Quote Originally Posted by hydralus View Post
... eh? Yeah she did. She traveled halfway across the world with the sole purpose to find help to become Dawnservant.

Ah perhaps I should change my phrasing. Lyse didn't -want- to be a leader, it was forced on them. Wuk wanted to be the Dawnservant.
Wuk Lamat did not invent the rite of succession nor did she make herself a candidate. She had no expectation of being handed thr throne, she wanted to earn it. Yes it would be better to say she wanted it. But the other characters and Wuk herself do acknowledge her shortcomings, however superficial it may be. A lot of the story is superficial...