I absolutely loathed the existence of Nynaeve for the longest time. Always wanting to play the parent, bound to the hierarchy of the two rivers and tradition, cold as ice and hard as stone.

Then she starts to change, the children she helped raise start firing back. People smarter or more experienced than her knock her down a peg. She tugs her braid and you truly know someone got to her. She starts to lecture, then someone gives her a look and she stops.

You can’t help but smile or laugh at this matronly figure realising the world is bigger than her influence and yet she remains an immovable object stuck in the wake of the Dragon Reborn. Always standing up for what’s right no matter the cost.

She went from my least like character to one of my favourites.