Apparently everyone hates Elayne?

Nynaeve is GOAT female character in this story. Siuan and Moiraine are awesome of course. Lanfear is also amazing. Aviendha is alright, too. All of those have backbone and are routinely heralded.

Only three female characters I see people decrying in general:

  1. Egghead (arrogant, self-serving bitch who only cares about power. I thought she was going to turn evil and join the dark side on the first read.)
  2. Elayne (was okay for the first half of the series than started acting like a stuck up bitch to Mat and treating him like a peasant for no reason.)
  3. Faile (domestic violence)

While Egghead is the worst, she has the best plot lines. You could pluck Elayne and Faile out of the entire series, and it wouldn’t even matter.

/r/WoT Thread Parent