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82. Rand just talking to himself? (WOT Book 11: Knife of Dreams) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: The options episodes.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome back to book Watching. I am Devin,
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  Speaker 2: Today's episode of book Watchers were talking about book eleven
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  Speaker 2: of the Wee all time.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go ahead and get it started.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to do any intros or anything we
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  Speaker 2: can to say, Hi, we're on book eleven now, So
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  Speaker 2: thank you for coming back. Even though as far as
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  Speaker 2: that editing is concerned, it's one continuous edit telling that
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  Speaker 2: to the listeners.
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  Speaker 4: We could just I was just doing a joke about like,
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  Speaker 4: welcome back from that brief that brief one week intermission. Gosh,
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  Speaker 4: that was weird, so yeah, so weird. It was enough
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  Speaker 4: time for me to go go to work five days
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  Speaker 4: a week. Change my shirt?
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  Speaker 2: What we're very different shirts? What? What is she?
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  Speaker 5: Who?
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  Speaker 4: Is?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 4: So we just completed book ten. H Now we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be fit. Now we're gonna be continuing on with book eleven.
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  Speaker 5: Yay.
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  Speaker 4: Book eleven, of course is Knife of Dreams. Uh So
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  Speaker 4: Book eleven is now more caught up with the present
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  Speaker 4: on like book ten, which was kind of which was
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  Speaker 4: like halfway overlapping with book nine before like going past
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  Speaker 4: the uh the cleansing of sighting. Uh So, now things
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  Speaker 4: are just gonna things are now progressively moving toward the
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  Speaker 4: h the climax, the final battle, even oh my god, okay,
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  Speaker 4: I can't. I didn't even say it. I didn't even say.
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  Speaker 2: I was just thinking it. And then climax, good do you?
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  Speaker 2: I just sorry. I know I'm a child, I'll have a.
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  Speaker 4: And you're you're older than me, older than me, and
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  Speaker 4: you're more immature than me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm mature when it counts. Don't get a
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  Speaker 2: twist where where, don't get it twisted. But I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: T climax, it's so like middle school funny.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well you you've graduated high school barely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean high school. That's fair. That's barely.
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  Speaker 2: That that's fair.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not in we're not in middle school anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Well I never went to middle school.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, lucky you.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm. I skipped over that. Home schooling is not better.
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  Speaker 4: That it wasn't any better anyway. So we So we
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  Speaker 4: continue on with book eleven. The events are beginning to
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  Speaker 4: progress a little bit more at a little bit faster.
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  Speaker 4: Rand has had has had some time to rest after
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  Speaker 4: the events of book nine. He's now going to begin
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  Speaker 4: to slowly put himself back into the into the public eye.
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  Speaker 4: He still needs to com Uh to complete his his
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  Speaker 4: quest to unite the Westlands. Already, he has Kyrine tier
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  Speaker 4: and Uh tier Ilian and technically and or under his control.
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  Speaker 4: I say technically because he stepped back and allowed Elaine
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  Speaker 4: to take control, although if you say that to her face,
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  Speaker 4: she will fight you. He didn't allow her to take anything.
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  Speaker 4: She took it herself. But that's yeah, that's a whole
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  Speaker 4: nother ballpark there. He technically has control of Geldin, but
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't know this yet because the Queen of Gelden
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  Speaker 4: had sworn allegiance to Parrien who is technically who is
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  Speaker 4: technically one of Fran's followers and one of his and
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  Speaker 4: one of his great captains. Yeah, so he doesn't know
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  Speaker 4: this yet because Parent is still trying to rescue his
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  Speaker 4: wife Fayeel from the shidow. She is currently she's currently
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  Speaker 4: being held as an indentured servant for the for the
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  Speaker 4: Shido and Parent now must he Now he has to
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  Speaker 4: bite the bullet and form an allegiance with another with
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  Speaker 4: the enemy in order to defeat his enemy. And that
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  Speaker 4: enemy is the shan Shan. And speaking of the shan Shan,
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  Speaker 4: Rand needs to figure out some way to deal with them,
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  Speaker 4: either to completely wipe them out or form some like
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  Speaker 4: or form some kind of allegiance or come to some
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  Speaker 4: sort of agreement with them, because his biggest concern now
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  Speaker 4: is the final battle tom or Guidine. There's still there
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  Speaker 4: are still a good number of the forsaken out there.
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  Speaker 4: Semarage though Semarage is hiding among the Sean Sean, influencing
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  Speaker 4: their actions. H Grendel. It's at this point it's not
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  Speaker 4: really clear where grendel It has been hiding, but it
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  Speaker 4: is hinted that she is hiding somewhere in Ari Domin
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  Speaker 4: and uh Milgedian has been reduced to h somewhat of
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  Speaker 4: a even less She's now considered even lesser than she
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  Speaker 4: used to be. Uh Moradin has punished her. Morden and
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  Speaker 4: the Dark One has punished her very severely for her failings,
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  Speaker 4: especially because she was captured and controlled by Ninive and
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  Speaker 4: the other Ice and the other girls for a short
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  Speaker 4: period of time. So she was severely punished for that,
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  Speaker 4: and as a result, she's now under the complete the
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  Speaker 4: complete control of Moriden. Morden placed her under what is
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  Speaker 4: called a mind trap, so he literally he literally trapped
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  Speaker 4: her soul in a little vial, and this allows him
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  Speaker 4: to completely control her. It's not like, it's not like
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  Speaker 4: compulsion where he imposes his will over her. It's more
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  Speaker 4: of like, since he holds her her soul, she has
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  Speaker 4: no choice but to serve him, so she still retains
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  Speaker 4: her personality in her some semblance of free will, but
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  Speaker 4: she has to obey him. And it's it's the same
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  Speaker 4: for Sindane or Landfear. She's also because of her actions
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  Speaker 4: that Kyrine resulting in her death, she's also been She's
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  Speaker 4: also been reduced to just being a servant to Morton,
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  Speaker 4: but we don't really see much of her activities. She's
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  Speaker 4: still she still pops up here and there in tel
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  Speaker 4: around Rio, because at the end of the day, she's
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  Speaker 4: still a dream walker. But other than that, she doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have She no longer has time or the freedom to
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  Speaker 4: continue with her little schemes or her little plate or
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  Speaker 4: her little games. She has to completely and utterly serve Morgan.
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  Speaker 4: But let's go ahead, and like, let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 4: get back down to to book eleven. So right off
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  Speaker 4: the bat, in the prologue of book eleven, we are
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  Speaker 4: reintroduced to Elaine's half brother, Gallad Demodred Gallat. If for
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  Speaker 4: the uh quick recap, Gallad had joined the White Cloaks
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  Speaker 4: in the wake of his sister's disappearance from the White Tower.
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  Speaker 4: He had grown uh he had become dissatisfied with the
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  Speaker 4: Iaid Eye and they and their their omission of truth,
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  Speaker 4: I will say, because they can't really lie to him,
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  Speaker 4: but they refuse to tell him what happened to his sister,
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  Speaker 4: not telling him if she's okay, he see for him.
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  Speaker 4: For Gallat, he has a very strong sense of right
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  Speaker 4: or wrong, and he is fear He's very he is
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  Speaker 4: highly compelled to do what he thinks is right, even
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  Speaker 4: if it means like if he does something wrong, he'll
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  Speaker 4: turn himself in regardless right, So he he has a
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  Speaker 4: very high sense of accountability. But it's accountability to the fault,
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  Speaker 4: yeah and for and in this case, he believed that
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  Speaker 4: the White Cloaks were doing the right thing, so he
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  Speaker 4: decided to join them.
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  Speaker 2: And uh.
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  Speaker 4: But now saying it's a Meadisha, the capital of the
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  Speaker 4: White Cloaks, the home of the White Cloaks, had been
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  Speaker 4: conquered by the Sean Shan gallad and what's left of
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  Speaker 4: the White Cloak's forces are now at odds with are
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  Speaker 4: now at odds with each other. Half of the White
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  Speaker 4: Cloaks believe that they should fall in with the Shan
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  Speaker 4: Shan and swear their obedience to them, and the other
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  Speaker 4: half believes that they shouldn't throw their lot in with
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  Speaker 4: the Shan Shan because they believe that the Sean Shan's
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  Speaker 4: use of the Demane and then these other war beasts,
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  Speaker 4: because the Sean Chan have a they have a flock
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  Speaker 4: of war beasts that are not your normal kind of animals,
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  Speaker 4: nothing that are found here in the Westlands. But back
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  Speaker 4: in Shan Shan. These animals are very normal. So, like
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  Speaker 4: you have the rakin, which are these bat like bird
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  Speaker 4: creatures that they use as flying mounts. They have these
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  Speaker 4: uh what are they called? They're like these panther They
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  Speaker 4: have these panther like animals. They kind of look like
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  Speaker 4: a cross between a pangolin and a and a tiger
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  Speaker 4: because they had like those like diamond shaped armor plates
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  Speaker 4: all over their body and they use They also use
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  Speaker 4: these toad like creatures called grome and for the for
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  Speaker 4: the to the White Cloak. Seeing the shawn Sean using
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  Speaker 4: these war beasts, they think like these creatures are shadow creatures.
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  Speaker 4: They're technically not. They were created in the Age of
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  Speaker 4: Legends by agonor the Forsaken, but they're not like the
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  Speaker 4: other shadow creatures that dwell and haunt the blight in
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  Speaker 4: around child Goal. So like these are like these are
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  Speaker 4: like tame shadow beasts, but they're not shadow beasts.
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  Speaker 5: M hm.
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  Speaker 4: So Gallad of course was going to follow whatever his
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  Speaker 4: leaders tell him. I was going to follow whatever his
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  Speaker 4: leaders told him to do. But he recently discovered that
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  Speaker 4: his mother, Queen Morgasee, had been had been held as
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  Speaker 4: a captive of of of the White Cloaks chain of
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  Speaker 4: command mainly from Padron Niall. He was the former Lord
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  Speaker 4: Commander of the White Cloaks before he was deposed and
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  Speaker 4: executed by Iamon Valda and uh the leader of the Questioners.
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  Speaker 3: What was his name?
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  Speaker 4: Let me get his name real quick. His not so
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  Speaker 4: Iman Valda and h Questioners Leader Questioners or the Hand
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  Speaker 4: of the Light they were led by. He has a
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  Speaker 4: really weird name. Yeah, here we are. So Galad was
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  Speaker 4: going to follow whatever that he was. He would have
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  Speaker 4: followed whatever commands he was given by the new Lord Captain,
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  Speaker 4: Commander Emon Valda, as well as the leader of the
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  Speaker 4: Hand of Light or the Questioner's man named the High
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  Speaker 4: Inquisitor ridame Asunawa. The thing is, though, it came to
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  Speaker 4: his attention that these men had had held his mother
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  Speaker 4: captive and apparently tortured her. And when the Shan Shan
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  Speaker 4: had invaded, the whereabouts of his mother was lost. No
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  Speaker 4: one knew what happened to her, but it was assumed
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  Speaker 4: that Emon Valda had executed her. So Galad pissed off
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  Speaker 4: that his hat that his adopted mother was killed. He
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  Speaker 4: ends up challenging Valda to a duel answer for his crimes.
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  Speaker 4: And the thing about even Valda is even Valda is
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  Speaker 4: a blades master, so he is a master swordsman, and
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  Speaker 4: unlike most blades master because in the wheel of time,
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  Speaker 4: you can become a blades master from one of two ways.
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  Speaker 4: Either you kill an existing blades master, proving that you
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  Speaker 4: are the when killing of blades master, that proves that
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  Speaker 4: you are the better swordsman. So as a result, you
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  Speaker 4: can take their power made weapon, which is a Heron
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  Speaker 4: marked sword. These swords were made. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: I ever really explained what these Heron marked swords were.
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  Speaker 4: Rand was given one by his father Tam and they've
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  Speaker 4: appeared several times throughout the series. These weapons, they're called
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  Speaker 4: Heron marked blades or Heron marked swords they are given.
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  Speaker 4: They were made during the Trolloc Wars and in the
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  Speaker 4: early days of the Westlands, preceding the the Age of Madness.
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  Speaker 4: This was they were made back when the Eyes that
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  Speaker 4: I didn't didn't all swear the Three Oaths. So in fact,
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  Speaker 4: it was the creation of these Heron marked blades that
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  Speaker 4: prompted the Eyes ad I to begin swearing the three
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  Speaker 4: The Three oaths, particularly the oath preventing them from ever
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  Speaker 4: using the power to create weapons, so they cannot tell
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  Speaker 4: a lie, they cannot use the power to kill unless
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  Speaker 4: it's in self defense or in the fight against the
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  Speaker 4: dark One, and they cannot use the power to make weapons.
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  Speaker 4: So any Heron marked blade you come across, they're for starters.
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  Speaker 4: They are extremely old. They're like fouls of years old,
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  Speaker 4: and they're the only ones of their kind. You will
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  Speaker 4: never see another one like them again. No, at least
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  Speaker 4: no one will ever be making them anytime soon. And
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  Speaker 4: Iman Valda, he was blade like I said, was a
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  Speaker 4: blades master, and he earned his Haron Mark blade the
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  Speaker 4: other way. So the first way was by killing it
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  Speaker 4: blades master, and the other way is by training for years,
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  Speaker 4: honing your skills and proving your skills before a a assessment.
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  Speaker 4: I guess you could say, in the presence of five
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  Speaker 4: other blade like four or five other blades masters. So
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  Speaker 4: these other blades masters, after testing you and reviewing your
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  Speaker 4: skill with a sword, if they all agree that you've
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  Speaker 4: earned the right to be a blades master, you're given
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  Speaker 4: that title. And as well, you earn that title and
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  Speaker 4: you gain you're given a heron marked blade. So here
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  Speaker 4: here is Galad, who in his own right is very
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  Speaker 4: well as a very skilled swordsman. Galad is challenging a
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  Speaker 4: full fledged blades master, one who earned his blade from
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  Speaker 4: pure training for years of training, and in the course
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  Speaker 4: of the duel, Galad does get takes several pretty serious wounds,
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  Speaker 4: but in the end he does defeat Valda and kills him,
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  Speaker 4: and this makes him that the new Lord Captain commander
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  Speaker 4: of the White Cloaks now the hand of the Light
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  Speaker 4: and their leader Asunawa believe that this duel was not
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  Speaker 4: legitimate and wanted to arrest Galad. But the other White Cloaks,
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  Speaker 4: who I have to say, the White Cloaks do not
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  Speaker 4: trust questioners because the questioners they have questionable tactics.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, we never have guessed that with a name
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So the thing about the questioners is that they're
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  Speaker 4: their specific role is interrogating dark friends. The problem is
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  Speaker 4: is that they don't do a good job of that.
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  Speaker 4: If they believe that just have like even just like
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  Speaker 4: the slightest inclination that you might be a dark friend,
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  Speaker 4: they will they will take you. They'll arrest you, and
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  Speaker 4: if you're given to the questioners. The questioners will torture
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  Speaker 4: you to the point where it doesn't matter if you're not.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of torture.
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  Speaker 4: The questioners, as I was saying, will torture you to
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  Speaker 4: the point where it doesn't matter if you're telling the
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  Speaker 4: truth or not. You start basically babbling off like anything
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  Speaker 4: just to get them to stop, and they will only
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  Speaker 4: accept the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Oh they're so, they're only so. They're as good as
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  Speaker 2: the guys who did the whole say them what trials,
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  Speaker 2: got it?
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  Speaker 4: They're pure witch hunters, good old fashioned witch hunters. Well this, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: So this ends up dividing the the White Cloaks in two,
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  Speaker 4: with one half of the White Cloaks following Galad as
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  Speaker 4: their new lord Captain commander, and the other half a
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  Speaker 4: majority of them being Questioners following Asenawa. So Galad makes
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  Speaker 4: a decision to begin leading the remaining White Cloaks north
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  Speaker 4: to Tarvelan. And it's not to attack Tarvelon, but it's
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  Speaker 4: to join them.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 4: So, well, many of the White Cloaks don't Oh, many
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  Speaker 4: of the White Cloaks they don't like. They don't like
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  Speaker 4: chandlers in generals, they are witch hunters. Pure and plain
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  Speaker 4: and simple. But the thing is is that they know
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  Speaker 4: that with all the events, with the events that have
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  Speaker 4: been happening, their food stores are spoiling long like well
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  Speaker 4: before the uh they're supposed to. Random occurrences are happening.
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  Speaker 4: They're the dead or walking. They know that the final
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  Speaker 4: battle is coming, and they know that in order to
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  Speaker 4: fun excuse me, to face the final battle, they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: need channelers. And rather than throw their lot in with
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  Speaker 4: the Sean Shaan who just conquered their stupid asses, they'd
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  Speaker 4: rather throw their lot in with the isid Eye, like
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  Speaker 4: better the devil.
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  Speaker 1: You know, right, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, Gallad begins leading his forces north and then
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna this is still this is still in the prolog,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, what it does we do see? Uh,
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  Speaker 4: The product does show us a little bit of interactions
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  Speaker 4: between the one of the great captains of the Westlands,
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  Speaker 4: a Domini man named Rodell Itteroll. He's been leading a
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  Speaker 4: series of raids against the shan Chan all across Tarabah
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  Speaker 4: and Almuth Plane and things that shaun Chan have been
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  Speaker 4: slowly pushing him and his forces back north towards Aridoman.
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  Speaker 4: But during one particularly large scale battle he manages to
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  Speaker 4: He manages to defeat a large shan Chan force of
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  Speaker 4: like one hundred thousand soldiers by leading him into a
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  Speaker 4: trap and back in Abu Dhar, the High Ladies, the
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  Speaker 4: shan Chan's High Lady Surroth has been overseeing plans to
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  Speaker 4: pursue Turan Tuon. I'm sorry, try to find her before
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  Speaker 4: the public figures out that hey, our princess is gone.
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  Speaker 4: She's not around. But then Lady Soroth is confronted by
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  Speaker 4: one of the Forsaken, probably Emos bloodthirsty of the Forsaken, Semarage. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Samarage appears before Surah, and the thing about Surath is
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  Speaker 4: that Surath is a Dark Friend and when she at
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  Speaker 4: first she doesn't recognize who Samarage is, but seeing when Sumara,
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  Speaker 4: when Samarage uses a display of power to Uh to
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  Speaker 4: appear before her, she realizes that she's talking to one
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  Speaker 4: of the cho to one of the Chosen dark Friends
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  Speaker 4: called the Forsaken, the Chosen Ah. She immediately Uh submits
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  Speaker 4: herself to Samarage for whatever and agrees to help Sammarage
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  Speaker 4: with whatever, and Samarage tells her that she wants to
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  Speaker 4: place Uh surath as the new Empress of the shan
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  Speaker 4: Shan And when surath Uh expresses her confusion like, well, wait,
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  Speaker 4: there's still too on and then also the actual Empress,
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  Speaker 4: who sits on the crystal thrown back in the back
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  Speaker 4: in the shan Shan continent, Semarage reveals that she had
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  Speaker 4: just come from Shandar, the capital of the of the
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  Speaker 4: shan Shan Empire, and she reveals that she had just
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  Speaker 4: massacred the entire High Court of Shandar, meaning Semarage executed
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  Speaker 4: all of the high lords in the capitol, including Tuon's mother,
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  Speaker 4: the High Empress of Shanshan goddamn leaving. So that includes
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  Speaker 4: the Empress herself and the other high lords of the court,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: as well as Tuon's siblings because she had other siblings.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, goddamn massacre.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Yep, she killed them all. And now the entire shan
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Shan Empire has crumbled with a sudden loss of their
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: empress and all of their highest ranking of officials and
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: high lords. The whole nation has completely fractured, descended into chaos.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: She gives Suroth the mission. She gives Throroth the mission
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: to find Tuon and make sure she dies so that
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: way for starters, the next empress that our Emperor that
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: is is raised above is raised to the Crystal throne,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: it'll be somebody that will be fighting for the Dark
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: One rather than against him. We also see uh, we
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: do also see uh some members of the Isiday traveling
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: to the Black Tower. Mhm uh so uh. One of
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: the Red Sister, one of the sisters of the Red Aja, Pevara.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: She actually she had finally presented her plan to the
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: leader of their Aja to head to the Black Tower
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: and take a shaman as warders. Her leader does her leader,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: the leader of the Red Aja does approve of this
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: and they immediately travel to the Black Tower. There are
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: other plots going on in the White Tower. There are
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: several sitters of the Eye of the White Tower that
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: have beened hunting down members of the Black Aja because
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: they did accident in their mission to weed out any
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: spies for any rebel spies, they ended up capturing a
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Black Aja sister instead, and now they've been systematically trying
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: to capture any other sisters. Because the Black Aja have
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: this system in the White Tower, they don't know know
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: to m sisters of the Black Asa know who all
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: the members of the Black Asha are, so they at
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: a time they only know two other Each black sister
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: knows only two others of their of their order. So
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: like if you but the way their system works is
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: that they won't. So like, while two sisters may know
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: of of the if two black sisters know of each other,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: they won't, uh, the other sister that they know of
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: won't be the same sister that the other two know
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: of at the same time. So it's like like, Okay,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: there you have these two. You have one black Black
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: as sister and she knows two of two others of
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: her order, right, but those two won't even but those
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: two that she knows of won't know that that they're
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: that they are also the Black Asa. So it's meant
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: to be. It's it's meant to prevent. Like, let's say,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: if they do get captured and they get questioned and
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: spill the beans of like the identities of their other sisters,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: the only identities they're going to get out of them
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: are just two names. They don't even know the name
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: of their of their leader.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they could easily go on, go down the scale,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: get one person, find out two names, get those two people,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: find out two more names and someone and so forth.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: You say, it sounds easy, but they have such a
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: deep like, they have such a deep rooted system of
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: contingencies that if they even suspect that one of their
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: sisters has been compromised, the whole the rest of the
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: system locks itself down and you wouldn't be able to
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: find anybody. Oh shit, So if you start, if you
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: start capturing black sisters at random, then like the others
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: will figure it out quickly and take take steps to
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: protect themselves, hide themselves, or they'll justill you outright and
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: prevents your your investigation from going any further. And also
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I should point out I should point out like I
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: keep saying black sisters, and I'm just like, God, I
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: hope nobody calls me races, Like I'm not talking in like,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not talking in that context. I'm talking about sisters
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: of the Black Aja. And they're literally called black sisters
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: in the like they're either called black sisters in the
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: book or they're just called the Black Aja.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just to the clarification, the clarification, is that right?
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I maybe maybe it's just I don't I
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: don't even know if I should call them dark sisters
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: because that could also be misinterpreted.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: They are in the book. We put them out there.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a disclaimer right there.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Anyway, to close out the prologue, we do see Igwayne
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: waking up in the in the White Tower where she
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: is uh where she realizes that she has been uh
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: drugged with a herb called forkroot. Fork Root is a
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: unique herb has a slightly it has a slightly minty
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: taste uh and it only works on channelers, So if
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: a channeler is dosed with it, it has it has
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: anesthetic effects like it's like it has like a sedative.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: It acts like a sedative. It causes them to and
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: and like even low doses, it causes wooziness and lethargy.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: It completely it completely prevents them from channeling.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: UH.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: So when Akwayne realizes that wakes up, she realizes she's
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: dose because she can't channel at all, not and she's
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: then turned over uh to the Mistress of Novices uh
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: of a red sister named Sylviana, who informs her she
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: has been demoted to novice and she's now to resume
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: her studies, no longer as an accepted but as a novice,
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: So the White Tower they don't see. They don't accept
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: uh nine eves, I'm sorry. They don't accept Iguaine's elevation
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: to a full to full sisterhood. In fact, they don't
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: accept her as a as as an ambulance seat. And Elida,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: the current ambulance seat of the White Tower, UH, rejects
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: her completely and decided that the best course of action
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: is to demote her to novice and have her go
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: back and spend like probably the next two decades of
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: her life as a novice.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: That's some bullshit, mm hmm.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: But during her capture, she learns of several things. One,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: the White Tower is completely divided by the as completely
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: divided by as so no to like no individual sisters
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: trust anybody outside of their own Asia. And this is
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: for this is a This of course is a plot
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: by the Black Aja to divide the White Tower. And
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: it's also uh and unfortunately they did this by using
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Elieda's mental instability and her idiot and her idiotic rule
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: of the White Tower. And during her imprisonment, Igwaine has
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: a dream. So being a dream walker U. Sometimes dream
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: walkers can experience prophetic dreams if they're When they're not
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: exploring Tellernriot, they are sometimes presented with images in their
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: dreams that can be interpreted as a potential future m hm.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: And Igwaine dreams that. So the imagery that she sees
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: are pretty abstract and mostly symbolic, but she understands what
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: they need and the and she interprets their meaning as
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: the White Tower is going to be attacked. So she
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: does see a She sees an image of a pillar
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: something like a candle with a light on top of
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: with a lit candle, and that candle is snuffed out
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: by the beat. I think it was like the beats
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: of a pair of ravens m hm. Or the flame
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: is nearly snuffed out by the beat of raven wings.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: And she interprets this imagery as the Shan Shan will
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: be attacked, will eventually attack the White Tower, and while
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: the White Tower will survive the attack, it will shake
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: it to its core mm hmm. And though she warns
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: the other the eyesid Eye of the Tower, they don't
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: believe her, and they in fact they her yeah uh
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: so Outso getting started with the main Like the actual
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: main story, Sewan reveals to the rebel Hall that Igwayine
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: was captured, but even in her captivity, Agwayine visited Swan
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: in her dreams and tell her to forbid any kind
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: of rescue attempt because if they plan to uh, if
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: they plan to try to rescue her from the White Tower,
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: this could escalate into a further conflict, which Igwaine wants
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: to avoid. But Igwaine had realized that she could probably
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: bring down Elida from the inside rather than from the
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: outside during the siege because, like I said, the White
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: Tower has been divided by the Ajas and it's all
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: because of Elida's dumb assery. So she thinks she can
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: build enough support in the Whites within the White Tower
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: to have Elida deposed. It's revealed that Elida had actually
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: captured the former King of Ilian, King Mattson Stepanos, so
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: uh the Ilien. The ilian Or king had disappeared before
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Ran had attacked Ilien and defeated Samiel, so everyone assumed
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: that Samiel or Rands for those who weren't. For those
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: who are from the outsider's perspective, they believe that Rands
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: had killed Baton Stepanos or Semil had did. But it
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: turns out Alida had sent isaid I down to Ilion,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: and when nobody was looking, they had kidnapped him and
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: brought him to the White Tower Elida it was planning
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: to is planning to return him to Ilian and restore
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: him to the throne, and is in an attempt to
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: undermine Rand's control of the region. But uh Alida is
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: angered because her efforts are not gootting anywhere, and she's
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: also beginning to notice that Tarvalon is being getting to
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: descend into some form of chaos, like the streets are
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: becoming filthy, nobody's bothering to maintain the upkeep of the
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: of the city. And also she's further angered by the
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: fact that while Agwayne's scheme to seal off the harbors
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: had for the most part failed because one harbor is
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: only had only been partially sealed, She's further She's more
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: angered by the fact that now she has to commit
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Isidaie to trying to remove the quendiar chains from the
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: harbor because if you remember, because what Agwain had done
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: was transformed the harbor chains into quendiar, making it impossible
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: for the harbor masters to lower the change to allow
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: ships to come in and out of the city. Now
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: one of the harbors had been completely blocked by the
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: now quendiar made chains, while the other one was only
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: halfway done. So ships are still able to come out
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: of one harbor and supplies. They're still able to get supplies,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: but now the comings and going of these supplies are
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: highly restricted. Now one of the rebel i said I,
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: who as it turns out, was a spy for Aleeda,
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: defects from the rebels and returns to the White Tower.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: This rebel i sid I sister named Boenen. She returns
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: to the tower and reveals to them of all of
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: the weaves of the new waves that the rebels had discovered,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: so the more advanced healing weaves that were discovered by Ninive,
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: including the weave to restore severing the weaves that had
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: discovered to create Tarangriol, and probably the most probably the
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: most devastating one. Traveling the Isidai of the White of
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: the of the rebels had a distinct advantage over the
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Isidai of the White Tower because the rebels had access
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: to gateways. They could travel instantly anywhere in the Westlands,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: anywhere in the world if they wanted to, but the
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: White Tower still had to rely on good old fashioned traveling,
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: you know, two feet and horses. But this Uh, this
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Brown sister had returned, had revealed all these weaves to
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: the White Tower, and now Elda is gonna is going
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: to thoroughly abuse the use of traveling we learned from
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: we learned in the story that the Forsaken were all
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: the remaining Forsaken were summoned by Morden, who orders them
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: to Uh and who orders them to completely abandon any
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: individual schemes they have and begin to assist him in
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: preparing for the for the final battle. And he orders
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: them that Rand is not to be Uh is not
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: to be attacked, and is not to be trifled with,
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: and Rand is in fact going to be left to
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: will be left to him. But he does give them
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: orders to track down Rand and I'm sorry Paren and
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Matt and they are to be killed. There to be
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: tracked down and killed. So going back to Uh to
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Paren for a bit, Parrien meets up with the with
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: the seaun Shan forces led by the Banner General Tylie
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Kirgan Uh. They agree to work together in order to
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: defeat the Shidow And and Maldin planning to you UH,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: and they come up with a plan to poison the UH,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: to poison the city's water reserves because the city of
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Malden gets its water from a series of aqueducts, and
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: of course, if you understand how aqueducts work, they get
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: the water is transferred from a reservoir. And what their
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: plan was was to find the reservoir where the water
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: is coming from and dowse it with fork rout. The
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: The idea was was to remove the wise ones that
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: the Shy that are with the Shy the Shidow from
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: the game because the wise ones in the Shy with
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: the Shadow are not afraid to fight back, and if
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: the Shadow use the wise ones channeling UH in their attacks,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: they will UH. This gives them, This gives them and
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: they sean Shan as well as parents horses somewhat of
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: a fair odd against each other. So they decide, let's
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: remove the wise ones from the game, preventing them like
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: significantly reducing, if not completely removing the the shadows channelers
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: from the game.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: UH.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Back in Maldon, Fayel is now a complete servant of Savannah,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: the leader of the Shadow Ah. The Shadow are beginning
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: to become restless, Savannah wants to make herself into something
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: like a Westlander queen, but the other wise Ones believe
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: that the Shadow need to return to the return to
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: the Waste, because they have there's nothing for them here
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: in the Westlands. The Shadow, as particularly the Iel in general,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: belong in the in the Ael Waste, so they want so.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: The Wise Ones are pushing Savanna to move the Shadow
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: out of this, out of the Westlands, which to them
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: is considered enemy territory, and go back to the Ael Waste,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: but she refuses, believing that seeing that since Malden was
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: conquered by her and her forces, they should they should
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: keep it. So far, Fayel had managed to gain the
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: loyalty and trust of dozens of other Westlander Guy Shane
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: the other indentured servants captured by the Shadow, and with
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: their help she was able to steal an oath rod
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: from one of the Wise Ones. So the Wise Ones
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: had been given an oath rod or a binder by
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Samael when he was conspiring with them. They had used
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: it to bind an Isadai named uh what's her name
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: galin know. They had forced her to swear an oath
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: to serve the Shidow using the binder, and when Gillina
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: found out that Fayel was parent's husband parent's wife, she
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: thought this could be her chance to escape, and she
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: tells Fayel that she'll help her escape if she can
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: only get a hold of that oath rod from the
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: wise Ones, and with the help of the other guy, Shane,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: they do manage to steal it and hide it and
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: hide it before the other wise Ones could figure out
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: who stole it and where it's being hot where it's
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: being hidden. Now, several of the the Iel with the
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Shidow are not part of the Shidow's clan. There were
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: other Aeel from the other Ayeel clans that didn't believe
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: that Rand was their rightful leader or their suppose or
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: their prophesies Kara Khan, so they had joined forces with
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: the Shiadow, But now they are beginning to regret that decision,
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: and many of them have decided that they're going to
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: leave the Shadow and return to the Iel waste and
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: It's right. So parents group, including including the shaun Chun,
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: led by Banner General ty Lee, began to gather gear
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: and forces, including a force of the Rackin the flying
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: back creatures, to confront the Shadow, and Parent had revealed
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: to Tyleee that he had found the letter from Soroth
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: that the false prophet Massema had had, and using that letter,
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: they were able to acquire any and all the provisions
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: they need a large large caskets of fork route Uh
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: and any other supplies like arrows and weapons and even provisions.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: While they were gathering their provisions, a dark friend had
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: attempted to assassinate Parent. Uh had attempted to assassinate Paren,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: but that dark friend was executed by the Demane, So
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: continuing with their plans.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, sorry, let me get back to it.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: They begin to gather their forces and slowly move it
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: closer to Malden without alerting the Shadow of their presence.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Fail After the after things calmed down from the theft
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: of the oath Rod, Uh makes her way to the
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: to the hiding place of the oath Rod and begin
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: their plans and begin to put their plan in action
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: to escape with Galina Uh. But when she gives Galina
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: the oath Rod, Galina betrays Fayel's group and traps them
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: in the cellar of the burnt out house that they
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: had hidden the oath rod In. You guys, remember Galina
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: herself is actually a sister of the Black Ajia. Yeah,
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: and she had gotten herself into this nasty little pickle
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: in the wake of the Battle of Duma as well.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: Galina manages to escape for the time being, and Fayel
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: is now trapped in a cellar and needs to figure
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: out a way to get out of there. Uh. One
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: of the others, one of the others in her group
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: that is trapped is actually uh her handmade in miked
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: In aka more Gasee, and Fayelle knew that mike did.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: Miked In has a very weak talent of the power,
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: so she can channel, but she's very very weak, so
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: she can only channel a very small amount of the power.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: But she convinces mike Din to try her best to
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: use that power to try to create like a signal,
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: something to get a hold of, like trying to draw
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: attention from anybody passing by. And mike Din does this
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: by using the power to create a small gust of
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: wind to move a piece of red cloth that was
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: tied to a pull outside of the house, So she
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: was using it to create like gusts of winds to
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: make it move in like not like in an unnatural way,
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: and this eventually does attract the attention of the Shidow.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: Luckily it's not any of that like quote unquote bad Shidow.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: There was the there's a group of Aeel called the Brotherless.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: These are the These are the Ael who forsook their
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: own clans and societies to join the Shadow against Ran.
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: But one of these ael Man named Roland, had taken
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: a liking to Fayel, mainly because Roland was the one
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: who had captured Fiele in the first place and her
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Aiel culture. She was technically supposed to be his guy Shane,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: but Savannah had been breaking a lot of the Ael's
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: traditions and had taken Savanna and had taken fail to
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: be her own guy Shane. But Roland, having decided he
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: wants to leave the Shadow, was about to leave, but
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: noticed that Fayel's group had disappeared, so he went searching
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: for her, and he noticed that the that flat noticed
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: that that red scarf was being moved in an unusual way.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: He figures out that Fayel's and her group was trapped
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: in the cellar and gets her out. But it was
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: right about this point that Paren begins as assault on
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: the on the Shidow's forces. And by this point he
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: had already captured the reservoir that fed water that fed
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: the aqueducts leading into Malden. So he captured it, and
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: he doused the reservoir with fork route, and after waiting
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: a period of time enough at least enough time for
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: the uh fork route to be circulated in the water
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: and the for the Shadow to have consumed it, he
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: begins his attack. And when he does, when the wise
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Ones begin. When the Shadow implore the wise Ones to
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: help them fight, they noticed that many of our wise
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: ones had fainted and had been completely sedated. So now
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: it's just it's just a handful of channelers fighting back
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: against parents forces as well as the sean Chan's forces.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: So so Parents Parent leads his forces as well as
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: the shan Chan's forces through the Shadows encampment. They battle
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: their way through to the center of Malden. At one point, though,
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Paren is betrayed by one of his own friends, so
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Paren had picked up had gained a follower, a former
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: Tuathon or tinker by a man named arm so Aram
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: had joined Parrien and his forces in the wake of
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: the Battle of the Two Rivers. When after it was
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: during the Battle of the Two Rivers that Aram had
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: forsaken his peaceful ways and the Tuathon's culture of non
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: violence to help fight against the Dark One, to fight
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: against the Trolus, because he had seen so many of
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: his people being killed that he'd lost faith in his
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: in his people's belief in complete and total nonviolence, that
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: he took a sword and threw in his lot with Paren.
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: But when Paren had led them into Uh had when
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Paren had led his horses to track down Missma, Missma
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: had begun whispering lies into Aram's ears. He began to
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: talk to Aaron and tell him that Paren is actually
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: a Dark Friend, because well, his only evidence to the
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: fact is the fact that Paren has golden eyes like
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: a wolve's, like pale yellow eyes like a wolve's, And
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: miss Semma got into his head telling him that that's
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: not natural and only a dark friend or or a
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: creature of the dark of the Dark One would have
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: eyes like that. So in the middle of the battle,
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Aarm turns on Paren and tries to kill him, but
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: in the middle of the fight, the Shadow ambushed them.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Both Uh and Aaron is killed instead, Parent fights his
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: way continue use his fight makes and he manages to
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: make his way deeper into Malden, where he encounters fight
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: where he finally finds Fayel File's group was being escorted
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: by Roland. Roland and his group were going to escort
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: them out of the city, ironically, but they were going
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: to take them with but Roland was going to take
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: File with him to the to the Ayele waste. So parents,
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: seeing Fayel being escorted by three of the ay Eel,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: he attacks them and kills Roland in his and the
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: other Ayel surrounding Fayel Ael fail. There's so many Eels
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: in this yeah. So Fayel in Parent are now reunited
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: and the battles won. Yay, It's kind of a bittersweet, Uh,
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: It's kind of a bittersweet victory. They won, They got
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: fil and freed the other guy, Shane. But it's kind
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: of a Their victory is tainted, of course by the
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: shan Shan because the shan Shan immediately descend on the
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: Wise Ones and begin collaring them and take them all captive.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: Some of the Wise Ones and the other Shidow had escaped,
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: and when they escaped to the battle. They had also
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: ran into Galina, who was who had run from the
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: from the battle as well. Galina is is then captured
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: again and the Wise Ones force her to swear and
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: even stronger oath on the on the oath rod, making
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: her a complete total slave to the Wise Ones. So
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: now she is permanently she is now permanently a slave
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: to them, and she was ordered to never touch the
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: oath rod again. Orn't have mercy, So I'm like, I
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: kind of felt bad for her, but then I remember,
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: wait a minute, she's she's of the Black Asia, who
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: cares fuck.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Her fair.
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: And and that is a conclusion for Parents store part
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: of this story. So his forces and the wake of
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: So from here Parent gathers his forces again. After recovering
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: from the battle, they begin moving UH. They begin making
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: their way to the northeast to rejoin h to rejoin
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: Rand and to begin preparing for the final battle. So
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: we're gonna go back to Matt for a bit. So
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: at this point, Matt is still traveling with the UH
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: with Alan Lucas circus. They continue to hide out with
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: them and try not to draw any attention from the
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: surrounding Sean Shaan.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Matt continues his uh courtship with Tuon Uh. Tuon has
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: deliberately calls Matt a toy. She calls him toy because
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: when she first met Matt back in Abu Dhar, Matt
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: was the He was made into Abudar's uh Thebdar and
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: Queen's little plaything. Like the Queen of Abudar she was.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: She had taken a liking to Matt and somewhat forced
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: him into a into like a friends with benefits type
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: of relationship. You I say forced, but he was. He
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: didn't like it because I mean, he didn't like the
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: attention he got. But like, damn did he did he
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: love the his time with the queen.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure he did.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: But as a result of that, when tu One first
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: met him, she saw him as just the Queen's little toy,
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: so she would just call him toy. And during as
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: he's trying to court her, he begins to He decides, like,
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: all right, two can play that game, precious, So he
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: just starts calling her. Yeah, so he starts. He just
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: starts calling her precious. He still has to He's still
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: dancing this fine line with like three different opposing parties
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: within his group like him, like him and his band
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: and his band members are all like just kind of
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: like neutral party. And then you have the Isid Eye
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: with their with their warders. And then you have Sean
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: Shan the Solam and which includes the soldam and tu
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: On in her uh what is that? What do they
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: call them? There? So you're her handmaiden? I'm sorry, I
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: like the Sean Jean have so many different like titles
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: and terms that they use for slaves or like indentured
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: servants or servants in general, Like they have truth speakers,
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: they have their voices, which have their voices have a
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: specifecific name. I think they're called like so you're so
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: uh something. And then there's the daco val, which are
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: like just house slaves, but they're like the lowest kind
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: of slaves, like hell even demone, even demoney are held
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: in higher regard than them. And then of course there's
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: the demane and they have all these other different types
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: of slaves and indentured servants. Anyway, so you have the
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: soul Dam and then you have Tuon and her handmade Selucia,
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: and they're all basically just nipping at each other. The
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: Isid I have taken the soul Dam under somewhat taken
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: the Souldam under their wing because they're trying to prove
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: to the soul Dam that they can learn how to channel,
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: because that's the only way they can use the Adam.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: And at one point they succeed and one of the
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: Souldam begins to channel because like it was, it happened
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: during a confrontation one of the isid I and the
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: soul Dam had gotten into it, and the Soldam got
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: so pissed off that she embraced the power. And when
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: she realized this, it was kind of like it was
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: a world shattering event for her. So like she at
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: first was like you just collar me. I'm too dangerous.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: I shouldn't be allowed to be free. And the eyes
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: that I are like, oh, shut the hell up. You're
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: coming with us to the White Tower, damn. So uh,
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: and the other Souldam, like the other remaining Souldam is
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: just kind of there like, oh shit, she can channel.
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: That means I can That means that I will probably
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: start channeling on my own. So it's just like fuck yeah.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: So they both decided to go with They both decided
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: to go to the White Tower and begin training to
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: use the power. Matt Uh in his travels with the
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: with the Circus, he had met a He had met
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: a woman who is called she is called Her name
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: is Eludra. And Elludra is what is called an illuminator.
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: Illuminators are They were a group of alchemists who made fireworks.
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: They were often hired by Westlander nobility to put on
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: displays of their fireworks. And the thing is is that
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: when the Sean Sean had invaded, they attacked the primary
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: chapter house that had chapter house in Terrabon and destroyed it,
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: and they completely dismantled the illuminator's network. So now Eludra,
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: as far as far as she knows, she is the
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: last person who practices the crap the art of making fireworks.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: The thing is is that she is she knows, she
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: knows how dangerous fireworks are, and she knows of their
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: other practical applications as an application and heavy ordinance and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: and that weaponry. So the thing is, Matt see Matt
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: had discovered on his own because he had met Eludra before,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: he had helped her while he had once helped her
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: while she was traveling from Kyrine. Yeah, and Uh and
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: as a thanks for her for helping him. For helping her,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: Eludra had given him several packets of fireworks and he'd
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: used it and he discovered on his own how dangerous
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: they can be and how their explosive properties can be
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: used as a weapon. So he had asked us so
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: when he re encountered her with the with Valan Lucas circus,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: he'd been asking her other of different ways that they
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: could potentially use fireworks, mainly the explosive powders used in
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: fireworks as a weapon, and she's intrigued. She is intrigued
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: by his line of questioning, and while she's at first
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: reluctant to help him, she is inspired. She is motivated
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: to help him because she doesn't like the Sean Sean. Yeah,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: they killed they killed what was left of her of
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: her order and dismantled them, making her work obsolete because
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: they rely heavily on the demane, so they don't need fireworks.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: They have the demane.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so she's she.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: Agrees to help him, but only if he can tell
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: her what Only if he can prove that he understands
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: how just how dangerous her explodes her work can be
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: and also to tell her what would bell like, what
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: would what would the proper use of bell founders be
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: to her? So when she says bell founders, she's referring
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: to like when back in the old days, when they
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: would make bells, you know how like brass can brass
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: was originally used to make bells, and the shape of
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: the and the tube shape of the bells at a
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: certain practical application in her work. Basically, she was telling
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: she wanted him to figure out. She wanted him to
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: figure out on his own how they could use bell
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: founders to create cannons, and it took him a while
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: to figure it out. But when he finally did, he
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: confronts her about it. It's like, so, you're saying, we
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: can use bell founders a stronger launching tube for your fireworks, right,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: And she says, not for the fireworks themselves, but to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: use the explosive reaction to propel charges to launch charges
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: at a target. And it's very destructive. So when she
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: understands that, he finds that he now understands how her
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: explosives can be used. She shows him her designs of
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: using bell founders to create the uh to create cannons.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: Good old fashioned cannons.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Damn uh huh.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: We talked. We're talking like, you know, yeah, we're talking
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: like get that bitch a cannon. Bitch like.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: And I am a bitch, and I love a cannon.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: I love a good cannon.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so she still kind of has like he he
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: promised her that he would help her get revenge against
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: the Sean Sean and that if he helps her, he
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: can get her the resources. He can guarantee that he
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: can get her the resources she needs to build her
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: new cannons, which she she names dragons, and well, the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: thing is, she explains to him that her dragons will
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: fire dragon eggs, which are the metal balls and that
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: are shot out of the cannon, and he tells her,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: I can get you all the resources we need. We
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: just need to get to uh, we just need to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: get to Camelin.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: Mhm.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: So he.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: We're on book.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: Traveling Circus and the others listeners and as they travel
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: to and or to eventually reach Caitlin.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: Gosh, that was weird.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: Gone in there.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: When they travel before they split off from the traveling Circus,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: matt I discovered one of the what was she one
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: of the horse handlers at the Circus had in his
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: possession a particular breed of horse called razors. These so
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: these this horse breed. The way it's described, it's they
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: kind of sound like they're zebras because they have stripes.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: But like the thing is, they're not small like a zebra.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: They're actually like bigger and leaner, and their faith in
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: their their favorite breed of horse used by uh, the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: horsemen of aared doman. So I think there's something more
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: like a source because which is like a hat, which
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: is a hybrid breed of zebras and horses. Anyway, they're
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: a rare breed and they're considered very they're considered to
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: be the best kind of horses because they're very fast
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: and they're good cavalry horses. So Matt ends up buying
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: the razor and he gives it to Tuon.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: I was just thinking it, and then.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Matt, I.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Know, I'm a child.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: I want to learn more about Tuon, ask about history,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: or at least what she knows about Tuon.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm mature from.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: The I he tells her and the Guinan tells to twisted,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: but I'm sorry what she knows about a fierce political
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 6: it's fiercely embroidered within the Shawn Shawn politics.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: She she herself has several of her siblings, her own siblings,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: and she is going and she is next in line
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: lucky to being raised to the Crystal throne. So she
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: is the she is the heir to the Crystal throne.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, mm hmm.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: And Okay, some of some of this other stuff they've
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: already revealed. Some of this other stuff I've already talked about.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: Uh the village, Uh, they come across a village. They
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: come across a village that's actually a uh bubble of
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: evil created by the Dark One, and it ends up
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: killing several people because as soon as they stepped off
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: their stepped off their their carriages, they get pulled underground
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: and the whole village just disappears and those people die.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: There's a confrontation between Tuon and the Ice today where
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: a Tuon actually manages to put an adam an at
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: m on them, but matt Stop intervenes and takes the
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: at m off and throws them away. During their travels,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: Devin like, let me tell you something that got some
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: tea for you. Okay, So during their trap.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: Mm hmm, yeah, mm hmmm, we we.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: Interrupt this program to bring you Johnny. Okay, mm hmm. Anyway,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: mm hmm. Anyway back to the team. So in their travels,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: So Matt has been traveling with Tom Marilyn for quite
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: some time now. Uh he started they joined up together
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: when Matt had traveled to Abu Dhar to join up
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: with Elaine and Ninive and when they when they encountered
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: each other and then the shaun Sean attacked, they were
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 4: forced to travel together again. And in that entire time,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: Matt kept noticing that Tom would constantly pull out and
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: read a letter, a certain same letter, would always read it,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: but for the for the duration of their travels, Matt
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: noticed it, but wouldn't say it because he always thought
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: it was something personal didn't want to intrude. But then,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: after after dealing with Tuon and the other and the
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: iceid Eye, his frustration and his curiosity gets the better
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: of him, and Matt finally asks Tom, why do you
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: keep reading that same letter over and over again? It
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: can't be that important. And then Tom is like, basically
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: Tom is like, oh, finally you asked me about it.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: Here read it, you dumbass, and like, because that's not
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: it that's not what he says. But you know, if
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: you read this scene, it's kind of like it's one
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: of those moments where you're just like, oh my god,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: I've been waiting for you to do that for ages,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: like like, I'm glad you asked, Like, and the thing
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: is Tom, it's let me, let me, let me rephrase that.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: Tom is a gleeman. Gleeman are like bards, they're they're
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: performing artists, they're traveling performing artists. And so in Tom's case,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: he's like, I'm glad you asked here read it, and
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: when and when Matt reads it, he realizes that it's
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: a letter from Moraine. Moraine had left this letter for
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: Tom just before she died, and in it she revealed
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: that in her travels to the Adeel Waste, she had
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: stepped through a turangreol. This turan riol allowed her to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: see visions of potential futures, and there are many futures.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: Some they In most of these futures, she sees they
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: all die. They either all die, or they don't make
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: it to the final battle, or they make it to
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: the final battle but lose. But she describes it's a
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: total doctor strange moment. But this this, I will say,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: this scene predates Avengers Infinity War. I'm gonna say that
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: right now. Don't you be saying, like, oh, they sold
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: this from Infinity War. No, it's the other way around.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: Fourteen million, six hundred and five possible futures and only
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: one they win. And in this one, she tells She
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: tells Tom that in this particular future that she saw
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: where they not only were they they all not only live,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 4: but so does she. But in order for her to live,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: she needs to die. It's one of those moments. In
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: the letter she tells Tom that she will be she
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: will become trapped in the realm of the Elfin and
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: this will happen in the wake of her confrontation with
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: land Fear, and there will be a slip when this happen.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: If this does happen, there will be a slim chance
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: that she will still be alive. And that in order
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: for them, uh, in order for in order for her
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: to be freed from the Elfins, from the Elfins realm,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: Tom needs to show Matt this letter because Matt will
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: be the only person who knows how to free her.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: But the thing is, there's a condition Tom cannot show
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: Matt this letter until Matt asks about this letter, because
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: by that point the time would be right. By that point,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: Matt will have already ah had his experiences, he would
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: have learned everything he needed to learn and have a
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: better understanding of the eel Fin and what they and
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: how to beat them at their game to get her out.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: And on reading this letter, he's Matt's confused, like, how
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: are they Like? He's like, well, that sucks. There's no
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: there ain't no way any of us are going to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: be able to get her out of there, because like
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: the doorway into the Elfin's realm disintegrated after the fact
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: after Moraine and Landfair fell through it, and the only
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: other way in would be through the doorway in the
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: Stone of Tear, which is thousands of miles away. And
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: while they're talking Uh, a member of their group, a
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: young boy named Oliver Explain explains to Matt that there
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: tells Matt that there is a way into Uh into
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 4: the eel Finn's realm, and that is through something called
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: the Tower of Genjai, and he tells he tells Matt
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 4: about this story that that he was told from a man.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: Uh so Uh sorry, let me let me go back
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: a bit. When they left Abu Dhar, they had picked
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: up another traveler named Noel, and Noel has been traveling
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: with them ever since. And the thing is over. Oliver
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: is a young boy that has been traveling with Matt
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: and the Band of the Red Hand pretty much since
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: they left Kyrine, so that he's been traveling with him
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: for quite a while. He's kind of become like the
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: nephew of the group, right. And when they escaped Abudar,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: Olver was still with them, and Uh Noel began traveling
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: with them. Noel agreed to travel with them because he
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: could help, because he could help them escape from the
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: shaun Shans territory.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: Since they've been traveling, Noel had been told had been
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: telling Oliver about stories of man named Jane Farrestrider. And
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: Jane Farreschreider is this well known traveler. He made all
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: these he had gotten all these adventures from he had
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: travel He had traveled through the Ayel Waste, even made
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: adventures through the light and in some of the stories
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: fain Uh Jane's Farrestrider at even traveled into the forbidden
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: territories of Shara. Which is this which is this country
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: on the other side of the Ayele waste. It's where
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: all it's where the silk trade comes from. An Oliver
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: tells Matt that his stories of the of the Ilfin
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: sounds like the stories of some of the stories of
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: Jane Farreschreider, especially stories concerning this the Tower of Ganji,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 4: and like while they were talking there, none of them
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 4: really knows where the Tower of Genji is. And no
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: after asking Noel a bit about it, Noel describes the
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: tower as as a tall metal structure and it's possible
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: from the stories it's somewhere in northern and Or. And
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 4: when he's describing the tower, Matt has a moment of
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: oh shit, like like he's seen the Tower of Genji
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: but from Afar. So we're gonna we're gonna rewind a bit,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: go back all the way to book one. So for
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 4: the if you remember, back in book one, the whole
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: gang had just escaped from Shadharla Goth but in their
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 4: escape they had become separated. Uh Ninive, Moraine, and Len
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 4: had got had got separated from the others. Uh Igwayne
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: and Perrin were separated, and Matt and Ren had been
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: had been separated, So they're all in like three different groups, uh,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: with Loyal traveling with uh. I believe he was with.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: No, they hadn't encounter They haven't met Loyoal yet.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: Uh. But when Matt and Rantz had escaped from Shadaro Goth,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: they had come across a certain smuggler's boat. Uh. And
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: when they escaped on the on the Smokeglar's boat from
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: the the trolots had chased them, they had come across
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: the smuggler's riverboat. And this particular smuggler, who was still
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: traveling with Matt at the moment, uh, he agreed to
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: take rand and Matt aboard a ship and they began there.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: They began seiling down the river far getting as far
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: away from Sharlo Goths as possible. And it was during
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 4: this time on this boat Matt remembered seeing a certain
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: tall metal tower somewhere not that far off the river.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: In fact, the tower itself was not that far from
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 4: White Bridge, which was the which was where uh the
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 4: smuggler's boat had dropped Matt and Rand off. That was
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 4: also uh. Tom Maryland was with him at the time
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 4: as well, and Matt remembered seeing this tower several miles
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: off the shore of the river. So now Matt's like,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: oh great, now I have a there's more ship I
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 4: need to do, and Oliver tells Matt that. But the
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: thing is Matt still doesn't know how they're supposed to
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: get into the Tower of Genji and how they're supposed
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: to deal with the Elfin. But then Olver tells him
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: that that it might the rules of dealing with of
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 4: the il Fin may still be. They actually might know
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 4: the rules, and it's from a game that Olver has
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 4: called Snakes and Foxes. So, as it turns out, the
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: game of Snakes and Foxes, which is a in Westlander culture,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: is just a child's game. Right, turns out it's actually
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: this game was made as a way of preserving a
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: certain set of rules that you use to deal with
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 4: the snakes and foxes. So the eel Fin and the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 4: al Fin are both described as being depending on which
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: group you deal with, they're described as being very fox
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 4: like or very snakelike. So the foxes are the ones
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: that you can make deals with, while the snakes are
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: the ones you can ask questions and get answers for
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: any questions. So this game. The premise of the game
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: is supposed to apparently is supposed to help you navigate
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: the labyrinth that exists within the Tower of Genji, which
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: is ever shifting. So after so, now that he understands this,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: Matt realizes that okay, well, now we know that we
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: can get into. We now know that we can get
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 4: in and navigate the tower. But he still has other
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 4: things he needs to take care of before he can
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: do that. So but so first, so the first thing
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 4: you gotta do? And or tu On by this point
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 4: had learned from their other contrave their traveling companions that
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: Matt is not only a a heavy gambler, but he's
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: extremely lucky. Like it's it's almost impossible to beat to
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: bet against Matt, and any bet Matt makes, he wins.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: So she wanted to see. She wanted to test this
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: out for herself, and she uh and she demands that
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: Matt takes her to uh to a dive bar pretty
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 4: much like a rough or a very rough tavern. Uh.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 4: Matt reluctantly agrees and takes her to a to a
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: hell that's what they call rough taverns or like the
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: very like dive bars to play several several games of
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 4: dice and other gambling games, and she sees for herself
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 4: just how lucky he is the worst. And it's during
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: their little it's during their incursion and in this hell
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: that they learned that there's a large Shaun Shan army
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: hunting for Tuon. So now they have to plan, they
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 4: have to figure out a way to navigate around them.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: See here, mm hmmm.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: Mm hmm, sorry, let me.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: All right, here we go. So when they leave the
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: So when they leave the village is that? Uh? So
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: when they leave the village, and then they travel for
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: several weeks before finally reuniting before Matt is finally reunited
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: with the with the larger forces of his band. So
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 4: right now Matt had been just traveling with like about
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 4: less than about less than a dozen of his uh
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: members of his band. But now they've encountered them. At
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: this point, they're they're in the northern borders of Altaria
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 4: or I'm sorry, Altara.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 5: Fuck.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 4: I can't even remember the names of these damn countries.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: I can't even remember the names of a fictional country.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: But then again, to be fair, I can't remember the
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: names of real countries Altara. That's what it's called. So
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: by this point they're on the they're near the northern
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: border of Altara, and they're just about to Uh. They're
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: just about to cross over into country south of and
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: Or called Morandi, and they learned that's when they learned
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: that there's a large force of Sean Sean looking for Touon.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 4: But these guys may not be looking for Tuon to
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: take her back, but to kill her. So now they
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: need to fight their way through. And when they so,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 4: when they leave the so, when they finally split ways
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: from the circus and make their way on their own,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: it's not long afterwards that Matt encounters the rest of
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: his band, and two On is shocked to see that
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 4: Matt is the commander of such a large army. There's
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: like several thousand men in the in the band of
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: the Red Hand, and since Matt had split with them
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: before leaving for Abu Dhar, they had actually recruited they
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: had actually recruited several thousand more soldiers to their cause.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: So with his.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 4: So with his band back in Uh. Now that he's
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: reunited with his band, two On is even more surprised
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: that a scoundrel like Matt has such a well disciplined
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 4: and well equipped group under his command, and Matt and
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 4: to one witnesses first hand just how good of a
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: commander Matt is. So besides being a gambler, Matt is
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 4: also a tavern and his tavern, his tavern abilities manifests
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: in probability, so he's extremely lucky. So all of his
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: gambles will always win. Any of his bets will, no
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: matter how far fetched they are, will always turn out
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: in his favor. And because of his dealing with the
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 4: eel Fin, he now possesses the memories of great captains
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 4: and leaders of history, so he has all So he
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 4: has all this knowledge of battle tactics and uh strategies
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: that he had that he uses to his advantage. And
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 4: to one witnesses first hand just how good of a
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 4: strategist Matt is. And and she sees that with the
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 4: way that Matt effortlessly outmaneuvers the Shan Shan's forces, attacks
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: them and defeats them, and systematically defeats them all. And
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 4: it's during his strategy that Matt also begins to plan
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: for a way to get Touon to return back to
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 4: Abu Dar safely. Because Matt he has his own obligations.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: He needs to get He has his own obligations, and
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: he wasn't planning with him permanently.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: Goddamn massacre.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 4: So and then, after several engagements with the Shan Shan,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: Matt's forces are finally pretty at this point home free. However,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 4: there was a separate There was a separate army of
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: the shan Shan that was looking for Tuon, except this
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: army consisted of members of the Death Watch, who are
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: Tuon's personal guard. So unlike the other so onlike the
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: other battalions that Matt had engaged at this point had
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: been engaging at this point, these guys were actually looking
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: for Tuon to protect her. The other guy, the other
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: shan Chan forces, they were looking for who they believed
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 4: to be an impostor, so they were told by So
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 4: they were ordered by the high Lord Soroth to track
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: down this impostor who has been posing as the daughter
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 4: of the Nine Moons and executor. So they think that
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 4: Tuon is an impostor. That's why they're trying to kill her.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 5: But was that.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 4: Oh Nerd.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: Anyway?
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 4: So, the death Watch guards are led by a guy
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: named Kard Kreed, having he had been watching the He
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: had been watching the battles from Afar, and he realized
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: that the Band of the Red Hen is being led
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 4: by really great strategists, probably, and he assumes that it's
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: being led by one of the fabled Great captains. So
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: instead of just attacking them out right, he decides to
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 4: approach the camp and to parlay with their leader. But
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: the thing is, he had never heard of Matt at
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: this point, and he assumed but he had heard that
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 4: the band that that a certain man is traveling with
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: the bands, man named Tom Marilyn, and he had heard
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 4: of Tom Marilyn many times in his travels in the Westlands,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: that he assumed that Maryland must be either a spy
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: or a great captain. So he approaches the band and
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 4: asks to see Tom Marilyn, assuming that Tom Marilyn is
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 4: the leader. And when they take him to Tom, he
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: addresses Tom like he's the leader, and Tom's like, whoa
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: hold hold up, I'm not the one who's leading these guys.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 4: He is, and he points to Matt and and Matt
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 4: looks like Matt, unassuming scoundrel ish wearing a hat, carries
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 4: a big spear. That's about it. This guy wait wait,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 4: I'm not. Tom's like, I'm not this, I'm not the
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 4: leader of the band.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 5: He is.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 4: And when they look at Kreed, when Kared looks at Matt,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 4: He's just like this guy, uh huh, And Matt's like anyway,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 4: Matt agrees they after some bandster. Matt agrees to hand
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 4: too on over if to Kreed if he can get
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: her safely back to aboudhar thing is and so to
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 4: one agrees to go back with uh, go back with
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 4: careed that three times. So in shaun Chan culture, especially
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 4: in the like high culture among the nobility and the
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: high blood nobility, the noblemen and women can actually marry
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 4: each other without actually getting married. And it's a political
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: move and it's done by saying that another Like one
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 4: high lord can say that another high lord is their spouse,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 4: and if they say it three times, then that starts
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: the first part of the marriage. And if the other
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 4: high lord says the same thing back, like yep, that
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 4: person is my spouse. You say it three times, that's
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: basically like saying your wedding vows and boom, you're married.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 4: So you could have two high lords like both of
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: them separated by thousands of miles. And if they both
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: say that the other is their spouse three times, even
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 4: though they haven't probably married, say it in front of
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: some witnesses, then that means that's it. They're married. And
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 4: if it's confirmed that they both said it, they're married.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 4: So Matt made the mistake of saying that Tuon was
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 4: his wife was going to be married three times when
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 4: he first met her, and he didn't realize that that
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 4: was part of that as part of Sean the Shawn
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: Shawn's culture, you do that you're married. And if she
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 4: says it, and if she acknowledges him as as her
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 4: husband three times, then boom, they're married. So so Tuon,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 4: after witnessing Matt's strategy, has just sheered just tom fuckery
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: and she's convinced like, all right, yeah he he the
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: guy I'm supposed to marry. So she says it three times.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 4: So Matt leads the band in another battle against the
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: Shan Shan, attempting to kill Tuon and using some improvised
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 4: weapons created by Aludra. Eludra had made some hh rudimentary
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 4: hand grenades MM, they managed to defeat the shan Chan
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 4: and they escape from their territory. And Matt who is
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 4: now traveling with a who is still traveling with some
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 4: Sean Schan, particularly a Guinan. She tells him that his
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 4: new title is now the Prince of Ravens. Mhm, yeah,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: because when the Empress of shand of the Shan Shan
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: takes on a like Mary's, he's not made into an
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 4: emperor is. He's more of like a consort. So they're married,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: but he's uh, and he is considered of the high blood,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 4: but he's not on the same He's still not on
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 4: the same level as the empress. So whoever is the
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: Empress is favored consort or her direct to someone who
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 4: she's directly married to their title their official title is
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 4: the princess. Anyway, so we're almost done with the story.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 4: We still got two last characters to wrap up with. UH.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: So in this book, Elaine's we're gonna go back to Elaine.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: And UH.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 4: At this point, Elaine's Elaine is Caitlin is now being
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 4: besieged by the is now being completely besieged by those
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: who oppose her claim to the throne. Uh. Elaine's Elaine's
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 4: forces have begun using traveling to defend the siege of
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 4: Kaitlin despite their inferior numbers. She uses. She uses the
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: Kinswomen as well as the wind Finders to use to
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 4: use gateways, and she also uses the Kinswomen to She
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: sends the Kinswomen through gateways to find any other noble
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 4: or any other forces that are loyal to her, and
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 4: at one point, the Kinswomen finds a man named Charles,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 4: Charles Guibin, who is one of the who is one
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 4: of who is a high noble or one of the
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 4: nobility of and Or, and they bring He brings with
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: him ten thousand loyal soldiers to to Elaine's claim to
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 4: the throne. So now she just got a bo She
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 4: just bolster her forces.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 3: Let me see here.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: She's Elaine is dealing with other frustrations besides the siege
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 4: of her city, mainly the fact that everybody is treating
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 4: her like she's a delicate flower because she's now pregnant
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 4: with twins and so much she's getting she This drives
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 4: her up the wall. She gets frustrated so much to
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: the point that she actually just screams and rage because
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 4: as a queen, she doesn't feel like she doesn't believe
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 4: her duty to her people. Liza just sitting on a
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: throne and just letting everyone do the work for her.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 4: She gets her she gets down and dirty, she gets
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 4: her hands dirty, so she's been She would actually like
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 4: visit her troops. She will uh see to the wounded herself,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 4: consult with the with her captains. Like she actually goes
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 4: out in the field and she she's actually being seen,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 4: all right, She's leading, She's not just sitting around and
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 4: just giving barking out orders. The thing is, though, every
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 4: like her attendance and including her warder burget are like
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: giving her nothing but giving her nothing but angst about
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 4: it because they're like, but you're pregnant, you gotta be careful,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 4: don't do too much work.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 4: At one point, while she was while she was out
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 4: in the field consulting with her forces, she gets she
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 4: gets rained on, and while she's trying to make her
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 4: way back to her chambers to change, she keeps getting
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 4: sidetracked and people keep commenting on like her appear like.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 4: She gets several comments like, oh, you shouldn't be wet,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: you're pregnant, Like you shouldn't be in those wet clothes,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 4: And finally, after being harassed by the seafolk that are
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 4: still with her. One of them makes a makes a
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 4: comment about her wet clothes, and she just like like
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 4: she's dealing with the pregnancy hormones at this point. So
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 4: her moods are like going up and down from like
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 4: like just randomly crying to like getting really pissed off
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 4: at everything, to just being like in such a happy,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 4: go lucky mood, right, and at one point, like she's
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 4: really trying, she's starting to get really pissed off, and
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 4: it's hilarious because like she's finally raining in her emotions.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 4: She's like, Okay, okay.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: I'm cool, I'm calm, I'm cool.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 4: And then a wind finder is like get out of
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 4: those wet clothes, you're pregnant, and she explodes like just no,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 4: there's no words. She's just sure, like incoherent screeching, like
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: she's standing in the middle of a corridor. Someone made
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 4: that wind finder makes that comment to her, and she's
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 4: just like, like everybody in the whole castle heard her.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 4: I personally thought it was hilarious anyway. So aside from
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 4: managing the siege efforts and defending the city from her opposers,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 4: Elaine does continue continue her study of Tarangriol she still
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 4: she still possesses the large cachet of tarangreole that they
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 4: had found in Abu Dhar and in her free time
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 4: and every chance she gets, she has been studying them,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 4: trying to identify what they can do and trying to
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 4: figure out if she can replicate the one the ones
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 4: that she knows how to like. She's already proven that
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 4: she can replicate the Adam and the dream Toarangriol, but
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 4: there's still others that she doesn't know how to use
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 4: or how to replicate. And while she's studying them, her
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 4: best friend Avianda reveals that discovers that she actually has
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 4: the ability to identify tarangrioll. So the thing about channelers
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 4: is that many of them can have their own unique talents.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 4: Some have the talent for healing, meaning that aside from
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 4: like like, any ice thatid I can heal can use
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 4: healing weaves, some iceid i are better than others. But
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 4: then there's some who have the talent for it, meaning
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 4: that even if they are the weakest in the power,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 4: they can perform such high, such great feats of healing
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 4: that it's effortless to them. Because healing does take up
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 4: a lot of power. But if you have the talent
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 4: for it, even if you're like a very weak channeler,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: you could do it effortlessly. So and the thing is,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 4: is that creating tarangreoal it's the same thing. But Elaine
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 4: has the actual talent for creating tarang real, So she
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 4: has the so for her being able to replicate the
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 4: process of like being able to replicate the weaves that
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 4: are tied on to an object to make it into
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 4: a turang reo, She's able to do it effortlessly. But
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 4: the thing is, she still needs to She still needs
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: to be able to understand and like examine the weaves
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 4: that are placed on the tarangreal. But the thing is,
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 4: she doesn't have the ability to read those weaves to
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 4: figure out what their purpose is. Their purpose is. So
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: while she's studying it, Avienda who is who is an
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 4: who is a channeler of the iy Eel she's helping
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 4: her with it, and she notices that when she touches
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 4: the tarangreole, she's able to figure out what they can do.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 4: And when Elaine realizes this, she begins handing handing Avianda
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 4: tarang rioll like Avianda's like, huh, this one just makes
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 4: you fall asleep.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 4: This one just makes you loopy. This one could kill you. Uh.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 4: This one is a seed. I'm not sure what that
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 4: what what it does. It's like a seed. It makes
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 4: like doorways like that connects to other doorways. Hints, hints,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 4: it's they. She doesn't realize it, but she had stumbled.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 4: She had stumbled on the tarangreal that was that's used
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 4: to make way gates, which if for those if you
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 4: guys remember way gates are They were created by men
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 4: of the Age of Legends, male channelers from the Age
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 4: of Legends. They were actually made at the height of
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 4: the Age of Madness. So when men were all going
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 4: mad and just rampaging across the world destroying everything, some
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 4: of these male channelers would take refuge in steadings. The
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 4: steadings are where are the home of the o gear,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 4: and there are places where the power just doesn't exist.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 4: So when channeler goes into a steading, the they lose
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 4: their ability to channel, at least at least temporarily. And
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 4: many men had begun to flock into steeddings. The O
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 4: gear would take them in and help them because it
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 4: was the only way that they would protect themselves. This
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 4: was the only way for them to protect themselves from
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 4: being driven mad by the corruption on sighting. And the
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 4: thing is, though many of them would not stay for
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 4: very long, they would eventually leave the steading. But before
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 4: they left the settings, several of the of these channelers
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 4: created a tarangre all for the O gear as a
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 4: way of thanking them, and this tarangrioll would grow was
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 4: like a seat. It would grow gateways for them, and
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 4: these gateways became the way gates. So the O gear
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 4: were a static because this way they will have a
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: near instantaneous method of traveling between stettings. Because not all settings.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 4: Most of the stettings are like separated by hundreds of miles,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 4: so if an O gear wants to visit another steading,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 4: they would have to travel thousands of miles just to
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: get to it, and that could be very dangerous because
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 4: O gear can't really survive for very long outside of
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: a steading. And you know, of course, men are very
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 4: mistrustful of O gear and if they've never seen one before,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 4: they made mistake them for a shadow, for a shadow
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 4: creature and kill them. So the way gates was a
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 4: way to connect all of the stettings together. They were grown,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 4: they would be grown outside of the settings and a lot,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 4: which would allow the o gear to travel relatively safely
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: between them. But because this tarangrial was made by men,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 4: it draws power from sighting itself, and since sighting is tainted,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 4: eventually the waygate the ways became tainted as well and
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 4: became too dangerous to travel, So those were abandoned. So
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 4: they they don't realize that, they don't say it outright,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 4: but they had the actual seed tourangreoll that create that
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: can create more way gates, but anyway they can. Uh.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 4: Elaine continues to have a vianda identify more tourangreoal and
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 4: in one of the tarangreole that she manages to identify,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 4: it's a stone knife. Uh. This, this tarangrioal uh can
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 4: actually hide you from the dark ones uh attention. So
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 4: the dark One, if you say his name can uh,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 4: the dark One is able to see everything. I should
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 4: say that he technically he's like the creator. He knows all,
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 4: sees all. But if you you want to, you can avoid.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 4: You could still avoid his attention, his direct attention. But
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: if you say his name like that will draw his
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 4: attention to you like like It's like saying it's like
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 4: Harry Potter, like when Lord Voldemort's name became Jinked Jinx.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 4: If you say his name then like the snatchers will
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 4: come and get you. So it's like that. But Aleveander
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 4: reveals that this stone dagger can hide your can mask
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 4: your presence from the Dark One, making you invisible to him,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 4: and they both realized that this tarrangreial can be useful
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: to them in the future, especially when rand is supposed
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 4: to confront the Dark One at Chile Goal. So the
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 4: thing is is not long after. The thing is is
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 4: that aside from her studying the Toroangreole, Elaine has to
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 4: continue making plant Uh, continue making other plants. And while
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 4: Elaine wanted to keep Aviander around to help her study
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 4: the toroangreoal Uh, they learned that the a Eel that
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 4: were still that we're still in the city were planning
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 4: on leaving because Ran had summoned them and they were
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 4: all to go to ared domin meet him in ried Doman.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 4: So Avianda still Avianda at this point is still a
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 4: apprentice to the Wise Ones and she's still technically in training.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 4: So and the thing is that even though she and
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 4: Elaine have become first sisters, so they're basically like best friends,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 4: but they're like extra bestie best friends now like sisters
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 4: pretty much. Even though they have become first sisters in
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 4: Io culture, Avianda still has a duty to her people
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 4: and she has to travel with them to ared doman Ah,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: not when they not long after they leave. Elaine has
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 4: suspicions that several people in her in her retinue are
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: traders and particularly dark friends, so those she gets working with,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 4: those that she knows she can trust, they hire. They
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 4: hire a thief to track to track down a member
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 4: of her guard, a guy named Meller, who they suspect
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 4: is a trader and he is he is a dark
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 4: turns out he is a dark friend. While despite everything
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 4: going on outside and inside of Camlin, they're beginning to
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 4: notice more of the Dark One's influence, so of course
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: they are seeing ghostly images of the dead. Their food
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 4: is beginning to spoil a lot sooner, and of course,
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 4: like I said with back in book ten, corridors and
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 4: sections of the of the castle are beginning to shift
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 4: out of place, so the layout is basically just getting
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: shuffled around and it's causing a lot of it's beginning
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 4: to cause unease within Camlin. Yeah, surprisingly, Elaine learns of
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 4: a large army of Borderlanders. Borderlanders are, of course, the
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 4: Borderlands are a series of countries that are located along
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 4: the Blight and their culture. Their duty, their primary duty
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 4: is to keep the Blight from spreading further south and
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 4: to keep the dark One's forces at bay. This has
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 4: been something that the Borderlands have been doing for thousands
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 4: of years, and recently the Borderlands pull them up. So
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 4: recently the Borderlands. The leaders of the Borderlands, so the
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: leaders of Saldaea, of candor Our Fell and shine Are.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 4: They had all come together because while their their primary
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 4: focus had of course been on protecting the borders and
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 4: keeping the Blight at bay, they had begun noticing that
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 4: the Dark the Blight had begun receding, and they had
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 4: been seeing less and less encourasions of trollocks. So this
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 4: gave him some time to like take a step back
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 4: and consider what has been going on in the south.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 4: And they and of course they had heard about Rands,
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 4: the leader, the Lord of shin Are. He had actually
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 4: met Rance back in book one and two, and at
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 4: the time he didn't realize who Rand was. But now
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 4: that he knows, they all believe that they need to
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 4: take a they need to step in and try to
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: rein him in because the Queen of Saldea especially was
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 4: particularly pissed off at Rand because Ran had recruited her
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 4: greatest general, her uncle, Lord Davern Bashir. Or it wasn't
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 4: really Ran didn't actually recruit him. It was more like
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 4: Bashier showed up on Rand's store step and said, Hey,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 4: I heard you the dragon reward. Is that true? Cool,
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna join you up. I'm gonna join up with you.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 4: That's literally how That's pretty much how it happened. Like
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 4: Ran didn't really need to convince Bashier that they should
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 4: join forces. It was just more like best year knowing
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 4: that when the dragon Reborn comes anyway. So these so
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 4: the Borderlanders realizing that Ran has been causing a bit
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 4: of chaos in the South, they all decided to band
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 4: together and try to hunt him down to at least
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: either bring him to bring him under like, either to
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 4: bring him in line or to stop him because they
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 4: don't know for sure if he's a real dragon reborn.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 4: Because the thing is is that the Borderlands, they don't
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 4: really pay attention to anything going on in the south.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 4: They their only focus is the blight, so they haven't
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 4: been able to confirm whether or not Rand is the
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 4: dragon reborn, so they've been slowly So they had banded together.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 4: So this is like a force of about two hundred
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 4: thousand Borderlanders that joined that jorin forces and have been
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 4: making their way down south, and now they had just
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 4: came across. They had just entered and Or's territory. Aside
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 4: from the two hundred thousand Borderlanders, Elaine actually approaches the
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: Borderlanders and while she while they told her right off
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 4: the bat that we're not going to get involved in
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 4: your politics, she just tells them, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not. I don't need you to like come to
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 4: my rescue or anything. I just need you to move
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 4: your forces just a little bit closer to Camlin, because
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 4: I just want you to scare the fuck out of
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 4: those guys that are currently sieging like trying to seech
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 4: my city, at least scare them enough to make them
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 4: to force them into making like a desperate move against me.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 4: So you're gonna help me by doing nothing, exactly, by
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 4: doing absolutely nothing, Just move a little bit closer to
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 4: my city. Yeah, just move a little bit closer and
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 4: just stay there. Aside from them, Elaine does learn of
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 4: another force of about sixty thousand unaffiliated Endorans. I'm sorry,
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 4: is the beginning of your is the middle of my
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 4: sentence interrupting the beginning of yours? And we're not even done.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 4: Future Devin edit this part out. Yeah, damn, it's already
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 4: six o'clock.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 3: Feels like it's later.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 4: We're almost done, Yay, we're almost done. Well, I say
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 4: almost done. Yeah, I say almost done, but I say
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 4: we're I say almost done. But there's still kind of
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 4: a lot anyway, Like I was saying. So there's aside
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 4: from the Borderlanders, there is another large army of about
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 4: sixty thousand unaffiliated and Dorans approaching the city. So while
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 4: Elaine's direct opposition is they're all supporting a woman named Arimilla,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 4: but there is another force. There's a third party. Who Yeah,
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 4: there is another party of Andoran noble houses. Before Elaine
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 4: began her request to take the throne, this force had
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 4: moved themselves down south to the borders of Morandi because
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 4: they were trying to they were going to be meeting
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 4: up with uh. Yeah, the Band of the Red I
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 4: believe it was the Band of the Red Hen. I
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 4: didn't really talk much about them because it was such
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 4: like a it was such like a little detour in
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 4: the story. Oh it was, no, I'm sorry. So before
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 4: when and Or was still trying to figure out what
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 4: they're going to do with their succession, and when Rann
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 4: was still technically in charge of and Or, these troops
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 4: had been moved south by their lead by their noble houses,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 4: because they had learned that the rebel Isidi had been
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 4: had begun moving their forces north in an attempt to
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 4: take Tarvlan. The thing is, these Andorans, since and Or
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 4: has always had close ties with Tarvalan, they didn't want
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 4: to allow the rebel Isidi to cross into into and
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 4: Or because if they allowed that, then the White Tower
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 4: could see that as the and Orans just being complacent
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 4: and allowing rebels to move through their territory. So they
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 4: originally had gone down to basically cock block the rebels.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 4: But the thing is, by that point the rebels had
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 4: already had access to traveling, so they made it as
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 4: far as the border of Morandi and and Or before
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 4: deciding to use large gateways to move all of their
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 4: forces completely bypassing and Or and going straight for Tarbalan.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 4: And well, since these Andorans had been traveling for months
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 4: down south, they now realized, like, wait a second, Elaine's
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 4: back in Camlin. Now she's vying for the throne, and
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 4: our leaders, especially particularly one of the uh, one of
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 4: the noble women, is throwing her name into the lot.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 4: They now need to turn their attentions to Camlin and
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 4: try to, you know, take it for themselves prevent Aramilla
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 4: a Lane from taking the throne. So they're now moving,
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 4: they're making their way, making their way downtown.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm sure he did.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mm hmmm, I know, I know, Sho, no clascious.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 4: You know you should also make a you should you
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 4: should make an edit where you laugh and giggle every
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 4: time I mentioned the taint on sighting, and you should
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 4: also mention all and you should also mention all the
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 4: times that you just randomly bully me for no reason,
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 4: like I'll just be minding my own business and you
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 4: does this look familiar?
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 3: Does this look familiar?
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 5: Faggot?
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 4: Now I'll stopping you. You literally do that, like you
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 4: you'll literally you'll literally lean in all of our episodes.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 4: You do that, like at least once an episode. There's somewhere.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: I have screenshots.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 4: Uh huh yeah, make me look bad while deleting the
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 4: evidence for you. Mm hmm. This this your honor. I
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 4: demanded hung jury. This is the evidence is rigged. This
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 4: whole trial is rigged.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 2: Damn Hey.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 4: Anyway back to a lane. So the man that Elaine
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 4: so going back to tracking down some Dark friends. Elaine's
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 4: man had successfully followed her suspect the man that she
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 4: suspects is a dark friend, and Elaine leading several other
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 4: Isida their warders to the house. They attempt to capture
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 4: the Dark Friends in the house and discover that there
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 4: is a large number of Black sisters there. The Black
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 4: Asia had been hiding out in Camlin, or at least
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 4: a good number of the Black Asia I had been
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 4: hiding out, and they just uncovered their hiding place. The
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 4: thing is is that the thing is is that Elaine
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 4: believed that there was only maybe like one or two
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 4: Black sisters in that hideout. She didn't realize that there
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 4: was about seven of them. Yep. So she only takes
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 4: two of her sisters. Two other eyes did I with her?
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 4: She only brings. I'm sorry, she only brings three other
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 4: iceid ie with her. But when they go in and
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 4: confront the Black Asa, they are betrayed by one of
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 4: their own and this and they were portrayed by one
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 4: of the other ice tod I with them. And this
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 4: particular eyesid I had was actually a murderer, was a
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 4: very murderer that they've been looking for for months because
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 4: earlier in their travels. Uh, there's a pair of sisters.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 4: Let me pull up their names one of them. Uh,
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 4: So there was a pair of sisters these I said,
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 4: I was one was of the Green Asa and one
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 4: was of the Brown Aja. And uh, these two have
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 4: been traveling with the Lanes group for quite some time.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 4: But during their during their travels, uh, the sister of
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 4: the one sister who was of the Brown Aga. Okay,
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I got their names now. So these sisters
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 4: their actual biological sisters, van Den and Adelius Vandin is
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 4: of the Green Aga and Adelaius is of the Brown Aga. Unfortunately,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 4: during their travel, Adilaus was murdered by a dark friend.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 4: They didn't know who this dark friend was, but all
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 4: they knew was that during their interrogation of a dark
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 4: friend that they had captured. Adelaius was assassinated, and the
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 4: dark friend that they had captured was also killed in
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 4: order to keep him silent. This particular dark friend was
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 4: actually a sister of the Black Aja, so they had
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 4: actually captured a sister of the Black Aja. But she
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 4: gets killed. Adelaus gets killed. And the thing is, van Deen,
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 4: who loved her sister very much, was not only thoroughly
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 4: heart break broken, but she was enraged, and she had
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 4: been spent, and she had spent months trying to track
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 4: down this killer. And it turns out this killer had
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 4: been right under her nose the entire time. And her
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 4: sister's killer was an Isidi named Karine. And when Karine
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 4: betrays them, they they're all killed except for Elaine. As
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 4: soon as she betrays them, van Deen, realizing that Karine
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 4: is the one who killed her sister, she immediately kills
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 4: Kareem on site. And for those of you who are wondering, wait,
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 4: hold up, I thought, isid I can't use their powers
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 4: to kill. The stipulation of that oath is they cannot
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 4: use the power as a weapon unless it's unless it's
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 4: an extreme self defense or is it in the defense
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 4: of a sister of one of their sisters, or in
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 4: the fight against the Dark One and his dark forces.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 4: So the thing, here's the thing. Yeah, this event fell
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 4: into the all three categories. Elaine and van Den were
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 4: surrounded by nearly a dozen of the Black Aja, so
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 4: self defense is right there, in defense of their sisters,
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 4: so it can Adeleus can easily justify it as she
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 4: was trying to defend Elaine and the other isid I
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 4: with them and then fight against the Dark One in
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 4: his dark forces. These these isid I that they're fighting
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 4: are are of the Black Aja. So since they are
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 4: dark friends, they are not protected by the oath of
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 4: no killing. Nope, no they are. They are not a
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 4: part of the of that protection. They are the exception.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 4: So Adelais so I'm sorry. Vandine was like on site, bitch,
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 4: that was from my sister. And then she died. Mm hmm, yeah,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 4: she gots she gets killed. The other the Black Aja
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 4: capture Elaine and they try to make an escape from
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 4: camelin Uh. They had several tarangriol with them. One was
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 4: a was a black rod that when you channel into it,
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 4: it shoots out a beam of bailfire. So that is
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 4: a very dangerous weapon. Uh. They They barely managed to
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 4: make their way outside of the one of the main
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 4: gates of Cammelin before Bridge. Burgett realizing that her that
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 4: her isaid Eye was captured. Elaine was captured, she quickly uh.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 4: She quickly retreats because she knows she can't face all
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 4: of the Black Asia on her own. She she orders
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 4: her troops to try to stall the Black the Black
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 4: Aza from escaping while she goes and convinces the group
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 4: of wind Finders that stayed behind in Camlin to help
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 4: her rescue Elaine. The wind Finders are reluctant at first
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 4: because they're part of the part of their bar love.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 4: The stipulation of their bargain was only that they would
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 4: just stay and use their power to make gateways. They
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 4: weren't too intervene in any of the politics or anything
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 4: that's the succession. But Burgett tells them that if Elaine dies,
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 4: then your bargain is gone. You won't you won't get
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 4: that piece of land that Elaine promised you. Okay, your
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 4: bargain will only work if she's alive to become queen
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 4: to give you that piece of land. And then the
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 4: wind Finders are all like shit, so they step in. Yeah,
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 4: so they step in. They shoot some lightning at the
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 4: Black Aja, and they managed to rescue Elaine.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 4: And the thing is is that when she was captured
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 4: the uh UH, the the Andorans who opposed her succession
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 4: began to assault the city and UH. After Elaine is rescued,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 4: Elaine uses the wind Finders to create gateways to send
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 4: good number of her forces to attack Aramilla's forces from
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 4: the rear and so basically they're trapped the So Aramilla's
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 4: forces are trapped against the assault of the of the
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 4: wall and now Elaine's forces are attacking from behind. And
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 4: even though Aramella's forces did manage to break through the
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 4: through the gates and begin assaulting the city the interior
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 4: of the city, they don't get far and then they're captured.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 4: And that includes Ara Milla, who foolishly led her uh
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 4: decided to lead her forces from the from the front.
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 4: So she gets captured and including all of her out uh,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 4: including most of her allies, which after holding them captive,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 4: many of them do decide to support her claim. And
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 4: it's not long after this the remaining the remaining unaligned
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 4: houses of and Andor begin to slowly ah bring in
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 4: their support. A lot of a lot of the noble
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 4: houses decided to remain neutral in the succession, maintinantly because
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 4: most of them were not powerful enough or influential enough
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 4: to actually have a stake in it. So uh that force,
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 4: that large force that had been coming up from the south,
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 4: they do arrive, and they're lead, and the nobles leading
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 4: them do approach Elaine, one of the was Originally she
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 4: used to be one of Queen more Gase's closest friend,
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 4: but unfortunately she was also the one that Queen more
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 4: Great more Gase had had flogged in front of publicly,
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 4: I should add she had done this. The reason why
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 4: more Gase had done this is because she was still
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 4: under the compulsion of Rovin the Forsaken. So this particular
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 4: noble woman did not want did not like the idea
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 4: of another Tracan taking the throne, because she was particularly
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 4: better about her treatment at the hands of Queen more Gase.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 4: But seeing that Elaine now had the support of nine
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 4: of the major noble houses of and Or, Elaine now
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 4: had the right to proclaim herself Queen of and Or.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 4: She now had the majority vote. So her story in
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 4: book eleven ends with her becoming the now becoming Queen
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 4: of and Or so yay, So now we're gonna get
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 4: We're gonna get back to the final story, the final storyline,
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 4: and this is gonna be I saved him for last
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 4: on purpose, because he's the he is the His story
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 4: was shorter, was the shortest one in this book, but
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 4: like his is probably the most important. And we're gonna
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 4: go ahead and go back to Rand. So, like I said,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 4: Ran had spent the majority of this book. In the
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 4: last book in hiding. He was recovering from the cleansing
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 4: of Sighting and he had been hiding out in a
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 4: manner somewhere in eastern eastern tier Uh. While he was
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 4: in hiding, he was tracked down by Logan, who had
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 4: been who had led a large force of his of
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 4: of a shaman loyal to Logain and as well as
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 4: a number of Isidi who are loyal to kat Swain,
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 4: and along with them they had also brought They had
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 4: also brought surprisingly Loyal's parents. So a little backstory about Loyal.
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 4: Loyal is actually considered very young for his kind. He's
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 4: about he's somewhere in his late eighties early nineties. I
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 4: think about o Gear is that they can live for
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 4: about nine hundred years, So for him, he's still considered
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 4: very young, like something like a teenager. But he had
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 4: left his homesteady to see the world, and when he
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 4: encountered Rand, he's really stuck to Rent. So that way
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 4: he can learn about Tavaren and really see the journey
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 4: and chronicle the journeys of the dragon Reborn love Rand,
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 4: as I said in the last book, had he had
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 4: reprimanded Logane for taking for bonding Isidi against their will,
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 4: because this would further put him at odds with the
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 4: White Tower, who he ran will eventually need to make
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 4: peace with, and having Logane bond Isidai as warders is
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 4: not going to make things look good. So Rand had
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 4: decided as a way to amend things with the Isida,
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 4: I was he was going to allow the Isidi to
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 4: bond fifty of his as shaman as warders, and they
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 4: had done. We had seen this in the last book,
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 4: but now Logane has Logane is revisiting the argument that
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 4: he believes that Mazarin Tayim, who is currently leading the
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 4: a Shaman in Rand's absence and as well as overseeing
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 4: their training. He believes that tame Is Time is a
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 4: dark friend, but right now Rand isn't really convinced because
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 4: he because first of all, Time has done everything he
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 4: had asked. He had asked him to organize the a
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 4: shaman and oversee their training and make sure that they
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 4: are ready for the coming battle. Unfortunately for Loyal, his mother,
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 4: who had been chasing him down all across the Westlands,
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 4: had just arrived. She also arrived with one of the
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 4: elders of their studding, along with a younger a Lot,
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 4: and with them they have a younger O Gear woman,
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 4: a woman named Erith, and Erith was set to be
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 4: Loyal's fiance. Thing about the o Gears at their very
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 4: matriarchal society, and you know, of course the women, the
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 4: women have the final say and the men just go
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 4: have to go along with it. Now for the most part,
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 4: they so while the women are the ones that make
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 4: their decision, the men still do have more or less
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 4: have equal standing. Like they do have a voice, they
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 4: do have rights, It's just that like the women had
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 4: the final say, and oftentimes the men are married off
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 4: as soon as they as soon as possible, and usually
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 4: it's done without any real consent or courtship. It's like, okay, well,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 4: this girl saw you in the street, she thought she
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 4: liked you, even though she'd never talked to you, and
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 4: then she approached your mother, and then she approached your
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 4: mother said I want to marry your son, and there
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 4: you go. It's done. So it's kind of like that.
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 4: Though the thing is is that Loyall had met Erith
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 4: before and he had taken a liking to her, and
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 4: Ereth had approached Loyell's mother to arrange the marriage. So
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 4: now like as soon as Foyel's mother got ahold of him,
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 4: she's like, all right, Elderhaman, marry these two and let's
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 4: take them back to the stetting. But Loyal does not
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 4: want to leave. He argues that he needs to stay
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 4: because he's chronicling the travels of the Dragon Reborn and
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 4: there's still much he wants to do for his book.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 4: But during all of this, the manner is suddenly attacked
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 4: by a massive army of trolux. We're talking like about
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 4: one hundred thousand strong. And though thankfully the house is
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 4: currently filled to the brim with about with several dozen
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 4: Isidie and a shaman perspectively respectively, and they all begin
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 4: to completely cut loose with the cut loose and just
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 4: decimate the and decimate the trollic forces. Ran steps in
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 4: and also joins the fight. The thing is is that
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 4: when towards the later part of.
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 5: The UH.
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 4: The corruption of sighting, RN had begun to develop the
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 4: more extreme symptoms of the madness, which was a physical
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 4: sickness like he was. Actually every time he would embrace sighting,
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 4: the taint would make him physically sick though, and Ran
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 4: thought that after cleansing this, after cleansing sighting, that physical
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 4: side effect would go away. But now even though sighting
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 4: is clean, every time he embraces it, he still experiences
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 4: the physical effects. Like he starts, he gets extremely nauseous,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 4: he experiences dizziness and in some minor levels of lethargy.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 4: So every time he embraces sighting, he's like he has
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 4: to really like hold himself together. And after a moment
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 4: that feeling that extreme physical like sickness goes away, and
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 4: it does leave him weak and it does leave him
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 4: vulnerable for like a few moments. But it's also in
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 4: this moment that his little backseat driver in the good
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 4: old noggin up here Lose Thearren also tries to take
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 4: over control of sighting, and in the past, whenever Loose
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 4: Theren tries to take control of sighting from rand Rn
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 4: is able to fight him off. But this one time,
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 4: this one time when he really needs to like step up,
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 4: Loose Theren manages to take control of sighting. And the
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 4: thing is is that like who's there and doesn't go
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 4: on a rampage and kills everyone around him. He's focused
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 4: on the Trollics and he begins to fire off and
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 4: devastates the army with new and destructive weaves. So like
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 4: for starters, he starts, he starts shooting off weaves called
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 4: fire arrows, which he shoots off like bullets of fire,
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 4: like at a rapid pace. He's also creating like these
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 4: fire pillars, like these twisters of flame that like just
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 4: explode out from the ground and just like like carved
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 4: through the Trollic masses. And he also uses another weave
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 4: that is actually really cool. They're called death gates. So
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 4: so as it turns out, shadow creatures cannot cannot travel,
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 4: they cannot travel through gateways. So if a shadow creature
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 4: steps through an open gateway, they instantly die. And back
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 4: in the back in the War of Shadow, Loose Theren
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 4: had discovered this and figured out a way to use
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 4: gateways as a weapon against trollucs and other dark creatures.
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 4: And this new altered gateway weave he called them death gates.
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 4: So basically the way the weave works is that he
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 4: opens a gateway, but the weave causes the gateway to
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 4: rapidly open and close. And while they're while the gateway
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 4: is rapidly opening and closing, it's also rotating, so like
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 4: gateways are in so gateways a general look for have
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 4: a very geometric shape. When they open up, they open
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 4: up as like a vertical line of light, and then
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 4: they expand into like a rectangular doorway. So imagine that
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 4: rapidly opening, closing, and rotating, and then it's just shot
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 4: off towards you. So it hits trollus. It simultaneously cuts
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 4: through them while also transporting them to their deaths because
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 4: as soon as they pass through it, they die. And
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 4: then like and since it's being shot off in us
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 4: in like a straight line, anything that it passes through
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 4: kills it instantly. Yeah. So and the thing is logan
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 4: is It was kind of cool too, because it was
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 4: a learning experience for both Ren and Logane, because Logane
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 4: seeing Rand use these more advanced weaves, picks up on
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 4: how to use him too, so he also starts shooting
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 4: off his own version of the weaves. And the thing
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 4: is is that they do manage to defeat the entire
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 4: army of Trolus and afterwards lose Thearren attempts to kill
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 4: himself again. I'm sorry, unlive himself. But because so, he
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 4: attempts to do this again, and Ran has to try
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 4: to like talk him talk himself down and uh and
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 4: keep and keep loose Thearn from drawing too much power
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 4: from the source to end their life. Uh. He he
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 4: does this by convincing, by promising. Wren does this by
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 4: promising Luc Thearren that they will that they will die
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 4: eventually when the last battle comes. So this brings his
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 4: backseat driver down and loose there and releases his hold
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 4: on this on the source. It's during this, it's in
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 4: the wake of this the I said I Barren departs,
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 4: leaving a warning for Ran against trusting any ice ad eye.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 4: This is mainly mainly due to the fact that this, yeah,
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 4: this is mainly due to the fact that there are
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 4: many Isidai who are of the Black Asia, so you
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 4: need to be careful. Loyal learns from Elder Haman Elder
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 4: Haman and his mother that the Ogeir are gathering for
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 4: this massive conference called the Great Stump to determine if
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 4: the Ogir will fight in the last battle or just
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 4: stay out of it. But Wren manages to convince Elder Haman,
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 4: who is more knowledgeable about the known about the Waygates
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 4: than Loyal was, and convinced him to travel across the
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 4: Westland to try to seal all the other whale gates
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 4: Whalegates Waygates. Davren Bashir returns and reports that the daughter
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 4: of the Nine Moons will meet with Ran in three days.
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 4: Uh Land tells and tells Ninive that hits time for
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 4: him to return to the borderlands so that way he
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 4: can go and uh fight with the Borderlanders at Tarwin's Gap,
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 4: because since that the last battle is coming, tar Win's
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 4: Gap is going to be the primary is going to
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 4: be the first line of defense. Ninive agrees to take
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 4: him to take him to the border lands through traveling,
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 4: but instead of taking him directly to Tarwin's Gap. She
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 4: takes him to an area in Saldia called World's End,
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 4: this which is another which was like a couple of
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 4: thousand miles off from his intended destination. And he's like,
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 4: what the fuck, Like, why did you drop me off here?
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 4: And she says, if you're gonna fight at Tarwin's Gap,
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 4: then you need to gather an army. And basically she's
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 4: telling him you need to what excuse me. Basically, what
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 4: she's telling him is that you need to man up
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 4: and take a take your role as a as a
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 4: of the borderlanders. Because Lan is actually the last heir
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 4: of the long fallen kingdom of Malkyrri. So about fifty
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 4: years ago the borderland nation of Malkr had fallen to
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 4: the blight. Land was just a baby and he was
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 4: dropped and he was and he was taken out of
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 4: Malkr and raised in Chinar. And also even though the
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 4: nation fell, there are still many Malkyri people that are
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 4: still scattered throughout the borderlands. So basically, what Ninieve tells
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 4: him to do is to go out there and gather
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 4: the Malkyr to himself. He doesn't want to do this,
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 4: but she's like well, too bad, You're still you're gonna
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 4: do it. So after she leaves him there, she begins
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 4: traveling through the borderlands and she sends out a message
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 4: to anybody who knows who is either a remnant of
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 4: malk Here related to people from Malkyr or who remembers
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 4: malk Her, and she implores them to join Land on
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 4: his journey and fight beneath the Golden Crane banner. The
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 4: Golden Crane was the banner of Malkyr, so Ran decides
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 4: to leave the manor and begin makes his reappearance in
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 4: the world. He travels back to the Stone of Tyr,
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 4: which had been besieged by rebel tyrens.
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 4: He then uh there were still those in the stone
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 4: in the stone that are loyal to him, and after
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 4: making an agreement with the rebels and ending the conflict
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 4: between the two opposing tiring forces, a new king is
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 4: is appointed over Tyr, which is averse because Tyr has
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 4: never had a king before. They just have high lords,
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 4: but one of a man who who is loyal to Rant,
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 4: a man named Darlin, is made king. And during these events,
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 4: Rand sends Logain to meet up with the Athanmir the
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 4: Cea folk because because at this point, the Athanmir are
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 4: meeting to reorganize themselves in the wake of the death
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 4: of one of their leaders. Logan meets with them and
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 4: invokes Rand's bargain with them to carry supplies for a
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 4: million people, or at least enough supplies for the people
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 4: of our domain. They also learn the Ethnmir also learned
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 4: that a massive tragic event had happened on an island
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 4: within their territory. This island of Tremalkin was home to
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 4: a people called the Mir and on tramal Uh, and
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 4: on that island was the resting place of the female
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 4: half of the children Call. And in the wake of
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 4: the cleansing, they had learned that the that the children
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 4: call statue had disintegrated and because of this this had
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 4: scared the people, so the the m i R so
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 4: much that they had all committed and trigger warning, they
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 4: had all committed mass suicide. But yeah, they the yeah,
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 4: when the statue basically melted this is a massive statue,
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 4: by the way, when it just completely melted and fell apart.
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 4: Uh the people believe them i R believed that the
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 4: end times had to come. And it's m as there's
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 4: there's no hope. So they unfortunately took their own lives.
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 4: This was a very shocking event to the Athan MIRR
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 4: because they had close relationship with the I R. But
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 4: now it's it's a whole mess. But still Logane insists
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 4: that the Ethon Mirror uh hold uphold their end of
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 4: the bargain. And I almost forgot. There's still we still got.
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 4: We still got h Agwaine's part of the story. See
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 4: what I told you, Like I say that we're almost done,
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 4: but there's still a lot. But Agwaine's story was actually
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 4: very short in this.
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 3: Let me see here, let me see here, let me
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 3: see here. Yep, So I already talked about that.
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 4: Rand had already said an a shaman representative to the
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 4: Rebel Hall to let them know that they can that
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 4: they can take forty seven. They can take forty seven
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 4: a shaman as warders compensation for the shamp and bond
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 4: for the shaman bonding sisters. Yeah, a GWayne had such
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 4: a small role in this, So I'll get back. We'll
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 4: close out with her. Fuck a Leda. Okay. So at
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 4: this point, Ran finally decides it's time to meet the
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 4: Daughter of the Nine Moons, and when they approach the
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 4: meeting place, they see what appears to be Tuon, who
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 4: is guarded by about four soldam and Demane pears. But
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 4: as they're approaching tu On Kat's way, Kat'swayne tells Ran
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 4: that some but that someone in that group is channeling,
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 4: but she can't see who. She only knows because kat
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 4: Swayne has a series of She has tied in her
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 4: hair a ornamental net with a bunch of like little
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 4: charms on it. And these charms are a series of tourangreoll.
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 4: These tourangreoll have they're like a form of practical tarangreole
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 4: called a paralys net. And uh they each have they
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 4: each charm does its own different thing. One is a
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 4: charm that protects her from the power, just kind of
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 4: just like Matt's Foxhead medallion protects him from the power.
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 4: Uh this all that She also has another charm that
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 4: alerts her when there's another channeler nearby. So if there's
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 4: a male channeler nearby, it'll point to them, but if
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 4: there's also somebody who's masking their power, it'll also it'll
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 4: also alert her their presence. So she and Ninive also
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 4: confirms this because she too had discovered her own paralys
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 4: Neet and one of her one of her artifacts, was
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 4: also alerting her that there's a channeler, that there's somebody
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 4: channeling that they can't detect, and that they themselves can't
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 4: detect on their own. And Rand isn't detecting a male
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 4: channeler either, So he trusts them and he says, how
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 4: should we? He trusts their word and says and asks
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 4: them what should they do? Katsawayne says, let's continue on,
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 4: and I'm pretty and I think I have a way
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 4: to disrupt the disguise, to make them reveal themselves. So
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 4: as they approach Tuon, the person who looks like Tuon,
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 4: her image begins to distort and ripple before finally becoming
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 4: turning into something someone completely different. Now now two On
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 4: in the books is described as looking at like a
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 4: very petite woman. She's she has very dark skin, and
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 4: she shaves her head so she is bald, and when
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 4: she's first introduced, she typically wears a veil over her
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 4: face and the finger and the nails on all of
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 4: her fingers are lacquered and they're about an inch long,
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 4: and she's I would say she's short, but she's of
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 4: average height. For a woman, so I'd say about five
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 4: four five five or something like that. But the woman
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 4: but then, but then the woman that appears in her
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 4: place is almost as tall as Rand. She has even
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 4: darker skin than two on and she has jet black
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 4: straight hair that's goes down to about her shoulder, just
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 4: above her shoulder. And when Rand sees this woman, he
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 4: is completely just thrown off because the woman that he
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 4: sees before her is before him is none other than Semarage,
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 4: the forsaken. Uh Semarage is shocked that someone had shot
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 4: is shocked that someone was able to counter her disguise,
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 4: and she immediately lashes out at Rand. When Rand tries
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 4: to seize sighting to protect himself loose there and also
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 4: tries to seize uh Sighting at the same time, and
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 4: while they're both trying to fight over control over it,
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 4: uh Semarage's attack actually manages to hit home. Uh and
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 4: Ran only had enough time to raise his left arm
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 4: to protect himself, and uh Semarage had shot off a
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 4: fireball at him, and when he raises left arm, the
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 4: fireball struck his hand completely burning it off, costing him
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 4: his left hand. So she takes his hand and this
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 4: kind of knocks. This knocks him out for a sec uh,
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 4: and in the confusion, Kat, Swayne, and Ninive, along with
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 4: the small contingent of a shaman that were with them,
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 4: managed to subdue both Samarage and the four demane and
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 4: soldam Uh. Simarage Is is then captured taken prisoner, and
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 4: the demane as well as the soldam with her are
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 4: are also captured. I think only one of the soldan
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 4: Demane paris killed in the in the confrontation. The remaining three,
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 4: after Samarage is taken captive, are released in order to
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 4: return to their in order to return to Abu dhar
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 4: Uh and warn them that further confrontations with the Dragon
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 4: Reborn will be met with extreme prejudice and also they
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 4: Rand tells them that they should tell the truth that
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 4: the forsaken Samarage have been hiding amongst them. And so
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 4: let me see what was this it for Rand's group? Yep,
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 4: So from this point that is it for Rand's for
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 4: Rand's story. When we do see Rand again in book twelve,
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 4: we are going to be seeing that he, even though
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 4: that sighting is now clean, he's still facing the strong
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 4: effects of the madness and he's becoming more and more unstable,
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 4: I should say. And we're almost done. So we are
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 4: almost done with book eleven. There's a couple more characters
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 4: whose story needs to be closed out. Uh Igwayne for
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 4: the most part, had a very small role in this book.
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 4: She is still a prisoner of the White She's now
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 4: a prisoner of the White Tower and is forced to
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 4: uh is forced to resume her studies as a novice. Uh.
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 4: The thing is, though, throughout the entire time that she
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 4: is forced to be a novice, she still carries herself
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 4: like a full isid Eye. And in fact, she carries
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 4: herself like the Amberline seat all right, because she to
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 4: her she she's not just an ice, a full fledged
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 4: sister of the Isidai. She is the true Amberlin's Seat,
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 4: and she and for her, she will continue to conduct
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 4: herself as such, and she will not accept anything other.
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 4: The thing is is because she continues to carry herself
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 4: in that way, she is constantly sent to the Mistress
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 4: of Novices for punished meant for her disobedience, and she
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 4: is continuously doused with a with a small uh. She's
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 4: continuously given a small dose of fork fork root to
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 4: prevent her from using her full power, because without the
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 4: fork root Agwaine is the strongest sister in the White Tower. However,
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 4: in her time in the White Tower, she does earn
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 4: the respect of the other novices, helping them with advanced weaves,
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 4: and at one point she is approached by alvar And,
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 4: who she doesn't realize is a dark is one of
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 4: the Black Sisters. Alviar tries to convince her to escape
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 4: with her, but she refuses, saying that she's uh, saying
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 4: that she has a that she has a duty to
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 4: here in the White Tower. Uh Igwaine does does encounter Boenen,
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 4: the rebel Isidi, who had actually been a spy for
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 4: a Leeda and who would also who had defected back
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 4: to the White Tower. Bowenen tries to rationalize her decision,
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 4: saying that with her capture, the rebels were finished, there's
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 4: no point in trying to fight Eleida. But the thing
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 4: is is that the thing is is that bowen In
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 4: had made promises and had done and had done things
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 4: in her time with the rebels to implicate her as
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 4: a full rebel. Doesn't matter if she was sent there
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 4: to so dissent among the rebels. She was still chit
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 4: still pledged herself to the rebels, and because of that,
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 4: her rationalizations for defecting back to the White Tower completely
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 4: They completely go against her oath to speak only the truth.
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 4: So when you speak so that oath not only makes
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 4: it to where you can't tell a lie, but if
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 4: he you make a promise, if you make a pledge
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 4: or an oath, your oath to speak the truth compels
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 4: you to fulfill your obligations and your oaths. And when
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 4: Agwaine points it out to bon And Bonan realizes, shit,
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 4: I've fucked up. So she has no choice but to
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 4: fall back in lind with the rebels and serve agwayinne.
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 4: At one point, Elida finally decides to deal with Igwaine personally,
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 4: but she doesn't do it by like you know, calling
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 4: her to her office and like scolding her and dishing
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 4: out punishment to her directly. She does this by trying
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 4: to make a show that Elida the Amberlin, who the
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 4: Ambulin of the White Tower, has finally brought Igwayne, the
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 4: false who she considers the false Ammulin of the of
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 4: the Rebel is said I under her heel, so she had,
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 4: so she forces Agwaine to attend her during a dinner
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 4: with the other sitters with the Sitters of the Hall.
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 4: But it's during this dinner that Aguaine begins to challenge Elena,
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 4: begins to call her out on all of her failures,
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 4: especially the biggest thing that she called was the extreme
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 4: division between the Asas and the and the White Tower.
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 4: So like every AA is against each other, all right,
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 4: the isid I look at each other with disdain and
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  Speaker 4: contempt and mistrust. That Agwaine is just like so like
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 4: she was. She was horrified when she realized how divided
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 4: the White Tower had become. And she like went so
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  Speaker 4: far as to call Eleida a dark friend. She like,
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  Speaker 4: I name you false, I name you a dark friend
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  Speaker 4: and and a false ambulance of this tower. And Alida
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  Speaker 4: got so pissed off that she lashed out with the
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  Speaker 4: power and knocked Agwayne out. The thing is, though she
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 4: did this in front of a bunch of sitters, and
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  Speaker 4: because of her lack of decorum and lack of UH
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  Speaker 4: and her lack of self control, she had broken Tower law.
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  Speaker 4: So she's in, she's in. She's in deep shit now.
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  Speaker 4: But yep, and that's gonna be it for a GWayne
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  Speaker 4: story in this book. The book does, so we are
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  Speaker 4: now finally at the end of the book.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Book eleven closes out with a final scene from the
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 4: shaan Shan's perspective. This is from the perspective of the
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 4: high lord. So so Surath is back in Abu Dhar.
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 4: She and her She and the other high lords that
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 4: are still there are trying to just yeah, are trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out ways to either bring back Tuon or
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 4: may or subtly plot for a way for them to
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 4: seize control and become the next empress because they've already
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 4: received word from the from the shan Shan continent that
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 4: the empire has completely crumbled in the wake of the
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 4: assassination of the previous empress. However, it's at this moment
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 4: when Soroth believes that her plans will all come together
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 4: and be like like, yes, yes, it's all coming together.
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  Speaker 4: It's all all her plans crumble when when Tuon walks
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  Speaker 4: her happy ass through that door and looks right at
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  Speaker 4: Sorot and says, on your knees, so yes. So the
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 4: thing is is that right now Tuon cannot assume her
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 4: role as empress just yet. For starters, she like the
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 4: rest of the High Blood need to ah, they need
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 4: to hold their they need to uphold the morning period
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 4: of the death of the previous empress, and Tuan has
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 4: to do a little bit of house cleaning too. And
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 4: she starts by uh. She starts by having Surath completely
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 4: stripped of her title and made into a daco veil,
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 4: lowest form of slave in the shan Shana Empire yep.
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 4: And this book ends not only ends with Suran crying
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 4: like a little bitch at while they while they cut
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 4: her clothes from her and take her to the to
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  Speaker 4: the block to be sold, it also ends with several
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 4: sisters of the White of the Red Paja I should say,
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 4: arriving at the Black Tower and presenting their desire to
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 4: have a Red sister's Bondi as shaman. The thing is
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 4: is that they didn't know that Wren had already approved
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 4: of this because of what had happened with Logan, and
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 4: Taim tells them that yes, you can take for you
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 4: may take forty seven of our Aha of Maya shaman
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 4: as warders. And then the book ends with him saying,
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 4: let the Lord of Chaos rule.
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 2:43:39
  Speaker 4: Spoiler alert. He's a dark friend, but we won't. But
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 4: we won't actually find that out until like like half honestly,
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 4: we won't actually find this out until like halfway through
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 4: book fourteen. Yeah, I'm giving I'm giving you guys spoilers. Now,
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 4: you can cut that out if you want. That's right,
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 4: we're gonna be next week we're going to be reviewing
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 4: book twelve, The Gathering Storm and Book thirteen, Towers of Midnight,
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 4: And then of course the week after that we will
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 4: be concluding the series with the fourteenth and final book
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  Speaker 4: in this series, A Memory of Light m Until then, bye,