It got worse and worse with the names.
Yesterday I finished reading the last volume - what a marathon!
On the whole, the series was not bad (just under 4 stars from me), but I was a bit disappointed by the last volume. Eternal battle tactics where a lot of the main characters got left behind.
Rand's confrontation with the Dark One - which is what the whole story is about! - came across as a footnote. Too bad....
Nevertheless, a slight melancholy always hits me after such long series. Last year I finished the whole Farseer cycle by Robin Hobb - which I think is a bit better than WoT - and it was exactly the same.
Now I don't know if I'll continue reading Malazan Book of the Fallen, I am on volume 8 (not so good) and have interrupted it for WoT, or start with David Eddings, which I loved as a teenager. After that, maybe The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I thought those were great as a teen in the 80s too, but never got past volume 3.