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Loial is an Ogier who looks like a muppet cast off. A snuffleupagus is a huge puppet type character from the 80s. The Ogier are supposed to be a 7-8’ tall race of people who are mostly pacifist stone masons, builders, and nature lovers with large twitchy ears and bushy eyebrows, not wooden looking black people with strange fros and catcher’s mitts for hands. I get why they couldn’t do everything to make him look correct without a huge budget for CGI, but I don’t get why we couldn’t have a better explanation of his relevance to the story thus far.ok... I have no idea about any of this. Olgier is the muppet? Snuffleupagus... ??
He joins the group initially because he realizes there’s a story brewing, and he wants to write it. Remember when we first met him, he needed to collect his books? I guess you were supposed to infer more there. He’s supposed to be important because even Moiraine knows little about the Ways other than what she learned from books, and they needed to get to the Eye of the World quickly. The way gates were opened by simply plucking a leaf from the “door”, and anyone can use them if they knew where to look for them. They’re not supposed to be just standing out in fields for everyone to see.
None of this should be a spoiler, and even if some of it is later addressed, I doubt it will be done well enough to matter.