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64. We Start here (W.O.T. Book 1: The Eye of the World) · The Book-Watchers

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  On its Welcome back to book Watchers, where the plots don't match and the
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  Yeah. So for vh US Vietn, Oh, my god, remember
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  that. I hope to god Mike. Mike did not catch that. It
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  didn't. But I'm pretty sure I just triggered Johnny. God, No,
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  did I trigger him? My boyfriend did the almost on the holiest of things.
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  And I don't know if I should describe it on the pod. Was
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  it a burp or or a fart? It was a fart, and the
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  holy the Devil's it's a good thing no one has ever invested in. I
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  just want to say it's a good thing. No one invested in technology that
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  replicates uh aromas. I mean, yeah, there's aroma therapy, but like
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  for entertainment purposes, like in movies and you know this, Yeah, well,
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  would you have to do something up your nose? Like no, no,
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  I mean it would just be kind of like it would just be kind
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  of like one of those like uh, what are they called, like aerosolis
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  or things like you know those like those wall mounts where you stick the can
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  of for breeze in there and like every few minutes, it'll just be something
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  like that. But it will like replicate the smells of like, you know,
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  like you're watching an action movie, It'll replicate the smell of all the
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  sweat, blood and ass flying all over the place. See. That would
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  be disgusting, and it's a good thing. No one's invested in that.
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  I don't need. I don't think I need that. I don't think I
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  need that. Hell, people, there are people that will faint at the
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  sight of blood, and then there are people who will faint at the smell
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  of it. So people with hemophobia would be dying in those kind of in
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  those kind of movies, I feel like you're projecting. Is that something new
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  that would happen with you? Dude, Dude, I've grown up, well,
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  I've grown up with Like I used to get nosebleeds all the time,
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  so like, hell, it's it's worse. It was worse when I was
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  a kid. Like now, sometimes I still get them and it's just like
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  a little trickle or like a little drop that will pop out and I'm like,
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  oh okay. But as a kid, I had like rivers coming out
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  of my fucking nose, So blood is not an issue for me. Well,
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  air, I need more. I need more than you love it.
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  I need all the air. I need all the air anyway, But enough,
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  but enough about me instead, let's talk about me and my accomplishments.
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  I'm kidding, what my accomplishments? What a half a page? You want
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  to go there? You really want to go there? I have more accomplishments.
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  Is your name a bloody disgusting article for a movie, I don't think.
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  So it's on a video game what video game? Even falling by Racer
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  Edge Games. It still hasn't been released, but my name will be on
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  there. He'd been talking about that. You can talked about a game like
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  a half a decade ago. It still hasn't been released, but hey,
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  yeah, I know at this point, I wouldn't be surprised it was canceled.
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  But my name was on their website and I was part of the development
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  I was a part of the developing team. And my name was also on
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  an art gallery at the time. I know, not that one, not
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  on that one, but like on others, on others. Good yeah,
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  good for me with imaginary hair that I have. So anyway, moving on
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  from the gay on gay hate crimes, Uh, what are we talking about
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  today? We're gonna be talking about a book series that I wasn't one hundred
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  sure we were going to do, simply because I haven't read all of the
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  books. But what we're gonna end up doing is we're just going to be
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  reading them in installments. If I was laying on my bed, you would
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  see my feet just kind of like that's you're just gonna give the foot people
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  a thing, the latch onto. Hey, whatever gets us those views.
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  I mean, I guess, come on, we gotta pump those numbers up,
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  all right. We want to endorsement from like Audible or like I don't
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  know, like Hyperion Publishing or whatever. It's that Disney publisher. Oh yeah,
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  yeah, So what are we talking about? So? Uh, today
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  we are going to be talking about a very long series. Okay, it's
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  for the avid readers. It's probably not even that long, but fourteen it's
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  fourteen books. That's a long series. The Warhammer. The Warhammer franchise has
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  like over one hundred Hell, the Star Wars franchise has over one hundred and
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  most of the at least the Legends books, those were chronological and can into
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  each other. Hell like uh, and the there was a Star Wars series
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  call about this massive intergalactic war called the Yuzam Vong War heard of. It
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  had like over I think that had over like twenty books, somewhere between twenty
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  to forty books. Huh. Interesting. So anyway, we're reading The Wheel
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  of Time by Robert Jordan, and you're reading The Will of Time. I'm
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  not even gonna try and tackle that shit. Mm hmm, I should say,
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  but we are going but you are, but we are watching it because
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  you've watched it. I've watched it. So The Wheel of Time is a
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  book, but is a book series by a man named Robert Jordan. May
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  he rest in peace. He did unfortunately pass away. Well I should have
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  put that up before we started, but he passed away before the series ended
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  because I think the last last book or two somebody else. It was like
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  the last three or four books, so Robert. So, yeah, just
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  a little fun facts about the Wheel of Time before we get started. Started.
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  Uh. Robert Jordan originally meant for this series to last at least three
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  books, maybe five at the most, but as he continued to develop and
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  write the series and come up with the story overall, there was just so
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  much that he put into it. This was definitely like, there was just
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  so much passion put into this that it ended up stretching to fourteen novels,
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  with the last three I think being written by another author. Let me see
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  here, let me look up Robert Jordan. Yeah, so he passed away
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  September sixteenth, two thousand and seven. His novels were the last few books
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  were finished by another author, Brian Brandon Sanderson. But yeah, let me
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  see Brian Sanderson's YEP fourteen, So Brian sent Brandon Sanderson. I'm sorry.
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  He ended up finishing off Jordan's work with books with the last three books,
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  so twelve, thirteen, and fourteen, So those were the three books that
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  he ended up writing. He was able to close off Jordan's series because Jordan
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  had written so many notes, so many detailed notes, that he had enough
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  to go off of. And I mean, by this point, if he's
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  been he had been following Jordan's work for all this time, you've read all
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  books and can get a good idea of how the characters are light. He
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  was able to finish writing these books with the conclusion to the entire series with
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  A Memory of Light, which is book fourteen. But we're not going to
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  be focusing on book fourteen today. We're going to be focusing on book one,
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  which is called The Eye of the World. Now. Amazon has adapted
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  book one into a series. Has adapted this series into the books into a
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  series. There's currently two seasons out, with each season following along to the
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  plot of the books. So season one, although it does not have the
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  actual name, of the book. It is based off of the wheel uh
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  the eye of the World. So now the thing about the Wheel of Time,
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  I will say is that if you watched the show, whether you've watched
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  it yet, or if you've already watched it or you haven't watched it,
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  you just gotta you gotta remember there's just a lot. There's a lot of
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  lore in this in these books. There's a lot. He ended up.
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  I wasn't kidding when I said that, he ended up just coming up with
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  so much idea, with so many ideas for the story, that he ended
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  up stretching what was originally supposed to be a three three novel series to a
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  fourteen novel series. So and I have to say, like for the people,
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  for anybody who enjoys a book with a lot of diversity, this book
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  has a lot of diversity, all right. It's not just centered around one
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  culture, because in book one, the overall culture that you made notice is
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  like something out of medieval Europe, so like something very similar to English culture.
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  But then as you as the as the characters begin to branch out into
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  the world and more of this world is revealed and described in these books,
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  you realize that there's so many other different cultures that Robert Jordan included in these
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  books, Like he took inspiration from cultures like India, some Southeast Asian countries,
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  other Western and Eastern Europe countries as well. Hell, and he also
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  took inspiration from other authors as well, Like definitely, like I'll I'm just
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  gonna call it out right now, there is a desert people called the a
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  Eel and the I Eel are death yeah based off of they have similarities to
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  the Fremen from Dune Une. Yeah yeah, yeah, but there. The
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  thing is, though, is they're not like whereas the freemen from Doune.
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  Their culture is definitely based off of Middle Eastern culture like Persian and Arabian h
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  The I Eel are very similar to I can't really say Irish or Scottish because
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  they don't wear kilts or they don't have like this typical like I'm sorry,
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  the kilts aren't really defining factor of Irish culture, but there's other things that
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  are typically Irish. Their culture, it's I can't really say what culture they're
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  based off of, but based on like their physical appearance, the eye Eel
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  their overall appearance is similar to like they all have uh, their hair color
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  ranges from like bright red to blonde or even like dark brown but red.
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  Their red hair color is very common mm hmmm. So uh and of course
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  they're very tanse So I would say like there's a there is a culture of
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  there's a small like demographic of people that are born with very pale hair,
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  but they have very dark skin. It's like a. It's like a it's
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  either an Atlantic or Pacific islander people. So they have and their their physical
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  features are very striking because while they have like these very dark uh like they
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  have very dark brown skin, but they have blue eyes and blonde hair.
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  Interesting. Yeah, yeah, there's a there's people I don't know who.
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  I don't know the name of the country or like what where they come from.
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  I'll have to look that up later. But the Isle are kind of
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  the eye Eel are kind of similar. They are their skin isn't really dark,
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  their skin color isn't really dark, but it is described as being very
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  tan due to their to where they come from, which is like a it's
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  like a. I would say the desert land that they come from is very
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  similar to Death Valley, Nevada. So it's not so much as like sandy
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  dunes, like just sand as far as you can see. It's more of
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  like cracked dry earth, desert shrubbery and other like cost like really like harsh
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  party plants that can survive in these kind of climates. The the I Eel
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  are known for being really like they're badass warriors, Like they are badass.
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  But the ee Eel don't really make an appearance in book one. They're kind
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  of like mentioned offhandedly a couple of times here and there, but it isn't
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  until book two and book three that we really start seeing more of the I
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  Eel. And you guys got a love so a lot to look forward to,
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  because honestly, they're probably my favorite, they're my favorite group of characters
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  in this book, in this book series. But we should go ahead and
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  get started on. Let's go ahead and just dive into the story because there
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  is a lot hell. The prologue is this sets up. The prologue takes
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  place three thousand years into the past at the end of what is huh Jesus.
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  Yeah, So the story it's not one of those stories where it'll jump
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  like have different time jumps, like it'll go from like the past to the
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  President of the future, but it references significant events in the past. Real
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  quick time cut the future, Devin cut this part out. I may have
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  to step away just for a second because my aunt is coming over and she
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  needs me to open the door for her. Okay, but she'll be here
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  in a few minutes, so I'll let you know, okay. Anyway,
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  So to start out in the prologue, it takes place in one of the
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  previous ages before the current Age, because the time frame that this book takes
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  place is called the Third Age, with the first age being an age called
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  a time frame called the Age of Legends. The Age of Legends is it's
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  called the Age of Legends because it was a time of pure technological advancement as
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  well as like like we have technological, scientific, philosophical, societal advancement,
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  all right, And in the wheel of time. Since it is a fantasy,
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  well it's not like, it's not just technology. But there's magic.
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  So there are groups. There are people who have the ability to draw energy
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  from this metaphysical force called the one called the True Source. Now, people
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  who are able to draw upon this power are called channelers. And the way
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  the magic works in this world is it's weave based. So when they draw
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  energy, they weave threads of the power together, and depending on how they
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  weave it, and depending on the type of threads that they weave together,
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  they can get different effects. And the threads are what was it talking about?
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  Okay, so chandlers. I could, like, honestly, we could
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  do a whole episode talking about the True Source and how the channelers use their
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  use their magic, but I mean we won't. I won't go too much
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  into it because in book one they don't really talk too much about how the
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  truth so is used or how the magic is woven together. But I will
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  say this, so channelers, even though their power, regardless of their uh
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  channelers was in my train of thought. So the true source all every channeler
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  draws their power from the same place. But the true source itself is has
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  a duality nature all right. In fact, the order of channelers called the
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  isid Eye back in the Age of Legends. They the symbol for their organization
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  their society was the basically it was basically the taois yin yang symbol, so
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  circle with a sinuous line dividing separating it into two halves like one half is
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  white with a little black dot in the center, and the other half is
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  black with a little white dot in the center, So it's like two commas
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  put together. And uh. They use this symbol as a representation of the
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  True Source because the True Source is divided into a male and female half.
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  So the male half, which is black comma, is called siding and the
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  female half, which is the upside down white comma, is called side doc
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  And they represent it this way because men and male and female channelers can only
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  draw power from their respective half of the True Source. So men can only
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  draw on the male half of the True Source while female while women can only
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  draw on the female half, and each half has their own strengths and weaknesses,
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  but one of the biggest, but it does cause a bit of a
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  disconnect between male and female channelers because women are technically weaker channelers than men.
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  Men are able to draw upon more power from the True Source than women are,
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  but whereas the men have just a pure raw strength of the Truth being
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  able to just rely on pure raw strength, but women are able to not
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  only weave more intricate and complex spells, they can also create what create links
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  with each other, so they're able to create emphatic links with other women and
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  even male channelers, and when they do that, it allows them to increase
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  their power and direct a larger flow of the True source. So it's like
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  a form of collaborative magic. Women can do that, but men can't.
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  And there's other things that there are other things that put like that women have
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  that men don't and same with men that and it's the same with the men.
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  And the thing is is that the biggest disc the biggest disconnect between the
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  male and female channelers is that they can't see each other's weaves. So for
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  regular non channeler people, like people who can't channel from the True Horse,
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  they can't see the energy that flows into a channeler or the weaves themselves.
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  So when channeler begins to use their power, like normal people, they don't
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  see anything happening until it happens, right, So if they decide to shoot
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  a fireball, you're not gonna know it's happening until what fireball. Well,
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  But however, female channelers when they begin to draw, when they begin to
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  draw power from the True Horse other two other female channelers, it looks like
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  an aura of golden light appears around them, and it's kind of the same
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  for men. But the thing is, when a male does that and a
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  woman looks at them, they can't tell if they're channeling. They can't see
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  that energy, and they can't see the weaves that they create. So there's
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  a certain So that line in the taois symbol dividing the two halves is basically
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  a line that prevents each other from seeing what the others are doing. Mm
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  hmm. But in the Age of Legends, they it was they were so
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  technologically advanced in both of course, they were so advanced in forms of technology
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  and also weaving that they found ways to get around this, like women can
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  create links with men and allows them to perform collaborative weaves. But it's all
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  done by it's all done based on feel. But things get pretty dramatic.
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  Uh So, towards the end of the Age of Legends, a group of
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  Isidie researchers, they discovered that there was potentially another metaphysical force force out there
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  similar to the True Source, but different altogether similar in that you basically you
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  can weave spells just like you can with a true Source, but unlike unlike
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  the True Source, this new metaphysical power is not divided into male or female
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  house it is just one singular power. So if they figure if they could
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  figure out a way to harness this power, then they basically they will eliminate
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  that barrier separating men and women, truly putting them on equal levels. It
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  won't be just like, oh, women like, women can make can link
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  with each other and weave more complicated flows, and men can like or just
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  have pure raw strength in the power. All right, But the problem was
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  is that this this new metaphysical force was not really meant for them to be
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  used. So this group of channelers, they they theorized the only way to
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  reach this power was to use their power to bore a hole into the fabric
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  of the pattern or reality itself. The pattern is the pattern is basically synonymous
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  with time and space. It's like, you know, the different outcomes of
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  our decisions, because how time works in the wheel of time, of course,
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  is basically it's uh, it's cyclical, so events are constantly repeating themselves,
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  and how the and how the wheel turns depend determines how the pattern it
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  is shaped. It's very complicated. It won't go into it too much,
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  but they thought we're gonna go ahead we're gonna try to reach this new source
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  of power by drilling into the fabric of reality to reach it. But what
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  they didn't know was that one this power comes from a malevolent force, and
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  two they forgot who this malevolent force was because the Age of Legends, it
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  had lasted for so long that the people forgot that in ages long forgotten,
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  there used to be this very powerful adversary that was constantly trying to remake the
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  world in his image, and it was constantly basically just trying to destroy it.
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  And since that they had known, and since the Age of Legends,
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  this society knew nothing but peace for so long, they forgot about this guy.
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  So when they drew, so when they bored the whole into reality,
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  they bore a whole into another dimension that actually happens to be the prison of
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  this outer being called the Dark One. So there is a creator. The
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  people of this series believe in a godly figure they call the Creator. He
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  created everything, He exists in everything. And then for channelers, the true
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  source comes from the Creator. All right, Well, since the Creator represents
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  everything that is light and that exists, the Dark One is the antithesis of
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  the Creator. Is he represents everything that is death and darkness, so non
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  existence. So when these I said, I bored a hole into reality,
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  they bore a hole into the prison that the Creator created to contain the Dark
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  One. And when they did that, his darkness was able to touch the
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  world. And this and this started what became known as the War, the
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  War of power. So the Dark One was able to touch the world,
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  and when he did that, his influence affected millions of people, billions even,
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  and a good number of them decided that they wanted power, like,
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  we don't want to lift this same, repeat, ever, repeating pattern.
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  We wanted to change that. We want to break the pattern, and we're
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  going to pledge ourselves to the Dark One. And out of these people that
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  pledged themselves to the Dark One, there was a group of people called that
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  became known as the Forsaken. The Forsaken was a group of thirteen Isidie who
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  were probably the most powerful channelers of their age. They all declared themselves for
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  the Dark One. The Dark One rewarded them by giving them more power,
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  basically access to that power that they were looking for in the first place.
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  And immortality. So now so chandelers naturally live and live for hundreds of years
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  because of the life giving effects of the True Source, but it doesn't make
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  them immortal. The Dark One gave the Forsaken access to his power, which
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  is actually called the True Power, and with it it makes them immortal and
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  allows them to do things that you couldn't do with the True Source. Like
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  the True Source, you can heal people, but you can't use it to
• 30:29
  heal yourself. You need to get another channeler to heal you if you're injured
• 30:33
  or have a disease, whereas the True Power allows you to basically just heal
• 30:37
  yourself whenever you want. So this war of power lasted for centuries and the
• 30:45
  Dark was winning. It wasn't until the very end when a very powerful channeler
• 30:52
  on the side of the Light his name was lose Tharren Teleman lose Tharn realizing
• 31:00
  that they were going to lose, but he wasn't going to give up without
• 31:03
  a fight, he gathered together a large force of about ten thousand men,
• 31:11
  So ten thousands. He gathered an army of about ten thousand men as well
• 31:15
  as an army of one hundred of his most powerful male channelers, and they
• 31:19
  launched an all out assault on the Dark One's fortress. And the outcome of
• 31:26
  this, of this final battle, all ten thousand of his soldiers were killed.
• 31:33
  The companions, the hundred men that he took with him, the hundred
• 31:38
  channelers he took with them, they were able to over They were able to
• 31:42
  overcome the Dark One, the Dark One's servants, the Forsaken, and loose
• 31:49
  theren Using his power, he was able to seal away the Dark One alongside
• 31:55
  his thirteen Forsaken. He did this by creating these seals. Now, if
• 32:00
  you watch the show towards the end of the of the season, you see
• 32:06
  one of these seals, but it's like this big platform with the the symbol,
• 32:13
  the ancient symbol of the Isidie engraved on it. Devin, you finished
• 32:16
  the seat the season, right, it's a finish season one, okay?
• 32:22
  Cool? So you remember at the end when the main character ran as that
• 32:28
  final confrontation with the Dark One, note the quotes the Dark One, uh,
• 32:36
  he bet, And that final confrontation ends with that seal that he was
• 32:39
  standing on breaking You saw them, Ritt, Yes, Okay, Well,
• 32:49
  the books the seals are not these big like i'd say about five to six
• 32:54
  foot six feet in diameter plates. They're actually about the size of a of
• 33:00
  your average dinner plates. But towards at the end of this final confrontation with
• 33:07
  the Dark One loose, Darren creates seven seals. These seals, at least
• 33:15
  in the books, were about frisbee size. They are about the size of
• 33:19
  your average dinner plate. They were engraved with the symbol of the ancient symbol
• 33:23
  of the Isid eye. And they were made from this mystical substance called quendolar.
• 33:28
  Guendolar is this indestructible material. And when I say indestructible, it is
• 33:34
  truly indestructible. It cannot be broken. It cannot be It doesn't age,
• 33:38
  it doesn't wear out, it just it's unbreakable. So he created these seven
• 33:45
  seals and locked the Dark One away alongside his thirteen followers. Now this is
• 33:52
  where everything goes wrong. He succeeds in ceiling away the Dark One and ceiling
• 33:57
  the bore that was created by the Isidae, and ceiling away He's thirteen uh
• 34:01
  and ceiling away of the forsaken. But just as the seals were being put
• 34:08
  into place, the Dark One used that as an opportunity to initiate counterstroke and
• 34:15
  this counterstroke was to flood as much of his power into Loose Tharron himself.
• 34:23
  So when he did that, he infected the male half of the True Source
• 34:32
  with a taint, this dark, this oily corruptive substance that engulfed the male
• 34:40
  half of the True Source. And as a direct result of this, every
• 34:47
  male channeler went mad. It was like a ripple effect. So Lose Thearn
• 34:57
  and his one hundred and his hundred companions went They were basically at ground zero
• 35:00
  when this happened, so they all instantly went mad, completely mad, yep.
• 35:07
  And from there it just spread. So for them they went mad right
• 35:15
  off the bat. But for other male channelers that were still across the world,
• 35:17
  they as they begin to as they continue to use the True Source,
• 35:22
  every time they draw more power from Sidon, they're drawing in that taint,
• 35:28
  that darkness, and over time causes deterioration of their mind. So they slowly
• 35:35
  begin to just completely lose their sense of self and they become very dangerous and
• 35:40
  violent, so too completely to the point where they begin to lash out at
• 35:47
  everyone around them and they start killing everything around them. So Loose Theren Telemon,
• 35:54
  who was also known as the Dragon went on a rampage. The Dark
• 36:00
  One taints the male half of the True Source, causing every male channeler to
• 36:07
  lose their mind. For losing his hundred companions instantaneous, they all go mad
• 36:14
  right at that point, everyone else all across the world. Uh. They
• 36:17
  slowly start losing their minds, but in the end it ends with the same
• 36:22
  result. They lose their They go mad, and they become extremely violent,
• 36:27
  and they start lashing out at everything around them. So loose there and tell
• 36:31
  them on the Dragon succeeded in sealing away the Dark One, thus saving the
• 36:38
  world, but at the same but at the same time, he broke it.
• 36:45
  And when this happened, lose. After the Dark One was sealed away,
• 36:53
  Lose and his hundred companions go on a rampage. Mm hmmm. So
• 37:00
  they leave, They leave Schilghul, which is the name of the portrait of
• 37:07
  the Dark One's fortress, and they returned to their homes and they start killing
• 37:14
  everybody. They're just so At the end of the War of Power, much
• 37:19
  of the society had it's more or less collapse. A lot of let me
• 37:25
  tell you something, The War of Power was so devastating, like entire nations
• 37:30
  were destroyed, landscapes were changed, Mountains were leveled, new mountains were created,
• 37:37
  Deserts became oceans, oceans, and vice versa. Oceans became deserts.
• 37:43
  All right, By the end of the War of Power, the landscape wasn't
• 37:46
  the same. It completely changed. Oh no, no, But then the
• 37:53
  Breaking of the world happened, and it changed even further because before when Yeah,
• 38:00
  because before their civilization was still salvageable. They could still rebuild, all
• 38:08
  right, much of their society was still standing, all right, it's pretty
• 38:13
  much left had escaped the destruction of the Dark One's forces. Yeah, but
• 38:17
  then the Dark One was sealed away, and all the male Channelers all across
• 38:22
  the world began to go mad, and they all started going on rampages,
• 38:27
  killing everything and everyone, destroying cities, reshaping landscapes. It was a bloodbath.
• 38:36
  So this started the Second Age, which only lasted about like a couple
• 38:39
  centuries, and that was called the break. It was called the breaking of
• 38:44
  the world. So male channelers rampaging, destroying everything. Towards the end of
• 38:51
  this chapter. This was all happening in the prologue. When I just want
• 38:53
  to point that out, I may have thrown at a little extra information there,
• 38:59
  but like not everything. I went a little too further into detail.
• 39:01
  But still this is all. This is still the prologue and the dark So
• 39:08
  towards the end of this chapter Loose that we find Loose there and is uh.
• 39:15
  He had returned to his home. He had like his own castle fortress,
• 39:21
  and everyone in his home was dead. He had killed everyone by sending
• 39:28
  out this creating this pulse of lightning that just instantaneously fried everyone to death,
• 39:35
  including his wife and children. Mm hm, So like you do when you
• 39:44
  go mad, So Loose Darren ended up killing everyone, including his family,
• 39:49
  And so we find him sending in his homes, running by his dead loved
• 39:54
  ones. And suddenly another another figure, a dark figure. Years now the
• 40:00
  book makes it seem like this is the dark one. Mm hmm, all
• 40:07
  right, but this figure addresses himself as Baltimore. I'm sorry, Uh,
• 40:20
  it's not balt themore, it's something else. Yeah, come on, come
• 40:31
  on, I don't want to really spoil it by just telling you, like
• 40:42
  who this figure really is, but honestly, but honestly, Season two of
• 40:49
  Real Have Time spoils who this figure really is because like you actually don't figure
• 40:55
  out who this guy is until book three, who this guy really is until
• 41:00
  three. So I'm just thinking, should I just tell you guys now?
• 41:06
  I mean spoiler alert, you know why I hear It's get five to ten
• 41:10
  seconds, okay, because so at this point I know most of the names
• 41:19
  of all of the Forsaken. Let me see here, because he calls himself
• 41:30
  something else, what does he call himself? It was like Balsamon. That's
• 41:38
  so the figure that appears is just an operation. It's not physical. He's
• 41:44
  not physically there. And he addresses himself as Balzamon. Spoiler alert, it's
• 41:51
  actually one of the Forsaken. It's not the dark it's not the Dark One
• 41:57
  himself, but a certain leader of the Forsaken. The had the chief lieutenant
• 42:05
  of the Dark One and general of the other of the Forsaken. When they
• 42:13
  were sealed away, this particular Forsaken was only half sealed. So because of
• 42:20
  that, the Forsaken when they were sealed away, they were locked in this
• 42:24
  supposedly eternal dreamless sleep. And but this guy, Balzaman, or at least
• 42:34
  he calls himself Balzamon, was only half sealed, and this particular Forsakin has
• 42:40
  an ability called dream walking, so whenever, so even though he's half sealed,
• 42:45
  he ends up enduring this cycle of dreamless sleep to somewhat half awareness.
• 42:53
  So he's still asleep, but he's become aware. Every few centuries he becomes
• 42:59
  aware, like he wakes, so to speak. And when he does this,
• 43:04
  he begins using his power of dream walking to enter the dreams of other
• 43:08
  people. So this is kind of how he was able to This is kind
• 43:13
  of how he was able to project his consciousness in front of Louis then,
• 43:17
  because he was still only half sealed, and so he's still able to touch
• 43:22
  this forsaken was still able to touch the world. So he so he appears
• 43:28
  before lose Tharn and begins taunting him and talking about how this is just going
• 43:34
  to be a repeat of an endless cycle of repeating events. And the thing
• 43:39
  is he realizes, like, wait, this is no fun. I'm gloating
• 43:43
  slash mocking you and you're still half You're still completely mad, lost in your
• 43:47
  madness. So Balzamon uses his power to push back the madness so kind of
• 43:54
  restore a bit of Los's lucidity, as you could say. And when Louise
• 44:05
  theren comes back to himself. Alzamon like mocks him some more and points out,
• 44:09
  look what you've done. And that's when the dragon looks down and realizes
• 44:14
  he's killed everybody he's loved, and in this moment of just pure grief,
• 44:20
  h Lose then draws in an obscene amount of energy from the true source.
• 44:28
  Now, the thing about chandlers is that they're like batteries, all right.
• 44:30
  And the thing about batteries is that they can only hold so much energy,
• 44:36
  all right. Some can hold more than others, but the result is always
• 44:38
  the same if you overcharge it. And that's exactly what happens to Lose,
• 44:47
  Uh accept being the most powerful male channeler of his age. That turned out
• 44:55
  to be a very powerful blast, so deadly and so devastating that it literally
• 45:02
  tore a hole into the earth, creating a volcano. So he kills himself
• 45:10
  or I'm sorry, he unalives himself in a fiery flash of lights, like
• 45:16
  a bolt of lightning shoots down from the sky, strikes him. He explodes.
• 45:22
  That blast bores right through the Earth's cross releasing a huge flow of lava
• 45:29
  that creates a new volcano. Because the area that where his palm was was
• 45:35
  actually like kind of like a flat foresty area, maybe like slightly hill known
• 45:39
  mountain in sight. Well, now there's a mountain volcano and yep, three
• 45:47
  thousand years later, that very volcano becomes known as the Dragon Mountain, the
• 45:52
  place of Loos, Theren's death, and in the wake of his death,
• 46:00
  of course, the world continues to break three thousand years later. So three
• 46:07
  thousand years later, the Age of Legends is just that, an age of
• 46:10
  legends. Most people have forgotten many of the significant historical events that happened.
• 46:17
  Everything that's happened in the Age of Legends is just myth now. But one
• 46:21
  thing everybody remembers vividly and still and still fear was the breaking of the world.
• 46:28
  Once the because the age of mad the age of Madness or the breaking
• 46:36
  of the world was the came to an end when the remaining channelers, the
• 46:40
  female channelers that were left, they came together and they completely obliterated, They
• 46:46
  completely wiped out all the male channelers. Sadly, that was the only way
• 46:53
  that they could protect the world was by killing their loved ones, killing all
• 47:00
  the men and the isidi as it was collapsed and became divided. So now
• 47:07
  three thousand years later than. The Isidi that exists in the Third Age is
• 47:13
  a society of all of all women channelers. They their symbol, the Taoist
• 47:20
  symbol has been divided, and has also been divided, so it is no
• 47:24
  longer the Yin yang symbol is not really used as the whole singular piece.
• 47:31
  But now the new symbol of the Iida is the upside down white comma.
• 47:38
  So that symbol is called the Flame of tarv Along, which is the city
• 47:45
  that the iid I make their home in, which is actually it's at the
• 47:51
  base of the Dragon mount where the where the dragon killed himself. M m.
• 47:59
  So, now, one thing I love about those books, Robert Jordan
• 48:06
  starts off every book with pretty much like the first chapter of every book.
• 48:12
  It starts off pretty much the same. So I'm just going to read you
• 48:17
  like the first paragraph. The wheel of time turns, and ages come and
• 48:23
  pass, leaving memories that become legend, legend fades to myth, and even
• 48:30
  myth is long forgotten. When the age that gave gave it birth comes again
• 48:35
  in one age called the Third Age by some an age yet to come,
• 48:38
  an age long pass. A wind rose in the mountains of mysts. The
• 48:43
  wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning
• 48:47
  of the wheel of time, but it was a beginning. So that's like
• 48:54
  a perfect description of how time works in the Wheel of Time because it's citlical,
• 48:59
  it's sick goal mm hmm. So everything that happened uh in these books
• 49:06
  have already happened before, but it happened so long ago that it's been long
• 49:10
  forgotten. Hell, Like, funny thing was is that Amazon the producers of
• 49:16
  the Amazon Prime show Uh said that when they were asked why did they make
• 49:23
  so many changes from the books, they just decided they they get I'll give
• 49:29
  them this, they get this, this pass because they're like, well,
• 49:31
  wheel of time is cyclical, so you know, events are always repeating themselves,
• 49:38
  but they're always slightly different from the last. No, Like that's fair,
• 49:45
  that's fair. I'll give you that. Your bastards utilize that, utilize
• 49:49
  the themes story themes to their advantage. I mean it works. The show
• 49:54
  was for what it was. The show is good. There's a lot that
• 49:58
  they changed and there was a lot that they took out. They either excluded
• 50:02
  or they maybe something new. But We'll get to it as we get to
• 50:06
  it. Uh So. The story starts with five young individuals that live in
• 50:15
  a small land called the Two Rivers. They all live are living out their
• 50:22
  lives in this small village of Emmonsfield. These five characters that the story is
• 50:29
  centered around is three boys Rand al Thor parent Avara I'm sorry, parent Ibarra,
• 50:38
  and Matt Trim Coffin or Matt m and Igwayne Alvier and the village Wisdom
• 50:47
  Or She's basically like the herbalist slash healer slash doctor slash corporal punishment Ninive al
• 50:58
  Murrah. These these five characters, they're just living their normal lives. Paren
• 51:04
  is a blacksmith's apprentice. Matt helps his father with the farm with his farm.
• 51:09
  Rand does the same. He's a sheep herder and well. Ninive is
• 51:15
  the Wisdom of the village. Ikwaine is the daughter of the village innkeeper and
• 51:22
  she's the apprentice to Ninive to become the next Wisdom. All these characters are
• 51:29
  are pretty young. Their their ages range from like their late teens to their
• 51:32
  early twenties early twenties, with Ninive being somewhere in her mid twenties. She's
• 51:38
  the oldest out of all of them, and so they're pretty much they're going
• 51:45
  about their normal lives. They're preparing for a sort of like harvest festival called
• 51:52
  bell Time. And as they're getting rid. As they're preparing for this upcoming
• 51:58
  festival, two strangers enter the village, a noble woman by the name of
• 52:05
  Moraine Demadrid and her bodyguard Alan Mandragerin Now, for people from Eman's Field,
• 52:19
  they're a pretty isolated community. Anything the villages that are in the two Rivers,
• 52:23
  they're pretty isolated from the rest of the world, so they don't really
• 52:27
  see many newcomers, many outsiders. So many time there's anybody like besides like
• 52:31
  peddlers and merchants that come through throughout the year, it's always it's always a
• 52:37
  bit of a like, it's always newsworthy, like, oh hey, there's
• 52:40
  somebody new in the village. Who could that be? Though, they all
• 52:45
  notice that there's something off about these two strangers. Morain is going around asking
• 52:52
  people questions, particularly about any young individuals that were born roughly twenty years ago,
• 52:59
  and she was and she's asking whether or not they were born in the
• 53:01
  village, and slowly the group notices that her attention begins to focus more on
• 53:09
  the three young men, Matt, Parent and Ran. She talks to them,
• 53:15
  asks them a few questions, just harmless questions. Really, it just
• 53:17
  seems like more of like polite. She's very polite, but you could tell
• 53:22
  that she is, like you know, used to being in charge and used
• 53:24
  to getting answers she wants. But it's clear she has a it's clear that
• 53:30
  she's interested in these three young men specifically, and at one point she gives
• 53:36
  each of them a silver mark with the uh a Tarbalon mark. So,
• 53:42
  of course, if you follow h of course, if you follow like history
• 53:46
  and stuff like that. Back in the day, every city, state or
• 53:51
  nation had their own like currency system with their own like gold silver standards that
• 53:57
  are stamped and everything like that. Well, silver Tarblon mark has a image
• 54:02
  of a woman on one side and the flame of Tarbalon on the other.
• 54:07
  If you want to know what the flame of Tarbolon looks like, uh,
• 54:10
  you know, I'll actually post one in the chat for you, Devin see
• 54:14
  it? Yes, please do? Okay? So, like I said,
• 54:20
  it's basically just an upside down comma mm hmmm, and funnily just like well.
• 54:27
  Fun fact, the other half of the tart of the yin yang symbol,
• 54:32
  the black comma, is used in the present age as a symbol for
• 54:38
  dark friends, people who still pledge themselves to the dark one. And it's
• 54:43
  called the dragons fang mm hmm. Interesting and usually some and sometimes the dragons
• 54:52
  fang is used as a way like kind of like a uh so certain controversial
• 55:01
  real life group whose initials start with three KSh. Usually those guys will burn
• 55:12
  across in your front yard if they don't like you. Well. In the
• 55:15
  wheel of time, there is a group similar to them and who make it
• 55:20
  their life's mission to hunt out dark friends as well as hunt as well as
• 55:27
  hunt down isid Eye channelers, So they're witch hunt basically a group of witch
• 55:32
  hunters, and they think anybody who channels is a friend of the dark,
• 55:37
  regardless of the fact that they actually fight for the Light. And if they
• 55:42
  suspect you of being a dark friend, they will scrawl they will scrawl the
• 55:47
  dragon's fang on your on your door because even if they don't even if they
• 55:52
  don't have proof that you are dark friends, they like to make trouble by
• 55:57
  doing shit like that. They're called the children of the Light hate them.
• 56:00
  They're like the work. They're the absolute worst, even though they're supposed to
• 56:06
  be a good guy quote unquote good guys, and they fight the dark.
• 56:08
  They're just a whole organization of scumbags. And they wear all white. I
• 56:15
  don't trust people who wear all white, near do I. But we will.
• 56:23
  The children like do make an appearance in this book, but we'll get
• 56:25
  to that when we get to that. So not long after Moraine and Land
• 56:34
  make their appearance in Emonsfield, the village comes under attack by a group of
• 56:38
  creatures called trolucks. Traluks or half men are these anthropomorphic chimera. So furries
• 56:50
  don't come for furries, don't come for me when I say this, But
• 56:53
  think of all of your first Sona fantasies, but twist them and make them
• 56:59
  ugly. And that's which you got for a trolloc. Because trollocks range from
• 57:06
  looking from like half men, half wolves or dogs, half men, half
• 57:10
  goat creatures, half men, half bird creatures without just they just have beaks
• 57:15
  and feathers and maybe like the talent for feet. But other than that,
• 57:22
  they're ugly, They stink, they kill, and they'll eat anything in sight,
• 57:30
  and trollocks are led by another form of half men, because usually like
• 57:38
  these dark creatures that fight for the dark one are you know, are generally
• 57:45
  referred to as half men. But they're broken down into creatures like prolucs,
• 57:51
  which is what I just described, and another creature called mirar drawl or fates.
• 57:57
  These half the miar Drawl, are more intelligent than their idiotic trollock cousins.
• 58:05
  They are described as having gray skin. They wear these black coat cloaks
• 58:08
  that even when they move around or like if there's wind, the cloaks don't
• 58:15
  even like billow in the wind or even shift. They just kind of like
• 58:19
  hang there, which is very unnerving. But the most like disturbing feature about
• 58:23
  them is that they got no eyes where their eyes should be. It is
• 58:29
  just like a flat face. It's just like a flat face. It's weird.
• 58:37
  The mirror drawl have abilities, so to speak. They're able to fade
• 58:43
  into shadows and appear and disappear in a shadow, and somehow that gives allows
• 58:50
  them to travel from place to place almost instantaneously. They can create a link
• 58:57
  with themselves to the trollocks that they are leading, So this allows them to
• 59:00
  control the Tralucks and direct them more easily, because without a mirror draw to
• 59:07
  direct and commands, the Triloic force Trlucks will just kill everything indiscriminately, even
• 59:13
  each other. And yeah, but usually it's other non Trillucks. But if
• 59:20
  they got nothing else to kill or fight, they'll just start fighting or killing
• 59:22
  each other. So a huge band, like a small band of Tralucks attack
• 59:29
  Emonsfield Rand is with his father a few miles outside of the village, but
• 59:32
  the Trilucks do attack that His father, who his whole life he thought was
• 59:39
  just a normal farmer, pulls out a sword and starts fighting the trlucks back,
• 59:46
  and the two of them managed to escape, but his father Tam is
• 59:52
  wounded unfortunately. And the problem with problem with getting a wound from a Trollock
• 1:00:00
  blade is Trillic blades the way that they are designed and the way that they
• 1:00:04
  are made, they're made to not only be deadly, but also to be
• 1:00:08
  toxic. So if you get if you get a wound from one of their
• 1:00:12
  blades, it'll fester and get infected really quickly. So unless you have a
• 1:00:19
  specific type of medicine to to treat it, or an I said eye to
• 1:00:25
  heal it, you won't survive, so Brand desperate to help his father.
• 1:00:32
  He doesn't know this because he's because no one in Emonsfield has ever seen a
• 1:00:37
  trollic before, except maybe Tam, because, as as it's revealed later,
• 1:00:42
  Tam used to be a soldier who fought in the i El Wars, and
• 1:00:45
  he may and he may have encountered trollics at one point. It's implied that
• 1:00:50
  he has fought trollics before, but it's never really confirmed. But so anyway,
• 1:00:57
  he drags his wounded father back to the village and he finds that it
• 1:01:00
  is in a state of disarray. The trollocks had already been driven from the
• 1:01:04
  village because think about trollucks is that even though they'll kill anything in sight,
• 1:01:08
  they're also cowards. So if you managed to like stand up to them,
• 1:01:12
  they will run away. They realize like, oh shit, we've bit off
• 1:01:15
  too big of a handle, We've bid off too much more than we can
• 1:01:19
  handle. They'll run. So the villagers were able to rally themselves and they
• 1:01:25
  they drove off the small force of trollics. And it was also thanks to
• 1:01:30
  no small part to Moraine and Land because you've seen episode one for those of
• 1:01:39
  you who've seen the show, you know, in the show, when the
• 1:01:42
  Trillucks attack, Moraine reveals herself to be a nice to die and she uses
• 1:01:47
  her power to fight the Trollucks and drive them from the to drive them from
• 1:01:52
  the village. Which it was this really cool spectacle, I know that got
• 1:01:55
  you hooked on the show. That got you hooked on the show. Yeah,
• 1:02:00
  it sure did. Yeah, well, they there was the Unfortunately in
• 1:02:07
  the book, there wasn't any of that. Rand doesn't even from Rand's perspective.
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  He doesn't get a chance to see it. He just hears about He
• 1:02:13
  just hears about it secondhand. And it really wasn't much. She chucked a
• 1:02:17
  few fireballs and called down a bolt of lightning and that was enough to like
• 1:02:22
  send their trollocks running. And of course they also and of course they also
• 1:02:27
  saw a land using his sword work to drive to fight back, so they
• 1:02:31
  were able to defend and drive the small force of Trollucks away from the village.
• 1:02:37
  When Rand realizes that Moraine is an isid eye because when she appears in
• 1:02:42
  the village in the book, she doesn't reveal herself to be an isid i
• 1:02:46
  and which is common, which is actually really common for the iid eye when
• 1:02:50
  they're traveling. They don't really tell you that they're ice ad i unless you
• 1:02:53
  actually know what to look for in terms of physical description of an isid eye.
• 1:03:00
  Kah, you won't really because why would they tell you. Yeah,
• 1:03:05
  because in uh while most lands universally they are the isidai are feared, but
• 1:03:13
  in a more of like a respectful way, like it's in more of that
• 1:03:16
  kind of like respectfully feared, like Okay, we know these these these ladies
• 1:03:22
  are are some bad bitches, so you don't want to fuck with them,
• 1:03:24
  right uh. And they're small and there are certain small nations that just outright
• 1:03:32
  hate them. There's one nation called Amadisha, which is where the Children of
• 1:03:37
  the Light or the White Cloaks come from. That is that is the country
• 1:03:43
  that they have their home base. And there's another country called Tier. Channeling
• 1:03:50
  is completely illegal, but whenever a girl uh begins showcasing their ability to channel,
• 1:03:57
  they are tipped off. They don't kill them, they just ship them
• 1:04:00
  off. They're like, all right, we don't watch you here, so
• 1:04:01
  they'll just ship They'll just send them to Tarblan so they can start their training
• 1:04:05
  as an isidye damn yep uh so. But that is like the main that
• 1:04:12
  I just want to put that out. That's a big difference from the book.
• 1:04:15
  In the move and the show and the show, when Moraine shows up,
• 1:04:18
  she immediately flashes her sit her ring and everyone realizes Iceidi, because isid
• 1:04:29
  I. They all wear these rings. The way the rings look like in
• 1:04:33
  the show is different from how they are described in the book and the show.
• 1:04:36
  There are these golden rings with they're kind of like these big bulky rings
• 1:04:41
  with like a different colored gem, and the color of the gem usually describes
• 1:04:45
  which Aja they're from. Mm hmm. We'll talk about the ajas a little
• 1:04:49
  bit later, but Moraine is from the Blue Aja. Though she's very on
• 1:04:57
  brands even in the book, because she wears she usually wears all blue silk
• 1:05:02
  dresses. In the book, she wears a golden chain headdress with a bluestone
• 1:05:10
  on it. Yeah, And when she's first introduced, she's actually carrying a
• 1:05:15
  like an ivory, like a wooden staff, like a white wood staff.
• 1:05:18
  What she uses she'll you'll see throughout the book she'll use it as like an
• 1:05:23
  arcane focus to like shoot fireballs and like help her weave her to help her
• 1:05:30
  channel, but she'll we'll get to that, and we'll get to that later.
• 1:05:36
  Now, I want to point out that Moraine in the Boot, in
• 1:05:40
  the TV show and then the book are simultaneously very similar to each other but
• 1:05:45
  different. So in the show, Moraine is like, right off the bat,
• 1:05:51
  she tells the She tells the five main characters that the reason why she's
• 1:05:57
  here in Emonsfield is because she suspects that the dragon reborn. The dragon was
• 1:06:02
  reborn, lous theren Talaman has finally been reborn, and it could be one
• 1:06:09
  of it could be one of you five individuals. She immediately tells them right
• 1:06:15
  off the bat, I'm looking for the dragon reborn. But in the book
• 1:06:21
  she doesn't tell him shit. So the thing about Moraine is Moraine comes from
• 1:06:29
  she is actually she is a noble woman. She actually did come from a
• 1:06:33
  country called Kerahin. And the thing about cara Hein is that they have this
• 1:06:38
  practice called the game of Houses, which we had this discussion, which is
• 1:06:43
  probably where the Game of Thrones got its inspiration from. And yeah, and
• 1:06:49
  before you guys try to telling me no Game of Thrones was original, I
• 1:06:53
  want you to look up the publishing dates for the Game of Thrones and for
• 1:06:57
  uh for we and you'll find that book too, which is when the Game
• 1:07:02
  of Thrones is the Game of Houses is first mentioned. That book was published
• 1:07:08
  well before Game of Thrones ever came out. So don't talk. Don't talk
• 1:07:13
  to me about Oh, he stole that from Game of Thrones. No he
• 1:07:15
  didn't. He invented it. So the thing is, Moraine, the thing
• 1:07:21
  about the Game of Houses is that is basically a political game manipulation and trying
• 1:07:30
  to get one about, like one over the next, every noble trying to
• 1:07:33
  get one over the next noble in line. And Morain she just outright she's
• 1:07:41
  very manipulative. In fact, it she's she can be subtle when she's in
• 1:07:45
  her manipulations. But the thing is, it's kind of it's very clear that
• 1:07:48
  she's trying to like, it's very clear that she's trying to influence you to
• 1:07:54
  go in the direction that she wants you to go. Yeah, right,
• 1:07:58
  And she is good. She knows how to do her shit, whereas the
• 1:08:01
  Moraine in the show, she does it. It's clear that she does manipulate
• 1:08:05
  people, but at the same time it's just more of like she's more kind
• 1:08:11
  of upfront with it, like, Hey, I need you guys to come
• 1:08:16
  with me to tarble on because I think one of because I think one of
• 1:08:19
  you is the dragon reborn. Now, you can either stay here and wait
• 1:08:24
  for the trollic forces to come and kill and capture you or kill you,
• 1:08:28
  or you can come with me and you can save the rest of your village.
• 1:08:30
  Whereas the marine in the book, she's just like, well, I
• 1:08:35
  don't know, yeah, I don't know why these trollocks came here, but
• 1:08:40
  you know what, from what I've gandered, they have a strange I couldn't
• 1:08:47
  help but notice that they focus their attention on you three boys. They attacked
• 1:08:53
  your farm, rent, they attacked your farm ran, and they attacked your
• 1:08:58
  father's farm, uh Matt. And they also came for the house that your
• 1:09:02
  family owns here in the village. And then they also attacked the smithy,
• 1:09:10
  the smithy shop where your apprentice at parent And that interesting, how weird,
• 1:09:17
  That's so weird, you know what. They have a strange fascination with you
• 1:09:20
  guys. And look, don't take my word for it, but I think
• 1:09:25
  the three of you may be in danger. And until we figure out why,
• 1:09:30
  oh, no, no, no, you're not. I don't think
• 1:09:31
  you're a dark friend, definitely not. But it's concerning. It's concerning,
• 1:09:40
  and I think you should come with me to travel on where we can figure
• 1:09:43
  things out and where you guys will be safe. Oh, don't worry about
• 1:09:46
  your village. They don't care about your village. They care about you three.
• 1:09:49
  You come with me, your village will be safe. I see what
• 1:09:53
  she did there, Ah, she doesn't see. She does not reveal at
• 1:09:59
  all, at least like hell, she doesn't even reveal to them even at
• 1:10:01
  the end of the book. She doesn't even reveal to them, to them
• 1:10:04
  why she came to the village in the first place, and that is to
• 1:10:09
  seek out loose there in Taliman Reborn or the Dragon Reborn. And I wonder
• 1:10:14
  why she told them in the I don't know, but I mean I think
• 1:10:19
  for they really played on the whole, like isid I can't lie because the
• 1:10:25
  iid I when a sister of the order ascends to their full rank, because
• 1:10:30
  there's like there's three levels in their training. There is the novice, which
• 1:10:34
  is like the like that's their beginning. They start training how to learn how
• 1:10:39
  to channel and all the ways of the isid I, and then after they
• 1:10:43
  reach a certain point, they are elevated to the level of accepted, which
• 1:10:46
  is like basically it's more of like an adept learner. So they've they've got
• 1:10:53
  experience, they have more knowledge and how to use the source response, the
• 1:10:57
  true source responsibly, and then that's where they bet to really learn what it
• 1:11:00
  means to be in Isidaie. Of course, they they're able to like continue
• 1:11:05
  their own studies at their studies at their own pace instead of like the strict
• 1:11:10
  regiment that they have as an officis. And they also begin to study and
• 1:11:14
  figure out which Aja would I fit better in because there are seven as in
• 1:11:20
  uh in the Isidie blue, red, green, yellow, white, gray,
• 1:11:28
  and brown. I always forget about brown. Oh yeah, brown,
• 1:11:36
  yep. Each Aja has their own specialty and has their own like sort of
• 1:11:43
  role that they play in the world. Ultimately, they're all hoping to guide.
• 1:11:48
  Their ultimate goal is to guide the world in the right direction and prepare
• 1:11:54
  themselves for the final battle, which is known as tom or guided. All
• 1:11:59
  right, and so with Moraine being a blue Aja in the show, they
• 1:12:06
  call them the spies. They're the ones that they tend to be like the
• 1:12:12
  lone Wolves. They do a lot of traveling, they gather information, but
• 1:12:17
  really it's more complex. They take up the blues. They take up causes,
• 1:12:24
  all right. If they find the cause that they believe will lead a
• 1:12:29
  nation, a person, like an influential person, or entire group of people
• 1:12:34
  in the right direction, that will make things more favorable, not only for
• 1:12:38
  Tarbalon but for the world. They will, they'll take up that cause.
• 1:12:44
  They'll they'll do they they Yeah, they hard coremulate. They'll manipulate these people,
• 1:12:50
  but really the manipulation is all for the greater good in the end.
• 1:12:55
  Whereas like the Red Aja, which honestly, the Red Ajia is my least
• 1:12:59
  favorite because for one thing, they are a group of massandrists. For those
• 1:13:05
  of you who don't know, it's like misogynists, except women who hate men
• 1:13:13
  read isaid I have the Red Ajia. Their main role is to hunt down
• 1:13:19
  any male channeler, capture them, bring them to Tarbalan. Well that where
• 1:13:24
  they will be gentled. And gentling is when you are permanently severed from the
• 1:13:30
  source. You're not dead, but your wish will be dead. Because thing
• 1:13:34
  about the source is that it is addictive drawing upon that energy into yourself.
• 1:13:40
  It gives you like this, like it's like it's like being on crack.
• 1:13:44
  All right, everything is dialed up to is dial up to twenty all right,
• 1:13:47
  your senses you just you feel more alive and rejuvenated. Yeah, all
• 1:13:54
  right. But being cut off from it permanently, it's like being it's like
• 1:13:59
  being forced to go, like cut yourself off from an addictive substance cold turkey,
• 1:14:04
  except that addiction never goes away, and in the end most people who
• 1:14:10
  have been severed because so severed or severing is the gender neutral term for the
• 1:14:16
  process of being cut off from the source. Men are gentled while women are
• 1:14:23
  stilled. So same shit, just the gender like the term that is more
• 1:14:30
  gender specific. So that's what the Reds do. The Yellows are the healers.
• 1:14:35
  They study healing and any form of healing practices and they use their power
• 1:14:41
  to heal, even though they're not very good at it, which is later
• 1:14:45
  revealed. The Greens are known as the battle Aja. They're called that because
• 1:14:51
  every iceid eye, unless you're a Red Reds, they don't do this,
• 1:14:58
  but every Aja, every isid eye takes on a bodyguard called a water,
• 1:15:02
  which is what plan is and these words uh. They are their protectors,
• 1:15:08
  their bodyguards, their companions. When they take on a worder, the isid
• 1:15:14
  eye will create a they'll bond with their water, which is they create a
• 1:15:17
  permanent emphatic link with their water. So they're basically synchronizing themselves with their with
• 1:15:26
  their order, so they can they can feel whatever their word is feeling,
• 1:15:30
  so like their moods or like if their their water is in pain, they
• 1:15:33
  can feel that. But it's not really just so they can feel what their
• 1:15:38
  word is feeling and vice versa. It's more so that way, the water
• 1:15:42
  gets some extra benefits from being bonded to an isid eye, like uh,
• 1:15:46
  it's hinted that they live longer, so like they get so their life is
• 1:15:51
  extended more, they their senses become heightened, and overall they become like better
• 1:16:00
  Dodd for doing their job for survival and for protecting their Isidie. Now the
• 1:16:04
  Green Aja now typically isid I only take on one water, but members of
• 1:16:12
  the Green Aja traditionally will take on more. They'll take on as many as
• 1:16:16
  like eight at a time. And they do this because they are preparing themselves
• 1:16:23
  for the final battle. So they train themselves to be more ready to fight.
• 1:16:27
  They take on extra warters, so like they're ready to lead an entire
• 1:16:30
  battalion of like the souped up soldiers into the final battle. And you see
• 1:16:39
  blue, red, green, yellow, see here. The brown Aja they
• 1:16:45
  are the scholars. They study history x. Their goal is to preserve knowledge
• 1:16:51
  in any capacity as they can. The White Aja they are the They are
• 1:16:58
  the logical ones and honestly the most useless out of the all the Ajas.
• 1:17:02
  And then there's the gray Aza, which are the politicians. They are the
• 1:17:09
  leaders, so to speak. They tend to take more a more active role
• 1:17:15
  in UH negotiations, establishing treaties between nations, anything political. They specialize in
• 1:17:23
  it. Now, there is an unofficial eighth Asia, but it's it's called
• 1:17:30
  the It's a hidden Aja that the other Ajas fear because if it is true
• 1:17:38
  that this Aja exists, then that means darkness has touched even them. And
• 1:17:43
  this Aja is called the Black Aja. And they're the Isida who pledge themselves
• 1:17:48
  to the Dark One. They're not like the Forsaken, but they still serve
• 1:17:51
  the Dark One and they're considered Dark friends. So uh yeah, so morain,
• 1:17:59
  Sorry, I went off on a whole tangent. There's just so much
• 1:18:01
  lore in this shit. Huh, there's so much shit. Yeah, there's
• 1:18:10
  so much. Yeah, there's a lot, So just get back on track.
• 1:18:15
  Moraine convinces so. In the In the show, Moraine takes Rand,
• 1:18:21
  Paren, Matt, and Igwayne because she thinks those four could be the Dragon
• 1:18:27
  Reborn and somewhat to an extent, Ninive, even though Ninive is too is
• 1:18:31
  way older than the age that she suspects the Dragon Reborn would be by now,
• 1:18:39
  but Ninive ends up joining them, but not until much later in the
• 1:18:43
  book. However, she's not really concerned with I, GWayne or Ninive.
• 1:18:47
  She's She's actually more focused on Paren, Matt, and Rent because they're all
• 1:18:54
  the same age, about twenty years old, and it was clear that the
• 1:19:00
  Trolks were focusing on those three, so she takes them. So she convinces
• 1:19:04
  the three of them to leave Emonsfield with her and head to Tarve along will
• 1:19:10
  be not only be safe, but it will also draw the dark Dark Forces
• 1:19:14
  away from their village to protect it. Now as they're leaving. In the
• 1:19:18
  book, Igwaine actually ends up jumping on this bandwagon because she realizes that she
• 1:19:28
  wants more from life than that of a village wisdom. You know, there's
• 1:19:31
  a simple, small villager and Moraine readily accepts her as a part of their
• 1:19:38
  crew because Morain realized sees something in Igwuayine that is actually beneficial more Igwaine as
• 1:19:47
  the spark she has the inborn spark to become to become an is at eye.
• 1:19:55
  So with thinking about channelers, there are two types of channelers aside from
• 1:19:59
  the genders. There are channelers who are born with the ability to channel,
• 1:20:04
  so like they'll naturally develop they'll naturally touch the source on their own, which
• 1:20:11
  can be dangerous without guidance, but still they'll develop the ability on their own
• 1:20:16
  and naturally the ice that I really want to find these people because if they
• 1:20:21
  don't and they touch the source without guidance, they could die because the source
• 1:20:28
  first. Touching the source for the first time without somebody to help you or
• 1:20:30
  to guide you can be fatal. And then the other type are people who
• 1:20:35
  can learn how to channel. Now they're not uncommon, but they're not as
• 1:20:41
  rare as people born with the ability. So if the thing is channelers can
• 1:20:47
  sense can feel like a certain sense of like I don't want to say relation,
• 1:20:55
  but like they're like a certain sense of closeness with people who have the
• 1:21:00
  ability to channel, even if it's whether it's the inborn spark or the ability
• 1:21:05
  to learn. Yeah, So Moraine quickly realized that that Igwaine and even Ninive
• 1:21:15
  had both had the spark to be inborn spark to channel. The thing is.
• 1:21:20
  At first, Moraine brushes off nine Eve because Ninive is too old.
• 1:21:27
  Usually they only accept channel the I said, I will only accept young women
• 1:21:31
  of a certain age, but once they reach us, once they are past
• 1:21:35
  a certain point, they won't accept them, even if they are like very
• 1:21:40
  powerful channelers, if they had the potential to be a very powerful channeler,
• 1:21:44
  there's like, no, you're too old, Like, no, you're too
• 1:21:48
  old. And also Ninive is very combative and had no interest in any dealings
• 1:21:54
  with the isid eye. So Moraine was willing to just let her slide.
• 1:21:59
  Whereas Igwayne was just the right age and Moraine was like, all right,
• 1:22:03
  let's go and she proves and Maureene does does prove that Egwaine has the natural
• 1:22:11
  spark by doing a test with her. So she wears that headdress I mentioned
• 1:22:15
  earlier with that blue stone. She uses it as a bit of like a
• 1:22:18
  like a focus, and what she does is she channels some power into it.
• 1:22:25
  And the way this, the way the test work is it's meant to
• 1:22:28
  like draw out the ability in another in Igwaine. So when she channels into
• 1:22:35
  the gem, she causes it to like light up, to blink with light
• 1:22:40
  a few times. And she does this until Igwaine's own natural channeling ability appears
• 1:22:46
  and makes the stone light up herself, and depending on how bright the stone
• 1:22:53
  lines up, determines like, oh well, how powerful you are and the
• 1:22:57
  source And when she does this, power comes out and makes the stone blink
• 1:23:03
  a bright flash of light. And Morain's like that last that last little flash
• 1:23:09
  of light was was all you. And from what I could sell, they're
• 1:23:13
  pretty powerful. So that's why. So that was the original reason why Iguayne
• 1:23:21
  was included in this. She was not actually considered to be potentially the dragon
• 1:23:26
  reborn. It was mainly just the three boys. Uh. So this small
• 1:23:33
  party begins to journey north. They reach ah they reached a village called arran
• 1:23:42
  Fair uh Terrence Ferry m hm. And they make their way north. They're
• 1:23:50
  continuously pursued by the Trlus and mere draw and along the way they meet a
• 1:24:00
  bard or a Gleaman by the name of uh Tom Marilyn. Now in the
• 1:24:08
  show, Tom does make an appearance in like I think episode two or it
• 1:24:15
  was either two or three, just after they had to escape this dark city
• 1:24:19
  called Shadar Lookoth. But in reality, in the book, Tom Marylyn actually
• 1:24:29
  comes to was first introduced in emons Field. He came to the village.
• 1:24:33
  He came to the village because of the Baltine festival, and he ends up
• 1:24:39
  going along with them because he decides he not he not only needs to get
• 1:24:42
  the fuck out of the village, but he wants to keep any on those
• 1:24:44
  boys because he knows that getting involved with the Isid Eye can lead to trouble.
• 1:24:48
  Yeah uh. In their travels, they are actually tracked down by Ninive
• 1:24:57
  because let me tell you something Ninese personality is. She is combative, she's
• 1:25:05
  very fierce and I'm not not stuck up, but she's very firm insteadfast in
• 1:25:13
  her beliefs. And when Moraine left with her four charges, they left in
• 1:25:18
  the middle of the night in secret, so that way they don't one they
• 1:25:23
  don't disturb the village they don't freak out the villagers and two. So that
• 1:25:26
  way they don't alert the trlocks right away to where they went, because eventually
• 1:25:31
  the trlocks will follow them, but hopefully it'll it ensures that they it keep
• 1:25:40
  that it. They leave the village alone. But when Niniveh realizes that,
• 1:25:45
  oh they all took off, she was like, oh, hell no,
• 1:25:48
  and she promises her village, her village, that she'll go and get them
• 1:25:53
  back, and she tracks them down and actually does find them, which surprises
• 1:25:59
  Land because Lan is an expert tracker and he knows how to cover their trail,
• 1:26:06
  so he's so the way he does that is by leading them in like
• 1:26:11
  uh kind of like an offset direction, so not following the main roads or
• 1:26:15
  anything like that, and he does everything he can to like keep their trail
• 1:26:20
  hidden. But then out of nowhere, ninive appears like a fiery hurricane,
• 1:26:25
  and she goes off on Moraine and the and the boys in GWayne. She
• 1:26:30
  goes off on on the whole gang, like how could you leave? You're
• 1:26:32
  coming back with me right now, like, and Lane has just caught off
• 1:26:36
  guard, like what the fuck? How did you find us? So it's
• 1:26:43
  hint it is hinted that even in this book that there's a bit of a
• 1:26:47
  romance between Lean and Ninive. It's true, but that honestly their romance gets
• 1:26:58
  dragged all throughout the years. They don't actually like even now, I'm I'm
• 1:27:01
  only on book six and they're not even together yet, and like book six
• 1:27:06
  takes place like about almost three years later and they're still not together yet.
• 1:27:13
  Yeah, but there's a there's all kinds of drums that stuff. But so
• 1:27:21
  Moraine makes it clear that under no uncertain on certain terms, that these guys
• 1:27:28
  won't be going back to Emon's field. One because the boys are in danger
• 1:27:32
  and their very presence in the village makes puts the village in danger. And
• 1:27:38
  two, Igwayne chose to leave the village and she wishes to go come with
• 1:27:43
  Moraine to Tarvelan to begin her training as an is at Eye. And while
• 1:27:46
  Ninive accepts rather begrudgingly that they need her help, they need Moraine's help at
• 1:27:57
  least until they can get the Tarlocks off their act, she still is determined
• 1:28:01
  to bring them all home, so she decides to travel with them. They
• 1:28:05
  begin to They continue their journey in a more easterly direction and because they're trying
• 1:28:13
  to stay close to one of the main roads because it will eventually lead them
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  to Tarvelan. And also they follow along one of the main rivers. But
• 1:28:23
  unfortunately the Trollic forces not only triple a number uh the numbers of talks tracing
• 1:28:30
  them, chasing them, excuse me h, not only like triple and number,
• 1:28:36
  but they force them in a direction that they don't want to go.
• 1:28:41
  But Nimi, but Moraine decides, all right, the only way we can
• 1:28:45
  lose these guys is if we go to the one place they will not want
• 1:28:47
  to go, and that is a is a dark, desolate city called Shadar
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  Logoth. That's an interesting name. Yeah, it is a name from the
• 1:29:00
  Old tongue and it means it means the shadow's weight. Now, Shadar loo
• 1:29:08
  Goth was an ancient city. Was a city that was built after the breaking
• 1:29:13
  of the world. Hold on me, look God, all right. So
• 1:29:26
  shad Logoth was a city that used to be named our Hoole and it existed
• 1:29:32
  about about It stood about a thousand years ago, and it was actually a
• 1:29:38
  close ally to another kingdom called Menethren. Menethrene used to be the city of
• 1:29:44
  Menethren used to be in the in the land that Emonsfield currently exists. Menethrine
• 1:29:51
  no longer exists, but its descendants and its territory reside in the land is
• 1:30:00
  now known as Two Rivers all right now. Manethrin was destroyed during a brutal
• 1:30:08
  three century war called the Trolloc Wars, which happens a little over a thousand
• 1:30:12
  years ago, like closer to two thousand years ago, I think. But
• 1:30:19
  they one of their closest allies, aart Hall, was supposed to come to
• 1:30:24
  their aid at the height of the war, but they didn't, and that
• 1:30:28
  was because art Hale became infested with the darkness. A stranger, a strange
• 1:30:39
  man appeared in the city around that time. Man name he has like a
• 1:30:45
  bunch of different names more death, Mashadar and a few other names. But
• 1:30:54
  Mashad Mahadar or Mashadar is the name of this man and this man later entity
• 1:31:02
  that came to take up residence in the city and he began to corrupt the
• 1:31:06
  city. The people before they were very trusting of each other. They there
• 1:31:11
  was a Aaron Hall had a very strong sense of community or however the hell
• 1:31:15
  you say that name? Oh my God. Camaraderie. Camaraderie. Yeah,
• 1:31:21
  that we'll go with that. When he came along, he began to whisper
• 1:31:27
  in the ears of the nobles and the leadership, and he began to instill
• 1:31:30
  the sense of mistrust in them, and eventually people in the city began turning
• 1:31:35
  on each other fighting. There was a lot of infighting. There was a
• 1:31:40
  lot of just dissension in the city. The city had these massive walls so
• 1:31:45
  like because back during the Trollic Wars, cities had to build these massive walls
• 1:31:49
  just to keep the Trillic forces out. And eventually, after the Trollic War
• 1:31:58
  ended and then the Etherren was destroyed, other allies of the of these two
• 1:32:02
  cities came to investigate, like what happened to Arithole. They were supposed to
• 1:32:08
  come to the uh Timanethan's aid, but when they were, when they reached
• 1:32:14
  the city, they found that it was completely empty. There was no people.
• 1:32:18
  There was nobody inside the city whatsoever, no bodies nothing. Of course,
• 1:32:26
  of course, their personal their possessions and anything that was in the city
• 1:32:30
  before the people disappeared, they were still there. But there was this sense
• 1:32:35
  of like this darkness, this malignant force. Was this sense of this evil
• 1:32:42
  like infested the city, and that city became so dark and evil that not
• 1:32:48
  even trolks or other halfmen will willingly go into that city. He realized how
• 1:32:56
  fucked up a place has to how evil a place has to be when other
• 1:33:00
  evil forces refuse to step foot in there. So Morain gets this bright idea,
• 1:33:05
  all right, if we can't outrun them, we can go to the
• 1:33:09
  one place they won't go, and that is Shaudar look goth Aarnhol got its
• 1:33:15
  new name Shougar lookth because of that malignant force. It's later revealed that Mashadar
• 1:33:23
  is this entity that it takes the form of like this mist. At least
• 1:33:28
  in the books it does in the show. It looks like this kind of
• 1:33:31
  rot that crawls over the stone and the rest of the city, and it
• 1:33:35
  like just eats and disintegrates anything living. Well, the myst does the same
• 1:33:41
  thing, and it will attack anything dark, friend and half men, regular
• 1:33:46
  people, doesn't matter who you are, it'll attack and kill you. At
• 1:33:51
  first, Morain tells them to stay close to her, and when they go
• 1:33:57
  into the city, they find a place to set up for the night,
• 1:34:00
  and Moraine places a ward around the area that they're staying in. So that
• 1:34:04
  way during the night, because at night, that's when should I look office
• 1:34:10
  at its most dangerous. Uh, they'll still be protected by her awards.
• 1:34:15
  Rands and Matt decide. Ran, Matt, and Paren decide to explore the
• 1:34:20
  city a little bit. At one point, Ran and Matt encounter another man
• 1:34:31
  who calls himself. Uh, I forgot exactly what he calls himself. We
• 1:34:40
  see see this, it's this is how convoluted the story is because one character
• 1:34:44
  will have like a dozen different names. Oh god, yeah, all right.
• 1:34:50
  Honestly, like I said, this one entity has like so many different
• 1:34:55
  names, it doesn't matter. Mashadar is really the name used or the entity
• 1:35:00
  that is like takes on this mislike form while this other entity, well,
• 1:35:05
  it's implied that the same thing. But the thing is is that this is
• 1:35:09
  this the evil that resides in Shahdar Logoth is not only corruptive, but it's
• 1:35:15
  contagious too. So when they enter the city, Moraine warns everybody, whatever,
• 1:35:21
  under no circumstances are you to take anything from this city. Even the
• 1:35:28
  smallest pebble can infect you with the evil, and you can end up carrying
• 1:35:32
  it with you to other places where the evil will grow and overcome. So
• 1:35:40
  but while they're exploring the city, Matt and parent, I'm sorry, no,
• 1:35:44
  not Matt and Parent. Matt and Ran encounter a man, right,
• 1:35:50
  let's say he's a man. They think he's a man, calls himself more
• 1:35:56
  death and more death, not just a little death, but more death.
• 1:36:01
  Yes, that's anyway, more death. The see. The thing is Matt,
• 1:36:08
  well, Rand was just curious about the city and just wanting to see,
• 1:36:12
  like what a big city is supposed to be like, because he's never
• 1:36:15
  been in one. Matt is over here more focused on finding treasure. So
• 1:36:24
  they're looking around and when they find when they encounter more death, Matt is
• 1:36:29
  like, do you know where the treasure is? And the guy's like,
• 1:36:30
  oh yeah, sure, I'm gonna show you, and he leads him to
• 1:36:32
  this dark basement. It's filled with treasure. But you know that's but but
• 1:36:47
  the thing is Rand is the one out of the only one of the two
• 1:36:50
  of them that has any sense because he won. He's like, oh wait,
• 1:36:54
  Matt, we're not even supposed to take Marian says, we're not supposed
• 1:36:56
  to take anything, even like even remember what she said, and Matt kind
• 1:37:01
  of brushes him off, but at the same time he's starting to get subsvivibes
• 1:37:04
  from more Death and turns out more Death was going to try to kill them,
• 1:37:10
  but in a panic while Ran, who had taken his father's sword,
• 1:37:16
  I actually mention something about maybe let me just kind of like take a little
• 1:37:21
  moment to talk about Rand's sword. So when there when their village was attacked,
• 1:37:30
  his father turns out has a sword from his days as a soldier.
• 1:37:36
  But he wasn't just any tam author. RAN's father wasn't just any regular soldier.
• 1:37:43
  He was a blades master or a blade master. And think about in
• 1:37:47
  the wheel of time, when a swordsman reaches a certain level of proficiency and
• 1:37:53
  mastery over sword play, they can they can ascend to the rank of blade
• 1:37:59
  master, and when they do, they're given a special sword. They kind
• 1:38:03
  of look like a Japanese katana, but really they're more described as something like
• 1:38:08
  a saber. It's a curved blade. It's a single edged, curved blade
• 1:38:13
  with a crossguard and like a two handed grip. The way the way they
• 1:38:19
  look in the show, it makes more sense because the way it's kind of
• 1:38:24
  like the way Robert Jordan trying to make the sword his the swords in the
• 1:38:28
  book look it's kind of like a cross between a katana and a European longsword,
• 1:38:32
  which really doesn't work, especially with the t crossguard. But either way,
• 1:38:41
  so, in the early days of the Third Age, the Isida used
• 1:38:45
  to make really powerful weapons that were simultaneously unbreakable. But so these weapons that
• 1:38:56
  they would make were stronger than normal weapons. They would never go dull and
• 1:39:00
  they would never break. The thing is is that when they did that,
• 1:39:03
  it led to countless different wars where you know, men were killing each other,
• 1:39:09
  and it eventually forced the isid I to take on the three oaths never
• 1:39:14
  to tell a lie, never to use the power as a weapon, and
• 1:39:18
  never to make weapons for men to kill each other with. Mm hmmm.
• 1:39:25
  And they did that third one, especially because of the fact that, oh
• 1:39:28
  we fucked up, we made we made powerful weapons that can't break, we're
• 1:39:34
  dull and men were killing Yeah. I didn't know whoopsie I did a fucking
• 1:39:45
  luckie. Yeah. But anyway, there's still some of these weapons survived.
• 1:39:50
  Even though the I said I don't make these weapons anymore, there's still there
• 1:39:54
  are still quite a few of them remaining, and if a noble happens to
• 1:40:00
  have one on hand, and there's a swordsman among the rank that has mastered
• 1:40:06
  have proven that they are a master of the sword, they will present the
• 1:40:10
  blade to this new blade master. And Tamil Thor happened to get one because
• 1:40:15
  he was a blade master. And what makes these unique is not these swords
• 1:40:18
  unique is not only because they have an unbreakable blade, but they also have
• 1:40:25
  a stamp of a heron on each side of the blade and also on the
• 1:40:30
  hilt itself. So it's significant because throughout the books the heron mark blade is
• 1:40:38
  it marks you as a blade master, and a lot of people end up
• 1:40:41
  giving rants kind of this SIDEI like, this young dude here is this blade
• 1:40:45
  is a blade master the fuck. But I mean, like his father didn't
• 1:40:51
  care. He's like, you need a sword. Take my sword. Where
• 1:40:56
  you're going, it's gonna be dangerous. So anyway, yeah, that's to
• 1:40:58
  Shadarlogoth pulls out his sword and Matt in a panic, reaches into the into
• 1:41:03
  the treasure pile and pulls out a dagger with a ruby gem and embedded into
• 1:41:09
  the handle, and they defend themselves against the against this man, more death
• 1:41:16
  and more death ends up vanishing in this puff of mist. Freaked out,
• 1:41:24
  the two of them run back to Moraine to report what they saw, or
• 1:41:29
  they weren't really gonna tell her what they saw. They were just like,
• 1:41:31
  uh, yeah, we got a fucked up. Let's not tell her.
• 1:41:33
  She might get mad. But whereas Rad didn't touch a single thing in that
• 1:41:41
  treasure pile, Matt slipped that dagger he grabbed into his pocket. That's significant.
• 1:41:47
  Don't forget that. They go back to Moraine and they unfortunately, they
• 1:41:55
  don't manage to They don't manage to stay and Shodar uh look off uh overnight
• 1:42:02
  like they planned, because the mire Drawl, who were leading the Trialoks chasing
• 1:42:08
  them, forced the Taraloks to enter the city and pursue them. When this
• 1:42:12
  happens, Moraine's like, ah shit, they did the one thing I thought
• 1:42:15
  they weren't gonna do. Ah shit, here we go again. Uh huh.
• 1:42:20
  And pretty much just the thing about the thing about Shadara Logoth in the
• 1:42:24
  book and in the show was that whereas they entered the city willingly to get
• 1:42:28
  away from them. In the book and the show, Moraine was like,
• 1:42:32
  whatever, Okay, I got a I got a boo boo in my shoulder
• 1:42:38
  that's killing me right now and I'm probably not gonna be conscious for them until
• 1:42:42
  I get healed. But whatever you do, do not take us into that
• 1:42:45
  city, all right, see you? And then she just passes out.
• 1:42:51
  And then when she comes to, she's like, you, oh shit,
• 1:42:57
  you did exactly what I told you not to do. And I was taken
• 1:43:00
  into the city. Y'all got me fucked up anyway. But uh so they
• 1:43:06
  end up having to escape from the city because the trials are now pursuing them
• 1:43:12
  through the city. But when this, as soon as the sun set,
• 1:43:15
  this eerie myst begins to appear, like this really thick mist and it has
• 1:43:24
  a life of its own. And this myth, this mist is the entity
• 1:43:29
  Mashadar. Did I say his name? See this? This is where this
• 1:43:34
  this story got me fucked up, because there's like so many different names for
• 1:43:39
  one thing. Mm hmm, Masdar, Mashadar, Mashadar. So this so
• 1:43:53
  Mashadar appears out of the night and it envelops the entire city. Uh and
• 1:44:00
  anything that gets caught in the mists immediately dies violently, painfully, gruesomely.
• 1:44:08
  It's not a pretty sight, and Moraine tells the others, Okay, whatever
• 1:44:12
  you do, don't don't run headfirst into the mitt into the mists. Try
• 1:44:15
  to avoid it as much as possible. But at one point, uh,
• 1:44:20
  the band ends up getting separated. Uh, I think my Neive doesn't show
• 1:44:30
  up until after they get separated. Even in the book, I can't remember,
• 1:44:42
  and I fucked up. Part is is that in the eye of the
• 1:44:45
  world, it's kind of hard to like figure out m hold on, I
• 1:44:53
  could search the ship up you devin't cut this so cool. That's just the
• 1:45:02
  one thing I needed to know. So in the show, Ninive doesn't track
• 1:45:09
  them down until after doesn't track down the group until after they get out of
• 1:45:13
  Shadarla Goth, but in the show she actually but I'm sorry the show is
• 1:45:16
  after. But in the book she actually catches up to them before they get
• 1:45:20
  caught. They get to Shadarlo Goth and when they're trying to escape from the
• 1:45:27
  Trolas and Mashadar, they end up all getting separated. Moraine, Len and
• 1:45:32
  Ninive get separated together, Ran and matt Is another group, and Paren and
• 1:45:44
  Igwayne are another before they get separated, Moraine tells them all, what that
• 1:45:50
  the best way to escape the trollocks at this very moment is to cross the
• 1:45:54
  river. I think it's the river Arundel, Okay, so should loth is
• 1:46:02
  Uh look is set up like along one large river, and she tells them
• 1:46:08
  the best way we can escape these guys is to cross the river. We
• 1:46:13
  were going to do that at this village called white Bridge. But whatever you
• 1:46:18
  do, try to find a way to cross. There are like short,
• 1:46:23
  certain narrow areas where you can cross. So they all managed to escape should
• 1:46:31
  loogoth Uh Matt and Rand alongside Tom Marilynd. They escape the city and managed
• 1:46:45
  to get further down the river before they encounter a small river boat happens to
• 1:46:54
  be captained by a smuggler but the guy. But they were able to convince
• 1:47:00
  the guy like, hey, we'll pay you can we can you like please
• 1:47:03
  take us down the river towards white Bridge and he's like all right, sure,
• 1:47:08
  But then when he sees the tarlocks chasing them, he's like, all
• 1:47:11
  right, y'all need to explain. And they explained without telling too much,
• 1:47:14
  and he was like, all right, your gold's good let's go Matt,
• 1:47:18
  and I'm sorry not Matt. So Matt, Wren and Tom get on this
• 1:47:26
  boat and they head down river towards white Bridge Igwayne and Perrin. They do
• 1:47:33
  both manage to cross the river, and they began making their way in a
• 1:47:39
  northeasterly direction because to them, they say, all right, well, we
• 1:47:45
  know everybody was going we're going to head towards Tarvelan. But to get through
• 1:47:50
  the best way through to like, the most direct route to Tarvelan is through
• 1:47:55
  the capital of Andor, which is the country that they're currently in, Uh,
• 1:48:00
  which is the city of and the city of Camelin. So they decide
• 1:48:04
  those two decide to try to make their way towards Camlin UH. Moraine and
• 1:48:13
  Moraine's group they uh. Moraine reveals that she had actually placed a tracking ward
• 1:48:19
  on those coins that she gave to Ran, Matt, and Perrin, and
• 1:48:26
  while she can sensed parent's coin heading in a northeasternly direction, she realizes,
• 1:48:30
  okay, those two crossed. She realizes, all right, he must he
• 1:48:34
  was able to cross the river, so he should be safe. It's the
• 1:48:38
  two that are heading down river at this moment that I need to worry about.
• 1:48:43
  Because she could tell. She could sense that two of the coins are
• 1:48:46
  heading down river, so she decides to follow that one. And even though
• 1:48:51
  Ninieve is like, we should go after all of them, Moraine puts her
• 1:48:57
  foot down and tell and tells her Like Moraine a way of like putting her
• 1:49:00
  foot down without yelling at you and without like you know, raising her voice.
• 1:49:03
  She just puts She just puts it in simple terms like I'm not doing
• 1:49:08
  that. We're not gonna do that, and I'll tell you why. For
• 1:49:12
  one, the the end of the person, the one who is heading northeast
• 1:49:16
  is are is as safe as they can be? They've already. That means
• 1:49:19
  they must have crossed the river. If they cross the river, the trolks
• 1:49:24
  can't get them. It's the other two that we need to be worried about,
• 1:49:28
  because if they're if they're going down river, that means that they're still
• 1:49:30
  on this side of the river, which also means that there's still trollics chasing
• 1:49:34
  them. Yeah. So Ninive concedes the point and and continues on. Uh.
• 1:49:44
  Those two groups head to a village called White Bridge, and it's called
• 1:49:48
  that because White Bridge is built around an ancient structure. It's the name is
• 1:49:54
  the dead giveaway. This ancient structure was made from is remnant from the Age
• 1:50:00
  of Legends. It was made out of some It is literally a big bridge
• 1:50:08
  made out of the white. He doesn't know, like when Ran first sees
• 1:50:12
  it, he's not sure how to just like describe the material. It looks.
• 1:50:15
  It's very it's white, but it looks almost crystal like, almost opaque,
• 1:50:21
  and he's not really sure what it's made of, but it he Tom
• 1:50:27
  tells him that it was a It's a structure left over from the Age of
• 1:50:31
  Legends, and it's unbreakable. That's why it's still standing even after many thousands
• 1:50:36
  of years. So the the smugglers boat docks in White Bridge. They disembark
• 1:50:45
  and find shelter at one of the ends, but they don't stay long because
• 1:50:51
  they realize that a mere drawl followed them into this into the village. Tom
• 1:51:00
  rushes the mireor drawl and tells Wren and Matt to make a run for it
• 1:51:04
  across the bridge, which they do, and while they don't see what happens
• 1:51:09
  to Tom, it's implied that the mayor draw kills him. He's still alive,
• 1:51:14
  Doring, but you won't see Tom again for another book until a book
• 1:51:19
  two. Honestly, Like, so Tom doesn't really Tom Marilyn. Uh,
• 1:51:27
  he's just really he's just like just major side character. He's not really like
• 1:51:32
  a big part of the story. I mean he does travel with uh,
• 1:51:39
  the main characters, whether like he honestly, he takes his turns like he
• 1:51:45
  at one point he traveled, like I said, he traveled with Matt and
• 1:51:47
  and Rand. For a short time he was traveling with Matt, Wren and
• 1:51:51
  Paran altogether. And then another time, Uh, it's a GWayne and Ninive
• 1:51:59
  and like currently in book six he's with Igwaine and oh he's not with Agwayne,
• 1:52:03
  but he's with Nineve and another character that's going to be introduced in this
• 1:52:08
  book named Elaine, and Elaine is she becomes one of the main characters.
• 1:52:14
  So, but she will be we'll get to her in just a second.
• 1:52:19
  It doesn't really we don't really see much from the perspective of Moraine's group,
• 1:52:27
  mainly because they're just following mattin Rant. Matt and Rant. Yeah, so
• 1:52:35
  there's not really there's not much going on with them. Their party does go
• 1:52:43
  through make it through White Bridge, and they after asking some questions. They
• 1:52:48
  get an idea that the two did flee across the bridge towards Camlin, but
• 1:52:55
  the villagers are being very sketchy and dodgy, like something happened, but they
• 1:52:59
  don't really want to knowledge or talk about It's at this point Moraine realizes that
• 1:53:04
  the two boys had given up their the Tarbalon going silver coins that she gave
• 1:53:11
  them, which annoyed the fuck out of her because she's like, great,
• 1:53:13
  now I can't track them because they use the Tarbalon marks to pay for their
• 1:53:17
  passage down river. So Moraine is like, all right, time for plan
• 1:53:26
  B, and Ninive's like, what's plan B? Well, Plan B is
• 1:53:30
  to just go ahead and track down the other the last coin, the last
• 1:53:35
  remaining coin, which is with parrin So and nine Eves Like, well,
• 1:53:44
  what about Matt and Rant. She's like, well, if they fled down
• 1:53:46
  this road, across the bridge, down that road straight in that direction,
• 1:53:49
  they'll eventually get to get to Camlin. We'll just have to meet them there.
• 1:53:55
  We'll just have to catch them there. It's the other person. It's
• 1:53:59
  the one singular coin itself. She doesn't know, she doesn't know who it
• 1:54:03
  is yet. She's like that one person, by by himself, is now
• 1:54:09
  our biggest concern. And that's when we get to uh, that's where it
• 1:54:16
  goes more from the perspective of Paren and Igwaine. Uh. They're making their
• 1:54:21
  way. They they're making their way in a northeasternly direction. They don't really
• 1:54:26
  know where they're going because they're not familiar with the land. They eventually encounter
• 1:54:30
  a sort of wild man named Elias. Elias is kind of an interesting character
• 1:54:38
  because aside from the power from the true power, I'm sorry, aside from
• 1:54:43
  the one power, there are other mystical abilities out there that are not associated
• 1:54:47
  with the true source. Some people like there's one character that they met.
• 1:54:53
  I didn't really mention her because she just had like a small role in this
• 1:54:56
  book. Her name is Min. They meet her in ear in a smaller
• 1:55:00
  city of Berlin. Her name is Min, and she has the ability to
• 1:55:05
  see glimpses of the pattern, so she can see the future. But it's
• 1:55:10
  more of like not really like you know, having a that's so raven moment
• 1:55:14
  when she's all like yeah, yeah, it's more of like she looks at
• 1:55:18
  people and she sometimes either see like images or patterns or lights or like specs
• 1:55:26
  of light just appear around them. So that's like how her predictions work.
• 1:55:30
  And usually she's able to, like min is able to like get a good
• 1:55:38
  idea, like what's gonna happen, Like some predictions that some images she sees
• 1:55:42
  around people are very obvious, like that guy's gonna die. How do you
• 1:55:47
  know? Because there's a because I just saw an image of him with his
• 1:55:50
  throat slit. What's gonna happen? But I don't know what's gonna happen,
• 1:55:55
  but it's gonna happen. When she when she first saw this group of this
• 1:55:59
  Maltic like a rand Parent, matt Ikwayne, and Ninive, she was like,
• 1:56:05
  Yeah, there's like something weird going on with those guys. I don't
• 1:56:10
  know what it is, but they're gonna be very They're gonna be very important
• 1:56:14
  people in the future. So and Elias is something similar, but he is
• 1:56:23
  what is called a wolf brother, so he has the ability, so he's
• 1:56:27
  like basically like a druid, but he's able to uh telepathically communicate with wolves,
• 1:56:35
  and he himself has like wolf like abilities, like heightened senses. His
• 1:56:41
  most defining feature is his eyes are bright yellow, like a bright gold when
• 1:56:47
  parent meets this guy, he begins to notice that he's starting to like When
• 1:56:53
  parent meets this guy, he starts noticing that he's going through changes of his
• 1:56:58
  own, and like he started, he's also starting to notice that he can
• 1:57:00
  hear the thoughts of the wolves around them. So Parrien, yes, I'm
• 1:57:06
  just gonna say it, he's a wolf brother too, m hm. And
• 1:57:13
  uh Elias agrees to escort these these two towards civilization and at one point their
• 1:57:21
  group encounters a group of traveling people called the Tinkers or the Tuathon. These
• 1:57:30
  guys are a group of nomadic pacifists. They follow a philosophy called the Way
• 1:57:38
  of the Leaf, which is extreme non violence, non aggression. So they
• 1:57:42
  will not act and they themselves believe will not act in violence, not even
• 1:57:49
  in any kind of violent way, not even to defend themselves. So they
• 1:57:53
  will not take up arms, they will not fight, they will not fight
• 1:57:56
  other people, and they will not fight back if they're being attacked. Yeah,
• 1:58:01
  so extreme pacifism right there. They travel with this group for a short
• 1:58:05
  time, but they eventually get separated from them because one the direction that the
• 1:58:15
  Tuathen are going in the direction that paren and Igwayne need to go two different
• 1:58:19
  things, so they separate, But it doesn't take long for Paren and Igwayne
• 1:58:26
  to the fuck is in my house? Oh it's Joseph. Sorry, no,
• 1:58:38
  I he's just talking really loud on this film. Anyway, Paren and
• 1:58:50
  Igwaine have a run in with the Children of the Light or the White Cloaks
• 1:58:59
  mentioned those guys earlier. They're basically they're basically the KKK, except instead of
• 1:59:02
  extreme yeah, but instead of just extreme racism, it's they're witch hunters and
• 1:59:10
  they're Dark friend hunters, which basically to them, dark friends and isid I
• 1:59:15
  are the same thing. And they capture uh, Paren and Agwaine. They
• 1:59:27
  suspect Igwayine is heading They suspect that Agwaine is heading north to become a an
• 1:59:33
  isid Eye, but they can't prove it. But the thing is that they
• 1:59:38
  have way of they like to manipulate people too, like, oh, you're
• 1:59:41
  not like if they suspect a woman of being a channeler, especially if they
• 1:59:45
  catch her heading north towards Tarbalon, Right, they can't prove that she's going
• 1:59:49
  to Tarbolon, but they're like, you know what, these are bad areas.
• 1:59:53
  You know, we should well we'll escort you to safety. We're gonna
• 1:59:56
  escort you to our regiment in Camlin, and then from there we'll scort you
• 2:00:00
  down to Amaditia. All right, well you'll be much civil better civilization,
• 2:00:04
  all right, you can't get any better. Basically their way of saying,
• 2:00:08
  like, we don't like we we don't think you're a witch, but we're
• 2:00:13
  gonna make sure you don't go anywhere near them, right, are you queers?
• 2:00:21
  Something like that. The thing is, though, they decide that they're
• 2:00:25
  gonna execute Paren when they get to uh, their regiment in Camlin, because
• 2:00:30
  are they're not gonna none in Camblin. They're gonna they're gonna pass through Camelin,
• 2:00:36
  but they're gonna take them down to their capital in Amaditia. Because when
• 2:00:45
  they capture the two uh, the white Cloaks chase them h and pin them
• 2:00:50
  down. And the thing is Paren had befriended a couple of wolves and the
• 2:00:56
  white Cloaks killed them, and Paren in anger, killed the white Cloak.
• 2:01:00
  So white Cloaks was like, uh, you've killed you killed a couple of
• 2:01:03
  our men in self defense. You must be a dark friend. We're gonna
• 2:01:06
  we're gonna execute you. Now, m so, but you know, we're
• 2:01:12
  not gonna just kill you right here. We're gonna take you down and put
• 2:01:15
  you on trial where you can defend yourself, and even if you have a
• 2:01:18
  good argument, we're still gonna condemn you as a dark friend and execute you.
• 2:01:21
  Yeah, and uh the thing is, by this point, uh the
• 2:01:30
  White Cloaks still end up taking them in the right direction, but about halfway
• 2:01:34
  there, that's one more Raine and her group catch up with them, and
• 2:01:38
  that's and they realize, oh fuck, they're in a they're in a white
• 2:01:41
  Cloak. They're in a White Cloak camp. So they had your plan to
• 2:01:47
  uh break them out, and to do that, they're gonna need to distractions
• 2:01:51
  and land. So, uh distraction number one ninive is going to sneak it
• 2:02:00
  to the camp and uh cut the cut the ties of the the tethers for
• 2:02:08
  the horses. So when the horses are all like you know, untethered,
• 2:02:13
  she's gonna make sure that they're free so that way they can run around.
• 2:02:15
  And then Moraine is going to call down at bolts of lightning and spook the
• 2:02:21
  animals so they all run off. And then while the White Cloaks are busy
• 2:02:28
  trying to like get their fucking horses back lands can sneak into the camp,
• 2:02:31
  get Parrien and Igwayne, and they're gonna make a break for it, and
• 2:02:38
  everything goes plan. They all meet UH. They get the two of them
• 2:02:42
  out, and they finally get back on the road towards Camelin. At this
• 2:02:46
  point there's Matt and Rands are pretty much UH had finally reached Camlin. Uh.
• 2:02:55
  They encountered some difficulties along the road north. They had to either because
• 2:03:00
  they had little to know money, they weren't able to stay in any ends.
• 2:03:04
  They often had to like either sleep in barns or under shrubs by the
• 2:03:10
  side of the road. There was a couple of times where they encountered UH.
• 2:03:16
  They encountered several rough patches. At one point they were they tried to
• 2:03:21
  take shelter in a farm and the farmer was gonna let them stay there.
• 2:03:27
  But the guy got spooked because one of his daughters was eyeballing Rand and that
• 2:03:31
  you know, like all six foot five, redheaded hunk of meat. And
• 2:03:42
  the farmer was like, you eyeballing my daughter. Brand's like no, she's
• 2:03:45
  doing that to me. A lot of watch you here, and he chases
• 2:03:50
  them out. He said, yeah, so one thing answered for I you
• 2:03:56
  mentioned Rand is a six foot five h red ginger ginger A yeah, so
• 2:04:11
  he does get a lot he does get. He's a looker. We'll sit
• 2:04:14
  he's a good looking guy. Matt is described as being tall, slim,
• 2:04:19
  and he always seems to have like a mischievous grin, like whenever he's like,
• 2:04:24
  he's always like grinning, like like I don't know to do a mischievous
• 2:04:28
  grin, but he always looks like. He's described as looking like he's up
• 2:04:31
  to no good. And then Paren is, uh, he's a very he's
• 2:04:38
  tall ish above average height, but he's very but he's built because he was
• 2:04:44
  a blacksmith's apprentice. He has a lot of muscle. He's dark, curly
• 2:04:50
  ish hair, and he eventually grows a beard, but in this book he's
• 2:04:55
  just clean shaven. He did originally have dark eyes, but when he starts,
• 2:05:01
  when his wolf brother abilities awaken, his eyes turned gold. Oh my,
• 2:05:12
  and they're just like a wolf's eize, so like at night they look
• 2:05:16
  they reflect light, so they do that too. And at first he's very
• 2:05:21
  ashamed because he's like, I'm not normal anymore, because like these guys.
• 2:05:25
  All three of these guys are like normal farm boys, so they were very
• 2:05:30
  They grew up at a very isolated community, so now that their lives were
• 2:05:33
  changing that they're having a hard time adjusting anyway. At one point, Ran
• 2:05:40
  and Matt get cornered by dark friends, like actual dark friends. Yeah,
• 2:05:45
  and the thing about dark friends is that they look like regular people. They
• 2:05:48
  hide themselves very well. And Balzamon he directs the dark friends by entering their
• 2:05:56
  dreams, so he'll like so Balzamon has well has been spreading the three boys
• 2:06:04
  faces to the to his dark friend followers, so they all know who Rans,
• 2:06:11
  Matt, and Paren look like, what they look like, and hell,
• 2:06:15
  all three of them, although they don't really tell Morain even though she
• 2:06:18
  tells them if you have if you're having hey, by the way, if
• 2:06:21
  you're having any like weird dreams, you should tell me so I can help
• 2:06:26
  you out with that. But and then they start having weird dreams and they're
• 2:06:29
  like, we shouldn't tell her, And when she actually finds out that they've
• 2:06:33
  been having these dreams, she's just all, like, I can say,
• 2:06:41
  so Balzaman has been haunting the boy's dream He pretty much shows them the same
• 2:06:46
  thing. But uh, the thing is is that he's taunting them like he
• 2:06:53
  knows them and showing them disturbing images. They keep having the same way.
• 2:07:00
  They keep finding themselves in the same scenario of this weird broken land. It's
• 2:07:05
  like they're in a castle and they keep entering this room or outside of the
• 2:07:10
  room, they could see this weird inverted reality and the way it's described,
• 2:07:15
  it's just kind of it's very freaky. And Balzamon is like this dark figure
• 2:07:20
  with a like a fiery, flaming face. So several times Matt and Ranz
• 2:07:30
  get attacked and while they're trying to make to Camblin, and at one point
• 2:07:36
  they were cornered by a group of dark friends and they they were cornered in
• 2:07:44
  a room like they were actually they had actually got caught and were locked in
• 2:07:47
  a room and while the two of them were able to like break out of
• 2:07:50
  their bonds, they couldn't break out of the room, and they were trying
• 2:07:56
  to figure out a way to get out, and seemingly at them while they
• 2:08:00
  were being threatened by the dark friends, a bolt of lightning strikes the building
• 2:08:03
  that they were in because they were in an inn and it blows a hole
• 2:08:07
  right through the wall. Damn. Uh, because they were they were trying
• 2:08:13
  to like break out of one of the windows, but they see that,
• 2:08:16
  like the Dark Friends had guards outside, and when the lightning bolt struck,
• 2:08:20
  it blew a hole through the through the wall, and it knocked out the
• 2:08:24
  Dark Friends and the two were able to escape. Damn. And they're both
• 2:08:28
  like, huh, how about that? But what Not long after they make
• 2:08:39
  their run for it, Rand begins to become sick. He begins having a
• 2:08:45
  fever. He's body aches and chills, and Matt is forced to carry him
• 2:08:50
  along, and at one point he manages to get a kind farmer to to
• 2:08:56
  drive them in his wagon closer to the city because at this point they're very
• 2:09:00
  close to Camlin. Rat Rant's h supposed illness gets like goes away after about
• 2:09:09
  a day, which was strange because these kind of illness, these kind of
• 2:09:13
  like illnesses last for a few days, especially you know, on there from
• 2:09:18
  what they've experienced. But they're like, hmm, that's weird. Uh.
• 2:09:24
  Ran is beginning to notice that Matt's behavior is becoming more erratic and more aggressive,
• 2:09:33
  and he does figure he does find out for Matt that Matt had taken
• 2:09:37
  the dagger from Shadar Loogoth, and he doesn't really understand the implications of that.
• 2:09:43
  He's like, ooh, Marine's gonna be mad, but you should be
• 2:09:48
  fine. He's not fine. No, he's not his no, his uh.
• 2:09:56
  Matt's mental state is beginning to decline. He's becoming more aggressive and more
• 2:10:01
  paranoid, so much to the point when they finally do reach Camelin and they
• 2:10:09
  along the way, Matt was able to earn them some money through gambling,
• 2:10:15
  so when they get to Camelin, they were able to pay for their rooms
• 2:10:18
  and stay in someplace nice. Because the thing is is that Camelin is currently
• 2:10:24
  filling to the brim with travelers because along their journey they begin hearing rumors about
• 2:10:33
  a false dragon. False dragons are male channelers who believe that they are the
• 2:10:41
  dragon, who will declare themselves the dragon reborn. And the thing is is
• 2:10:46
  that, you know, like I said, the taint on sid In is
• 2:10:50
  still there even after three thousand years, and anytime a channel a male channeler
• 2:10:56
  appears, they'll slowly begin to go. Matt. Now, and if the
• 2:11:01
  I said eye, if the red Azia doesn't capture them and gentle them,
• 2:11:05
  they'll continue to go on a rampage and kill everything around them before eventually they'll
• 2:11:11
  eventually die because the thing is that the taint not only causes their mental state
• 2:11:16
  to deteriorate, but it will also cause their bodies to deteriorate too, to
• 2:11:20
  the point where they'll just waste away and die. But it takes years for
• 2:11:26
  that to happen, and by that point they could just they they'll be killing
• 2:11:31
  anything and everything around them. So this particular false Dragon was a man named
• 2:11:39
  Logan, and they had heard rumors that the I said Eye had managed to
• 2:11:48
  corner low Gain and capture it. And they're currently and they're currently making their
• 2:11:56
  way to tarble On. And the thing is is that Tarbilon has a very
• 2:12:01
  close relationship to and Or and the Queen and It's queen. So every time
• 2:12:07
  they capture a male chandler, they have this miles long procession that will lead
• 2:12:13
  them that will take them through Caitlin where the Isida will present the male,
• 2:12:20
  the false Dragon to the Queen of Andor, and then from there they take
• 2:12:26
  they take this man north to Tarbolan where he is put on a trial by
• 2:12:33
  the by the isid eye and usually there's thirteen isida I who do this,
• 2:12:39
  and they come together and they will gentle him. It's the gensling. Even
• 2:12:46
  though most chandlers consider it a fate worse than death, it's the more humane
• 2:12:54
  thing to do when dealing with a male chandler. Instead of just outright murdering
• 2:12:58
  him, they just take away his power. He'll be able to live out
• 2:13:01
  the rest of his life with whatever sanity he has left. But the thing
• 2:13:07
  is, like I said, it's like an addiction that doesn't go away even
• 2:13:11
  if you're cut off cold turkey. And most people who have been severed,
• 2:13:16
  most channelers that have been severed, will usually either lose their will to live
• 2:13:22
  or they will take their own lives. And ladies and gentlemen, we are
• 2:13:24
  joined today with Patricia fucking Cat scare the shit out of meldaka Ah Shelley did
• 2:13:35
  the same thing to me yesterday or the last time we were recording. Yeah
• 2:13:39
  my god. Yeah. Anyway, So Camelin is currently filled to the brim
• 2:13:46
  with a bunch of onlookers and gawkers because the procession is just about to come
• 2:13:54
  through the city. The Isida are going to present Logan to the queen before
• 2:14:00
  or taking him to Tarbalan. They still manage to get their get rooms at
• 2:14:05
  an inn, and Matt, due to his mental state, he isolates himself.
• 2:14:13
  He hides himself in their rooms, refuses to come out. He's like
• 2:14:16
  muttering to himself and like looking at everybody suspicions with suspicion, like they're trying
• 2:14:20
  to take right. Yeah. But Rand, knowing that the procession is about
• 2:14:35
  to come through, he wants to see see it himself, and he does
• 2:14:39
  manage to get a good spot to see the procession come through. But while
• 2:14:43
  he's there, he notices that there's a like this vagabond, this like really
• 2:14:48
  crusty looking man like staring at him. And when the man noticed, like
• 2:14:54
  realizes, like when Matt Rand looks at the man, the man like becomes
• 2:15:01
  violent and charges straight at Rand and chases him throughout the city. Rand does
• 2:15:07
  manage to lose this guy, but he's like, oh, fuck, now
• 2:15:09
  I can't see the procession. But he ended up in a place, in
• 2:15:13
  a spot somewhere in the Innerseit City, near the Inner Palace. So he's
• 2:15:20
  like all right, he looks around and he finds like there's a place that
• 2:15:24
  he can climb up, and when he climbs up, he's like he's able
• 2:15:26
  to see the procession, if not from a distance, and he does.
• 2:15:30
  He does see Logane from afar, and what he sees is like, yeah,
• 2:15:37
  the procession. There's a procession of warders escorting a group of like about
• 2:15:41
  a dozen isid eye and they're pulling a cage, a wagon with a cage
• 2:15:48
  on it and on the like the cage itself has like sat on a platform
• 2:15:54
  type wagon and so he can see Logan in the cage, but on platform.
• 2:16:00
  Surrounding him, there are four isid ies like just kind of squatting there
• 2:16:05
  at each corner of the cage and they're just keeping their focus on him.
• 2:16:09
  So what the isid ie are doing they're shielding him. So channelers can shield
• 2:16:16
  temporarily shield another channeler from the source, it's not it's not permanent. Depending
• 2:16:22
  on how powerful an individual is, you would probably need more than just one
• 2:16:28
  isid ie just to like keep them contained. So so with Logain, he
• 2:16:35
  needed like four channelers to maintain a shield just to keep him from channeling.
• 2:16:43
  Yeah, so typically like see like four is like the bare minimum, but
• 2:16:50
  to comfortably shield him, you need at least six isid eye to shield him.
• 2:16:56
  Yeah, but while he's trying to watch the procession, Ran ends up
• 2:17:01
  slipping off his perch and he falls off. He falls inside of the royal
• 2:17:07
  the royal gardens of the palace, and he's found by the Prince and Princess
• 2:17:15
  of Camlin Uh the Princess and heir apparent Elaine cha Khan and her brother Gawan
• 2:17:24
  the Prince the first Prince Gallant Chakan Uh. So, this is the cool
• 2:17:31
  thing about a lot of the cultures in Uh in the real of time,
• 2:17:37
  is that a lot of them are matriarchal. So it's not the so queen
• 2:17:43
  morgaze and all the queens of and Or they only ever have queens. They
• 2:17:50
  don't they don't have kings. And even in Emmonsfield they they're run their society,
• 2:17:58
  the people of Emonsfield and Two Rivers is governed by local groups of women's
• 2:18:03
  circle. So like, yeah, there's a council for the men. Then
• 2:18:07
  they do make some a lot of important decisions, but it's the women that
• 2:18:11
  have the final the women's circle that have the final say in matters of like
• 2:18:15
  marriage, certain like specific laws and other things that are meant to happen real
• 2:18:20
  quick. It's starting to get dark on Maya ah the lights anyway, So
• 2:18:33
  anyway, he meets the two of them, but he also unfortunately meets their
• 2:18:37
  older brother, a guy named Glad Damadred. And the thing is is that
• 2:18:45
  Elaine and Gowan, they really they understood that it was by accident. Ran
• 2:18:50
  didn't purposely enter the gardens. He just like he explained to them that he
• 2:18:56
  was just trying to see the procession of Logan and he's spell in by accident,
• 2:19:01
  and they believed him. But the thing is Galad. The way Galad
• 2:19:05
  is described as a character because he does appear several times throughout the series,
• 2:19:11
  he's not a malicious person, and he's not like a self centered or stuck
• 2:19:16
  up kind of royal of like prince or royalty. The thing is he will
• 2:19:22
  always do the right thing to a fault, even if it means like getting
• 2:19:28
  himself in trouble. So if he does something wrong, he's like, ah
• 2:19:33
  shit, and then he'll go up and immediately tell him himself. But if
• 2:19:35
  anyone else does something wrong, no matter how big or small, he will
• 2:19:39
  He's basically like an overgrown tattle tell rude, Yeah, so Elaine and Gwin
• 2:19:50
  help Ran and they're like, all right, let's get you out of here
• 2:19:52
  before anybody notices. And then they turn around and there's Gallad and Galla.
• 2:19:56
  It's like, what's what you got there? Good? Uh uh nothing Garding
• 2:20:09
  and they try to convince him not to tell anybody, or like just to
• 2:20:11
  leave him alone, and he's like all right, fine, and he walks
• 2:20:13
  away and they're like, fuck, he's gonna tell the guard. He's gonna
• 2:20:16
  tell somebody. All right, Well, he don't tell somebody, and he
• 2:20:20
  does. The guards show up and they arrest rants. Is the thing is
• 2:20:26
  Elaine sticks up for him, and she and tells it and tells him that
• 2:20:31
  listen, he's at he's our guest. He's not doing anything wrong. And
• 2:20:33
  they're like, well, the Queen will decide that. So they took to
• 2:20:35
  the queen and he's just over here like and Run's over here like, I'm
• 2:20:41
  men go up to the highest person in land. See if she cares danger.
• 2:20:46
  He's like, I'm in danger. She's gonna kill me. Oh no,
• 2:20:54
  I've literally done nothing. So he does. They do take him before
• 2:21:00
  the queen, and the Queen does chastise Elaine and gowon a bit, but
• 2:21:05
  after talking to Ran, he tells you the same story. Listen, I'm
• 2:21:07
  sorry, I didn't mean to trespass. I was just trying to get a
• 2:21:11
  good spot to see the sea low game and I fell in. And I
• 2:21:20
  mean you or anybody any harm. And she sees that the queen, who
• 2:21:24
  is described Queen Morgasee is described as being very fiery and quick tempered. But
• 2:21:28
  she's just over here, like I can tell you weren't really you weren't trying
• 2:21:37
  to trespass. I'll let you go. But the thing is is that the
• 2:21:41
  queens of and Or, because of their close relationship to Tarblaan, they always
• 2:21:48
  have an Isidie advisor. And the isid I advisor with the queen is a
• 2:21:54
  woman named Elida, and Eleida happens to be a part of the Red Aja
• 2:22:01
  now Elena. She does have a somewhat of an ability to see glimpses of
• 2:22:05
  the pattern. It's nothing like what men can do, but she does see
• 2:22:09
  like she'll sometimes see flashes or auras surrounding certain people and she'll know and this
• 2:22:13
  tell she'll know if they if there's something significant about them. And she sees
• 2:22:18
  when she sees ran. She immediately tells the Queen that, Hmmm, something's
• 2:22:26
  something interesting is interesting about this young man. I don't know what it is.
• 2:22:31
  I can't put quite put my finger on it, but I don't think
• 2:22:37
  you should be careful of your majesty. I think some trouble could come from
• 2:22:43
  him. And the Queen's like, well, he hasn't He hasn't committed a
• 2:22:46
  crime. He hasn't committed any real crimes. And honestly, like the whole
• 2:22:52
  situation with Logan, there are plenty of curious onlookers out there, and he
• 2:22:56
  just happened to make a foolish mistake. I'm not going to do anything.
• 2:23:01
  You're free to go. So they scored him out of the They escort him
• 2:23:07
  out of the palace. He returns to his inn, and it's at this
• 2:23:09
  point that Moraine finally pounces on him because she's like, I found you,
• 2:23:13
  you bitch, I found you, because she The thing is when when even
• 2:23:22
  though he and Matt no longer have the coins she gave him when they entered,
• 2:23:30
  when her group enters came Lynn, she says that she will be able
• 2:23:33
  to track him down because I think besides the coins, she's able like using
• 2:23:41
  the source. She's able to track people, so she doesn't eventually track the
• 2:23:45
  two of them down and she finds them. She's like, all right,
• 2:23:50
  cool, well, I'm glad we found you. I'll make sure we'll get
• 2:23:54
  things settled with the Innkeeper, and we should start we should start getting back
• 2:24:00
  on the road towards Targalan. I should also mention that in the days that
• 2:24:05
  Rand and Matt were staying in Camblin, because they would they had been in
• 2:24:07
  Camlin for a few days already. Wren actually meets an interesting character who's also
• 2:24:13
  staying at the end that they're staying that him and Matt are staying at and
• 2:24:18
  this character is named Loyal. Loyal Loyol is an o Gear and in the
• 2:24:26
  Wheel of Time there are other non human h there are other sentient non human
• 2:24:33
  characters. Mainly it's there's not many, if anything. Most of them went
• 2:24:39
  extinct due to the age, because of the War of Power and the Age
• 2:24:45
  of Madness. But there's another humanoid species called O Gear. In O Gear,
• 2:24:54
  they are these tall like I don't want to say orc like, because
• 2:24:58
  they're not very They're not ugly or I mean pretty, They're they're kind of
• 2:25:03
  ugly. But they're tall. They're very like bulky looking creatures. They're humanoid,
• 2:25:11
  but the biggest difference is that they have broad faces like with kind of
• 2:25:16
  like flat nose breaks, like flat bridge noses, and they have these long
• 2:25:22
  pointed ears with tough sticking out of them. So I'm gonna just post a
• 2:25:31
  picture for you for all of our listeners and viewers, if you want to
• 2:25:35
  know what a no gear looks, let's just go ahead and there we go.
• 2:25:46
  If you're paying attention in the show. Loyal does appear in the show,
• 2:25:52
  but the way he looks like compared to what he looks like in the
• 2:25:54
  book is very different. What did you send it to? I haven't sent
• 2:26:01
  it yet. Oh, okay, might continue, all right, So this
• 2:26:15
  picture I just sent this is a picture artist rendition of Loyal. He's described
• 2:26:22
  to being over nine feet tall and like whenever he's uh, he's they like,
• 2:26:28
  Oh, gear are naturally bigger than humans, so h for. But
• 2:26:31
  the thing is the old gear they tend to keep to themselves in their own
• 2:26:37
  societies. In fact, uh, the ol gear live in places called steadings.
• 2:26:45
  The thing about steadings is steadings are places where people can't channel. So
• 2:26:54
  for whatever reason when you enter a steading, if you're a channeler, your
• 2:27:01
  ability to channel just turns off. It's not permanent, but for whatever reason,
• 2:27:05
  you're not able to channel when you're in a steading. Now, that's
• 2:27:11
  why and settings. While men like normal people aren't affected by them, oh
• 2:27:18
  gear find themselves to be more at home in steadings. In fact, it's
• 2:27:22
  like they physically need to stay, like it's a It's considered hazardous for them
• 2:27:26
  to leave their settings for long periods of time because they eventually begin to develop
• 2:27:31
  this condition called belonging and which makes them really just crave to be back in
• 2:27:39
  a steading, because if they're outside of a steading for too long, they
• 2:27:43
  begin to deteriorate and waste away. But loyal, he decided to leave his
• 2:27:52
  homesteading to travel the world so that way he can because he wants to learn.
• 2:27:56
  He wants to see the world, He wants to learn how things have
• 2:28:00
  changed. Because the thing about o Gear is that o Gear are a naturally
• 2:28:05
  long lived race. They can live for en upwards of like nine to one
• 2:28:09
  thousand years nine hundred to one thousand years, and because of their slower age
• 2:28:18
  age rate, they don't really change much or really like approach life at a
• 2:28:24
  very fast paced So when Loyoll first left his steading, for one thing,
• 2:28:31
  loy All is about ninety years old, but for an O Gear that's about
• 2:28:35
  he's about the same age as like Rand, so about so in human years
• 2:28:41
  he would be like twenty years old or I'm sorry, so like human years,
• 2:28:46
  he's ninety O Gear years, he's like about twenty. So he's still
• 2:28:50
  considered very young, and which he did. And he tells Ran that like
• 2:28:58
  among his people, it's not really uh it's not really normal for a Gear
• 2:29:03
  to leave their studying very young, but with him, he just really wanted
• 2:29:05
  to see the world and learn. Technically he ran away. So uh so,
• 2:29:18
  yeah, Ran befriends and no Gear. Matt's mental uh mental state is
• 2:29:24
  declining. Moraine shows up, tells him all right, let's get the fuck
• 2:29:26
  out of here, and he's like, wait, what about what about Matt?
• 2:29:31
  Something's up with Matt. You should probably go check up on him.
• 2:29:33
  She's like, okay, what do you do now? So she goes upstairs,
• 2:29:37
  goes to the room, takes one look at Matt and she's like,
• 2:29:39
  okay, y'all need to back up. Everybody Okay, everybody needs to like
• 2:29:45
  step away. Because when they all entered the room, Igwayne and Ninive immediately
• 2:29:50
  went up to Matt to check up on him, because Ninive being the wisdom,
• 2:29:56
  she's like, you know, taking immediately taking up parole as a healer.
• 2:30:01
  She's checking him. He's feverish, he's like gibbering mess. But when
• 2:30:05
  Moraine looks at him, she's like, you need to Okay, I'm gonna
• 2:30:09
  need you to step away from him right now. He's very dangerous and she's
• 2:30:15
  like and they're all like why, It's like you took something from Shadar look
• 2:30:18
  off, didn't you. So Moraine ends up having so she tells everyone to
• 2:30:26
  leave the room, and we don't exactly see what happens, but if you
• 2:30:28
  watch the show, Moraine pins basically pins Matt down and takes the dagger from
• 2:30:35
  him, and she heels him, basically pulls out the the corruption that the
• 2:30:43
  dagger was infecting him with, Yeah, cleanses him of it, and the
• 2:30:48
  show it implies that the dagger doesn't like he's good and it's settled like he's
• 2:30:56
  not affected by it anymore. The thing is is that because he had the
• 2:31:01
  dagger on him for so long it the dagger had tied itself to him.
• 2:31:07
  So Maring was able to heal him and restore him to a more or less
• 2:31:11
  normal state, but the dagger is still connected to him, and trying to
• 2:31:16
  separate him from it would be detrimental to his health. So she was able
• 2:31:24
  to push the darkness back. But she tells them that yes, if we're
• 2:31:28
  gonna separate him and unbind him from the dagger, we're gonna need a full
• 2:31:31
  team of sisters, of Isidie sisters to do it. Separate him from the
• 2:31:35
  dagger. Yeah. She's like, all right, well we should get to
• 2:31:43
  we should get going. It's a loyal At this point, had pointed had
• 2:31:48
  noted to Rand after like hearing about what's happened to him so far, especially
• 2:31:56
  and also to Matt and Paren. He's like, huh, I've never seen
• 2:32:01
  one in person, but you're a tavern And Rand's like, what's a tavern?
• 2:32:05
  So? Taverin are people who are who don't flow in the direction that
• 2:32:13
  the pattern weaves them. Instead, they affect the pattern instead of the pattern
• 2:32:22
  affecting them. So, depending on how powerful a tavarin is, they can
• 2:32:28
  cause random acts of change and just weird things to happen. So whereas like
• 2:32:35
  the pattern affects you as a person and directs your course in life, a
• 2:32:41
  tavern does the opposite. It affects, They affect and change the pattern.
• 2:32:46
  And from what loyal just from observing Rand and his friends, it's like,
• 2:32:52
  you three are tavern. I've never heard of there being three at one time.
• 2:32:58
  And Moraine like, she kind of she's surprised that he that. She's
• 2:33:03
  kind of like she's surprised, and she's not surprised that he would no gear
• 2:33:07
  would know this. But at the same time, she's like, thanks for
• 2:33:11
  telling him that, you dick. She's kind of annoyed that he like spilled
• 2:33:16
  the beans on that because she suspected the same thing too, But either way,
• 2:33:22
  Morain tells them that they need to get going, but Loyole points out
• 2:33:30
  something that the boys had mentioned, because at this point, like Moraine's pissed
• 2:33:37
  at Matt and Rand's and a bit at parent too, because at this point
• 2:33:43
  she knows that they're hiding stuff from her, especially like with the whole dagger
• 2:33:46
  thing, and she's like, what else have you been hiding from me?
• 2:33:50
  I can't help you if you like I can't help you unless you tell me.
• 2:33:54
  Okay, I'm not your I'm not your enemy. I'm trying to protect
• 2:33:58
  you. And they properly chastised. They mentioned that they're having that they've been
• 2:34:05
  having these strange dreams with a dark figure calling himself Balzamon, and she's like,
• 2:34:13
  how long have you been having these dreams? Since since we left,
• 2:34:18
  since we left Emansfield, since you left Emansfield? All right, She's still
• 2:34:24
  trying to figure out, like she's as she's pressing them to like tell her
• 2:34:30
  what they've been seeing. One thing that they all describe is that they begin
• 2:34:35
  seeing this strange pool, like a strange area with a pool of water.
• 2:34:41
  They don't know what it is, but there's weird imagery and symbology and all
• 2:34:46
  that concerning that their common dream. And when Loyal hears this, he's like,
• 2:34:54
  Moraine said, I that is the eye of the world, And they're
• 2:35:00
  like, what's the eye of the world? The eyde of the world is
• 2:35:03
  this pool of sidon m That is the resting place of one of the seals
• 2:35:11
  on the Dark One's prison. And Loyol tells Moraine, if this is what
• 2:35:18
  the Dark One is showing them, then it's highly likely that the Dark One
• 2:35:24
  is going to try to destroy the Eye of the World and try to either
• 2:35:28
  maybe get get his hands one of the seals and possibly try to break it.
• 2:35:33
  And Moraine is like, okay, change the place we're heading to.
• 2:35:39
  Shanar Shinar is a country that is a borderland country. It's called a border
• 2:35:48
  It's called one of the It's a part of the borderlands. The borderlands is
• 2:35:52
  an area that is set along the territory that is controlled by the Dark One
• 2:36:00
  and his and his forces. This era, this territory that is controlled by
• 2:36:05
  the Dark One is called the Blight. It's called that because there is a
• 2:36:09
  growth of just death and decay in that area. So any living thing begins
• 2:36:15
  to rot and decay and like animals, begin to mutate and change in that
• 2:36:22
  area or just die out entirely. The Blight is infested with all manners of
• 2:36:26
  creatures from trollux miar, drawl, draw car, and even other like nasty
• 2:36:31
  creatures. Drag Car are these man bat creatures that are kind of like sirens.
• 2:36:43
  So if they start singing, which is like inco really just incoherent screeching,
• 2:36:50
  they hypnotize you. And this is how they hunt because if they once
• 2:36:52
  they get you under their spell, they will grab you and they will suck
• 2:36:58
  out your soul. Uh. And they do have an encounter with one,
• 2:37:03
  but quickly dealt with Hi. Yeah, hello, what up? Okay,
• 2:37:24
  I promise we're almost to the end. I'm in no rush as long as
• 2:37:30
  I get done by before eight by eight okay, well, okay, well
• 2:37:35
  we should be done soon. Okay. So we're like in the last quarter
• 2:37:37
  of the book. I promise I'll try to go by faster. You were
• 2:37:41
  you were fine, all right. So Loraine, after hearing console from Loyal
• 2:37:50
  about the Eye of the World, she decides that their their whole band,
• 2:37:54
  including Loy, all needs a head to the Eye of the World, which
• 2:37:58
  is currently located in the Blight. And the team is like, wait,
• 2:38:03
  hold up, how are we supposed to get there in time? It's hundreds
• 2:38:05
  of miles away. And She's like, we're gonna take We're going to take
• 2:38:11
  the ways, and you, Loyal are going to guide us through the ways.
• 2:38:16
  And Loyal's like, oh no, not the ways anything but the ways.
• 2:38:20
  What are the ways? You may ask? So, during the Age
• 2:38:24
  of Madness, some of the male channelers took shelter in steeddings because since the
• 2:38:31
  steeddings block your ability to channel, it protected. It gave the channelers,
• 2:38:37
  these men a certain level of protection from the tank, so it kept them
• 2:38:41
  from channeling, so they couldn't draw the team inside into themselves. The thing
• 2:38:46
  is these men ended up in the end, did end up leaving the stettings.
• 2:38:54
  They took protect they took Oh gross, not on camera. I get
• 2:39:00
  kissed my boyfriend. I can do it. Yeah anyway. So the thing
• 2:39:07
  is is that the these male channelers, they didn't stay in the settings for
• 2:39:13
  very long because channeling is addictive, and even though they got some protection from
• 2:39:20
  the taint while in the settings, they eventually left the settings over time because
• 2:39:24
  they just they they just can't live without the source. But as a thanks
• 2:39:30
  to the O Gear who sheltered them in their settings, the these male channelers
• 2:39:35
  created these these systems of portals called waygates. Now, these way gates are
• 2:39:46
  not only powered by the source, but they can grow too, So they
• 2:39:52
  gave So what they did was they created like a seed, like a special
• 2:39:56
  kind of waygate seed that they gave to the O Gear. They did this
• 2:40:03
  so that way the O Gear will have a safe way of traveling between steadings
• 2:40:09
  because their settings are like little pockets that are hundreds of miles away from each
• 2:40:15
  other. So O gear can't really like in order for nonal gear to travel
• 2:40:18
  from one setting to another, they would have to like leave their setting and
• 2:40:22
  travel for months, and it can be dangerous because men, especially after the
• 2:40:26
  Age of Madness, began to fear and mistrust O gear. So these the
• 2:40:33
  male channelers they created, they created this artifact for the O gear so that
• 2:40:39
  way they can plant outside of their settings, so they can just simply if
• 2:40:45
  they want to go from one setting to another, they can just take away
• 2:40:48
  gate. Now, the way gates, because they were created using the male
• 2:40:52
  half of the source, over time began to become tainted themselves. So at
• 2:40:56
  first when the O gear started planting the way gates, uh, the way
• 2:41:01
  gates don't open and just instantaneously take you from one from point A to point
• 2:41:05
  B. No, when you enter it, you enter this like space.
• 2:41:11
  And uh, well, I guess when it was first created, the old
• 2:41:16
  gear had to like build like these roads inside this space because it's just empty,
• 2:41:22
  right, And they did this and they created a very They've created a
• 2:41:26
  vast complex system of travel. Right, so you you would enter through one
• 2:41:35
  way gate. You travel along these paths that the old Gear create built,
• 2:41:41
  and it could take several days. It could take several days to get from
• 2:41:43
  one way gate to another through the ways, but several days through the ways
• 2:41:48
  just saved you months of travel, right. But over time, the way
• 2:41:54
  gates began to become corrupted, and like at first, when they were first
• 2:42:01
  created, it was basically like an empty space of like, it was just
• 2:42:07
  like white light, and of course the roads that the O Gear built through
• 2:42:11
  it so they could travel safely. But over time it began to become enveloped
• 2:42:18
  in darkness, and from this darkness a entity was born similar to Mashadar.
• 2:42:28
  The O Gear call it Makin Sin or mack and Shin or machin Shin,
• 2:42:35
  I don't know how to pronounce it. Mack and Shin or the Black Wind.
• 2:42:39
  The Black Wind is like this parasitic organism that was born from the taint
• 2:42:45
  on Siden And while it doesn't envelop all of the ways, it's this entity
• 2:42:50
  that will travel throughout the ways and if it catches you, it kills you.
• 2:42:56
  So eventually, yeah, so eventually the O Gear were forced to abandon
• 2:43:01
  the ways because they couldn't travel safely through it. But the problem is because
• 2:43:07
  they built it, like the roads inside the ways have these markers with directions
• 2:43:16
  on which way to go, like okay, you need to get to like
• 2:43:20
  you want to go to benetherne go that way, or if you want to
• 2:43:24
  go to Hiainar, you go that way. And well Moraine doesn't read O
• 2:43:31
  Gear script, Well who better to read O Gear scripts than an o Gear
• 2:43:35
  And at first Loyal is reluctant, but he he agrees to go with him
• 2:43:41
  because he's got a book to write. What better way to write a book
• 2:43:46
  than to travel with three Tavarian and an Is said, I yeah. So
• 2:43:52
  he tells him that there is a waygate in Camlin because there used to be
• 2:43:56
  an o Gear grove in Camelin. It's not steading. But the way that
• 2:44:00
  O Gear began to like rebuild their relationship with the nations after the breaking of
• 2:44:05
  the world was they began they took up stone working, and their work was
• 2:44:09
  actually really intricate and very dirty. So they ended up building like old cities
• 2:44:16
  for a lot of nations. And when they built these cities they built,
• 2:44:20
  they planted these groves because o Gear they love trees and they love plant and
• 2:44:26
  they love nature, so whenever they would stay in these sittings, they built
• 2:44:31
  these groves so that way they can have like a little piece of home.
• 2:44:35
  But Camelin's Grove was cut down a long time ago and built over by the
• 2:44:39
  newer city outside of the old o Gear city. But where the waygate in
• 2:44:45
  Camlin was, it was an a basement of like somewhere in the newer city.
• 2:44:48
  So he leads them to the new to the waygate, Moraine said,
• 2:44:54
  shows them how to open the way gate. And in the book, the
• 2:44:58
  way the way gates look from the the way gates in the show are very
• 2:45:05
  different. And the show they look like these two pillars and like on a
• 2:45:09
  platform, and she has to use the source. She has to use the
• 2:45:13
  source to open the waygate. But in the book they look like two they
• 2:45:18
  look like a pair of stone doors set into a into a wall or into
• 2:45:24
  like a hill. And the way you open it it's not through using the
• 2:45:28
  source, but by going up to the door and carved onto the waygate door
• 2:45:35
  itself is an image of a tree called an eventsaura. The event as is
• 2:45:41
  the tree of life, right and in order to open it, you have
• 2:45:43
  to pluck a specific leaf because there's a bunch of different leaves like carving of
• 2:45:50
  leaves on the tree, but only one leaf is the true trifoil leaf of
• 2:45:56
  the event asur so it's like a three pointed leaf. And when you pluck
• 2:46:01
  the leaf off, the way gate kind of comes alive because like the way
• 2:46:07
  it looks the way the tree is carved on the door, it looks very
• 2:46:11
  lifelike, but when you pluck the leaf off, it looks like it actually
• 2:46:13
  comes to life. And then the doors will open, and then when you
• 2:46:16
  want to close the door, you just put you when you want to close
• 2:46:18
  the way gate, you just put the leaf back onto the door, and
• 2:46:22
  it will start closing, but slowly, so like when you enter it,
• 2:46:26
  everyone walks through. They kind of go through this like it's kind of like
• 2:46:31
  this mirror like substance or like this field, and when they go through it,
• 2:46:37
  they describe it as like they're like walking through something like not like ash,
• 2:46:43
  like viscous liquid, but it's like they feel themselves going slower. And
• 2:46:48
  then once they do that, they come out on the other side and they
• 2:46:54
  are in the ways and it's dark they can see the path that the O
• 2:46:58
  Gear created built and it's old and it's unkempt, but it's still solid.
• 2:47:03
  Once everyone's in, Moraine puts the leaf back on the door and it starts
• 2:47:07
  closing and she comes right through. Now, in the show, when they
• 2:47:13
  all enter the ways, Matt stays behind and doesn't go with them, But
• 2:47:20
  in the book he does go with them, So there's a big difference there.
• 2:47:26
  I gotta say, though Matt is one of my least favorite characters.
• 2:47:31
  His personality overall is just like such a dick. But I'll but I won't
• 2:47:37
  get into that, not this, at least not in this episode. So
• 2:47:46
  they spend the next several days traveling through the ways. Loyal is guiding Is
• 2:47:52
  has to be the one to guide them, so they follow the path and
• 2:47:56
  then they reach like kind of like an island like structure with a guiding with
• 2:48:01
  a guiding stone in the center and on it is inscribed with directions like okay,
• 2:48:07
  like which way you need to go for which way gate? And uh
• 2:48:11
  so he reads it, it's like all right, Chinar this way, so
• 2:48:15
  he's so this how they spend the next few days as they get closer to
• 2:48:20
  shinar like. The last day that they are of their journey through the ways,
• 2:48:28
  they come across a keystone that has been vandalized, like there's cuts and
• 2:48:33
  grooves all over it. It's been completely defaced. And they also come across
• 2:48:39
  corpses of tralucs and when they see the trollux mariens like, so that's how
• 2:48:46
  they got to the two rivers. So that's how they got to the two
• 2:48:48
  rivers undetected. The Trulucks are using the ways and Loyal confirms that there was
• 2:48:58
  a waygate in a nephrin which is where the two Rivers is. So h
• 2:49:05
  When they find this, they do come across some trullocks and they are forced
• 2:49:09
  to run towards the way gate to their just to their intended way gate.
• 2:49:15
  When they get to the waygate, however, they realize that the trifoil leave
• 2:49:20
  that they need to pull off to open the gate is gone. Mean that
• 2:49:26
  U you, sir? I heard that? What do you fart? No?
• 2:49:33
  I said, uh oh, oh, I heard like a noise,
• 2:49:39
  sound like a fart. No. I heard you say, oh it was
• 2:49:41
  I heard I heard you say oh. But but like before that, I
• 2:49:46
  heard a sound and it sounded like a fart, and I'm like fart during
• 2:49:52
  our live prerecorded session. No, it was not a fart. My roommate
• 2:49:58
  is screaming at the TV because he's playing Eldon Rain. You probably heard that,
• 2:50:05
  ah fart. What do you think I am indegenerate? You are?
• 2:50:13
  Self proclaimed? He then self proclaimed it's okay it yeah, sure anyway,
• 2:50:26
  So when they reach the their exit gate, they realize that the leaf to
• 2:50:31
  unlock the gate is gone, so Moraine. And while they were running from
• 2:50:35
  the trollocks, they also realized that they can hear something else. It's like
• 2:50:39
  a strange kind of like almost like winding sound, and it's also they can
• 2:50:50
  they can also hear something like in the distance, like voices m hm.
• 2:50:54
  And Loy'll recognizes it and he's like, trap it up black it's a black
• 2:51:01
  on yep. So they run to the gate they can unlock it, so
• 2:51:07
  Moraine. She made it clear that especially to Igwaine and Ninive, who both
• 2:51:16
  demonstrated their abilities to channel, especially Ninive, because Ninive, as it turns
• 2:51:22
  out, is the most powerful female channeler of their age, because like,
• 2:51:28
  there hasn't been anybody as powerful of as her in centuries and and Moraine is
• 2:51:35
  like huh. When she realized that, like, she's like, huh,
• 2:51:37
  well, I'm not letting you go home now, you're going to Tarbalan bitch.
• 2:51:43
  So anyway, she tells them don't channel because in the ways, since
• 2:51:52
  basically since the ways were created by by Sidon, the taint is very much
• 2:51:56
  present here and it could affect you negatively if you channel while you're in here.
• 2:52:01
  Even if even though they're using Sidar, which is not touch, which
• 2:52:05
  is untouched by the taint, you're still gonna be affected by it. So
• 2:52:11
  Moraine breaks her own rule. She's like, okay, fuck it. She
• 2:52:15
  levels her staff and she blows like a and she shoots out a very like
• 2:52:18
  a white hot jet of flame at the door and she melts right through it.
• 2:52:26
  So the thing is the way gates can't be destroyed. They can be
• 2:52:28
  damaged, but they can't be destroyed. And they make it through the she
• 2:52:35
  ends up, she's she melts the gate open. They're able to run through
• 2:52:41
  it and escape the black wind. When they look back at the at the
• 2:52:46
  gate, it's still opened because it was damaged by Moraine, but they can
• 2:52:54
  see that the silvery mirror surface that that they can through has turned completely black
• 2:53:01
  and that's because the black wind chased them up to the gateway, but it
• 2:53:07
  can't go through it. Yeah, it's right there, and they're just like
• 2:53:13
  that's scurry, yes, s girl. So from there they make their way
• 2:53:22
  to Shinar, to Faldara, the capital city of Shinar. They they informed
• 2:53:31
  the Shinerian lord, Lord Engelmar that of their why they are there. The
• 2:53:41
  thing about the Borderlands is that they are unlike the rest of the nations down
• 2:53:45
  south. They actually trust and revere that I should eye. I mean,
• 2:53:50
  while they still have like a certain level of reverence for them, they don't
• 2:53:54
  really view them as like which if anything, if anything, they see things
• 2:54:05
  more plainly. They're like the Eiseneier fight are our biggest support through are basically
• 2:54:13
  the ones who are doing the most to fight the dark, to fight the
• 2:54:18
  dark and prepare for tom or guide in. Yeah. Think about the Borderland
• 2:54:22
  nations is that they're also a very warlike society. They form very warlike society,
• 2:54:28
  so war is part of their culture. So the Shineerans are like all
• 2:54:35
  the men are soldiers, most if not all the men are soldiers. The
• 2:54:37
  women are while they may not take active roles as soldiers. They do know
• 2:54:41
  how to defend themselves, but their role is mostly like domestic defense in case
• 2:54:48
  the Trollic forces come too far south, and really that's what the role of
• 2:54:54
  the borderlands are is to make sure the Trolics don't go any further south and
• 2:54:58
  also to try to fight the like keep the blight from getting further. Anglemar
• 2:55:07
  he gives them supplies and sets them up, and while he tries to convince
• 2:55:11
  them to let them take a force of soldiers into the blight with them to
• 2:55:16
  the eye of the world, Moraine tells them they would have a high they
• 2:55:20
  would be they would have a greater chance of success if they if they went
• 2:55:26
  into the blight with just a small team, which is basically their group,
• 2:55:28
  their small group. But Angelmar agrees, but he received he received a report
• 2:55:35
  there's a massive gathering of Trollics that are going to be coming through the this
• 2:55:41
  huge gap. So Anglemar is like, all right, well, at least
• 2:55:46
  allow us to escort you as far as the blight and then from there we
• 2:55:48
  will let you be while we go take care of the engage the Trilot forces.
• 2:55:54
  They agree, they go north, and they eventually separate from from the
• 2:56:01
  from the shan Errans they had the shan Aarons had to attack the to fight
• 2:56:05
  the trolks. While Moraine and her group enter the blight. Uh. While
• 2:56:09
  they're in the blight, they come up they see in the distance. As
• 2:56:13
  they travel deeper into the blight, they see in the distance these towers that
• 2:56:18
  are completely covered by the decay, and upon questioning it, Uh Moraine reveals
• 2:56:24
  that that that those are the seven Towers of Malkr. Malk Here was another
• 2:56:31
  borderland nation that unfortunately was enveloped by the blight. It fell to the blight
• 2:56:39
  and most of not all of that of the Malkyrian citizens died and died,
• 2:56:46
  including the nobility and the kings and the former leaders of the city except one
• 2:56:54
  oh m hm a Land mandra Man dragonman. So when he was just a
• 2:57:05
  baby, Land was taken from Malkiir before it fell, and he was raised
• 2:57:11
  in the south and his early life was chaotic and he didn't have much to
• 2:57:20
  live for because he was a king without a throne and a nation. But
• 2:57:26
  eventually Land was found by Moraine and she convinces him to become his to become
• 2:57:35
  her warder and Uh and ever since then like Land has served her faith faithfully
• 2:57:45
  again. You know, being a warder gives him a purpose and it's it's
• 2:57:50
  noble, it's honorable. Uh. So they make their way further into the
• 2:57:54
  blight. They do encounter trollocks and other nasty craters that inhabit the blight,
• 2:58:03
  but they eventually reached the Eye of the world. And the Eye of the
• 2:58:07
  World is actually protect is located in a little grove that is protected from the
• 2:58:13
  blight. And they also meet real quick, let me get his name,
• 2:58:18
  Let me get his name. Get his name? Is that a forsaken Nope?
• 2:58:26
  That comes later. Uh. Let's see. They reached the eye of
• 2:58:35
  the world and they meet the green Man. Oh, the green Man,
• 2:58:39
  the green Man. Yep, the green Man is a good guy. Okay,
• 2:58:45
  uh hold on, So the green Man is uh his name is so
• 2:58:52
  Meshta. He is uh a living He's a living tree, a plant net
• 2:59:03
  I think. Fuck? What were they called? Well, he's from a
• 2:59:09
  race of people called uh, he's from a race of people called the Nip.
• 2:59:15
  The nin unfortunately have gone extinct that we know of. They've become mostly
• 2:59:22
  extinct, and is believed that Semeshta is the last of his kind, and
• 2:59:28
  he was set by the ancient Isid Eye to protect the Eye of the World,
• 2:59:33
  which is a pool of siding. He reveals the Eye to them.
• 2:59:37
  Lauren explains to the group that the water, the water that's inside the eye
• 2:59:43
  is not water but essence of siding, so it is pure concentrated energy from
• 2:59:50
  the male half of the True Source, and it's untainted. And she kind
• 2:59:58
  of lets it that it is believed that it's believed that the Eye of the
• 3:00:07
  World will be used by the Dragon Reborn to either save the world or destroy
• 3:00:16
  it. It all depends because the prophecy is concerning the Dragon Reborn, which
• 3:00:22
  the Dragon Reborn and the Dragon himself have been mentioned kind of like offhandedly throughout
• 3:00:28
  the book, but it was never really it was never really hinted or implied
• 3:00:33
  that it would be one of the three boys, right, They don't really
• 3:00:35
  understand, they don't really realize their connection to this. So they view the
• 3:00:45
  Eye and they're like, all right, let's begin planning our let's try to
• 3:00:48
  think what let's try to figure out what the Dark One is going to try
• 3:00:52
  to do. I see, because they believe that the Dark One is going
• 3:00:56
  to try to taint the Eye of the World right to corrupt it so that
• 3:01:01
  way when the dragon reborn comes finally comes and uses it, the taint will
• 3:01:09
  lead him down the path of darkness, right or something like that. So
• 3:01:15
  the Eye of the World is inside of like a cavern, like a cave,
• 3:01:20
  so it's underground. So when when they come out, when they exit
• 3:01:24
  the cavern, they find that the grove is no longer. They're not the
• 3:01:28
  only ones in the grove anymore. They are confronted by two men, two
• 3:01:35
  mysterious figures. One looks like a really decrepit old man, we're talking like
• 3:01:41
  a fossil old and crusty. The other one is some creepy dude in like
• 3:01:48
  think Pinhead from Hell Razor, except without all the pins. But he's wearing
• 3:01:52
  like a weird mask with like a creepy looking smile on it. Uh.
• 3:02:01
  When they when they're confronted by these men, uh, these guys tell them
• 3:02:07
  that they're here to take They're here to take the Eye of the World.
• 3:02:09
  Right. And Moraine, she stands up to these two, she's all and
• 3:02:15
  she like basically shouts them down like she This is the first time we actually
• 3:02:18
  see her like Morain actually like kind of lose her composure, Like she's not
• 3:02:26
  like so much. She's not like screeching like wild eyed, like the hell
• 3:02:28
  are you? She's just like firmly like commanding them, tell me who you
• 3:02:33
  are? Yeah? Right, The decrepit old man Uh introduces himself. He
• 3:02:46
  is Agonre and his companion, whose long lost his ability to speak, is
• 3:02:54
  Balthamel, and they are two of the Forsaken These so Aginare and Baltimore do
• 3:03:05
  not appear in the show and the show when in the show, it's just
• 3:03:09
  Ran and Moraine who head to the Eye of the World quote unquote, I
• 3:03:13
  am Eye of the World. They don't actually call it that. Do they
• 3:03:18
  call it that? In the show? I literally just watched it, remember,
• 3:03:22
  do you remember it? I don't think they do. They just know
• 3:03:26
  they call it the Dark Ones Prison, That's what they call it. Yeah,
• 3:03:31
  And their confrontation is with the dark One, right, And he puts
• 3:03:37
  Ran into this like dream state where Ran confront like he's trying to convince Rand
• 3:03:43
  to join the dark Side, but Rand refuses, and Moraine had given him
• 3:03:50
  in the show, she gave him this little statue and she calls it a
• 3:03:52
  onreal Uh. And this was made by like this was made and with the
• 3:04:00
  power of over like a thousand male channelers, and she said it should be
• 3:04:05
  enough to vanquish the Dark One. And he uses it and releases its power,
• 3:04:09
  and it does vanquish the Dark One, and it also breaks the seal
• 3:04:13
  that he was standing on. But here's the thing that's not what happens in
• 3:04:18
  the book. For one thing, it's not the dark one they confront.
• 3:04:22
  Yeah, and I'm just gonna tell you right now, it's not the dark
• 3:04:24
  one they confront in both the show and the book. So, so here's
• 3:04:33
  what happens in the book. Agenor is one of the Forsaken. And he
• 3:04:39
  said, and he brags that he that his power was on the same level
• 3:04:43
  as Louise Thearren Talamon, the original Dragon. And the thing about Louise Tharren
• 3:04:48
  Talaman was that he was the most powerful male channeler, or rather he was
• 3:04:54
  the most He was as powerful as a male chandler can be with the Source.
• 3:05:00
  So like, physiologically speaking, there is a limit to how powerful a
• 3:05:05
  man or a woman can be in the Source. M So like, once
• 3:05:09
  they reach that level, they there's a certain level that they can reach and
• 3:05:13
  they can't that that they won't be able to pass all right, Now,
• 3:05:18
  it's really your power level is really hereditary. So if you were born,
• 3:05:28
  you're basically born able to channel more power than other people. So like it's
• 3:05:33
  just naturally how much you can pa that you can channel. But there is
• 3:05:39
  a limit at how powerful any channeler can be. And Lose was at the
• 3:05:43
  very zenith of it. A loose Therein was at the zenith, and agin
• 3:05:46
  Or was on the same level. Supposedly. Uh fun fact about agin Or,
• 3:05:54
  he created the half Men. He was the one who created at the
• 3:06:00
  Trolux, the Mere Drawl, the Dracar, and all the other nasties that
• 3:06:03
  fought on the dark one side. And Balthamel. There wasn't really much to
• 3:06:09
  say about Balthomel other than he just doesn't talk, he wears that creepy mask,
• 3:06:15
  and he's supposed to be very sadistic. When the Forsaken proclaimed themselves,
• 3:06:22
  the green Men attacks them, and so does Moraine. The green Man Man
• 3:06:28
  attacks Balthamel and the two of them end up killing each other. Like Balthamel
• 3:06:33
  strikes down the green Man, but the green Man and his dying with his
• 3:06:37
  with his dying breath causes a tree to grow and encase Balthomel killing him apparently,
• 3:06:46
  so he's dead as far as we know. And Moraine attacks Aginre and
• 3:06:52
  she creates this massive pillar of fire that shoots out of the ground and engulfs
• 3:06:58
  Agonre, but it doesn't do shit to him. He's just standing that he
• 3:07:01
  stands there in that in that pillar of flame, and he's just like eh.
• 3:07:09
  And Moraine tells everyone else to run, so everyone scatters, but for
• 3:07:13
  some reason, agin Or chases Wren so Ran Uh. He runs to the
• 3:07:26
  edge of the of the grove and he's kind of cornered in a like at
• 3:07:31
  the edge of a cliff, and he turns around he finds Agonor had followed
• 3:07:37
  him, and Uh. Agonor the way he's talking to Rand is almost like
• 3:07:45
  he knows, like Aginor knows who Rand is, but it's like he's addressing
• 3:07:50
  Ran differently, like it's like he's somebody else. And as Ran as he's
• 3:07:54
  talking, Uh, he mentioned, Agenor mentions that he and Balthamol when they
• 3:07:58
  were sealed, they were basically at the very edge of the seal, So
• 3:08:03
  while they were caught in the dreamless in the dreamless sleep, they were still
• 3:08:09
  affected by the flow of time, so that both of them basically ended up
• 3:08:13
  aging and becoming decrepit and old looking, but since they were given immortality by
• 3:08:20
  the Dark One, they couldn't die. So as Ran was watching him,
• 3:08:24
  Agonor's face was beginning to smooth out and become less decrepit and more youthful,
• 3:08:31
  and something clicks in Rands. He starts realizing that, like certain events that
• 3:08:41
  have happened in his journey have which he wasn't able to explain, are now
• 3:08:50
  like making sense. Like he starts realizing that he can feel something kind of
• 3:08:56
  like at the like at the edge of his vision, like a son like
• 3:08:58
  a source of light. All right, he can't see it, but he
• 3:09:03
  knows it's there, and he decides and he reaches for it. And when
• 3:09:09
  he reaches for it, he notices behind agin Or a stream of white,
• 3:09:15
  like a thread of white energy comes flowing towards him from somewhere in the forest.
• 3:09:20
  And when agin Or sees it, he freaks out and he's like,
• 3:09:22
  no, that's mine. But Rand seizes that thread of energy and he throws
• 3:09:30
  it at Agnor, and when he does that, there's a flash of light,
• 3:09:33
  and Rand finds himself back in that dreamscape that that Balzemont had been drawing
• 3:09:39
  him in every night, and Balzeml does his usual shit of mocking Rand and
• 3:09:46
  saying, you'll never win. We've been doing this for cycles, countless cycles,
• 3:09:52
  all right, but we'll break. We're gonna break the cycle this time,
• 3:09:56
  you know, villainous mom. Yeah. And RAN's like no, He's
• 3:10:03
  like uh. And he notices that surrounding him and Balzamon are these threads of
• 3:10:11
  energy. The one surrounding him is thinner and is glowing with this pure white
• 3:10:16
  energy, while Balzamon is wrapped in this thread of like black energy in both
• 3:10:22
  strands are like stretching off into the distance to like somewhere unseen. And Matt
• 3:10:26
  seeing the black thread connecting Balzama surrounding Balzamon, he gets his idea and he
• 3:10:33
  holds out his hands and a glimmering white sword appears in his hand. It's
• 3:10:39
  like crystal clear, and it looks like it's made out of a crystal.
• 3:10:43
  And he uses the blade and he cuts through the black thread around Balzamon,
• 3:10:50
  disrupting his power and cutting his connection to Ran. So Ran finds himself in
• 3:10:56
  another place now, this time he's in the battlefield where the Shinerians are fighting
• 3:11:01
  the Trollus, and the Shinerans are vastly outnumbered by the thousands of Tralucs.
• 3:11:07
  And Ran continually to draw on this energy. He like releases a wave of
• 3:11:13
  energy, lightning strikes the ground, and he obliterates the trollet forces. After
• 3:11:20
  this, he loses consciousness for a bit, and then when he wakes up,
• 3:11:24
  he's back on that cliff side where he was confronted by Agonor. And
• 3:11:28
  when he looks at where Agnor was standing, nothing, Agnor like just a
• 3:11:35
  little pile of ash. He sins. It becomes clear to Rand that uh,
• 3:11:43
  he's a channeler. Mm hmm, so he can use the true so
• 3:11:48
  he can touch the true source. And he's scared, but he doesn't tell
• 3:11:54
  anybody, decides not to tell anybody. Well, he does tell some people.
• 3:11:58
  He ends up telling his friends. Yeah, but not until much later.
• 3:12:03
  And uh. He goes back to the clearing where the entrance to the
• 3:12:07
  eye was and he finds lenn and Moraine. Moraine is still alive, but
• 3:12:11
  she's she looks like she looks like shit because agin Or basically bent her over
• 3:12:16
  his knee and whooped her ass. Damn. And but for him like the
• 3:12:24
  way agin Or like You don't actually see their confrontation, but the way agin
• 3:12:28
  Or manhandled Moraine was basically like swatting a fly. Yeah, and his friends
• 3:12:37
  were still there. They they managed to they managed to flee to safety.
• 3:12:41
  Both mel is dead and unfortunately so is the Green Man. But taking stock
• 3:12:46
  of their surroundings, they go back into the cavern with the Eye and they
• 3:12:50
  realize and they find that the pull of Sidon is gone vanished, And basically
• 3:12:58
  what happened was is that ran had pulled the power from the Eye of the
• 3:13:03
  World and that's what he used to strike down agon Or too uh uh,
• 3:13:11
  kick Balzama, give Balzman the boot, and also wipe out the to wipe
• 3:13:16
  out the Trilot forces. They go into the but they find that the poll
• 3:13:22
  had actually contained several artifacts. First and foremost, they find a box,
• 3:13:30
  big ivory box that when Moraine, Moraine identifies as some form of form of
• 3:13:37
  capsule that was left over from the Age of Legends, and she triggers the
• 3:13:41
  mechanism and it opens and it reveals an artifact known as the Horn of Valier.
• 3:13:48
  Now in the show, it turned the Horn of Valier was hidden in
• 3:13:54
  the Chineran Forces Fortress of Uh, but in the book it was actually hidden
• 3:14:03
  and preserved in the eye of the world. And think about the Horn of
• 3:14:07
  Valier. And the horn of Vilier is important because it's the center. It
• 3:14:11
  is the centerpiece of book two. But aside from the Horn of Haler,
• 3:14:18
  just real quick, what it does is that when you blow the horn,
• 3:14:20
  it summons the spirit of ancient heroes, so it'll summon it'll summon the spirits
• 3:14:28
  of one hundred uh heroes of legend and they will fight for you Jack,
• 3:14:35
  and it's and the horn is important because when tom or Guiden comes that they're
• 3:14:39
  supposed to use it to help them to summon the dead heroes to fight with
• 3:14:43
  them. Mm hmm. But it's important, but the horn will become important
• 3:14:48
  in book two, so put that aside. Next next they find a white
• 3:14:56
  banner and on the banner is a figure of a strange animal. He describes
• 3:15:01
  it. Ran describes it as like something like a serpent that has like scales
• 3:15:07
  and four legs, and Moraine points out that that is that that is a
• 3:15:11
  dragon. It is this is the banner of Loosethyron Talaman, the original dragon,
• 3:15:18
  and wrapped in and wrapped inside the banner is one of is the Seal
• 3:15:26
  of the Dark Is, the one of the seals of the Dark Ones prison,
• 3:15:30
  and it's broken, well ship the seal. The thing is is that
• 3:15:41
  in the show, it's implied that very powerful channelers can break guendolar objects.
• 3:15:48
  Guendolar Is this magical substance also called hearthstone, and it's it's used. Its
• 3:15:56
  main purpose is to create artifacts called angril. Angriol are basically like arcane focuses.
• 3:16:03
  They're indestructible, and if a channeler uses one, it allows them to
• 3:16:07
  safely draw upon more energy from the true source. In fact, Moraine in
• 3:16:15
  the in the book carries an ingreole. It's a statuette of a woman,
• 3:16:18
  and she uses it to help boost her power. But like I said,
• 3:16:24
  guendolar Is is unbreakable. In fact, when you channel energy into when you
• 3:16:31
  channel uh, when you channel the source through in angriol, it makes it
• 3:16:35
  stronger. Apparently, so everyone including Moraine, are looking at this broken quendolar
• 3:16:46
  seal and they're just like, well, fuck fuck us, then damn.
• 3:16:58
  Whever one's wondering what does this mean, Mauren is like it means that the
• 3:17:05
  Dark Ones, Well, yes, but it means that the dark ones see
• 3:17:09
  the Dark One is the seals are weakening, and the dark One as soon
• 3:17:15
  will soon break free and uh the end the book comes to an end.
• 3:17:22
  They make their way back to Faldera and they're given the heroes welcome and because
• 3:17:30
  they succeeded in protecting the Eye of the world. And while they don't tell
• 3:17:35
  the people aside from Lord Angel maarn Is and his other lords who serve in
• 3:17:41
  that the seal is broken, the first seal has broken, and we found
• 3:17:46
  the horn of the Leer, uh the Shineer, and Lord tells him that
• 3:17:50
  all right, well, we're gonna need to get you guys out of here,
• 3:17:52
  because for one thing, I can't look at that horn without wanting to
• 3:17:56
  call upon the spirits of the ancient hero to help us and go charging into
• 3:18:03
  the blight to take care of this once and for all. Yeah, Rand
• 3:18:07
  reveals to his friends that he can channel and that once things started settled here
• 3:18:15
  he plans on going off on his own so that way he doesn't hurt them,
• 3:18:18
  because right now, even though he can channel, he hasn't gone mad
• 3:18:22
  yet. He still has a lot of time. But the problem, what
• 3:18:24
  is once you first touch the source, and you start calling on it more
• 3:18:28
  and more, the more addictive addicted to it you become. So the thing
• 3:18:37
  is is that when he's telling his friends this, he doesn't realize that Morain,
• 3:18:41
  who's using a neat little trick of hers, using that blue stone she
• 3:18:45
  wears she can listen in on conversations from afar. It can see it goes
• 3:18:50
  to her holding her stone, and she was listening to the whole conversation,
• 3:18:54
  and the books ends with her like like, so it's fine, hold on,
• 3:19:01
  let me let me, let me pull up the actual quote from the
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  book. So here's the scene. Just this is a direct quote from the
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  book and an angle in Aglmar's private garden, under a thick bower dotted with
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  white blossoms. Moraine shifted on her bed chair. The fragments of the seal
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  lay on her lap, and the small gems she sometimes wore in her hair
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  spun and glittered on its golden chain from the ends of her fingers. The
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  faint blue glow faded from the stone, and a smile touched her lips.
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  It had no power in itself, the stone, but the first use she
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  had ever learned of the one power as a girl and the Royal Palace of
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  in Krahine was using the stone to listen to people when they thought they were
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  too far off to be overheard. The prophecies will be fulfilled, the Isidi
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  whispered, the Dragon is reborn. So in the so in the like I
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  said in the show, she tells them all straight up that she was looking
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  for the Dragon reborn, and towards the end, Rand comes to her and
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  tells her he thinks it's him because he realizes he can channel, and that's
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  why she takes him to the Dark Ones prison, and that's when she gives
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  him that little so sot ungriol and he uses it to vanquish the Dark One.
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  But in the books, she doesn't tell him shit. She doesn't tell
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  him why she came to Emansfield in the first place, she doesn't tell him
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  what she suspects that those three boys might be. She just says, the
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  Dark One, the dark forces are interested in you, and I need to
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  protect you. That's all. That's all she told him, that it's all
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  in her mind. That's all they needed to know. But at the very
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  end, she she tells herself the Dragon is reborn, and the Dragon Reborn
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  is rand al Thor. But that that and that is where book one ends.
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  If you listen to this, this is probably it's been a lot since
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  we did a long episode. This one is from looking at my recording,
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  three hours and thirty one minutes. I'm pretty sure you're gonna cut that down.
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  So it's still over two hours. Oh, it's still gonna I mean,
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  it's still gonna be quite a bit. Like I don't cut Yeah,
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  I probably won't cut too much off. It should probably just be the beginning.
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  But then once we began, that's maybe some of the space spaces in
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  between, of course, those little parts. For the most part, I
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  think I'll probably stick to be in three hours. Yeah. So yeah,
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  so this was book one of The Wheel of Time The Eye of the World.
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  Next week we are going to talk about book two in the series,
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  which is called The Great Hunt. Yeah. I promise you guys, this
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  will. I promise they will. In book two, rand does learn that
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  he is the Dragon, that he is the Dragon Reborn, or at least
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  the iaid I believe he's the Dragon Reborn. Yeah, and they will,
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  and they do. Moraine as well as some other isaid I who come to
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  him they explain to him why they think he is the one, and Moraine
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  does have evidence and much too Ninive's annoyance. Ninivehs also provides the evidence that
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  Ran could be because the little spoilers for next what to expect and the prophecies
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  of the dragon. It is said that the dragon will be reborn in the
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  place that he in the very place that he died, and in this case
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  it is on the steps of the dragon amount, which is the volcano that
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  was created when LUs Tharn killed himself. Oh Dan yep, and just so
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  happens. Twenty years ago, all these nations were broiled in a long war
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  called the i Eel War. The Ieal War was this brutal conflict with between
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  Carahind, tier Ilien and or Tarbalon and a few other and a bunch of
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  other nations. They were all they all had to band together to fight these
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  to fight the a Eel, who are desert people that come from the place
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  they call the a Eel waste. The reason why the a Eel went to
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  war with all these nations was because the king of Carahin, which is where
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  morains from, he cut down a tree and turned it into a throne Wow.
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  The significance of that tree is that that tree was an off was an
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  offspring of the Aventisura, the Tree of Life. It was given to the
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  Kings of Carahim by the a Eel, who have a living descendant of the
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  Tree of Life in their possession, and as a sign of friendship they gave
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  it. They gave the Kings of Carahm a sapling. So Carahine is set
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  on the borders of the Ael Waste. Like the Ael Waste is separated from
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  all these other lands by a massive mountain range called the Spine of the world.
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  Yeah, all right, and uh, there's a gap in the spine
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  where they can cross through, where the Aeel and the Krahenians can go through.
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  And the Iel as a sign of friendship, gave the sapling to the
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  Carrahanians as a sign of friendship and also letting them know that as as part
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  of our friendship, you are free to enter and cross through the Aeel Waste
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  to reach this other land on the other side of the Iel Waste called Shara.
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  It's where all the silk trade comes That's where all the silk trade comes
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  from. But one of the last kings of the last king of Kirahin and
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  his arrogance and ambition, he ordered the tree to be cut down and made
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  into a throne. When the ael found out about this, they were pissed.
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  I saw that as he They saw this as a huge insult to themselves.
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  And there's about like, I forgot how many a eel clans there are.
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  I think there's like about I think like ten or eleven of them.
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  I gotta look it up later. But of those clans, three clans declared
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  war on Kerahim, and those three clans banded together and crossed the spine and
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  attacked Kerahine. See, the thing is is that there the a eels beef
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  wasn't with the people of Carain. It was with the king. And their
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  goal was to kill the king, all right, that was their target.
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  And the thing is the king was like, oh shit, they're coming from
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  me. So he ran. He fled to Tier, to Ilien, to
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  and Or and a few other countries before finally fleeing to Tarbalaan. And everywhere
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  he fled, the aeel followed him. There was about twenty thousand a eel
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  that crossed the mountains and attacked. Yeah, those twenty thousands those an a
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  Eel was more than enough to like obliterate the armies of the other nations.
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  Like the other nations like at first were fighting like fighting like on their own,
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  but when they realized that they weren't enough to fight to stave off the
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  a Eel, they'd band together to try to like fight back, and they
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  still lost. Damn Yeah, the ael are badass, and they ended up
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  pushing back all these the allied forces to Tarvelan. The thing is the Aeel
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  they have like a huge level of respect for the for the ice at Eye.
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  So while they were sieging Tarvlon, they weren't actually attacking Targlon itself.
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  They were attacking the armies that were outside of Tarvlon. And the thing is
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  the because of how powerful the isid Ie are, they were able to they
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  kept the a Eel from entering their city. So it wasn't only to this
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  day Tarblon has never fallen and uh because and that is because of the White
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  Towers protection. Now, the king, King Damadred, he did this,
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  The dumbass did flee to targle On, but he was like all right,
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  last stand. He decided to meet the a Eel fate head like head on,
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  and the battle uh ended up like the final battle ended up being on
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  the at the steps of the dragon mounts, and the a Eel succeeded.
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  They finally killed the king. And once they killed the king, they're like,
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  all right, peace, they went back to the Iowas. That's it,
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  but all right, we're done here. But during the battle. The
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  thing about the a Eel is that the i Eel, Uh, they're not
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  just an all male warrior society. Like, they're not a society where only
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  the men fight, women fight too, And and the women are called maidens
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  of the Spear. And there was one particular maiden who was pregnant, yeah,
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  during the battle. And he watched to the very end of the If
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  you watch to the very end of this of season one, there was a
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  scene where there was an ill woman fighting a bunch of soldiers on a snowy
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  mountain and she ends up giving birth. That was Rand's mother. Well something
• 3:29:28
  happened, well, something like that happened in the books. But where in
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  the show tam al Thor found his mom, Rand's mother and helped her give
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  birth. In the book, he does find the mother and baby Ran,
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  but the thing is his mother gave berta rant and died as a as a
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  result, and tam al Thor he only found Ran after the fact. He
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  like, while he was in the middle of the battlefield, he heard the
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  cries of a baby and he followed it and he found a poor baby Rand
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  like nearly frozen after death, and his dead mother, who was an i
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  ill woman. Yeah, it's made into the spear, and that's the first
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  part of the prophecies of the dragons was fulfilled. The dragon was would be
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  reborn on the in the place of his death. Leffoonery m hm. And
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  yes, that does mean that Rand is also an i e Eel. Yeah,
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  he was raised in the two Rivers, so he's technically not an ay
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  eel. But later on this does his connections to the I Eel give him
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  an edge. Yeah, there's there's a lot, a lot, a lot
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  of good ship. I thought, I just wanted to tell you all about
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  this because like he is, he will be told of this later on,
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  and he learns more about his ill family, mainly his parents whose parents were
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  but we don't learn that until book four. Damn Well, like the details
• 3:31:16
  about his parents from the Aeel, he won't learn about until book four.
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  But the events of what happens of his birth on the Dragon Mount and how
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  he was found, yeah, those are more though he is told more about
• 3:31:30
  that in book two. But other than that, we have officially gone thirty
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  minutes over Jesus Christ and he wanted me to be finished by eight and it's
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  already eight thirty. Yeah. So that is the first book of the Whale
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  Time series, y'all. Yay, don't watch the Netflix series so much.
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  Yes, I'm recommending sorry Amazon series, you got me. I almost said
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  it too. Yeah, definitely go watch the series. I mean when I
• 3:32:05
  first watched the series, it got me so hooked that I was like,
• 3:32:09
  I gotta read the I want to see like it's based off of book ship.
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  Let me check it out. Fuck, there's fourteen books. I'm gonna
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  read it. Yeah, I'm gonna read them all, and I have,
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  well, not all of them. I'm only halfway through, like well almost
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  halfway through. I'm on, I'm almost done with book sixam and yeah.
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  Yeah, though like so far, book five was my favorite mm hmm,
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  especially because there was a certain scene where a certain evil lady yeah latched jealousy,
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  Yeah girlfriend, like caused the scene and died. I mean it.
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  If you know, you know, If you don't, you will know the
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  book five. Yeah, you will well know mhm wof Anyway, thank you
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  guys, Thank you guys for listening. Catch us next time as you talk
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  about book two of the Real Time till then, bye bye