The Shadow Rising

Siuan is going to send the novice Sahra away so she stays quiet about who Min is. This will not end well for poor Sahra.

Hehe, Siuan is going to make Min wear make-up and be all girly to disguise who she is, and that she has any connection to Siuan/Moiraine/Rand etc

Min sees lots of death and stuff in the Tower, which will happen when Siuan is deposed. She also sees someone with an a'dam - which is unrelated. This would be from when the Seanchan attack the Tower in book 12.

Gawyn is "going to be hurt more than the blood told, hurt somehow deeper than wounds to his flesh". Because during the fighting in the Tower he has to fight against, and kill, some of the people in the Tower that he likes (because they have different views about whether they are on Siuan or Elaida's side).

The viewing about the heron-marked sword that might be threatening Gawyn, or might be his - it's both. He fights against his teachers (who are blademasters), and defeats them, thus becoming one himself.

The viewing of his banner but with a different coloured background (green instead of red) probably refers to him changing his allegience from Andor to the Tower (from Elayne to Egwene) in the future.

Leane screaming, and Siuan lying naked on the floor - this is them being stilled and made prisoners. I think they are naked in a dark cell at one point lol

"There was something odd about the image" of Siuan naked on the floor. Probably that she has been stilled in the viewing so looks different (young).

Elaida's first ever foretelling about "the royal line of Andor being the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle" - this was because Tigraine was Daughter-Heir at the time, and her son is obvi "the key to defeating the Dark One". But Elaida thinks that foretelling now applies to Morgase/Elayne.

Elaida thinks about how "Moiraine and Siuan walked away from one another" when they became full Sedai and she can "hardly believe that their plot could stretch back that far" because "al'Thor could not have been born much before that" - LOL, New Spring.

Moiraine and Siuan didn't walk away from each other, Moiraine went off doing the searching for Rand, Siuan stayed behind to gather info that might helpful to her.

Elaida thinks about having to "dispose of" the ta'veren - even before she wonders if any of them can channel! I assume this is because her foretelling about Rand was that he would cause "pain and division to Andor"

Elaida talks to Alviarin about her ideas. This would have caused the start of a Blackie plot to put Elaida on the Seat and control her. It is the Black Ajah all voting to depose Siuan in the Hall of the Tower that gets the vote approved, and Alvi goes on to try to control what Elaida does.

Fain's accent changes often. His "Lugarder" accent is his original one (he is from Lugard). His other accent is probs Mordeth.

"The little man is there to advise Bornhald" - always with the advising people, Fain is.

Fain has his own little group of 50 Whitecloaks - they have been corrupted - they are "as sullen and frowning a lot as Bornhald had ever seen". They must be some peeps that Pedron sent to accompany Fain, and they've been corrupted as they travelled with him to Two Rivers.

"There are things in Tar Valon I want too" Fain says. The dagger, and maybe the Horn.

"We will flog them and flay them! I promised him! He'll come to me!" - Fain is talking about Rand. He promised to attack Two Rivers if Rand didn't come and face him in Falme.

Suroth says a Seanchan quote "On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers", meaning "the more important you are, the more dangerous your life is, as you have more powerful enemies". This quote is where the name of Book 8 comes from "The Path of Daggers"

Suroth plans for the Seanchan's return - "Her agents already scouted the way" - she has sent a bunch of people back to the mainland to do various tasks. Egeanin is one of these - we will see her later this book.

Suroth says that they faced channelers in Falme (the super-girls), and other powers that were not women channeling - this was the Heroes of the Horn, but Suroth believes it must have been male channelers.

"Only four still lived who knew the secret" - Suroth, Alwhin, Rena and Seta.

Perrin "wondered if he could make himself shout at her more often" - lol that's what she wants.

Faile says that the cock crowing was an omen of death coming. Sounds like a Seanchan reading the omens. That's one of Tuon's great passtimes.

"Sea Folk ship docked today" one of the Lords says. I thought this was the start of them looking for Rand. But it's actually just the boat that the girls take later in this book.

"Out in the countryside, I hear that some of the High Lords have been trying to raise an army to take back the Stone" - the start of the rebellion against Rand in Tear. Led by High Lord Darlin. They aren't a big part in the books, but they just hang around in the background.

Estean is proud of his understanding of Mat's use of the Old Tongue: "My tutor would be proud. I ought to send him a gift. If I can find out where he went." - I wonder if his tutor was High Lord Samon? A guy who would have known Old Tongue very well (because it was the language back in his day), and who suddenly vanished completely (balefired by Moiraine).

Mat thinks about the cock crowing being an omen of death as well. I wonder if omens were supposed to be a bigger part of the story, but RJ gave up on them later and just made them a seanchan thing.

Perrin says he "had mentioned the Forsaken to Faile" - well, actually, she would have known about them from Moiraine last book. They were chased by Darkhounds and Moiraine made it clear that they had been sent by Sammael.

Perrin thinks of Sammy as "A man who could channel, but somehow had not gone mad" - the Forsaken are protected by Darky from the madness.

Bubble of Evil! Aparently they come from Darky's prison, and are not specifically caused by Darky. This might not actually be true. There is a part in the final book, when Rand is fighting Darky, that implies these 'bubbles of evil' are actually Darky poking the pattern on purpose.

Oh dear. Time for nobles.

I was going to do a page about who they all are. But the Tear ones are pretty boring. Maybe I'll do one later.

Amico says they must go to Tanchico. She has been stilled, so her oaths to be a Black Ajah are gone, which means she can tell the truth and not have to help hide the Blackie's secrets any more.

Joiya says the Blackies are going to free Taim. This is half true - there is a plan to free Taim, but Liandrin's group are not doing it. I think it's Demo that does it.

Amico also says she doesn't know any other Blackies in the Tower. This would be true - in general, they are set up so each person only knows 3 others.

She thinks Liandrin knows more, which might be true, if she's one of the leaders. But she's not THE leader. THE leader (I think it's Alviarin at the moment) is the only one who knows all.

There is "something in Tanchco, something dangerous to Rand" - this is the Black Male a'dam thing.

Moiraine puts many guards on the doors of the Blackie's cell. Noted.

The prophecy:

Power of the Shadow made human flesh, wakened to turmoil, strife and ruin - hmm, maybe just that Darky is breaking free and causing turmoil

The Reborn One, marked and bleeding - Rand, marked with Herons and Dragons, and with his unhealing wound.

dances the sword in dreams and mist - He sees the history of the Aiel in Rhuidean, a city shrouded in fog

chains the shadowsworn to his will - Captures Asmo and makes him his follower and teacher

from the city, lost and forsaken - Rhuidean

leads the spears to war once more - Leads the Aiel to chase the Shaido when they leave the Waste

Breaks the spears and makes them see truth long hidden in the ancient dream - Reveals the history of the Aiel to them all, thus breaking them into factions - those who believe him and those who will follow the Shaido

Aviendha "had a tidy store of such things [sapphires and treasures]" - because Aiel custom is to take one-fifth of the value of things from places they conquer. The Stone of Tear would have held a lot of valuable things!

Egwene says she had "felt something woven from saidin before" - this was the sheild around Callandor which only the Dragon can reach through. It was woven with both saidar and saidin. She encountered it in telrod before anyone got to Tear.

Rand's books are:

The Treasures of the Stone of Tear - which will tell him about the Red Doorway

Travels in the Aiel Waste - along with the prophecies of the dragon, this gives him clues about what the prophecies that are Aiel-related actually mean. Which makes him decide to go there next.

Dealings With The Territory of Mayene - the Firsts of Mayene used to be the owners of the Red Doorway when that book was written, so it tells him more about it.

No noteds here. Soz. So much blue though.

"There are only 2 more powerful a man can use. One, at least, I know, still exists" - the two more powerful are the giant statue (which Lanfear knows exists, because her and Rand saw it in book 2), and the sa'angreal that Demo finds in Shara and uses during the Last Battle.

"And you loved power!" - Rand remembers Lanfear someone. A sneaky Lews memory starting to come through.

"Asmodean will teach you to wield the Power" - this is Lanfear's plan. I don't think Asmo knows this is what she's going to do lol

"Where was Lanfear and what part had she played in this?" none. The trollocs were sent by Sammael, and the trollocs that fought against them (the ones that saved the good guys) were from Semi. I assume because she has orders to help keep Rand alive, so he can be turned to be a Darky.

Rand's magical shadowspawn-seeking lightning storm is totes a Lews memory.

"Now. The thought floated like cackling laughter on the rim of his awareness." - this is maybe the first example of Lews talking in his head too.

"Lanfear had given him the last piece [of information], without knowing it" to help Rand decide what to do next. I'm not sure what she said that was helpful to him.

I think the skeleton Egwene keeps seeing is an elephant. They don't have them in the main land. Only in Seanchan.

Egwene finds the black collar which is the "Threat to Rand" that the Black Ajah are after - but doesn't realise that is what she seeks.

One of the other things is a "silvery thing, like a three-pointed star inside of a circle, which was made of no substance she knew; it was softer than metal, yet even older than the ancient bones. She could sense pride and vanity" - it is made of plastic, and is supposed to be a BMW logo

Eggy also finds a broken access key for the giant female angreal - she feels a massive amount of power surging through it, but it doesn't work properly because it's only half the little statue.

She feels like it "called to her" - this is the same description Rand had when he saw the giant male statue being dug up in book 2. I guess just because it's so powerful.

She wonders about what animals are in telrod, and which ones aren't. I think the rule is that any animal that isn't domesicated appears in telrod because it's more of a "thing" that a conscious being. Or something like that.

So the dogs she sees are probably strays.

Egwene knows a rule where if you are holding the power it is easier to overpower someone else's creations in telrod. This doesn't seem to be used much later on. Maybe just because everyone gets really good at telrod, so it doesn't make much difference any more.

Egwene tells Amys she is full Sedai. A lie that she keeps up for many books before feeling that she has much TOH and must tell the truth and take her punishment.

Amys can feel a darkness/evil in Tanchico in the dream. Telrod can somehow reflect feelings/atmospheres/non-physical aspects of the world as well, like Amys feels here. It is not mentioned much again until the last few books where (a) Rand on the moutain has a really strange telrod version that Perrin witnesses and (b) the whole telrod world starting to crumble when the Last Battle is happening.

Rand as tall as a mountain crushing cities - Rand conquering the world but causing destruction and war in the progress

Rand in chains - captured by the Sedai in book 6

Rand building a wall with him on one side and Egwene and Elayne on the other, saying "It has to be done" - In book 13/14 Rand decides the seals must be broken so he can fight and re-seal Darky. The girls disagree, saying it is too dangerous.

Aiel fighting each other - Shaido vs the rest (aka those that follow Rand and those that don't)

Aiel throwing away their weapons and running - the Aiel who cannot bear the revelation that they came from peace-sworn people in their past.

Mat wrestling with a Seanchan woman who tied an invisible leash to him - Mat kidnaps Tuon, but then she marries him

Perrin, as a wolf, fighting a man whose face kept changing - Perrin vs Slayer

Galad wrapping himself in white - Galad becomes a Whitecloak

Egwene's mother weeping - because trollocs are in Two Rivers. Or maybe it's the more distant future because Eggy dies!

Nailed to the door with their tongues. lol. And no one saw anyone go into the cell. Could only have been someone travelling… or someone jumping around using telrod, like SLAYER.

"The Shadow has resources beyond what we know" - Ya, it was Slayer.

The Wise Ones need Avi to go back because she is to begin her training to be a Wise One.

The Wise Ones are most wise in knowing the future. Maybe because of dreaming, or maybe because of the ter'angreal they go through to see all possible versions of their life.

The innkeeper's name is Paetram - the same name as Perrin's little brother. Not very often two characters have the same name. Just coincidence though. Or maybe it's some kind of sign - maybe Perrin's brother is at this moment being killed by Fain at the same time as Mat is talking to this innkeeper. Ooooh, spooky.

"The Light send you what you want, Perrin" - "I expect it will" - he wants to be hung by the Whitecloaks lul

Berelain is not interested in seducing Mat because he's "too much like me" lol - he's no fun to hunt because he'd just be like "ok, let's go, hottie"

"Next thing she would be feeling his ankles and inspecting his teeth" lol, I like that line.

Faile seems to not know that Perrin has been in the Ways before. But she does know. In the last book, when Moiraine was trying to keep all things secret from her when she was tagging along with them, this was one thing that someone let slip in front of her. Maybe she just forgot, or didn't believe them.

Faile thinks about dancing with fans or something. This is some Saldaean thingy where women do saucy seductive dancing with fans. Or something. lol.

"Ogier's oath" is the phrase that makes Faile come up with a cunning plan. Or an annoying little chit plan, more like it. RAFO.

"We will repeat our first talk together" Rhuarc threatens Berelain. You never find out what this means though hmm.

Rhuarc and the Aiel have been put in charge of keeping the peace within the Stone. This is also the ultimate job that they end up being given in Rand's super-world-wide-treaty that he makes everyone sign in the last book.

"You have brought no lamps, torches, music, etc" - the snake and kox people are negatively affected by those things. So Mat, Thom and Noal are sure to bring them when they come back to this world to rescue Moiraine.

Mat notes that his knife was made of steel, not iron, so it was ok. Well… steel is actually just iron with a bit of carbon mixed into it. Pretty much the same thing.

"From somewhere he had a dim memory of walking halls that had not known a human foot in hundreds of years, and this felt the same". I'm not sure if this is some olde memory. Or if it's a vague memory of his own life that he just can't remember properly because of his memory problems. If it is, I'm not sure when he means. Maybe Shadar Logoth?

Mat sees three spires out the windows as he walks along. When he comes back for the rescue, they end up inside those towers at some stage. Not that it's relevant to anything.

The creatures are "breathing deeply, almost panting" - I guess they're trying to inhale some feelings or emotions or whatever they get high on lol. Mat still has his eyes, holding his in LOL

Mat says he had worked out his three questions before going into the door. But he only ends up asking one. He notes what the other two were going to be later in the chapter:

"Anger drove questions about how to get away from Aes Sedai and how to recover the lost parts of his memory right out of his head"

These two things he tries to ask the fox-people in Rhuidean, thinking that they also answer questions. But they end up turning into two of the things he "wishes" for.

The snakes "studied the air above his head" - maybe they have like a super-version of Min's power, where they can see all of someone's life and possible lives in aura's around them.

The snakes are very nice, and give Mat a 4th question - presumably just to make him leave.

Marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons - obvi

To die and live again, and to live once more a part of what was - the second part is about his new memories he will get from peeps of the past.

Give up half the light of the world to save the world - losing an eye lol

They call him "Son of Battles" - even though he hasn't become a super-general yet.

Rand's three questions and answers were:

How can I fulfil the Prophecies of the Dragon and survive?

"The west and the south must be as one; the north and the east must be as one. Two cannot be one; you must stand against the two as one. If you would live, you must die."

Meaning: The Seanchan will control the south and west, you will control the east and north - you must work together with them. To live, you have to do the Moridin-body-swap-thing.

How can I cleanse saidin?

"What is unlike, attracts. What is like, cancels. Let the one absorb the other."

Meaning: Saidar and saidin are opposites, but the taint is totally different and will react to saidar differently - so you can use saidar to separate saidin from the taint on it. Then use the evil of Shadar Logoth, a different type of evil to the taint, and make them destroy each other.

How can I destroy the Dark One?

"What was, is, and will be. To choose is the fate of your kind. Without choice, humankind is dust."

Meaning: The Dark One won't be killed because he must be there when the wheel next turns to this point. But the real reason you will choose not to kill him is because he is the force that gives people a choice between good and evil. Without that choice, humankind is nothing.

You never find out what Moiraine's questions were. Soz. But I think one was something about either the girls going to Tanchico, or about Thom. RAFO.

Perrin's dreams at the start of not prophetic. Just normal dreams about Whitecloaks and Two Rivers and Faile.

Loial says his book will be called simply "The Dragon Reborn". That is indeed what he ends up calling it.

Gaul will accompany Perrin because he owes him for rescuing him from the cage when they first met.

"I do not know why the Amyrlin allowed you to leave the Tower in the first place" - lol, I know right.

Elayne thinks about writing Rand a second letter after seeing Nynaeve's way of dealing with Lan. Oh, god, please don't - it turns Rand into a totally sookie la la.

Yeah, so Tedosian killed Carleon for getting it on with his wife - but then his cheating wife poisoned him lol

Moiraine reveals that in the past Morgase's husband Taringail was planning to bump her off and become king. But Thom used his sneakies to save her.

Died in a hunting accident - just like the High Lord.

Thom has also worked out that Moiraine knew who Dragon was before anyone should have known. Her and Siuan's little conspiracy.

Moiraine says that Thom will definitely survive Tanchico if he goes. She is really certain of it, so it is probably because of an answer from the Snakes.

I don't think Moiraine ever told Thom who the Red Sisters were that illegally gentled Owyn. He was over it by the time she was rescued. There were more important things.

"The blight has retreated for some reason" - I guess the dragon proclaiming himself is a positive effect on the pattern, and causes things like that. Remember super-Rand at the end just makes green grass grow around him, so maybe its a mini-version of that.

Mazrim has escaped. This was one of the things the Black Ajah might have been going to do. But they didn't. It was mostly the work of Demo.

Siuan orders Taim gentled as soon as he is re-captured. This is the same illegal thing that happened to Thom's nephew. Disgraceful!

Guess She'll Die

Gaul will go because of the "blood debt" he owes Perrin - for saving him from the cage when they first met.

"The Stone rang like a monstrous bell" - because of something Rand is doing (RAFO), not because of the pull of ta'veren as Perrin thinks.

"Jorin looked much younger". Because she can channel, she ages slower. Because she hasn't used the oath rod, she doesn't look ageless - just younger than she is.

A Sea Folk prophecy is mentioned "Those who once ruled have returned, and been driven back for the first time" - the first time - that means they know the Seanchan will return.

More prophecy: "The White Tower shall be broken by his name, and the Aes Sedai shall kneel to wash his feet" - the White Tower will be divided, and it is Siuan's plan for Rand that really causes it in the first place. Then later, some Sedai will swear to obey Rand.

"Jorin looked much younger". Because she can channel, she ages slower. Because she hasn't used the oath rod, she doesn't look ageless - just younger than she is.

Her being able to chanel is also why she "reminds Elayne of Aviendha". And also why it is her choice about whether Aes Sedai may travel on their boat. Aes Sedai don't know about Windfinders being able to channel, and they don't want to be hauled off to the White Tower.

The commotion at the end was the same event that caused Perrin to feel an earthquake-kind-of and the Stone ringing as they were leaving.

"Thom Merrilin, the mysterious hero, toppling mountains and raising up kings" - or just killig Kings and starting civil wars hehe

Thom mentions tales from ages even older than the age of legends:

Mosk and Merk fighting with spears of fire - Moscow and America fighting with nuclear weapons?

Elsbet the Queen of everything - Queen Elizabeth, queen of a large number of countries of the commonwealth all around the world?

Anla the Wise Counselor - Ann Landers??

They don't know where ivory of silk come from because elephants and silk-worms (or whatever) only exist in Shara and/or Seanchan.

"All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well" - this quote is also said by someone else later in this book. I'm not sure if there's a connection.

It's also a real life quote from Julian of Norwich

Moiraine said she has a suspicion about Windfinders - presumably knowing that they can channel. Ain't she clever.

Lol, Moiraine doesn't have her spies watching Perrin because he's so innocent and dutiful and boring. And now he's gone. Oops.

Moiraine knows about "the secret Faile had been keeping from Perrin" - about how her father is Davram Bashere and that she is 3rd in line for the throne of Saldaea.

First mention of Gueyam. He will be going to Cairhien with many other High Lords and the army of Tear.

Alteima's husband knows she poisoned him, and with her arch nemesis looking after him, he will get healthy again and they will go plotting against her. Bloody nobles.

The prophecy about putting the sword back in the Stone is just what is sounds like. The person who draws it out will be a loyal follower of Rand. He gets Narishma to fetch it in a few books time.

Mat's horse is Pips! He has this horse for pretty much the rest of the series. So this is where he first came from. Purchased in Tear.

Rhuarc talks about the Shaido. They are not yet the bad guys, just another clan. Although they do have an ongoing fued with Rhuarc's Taardad clan.

When Mat goes to flip a coin he says "It would be the same coin wouldn't it?" - before he went into the Red Doorway, he flipped a coin to decide whether he would do it or not. He thinks it is the same coin being used here. But it's not, because he gave that coin to a servant after he came out. This is either a mistake by Robert Jordan, or just a mistake by Mat. Probably Mat.

They must go to Rhuidean unarmed "to honour the Jenn" - they are the Aiel that kept to their ye olde peaceful ways. The clan no longer exists. They built Rhuidean.

Moiraine also ponders the meaning of "Jenn Aiel" - translating it to "The Only True Aiel". The only ones that didn't break their oath to peace.

Bair tells how Amys was punished as an apprentice by having to carry a dolly around. The Wise Ones use this punishment again for the Maidens in book 5 for being little sooky sookies.

Aviendha's weapons will be melted down and made into simple gifts. Next book she gives Rand a belt buckle made from one of her spears.

Wise Ones go to Rhuidean twice - once to see their future, and once to see the Aiel history. Clan Chiefs only go once to see the history.

Egwene told Amys she was full sedai when they first met in telrod, so has to keep up the lie here.

Moiraine wants to know what would happen if she didn't go to Rhuidean. She would not have forseen her need to tackle Lanfear, and therefore Rand would have been captured by her and turned to the Shadow. Well, actually, turned to serve Lanfear as her lover lol

The Wise Ones talk about going to telrod in the flesh: "This was an evil thing, for they [the people who went in the flesh] did evil". So… their talk of "going in the flesh is evil" really isn't true - it was just the people who did it were evil.

"Once Rand paused, staring down at two figurines that hardly seemed to deserve a place with the other things. Two statuettes maybe a foot tall, a man and a woman, each holding a crystal sphere aloft in one hand." - access keys for the giant statue super-angreal. Note that these are here, they will come into the story later in this book.

Rand obviously knows what these are, but doesn't take them yet.

Rand mentions an olde story of "Ghoetam, sitting beneath Avendesora for forty years to gain wisdom." - Gautama Buddha sitting under a tree to meditate until he found enlightenment?

"Maybe Avendesora was somewhere else" back then", Mat says. Yes, they were everywhere. In the Age of Legends these trees were common, now there is only one left.

Rand talks about Mat going into the columns: "If you go in there, you come out a clan chief, or you die. Or come out mad." - What would happen if Mat went in… ??

There are a few options, because we don’t know exactly what this ter'angreal does…

Maybe he would see significant events in the lives of his own ancestors, even though they are not Aiel.

Maybe nothing would happen because it is set up to only show Aiel history.

Maybe he would see "whatever he needs to see". In book 13, Avi goes through the columns twice, and the second time sees the future of the Aiel. This was something she needed to see to help change the future and save her people. So maybe the clan cheifs and wise ones see the Aiel history only because that's what they are there to see. Therefore, Mat would see whatever happens to be important for him to know about.

The Doorway. It is carved with triangles. The one in Tear had squiggles (representing snakes) this one has triangles representing foxes.

Mat made three requests: "If I had my way, I would want those holes [in my memory] filled" - "I want a way to be free of Aes Sedai and the Power" - "I want to be away from you and back to Rhuidean"… DONE! lol.

"What was asked will be given, the price will be paid"

Mandein

• "Most avoided the Jenn as they avoided the accursed Lost Ones" - the Lost Ones are the travelling people.
• I think the ORLY old Aes Sedai are survivors from the Age of Legends, which was 14 generations ago. These Sedai would not have used the oath rod (that only started in this Age) so would live their full lifespan, which could easily be 14 generations worth for powerful Sedai
• They only ever mention septs in this part, implying that there were no Clans yet. They must have been made only after this "Leadership test" was started
• One of the Sedai speaks the Aiel prophecies - perhaps she is the one who had the original foretelling of those prophecies.
• Comran is mentioned as being his grandfather, and Rhodric was Comran's grandfather. Rhodric is the subject of the next vision

Rhodric

• "Moutains rose to the east and north" - they are just south of Kinslayer's Dagger, in what is now Cairhien. This is just before they all cross over into the Waste for the first time.
• The world is dry at this time, probably due to the world still adjusting the Breaking that would have only ended a few generations ago. Survival is tough in these conditions. So I guess they won't notice the difference when they go into the Waste.
• They are with people who are willing to share their water. These are the ancestors of the current day Cairhien people. Thanking these people was the reason the Aiel gave Caihien a gift of a Tree of Life cutting later on (which Laman then cut down to make a throne)
• The old man, Jeordam, is his grandfather. Jeordam is the subject of the next vision.

Jeordam

• "They claimed the earth used to shake, and mountains rose or sank" - the breaking of the world is now recent enough that the older people still remember it
• Morin is the first woman to join the fighters - the first Maiden of the Spear
• "This is my husband now" Morin says of her spear. Totes a Maiden
• They cut a spear short for Morin to use, and discover that it is much easier and faster to fight with that - this is the origin of the style of spear the Aiel now use
• There are three Trees of Life - all that is left of the large collection they originally had
• "Lewin, a tall graying man" is Jeordam's father. He is the subject of the next vision.

Lewin

• They wear dust viels to protect from the weather in these times. We are now very soon after the Breaking finished and so the world and climate has not adjusted to the massive changes - it is very dry and barren everywhere.
• The veils become a tradition because they are wearing them during this first act of violence, and because their people tell them they do not want to see the faces of killers.
• They really suck at moving quietly lol. They'll get better at that over the years.
• The reason they don't use swords, beacuse they are made specifically to kill people with. Other weapons such as spears and bows can used for other things, like hunting
• They live in wagons - just like the Travelling People
• Adan is Lewin's grandfather. He is the subject of the next vision.

Adan

• "You are Lost" they say to those who are giving up on looking after the Aes Sedai stuff. Hence why the Aiel now call the Travelling People "The Lost Ones".
• "Potted chora cuttings" are the trees of life. Chora Tree was the proper name for them, when they were common and not some legendary single tree.
• Adan's father is Jonai (not mentioned in this part). He will be the subject of the next vision.

Jonai

• We are now in the middle of the Breaking of the World. He looks out over an ocean that didn't used to exist, but there are still male channellers around causing more chaos.
• "No one rode now save children too small to walk" - their constant loss of horses forces the Aiel to walk all the time. As they still do. Or run.
• "You have come from the east" the Ogier says. I always try to work out the route the Aiel took during their wanderings, and therefore what the world might have looked like before the Breaking. But they wander for like 8 generations, which is too long for it to just be a simple path. Plus during these early days, the world is still in the middle of changing.
• The Ogier are feeling 'the longing' for the first time. As they have been unable to find their stedding among the upheaval of the Breaking.
• He says the last Aes Sedai he saw "took some sa'angreal and went on her way. I wonder what she took. Sa'angreal are really rare and powerful. Probably some that are now long-lost.
• The next part is Jonai again, but when he is younger.

Jonai (2)

• The Aes Sedai speak of a foretelling - "The world rests on this! The future!' The Wheel itself!" - probably the foretelling of Darky to break free again and Lews to be reborn to fight him.
• "The time for contention among ourselves is past" the Aes Sedai say. lol, well, that won't last forever. Stupid scheming future sedai.
• Someshta! Tree man! He has 2 little cameos in these visions. That's right, you get to see him once more after this lol
• Some people believe that Aiel served Lews personally, rather than the Aes Sedai as a whole. Hence the name "People of the Dragon"
• The present-day Aiel know that they "failed the Aes Sedai" in the past. This is where we see the Sedai requests which they failed - to carry the angreals etc to safety, and to "keep the Covenant" (i.e. keep following the Way of the Leaf)
• The Sedai are talking about making the Eye of the World, and then about dealing with Callandor. They are going to work with some of the young male sedai who are not yet mad to make the Eye, then set Someshta Tree-Man to guard it.
• "There was no room for any to ride but the young and very old." They never even had enough horses from the beginning.
• "All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well" - here's that quote again. One of the Sea Folk said this in the present-day earlier in this book
• Coumin is "an aberration, he had been strange since he was a boy. No one knew why". He is Jonai's father and is the subject of the next vision

Coumin

• We are at the very end of the War of Power that ended with Lews sealing Darky
• The Aiel work clothes are "plain brownish gray coat and breeches and soft laced boots. Same kind of thing the present-day Aiel wear
• Lanfear had not always been evil. True. All the forsaken were just regular Sedai in a peaceful world, until Darky was discovered and freed and corrupted all.
• The soldiers wear helmets "like some monstrous insect's head". This is the same design as the Seanchan wear. A carry over from way back in these days.
• The bore is sealed "with most of the Forsaken on the other side. Maybe all of them. "Forsaken" was just the name given to all Sedai who turned to Darky back in these days. There were many more than 13. The ones who were sealed up were just the highest-ranking ones who happened to be meeting with Darky when Lews attacked.
• The angry man believes the Aiel served the Forsaken, not just the Aes Sedai in general. Age of Legends version of fake news and conspiracy theory
• Charn, the man who "claimed to have served one of the Forsaken, Lanfear herself" and who was hanged for it, is Coumin's great-grandfather. He is the subject of the next (and final) vision.

Charm

• Chora Trees - "Trees of Life" are everywhere through the cities in these days.
• Mierin Sedai, who Charn serves, is Lanfear obvi. Her name is not known in the present day, but Rand now knows it.
• The woman wears "streith" - a fabric that changes colour with your mood. Graendal often wears it in the present-day.
• The man wears "fancloth" which is the colour-shifting fabric that warders wear in present-day
• Aiel hairstyle has changed in 3000 years either lol

Back in the Age of Legands, the Aiel were sworn to peace, helped the Ogier and Tree-men grow things, and were servants to the Aes Sedai. These Aes Sedai included the Forsaken, who only became evil when they turned to Darky after the bore was created and Darky was able to corrupt the world.

The wars that came about after Darky corrupted the world lasted for generations before it all came to a head with Lews trying to re-seal him. In the Age of Legends equivalent of "fake news" and "conspiracy theories", many people believed the Aiel were evil because some of them served the Forsaken before they turned to the Shadow.

In the aftermath of the war, with all the male channellers going mad, the female Sedai tasked the Aiel with taking thousands of wagonloads of angreal, ter'angreal, etc to a safe place, and keep them away from the male channelers who were causing havoc across the world, and literally changing the landscape. They also asked them to keep to the Way of the Leaf.

The world is now in turmoil, the face of the earth changing dramatically due to mad male channellers, everything and everyone is lost, trying to find their way. But the Aiel must carry on, they are dedicated to the Aes Sedai, even though they have seen almost none of them in all the years since they were given their task.

After so long wandering a harsh unfamiliar world, some of the Aiel give up on their task of looking after the things the Aes Sedai had given them. They have heard their people used to be respected and were known for their singing. They break away to try to reclaim those old days. They will go on to become the Travelling People, seeking "the song".

In the post-apocalyptic-style world after the Breaking, Aiel contantly encounter bandits. One day, while trying to rescue some of their kidnapped people, they kill some of the bad men. They are cast out by their own people once it is known, but they claim they are still Aiel. They will go on to form a separate faction of Aiel who have decided violence is justified in some situations. They continue to tag along with the rest of the Aiel but in a separate group.

The fighting Aiel, who now protect the peaceful ones, have taken to mockingly calling them "Jenn" - the "True Aiel". There are still many more Jenn than there are Aiel warriors, but the fighters are recruiting more and more Jenn to join them. A woman named Morin is the first female to choose to defect, and becomes the origin of the Maidens of the Spear.

The world has been dry and desolate since the Breaking finished. The Jenn, guarded by the Aiel, are helped by people in the current Cairhein region who share water with them. There are now more Aiel than Jenn. They plan to cross over the mountains into the Waste. The Jenn have finally come across some Aes Sedai, after carrying and protecting their things for so long.

In the Waste, the last few remaining Jenn Aiel work with some of the last surviving Aes Sedai from the Age of Legends to build Rhuidean. They tell the Aiel that any who want to be their leaders must come here to learn the history of their people - a history they have already forgotten. They have finally found their "safe place" to store the objects they have been carrying for so long, but preserving the Aiel history is the more important purpose of Rhuidean.

On the way in to Rhuidean, Rand spotted the two super-angreal access keys.

I've never been quite sure what the line "Thought is the arrow of time, memory never fades" means. It might be something to do with Mat's memories being filled. Dunno.

"My head hurts. It's spinning like a thousand bits of dreams, and every one a needle" - probs the new memories that have been shoved into it.

Rand didn't use the power straight away to knock out the dust-monsters because "I didn't think of it. Because I didn't know how until I did it". So many things in these books can be explained by that logic lol. I just didn't think of it.

"We were in there all night" - lol, no, you were actually in there for like three days or something.

"He took a slow, deep breath. “I asked you before not to do that.” Her dark, tilted eyes widened as if he had said something infuriating." - yeah, you were all calm and didn't yell at her lol

Perrin sees hawks being killed by an arrow. Slayer.

Perrin finds no wolves. Slayer. He has killed many, so the rest have fled.

Moiraine suggested that Wolf Dream was the same as telrod. She is correct.

Perrin's dream-visions are all of things that are happening at the moment, not future predictions:

Rand stood amid swirling stormwinds, laughing wildly, even madly, arms upraised, and on the winds rode small shapes, gold-and-scarlet, like the strange figure on the Dragon banner; hidden eyes watched Rand, and there was no telling whether he knew it. - Rand in Rhuidean, getting dragon tattoos. Several forsaken are watching him and have plans in this book.

Nynaeve and Elayne stalked cautiously through a demented landscape of twisted, shadowed buildings, hunting some dangerous beast. - Hunting the Black Ajah in Tanchico.

Mat, standing where a road forked ahead of him. He flipped a coin, started down one branch, and suddenly was wearing a wide-brimmed hat and walking with a staff bearing a short sword blade. - Mat flipped a coin to decide whether to go into the doorway in Tear. This led him to go to the Waste, where he gets the Ashanderei blade/spear/thing and his hat (RAFO lol)

Egwene and a woman with long white hair were staring at him in surprise while behind them the White Tower crumbled stone by stone. - Egwene and Amys in telrod. The White Tower split is about to start.

Perrin runs "north and east" from Two Rivers. He goes approximately the same way as everyone did in book 1, and ends up at the Tower of Ghenji, which Mat and Rand saw from Domon's boat in that book.

Slayer vanishes when he gets to the Tower. He didn't go into it, he just made himself vanish hoping to make Perrin think he went into the Tower, and therefore go into the Tower himself.

"The woman seemed vaguely familiar" - Perrin saw her when the Horn was blown in Book 2.

She speaks to Perrin "despite the prescripts" - the Heroes are not supposed to interact with others. Their location is supposed to be secret. It's presumably just a rule they made up themselves to protect themselves. If people knew they were hanging in telrod, Darky's minions might be able to come for them.

The man with 2 swords is Birgitte's man - Gaidal Cain

It was actually Fain that killed Perrin's family. Not trollocs or whitecloaks.

Perrin thinks Geofram Bornhald is there. He knows Geof from book 1, when he was arrested for killing whitecloaks.

Lord Luc. Slayer. Obvi.

No noteds here.

Perrin recognises Verin because she was with Moiraine and Siuan in Fal Dara in book 2 before they went chasing Fain. Verin worked out Moiraine and Siuan's plans and so was there when the boys were called to meet the Amyrlin.

Alanna was also one of the Sedai that went to Fal Dara with the Amyrlin, but Perrin would have just seen her, not met her properly.

The quote from Egwene about not trusting Alanna doesn't seem to actually be in the books anyway. It must have been something she said to him off-screen some time.

"I will enjoy the chance to learn more about the Aiel" - says Verin, making the Aiel nervous lol. They know the tale that the Aiel failed the Aes Sedai sometime, and believe that Aes Sedai will destory them if they fail again lol. But the Aes Sedai have no idea about any of that.

"Culling the ability out of humankind" is correct. Not just by getting rid of male channellers, but also by having none of the females ever having kids either. Seanchan should have the same problem as well, since damane are considered so lowly that no one would have have kids with them.

Shara, on the other hand, use their male channellers to breed with females before the men get to channelling age and are killed.

"Moiraine found two women who could not only be taught to channel, but who had the ability born in them, and heard of another who had died because she could not teach herself." - the one that died was a former Wisdom's apprentice. She died and then Nynaeve was taken in as the new apprentice. This was mentioned briefly in book 1.

"he had been thinking of how Rand had killed all the Trollocs in the Stone, only Rand was stronger than either of these Aes Sedai, probably stronger than both together." - yeah, maybe, but with Callandor he is WAAY stronger than them put together.

"I will never understand why the Amyrlin Seat let you three go your way. Elaida has been having fits over you three, and she is not the only one, just the most vehement." - Siuan previously received word that Rand had Callandor and was going to announce her plans for him to the Tower. Evidently this has been done, as the other Sedai know what is going on now.

And Elaida doesn't like it.

Alanna: "I am not so lost to custom yet as to bond a man against his will. Not quite yet." - not until she meets Rand hehe

Tam recognises Aiel - he fought in the Aiel War. That's when he found Rand.

"The Lugarder accent was gone, replaced by a grander, more commanding tone." - Fain switches between his Fain voice (Lugard) and his Mordeth voice (grand, commanding, advisor of kings)

The Grey men were indeed there to kill Fain. Sent by Slayer. This is the main reason Slayer is in Two Rivers. He has orders to get rid of Fain.

Bornhald looks for some brandy. He has taken up drinking a lot. This gets mentioned a few times in future story, but isn't really relevant.

Fain can still sense all 3 of the boys, but with Rand now declared and obvi the Dragon, he can feel him much more. So he can't tell which of the others in in Two Rivers.

"Why could not his dreams at least be his own?" - Slayer haunts Fain's dreams, probably.

The trollocs were sent by Slayer as well. I assume Fain's "proposal" to the myrddraal is that they switch allegience and follow Fain's orders instead.

"What could be fascinating to an Aes Sedai about a hammer" - I wonder if Perrin's hammer is mentioned in prophecy somewhere that Verin knows about. Or maybe in one of the Shadow's prophecies.

Perrin wonders who sent the trollocs, assuming it is a trap for Rand. It's actually part of Slayer trying to kill Fain, and just having some extra fun along the way.

"There had been a time when he had dreamed of marrying Laila, and she had returned the feeling somewhat." - in the TV series, Helena Westerman has been cast as "Laila Aybara". So not sure what they're doing there. Or maybe that is not really going to be her name in the show, and it was just used for casting purposes. We shall see.

Lord Luc claims to be from Murandy. He's actually from Andor (Luc) and Malkier (Isam).

He recognises Perrin because Perrin chased him around in telrod. But Perrin doesn't know him because he appears as Isam (Lan's cousin) in telrod and Luc (Rand's uncle) in real world.

Verin probably warns Perrin about Alanna because she knows she might randomly bond someone lol

Bloody Faile - Perrin apologises and is being nice, but she wants him to yell and fight lol

The Aiel are looking forward to the rescue after Perrin tells them to "try not to kill anyone" - that is the most honour when Aiel are fighting, to defeat you enemy without killing them.

Verin "has other uses for Tomas (her warder)" not sure what they are. She is too mysterious

Verin cannot help "in the way you mean" with the rescue because Aes Sedai cannot use the power to fight except against shadowspawn, or as a last resort in self-defence.

Rand explains why he decided to go to the Aiel before anywhere else to conquer: "He needed people he could trust, people who followed from something besides fear of him, or greed for power. People who did not mean to use him for their own ends." - because that's what pretty much everyone of importance in the main lands would do. Bloody Sedai and nobles.

Egwene says that the Wise Ones cannot heal much because "no two women can have exactly the same Talents or skills" - also you can't learn everything.

When Egwene tells the Wise One's about Rand's wound: "The look she gave Rand said common courtesy should have made him tell as much" LOL, yep, because everyone always tells everyone everything in these books.

Mat "understood (the old tongue) since Rhuidean, though he did not appear to realise it" - nah, Mat knew it before then. When he went to the snakey people in the first doorway, Mat didn't need a translator for the old tongue, but Rand and Moiraine did.

Rand's mother spoke of "a child abandoned, a son she loved" - Galad. And "a husband she did not love" - who married her just for political reasons, and would then go on to marry Morgase when she became queen.

Gitara Moroso was the sedai that told Rand's motherto go join the maidens. She was the same one who foretold Rand's birth in New Spring, and the same person who told Luc to go to the Blight where he would get made into Slayer.

They talk about "the third year of the search for Laman". How could it have taken the Aiel 3 years to find the King of a major nation of the world.

Rand's father went to the Blight and was killed by a man who looked like Shaiel. Lord Luc/Slayer. He was her brother.

Another Aiel prophecy is that "without you (Rand), no one of our people will live beyond the Last Battle, perhaps not even until the Last Battle". Avi's visions in Rhuidean in book 13 show that they will get wiped out by the Seanchan, but that's long AFTER the Last Battle. I wonder what would have happened to them without Rand to wipe them out before that - maybe they were just all going to die in the battle. Maybe the Darkies would have gone and wiped them out first as the best warriors around.

Avi dislikes Rand because "she thought he mistreated Elayne". Now that she's been to Rhuidean she has an even greater hate for him. She has seen that Rand will be her lover, and doesn't want that.

Rand things Avi went into the same columns as he did, but no, she went to the ter'angreal that makes you see different versions of your life.

"He was going to break the rules in a way no one expected". Not sure what his plan is. But they will be well and truly spoiled before he gets to do them.

Male Aiel chanellers go to the Blight to "kill the Dark One" before they have a chance to go mad. First time (I think) this is mentioned in this chapter. Many of them actually get captured and Turned to be a darky, and become the Red-Vieled Aiel with sharpened teeth.

The first time Egwene "woke up", and Amys turned into a monster, Amys actually just took Egwene to her tent in telrod. Egwene thought she was awake, but it was still telrod, so Amys could scare her lul

The Wise Ones get Avi to watch Rand. She knows she is destined to become his lover, but hates the idea. Therefore she hates the idea of being around him all day.

"No one is asking you to betray Elayne" Egwene says. But Avi knows that she will, eventually.

"You can tell him she meant what she said in her letters" - yep, that'll confuse Rand, since one is all lovey and one is all "oy, you chit"

Moiraine has also seen her life and her destiny and is staring off into the distance pondering it. Her sacrifice, probably on her mind.

This is probably also what she means by "I have given my life to finding the Dragon Reborn, finding Rand, and seeing him ready to face the Last Battle. I will see that done, whatever it requires. Nothing and no one can be more important than that."

Where was Lanfear in this chapter?

Rand thinks Avi is wearing different clothes so he will like her being around as the Wise One spy. No, she just is no longer a Maiden.

"He came into the Waste. I wonder if he will leave again" - I assume Rand knows there is a forsaken among the peddlers. I guess he is suspicious of them, like the Aiel seem to be about them not having a guide.

Lanfear mentioned Asmodean when she talked to him earlier this book. So I guess Rand thinks he knows which Forsaken it is.

Rand seems to think Kadere is the one.

"A scholar, for this day and Age"…

"Aiel" he murmered "Not what I would have expected. I can still hardly credit it" …

"Tell me what you saw" (in Rhuidean) …

This gleeman says things sound innocent enough. But what is he was someone from the Age of Legends who is interested in whether there is anything useful for him in Rhuidean. Then his comments take on a different meaning.

Rand is so obvi suspicious of everything about the peddlers, and he kind-of mocks them with his questions implying his suspicion. It's kind of funny the way he acts about them.

Gelb kidnaped someone called "Lady Leilwin" because she matched Egeanin's description of one of the sul'dam. That name. Leilwin. It is Egeanin's new name later on hehe.

Jaichim Carridin is there. Bors!

So, the conversation with the King and his men basically shows that the Whitecloaks plan is a total success. They ask the Whitecloaks help in restoring order, and in raising the new Panarch that the King wants (Amathera, his lover).

But the men are adamant that they should not be indebted to the Whitecloaks. They are aware that this might be what Pedron is after.

But because the King is doing a dodgy (getting his lover made as Panarch, even though she was not elected properly) means the Whitecloaks will still have influcence with the King, as they know of his dodginess, and can basically blackmail both him and the Panarch with it.

THEN - Liandrin comes along. She ALSO wants Carridin to take control of the Panarch's Palace, but he is to hold it even after the Panarch is raised, so the Blackies can search for their "thing to control Rand".

But his arrangement with the King was to leave them alone once it was done, and not keep interefering. So who does he want to upset. The King, or the Blackies, lol

Gyldin, the cleaner. What a chit. lol.

Bethamin knew the secret. Now she is collared herself. Oops.

But what will Egeanin do with her? She cannot control her, as she cannot channel herself.

This Seeker of Truth that came to Egeanin keeps investigating stuff and evetually comes up with some elaborate conspiracy theory in about book 9 which causes Egeanin and Domon to join forces with Mat to escape Ebou Dar.

Elayne says "Morgase isn't my mother after all". Hmm, not sure what she means by that. She's just drunk.

The man in telrod trying to investigate Rhuidean - the same man that was previously asking Mat all about his experiences in Rhuidean. The gleeman.

The man who looks like Lan in telrod. Obvi slayer, Lan's cousin.

They mention Alanna vanishing on her own. I'm not sure what she was doing or where she went. Maybe she's just lost it a bit after her warder was killed on their way into Two Rivers.

Lord Luc "hinted at a claim to one of the Borderland thrones" - well, his other half is Lan's cousin, so yep, I guess that's true.

The Aiel go off together, away from "The Lost Ones". They suggest playing Maiden's Kiss. I wonder if this is where Gaul starts getting a bit interested in his lady-Aiel-friends.

"She seemed to find that [Ivhon's sword] worse than Perrin's axe" - maybe the Tinkers have the same notion of weapons as the Aiel - at least an axe can be used for chopping down trees. A sword is only for killing people with.

Slayer uses the word "Shadowwrought" to refer to the trollocs and myrddraal. The only place we've ever heard that term before is in Rand's falshback Rhuidean visions, when one of the guys from way back in the Age of Legends used it. Apparently it's an Aiel term - maybe Slayer picked it up from growing up in the village full of Red-Veiled Aiel.

Slayer sent "just enough [trollocs] to keep those fool Whitecloaks off balance, and see that the renegade died". The renegade is Fain. Slayer's task is to make sure Fain dies, but presumably there are other goals of the Shadow aimed at Two Rivers, otherwise, Slayer could just go kill Fain himself.

But whatever those plans are, they are probs foiled by all the Two Rivers folk wiping out the Trollocs.

"This is part of Andor. Queens seldom like strange banners being raised in their realms" - Yes, Elayne gives Perrin and Faile a good talking to in Book 13.

"If Luc had come back to the village yesterday, it was not likely he could have had anything to do with Trollocs being where they were not expected" - hmmm, yes he could have lol

Faile threatens to "do to you what you did to me that first day in the Ways" - I can't remember what that was lol

They say "shepherds" instead of "sheep herders". So disappointing.

Tam talks about "The Companions". A military force in Illian. Tam was one of their high-ranking officers during his time out of Two Rivers, when he fought in the AIel War.

Ila calls Aram "Lost" when he gives up the Way of the Leaf. The same term the Aiel use for the Tinkers, because they still do follow it.

"Thanks you. I will never forget this. Never. I swear it." - oh, yes you will, Aram. You will become a little chit in the end.

Perrin smells brandy fumes from Dain. He has become a bit of an alco since his father died.

They mention that Taren Ferry has been all but wiped out. This is the first time I've ever noticed this - at the start of book 14, when the wind is blowing (as it does at the start of every book), it blows across the remains of Taren Ferry, and I never knew it had been destroyed. But here is where it's mentioned.

Luc is surprised to learn that trollocs attacked Taren Ferry. They should be doing what he wants, but it seems Fain has some control of them now.

Egeanin almost giving herself away: "You are… Aes Seda, are you not?" - almost said "You are marath'damane"

And again: "You are of the… you are nobly born" - almost said "You are of the Blood"

Nynaeve mentions her parents: "My mother was a farmwife, and my father herded sheep and farmed tabac". But they died when she was about 14, so she was taken in by the Wisdom to be her apprentice.

Egeanin works out what is going on with the sul'dam when she hears that some people can learn to channel, even if they won't do it naturally.

Egeanin suddenly decides she has to leave. Not long after someone mentions Domon. Probably so he doesn't see her and recognise her.

The woman who comes to visit them talks about how she plans to be a "spider, hiding in the cracks... they never see until it is too late". Moggy.

The man at the end of the chapter is a Seanchan 'Seeker for Truth". He came to question Egeanin earlier, just checking up on the progress of her task (to find sul'dam). Obvi he has become suspicious of her somehow, and now is watching her.

Danelle, she brings in the extra men, posing as Masons, who help stir up the fighting in the beginning. Suspicious.

No one from the Blue Ajah is part of Elaida's group. And all Blues flee the Tower. The opposite is true of the Red, all stay behind and none join the rebels.

One of the Sedai with Elaida is Joline. She later gets on the wrong side of Elaida, and is sent to Ebou Dar. There she ends up with Mat, and he gives her blue-tongue buns when they eventually part ways.

Elaida says that "The Hall convened not an hour ago – enough Sitters to meet our laws – and by unanimous vote, as required, you are no longer Amyrlin"

These rules are changed later by Eggy to ensure no one can do a sneaky by just getting a small number of their own followers to do a meeting of the Hall and a vote.

She also uses the fact that some of those at that meeting were Black Ajah to legally invalidate Elaida's scheme.

Hammar and Coulin are the two Warders who train the new recruits. Galad and Gawyn were the best two students. So good, Gawyn beat both his masters.

Last we saw Galad, he was talking about meeting with Whitecloaks. He was not in Tar Valon when all this went on.

Siuan says these cells haven't been used "since Artur Hawkwing's time. Since Bonwhin" - Bonwhin was the last Amyrlin to be booted out. She "tried to control Arthur Hawkwing" which led to some kind of disaster, and she was kicked out.

Gawyn and his "younglings" go on to become a little military force of their own, allied to the Tower. But Elaida doesn't like him, so eventually sends them off with the Sedai who kidnap Rand in book 6, just to get them out of her hair.

Siuan mentions that she was "raised Amyrlin instead of Elaida". There has never been a Red Ajah Amyrlin in more than 1000 years - she had no chance lol

Siuan is already plotting. She tells Logain he can get revenge on the Red Ajah. But she will get him to spread lies about the Reds to discredit them later.

Min's viewings at the very end about Gawyn bowing to Egwene and also him breaking her neck:

This is in book 13 when Gawyn and Egwene are having a little sookie at each other. Egwene wants him to not get in the way, and let her do her job. He wants to protect her. By hanging around all the time, he ends up once spoiling her plans to catch assassins in the Tower, and another time saving her life from those same assassins.

"Our ways shock her. She could not accpt them. Why should I care if she can't? I want no part of this. It cannot be!" - Avi muttering to herself about how she knows she'll get together with Rand, even though he is Elayne's.

I assume Kadere wants to tell Rand about how there are some Forsaken with him. Or, maybe he doesn't know exactly who they are, but that there are some very high-ranking darkfriends with plans to do something with Rand.

"That woman may be the death of me yet" - if Kadere is talking about Kielle, he's 100% right.

Natael the Gleeman starts spending time with the Shaido. Making plans and deals with them, for sure. With Couladin, especially.

Mat has refused Healing a few times since being in the Waste. He doesn't yet know that his foxhead stops the Power, because he hasn't let anyone use it on him since he got it.

During Moiraine's crash-tackle scene, Lanfear doesn't know which of the girls in Aviendha. Which is a bit odd since she travelled with all the Aiel for so long here. And in this chapter I noticed Mat actually mentions her name to her.

Rand has summoned the Clan Chiefs to Alcair Dal to announce himself.

So it seems that, in order of precendence, you can ask permission to (and grant or deny permission to) :
"Enter the hold"
"Come beneath the roof"
"Step beneath the roof"
I guess there'd be more levels that that in between too.

"He took a step forward… clutching his forearms as though to keep his hands from his spears" - actually, he probably secretly has dragons on his forearms as well, but no one knows yet. They are to be revealed at the appropriate time. Asmo put them there.

Later someone says "there is no way to imitate the Dragon of Rhuidean", which Moiraine seems to have a reaction to. She knows much from her viewing in Rhuidean.

Moiraine says that Aes Sedai "never had a reason to come [to the Waste] before". Because they didn't know there were women would could channel that they could drag off to the White Tower lol

"You have done nothing to me… and you never will" Avi says to Rand. Lies, you know exactly what he will do to you. In the snow.

Rand ponders giving Avi a gift. That won't go down well, not with Aiel customs and whatever.

"Bruan means to run all the way". For a journey that would take a month to walk. Lol. Bloody hardcore Aiel.

Sevanna will bring the Shaido from their home territory. She is the widow of the clan chief that Couladin's brother was to replace. And is the one who pretty much is their leader later on.

"I will make you know our blood for yours if I have to lay the–" - she was going say something about "laying a bridal wreath at your feet". I wonder if the Wise Ones also know that Avi and Rand are destined to end up together, and that's what they're really trying to achieve.

In Rand's dream, blur man was Asmo.

"Do you think you have already learned all there is to know, little more than a year out of your village?" - see, Moiraine thinks the same as you lol

Mat thinks he "would not have put himself in the Maidens' hands again" - because he had to play "Maiden's Kiss" one time.

One of the rumours Thom heard was what Amathera "sings bawdy songs, the sort you hear in the roughest taverns on the docks". This must have come from someone's dreams. It is true lol, RAFO.

Egwene says she used Need before - "Before we went to Tear". But I think she means "Before we left Tear". I can't remember another time they used it before.

Birgitte lived one of her lives in Lews' time, and fought alongside him. Moggy "knew who she was, even though [Birgitte[ didn't know herself". I'm going to guess that because channellers live much longer than normal peeps, Moggy probs discovered that the Heroes were hanging out in telrod and then worked out that Birgitte was reborn. And she lived long enough to be able to fight against her when Birgitte was an adult.

Gaidal Cain doesn't know Birgitte is talking to Nynaeve. He can't see her. This is weird. A similar thing happened before when Birgitte was talking to Perrin. Hopper and there and he didn't see Birgitte.

Gaul and Chiad are now a thing. It was totally that game of Maiden's Kiss they made him play.

While exploring telrod, Perrin sees that to the south, there are far fewer trollocs. That is the direction the "We are coming" guy was from. So whoever is coming has a decent chance of making it.

The other villages have very few trollocs camps around them - Emond's Field is the main target.

Perrin's viewings:

Egwene stood among a crowd of women, fear in her eyes; slowy the women knelt around her. Nynaeve was one of them, and Elayne - Egwene will be made Amyrlin.

Mat stood naked and bound, snarling; an odd spear with a black shaft across his back and a silver medallion of a foxhead hung on his chest - Mat is stuck in his fate to stay with Rand, and by the Snakes and Foxes telling him what to do. No idea why he's naked lol.

Rand wearing rags and rough cloak, and a bandage covered his eyes - I got nothing here. Rand as a beggar and Rand being blind are mentioned as viewings/premonitions a few times in the books, but I have no idea.

Egeanin swore on "the hope of a higher name". Alas, she will end up with a much lower name LOL

"Mock her? She was sure that had been exactly the same curtsy servants had given her thousands of times." - lol, yes, but you were doing it to the head cook, or whatever, not a noble. So you were totally mocking her, making out like she was a noble ordering you around.

The cook says the ice peppers were very popular with the Panarch last time they were brought. Then we find out the Blackies made her eat them all, just to watch her mouth burn lol.

Moggy escapes because it is possible to break out of a weave if it is tied off, and if you are strong enough. If Nynaeve had kept channelling and held it in place, Moggy would not have been able to get away unless she was WAAY stronger than Nynaeve (which she isn't)

Rand does this to escape the box in book 6 when he is kidnapped. The Sedai shielding him are distracted by the fighting and they tie off his shield, leaving it vulnerable to busting out of.

Jeaine Caide is still around. She didn't cause herself too much harm using the almost-uncontrollable balefire rod.

Seals update:

1 at the Eye of the World, 2 at Falme - 3 broken

1 in the Stone of Tear, 1 in Tanchico - 2 in tact.

2 not yet found.

The collar is made of a form of cuendillar, so Elayne cannot destroy it.

Domon will take the collar to a deep part of the ocean "near Aile Somera". That's the island the Seanchan are hanging out on, waiting to try a second invasion.

"When are you going to give up this for the hammer?" Verin asks. That REALLY sounds like she knows some prophecy about Perrin and his axe and hammer.

"ISAM!" (aka Slayer) the trollocs call out. Which is bit dumb. Trollocs don't do things like that, and don't have allegience to anyone - they just do things because they want to, or because they are ordered to.

At the end, Fain talks as if he was working with Slayer. Maybe they were actually working together on some darky plot to lure the boys back to Two Rivers, but Fain was secretly working towards his own ends, and Slayer was secretly trying to get Fain killed.

Or maybe Fain just knew what Slayer was doing and was trying to use trollocs that were being brought for his own plans.

Either way, it's still dumb that Slayer was trying to kill Fain with Trollocs.

Fain knows all about Manetheran because Mordeth, the guy from Shadar Logoth, is part of him. He was around during Manetheran's day.

Fain leaves with his dirty, corrupted Whitecloaks and the myrddraal that he kidnapped to try to control the trollocs. He is off to Tar Valon - they have things he wants.

Fain explains why the village of Taren Ferry was destroyed - to stop people leaving Two Rivers and spreading word of what was happening. It sounds like Fain was the cause of some people being able to get away - because he wanted the boys to hear about it and come here.

Don't try to work out exactly what Slayer and Fain and whatever were doing in Two Rivers. The dynamics and the exact plots are never exactly explained except for:

Fain wanted to draw Rand to Two Rivers to kill him.

Slayer's job was to kill Fain.

Fain tried to take control of the trollocs to do his own plan.

Slayer brought more trollocs than originally planned once Perrin arrived.

"Do not keep to yourself, Rand. You do not have to fight alone. People fight for you who do not know it, any more than you know them." says Moiraine. A lesson Rand needs to remember in book 14 as he battles Darky. When he feels like giving up, and thinking he has failed, he is reminded that many other people fight for him as well. It is not only his fight.

Couladin travelled through the night so that they would arrive at AlCair Dal at dawn, so he could claim he was "He Who Comes With The Dawn". But the prophecy says "He will come from Rhuidean at dawn" - so that shouldn't fool anyone who knows the prophecy properly.

"Mia dovienya nesodhin soende" Mat says. It means "Luck, carry me through this" - as in "I hope my luck gets me through this"

Couladin got his Dragons by Asmo putting them there with the power.

"How long since the Prophecy of Rhuidean was first spoken? Who can say how much the words have changed?" Couladin asks. Another failed argument - the chiefs and Wise Ones see the Sedai who foretold the prophecy in their flashbacks. The words are still known exactly as they were first spoken.

Couladin is totally doing a Donald Trump. Making up conspiracy thoeries about Sedai and Wise Ones working together to make Rand the car'a'carn.

Lanfear says she brought Asmo to teach Rand. Not sure if Asmo knew that was her plan. And if so, not sure what the point of teaching him was from his point of view.

Rand knows how to do a gateway for skimming because "He had done something once. If he could just remember." - Rand did this in book 1 at the Eye of the World. But he had no idea what it was at the time. And really, he doesn't know what it is even in this chapter.

It seems very telrod-like in the blackness. Rand has to concentrate on the platform/stairs existing, and he can change how they are just by thinking of them in the way he wants them. I believe skimming opens a gateway into something like telrod. Maybe not exactly it. Maybe some other part of it. I don't know exactly. But it's got to be related somehow.

"Did the Forsaken know a faster way to travel?" Yes. Travelling. Where you just open a gateway straight from one place to another. The only restriction on that is that you have to know the place you are travelling FROM very well. Because the peddlers all travelled to Alcair Dal, he was in a place he didn't know well.

"A fall in here might never end" - yes, poor Gholam in book 12.

Rand radomly decides to drop and roll out of the fog, luckily avoiding Asmo's blades of the Power. Luck. The Wheel weaves as the wheel wills.

Rand "had not seen the things like black steel wires around Asmodean since leaving the dark place". I have a theory. You can only see those wires in telrod. I think that's where he was when he saw them on Balzo as well. Telrod sometimes shows things that aren't physically there in the real world. Things that are metaphorical. (Remember when Perrin sees Rand has his enlightenment on top of Dragonmount, but it looks dumb and not what really happened). These wires are the same kind of thing. My theory lol.

"This place was shielded in some way" Lanfear says of Rhuidean. Probably you cannot Travel (or Skim) directly into it. And you cannot go into in telrod.

Lanfear says she didn't think any access keys survived. "Only half remains of the single one I have seen" - that is in Tanchico. Egwene saw it when she inspected Tanchico in telrod. It is broken, only the top half remains. It is in the same display room as the collar and seal were that Nynaeve got. It doesn't work, it made Egwene pulse with uncontrollable surges of Power when she held it.

Rand wonders how Lanfear didn't die when the Bore was made and the building exploded and asks himsefl "Did she know what Darky was and was she already protected?" - nah, Bieber-mon didn't die either. I guess they just used the Power to protect themself from the physical carnage when they realised things were blowing up.

The person who wrote the quote lived in "The Fouth Age" - the one AFTER the Last Battle. He was from "The Court of the Sun". This is probably the name of the royal palace (or whatever) associated with the combined Andor/Cairhien nation that Elayne creates and leads. Avi hears this name as well during her visions of the future in Rhuidean.