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81. WE ARE BACK TO WHEEL OF TIME!!! (WOT Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: You know it, Chosunds. Does it sound like I'm really close?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like you're whispering sweeten out things into
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  Speaker 2: my ear.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so it does. So it does sound like it
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  Speaker 1: was before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, how are you dealing?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't have that kind of voice, not like
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  Speaker 1: not like Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have a good voice. You have a
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  Speaker 2: good voice. You have a face for radio.
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  Speaker 3: It's a I was wanting to see if you catch that.
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  Speaker 2: I was wanting to see if you catch that. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kidding. You're beautiful, you're studying, You're Linda Evangelista, You're
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  Speaker 2: a model.
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  Speaker 1: You're bitch. Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to book Watchers where I'm being called a
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  Speaker 2: bitch because you know, I'm always I'm the inocent one
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  Speaker 2: here and he's just called me a bit for no
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  Speaker 2: reasoning because I like, I haven't done anything. I'm incent
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  Speaker 2: pure amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Welcome to book Watchers where Devin literally roasted me
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  Speaker 1: saying I have a face for radio.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: The wonders why I call him a bitch, and he
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  Speaker 1: wonders why I call him a bitch.
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  Speaker 2: That's not that's not that was that.
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  Speaker 1: It is recorded, because he's just because you started the
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  Speaker 1: recording and then you said it it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not in the episode back, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: H Yeah, mister editor, you're gonna edit and delete the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes I am, yes, yes, I am.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Oh yeah, well, welcome back to what is? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, just resetting myself. You know, you know when
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  Speaker 1: you have one of those edgy scats and you gotta
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  Speaker 1: shake it just to like reset it, to erase everything.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmay mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Do that do a little bit of that?
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  Speaker 2: More than that, it's any more than that, Speedy, you're
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  Speaker 2: missing deck. I have a big brain. Big head equal
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  Speaker 2: big brain.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you certainly have a big head. It's definitely hollow.
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  Speaker 2: It's not hollow, baby, it's it's full of brain matter. Anyway, Hi,
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  Speaker 2: looking back, it's it's me. It's I the amazing, stunning,
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  Speaker 2: magnificent ginger Devin. How are hi? How are you.
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  Speaker 1: In there?
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  Speaker 2: Jacob? Beautiful stunning?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's me. Here's me and thing again for
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  Speaker 1: tuning into book Watchers.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: You're beget in today's episode.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get right into it. So if you look
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  Speaker 2: the that's the housekeeping there. All everything you need to
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  Speaker 2: today we are going to be going back for eons,
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  Speaker 2: for eons of taking a break and listening to listening
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  Speaker 2: to me for weeks. I'm actually gonna sit back. I
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  Speaker 2: want to sit back and relax today. I want to
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  Speaker 2: probably take a nap. You might be seeing a recording
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  Speaker 2: just like you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna I'm gonna take a break from Devin's
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  Speaker 1: annoying voice.
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  Speaker 2: My voice is amazing, stunning. I have an actor voice,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah. So like so, guys, Yeah, if you
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  Speaker 1: tuned in last week, you heard it there first that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be stepping back into the world of the
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  Speaker 1: wheel of time.
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  Speaker 2: About time.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh Yeah, got one. When did I when did
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  Speaker 1: we record for book book nine? And it's been a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months like Book nine was I think it
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  Speaker 1: was in March see there, Marsh or April.
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  Speaker 2: M that's when we posted the episode. When we see
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  Speaker 2: when we post the episode, because when we post it,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably close a couple like a month or so
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  Speaker 2: before when we recorded it. We're over two hundred downloads
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  Speaker 2: for this month. Hollaquas are you come on? Give me
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  Speaker 2: the episode names? What moves to Dead Dark Harvest straight,
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah. That was number episode seventy no Episode
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  Speaker 2: seventy two, and that was posted June, So it was
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  Speaker 2: probably April or May when we recorded, Yeah, because I
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  Speaker 2: was posted back in June.
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  Speaker 1: So was it in April?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I do feel like it's more in April because it's
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  Speaker 1: been We recorded.
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  Speaker 2: A ship ton before we started posting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a cat.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, there's a cat once she walked by. Youd be
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  Speaker 2: in a three leg.
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  Speaker 1: In minace Yeah, as cats do, mhm.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, so we are ten Book ten.
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  Speaker 1: Book ten, so this episode is going to be uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be condensing book two books together in one
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  Speaker 1: episode because for one thing like I'm just ready to
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  Speaker 1: move on, like you move beyond the Wheel of time.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Wheel of Time, it's a great read. Loved it.
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  Speaker 1: It took up nine months of my life. Mm hmmm,
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  Speaker 1: because from start to finish I knew I do it
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  Speaker 1: was going to take me. And we have a cat.
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  Speaker 2: I do have a cat, little Nimba.
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  Speaker 3: Continue.
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  Speaker 1: I grabed my dog and bring around here. But she's kin,
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  Speaker 1: she's not sick, but she's not feeling good. Yeah, she's fine,
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  Speaker 1: She'll be fine. Uh. Anyway, So this episode we are
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  Speaker 1: going to be doing, We're going to be doing both
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  Speaker 1: book ten, Crossroads of Twilight and book eleven Knife of Dreams,
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  Speaker 1: and these two for this For these next two books,
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  Speaker 1: we're not really going to be seeing rand simply because
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  Speaker 1: after the events of book nine, Rants has to recover
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  Speaker 1: from the the trauma of cleaning of cleansing, sighting, and
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  Speaker 1: so he spends most of his time in book ten
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  Speaker 1: and half of his time in book eleven hiding out
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  Speaker 1: in a mansion somewhere in Tier. He has he has
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  Speaker 1: an ally in Tier that was happy to put him
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  Speaker 1: up while he recovered, and so we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: see much of him, especially not on ten, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: him here and there, and he's gonna so he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: start making more of an appearance in a book eleven
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  Speaker 1: towards like the like halfway point of book eleven, or
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  Speaker 1: see him see his story more and more. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: just without further ado, let's get started. So book ten
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  Speaker 1: takes place around the same time that book that book
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  Speaker 1: nine does, i'd say where it starts. It starts kind
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  Speaker 1: of like halfway through book nine. So the cleansing of
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  Speaker 1: sighting hadn't happened yet. But throughout this book, channelers all
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  Speaker 1: over the Westlands, and it's implied that it's all over
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  Speaker 1: the world too, begin to begin to sense a very massive,
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  Speaker 1: a massive signal. They see this beacon of sighting of
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  Speaker 1: Sidar because for the most part we only see the
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  Speaker 1: perspective of the of the ice at eye wise ones
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  Speaker 1: and even if you demonic uh, even a few demane
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  Speaker 1: and wind finders comments on it, and the glensing sighting
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  Speaker 1: was this was an all day event. When they begin
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  Speaker 1: the process, it lasts for hours and like thousands of
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  Speaker 1: miles away, as far away as the as a light
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  Speaker 1: power camelin pirene Ah down in Abu Dhar and shaun
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  Speaker 1: Shan Territory. All these channelers begin looking towards this beacon
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  Speaker 1: of the power. They're not sure what it is because
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's not like today's day and age where
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  Speaker 1: people can pull up their phone and just be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, what is that? We all figure out
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  Speaker 1: to see it happening live. No, it's they have no
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  Speaker 1: idea what's happening or why there's such a huge flare
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  Speaker 1: of power going off. Most people people assume incorrectly that
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  Speaker 1: this spike of power is something being done by the Forsaken.
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  Speaker 1: And while the Forsaken are involved somewhat, they're not involved
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that like, oh, they're attacking they're going
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  Speaker 1: to break the world. No, they were trying to get
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to attack Rands. Yeah, and take the
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  Speaker 1: Chroding Call away from him. Because for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who if you don't remember, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: need a quick recap when Rand, in order to cleanse
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  Speaker 1: the taint from sighting, Brand uses these rill called the
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  Speaker 1: Chroding Call and the Children Call. Is the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: soungryll ever to be built in the Age of Legends.
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  Speaker 1: They are a pair of massive statues they're about they're
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  Speaker 1: probably bigger than the Statue of Peace in Southeast Asia.
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  Speaker 1: So they're so they're so massive that in order to
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  Speaker 1: properly use them you need an access key, which are
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  Speaker 1: like about foot tall replicas of the tower of the statues,
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  Speaker 1: so you can use the access key to access to
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  Speaker 1: use the power. It's not real. And by linking himself
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  Speaker 1: with Ninive, who's using the female equivalent of the chodn call,
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  Speaker 1: because there's two, there's a male and the female. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The two of them work together, linked together, and Ran
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  Speaker 1: is able to purge Sighting of the dark ones corruption,
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  Speaker 1: effectively cleaning it, and the effects are felt all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. Male channelers, especially the a shaman, begin to
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  Speaker 1: comment that sighting is clean. It's no longer they no
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  Speaker 1: longer feel the taint on it. So future genera, no,
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  Speaker 1: shut the fuck up. You see, you guys, you would
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  Speaker 1: have to deal with I'm sorry, immature. This immature Gerbil
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  Speaker 1: right here's older than me. I like two, haven't asked.
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  Speaker 2: That's rude. See what I gotta deal with? I make
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  Speaker 2: one joke about taint.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally every time we've been there's fourteen books, and
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  Speaker 1: like the taint is gonna be mentioned multiple times, and
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  Speaker 1: he's still gonna be like like a jaz anime girl.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's a taint.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, no, no, anyway, so anyway, they they purge the
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  Speaker 3: taint from Sighting and.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty much where that's pretty much where the story
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  Speaker 1: left off. Now the purging of the tape. Oh h
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  Speaker 1: h m hm yeah, ignore me, ignore me. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: now we are going to be getting into the events
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  Speaker 1: that happened around the same time. So just like as
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  Speaker 1: a side note, things are conflicts all over the Westlands
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  Speaker 1: are beginning to appear. Since RN is hiding out, there's
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  Speaker 1: nobody to lead his forces, and those that he's gathered
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  Speaker 1: under his control are beginning to chat at one another.
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  Speaker 1: They're beginning to encounter other problems, and the Dark Ones
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  Speaker 1: evil is beginning to seek through the pattern even more
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  Speaker 1: because before, huh, it's not good. No, So as the
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  Speaker 1: Dark One begins to as he begins to reach through
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  Speaker 1: the bore and touch the world more and more, his
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  Speaker 1: influence is going to is going to continue to rise,
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  Speaker 1: causing what are called bubbles of evil, and these levels
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  Speaker 1: of evil yep, because it's called that because they are
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  Speaker 1: areas of chaotic events that will just pop up randomly.
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  Speaker 1: And some of these chaotic events are harmless and some
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  Speaker 1: but in most cases they are they're fatal. The first
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  Speaker 1: time Rant ever encountered a bubble of evil was back
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  Speaker 1: in tier This was way back in book four. The
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  Speaker 1: first time he ever encountered one was when his literal
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  Speaker 1: reflection just stepped out and tried to kill him. Now
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  Speaker 1: the bubbles of now it's the Dark Ones. Evil isn't
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  Speaker 1: even being contained within these small events. They're starting to
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  Speaker 1: affect the pattern in much greater ways. Food stores are
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  Speaker 1: beginning to just completely go rants it and expire a
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  Speaker 1: lot sooner. So stores of grain, which would normally last
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  Speaker 1: people an entire winter, in to spoil within minutes of harvesting. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: waters and like rivers and lakes dry up. Even so,
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  Speaker 1: even though they broke the Dark Ones hold on the
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  Speaker 1: world controlling the weather, the Dark Ones evil is still
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  Speaker 1: affecting the pattern, and people are seeing signs that the
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  Speaker 1: last battle is coming. And one of those signs is
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  Speaker 1: they begin to see ghostly images.
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  Speaker 3: Of the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Now these are just specters. They don't actually harm anybody.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part, they don't. Uh. There are several
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  Speaker 1: events where UH in Matt's case, while they're while they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to escape sewn Shan territory, they come across a
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  Speaker 1: village that ends up being a uh An illusion, and
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  Speaker 1: he tells he realized. Matt realizes this and says, let's
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  Speaker 1: not like nobody like dismount from their wagons or from
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  Speaker 1: their horses. Let's keep riding through. But some merchants that
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  Speaker 1: were traveling with him made the idiotic mistake of stepping
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  Speaker 1: off of their wagon, and then immediately they begin to
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  Speaker 1: sink into the ground. And as they're sinking into the ground,
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  Speaker 1: the illusion of this village begins sinking into the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and they get dragged. And these people get dragged the
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  Speaker 1: under the ground and they die. The only ones who
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  Speaker 1: didn't get dragged down were people who stayed mounted on
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  Speaker 1: their horses and stayed on their on their wagons. There
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  Speaker 1: was other events. There's other bubbles of evil that's just
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  Speaker 1: stay in place. Like there's another village where these people
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  Speaker 1: every night they start losing their minds and like just
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  Speaker 1: become incredibly vicious and angry. We're talking twenty eight days later,
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  Speaker 1: like twenty eight weeks later, kind of like rage, and
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  Speaker 1: they start killing each other but then as soon as
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  Speaker 1: the sun rises, their dead bodies disappear and they reappear
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  Speaker 1: alive like nothing happened.
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  Speaker 3: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: So we're so we're gonna be so like in the
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  Speaker 1: last four like five books that we go over, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be seeing more of this. We're gonna see more
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  Speaker 1: and more of these but uh, these bubbles of evil
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  Speaker 1: influences hell In, Camelin, and Tarbalan, uh the Ice at
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  Speaker 1: Eye and Elaine. They begin noticing that their hallway, like
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  Speaker 1: the the castles, are changing like they they think like
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  Speaker 1: they follow the normal layout of the They think they're
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  Speaker 1: following the normal layout of like the tower or like
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  Speaker 1: the Palace of Camelin, and then suddenly they find themselves
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  Speaker 1: turned around, like wait a second, this corridor is not
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  Speaker 1: where it should be. So the inside of the tower
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  Speaker 1: and and like like places that are typically set a
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  Speaker 1: certain way are shifting with So that's something they got
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  Speaker 1: to deal with and they know that means the final
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  Speaker 1: battle is coming. So last four, these last five books
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  Speaker 1: that we will talk about is we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: seeing more and more of it. Eventually, this cloud cover
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  Speaker 1: is going to envelop the entire world and it's just
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  Speaker 1: going to stay there, plunging the world into like this gloomy,
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  Speaker 1: gray landscape. So start to start things off. So Book ten,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, starts off from the perspective of Brand's
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  Speaker 1: friends and allies all across the Westland. Book ten will
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  Speaker 1: be following the perspective of Paren, Matt, Elaine, and Awayine
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  Speaker 1: while they face their own challenges. So let's start off
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  Speaker 1: with Matt. I can't say this enough. Matt is my
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  Speaker 1: least favorite character just because I don't like his personality.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a good character, don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but he is as many many, many different characters throughout
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  Speaker 1: the series call describe him. He is a rap scallion
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  Speaker 1: and he thinks he does he thinks he's not doing
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  Speaker 1: something wrong, but he's normally up to no good even
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  Speaker 1: though he's doing good. So Matt, up until this point,
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  Speaker 1: had been trapped in the city of Abu Dhar, which
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  Speaker 1: is now the center point of the shan Shan invasion.
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  Speaker 1: The shan Shan now control Abudar, Tan Chico, and parts
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  Speaker 1: of and half of Almonuth plane. So if you look
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  Speaker 1: up Wheel of Time map you can see those countries
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  Speaker 1: in the south. So they control Abudhar Altara Tanchiko or
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  Speaker 1: something sorry Terraban and half of Almouth Plane, and Matt
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  Speaker 1: has been trying to escape from them because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: while they do not they don't technically they weren't technically
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  Speaker 1: holding him hostage or captive or anything. He still really
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be around them, so he escapes with
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  Speaker 1: the help of several Sean Schan defectors, one being a
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  Speaker 1: woman that we encountered earlier on in the series name
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  Speaker 1: Ageinan was a former ship captain of the Shan Shan.
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  Speaker 1: In the event in the events of Leivio's book nine
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  Speaker 1: or book ten, she was elevated to the Low Blood.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is that she'd been carrying a secret.
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  Speaker 1: She knew that that Suldam are actually pseudo channelers, women
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  Speaker 1: with the ability to learn how to channel. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing is, nobody knows. Nobody in the shan Chan knows this.
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  Speaker 1: Some suspect it, but nobody knows this. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: is is that since their whole society is built off
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  Speaker 1: of enslaving channelers, they find out that the very people
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  Speaker 1: that can control them are also channelers, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: completely destabilize them. And I'm just I'm over here, like
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  Speaker 1: please do to stabilize this spill the tea Like this
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  Speaker 1: stabilized the shan Chan shan Chan their their bastards and
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  Speaker 1: like I was telling Devin some of the tea that
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  Speaker 1: happened between the shan Shan and the isid Eye later on.
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  Speaker 2: Juicy they get their asses handed to them.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. So Iginan had coursed several a couple of
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  Speaker 1: other soldam. We'll actually recognize these uh the souldam because
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  Speaker 1: there was three of them. Uh. The soldam had uh
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  Speaker 1: had actually been in Falm when Ikwayne was captured and
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  Speaker 1: collared by them. In fact, one of the soldan uh
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  Speaker 1: these defected uh. One of the soldam of defectors is
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  Speaker 1: a girl. Is a woman named Renna. And for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who remember, Renna was the soldam that held
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  Speaker 1: Igwayne's chain. She was Igwaine's soldam. But since she was
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  Speaker 1: collared and the other two Suldam were also collared, they
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  Speaker 1: all know the secret and again use that to her
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  Speaker 1: advantage to course them into helping Matt escape from Abu
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  Speaker 1: Dhar as well as rescue two currently collared Isidi as
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  Speaker 1: well as an Isodaye that's trapped in the city that's
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: in hiding. So they had managed to escape, but not
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: before Matt uncollared several wind Finders who had also been captured,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and the wind Finders go on a rampage to escape,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and they actually do manage to escape. So like I'd say,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: like several dozen wind Finders managed to escape from Ebu Dar.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: They decimated like a good chunk of the Shan Shan's
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: sea fleet and managed to steal a couple of their
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: vessels too. It was to ship show, but Matt is
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: for Unfortunately, Matt is forced to escape from the city
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and the wake of this in disguise as a as
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a circus. As a circus act, he pays the conductor
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of a menagerie, guy named Valen Luca, who we've actually
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: met before. Valen Luca's traveling circus was also the same
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: circus that Igwaine and Nimive had traveled with several several
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: books prior.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: So Matt and Aguinan they pose as a couple and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: uh they travel with this menagerie alongside the Isaidi, the Soldam,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: several small group of Matt's band of the Red Hands,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and also a Guinan's husband, who is another character we
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: would all recognize, a guy named Doman. Doman was a
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: smuggler who we'd actually met back in book one. He'd
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: helped Rand and Matt escape from the Trolis and he's
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: appeared multiple times. Now he's he married. Now he's married
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to Aguinan and is technically a loyal quote unquote loyal
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: subject of the Shan Shan. But they had no choice
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: but to escape because had no choice but to escape
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the Shan Shan territories because there was an imperial investigator
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: who was investigating her antics while in the Westlands, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: she suspects that if and she's just afraid that if
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he finds out she knows about the Suldam, she may
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: be executed to keep the secret. So that's why she escapes.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And here see I actually took notes today. Okay, So
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Matt has to also tiptoe around a captive of his
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the Shah, the Princess of the Shan Shan, or they
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: call her. They don't actually call her princess. She's called
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the Daughter of the Nine Moons, but she is the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: daughter of the Empress and heir to the Crystal Throne.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Her name is Tuan when Matt escaped. When Matt escaped
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Abu dhar Ah, she had taken a strange interest in
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: him because two On, while she doesn't have access to
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: seers or prophecies, she does believe in omens and ah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: She did meet in Isidai that they had captured in
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: that Isidai at the gift of fort selling, and she
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: told her that she would that she would encounter a
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: man who remembered the face of Arthur Our her hot
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and there was a few other things that would make
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: this man stand out. He was like something to do
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: with fox and ravens. And when Tuon met Matt, she
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: believed that Matt was this person she was faded to meet,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: so she took an interest in him, and when she
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: discovered he was trying to leave, she tried to stop him,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: but Matt ended up taking her captive and escaping with
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: her in toe. But now he has to try, he
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: has to tiptoe around her and come to terms with
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the fact that she is the one that he was
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: faded to fall in love with and marry. And he
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: was told this by the by the eel Fin, the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: snake people, who when he went back in book four,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: they told him that he would marry the daughter of
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the Nine Moons. So yeah, So the thing is is
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: that the thing about Tuon is that she is a
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Since she is the heir to the Crystal throne, she's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: heavily enamored in Seaun John politics, which is a lot
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of backstabbing, assassination attempts, and political ployees. So and the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: thing is it's all considered normal to them, because well,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: if you can't, if you can't survive the political landscape,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: are you really fit to when the time comes?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: And even though like Matt knows that tu well, tu
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: One is aware that the two of them will are
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: meant to get married, she sees it as more of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a political advantage rather than love and actual fate. So
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: he's trying to come to terms with that and figure
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: out where where they stand. He also has to deal
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: with rising tensions between the Isidye and the soul Dam
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: because even though the Souldi are in they're in this,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: they're in deep because they helped isid I escape captivity.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: They soldam acts like they like they're just ready to
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: put a collar on the Isidye again. And the three
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I sid I they're acting like they're ready to choke
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: a bitch. Yeah, Like every time the so every time
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the Soldam acts like they're like make any unsettling moves,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: like like oh, we're gonna put these callers back on you,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the isid I are just like fucking try it, bitch.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of there's a lot of back
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and forth between the two it and they almost come
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to blow several times, and Matt has to really make
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have to make sure that the two groups stay separate
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and prevent them from antagonizing each other. At one point,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the isid I also begin to antagonize tu On because
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: since they know that she is the heir to the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: uh Cheesy Air to the Crystal Throne and she is
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the leader of the shan Chan forces here, they want
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to try to convince her to form like a just
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a truce like to stop the to at least stop
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: them from their continued expansion and also stop them from
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: hunting down channelers and enslaving them. But tu On will
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: have none of it, and if anything, at one point
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the two group, tu On the ice that I confronted
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: tu On directly, but she had her servant with her,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: her soyan and what the eyes that I weren't looking.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: The Soyan snuck up on them and put the collars
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: on all three of them, and Matt had sorry, there
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was a bug. Matt had to step in. Yeah, Matt
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: had to step in and uncollar them, and and he
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: chastised Tuon for doing that, like, I'm not gonna I'm
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: not He's not gonna tolerate the shan chan Channe chaining
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the Isidie again and when he when he when he
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: stepped in. Tuon herself is a sould on as well,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: so she tried to use the her her newly collared
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: isid I, to stop him. But Matt has his fox
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Head medallion, which, if you guys remember the fox said,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: his Foxhead medallion protects him from being touched by the power,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: so every time a channeler throws a weave at him,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: it just disappears, doesn't do anything to him. So she
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: was really shocked because this was also another omen that
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: she was that she was given, because this was another
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: omen that she was given, that she'd meet a man
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that somehow would not be affected by the power. And
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: but she allows him to uncollar the isid eye, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Matt also has to deal with the fact that Tuon
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: has the potential to be a chandler too, because she
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: herself is sold Let's see here Duan's death Watch guards,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: which are her elite squad of just royal guards. After
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: she was taken from Abudar, they immediately began trying to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: track her down. So throughout this book, okay, we will
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: occasionally see them. They don't actually catch up to her
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: until the next book, so we'll get to that towards
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the end of Matt's story. In book ten, Renna, one
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: of the three sold on, attempts to escape and she
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: stabs Guinan. On her escape, Matt is forced to chase
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: her down. They had by this point, the Menagerie had
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: had traveled like they had traveled many leagues away from
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Abu Dhar. And they were getting very close to the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: border of Malden. And I'm sorry, not Malden, Mirandi and Dar.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So I'm sorry. You know what, Abdar is a city,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: it's not the country. Let me look at the country
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: against SQUOZI where's the there is? Okay, I'm sorry. So
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: they were just about to reach the border of Morandi,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: mm Hm and Altara. But then and they had just
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: passed a large settlement which was crawling with shan Chan
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: forces and they barely managed to get past it without
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: being harassed. But then, just as they're getting closer to
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the to the border and being out of getting out
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of Seawan Sean territory, Renna makes her escape and she
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: heads and she heads back to that settlement, which was
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a day's ride. They had already gone about a day's
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: ride ahead of it, so Matt realizes he needs to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: stop her, so he and a couple of his band
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of his band chase her down and they managed to
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: head her off because she takes the road while she
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: sticks to the main road while he takes a shortcut
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to produce some hells and he manages to beat her
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: there before she could reach the settlement. So they stay there,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: they lie and wait, and they when they see her approaching,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Matt originally wanted to just capture her and carrying her back,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: but he realizes that they're too close to the settlement
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so if they capture her, it could draw the attention
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: of the Seawan Shaan's horses, so instead he decides to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: execute her, and he has one of his and he
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: has one of his bands shoot her in the back
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: with a crossbow, killing her. And I was just like, oh,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: oh fuck that bitch. Yes, she's dead, thank god. Who
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: because like if you so, if you go back to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: book two, mm hmm, you go back to book two,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: you'll remember how horrible Aguinan treated uh Agwayne. I'm sorry,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: not Aguinian Renna treated Agwaine. Back in the Great Hunt,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Renna was in charge of the Gwayne's training and like
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: it was, it was awful the way they treat it,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the way they treat the demane. All right, they treat
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: them like they're animals. Yeah, all right, it's it's awful.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: And Renna nearly broke a GWayne before Ninievea and Elaine
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: were able to rescue her. So just to the fact
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: that she's finally dead, I'm just like, oh, you know,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I was. I was glad, but at the same time,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I was a little disappointed because I was hoping that
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Rena would run into Igwaine again and again would just
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: whoop her ass. But we don't get we don't get
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: that satisfaction. But there's some others, like there will be
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: other satisfying satisfying the great interactions between Agwayne and the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: shaun Sean because they will, they will butt and they
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: will come into conflict and they will also have to
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: work together. Yeah, that's all I'll see on that matter.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: So that's where that's where Matt's story ends in book ten,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna uh it ends with him killing one
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: of the Solda and they continue on their journey. Now
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be going over to parents part of the story.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: So last time we saw parent, parent had been sent
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: by Ran to find and bring the Profit of the
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Dragon under control. So the Profit of the Dragon was
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a man named Massema, and Maseema was actually a character
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that was introduced in book two, The Great Hunt. He
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: was one of the Chinerans who had traveled with rand
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: in the in the hunt for the Horn of the Leer.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: But after book two they had parted ways, and while
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: while many of the Chenarans were supposed to go back
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to Shinar, he ended up becoming a zelot preaching the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: return of the Dragon reborn. And the thing is is
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: that his zelotry grew to become as festered and grew
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: into madness, and he began causing unrests. He began recruiting
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: other zelots like himself to the Dragon Reborn's cause, but
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: they weren't actually coming together to support, like to actually
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: go and help Ran support him. They became something like
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: an inquisition, all right, like believe what we say or
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: we'll kill you. So this caused So, this caused riots
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: all across Terrabon, Altara, Amadisha and Gelden. So Rand not
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: wanting Masama to continue with his bullshit since parent to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: go find him. And while Paren did find him, it
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: was in the middle of his negotiations with Masama to
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: get him to come with him to go back to
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: to go back to Ran because Rant ordered his appearance
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: fail parents parents, wife gets kidnapped by the Shidow Ayeel.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: So last time we saw the Shidow Ayeel, they had
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: been in direct conflict with Rant and they had fallen
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: into cohorts with the forsake in Samael. Now the shidow
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: didn't know that they were working, that they had been
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: working with Semiel. But in the end that partnership ends
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: up biting him in the ass, and Semiel tricks them
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: into using these tarangrial that create gateways to scatter them
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: all across the west Lands. Now it's never really confirmed
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: why he did that, but it's it's insinuated that he
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: did that to not only scatter the Shidow, but to
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: cause as much chaos across the west Lands as possible.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: But now the Shadow have for the most part gathered
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: themselves together and have regrouped themselves, and they've formed a
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: sort of pseudo settlement around a city in Gelden called Malden.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And they and in one of their raiding parties, the
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Shidow capture Fayel. They capture Fayeel, They capture the Queen
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: of Gelden as well as Morgase Trekan, who is currently
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: traveling under the disguise is Mike Din. So for those
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: of you who don't know, Morgas tra Khan is Elaine's
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: mother and the former Queen of Andor. She last time
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: we'd seen her, she had gone to the White Cloaks
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: for help in the wake of Robin, of her experience
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: with Robin, but that fell through, and now Amadisha, the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: heart of the White of the White Cloaks territory is
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: under the control of the Shawn Sean. She'd been traveling,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: she had escaped and fell into and fell in with
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: paren and his forces, and unfortunately she got captured as well,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: and this leads and this leads Paren to go on
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: a month long chase trying to track down the shadow.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: But the thing is, he realized after about twenty two
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: days of searching her, searching for her, he realizes that
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: he's doing he's doing this all wrong. He can't find
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: a single trace of the shidow because the ay Eel
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: they're just too good at avoiding detection. So he decides
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to take a st up back. And I think these
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: three think things through, so keen. So in the in
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: the absence of his wife, he now has to balance
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the schemes of his allies with his unyielding search for
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: his wife. H m hm. When his wife was captured, unfortunately,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: a rumor started going around his men that he had
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: had an affair with a woman named Berylaine. Berylaine is
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the ruling monarch of a small country bordering Tear called Mayen,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and Berylaine, being the first of Mayen, has always been
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: interested in Rands just because she's always uh, she bit
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: of a hope like.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: That, oh was she won them hose.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and also she wanted to like when she when
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: she first met Rand. This was when Rand's relationship was
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: fall with Fayel was still growing and Fayel and Berylaine
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: hated each other and Berylaine wanted to just take Parent
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: just to prove to Fayo that she could. But now
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: the relationship has changed and Beryline has become surprisingly one
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: of Parent's greatest supporters, especially in his search for his wife.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: And but unfortunately this causes a rumor to go around
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and some people believe that he had an affair with
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: her while it while Fayel was being held captive, but
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: he doesn't do anything about it. He just let he
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: just leaves it be because he knows the truth. While
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: he's searching, he begins to rely on the Ayel that
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: he has traveling with them, and they managed to track
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: down the Shidow. They track him down to a to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: a small settlement called Maldon that they that the Shadow
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: had captured. And even though the Shadow tent are as
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: many of the Ayeel are, there are more no men at.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: The current leader of the Shadow a really idiotic woman,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I'll say that, a really idiotic woman named Savannah. She
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: had been leading the Shidow since the death of her husband,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and she's been leading them into the dirt. She's now
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: trying to set herself up as like a Westlander type monarch.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: She's taking non Ayel as guy Shane, which are form
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: of indentured servants. They're not exactly slaves, but in the
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Ale culture, guy Shane if you are. If an Aele
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: soldier is captured in battle, they become a guy Shane
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: for a year in one day, and they have to
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: serve in total meekness, not pick up weapons. They have
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: to be completely loyal to their captors. But after a
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: year and a day they're allowed to go free. But
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the thing is that the Shadow beginning to break a
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: lot of their tradition, so they're losing their their code
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: of honor. They're taking Westlanders as guy Shane, but really
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: they're not really guy Shane. They're slaves and that's what
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: they make Fayel into. Savannah takes Fayel personally as one
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: of her personal guy Shane, but she takes a lot
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: of them, and Fayle's treatment is borderline torturous because if
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: she makes any mistakes, the Ieel punish her harshly, and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: she's hoping. She does try to make several attempts to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: escape from them, but either those escape attempts are found
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: out or foiled before they can or before they can happen,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and the punishments are severe. Paren finds out that Miss
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Sema has been meeting with both the Shan Shan and
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the Isidae and secret. Now when parents sets somebody to
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: get close to Masma and try to find out more
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: information about his meetings with Sean Sean and he finds
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and they managed to get and find a letter that
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Masema had been hiding from the high Lord Surath basically
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: giving Masam basically saying that this is a jail free
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: card from a Sema when it comes to the Shan Shan. Uh.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: While there, while they're preparing to assault the Shadow at
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Malding because they managed to finally track them down there Uh,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: they also discover evidence of a massive pack of dark
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: hounds had been in the area. In fact, this these
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: dark hounds had been circling their camp before moving on.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: And for those of you who don't know, dark hounds
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: are a form of shadow spawn. They look like they're
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: basically like dire wolves like, but thing about shadow hounds
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: or dark hounds is h they're virtually unkillable, so you
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: can chop one's head off, but then its body will
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: like reform itself, and it's blood is toxic to you,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and there's overall just there. They are cold blooded killers.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: The only surefire way to kill a dark count is
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to use bail fire. Paren Parent's mentor and fellow wolf
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: brother Elias, rejoins Parrien and helps him to find his
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: wife and and in fact it was it was Elias
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: who reveals where the Shadow had taken her HM. So
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: just a just a quick recap, Elias was a man
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: that he that Parent had met in book one. Like Paren,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: he is a wolf brother, meaning he has the ability
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to communicate with wolves as well as he has several
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: wolf lifes like traits. They both have gold like gold
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: eyes like a wolf, like pale yellow eyes like a wolf.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: And they have wolf senses, so they have heightened hearing, smell, sight,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: and pretty much they're like they're like wolf men, but
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: they're called wolf brothers. And another thing about Parent is
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: that being a wolf brother is that he's also a
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: dream walker, so that actually becomes important later on, Fayel
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: begins in and Maldine. Fayel is trying to begins gathering
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: allies among the other Westlanders Guy Shane. She meets several
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: nobles who help her to rally the Guy Shane together.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And while they know they can't fight against the Shadow
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: because even though the Guy Shane technically now outnumber the
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Shadow military, the Shadow are better fighters and they actually
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: have and they actually have weapons, so they wouldn't stand
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: a chance against them. So for now they work together. Uh.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: They just work together to stay out of trouble and
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: try to find a way to undermine their Shadow, their
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: shidow captors. At one point, Fayel notices that one of
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: the Guys Shane isn't actually an Isidie and this Isidai
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: is being held captive by Savannah, uh, and she's forced
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: to serve Savannah and the other shidow wise ones because
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: they forced uh. They forced this Isida whose name is Galina,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: to swear on an oath rod that they had found
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: that they had gotten from someonel the oath rod, they
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: made her swear an oath to serve the shidow and
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: now she's stuck with him and she can't do anything
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: about it. But when Galina, who is in fact a
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: black Asia, a Shadow friend, a dark friend, when she
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: finds out yep when she found When she finds out
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: that Fayel is parents wife, she realizes that she can
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: use this because part of her directive as a as
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: a dark friend is to find parent and she realizes
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: that she can use Fayel as a way to get
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: to parent, so she tells so. Galina tells Fayel to
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: try to get a hold of the of the oath
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: rot that the wise ones have, so is that way
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: she can be able to escape her oaths and get
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: out of there. Uh Paren is forced to resupply at
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: a small settlement because he's he's starting to notice that
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: their supplies are going well for him. He actually manages
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: to escape the the rotting where all were supplies expire
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: much quicker, but since he has a large force with him,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: he needs to feed them, so so he takes it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: He leads his forces to a small settlement called so Harbor,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: but they find out that the town itself is haunted people.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: The people there have been seeing the images of the
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: dead and at night, they have to make sure that
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: they stay indoors and they make sure that they're not
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: alone because these ghosts Uh they appear more. They appear
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: more at night, but at night, they can actually hurt you.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: And in some and in some cases several several of
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the villagers had been killed by the by these specters.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Parent negotiates with them and manages to purchase a large
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a large supply of their grain, but he notices that
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the grain is infested with these with weavils. Weevils are
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: like their but their bugs. So the thing is, the
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: villagers try to swindle Parent into buying tainted. Uh. I'll
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: lose my train of thought. Tainted. Can't say that without
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: thinking of your stupid ass you did this m hm. Anyway,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: they tried to swindle Parent because by selling him spoiled green,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and Paren doesn't take well to that, and he forces
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: them to uh. He forces them to sort out the
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: grain and remove as many of the infested bugs as possible,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: so that way he's left with with you know, uninfested green.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he has to do what he has to do.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: He does run into more allies in the settlement, one
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: of them being a man named Talandvor Talanver was one
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: of the uh It was one of the people traveling
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: with Queen more Gates and when she escaped from Camlin,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and she he's actually more Gaze's love interests. So when
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Morgates had been captured by the Shadow, he went off
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: on his own trying to track him down, but like Paren,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: he didn't get anywhere because the Shidow are hard to track.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: But they run into each other and he rejoins Paren
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: and Telanvor actually tells Paren about a large force of
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Sean Shaan nearby and turns out that Sean Shan are
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: also looking for the child. I've been rating their own
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: supply depots and the Shan Shan aren't gonna aren't gonna
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: stand for it anymore. So the Parent story in this
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: book ends with him preparing to make an alliance with
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: the Sean Sean. He believes that if they can use
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: if they can get support from their demane, the Shan
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Shan and utilized the Demanee, they'd actually have his chance
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: against the Shadow because the Shadow have over two hundred thousand,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand soldiers in their army and Paren only
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: has like maybe about twenty thousand, so they're vastly outnumbered.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: So that's it for Parent story in this book. We're
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: gonna go over to Elaine. So the last time we
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: saw Elaine. She had narrowly escaped being captured by the
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Shan Shan. She had made her way back to Camlin,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: and now she is in the process of claiming, of
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: claiming the lion throne of and Or. But the thing
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: is is that even though she is the daughter heir,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: she's the daughter heir of Queen Morgasee and next in
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: line to the throne. More Gasee's time as queen came
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: to a rather unpopular end. She had in the final
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: days of her role, she had become very unpopular. Morgasee
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: had uh alienated and made enemies of her former allies
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: and supporters, and she had made such a huge mess
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: of things in Camlin that now the other high seats
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: and noble, the other normal noble houses of and Or
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: don't believe that another trekan should take the throne. And
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: now they are coming together, and Uh, they are coming together,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: and they are announcing their own candidates for the throne.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Most of them, A good chunk of them rally behind
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: a woman named Aramilla, and another another chunk of them
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: tried to rally behind uh one of the other noble
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: one of the other high houses. Hold on what is
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: her name's dough scene, it's a bridge outside Dale, that's
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: her name. So so at this point, the high houses
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of A Vandor are split in almost like three ways.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: A good chunk of them are in support of a
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: woman named Aramilla, who is a total idiot, by the way,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I should mention that. Now, another good chunk, another good
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: chunk of them are in support of several several other
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: of the high seats, but most of them are actually
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: actually are in full support of a woman named daland
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: she is see she's the high seat of one of
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: the hobo noble houses of and Or. She's she has
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of experience. She was once uh in fact,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: she was the runner up in the last succession, but
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: when Morgasee took the throne, oh so forevery for many people,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: she would be the ideal pick if they had no
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: if they could choose anybody other than if they could
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: choose literally anybody else other than a Tracan to take
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: the throne again, it would be Dylon. But the thing is,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Dylan does not want to be queen. She's all like,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: oh hell, She's like throughout the story she's like oh no, no, no, no,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: no no no, I'm perfectly. I'm perfectly content to be
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: your advisor. And Elaine asks her, so why don't she
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: want to be queen? And She's all like, she see
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: what happened, Like do you see what you have to
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: deal with as queen? Like I'm not getting any younger darling,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: all right, girl boss? She the thing is like, Dylan
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: is a total girl boss. She is a total queen
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: in her own right. But she has no desire to
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: be to be the actual queen of Andor. And she
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: thinks that she thinks that and Or should be led
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: by somebody who's younger, and somebody who has a higher
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: chance of ensuring the future of Caitlin and of Andor itself.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: And so she firmly believes that Elaine should be the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: one to take the throne because it was it's only right.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Elaine is the daughter heir, all right, and despite what
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: happened with her mother, Elaine was had no part of it,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: so Dialen. So Dialen becomes her first and strongest supporter. Together,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: they began to uh, They began to reach out to
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the other noble houses to try to gather support for Elaine.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Let me see here, Elaine during her during the succession
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: discovers that she is pregnant with Frand's children tea mm hmmm.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: And she gets far enough along in her pregnancy that
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: the wise ones who are still the ill, wise ones
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: who still remained in Kamlyn, they taught her of a
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: special weave that allows them to see the babies inside
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: of her. It's basically it's a sonogram. It's a sonogram weave.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: H And they tell her that, oh, you're pregnant with twins.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Of course, it's twins, of course.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Uh. While Dialen and and Elaine are gathering support for
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: their houses, die Lane approaches Elaine with several new supporters,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: about five about four new supporters, and when Elaine looks
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: at them, she's all like, these are children, yeah, but
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: so Unfortunately, at this point, the only supporters Dialen was
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: able to find for Elaine were the high seats of
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: noble houses. But these are relatively new high seats, new
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: as in they are. The oldest one of them is
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: still younger than Elaine. Elaine is in her early twenties.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: The oldest of these new supporters is about sixteen seventeen,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: with the second oldest being like about fifteen and the
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: youngest being closer to like nine or ten. So she
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: at first is like she looks at Dialen like are
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: you serious? These are children, and Dileene reminds her there's
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: still the high seats of their houses and since they
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: are and since their houses are are some of the
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: largest and most influential, their support is invaluable. So Elaine
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: also needs to also has to be worried about about
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: the possibility of the Black Aza scheming behind her back
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: because when Elaine was traveling to Camlin and the in
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the wake of her escape from Sean Shan, one of
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: the is one of her Isidi supporters, was murdered. No
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: one knows who murdered her, and that Isidi had a
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: twin sister, and that sister is still with Elaine, but
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: she's she is dead set on finding the murderer and
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: so she now needs to figure out like she now
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: needs to worry about the Black Aja scheme. She learns
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: that she also learns that one of her bigges disadvantages
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: she has a large number of the Kin with her.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: The Kin are former Isidaie novices who had escaped from
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: the who had ran away from the White Tower, I
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: should say, and managed to stay away from the White
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Tower rather than being captured and taken back to the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: White Tower. These most of these women's were most of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: these women they were either too weak in the power
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: to become fully fledged Isidi. Were either put out by
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: the Isidai because they just either felled their tests or
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: they broke some unforgivable rule. And a good majority of
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: them were just runaways and that managed to stay away.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: And while of good, well good majority of the kin
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: they're powerful channelers, not all of them can open gateways.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Because now that Camelin is being is under siege by
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: the opposing high houses, Elaine needs to use traveling in
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: order to bring supplies to the city, and only a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: small number of the Kin can use gateways. But the
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: only other people beside them that can use gateways are
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: the wind Finders, the ones that came with her in
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: their escape from the from Abu Dhar. But the thing
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: is is that the wind Finders found out that one
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: of their leaders, she was like the way, she was
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: like a wave Mistress I believe they called her, had died.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: She had died in the wake of the Shawn Shan's invasion.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: So now these wind Finders, Yeah, now these wind Finders
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: need to leave and rejoin their people so they can
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: partake in the choosing of a new wave Mistress, and
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Elaine is reluctant to let them go, but she just
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: She decides to try to convince them to at least
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: leave several of their several of their wind finders behind,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: at least to at least to assist her with using gateways.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: They wouldn't take place, they wouldn't take part of any
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: of the succession. They would just be a neutral party
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: and and just use their power to open gateways to
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: bring supply supplies. The wind Finders agree to this, but
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: only through a bargain. So part of the bargain was
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: in exchange for a square mile of land in and Or,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the wind Finders will leave several of their stronger channelers
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: behind to provide gateways for traveling. It was a hard bargain,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: but Elaine this unlike the last time she made a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: bargain with them, Elaine was more prepared to deal with
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: their I don't want to say underhanded tactics, but they're
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: steep pricing. So this time the bargain that she made
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: with them was more in her favor and it allowed
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: her to continue to feed her people, So we're gonna
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: aside from that, going Elaine takes Elaine navigates other schemes
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: and plots against her. She eventually has to chase out
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: one of her own guardsmen, who one of the captains
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: of her guard because the man was a dark friend.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: So it was unfortunate for her because Elaine had been
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: using the man to She had been using the man
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: to spread rumors that he is actually the father of
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: her children, so that way her children would be protected
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: because if everyone knew that her children's father was a
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: dragon born, they would they would become targets. So she
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: ends up discovering that he was part of the that
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: he was a dark friend, and chases him out of
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: the city and from here that's pretty much where her
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: story and in book ten ends. Mm hmmm, let me
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: just take it. I just take a look at everything else. Yeah,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: that's pretty much it for her story. Now we're gonna
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: go to a GWayne. You said you're pause, you said
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: you're you're not. You're going to the movie at five thirty.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Right, we're gonna be leaving if we could be done
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: closer to five, if possible, because we're leaving I mean
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: we're I told, I mean, I told my leaving about
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: five thirty, but you get ready and stuff.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're almost done with this one. We just got
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: it Lan, We just got a Gwayne's and that story.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: If you want, we could just stop when we're done
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: with this book, because it's already like it's already gonna
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: be like, well, it'll probably be like four thirty by
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: the time we're done, and then we still got all the.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: You know what, lit, I mean, what we can do
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: is we can record book eleven next week and depending
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: on how much time we have because depending on schedules
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: and whatnot, if we can record book eleven and then
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: is book twelve and thirteen are gonna be an episode? Right?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Are they heavy? In story.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Book thirty so book twelve is where that's that is
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: the start of the Sanderson trilogy. So Book twelve, thirteen,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: and fourteen were written by Brandon Sanderson. Yeah, so they
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: are from them. Oh yeah, they are pretty heavy and
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: story all right.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: The one we can do next week is just book
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: eleven and then that and then book ten and eleven
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: will be I'll add them together back to back. Yeah,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: I added together in one like we originally planned, and
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: then a week after that we'll do twelve and thirteen together,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: and then of course and with fourteen, that's fine, I'll
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: I'll just edit it into one episode with ten and eleven.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, and Unnu continuing. So now we're going to go
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: to a guayine. So we haven't seen much of a
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: GWayne recently. Agwain's forces are now set up outside of Tarvolan.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: They effectively they for the most part, effectively cut off
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Tarvolon from the outside world. The thing is is that
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Tarvalan has always withstood any kind of siege efforts from
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: pretty much literally like Tarvallon has never fallen before. In
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: its entire three thousand year history, it has never fallen.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: And the reason for that is because well, for one thing,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: it's built on an island in the middle of a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: large river, so the river gives it. So the river
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: gives it. It's an advantage. There are six bridges connecting
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: it to the mainland, but typically it's but see, the
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: thing is those bridges become choke points, so if any
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: invading forces tries to cross them, the Isidai and the
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: UH and their defenders are easily able to sweep off
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: anybody from the bridge. And then since and then the
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: island has two harbors, north and South harbor, so no
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: matter what, they always get supplies. And since the river
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: itself is wide enough, it's like several miles wide, like
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: their supply ships are always able to reach Tarvalan un harassed,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: because well there's no weapons. No one has weapons that
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: can shoot far enough to do any damage to their
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: supply ships. Yeah, so at this point it's just a
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: waiting game. Uh iguayne. She is by this point completely
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: almost completely cemented her her rule over the rebels, isy
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: sid eye. She is, she is by them. She she
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: is considered the true Amberlin seat uh while Elida is
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: considered the impostor the false Amberlin because her rules and
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: the way she became the Amberlin was considered very was
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: considered very sketchy and borderline illegal, and not because the
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: reasoning for taking down Suon, for disposing Suan and inserting
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: herself as the Amberlin was done based on a very slim,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: just a very slim reasoning, like a loophole in the rules,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: So it was hardly justifiable. And that's why the rebels
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: stand against, stand firmly against Elida and for the moment,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: and also I should point out that Alida has completely
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: dissolved the Blue Aja, so she's she has struck them
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: from the tower. And and this is because since uh,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: since the schism between the two between the two sides,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: most if not all, of the Blue Aja left the
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: tower and they joined the rebels. And because of this,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: that's why Elida declared that the Blue Aja is no
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: longer an official aga of the Tower. So they're all
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: with this. So they're all now with the rebel I
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: to die and Iguain now needs to consider different ways
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: to completely cut off the city from its supply line.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: And it turns and she determines that in order to
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: do that, she needs to completely seal the river bays
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: to cut off their supply lines. That's something that and
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: that is something no one has been ever as has
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: not been able to do. All right, she has Igwayne
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: has a support of Gareth Brynn. He is one of
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: the five Great Captains. Great captains were some of the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: best tacticians and wartime leaders in generals. Gareth Brynn is
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: one of them. Davren Bashir, who currently works with Rand
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: is another Rodell itold who is a man from ardman Uh,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: he is another one, and let's see who are I'm
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: trying to remember with the other two, so I'll look
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: it up later. But the other one of the other
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Great Captains also is also a is also the lord
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: of Shinar mm hmm. And then there who is the
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: very who was the last one? I swear to god
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: he's either dead or like they just never brought him up. Okay,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is gonna bug me. I gotta figure
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: it out.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Are you fine?
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: So let's see amar Ja God, he's the he is
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: a Lord of Shinar, Davren Bashir. He's a Saldean Rhodell Roodell.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: It'd Gareth Brynn. Oh, that's why I keep forgetting about
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: the fifth one. The fifth one is a guy named
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Pedrin Peedrin Neal who was the former Lord Commander of
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: the Lord Captain Commander of the Hite Cloaks. So that's
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: why I forgot about him. And also he's dead, so
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't that Yeah, he's dead. So and he was a
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: dark friend so and no, it's not really a great
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: resume for him, No it's not. So. The thing is
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: is that getting back to the rebel Lisadi. The biggest
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: challenge that Agwayne is facing is not only the rapidly
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: spoiling supplies, but also the funding, but also their funding.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: She's been able to get by because since to the
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: rest of the world, nobody else really knows that the
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Tower has been split into their inter conflict has been
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: for the most part kept under wraps. But and Agwayne
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: had used this to her advantage because now since the
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: rebels have acts us to gateways, they can easily travel
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: from from their rebel camp to like the different countries
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: of the world. They've been trying to garner support from
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: the other from the other nations, as well as gather
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: the offerings that the nations typically give to the Isidaie.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: So there's like a tithing that the nations send to
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: Tarbalan m M. So normally an official from Tarblan sets
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: out and collects the tithings from the nation, from the
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: nations and the Great Cities, but Agwayne started sending her
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: own isid Eye to collect them. That way, the tithings
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: go straight to her rather than the Tower, and this
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: keeps her people funded, allows her to pay for pay
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: her troops and buy supplies. The thing is that the
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: tithings aren't enough right now, the tithings themselves, they're not enough.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: So she figures out she She decides she needs to
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: figure out how to how to make money. And in
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: the short time that Mogeddian had been under her captivity,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Mgeddian had taught her many different ancient weaves like long
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: lost weaves, several of them Igwayne figured out on her own,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: like traveling, she didn't need She did need Mogedian to
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: show her how to skim ah. She had Mogeddian teacher
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: how to use weaves of compulsion, which are forbidden, but
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Igwayine only learned them just so she can know how
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: to fight, how to cont like, how to fight it,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: how to counter it. And the thing is Mgedian she
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: was not. Mogeddian was not a what's the best way
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: to describe. She was not an expert weaver like I
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: mean she is. She had knowledge of she was not
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: a scholar. I'll say that she was not a scholar
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: or a scholarly weaver. So she didn't know every lost
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: weave out there. She knew of them, and she knew
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: more or less how to do them, and she knew
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: how to explain it, but she herself didn't know how
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: to do it. And one of the weaves that Igwaine
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: had tried getting out of Olgedian was the weaves to
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: create quendiar. Quendiar is a substance that was made that
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: can only that it is made by the power, and
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: it is indestructible. It is truly indestructible. Nothing can break it.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: And it's often used by channelers because well chandlers use it.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: It was it was used in either infrastructure or to
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: make objects of power. And while Mulgedian didn't know how
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: to create quendyar, she was able to describe its creation
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: process enough to where Agwaine figured out how to make quendyar.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: And she so a Quaine rediscovered the ability to make quendyar,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: and she decides, this is how we can how we
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: isidie can the rebels can make money? And to do
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: this she they make quendyar and they do it by
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: they need like like certain fine metals, like pure metals,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: and then they transform it into quendyar. So and so
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: they do so they'll they've been so they start making
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: quendyar objects and they sell it at high prices. Yeah,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: so it's really cool. She discovers quendyar. Like Aguaine I got,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: I have to give it to her Awayin is a
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: genius when it comes to weaving. Aguaine, Ninive and Elaine,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: those three they're geniuses. They know they've all discovered, rediscovered
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: long lost practices and discovered completely new weaves that nobody
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: else has ever discovered before. Like Elaine rediscovers how to
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: make objects of power. She just made it, and she
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: made a few of her own. She's still trying to
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: figure it out. Her tumbril are not perfect, but she's
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the first isaid I in ages to figure out how
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: to make objects of power. Ninive herself rediscovers ancient, ancient
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: healing techniques that are much more effective than the current
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: the modern isid I healing techniques, and she even discovers
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: a way to reverse severing, restoring a person's ability to
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: channel after they've been cut off. And then Agwain discovers
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: rediscovers how to make quendiar, and later on she will
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: also discover a new weave of her own. But we'll
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: not we're not gonna talk about that just yet. That's
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: that's not going to come into play until the final battle.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: The rebels learned of the destruction of Shadar Loo Goth.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: So they had all said by this point had all
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: sensed the massive beacon of cider like hundreds of miles away,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: and they send a scouting party to the area to investigate.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: By this point, the cleansing of Sidon had completed and
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: Rand and his team had left. But when the Ice
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: that I arrived, they do find the area is just
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: they is just saturated with a heavy residue of the
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: power and they can detect and they are detecting a
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: weave that the weaves that were used there, but it
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: was so foreign to them and so like so massive
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: that they don't really know what it did. They were
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: they weren't sure what it did. But they also found
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: a three mile wide hole where should should Logoth was,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: So where that big ass city, where this big ass
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: city was gone, nothing left but a hole. And the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: thing is is, at this point they don't know that
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: what Ran had done, and they assumed that it was
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: a weapon being tested by the forsaken.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: So now they need to figure out a way. Now
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: they need to figure out a way to counter it.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: But they're not really sure what it did or what
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: what or what was going on, and they won't learn
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: until much later. Uh she Aguinn is also forced to
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: figure out, uh find a murder. She's also forced to
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: investigate the murder of several of her isidi. The only
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: thing she knows is that these isidi were completely loyal
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: to her and that they were murdered using sighted So
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: they so they have a male channeler in their myths.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: They don't know who, but he's there. But little do
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: they know is that this male channeler is actually one
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: of the Forsaken and he's actually hiding right under Agwaine's snows.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: So Agwayine has been suffering from these really nasty headaches
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: and the only person that seems to be able to
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: treat them is a non chan, a woman that she
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: assumes is that she assumed was a non channeler and
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: like this woman uses like these head massage tech techniques
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: to like help alleviate the headaches. And this woman is
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: woman name Halima. Oh no, yes, so spoiler alert, Halima
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: is actually the reincarnation of the Forsaken Baltamle.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Oh my lord, not not this person again.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: So last time we saw Baltamle, he was being Uh
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: he got ganked by a tree.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: The thing is is that when the Dark One, when
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: you play, when you become one of the dark Ones chosen,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the dark One owns your soul. Yeah, through a process
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: called transmigration. The Dark One will capture your soul once
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: it leaves your body and place it in a new
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: body for you. And the thing is is that, Uh,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: when the Dark One resurrected Baltamaele and agin Or, who
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: was the other forsaken that was killed alongside Uh, that
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: was killed alongside Balthamael, he put agin Or's soul in
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: another male body. And but for baltha male, he was
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: for some reason, the Dark One was for some reason,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: more pissed off with Baltamle than agin Or. So he
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: places Baltamle's soul in the body of a woman, and
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: he renames and he renames Baltamael from Uh. He renames
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: him and gives him a new name, arang Gar, while
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: agin Or was renamed to Asinar. So aron Gar has
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: infiltrated Agwaine's camp and in pain he's using He's not
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: he's not using compulsion on her because I don't think
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: that's one of Balthammel's talents. He can't. I don't think
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: he can use compulsion because if he did, he would
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: have used compulsion on her. But he he's been using
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: a certain type of weave to manipulate her dreams and
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: to like make it to where it's harder for her
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: to concentrate. Aurangar has been murdering Isidaie in the camp
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: and has been manipulating Igwayne and he's also been he's
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: also been kind of torturing her by giving her these
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: massive headaches and just like he's doing this deliberately to
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: keep himself near her because like his little like head
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: massage techniques he's using on her to relieve the headaches
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: kind of like keeps her like gets hurt to lower
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: her guard. So though, eventually Orangar has to flee the
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: camp alongside one of the one of the Black Asia
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: supporters who knows about his presence. Yeah, and they're forced
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: to flee because the rebels are visited by the a
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: shaman so Rand had sent. Rand sends a delegation of
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: several of his as shaman as well as some Isidi
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: that had bonded with them, who had made them into
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: orders to make an offer to Isidi. We'll talk about that.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Let me go, I'll go on and talk about that.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: So Elida, in her stupidity, sent a large force of
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Isidi to attack the Black Tower. She only sent about
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: fifty Isidi with their orders to attack the Black Tower,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: and just she just told them either kill them or
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: gentle them. Oh, I don't care. But the thing is
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: she didn't realize that there are hundreds of a shaman. Now.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: It's not just like a small number of ragtag men
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: trying to learn how to channel. No, there's over like
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: there's by this point, there's almost as many a shaman
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: as there are Isidie now mm hmm. So they're quickly
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: catching up in numbers. There's like over a thousand in
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: the White Town. There's over a thousand isid I in
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: the tower and now and now there's almost a thousand
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: of the shaman. So they're catching up. And when these
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: when the Isidae assaulted the Black Tower, they were all
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: captured by the ashaman rather than killed, and most and
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: most of the a shaman, as a way to keep
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: the Isidae under control, bonded the Isidi as worders. So
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: it was kind of like an Uno reverse they they
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: reverse the isid ie they there a.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: The thing is is that Logane at Logan is now
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: a part of the Black Tower. He he officially joined
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: up with them, and he is on the same pretty
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: much on the same level as Mazrum Taym. But the
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: thing is is that Logan strongly suspects that something's going
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: something's going on, and he believes that Logane is a
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: dark friend and the only evidence he has, unfortunately is
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: the fact that Logan that Taim. First of all, Tayim
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: is like giving himself a new name. He goes. He
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: calls himself the Makael, interesting name which mean Mahail means
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: leader in the old tongue. And the way he the
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: way he fashions himself fashions himself in the Black Tower,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: he's really taking on the role of the Lea as
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: leader of the of the a Shaman, even though Ran
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: is technically the real leader of the a Shaman because
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: he created them Taim. Logan notices that Tayim is very
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: selective on who he raises to full of shaman status
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: because first start, they're they're divided into three ranks. The
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: the soldiers who are the initiates, the dedicated, who are
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: like the more like kind of mid level, and then
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: they're the a shaman who are the fully initiated. And
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Logain noticed that Tayim is only uh favors certain individuals
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: and will only elevate certain people to the full rank
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: of a shaman.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: Favorites.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the thing is Logan almost was just left
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: as a Logan was also made into a full of shaman,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: but that was because in his short time there, a
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: lot of the shaman have already started seeing Ogain as
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: a leader.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: Mmm.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: I mean it's understandable because like Tayim, Logan was one
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: of the false Dragons, yeah, before Ran took Before Ran
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: claimed Colandor and was and officially took on the title
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: of the Dragon Reborn. Logane and Tayim were the last
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: two of the last two false Dragons to appear in
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: the west Lands. And they're both extremely powerful. Yeah, so
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: if you were to if you were to classify them
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: on a power scale, Rand is a number one, Logan
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: and Taim are level twos, so their power is second
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: only to Rans and that. Yeah, so Tayim would have
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: just left Logan as like a dedicated at the very least,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: but he had too much support of over a majority
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: of the other dedicated and soldiers that Tayim was forced
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: to give uh Logan the dragon pin because that's how
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: they mark their ranks, like if you're dedicated, you get overswored,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: and if you're a shaman, you also get a dragon pin.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: So so Logain is a full of shaman now. But
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: it was kind of comps. He just doesn't feel like
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: it was done, like this isn't right, like he think
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: he's seeing, like how he's seeing signs and evidence pointing
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: that there's something going on and they need to get
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: the dragon reborn involved. So Login ends up approaching Rand,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: and this does happen in this book To and to Go.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: He approaches Ran and informs him of what Taim has
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: been doing, and Rand tells Logain that he will he's
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: not entirely convinced that Taime is a dark friend. There's
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: nothing he can do about it right now because he
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: has to focus his attention on uniting the Westlands in
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: preparation for the final battle because it's coming. It's literally
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: right around the cour But Ran also ends up chewing
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: out Logan because when Logaine tells him that they shaman
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: had bonded fifty sisters of the White Tower. It pissed
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: Ran off because now Ran has to deal with like
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: angry Isidai now, which isn't the first for him, but
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: like he needs to get the isid I on the
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: same page with him, and it's going to be even
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: harder now that Logan had bond had had fifty of
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: the Yeshaman bond these isid I, so Logan, so Rand
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: tells Logane to go. Ran tells Logan as alongside Davren Bashir,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: to approach the Shan Shan because Ran wants to make
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: peace with him and he knows that their leader, the
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: Daughter of the Nine Moons, is their best bet. So
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: he sends them to the Shan to eber Dar to
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: petition a meeting between him and the daughter of the
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: Nye Moons, and he sends delegations to the rebel Isidi
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: letting him know that hey like to let him know, like, hey,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: we're sorry, we captured and bonded fifty of your sisters
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: to our shaman. As a way to counterbalance this and
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: also as a way of making amends, we will allow
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: the isid I to take fifty a shaman as orders.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: And while at first the isid I and the rebel
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: isid I were hesitant, this isn't something they haven't considered before.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: In fact, Igwayne broaches the subject with them because in
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: the wake of learning about should Arlo Goth and its destruction,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: she realizes that the only way that they'll be able
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: to reach enough power to contend with whatever creed, whatever
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: had done that to should Arlo Goth, they're going to
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: need to begin they're going to need to start accepting
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: the fact that they need male channelers. Yeah, so they're
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: gonna so they so they were already considering approaching the
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: a shaman and seeing if they would either like to
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: either join forces or allow themselves to be taken as
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: warters because the ice did ie. They don't know that
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: that the taint has been cleansed. Yeah, so they think
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: that if that the only way to keep these men
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: under control is to bond them as warters. And now
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: here's these a shaman approaching them with bonded I who
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: have already been bonded by isid Ie. They're saying, oh,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: the taint is the sighting is clean. It's not an
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: issue anymore.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: They're like, come again, what like?
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: When come again? They're like looking at each other like
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: since when, Oh, oh it's not important, Yeah, it's not important.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: All you need to know is Ran did it? And
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: what like? What?
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 3: Who? Who would beat that?
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: It was hard for them to believe. But since the
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: shaman that approached the rebels was bonded to an Isidie
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: that is allied with kat Swain, uh, the Isida who's
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: currently working with Rand, they can they confirm what the
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: a shaman are saying and said, yes, we were there,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: we witnessed it and by testing and we've tested this
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: by linking with the men and channel and drawing on
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: sighting ourselves and as far as we can sell, it's clean.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: There's no taint. The taint is squeaky clean.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, sighting is squeaky clean. You got her goblin anyway.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: So now the eyesid I are like, huh okay, well
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll start approaching the Black Tower for to pick
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: out new orders. Going back to the White Tower, Alida, Yeah,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: it's beginning is growing more and more erratic, and her
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: actions are causing the tower to become divided within itself.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: So now within the White Tower. It's divided. It's it's
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: no longer just rebel isidi versus The tower is said,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: I rebels versus loyalists. Now it's rebels versus the Blue Aja,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: the Red Aja, the White Aja, the Green Aja. Like
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: as in the White Tower, the as have all turned
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: on each other.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the thing is is that they don't realize
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: that this is the Black this is the Black A
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: is doing al vi Aarren, who is current who is
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: pretending to be a member of the White Aza, She's
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: actually the supreme leader of the Black Asa.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: Of course she is.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: And as you as if you guys remember al Viarn
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: is Elida's current keeper of the chronicles, basically the vice Mamerlyn.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: Oh no, that's not so.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: The thing is, though Alviaran gets outed and it's forced
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: to flee the tower because uh she didn't. She ends
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: up getting She actually learns how to use traveling from
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: a certain Forsaken who's hidden herself in the White Tower.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, there is a Forsaken in the White Tower,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: and it's it's Massana. Yeah, the professor. Don't ever call
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: don't like, I know she's fictional character. But if you
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: were ever come face to face with Massana, don't ever
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: call her the professor because for one thing, like just
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: a quick backstory about Massana. Massana, the reason she was
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: she was a scholar back in the Age of Legends,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: and she was trying. She had ambitions to join the
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: top researchers at this facility called the Charome, which was
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: which was the big floating sphere, it's like it was
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: a center of research of technology and the power. She
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: wanted to be a researcher with them, but those guys
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: were pricks and they told her, you're just not meeting
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: our standards, you know. But you know what, we got
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: a teaching position open. Welcome to teach at the university
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: because the Sharome floats over the most prestige, one of
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: the most prestigious universities in the Age of Legends. And
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: when Massana was told that, she was pissed because she
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: felt because she disagreed. She believed that she had what
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: it took to be a researcher, but they were like, oh, no,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: we think you'd be better as a teacher. So now
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: Massana is hiding in the White Tower and she's influencing
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: events going on there. So the thing is alvi Aren
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: got a little too cocky. She used her traveling ability
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: to leave the White Tower, and while she was gone,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: that's when the rebels came in and laid siege to it.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: And nobody in the tower knew where Alvrn went. They
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: assumed that she had probably taken a leave, like she
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: left Tarvlan, and she's probably and she probably can't get
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: back in because it's currently closed down from the siege.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: But then Alvirn shows back up out of nowhere and
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: everyone's looking at her, like, so, how'd you get in
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: and out of the city, So she's like, oh, scurries off.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: Aside from that, members of the Red Aja decide that
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: they need to bring the Black Tower under their control.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: And the thing about the Red Asa is that they
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: don't take orders because most of them see the red
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: Oja's purpose is to capture channelers and bring them to
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: the tower for gentling. Right, that was their purpose for
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: like over for almost three thousand years, and.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: They they take away their purpose where they got nothing exactly.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: They realized, like the Black Tower is now too strong
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: for that for their Aja alone to control. So several
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: of their members come together and they talk and After
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: discussing it, they decide we're gonna need the only way
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: that we'll be able to control the Black Tower is
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: if we start taking a shaman as wards. So just
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: as the rebel I said, I are deciding that like
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: that they need to take uh, that they should start
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: taking the a shaman as warders. The Red Aja and
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: the Tower are like, you know what we need to do.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: We need to make these, make these uh, make our
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: brothers into warters.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: Damn, the White Tower is a bunch of Oh they're
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: almost as bad as the Jedi, but hypocrites.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: My god, I will say this the isid ie they
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: are better than this. But right now going on, Yeah,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: the Black Aja is so deeply ingrained into them that
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: the thing is most of the most of the sisters
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: in the Tower refused to admit that the Black Aja exists.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: Dumbasses.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dumbasses. So, coming to the conclusion of this book,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: elin Igwayne is informed of another murder in her camp
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: and one of another sister is murdered, and the thing
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: is this particular this sister was another one of her supporters,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: and she was also involved in a secret plan to
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: to block the harbors of Tarvalan The way they were
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: going to seal off the harbors of Tarvalan was to
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: transform the harbor chains. Because these are because these harbors
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: use a series of chain nets, like they raise them
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: up and to block the harbor. Right, that's how they
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: like close the harbor. They're not just big gates, they're
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: just literal chains that they raise up like a chain
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: net that gets raised up. The plan was to turn
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: the chains into quendyar. See the thing is, see what happened.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: Let me let me explain when you transform metal into quendyar. Okay,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: and of course it becomes indestructible. But the thing is
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: is that the way quendyr is made is first you
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: have to create a shield of air, fire and spirit,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: like a bubble of air, fire and spirit around the
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: object you're transforming into quendyar. And then using spirit earth
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: and I forgot what other I forgot what the other
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: thread was, but using a different weave you use this
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: you use a wave of earth and spirit and fire
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: on the object itself and that transforms it into quendyar.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: So I so like the first weave, the bubble to
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: create a shield around the object contains the transform the
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: contains the object while it's being transformed. Right, But if
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: you have two objects next to each other, like chains,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: and you transform them into quendyar, the metal ends up
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: bonding together into one solid object. So while the chains
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: are raised to block the harbor, she was gonna have
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: her eye, said eye, transform them into quendyar. This and
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: this will cause the individual links in the chain to
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: permanently weld together into an unbreakable solid mass of quendyar.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: This will effectively seal off the harbor and make it
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: almost impossible for them to get out, so no more
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: supplies coming in or out. Damn, and the thing is
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: Agwayne felt like since there's more there was another sister
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: being murdered, She felt like this plan is just too
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: important to allow anybody to do. Like right now, Agwaine
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: is the only isid eye who's strong enough to make
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: quendiar in just mere moments. Like with her, she casts
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: the series of weaves and it's instantaneous quendyar. For everyone else,
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: they have to like concentrate it and just be like
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: staring at the object while holding onto the weaves, and
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: you just see it slowly transforming into the object slowly
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: transforming into Quendyar like, and there's only like several other
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: channelers who can transform quendyar fast enough, like almost as
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: fast as Agwayne. That's Leanne and a novice from Agwayne's
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: home home village of the Two Rivers of Emonsfield. Coffin Matt,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: Matt's little sister. Oh yeah, so so yeah, you guys
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: remember the eyes that I discovered that the Two Rivers
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: is just filled to the brim with powerful channelers. A GWayne,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: Ninive Matt's little sister, Coffin Bode Coffin. While she's not
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: as powerful as a GWayne, she's as powerful as Catswain
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: and Katswain. It was before a GWayne and Ninive and
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: Elaine came along. Katswain was the most powerful channeler in
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: then entire tower. Damn, even stronger than Moraine. So like
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: I think Catswain was like a level She was like
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: a ten, a level ten in the power, if not
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: a level eleven, while uh, Moraine and Sewan were leveled
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: like on a like a level thirteen. So they were powerful,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: but they weren't in the top ten. Yeah, and then
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: you have Elaine and Igwayne. There are a level like
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: eight on that chart. You want to know how strong
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: ninive is? How strong a level three? Oh, she's she's
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: Mogeddian is a level four, So Nave was strong. So
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: Ninivea is stronger than is way stronger than Mogeddian. She's
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: as strong as uh Grendel, Oh, because Grendel is the
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: level three. And then Masana is a level two. And
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: then you got Samarage and land Fear, who were sitting
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: like up here at the top, like the two sociopathic
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: psychotic queens.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: They were yeah, keyword were.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Well, Samarage is still around Landfeer she's she's been reincarnated,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: but she's no long somewhere.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: Anyway, So Igwayne decides to take matters into her own
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: hands and join the mission. So Lee uh Leanne goes
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: to uh goes ahead and goes to one to one
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: of the harbors to turn the chains into Quendyar. And
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: then Agwayne takes Bode Coffin's place to go chang to
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: go do the other. One thing is though they were betrayed,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: it's a trap that's wap. So Agwayne manages to transform
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: the entire I believe it was the North Harbor chain
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: into Quendyar, effectively effectively sealing it off. But right but
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: just as she completes it, she she's attacked by the
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: ice of Eye and captured. And then and on the
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: other end of the island, Leanne, even though she is
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: capable of transforming the chains into Quendyar fast like she's
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: like the second fastest when it comes to transforming Quendyar,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: she only manages to get halfway through the process before
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: the isid I capture her. So the other so the
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: other harbor has been uh has only been half sealed,
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: which it's still like even if it was only half sealed,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: it's still enough to put the put the tower and
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: tarvele On in jeopardy because now there's only one port
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: and like half the chain has been transformed into quendi
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Aar and the other half is kind of like barely
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: enough space for the ships to come in and out
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: of the harbor. Yeah, so they're still getting supplies, but
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: now their supplies are like it's gonna take it's limited
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna take them longer.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: So yeah, those two are captured, and the book comes
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: to an end with the uh Beshier and Logane return
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: returning to Ran and informing him that the Shawn Schans
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: Princess Tuon, the Daughter of the Nine Moons, has agreed
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: to to the meeting. What I'm sorry, what was I
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: What was I just talking about with a GWayne and Leanne?
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: I know, I just talked about it, but it's just
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: on that took my to It's a trap. Oh yeah,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: at the twap because because as you guys know, Tuon
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: is not with the Shawn Sean right now. She is
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: currently with Matt and no one knows where they are.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: Uh huh so.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Gaga's name whoa uhh.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway that this is where book ten, A Knife
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: of Dreams. Hold on, hold on, I'm saying that wrong.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: I think I remember the dan. This is where book
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: ten Crossroads of Twilight, and then we're going to get
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: started on book eleven, The Knife of Dreams.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah,