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ORIGINAL: slavetoMsJ

I'm currently on the fifth book of this wonderful series, and have been unable to help but notice that there's much to make a person with certain proclivities prick up his antennae. For example:

--Egwene being enslaved to Renna via an a'dam in The Great Hunt. (For non-WoT readers, an a'dam is a bracelet connected to a collar by a length of chain; it enables the wearer of the bracelet to inflict any sort of pain at all on the wearer of the collar simply by willing it, provided both individuals are gifted in a certain way. Moreover, any pain the owner feels, the slave feels twice over. To temporarily free herself from the encumbrance of the slave, all the owner has to do is take off the bracelet and leave it anywhere she likes; if the slave moves it so much as an inch, she experiences mind-twisting agony.)

--Graendal the Forsaken and her entourage of blissfully obedient, barely-clothed nobles-turned-slaves. (Two days ago, I was reading WoT to try to get my mind off BDSM for a while when Graendal ordered a male slave to his hands and knees and casually perched on his back. That's what gave me the idea to start this thread, actually.)

--Lanfear's laying claim to Rand by biting his neck in the dream world

--Gaebril's enslavement of Queen Morgase through use of the One Power

--Siuan Sanche threatening to punish Mat until he cries for his mother when he pretends not to remember blowing the Horn of Valere

--Faille making Perrin trail her and Loial like a lost puppy in the Ways, as revenge for his earlier attempt to part ways with her

--The Black Ajah's plan to capture and enslave Rand with a device similar to an a'dam

I wonder what a collaboration between Anne Rice and Robert Jordan would have looked like.