theme and plot element in these books, right up there with "history is only measured in how much you can still read of the contemporary documentation of it and whose perspectives that represents". (12) Why would they need him and the young warriors out of the Tower? (13) So, at least two Black Ajah in the group headed to Rand from the Tower. That's not at all worrying.

[derangedbutfun]

Daise, you fucking heroine!

[the-hills-of-tanchico]

[Perrin] wrenched the blade free in time to see Daise Congar's pitchfork tines take a goat-snouted Trolloc in the throat. It seized the long shaft with one hand, stabbing a barbed spear at her with the other, but Marin al'Vere calmly hamstrung it with one blow of her cleaver; the leg gave way, and she just as coolly severed the Trolloc's spine at the base of its neck. Another Trolloc lifted Bode Cauthon into the air by her braid; mouth wide in a terrified scream, she sank her wood-axe into its mailed shoulder just as her sister, Eldrin, thrust her boar spear through its chest and gray-braided Neysa Ayellin drove a thick butchering knife in as well. (TSR, ch. 56)

Did you know—? Every woman in Emond's Field is A QUEEN.

[d-a-mante]

With all this excitement I forgot to appreciate Daise Congar ripping Cenn Buie a new one over calling Perrin a "something". Bless her.

[mashithamel]

S3 E7 reactions, in no particular order:

* Guess it doesn’t matter that Eamon Valda’s sword arm was damaged. Going up in flames was justice.

* At the start of the show I said you could cut Loial without changing anything (I honestly forgot he was in the books—count me as the sole Loial hater, I suppose). And honestly, aside from closing the Waygate, does he do anything in the books? But now I feel bad

* When Perrin picked up the hammer with the ax it was sooooo exciting. Finally he has the right weapons!

* In the first season Aram says on their rumspringa they could take up arms, but come back. Guess that was an exageration? Protecting a baby is a lot less blood thirsty, at least.

* My sister is not going to be able to watch a minute of this episode (she can’t handle any violence at all).

* Daise Congar????

* But also, Daise Congar???? 😍😍😍

* Alanna really should have died immediately

* I thought Perrin would have something to say about how the Whitecloaks arrival wound up being really bad do the deal could be off.

* Is this the kidnapping arc???? Is Faile going to be hunting down Perrin instead???? Would this redeem the arc for everyone???? <wild speculation>

* so…..no Slayer? Or wolf dream? And Lord Luc is nothing?

* The wolf banner!!!

* Alanna and Maksim starting something new was sweet

* “Stay behind me.” “Stop trying to protect me!” “Kill the ones I miss.” Absolutely love it.

* Maksim should not be allowed to make the inspiring speeches to rally the troops because that was a really bad one.

* Deadly hail is a pretty cool battle tactic

* Two Rivers archers!

* Tam and Abel are just…missing in action?

[theravenchilde]

Look, plot time for perrin!

At one point I forgot padan fain's name lol

Damn that's a fast barricade! How industrious

Give Loial his axe pls

IS THAT WIL ALSEEN

Bitch you know trollocs don't have wagons fool also they were like five feet away

Hi Ila! And aram I guess. RIP Raen.

Faile is still so tiny lmfao

I wonder if emonds field just gets the whole episode like rhuidean

Ila and Aram hit harder after Rhuidean too

Can Loial understand maiden hand talk?! They taught him! How sweet

Lmao bode and eldrin bragging about moiraine

LONGBOW CONTEST WOOHOO

WOLF BANNER

I'm so sorry I keep getting distracted picturing that one gif of a hamster eating a banana re perrin and faile

Why isn't bornhald in armor?

Ooo there's a pattern on Dain's.... It's not a gambeson but the outer cloth on his armor? It's very cool looking

GET SOME LOIAL

Get some Maksim! Hahahhahahahah but do figs taste good? I'm sure the haters are gonna bitch tho but they can fuck off.

Are they gonna 🍌

The cinnamon topography in their convo is a little weird tho

Hahaha the girls hate the horn too

There's some very dramatic music going on

How come perrin gets armor and no one else does. Where are ur scouts. I miss Tam. Glad the ladies get to fight this time tho.

No you idiots keep shooting

What's the handtalk for fuck

HAMMER TIME

daise congar rip you beast

Damn I was hoping Maksim wouldn't be able to draw a longbow but I guess that'd ruin the scene

That's a big fucking arrow

Seriously whitecloaks? Y'all didn't notice that shit?

I bet they have darkfriends just so they don't have to outfit so many trolloc costumes.

Fuck you commercial

I swear if anything happens to the kids I will cut a bitch. Aram watch out for shaken baby pls. Oops. Sword time too.

Oh are we actually killing valda? Well good.

Ooo the ropes is a good tactic.

I think they made a mistake costuming valda and padan fain so similarly. In the action the hair is just similar enough I have to do a double take.

HAMMER TIME

Um. EXCUSE ME. DID THEY JUST KILL THE PERSON WHO WRITES THE DAMN SERIES. WHAT THE FUCK.

Okay I forgot season one, did padan get all logothy?

Blood smooch but I'm still big mad rn. Did they cut him for his costume too???!! Did we fix Alanna yet? Stop killing black actors off! This has better be bc the actor left for another job and they had to write him out. I hate this.

Okay I don't actually hate it but I still think the two rivers arc was unnecessarily weakened.

[talysalankil]

Daise congar is so funny

[iviarellereads]

The Shadow Rising, Chapter 56 - Goldeneyes

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(Wolf icon) In which, yes, that is surprisingly good advice considering the source, I told you she wasn't all bad.

PERSPECTIVE: Perrin is writing a letter in the common room of the inn. He starts his fourth page:

I will not ask your forgiveness for what I did. I do not know if you could give it, but I will not ask. You are more precious to me than life. Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever. Perrin

He still thinks it doesn't say enough, but it'll do. He folds the pages together, addresses them to Faile Aybara, then realizes he doesn't know if Saldaean wives take their husbands' names, but she married him in the Two Rivers so she'll do with his customs.(1) He goes out and the Companions, what's evolved from the band of boys that first day, are waiting, as well as the women, children, and Tuatha'an who will escape through one of many planned paths if the Trollocs break through.

Perrin apologizes to the Women's Circle about what he did with Faile, making her go. They say they knew what he was doing, and he wouldn't be worth cooking a meal for if he hadn't.(2) They suspect even Faile knew what Perrin was doing. As Perrin rides off with the Companions, he tells them that if things go awry, they're to come back and help the women and children. Aram says he'll go where Perrin goes, regardless, but the others agree, grumbling.

They reach the Whitecloaks in the Green, who say they're leaving. Dain means to live long enough to bring Perrin to justice. Perrin says after the fighting he'll go willingly if they stay, but if they run, they might never find him again. He calls them all cowards, saying the women of the village are each braver than all the Whitecloaks combined. Dain says they'll stay.(3)

Perrin rides off to check the defences elsewhere in the village. Cheers of "Goldeneyes!" and "Lord Perrin!" follow him wherever he goes. He makes his way to the north end, where he's decided to make his stand.

Verin is there, and he says he's surprised they're still here. She says they couldn't go quite yet, he's a very interesting study, as are Rand and Mat. If she could split herself in three, she'd follow each of them every moment of the day and night, even if she had to marry them. Perrin says he already has a wife, and Verin says, yes, he does, and does he know what marrying Zarine Bashere means? When will he give up the axe for the hammer? Perrin reins his horse back a step away from her. What the heck does she know, to say all that?(4)

A roar of "ISAM!" and the Trollocs appear. Verin murmurs that call is interesting.(5) For Perrin, Faile is safe. Nothing else matters. The battle begins. The Trollocs quickly overrun the village's defences, and the villagers fall back. The women join the fray, and Perrin wonders where the children are. A boy runs up with a message that some folk from Deven Ride have arrived in the south to help in the fighting, and Perrin sends him back, saying he's done a good job.

Shortly after, Perrin spots a red-eagle banner at the far edge of the fields: Watch Hill has come to help in the north. Soon he can also see Faile and Bain with them. Faile looks excited, fearful, terrified, exuberant, and most of all, to him: beautiful.

The boy comes back saying the Trollocs are breaking in the south, and Perrin asks his name: Jaim Aybara, he thinks he might be Lord Perrin's cousin. Perrin addresses him as Cousin Jaim and tells him to tell his children, and grandchildren, about this day. Jaim says he's not gonna have any, girls are icky, but wait til Had [his friend, presumably] hears Lord Perrin called him cousin! Perrin takes a moment to be grateful the children will live to have children someday.

The Trollocs all dead or fled, he rides out to meet Faile. She says she said she would go, but she didn't say how far, or that she wouldn't come back. Perrin is speechless with joy at the sight and scent of her. She starts to worry, and tells him Watch Hill were all but ready to ride themselves. They followed her with hardly any convincing. She smiles proudly and says even Tenobia has never led men in battle. She's gonna be SO JEALOUS when Faile tells her.

Eventually she asks if he's going to say anything or just sit there like a hairy lump? She keeps talking, but he interrupts her to say he loves her. She asks him not to be angry with her, and he's about to swear he could never be angry with her when she puts a hand over his mouth. Her father's worst mistake was to vow never to be angry with her mother, and it took a year to force him to take it back. She says Perrin will be angry with her, and she with him, but that's fine.(6)

Going into the battle, Perrin could only count the missing faces. On this side of it, he counts the ones that lived.

The Whitecloaks arrive and say well, they've survived the battle, now Perrin is under arrest, as agreed. Perrin says he agreed to cooperate if they helped. Where were they? Daise says they were all mounted and lined up pretty on the Green.

Dain sneers at Perrin and says he'll see Perrin hang, he'll see Perrin dead if the world burns. He draws his sword, as do some of the other Whitecloaks, before every bow and every weapon held by a villager gets pointed at them.

Perrin gestures the bows down, and says it's time for the Whitecloaks to leave, not just Emond's Field, but leave the Two Rivers completely. Dain gives one last "I WILL see you hang one day" but gestures for the column to follow him.

As the last of the Whitecloaks move past, a knot of men approach, and one introduces himself and tells Perrin they'll just see the Whitecloaks along, make sure they don't tarry any longer at Watch Hill either. He's very abashed and nervous, and speaks all in a hurry, apologizing frequently for bothering Lord Perrin and Lady Faile.

“Who was that?” Perrin said, a trifle stunned by the torrent; Daise and Cenn together could not talk that much. “Do you know him, Faile? From Watch Hill?” “Master Barstere is the Mayor of Watch Hill, and the others are the Village Council. The Watch Hill Women’s Circle will be sending a delegation down under their Wisdom once they’re certain it is safe. To see if ‘this Lord Perrin’ is right for the Two Rivers, they say, but they all wanted me to show them how to curtsy to you, and the Wisdom, Edelle Gaelin, is bringing you some of her dried-apple tarts.” “Oh, burn me!” he breathed. It was spreading. He knew he should have stamped it down hard in the beginning. “Don’t call me that!” he shouted after the departing men. “I’m a blacksmith! Do you hear me? A blacksmith!” Jer Barstere turned to wave at him and nod before hurrying the others on. Chortling, Faile tugged at his beard. “You are a sweet fool, my Lord Blacksmith. It is too late to turn back now.” Suddenly her smile became truly wicked. “Husband, is there any possibility you might be alone with your wife any time soon? Marriage seems to have made me as bold as a Domani gall! I know you must be tired, but—” She cut off with a small shriek and clung to his coat as he booted Stepper to a gallop toward the Winespring Inn. For once the cheers that followed did not bother him at all. “Goldeneyes! Lord Perrin! Goldeneyes!”

PERSPECTIVE: Ordeith watches Emond's Field from the edge of the Westwood, furious. Everything was going to plan, even Isam had played into his hands. All he wanted was to burn the Two Rivers and lure Rand in, and the whole region's hardly scratched. He studies the banners, the red eagle in particular. Manetheren. Well, there's more than one way to scourge Manetheren.(7) He reaches for where a dagger ought to hang, then snarls. The White Tower still holds what's his by right as old as the Trolloc Wars.

He drops to the ground and looks at his company, thirty or so Whitecloaks no longer wearing white at all, hardly even glancing at the Myrddraal in their presence. The Fade fears Isam will find it. Isam wasn't pleased when the raid on Taren Ferry let so many escape to bring word of what's happened in the Two Rivers. He tells his companions they ride for Tar Valon, but Caemlyn first. He gallops north, not looking back to see if they follow. They have nowhere else to go, now.

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(1) I completely understand that Perrin doesn't expect to live another day, he hasn't expected to see out the month since he learned the Whitecloaks were in the 2Rs, but buddy, "whose customs should we adhere to" ought to have been on your mind about as soon as you started so much as thinking about courting Faile, not an afterthought to dismiss! (2) Of course you want a partner who wants you to live, and you want a son of your community to be a man who won't keep anyone in danger selfishly. (3) There's TOTALLY no misogyny in this world, but calling them less than women works. Mmhmm. Sure, RJ. (4) Indeed, how could Verin possibly know any of this? Is Perrin part of the Prophecies of the Dragon somehow, some mention of a hammer and axe choice that nobody's told us about yet? And what did she mean about Faile? (5) Very interesting. It was unclear if they were under Slayer's or Fain's control until here. (6) Solid relationship advice? From Faile? Yes, every once in a while, no matter how extremely wild most of her mother's advice is. (7) And he'd know, still being Mordeth as much as Fain.

[queenofmalkier]

SAD ABOUT IT AGAIN.

They're peaceful but they're not passive. There's nothing wrong with fantasy cultures who are nonviolent, but there's something about the Tuatha'an that I find to be refreshing - WOT took a stereotyped group and once we met them we realized they're not only not what outsiders think, but they're so much more.

"They find that all the women, children and Tinkers are gathered on the Green; the women are holding weapons. Daise Congar announces that if the Trollocs break through, that they will get the children out."

That's love. That's saying: we will not die beside you, but we will safeguard your future. We'll carry your children on our backs and in our arms and run until we can't. We'll die for them if we have to.

The show demonstrating their character and bravery by facing off with the Whitecloaks to protect Egwene and Perrin even against violence can and will make me cry every single time I watch it.

Randomly feeling emotional about the Tinkers. They’re so goddamn brave and kind and good. They can’t fight back, they won’t, but they still stay and help in Emond’s Field, doing everything they can within their beliefs.

[witchytrina]

Daise Congar: A WOMAN

[d-a-mante]

Daise Congar noooooooooo! She was so cool 😭😭

Also she shows that self-taught shields look similar. Aes Sedai shields have the starburst.

[liza-rph]

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[thesingersews]

Honestly, good for you, Daise Congar, getting a power upgrade :)

Look how well they've done preparing Emond's Field in just a few weeks 💚

[theblacktower]

Mandi Symonds has joined the cast as Daise Congar.