#we know lanfear gave a very dramatic villain speech in the hall of servants

[rogue-rook]

it’s amusing to me to consider how and why and in what order the forsaken chose to bail out of their slowly rotting utopia so I have decided to envision in my head a scenario where RIGHT before she goes to shayol ghul to pledge herself to the shadow, kamarile maradim nindar speculates out loud at like a psychiatrist convention about why so many of the other psychiatrists refuse to use their knowledge of their patients’ problems to “encourage” them into giving up all their worldly possessions and connections that are causing them so much of the unhappiness bringing them into the therapists’ offices and live ascetically with no worldly pleasures at all because that’s the best way to live morally and aren’t they doing their patients a disservice by not compelling them down the right path? isn’t really unethical not to do what’s best for these poor patients who don’t understand the right path as well as they (she) does? aren’t people in the position to know better have a responsibility to guide the poor souls in the world who couldn’t ever possibly understand as well as them? why is it that no one seems to even want to meet her superior moral standards?

and all the other psychiatrists speedwalk away from her and directly to the hall of servants to tell the aes sedai about that conversation and lews therin just goes “uh oh.” like a looney tunes character holding lit dynamite