The Wheel of Time: Full Fircle

(Familiarity with Wheel of Time not required) How would The Wheel of Time have played out if characters weren’t stupid, Moiraine had been forthright, and Rand were actually intelligent and proactive? Changes a lot of things from the canon, making for a much faster paced story. (This is my interpretation of what the story would have been like, if it were based on my personal magicbuilding and storytelling tastes, and if drawn primarily from the first book of the series (Eye of the World); and not the amazing, sprawling epic that the canon actually is. This means the story is MUCH faster paced than the canon. After all, I have neither the time nor the patience to tell a story as lengthy as the canon.)