Shara Explained (A NEW ONE)!!! - A Wheel of Time Cultural Examination

[@iangriffin6457]

One thing you forgot was the tatoos denoting social station and rank get more complicated as the rank gets lower implying that downward mobility is possible, upward is not.

[@knuckle12356]

I loved this particular political mechanic. For a writer who was fairly derivative (I'm sorry, and im a fan, but im not blind and read a lot growing up,) this was a really neat and original (to me at least,) idea.

[@dionshaewishum4179]

Good point

[@Aerophire]

Ayyad is a derivation and shortening of Aes Sedai. Ay es e dai > Ay e dai > ay e d = ayyad

[@MrLemonaiden]

I can’t wait for your channel to sky rocket when the show gets into full swing. You deserve it dude

[@knuckle12356]

Exactly. While I'm beginning to feel the rub from all the changes/omissions, I still am excited by the jump in awareness the series will have on the source .

[@svendragon8139]

That show was God awful

[@anydaynow01]

@@knuckle12356 To be honest I can deal with the changes and omissions, telling the story nearly word for word would have gotten boring fast, they found a good compromise so I can't understand what the "1 star giving" bookcloaks wanted or expected (that last season 1 episode though 🤪). What gets me is the overall look of the show considering all the million$ they have dumped into it. It's like cheap science fiction that's trying too hard. They really need to fire all the special effects and costume people and start again, kind of like the Nilfgaardian armor in season 1 of The Witcher. I do love the look of the shadow spawn and Children of the Light though, keep those folks on the payroll!

[@lomakuyva]

The show is shit

[@tylerhunter1241]

@@anydaynow01 ". It's like cheap science fiction " I remember watching the scene where it was in the tower and the camera scrolled up while spinning and that I just started laughing because I feel like it would've been considered bad looking CG 20+ years ago. I like Lan's actor but I wish they made him a bit more emotionless...... and also wish he had a beard. The actor + beard is more or less the way I imagined him in the books almost.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Well, we didn't get it the first time, so we have only ourselves to blame

[@johnforbes8282]

would you cover any wheel of time battles as you have Game of thrones, maybe something for a few years time.

[@MichaelSnyder1776]

Cool to see you here! Make a video on the last battle!

[@jeromecummings3609]

Please make a last battle video!!!

[@timpeterjensen2364]

Most horrible is by a clear margin number 3, not even a debate really.

[@padanfain5145]

Especially considering that they are the only non-fictitious people.

[@pkla14]

Padan Fain idk, this whole class of people seems made up to me. Too impossible.

[@Spthomas47]

Read the board and thought "there's a choice here?"

[@cbpd89]

I rank them as 3, people who think Olive Garden is real Italian food, 2, then 1.

[@derekfullum6390]

Terry Goodkind is the worst author ive ever read. He's worst than Christopher Paolini.

[@jesusfreak16luke]

I always wondered about Jain Farstrider and how he was able to learn so much about Shara if he only ever went to the trading towns.

[@hamletprinceofdenmark5896]

Maybe he's Sharen he could've lost his accent and adopted Westland customs. He is a pretty secretive, he kept being Jain secret from Matt. Perhaps he was an escaped slave that stowed away on a Seafolk ship, traveled around, and at some point wrote the Tales of Jain Farstrider, and translated the prophecies of the dragon. He could've done that by cross referencing the various translations, and selecting what's most consistent. It never says if he knows the old tongue. I think he's described as dark in the alleyway with the golam. He's had his hands broken and rebroken, and that point is emphasized. Punishment as a slave maybe? Or the result of brutal labour.

[@jesusfreak16luke]

@@hamletprinceofdenmark5896 Jain Charin, known as Jain Farstrider, was a legendary traveler and adventurer from Malkier, one of the Borderlands. His adventures are well known throughout the Westlands because of the book The Travels of Jain Farstrider. I like your theory but it just doesn't match up with what Jordan wrote.

[@hamletprinceofdenmark5896]

@@jesusfreak16luke ah cheers mate. I wonder what a malkiery was doing in Shara. One way to get in I suppose would be to be sold to them by the Aiel. Maybe he wandered into the waste looking for Rhuidian.

[@vve2059]

Shara is India and china mix and jains are a caste of traders in India with links to middle east

[@bobbyowen5879]

I've been with your channel since Daniel Greene first mentioned you. What I really love is your passion for the subject. Thank you for this information. I've never read the companion books. Looks like I might need to. Thanks again.

[@kght222]

21:40 you forgot something, the trollocs fighting at the aes'sedai front at the start of the last battle were luring/baiting the aes'sedai into using allot of their energy and staying in one place while demandred prepared the sharans. the battle would have been different if the sharans hadn't existed. so the aes'sedai wouldn't necessarily have been winning that fight as much.

[@danalou_who7765]

I really wonder how Rafe and company will deal with Shara in the show especially considering that much of what we know of the Sharans comes from a short story and not the core books.

[@FairiseNough]

I worry Shara will just be ignored, but I'd prefer they introduce occasional Sharan traders, just in the background in port cities or crossing the Aiel waste - I just really want to see them constantly trying to con people!

[@throatwobblermangrove8510]

@@FairiseNough RJ was adamant that the story was in the Westlands, and intentionally didn't include Shara. I have no idea how they'll make the show, but I can't see a scene in a trading post fitting in with what was already published. It could easily be referenced in dialog though.

[@anydaynow01]

@@throatwobblermangrove8510 Considering the omissions to date, I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see the Sharans until the last battle, if even then, kind of like the ghost army in the last LotR movie. They would have to cut out a whole new budget for them. I think they should have a very limited role in the series like James Phillips said and then have a spin off series following Demandred.

[@gustavramirez2891]

You don’t suck - you’re wonderful!

[@debthompson5454]

Really liked this! All I knew about the Sharans was from the last battle and occasional mentions in passing in the books.

[@Teacherman_D]

Love your content. Hope going full time comes soon. Plan on becoming a patreon when I get paid this week.

[@karlmiller7188]

Very very good and in-depth analysis of the whole story!

[@wendelljones513]

Thank you for the content. I had no idea about that short story about the Forsaken in Shara. I will hunt it down.

[@Siansonea]

I think Shara is going to be easy pickings for Seanchan, given the turmoil in Shara, the death of their most experienced channelers, and the fact that Seanchan is now led by Fortuona and her boytoy Mat Cauthon, The Greatest General Who Ever Lived™. Seanchan ships will probably start crossing the Morenal Ocean within a few years, and Seanchan supremacy will crush Shara. Honestly, at this point, I don't think any force on the planet can stop the Seanchan.

[@tobi79777]

God I hate the seanchan. But so true

[@NaeBlis]

I would agree to a point. Shara would be easy pickings. I think they could be stopped with the combined forces of the Westlands. The a’dam limits linking so there is a weakness and channeling is a major factor in war

[@saltshaker9000]

@@NaeBlis Not to mention that the Seanchan have no access to male channelers, no (known) copies of the male a'dam, and no one who would know how to use male a'dam even if they did have them. That effectively halves their power against the forces of the Westlands.

[@timpeterjensen2364]

Toy and Fortuona will need to take back Seanchan lands first though, they were all i rebellion and likely lost even more people to war, because of it, than the "mainlanders" did. Thats what Robert Jordans outrigger trillogy would have been about Mat and Toun going back to reclaim her lands. That might take years, time that will weaking Touns forces while it might be a time of stability and advancement for the Sharans.

[@Siansonea]

@@NaeBlis where would this conflict take place? In the Aiel Waste, or the Morenal Ocean? Do the Sea Folk have enough ships to face the Seanchan fleets? Would the Sea Folk agree to ferry Aes Sedai and Asha'man to the Morenal Ocean to engage in ship-to-ship combat with the Seanchan? The Sea Folk are a merchant marine fleet, not a navy. And by the time the Westlands does develop a navy, it might be too late to do anything. Seanchan suffered almost no diminished infrastructure as a result of the Last Battle, and they were more than capable of invading the Westlands and putting them on the back foot even before those lands were thrown into chaos by the rise of the Dragon Reborn. The Westlands are far from unified in the wake of the Last Battle, Dragon's Peace notwithstanding, but Seanchan very much still is. Considering how hard it was to get all of the nations of the Westlands, the Aes Sedai and the Asha'man on the same page to fight the Dark One, I imagine it would be much more difficult to mobilize them to go to bat for Shara, a land no one has been to. I can just picture Cadsuane's loud 'Phaw!' when someone suggests the idea. The Three Oaths would prevent them from getting involved regardless, since the Seanchan aren't serving the Shadow. And yes, they could use Gateways, but again, where do they go? Why would the Asha'man agree to it?

[@IbnShisha1]

So can we expect a remake of the Bela Character Examination?

[@NaeBlis]

Hmmm. Not a bad idea

[@Dragonmaster0905]

LOL I love that whiteboard

[@Pannenkoekenplantje]

I really like how you add details to your videos, both in the information in the videos itself as well as the decor, like the whiteboard jokes and an actual song from Randland as an outro. Glad I found your channel, keep up the good work!

[@djangoelliott615]

Just realized that shara, a society that places high value on utilitarianism, appears to fight on the side of the shadow AFTER Rand rejects those sort of beliefs at the end of TGS. A sort of metaphorical representation of it no longer being an internal issue for him but still something that must be combated in the larger world. (Think about how he always thinks to himself about how he'll use whoever he has to, even his friends, use them until there's nothing left Etc in order to win pre TGS)

[@chrisfierro9738]

That whiteboard is cold... but good. Also, hope going full time soon will be well!

[@aldan7812]

sweet mate ive been looking for those companion books bloody everywhere in this country so youve got yourself a sale!!

[@meis1385]

Awesome video. I pretty much didn't know any of this. Now tell me about the Aelfinn and Eelfinn please.

[@scotedler3984]

I think the Sharans were like the elephant riders from The Lord of the Rings who fought for Mordor!

[@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722]

Haradrims

[@frankb5586]

This was the perfect video structurally I have seen..... Outstanding job!!!.... I would LOVE to do a Fanfic of Shara.... that would be fun.....

[@dead_slime1915]

I can’t wait for the new wheel of time Amazon show to come out because if it is good we’ll get a load of new fan art and get a load of new fans and more people we’ll be watching your videos. And we might get more books and information books about the ages. We might even get a book on adventures of the 4th age

[@thomastheisman1751]

I vote for number 3.

[@nerd5678]

Don’t we all

[@danalou_who7765]

Definitely option 3!!! Is there any doubt?

[@andrewberenson5717]

Does Demandred actually tell all the Sharans they will be fighting along Trollocs and for the Dark One? He tells this to his lover. But she does not care because she is willing to follow Demandred no matter what. I do not recall him saying he told this to the Sharans before they fought in the Last Battle.

[@billnolte8644]

Sharans, of course. Those comprising #3 are the thinking folks among us.

[@scott2452]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Aviendha’s vision of the future when discussing what happens after the books - Shara is mentioned in one of them

[@hawaiiantimes7702]

Awesome explanation and great content. I wish Robert Jordan could’ve lived to finish the series because it would’ve been properly written and explained into detail much of the questions and concerns readers had at the end of “memory of light”. Memory of light reminded me of the last season of game of thrones. Everything happened just so fast and all at once with main characters getting benched and new characters taking up most of the book. Took me a few books to get used to Jordan’s pacing but his endings were a thing of beauty. Then Sanderson took over and it was like, hold on to your seats ladies and gentlemen lol. I guess when you have a series that has over 14 books, getting the end right is almost impossible. Great series and fantastic authors.

[@feiryfella]

That's EXACTLY how I see it!

[@evilemuempire9550]

That’s why I kinda wished the Sharans were just left out. We’d only gotten brief mentions of them and certainly no POVs in Shara, so it just kinda felt like they came out of nowhere. There was nothing any of the characters did to move them to the shadow and nothing they really could have done to stop it, so it just makes them a part of the trollocs, just with channeling.

[@benhemphill]

Theory on Shara after the Last Battle: Seanchan go to try to conquer it, safe in the knowledge of the Dragon's peace will ensure they can keep a re-supply/token force there. Perhaps a proxy war in Shara between Andor+Sea Folk and the Seanchan. Plays in well with the Western Europe / middle east vs the East kind of theme and the wheel of time spinning out the same variations on the same patterns over and over.

[@frodofraggins]

The show should either scrap the Shara plot or provide a MUCH better back story and foreshadowing. Otherwise it comes across as Deus Ex Machina, at least in terms of how powerful they were.

[@darthcuny]

Whatever I first read it shara sounded like some sort of pan African thing but now the more that I hear about it it sounds more like a China

[@IbnShisha1]

As I've never gotten around to River of Souls, prior to AMoL my image of Shara was strongly influenced by another secretive empire beyond a huge Rift - the Jesseryn Plain.

[@danalou_who7765]

I really like the animation at the end of your recent videos. (Get a red rod. 😆)

[@NaeBlis]

One more place for me to put little troll comments lol

[@armandog3335]

Good job!

[@drdekipetrovic7429]

On my language Shara means Pattern

[@rd6416]

16 thousand views and only 1 thousand likes? Come on people, give credit where credit is due.

[@anydaynow01]

I think Shara will look to the Land of Madmen to replenish their ranks and form an alliance with certain Aiel and Seanchan. They also had an effective system going at the time, and now with saidin cleansed they will be that much more effective since they didn't purge males from their gene pool to the extent the other societies did. Their only downside is the Two Towers had embraced saidin before the Seanchan and Sharan, so when it comes to exploring the Land of Madmen, they will have the upper hand followed closely by the Sharans.

[@JanusThePaladin]

I love the new transition visuals, I miss the music :c

[@andrewberenson5717]

I would be curious. When Greandal abducted the Sharan rulers, how much progress had Demandred made in his efforts to control Shara? I doubt that Demandred only went to Shara after Graendal's abduction.

[@andrewberenson5717]

I vote for #3 on the White Board. Admit it. The real reason you wanted to remake the video is to include your whiteboard. I liked the video.

[@hexrisk]

Thanks the for the video!

[@gaiden81]

Drats. I was going to compare the old Shara video to this new one.

[@gaiden81]

Wait. I found it. I though it was deleted.

[@dawnbresson8911]

1 year later...you mentioned short stories that I could buy on the buy wheel of time site. That redirected to a site that doesn't seem to have that. Help?

[@Harldin]

Thanks for the advice on buying items from your store but unfortunately the shipping cost to Australia is horrendous, about $50 USD, the total cost for The Big White Book is $97 Aust, about $70US

[@angelamccollister]

#3 definitely

[@matenaka146]

Since there is a southern coast to the waste, why are Aiel so shocked by the sea, it seems to me, there would likely be pilgrimages to see this vast ocean of undrinkable water

[@alanh3101]

I want a red rod too!

[@phlatbrim2732]

you have been crushing videos lately! Nice goodkind slam. those books got progressively worse

[@KriegZombie]

"Saved to Watch Later"

[@chessmiss4619]

may I know where I can get the maps used in this video? thanks

[@jeanmichaelmeme]

No video about the seanchan???

[@ProfessorBear510]

Just answering the question... 3

[@Dragonmaster0905]

Correct me if I am wrong but does Noal ( Mat's friend ) know a bit about the Sharan? and this on a side note for like a future episode, but I was thinking you could do tier ranks of they and them, and I was thinking a good place to start would be the Chosen. Too much if you do Aes Sedia because then you gotta do ajah, but ranking Dark things could be a good one too.

[@NaeBlis]

Yup. Jain Farstrider made some trips in to Shara

[@timpeterjensen2364]

Seems he crossed the waste somehow (my guess would be in a peddler caravan) and got into one of their border towns it seems yes. Also i think he talked about traveling on a seafolk ship, so he could likely also have gotten in that way.

[@Dragonmaster0905]

@@timpeterjensen2364 ah yes he did that too...... wait I was talking about Noal (forgive my spelling) not Jain Farstrider,,,,,,hmmm

[@sherizaahd]

People think that Terry Goodkind is better than Robert Jordan? Weird...

[@loose_screwz2752]

.Seems like I won't get an answer to this because this video was made so long ago. But where did their prophecy come from? It seems like one of the few prophecies from the books that didn't come true.

[@callanhutchison1871]

A new one!!!!

[@mckjoshua1]

Definitely #3

[@apferrando]

The answer to the white board question is 3.

[@ziegfeld4131]

Well the Dragons Peace is worthless anyways the Aiel were decimated in the last battle so they wont be able to hold it anyways

[@danielmclaughlin5573]

How did Demandred kill a nym in Shara if the Aes Sedai from the Breaking in Rand's vision identified Someshta (who died in The Eye of the World) as the last of the nym?

[@jesse5769]

He does say remains of a nim, maybe they were injured and trapped there and that's why they thought it was dead

[@DarthCaedus7]

Where was it stated that Barid fought a Nym?

[@NaeBlis]

In River of Souls

[@katherinekeller4149]

Where does the map of Shara and the Aiel Waste come from?

[@NaeBlis]

I made it!

[@reksteren10]

Shara is cool I guess.

[@jamesbrownii9508]

3

[@frrixz]

The link for the white book gives a 404 error code.

[@ItalyJake79]

Great stuff as usual. I gotta say though I don't get the hate for Terry Goodkind. No he is not as good as Jordan, but he isn't nearly as bad as some have indicated.

[@NaeBlis]

Quite a bit of it stems from him as a person. Watch some interviews with him taking about other authors if you haven’t seen those. He also steals almost all of his ideas from other authors.

[@MrLemonaiden]

Because just like JK Rowling he is an embarrassment to the industry, even going as far as to say he doesn’t write fantasy. When asked what his favourite books/authors are he will reply with himself and has constantly dismissed fans as not intelligent enough to read his work if they disagree with him.

[@MrLemonaiden]

Oh and the final nail in the coffin. He mocked Robert Jordan for not attending a convention. Jordan was in hospital for his terminal illness. Source: dragonmount.com/blogs/entry/379-a-very-quick-check-in/ That’s RJ himself writing that blog

[@ItalyJake79]

@@NaeBlis I can understand not liking someone stealing specific concepts. I read Goodkind while waiting for Jordan to finish WOT (I started after Path Of Daggers was published). I didn't notice the similarities back then, but I see them now. Didn't know he was an a-hole either.

[@BlangGang]

Goodkind sucks. A bunch of incoherent literature. I spent 6 years in prison and read thousands of books. Fantasy being my favourite. I know I have read a few of his books before but none of them really caught me or gave me the urge to browse more of his work. For real in an institutional setting his books are the fantasies that are left on the shelf after everyone grabs the good novels. Read GOT multiple times, WOT once but if you have the time to take a second tour of this series I tip my hat to you. For real though I would re read any GOT or WOT volumes before picking up a Goodkind.

[@IgorStojkovic]

Great content but please sync your videos to lbry (odysee)!

[@TheLiamSelig]

I'm pretty sure Demandred was killed by Lan not Egwene. Egwene kills Mazrim Taim.

[@derekfullum6390]

If the sharans were to abandon their policy of national isolation then we would see their society quickly become divided as new ideas and practices take root. There will be rebllions and civil wars and shara will break into smaller nations.

[@Heartlasher]

Yea it is going to be interesting to see how they play out the Sharans and Tuons people in a live action show. Or do you think they will change the race like they did with Perrin?

[@Finniganmydog]

I have never been bombarded with as many adds on KZbin as on this channel

[@heasy6578]

always love reading the board at the back :). Terry Goodkind.....🤢🤮🤮

[@micah7492]

Anything but Terry Goodkind

[@captgeesh5163]

The century of humiliation...

[@xarvous]

The Seanchan are worse than #3 because there are more than one of them.

[@Tijuanabill]

#3

[@musashinagatsubo9574]

I've honestly tried to read a few Terry Goodkind books but never finished the first chapter of any.

[@lokdog257]

I like Terry Goodkind, but he isn't even in the same league as Robert Jordan . Not even close.

[@paitrconel2086]

Terry Goodkind is a fellow Darkfriend therefore, I disagree with this whiteboard

[@saltshaker9000]

Do darkfriends have fellows? Even so, they fall far short of the great Nae'Blis.

[@timpeterjensen2364]

I think the Dark One would be too embarassed to asociate with Terry notGoodorkind.

[@Spthomas47]

tgk. Hands up, down or side to side. Up, down, side to side. He's pretty terrible as far as humans go.

[@thewaterwarrior9817]

1

[@thomastheisman1751]

Darn!

[@callanhutchison1871]

3) are the worst

[@vve2059]

china

[@nickbriggs8059]

Answer to white board 3 all day! His writing was so bad. His characters were horribly written. I couldn’t even get through one. Just the random out of character things they said and did was mind boggling to read. Not trying to be a hater but worse writer I’ve ever read. I’ve been time his books grow on you and get better but I just couldn’t do it. Lol

[@milanko91]

So shara is basically Russians 😂😂😂

[@ladyoflakelure4286]

I'm so scared the woke bum holes are going to ruin the show

[@nerd5678]

3

[@akiller101]

3

[@JDunham631]

3

[@brianstocks8049]

3