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83. Rest in Pease Jordan. (WOT Book 12: The Gathering Storm) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: Anyway, So, as I was saying, we are continuing with
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  Speaker 1: probably our longest recorded series by so far, Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: we are. Now we are going to be reviewing book
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  Speaker 1: twelve of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: This book is called The Gathering Storm. Yeah, so this
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  Speaker 1: book is somewhat more special than the other books that
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  Speaker 1: we reviewed so far, because this is the first book
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  Speaker 1: that was not written by Robert Jordan. By this point,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Jordan had unfortunately passed away. He passed away, you know,
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  Speaker 1: information future Devin got. So of course, not me forgetting
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  Speaker 1: how to spell Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I'm just I'm the just one here. Don't come
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  Speaker 3: from my gig.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So Robert Jordan, he unfortunately passed away on
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  Speaker 1: September sixteenth, two thousand and seven. So oh wow, we're
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  Speaker 1: coming up on that anniversary. Yeah. So he was at
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  Speaker 1: the ripe old age of fifty eight years, so it
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  Speaker 1: was right. So it is very unfortunate because he passed
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  Speaker 1: away before he could finish the Wheel of Time series.
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  Speaker 1: And while I haven't really figured it out, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure that he had many more books that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to write for the Wheel of Time series. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: because due to his death, he never got to complete
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  Speaker 1: his story. But a fellow author by the name of
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Sanderson stepped in and finished his book free finished
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  Speaker 1: his book. So now in the process of review Jordan's notes,
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  Speaker 1: because thank god that before he passed Robert Jordan had
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  Speaker 1: taken down extensive notes about what he planned to do
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  Speaker 1: with his series, as well as what he had planned
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  Speaker 1: for the Final Battle. Because all of these, this entire
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  Speaker 1: story is leading up to the culmination of the Final Battle,
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  Speaker 1: where the Dark One will finally be defeated and sealed
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  Speaker 1: away once and for all. Yeah, and this will bring
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  Speaker 1: the story to a close. Now unfortunate, since he passed away,
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  Speaker 1: there will never be anymore We the Time novels unless
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Sanderson gets permission from Jordan's estate to continue writing
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  Speaker 1: using the Wheel of Time and their characters, or rather
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  Speaker 1: just using the source material to create like either a
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  Speaker 1: prequel series or a sequel. We'll never know. If the
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  Speaker 1: Amazon TV show gets more popular, we might see more
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  Speaker 1: Wheel of Time content. But until then, this is the
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  Speaker 1: fourteen books that were released, or I'm sorry, the fifteen
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  Speaker 1: books with the Companion as well as the Companion Guide.
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  Speaker 1: That's all we're going to get from Robert Jordan's work.
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  Speaker 1: So I will say that these last three books Book twelve, thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen, you can definitely tell that. You can tell
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  Speaker 1: that they have a different writing style. Sanderson was very
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  Speaker 1: faithful to Jordan's work. He made sure to write it
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that in such a way that
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  Speaker 1: still captured the characters, their personality, the world, everything he
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  Speaker 1: did his research. He did a phenomenal job. But towards
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  Speaker 1: the end you could tell that there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hints and a lot of stuff where it looked
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  Speaker 1: like he just filled in the blanks, which is I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying is a bad thing. He did a really
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  Speaker 1: good job, and towards the end, like I was actually
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  Speaker 1: on the edge of my seat because like I'm over here,
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  Speaker 1: like the fine it's the final battle, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite characters are are gonna are gonna die
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  Speaker 1: and not gonna spoil I'm not spoiling anything, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of familiar faces will not make
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  Speaker 1: it to the end of of book fourteen. So like
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  Speaker 1: I was stressed, that book got me stressed.
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  Speaker 2: I bet it sounds like that appisode's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: very stressful episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was o it was heart wrenching, and but
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  Speaker 1: all all the while it was it had me on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of my seat and it but it came
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  Speaker 1: to such a it came to such a wonderful conclusion
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  Speaker 1: that it left me feeling like, God, what do I
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  Speaker 1: do with my life. But at the same time, I'm
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  Speaker 1: also like, I'm ready to move on because is this
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  Speaker 1: series was long, and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it
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  Speaker 1: every step of the way. And I hope you guys,
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  Speaker 1: if you if you chose to just follow us along
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  Speaker 1: in this in our podcast, or if you're reading the
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  Speaker 1: books yourself or watching this show, I hope you guys
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  Speaker 1: are enjoying it all right, because it is a really
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  Speaker 1: good series. All right, So, without further adieu, go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and get started. That was a weird face. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna do that again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make that face the video of thumbnail.
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  Speaker 1: I hate you.
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  Speaker 1: I hate you.
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  Speaker 3: That's such a dad.
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  Speaker 1: I hate you so much And how dare you call
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So without further ado, let's go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and get into the story. So, like I've been doing before.
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  Speaker 1: So the books, they like any series, like any book
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  Speaker 1: that has multiple perspectives, it does go back and forth
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  Speaker 1: between different characters. In the Gathering Storm, the story will
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  Speaker 1: be focused mostly on Rn Iguaine. I'm sorry Rn and Aquaine. Also,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be focusing a little bit more on Ninive as
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  Speaker 1: well as kat Swain and even Avienda. We're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: see much of Elaine in this story, or Matt or Paren.
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  Speaker 1: Matt does have somewhat of a presence towards towards near
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  Speaker 1: the end, but other than that, we're not gonna see
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  Speaker 1: much of him. Everything's all said, why see much of him?
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  Speaker 1: All I can say about him is that he's now
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  Speaker 1: he's making sure he gets back to Camln, so he
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  Speaker 1: can of course deliver the Isid Eye to their kin,
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  Speaker 1: as well as deliver Elodra to the Queen Elaine, so
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  Speaker 1: that way they may begin building her new weapons. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about that in this book,
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  Speaker 1: but they won't have much of a story onto book thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you something book thirteen. So I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you about book thirteen. Book thirteen is when
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  Speaker 1: the final battle really begins. I will say that. So
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  Speaker 1: the final battle begins in book thirteen, but it begins,
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  Speaker 1: but yet at the same time, it doesn't go into
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  Speaker 1: full swing, not just yet. So for this story, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about some of the minor
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  Speaker 1: side stories. Of course, in the prologue of the Gathering
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  Speaker 1: Storm talks a little bit more about the border It
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  Speaker 1: talks a little bit about the borderlands, how ordinary people
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  Speaker 1: begin to head north to fight in Tomer Guiden. The
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  Speaker 1: signs are all clear. There's a Now we're beginning to
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  Speaker 1: see just a continuous overcast over the entire world. No
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  Speaker 1: matter where you go. The sun is gone. There's no
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  Speaker 1: it's just starting to become gloomy day in and day out.
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  Speaker 1: Bubbles of evil are popping up more and more often
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  Speaker 1: causing very chaotic and often lethal effects. So, in the
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  Speaker 1: wake of his meeting with the so called Daughter of
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  Speaker 1: the Nine Moon, Ran ends up walking away without his
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  Speaker 1: left hand and as but with a new prisoner, the
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  Speaker 1: most bloodthirsty of the forsake in Semarage. So Samarage had
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  Speaker 1: tricked him into a meeting with the sean Chan's leader,
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  Speaker 1: who is Tuon, the daughter of the nine Moons. But
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  Speaker 1: she disguised herself as Tuon, and when Rand confronted her, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Semarage attacked and this end This ended with Ran losing
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  Speaker 1: a hand and Semarage was captured. Uh Ran had also
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  Speaker 1: captured several of the Demane as well as as they're
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  Speaker 1: sold on, so there was there was like a good
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  Speaker 1: number of them. Most of them were captured, several had
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  Speaker 1: died in the in the scuffle. Ran set them all
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  Speaker 1: free and sent them back to the UH. Sent them
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  Speaker 1: back to Abu Dhar so they can meet with the
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  Speaker 1: real daughter of the Nine Moons and informer of what
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  Speaker 1: just happened here, Ran is still trying to sue for
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  Speaker 1: peace with the sean Chan because he knows that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be needed in the in the coming battles.
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  Speaker 1: Also in this UH, also in the prologue that Energem
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  Speaker 1: the Shaun Sewan's banner, General Tylie Kirgan, after completing her
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  Speaker 1: campaign against the shidow ay Eel and of course with
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  Speaker 1: her partnership with Parenth, she she and her forces began
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  Speaker 1: their march back to Abu Dhar, but only to be
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  Speaker 1: ambushed by hundreds of Trialaks only a day's march from
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  Speaker 1: Abu Dhar. So talks are now beginning to appear further way,
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  Speaker 1: far further south from the borderlands and expected because Abudar
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  Speaker 1: is like on the very southern tip of the continent,
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  Speaker 1: it's on the southern coast of the Westland continent, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And for those of you who if you're you're probably guessing, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Trlaks are using the ways, the way gates to
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  Speaker 1: move all across the west Lands. Now, Rand had sent
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  Speaker 1: Loyal and later had sent Loyal's mentor to find the
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  Speaker 1: remaining gate way gates and make sure that they're all
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  Speaker 1: sealed so that way the Talks can't use them to
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  Speaker 1: ambush their forces and start popping up in random places. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: near the end of the prologue, the Forsaken Meat the
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  Speaker 1: remaining Forsaken Meat. At this point, less than half of
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  Speaker 1: the original thirteen Forsaken are still alive. So that includes Grendel, Aarangar, Mordan, Masana,
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  Speaker 1: and Demon Dread. Oh and god, it's Landfair's new name.
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  Speaker 1: It's Landfair, but she's now called Sindane and then of
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  Speaker 1: course Mogeddian. So these are the lot. These are the
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  Speaker 1: only living Forsaken. All the other ones are dead or well,
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  Speaker 1: yeah they're dead. They ain't coming back. Now. Austinar, who
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  Speaker 1: was the reincarnation of Agonor, since he died in book
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  Speaker 1: nine in the assault against Ran during the cleansing, he
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  Speaker 1: had already used up his second chance. So after being
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  Speaker 1: killed as in his first life is Agonre and being
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  Speaker 1: reincarnated as Ostinar, that was the Dark One's only chance,
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  Speaker 1: his only chance the Dark One gave him. So now
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  Speaker 1: that he's dead, his soul belongs to the Dark One.
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  Speaker 1: There ain't coming back from it. All the other Forsaken
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  Speaker 1: have been killed in ways that will prevent the Dark
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  Speaker 1: One from transmigrating their souls into new bodies. Being killed
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  Speaker 1: by bailfire is perma death. Well not so much perma
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  Speaker 1: perma death. Their spirit still exists. It's just that since
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  Speaker 1: it burned, since bailfire burns your thread in the pattern,
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  Speaker 1: technically you die moments before you actually died. So anything
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  Speaker 1: you've done, like a very powerful blast of bailfire can
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  Speaker 1: wipe out anything you've done within like within several hours
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  Speaker 1: or even several days. So if you killed somebody and
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  Speaker 1: then somebody kills you with bellfire, oh look, the person
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  Speaker 1: you just killed is alive because you technically didn't kill
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  Speaker 1: them now and it's because of that, Like, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to know more information about bellfire, just google it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm explaining it the best that I can, the best
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  Speaker 1: way that I can, but bailfire right now is the
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  Speaker 1: only surefire way to kill forsaken without the without giving
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  Speaker 1: the allowing the dark Ones to resurrect them, because once
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  Speaker 1: they're killed with bellfire, their spirits technically departed our world
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  Speaker 1: moments before instead of in the except in this moment,
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  Speaker 1: so the dark One can't reach out, grab their souls
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  Speaker 1: and put it in another vessel. Yeah, so these are
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  Speaker 1: the last of the forsaken. Mordan orders the others to
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  Speaker 1: order the others that they are not to rescue Samarage because,
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  Speaker 1: in his anger, he believes Semarage acted brashly and also
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  Speaker 1: defied his order to leave Rand alone. Rand was not
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  Speaker 1: to be messed with. There'd be no plots against him,
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  Speaker 1: all right, save for anything that Mordan specifically tells him
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  Speaker 1: to do. So in this meeting, Mordan orders Grendall to
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  Speaker 1: ensure Ran does not bring peace to the land of
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  Speaker 1: Arid Domin. Ered Domin is a country in the north
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  Speaker 1: western part of the of the Westlands. It's just south
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  Speaker 1: of the Borderlands, but it's along the western coastline. It's
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  Speaker 1: actually not that far from Falm, where the Shaan Shan
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  Speaker 1: originally made landfall. In fact, the Sean Sean are currently
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  Speaker 1: planning on arching on ared Domen. Uh so Grendl now
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  Speaker 1: Grendel who yes, for those of you who are guessing,
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  Speaker 1: she is currently fighting in ard Doman. She is now
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  Speaker 1: or to do everything she can to prevent ran from
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  Speaker 1: Brady's that either by capturing the Domini King or scattering
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  Speaker 1: the Merchant Council, who is technically the ruling uh the
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  Speaker 1: ruling class of ared Domen. And aside from the Forsaken's meeting,
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  Speaker 1: we also get a small look at one of the
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  Speaker 1: great captains of the Westlands, a man named Rhoda Rodel
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  Speaker 1: had been fighting a sort of uh he's been He's
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  Speaker 1: been fighting a losing battle against the Sean Shawn. He
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  Speaker 1: had led uh scattered for it. He had led scattered
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  Speaker 1: forces against them in tan Chico and they have been
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  Speaker 1: slowly pushing him back north into Arid Doman. But Rodo
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  Speaker 1: Itterol proofs has been proving time and again why he's
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  Speaker 1: one of the great captains of the Westlands, and he's
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  Speaker 1: continuously outmaneuvered the Shan Shan at every move. But the
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  Speaker 1: thing about the Shan Sean is that they are very persistent,
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  Speaker 1: and Itterrald has very he has a very small forces.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have much resources, he doesn't have support from
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  Speaker 1: any of the other nations, so he's making he's getting
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  Speaker 1: by with literal scraps. And the Shan Sean, realizing that
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  Speaker 1: Iterauld is much more of a danger than anyone than
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  Speaker 1: they they had originally given him credit for, they sent
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  Speaker 1: a large force of about one hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: soldiers against him. Now, Itol had been slowly drawing them
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  Speaker 1: into a trap, and so they were in until they
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  Speaker 1: had come to a until they came to a small
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  Speaker 1: to a smaller city just somewhere in the Almouth planes,
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  Speaker 1: and it all had lured them into the city. But
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  Speaker 1: the city was actually wasn't full of his soldiers like
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  Speaker 1: they thought, but it was full of captured soldiers of
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  Speaker 1: the shan Chan and other prisoners. So while the Sean
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  Speaker 1: Shan were confused seeing all these like non combatants, it
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  Speaker 1: all ambushes the Shan Shan's army and brutally defeats them.
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  Speaker 1: So this is an army. Shan Chan's battalion typically not
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  Speaker 1: typically is made up of of course regular foot soldiers
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  Speaker 1: in cavalry, but it also has a small contingent of
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  Speaker 1: aerial creatures called rakin. So they do have air power,
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  Speaker 1: and they also have the Damane. They do have pairings
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  Speaker 1: of Souldam and demane, but it ll all figured out
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  Speaker 1: how to take those guys out really quickly, because once
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  Speaker 1: you kill the Suldam there's really nothing you can do.
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  Speaker 1: The Demane are not only useless, but they also die
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  Speaker 1: because they because the ad M inflicts the same the
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  Speaker 1: same punishment onto the Demani that happens onto a Souldam.
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  Speaker 1: So if a Suldam gets hurt, the Domani feels it.
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  Speaker 1: So if and if a Suldan dies, the Demane dies.
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  Speaker 1: So they figured out how to take out the how
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  Speaker 1: to take out their channelers just by simply taking out
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  Speaker 1: the more vulnerable Suldam. And in the wake of the
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  Speaker 1: Battle of Malden, Uh the profit of the Dragon Massema,
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  Speaker 1: he broke. He quickly, He had quickly broke ties in
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  Speaker 1: the chaos Uh left in the wake of the battle,
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  Speaker 1: and he tried to escape because Paren had Uh he
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  Speaker 1: had tactfully used Uh Missma's forces, which was a ragtag
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  Speaker 1: team of like thousands of peasants and just normal people
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  Speaker 1: armed with just basic weaponry. He had basically sent all
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  Speaker 1: these people against the Shadow, ay Eel and the Shidow,
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  Speaker 1: of course, had massacred most of Massema's forces. Those that
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  Speaker 1: remained tried to escape and flee and with Missma leading them,
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  Speaker 1: but before they could get far, Fayel, who had been
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  Speaker 1: freed by Parent, she led. She led her own small
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  Speaker 1: contingent of forces against them, and she had Massema executed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so Parent technically Parent felled his mission to bring Missema
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  Speaker 1: to Ren in order for Rand to bring the profit
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  Speaker 1: of the Dragon under control. But the thing is, Missema
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was not There was no controlling Massema. And if anything,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Massemma wasn't a true believer in Rand because like, yes,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: he preached the coming of the Dragon reborn and he
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: did all this shit to make sure that like Rand's
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: message and glory was spread. But he incided. He ended
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: up inciting the masses and driving himself into madness. So
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: he was basically just a rabid dog at this point
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that needed to be put down. And fail was like,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you know, my husband is a good man. He knows
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and he does what he needs to do, But there
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: are some things a wife has to take. There are
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: some things that a wife just has to do for
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: her husband m H. So she ends up capturing and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: executing Missema and any remaining dragon like any remaining dragon
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: sworn Jesus yep. So we're not gonna see Macema anymore.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That's honestly, Uh. That was a band aid that was ripped,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that was ripped cleanly off. So we're gonna start into
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the main part of the story. There's some other there's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: some smaller like there's some smaller side stories, particularly concerning
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Uh like some of Rand's other followers and other others
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of his allies. Ran had ordered the a Eel to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: move from Camlin Uh for he I'm sorry, let me
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: back up. So Ran had ordered the Iel forces that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: were scattered across uh and Or and parts of Kyrine
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to begin moving west to take h being moving west
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to take rid Doman to secure that region because right
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: now arid Domen is locked in a civil in somewhat
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of a civil war. The merchant council are basically been
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: fighting amongst themselves. The king of the King of arad
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Domen had vanished and nobody knows where he went, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Grendel has been sewing chaos in her in her territory.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: So she's been doing this, so Grendel was the one
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: who's been behind all of it. So Ruark, who is
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: one of the clan leaders of the a Eel, quickly
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: takes control of bandr Eben, which is one of the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: capital cities of ried Doman. But he's frustrated because Ran
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: had forbidden him from uh taking the fifth. The Ael
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: have a custom that when they conquer or lay siege
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to another like clan, to another holdout or city, they
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: take a fifth of every of like all the possessions
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: in that city. So it's like they basically plunder the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: city but without full but they don't take everything. They
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: just take a fifth, like all right, we want so
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: we're gonna take a fifth of everything that's here and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: this is ours. These are our spoils of war, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that's all. It's just part of ay Eel custom custom.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: But therefront the Ayel will become frustrated because several times
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Ran has forbidden them from doing that in the west Lands,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: but they've had to They've had to just basically suck
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: it up because the Westlanders view plundering much differently than
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the Ayel do, whereas the Ie'll see it as Okay,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it's just part of our waist. We just only take
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the fifth the Westlanders to see it as just pure
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: thievery Yeah, all right. Avienda, who was ordered by the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Wise Ones to leave Camlin and continue traveling with them
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: so she can complete her training, has begun to be
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: given strange orders from the wise Ones. The wise Ones
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: began to order her to do weird tasks, often like
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: very mundane and useless tasks like stacking stones, counting seeds,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: walking back and forth with her arms held out, like
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: really useless tax tasks, and among the iel useless tasks
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: like these aren't even given to Guy Shane, who are
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: their form of indentured service servants. Usually these kind of
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: tasks are only given to people they call Daxne for
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right, but it's
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the lowliest of lowest person that the Ayeel can ever
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: call you, all right, that's like the most dishonorable. That's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that a person who's labeled a dak Saying is considered
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: very dishonorable and lower than even a Guy Shane. And
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: even and they treat Guy Shane very well. So if
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you're Guy Shane, you you're not. You don't have to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: worry about like being beaten senselessly as a slave or
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: treated as a slave. You're just serving for one year
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in a day, and then once that's over, you can go.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: But she's but Avianna of course, becomes very frustrated, and
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: being an apprentice, she doesn't question it yet, but it's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: it's hinted that the wise ones are challenging her, secretly
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: challenging her to question their judgment, to stand up to her,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: for her to stand up for herself, which is uh,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: which is out of character for an apprentice to do. Yeah,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: we also see more uh. We also see some a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: short story, little side story concerning Elaine Trecan's brother, Gwan Trecan. So,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of course Elaine has two brothers, Gallad Demadred, who is
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: technically her half brother, and then of course her full brother,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Gowain Trecan. Gowen has been with the White Tower pretty
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: much since this, pretty much since Elaine has originally arrived,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and even when the schism happened. As the schism happened
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the White Tower was divided, Gwen has been serving the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: ice at I faithfully, although lately he has begun to
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: question his allegiance because he's in the wake of the Schism.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: When Swan Sanchi was deposed, Gwen had led a force
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: of other warders and warters in training against their own teachers,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: against the warders that had sided with the rebels, and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: helped to resecure the White Tower and the of the Schism.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And so because of this, Gowan had been given command
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of those very warders in training and their group became
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: known as the Younglings. Now the Younglings, Gowan and his
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Young Wings have been sent to scout the rebel eyes
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that I forces, and he's been causing them trouble, but
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: he's not able to get very far because he's now
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: dealing with his He's now contending with his own mentor,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Gareth Brynn. Gareth Bryan is also another one of the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: five Great Captains of the Westland. So Rhodel Iltererald was
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: one of them, Davren Bashir is another, and Gareth Brynn
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: is another as well. The other two are Pedrinial, who
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: was the leader of the White Cloaks before he was
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: killed by the Shan Shahn, and the other is Lord
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Egelmayer Anglemar Anglemar I can never pronounce He's He's one
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: of the high lords of the borderland country of China.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Oh gotcha, yep, So we won't be seeing much of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: him as of right now. He will have a much
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: bigger role in book thirteen and fourteen. Last time we
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: saw the last time he had a big role in
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the story was actually in book one and two, because
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: that's when he was first introduced, and also we saw
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a little bit more of him in book two, but
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: since then we have not seen much of him anyway.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: So even though Gowan knows his mentor's tactics and like
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: his habits, Gareth Brin is considered one of the great
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: captains for a reason. He is a brilliant tactician and
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: there's hardly any campaign that he has not been successful at.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Gowan becomes frustrated because his time so his job was
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: not only to scout the rebel forces, but also to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: harry them and prevent any supplies from being delivered to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: their camp. But somehow he's not able to figure out
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: how they're getting their supplies. Little does he know, the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: reason the rebels are able to get supplies regardless of
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: being cut off by Gowan is because they're using gateways
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: in order to get there to get their supplies, so
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: they're able to just simply teleport the supplies they need.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And Gowen is very is highly convinced that the White
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Tower's Amulyn Elida is deliberately trying to get him and
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: his men killed. She sees and it is true because
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Aleida sees Gowen as nothing but trouble. She only keeps
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: them around because he provides her with a link and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: some form of bartering chip like bargaining chip or and
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: or seeing that he is the first prince all right,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: he is very important to the end Oran, to the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: end Or and nobility, especially to their new Queen Elaine.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: We're going to go back briefly to Rodell it'ral so
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: with it'sral his force in the wake of in the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: wake of his campaign against the Shan Shan and after
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: defeating their massive force of one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Rodell in the process lost half of his men, about
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand men. He was success He succeeded against the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Shan Shan, but in the end he was left with
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: only half his forces, all right, iterall. After defeating them,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: he does confront the Shaw the General. The General of
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the shan Shan, a man named Turan. They had his
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: forces had captured the shawn Shan general Tehuran, and questions
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: him for a bit. Turan gives them, gives them kudos
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: where it's due, like, so this is what it's like
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: going against one of the great captains of the Westlands,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: one of the five great captains. I salute you, sir,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and it's like toats and then beheads him. Uh. But
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: before he beheaded him, it Ault admitted to the general
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that he knows that he's he's fighting and losing battle,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: so he's gonna but he's gonna keep fighting because that's
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: all he can do. Later later, Iteraul had retreated to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: a nearby O Gear steading. The o Gear had agreed
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to allow him and his forces to take shelter in
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: their steadying at least while they prepare for their next
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: assault against the shan Shan. However, Iterault is approached by
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Rand himself. Rand enters his camp and introduces him, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: he orders a peace with the shan Shan. Refusing to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: continue the conflict as there's no time since the last
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: battle is coming. Iterault is somewhat pushed to agree by
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Rand's tabarin nature. When Ran is around you, you can't
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: help but feel like you must do what he says.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He's not compelling you to do it. Being a tavern,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: he's literally changing your fate. Interacting with him changes your fate.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: So while the pattern may have had other ideas for you,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: when Rand comes around, he shuffles the board. So Iterault
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: agrees to help him by securing the borderlands because right
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: now the border lands are not being defended by their forces.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: In the wake of rance rise to power, the Borderlanders
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: had noticed that the trillic assault, the usual trillic assaults
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: against their lands, had pretty much ceased to happen. There
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: was little There was no more incursions into their lands,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and this gave the This gave the Borderlanders time to
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: reflect and looked and looked to the south and see
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: what's going on with the other lands, because they noticed,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: because they began to notice that Rand had come into
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: power and was causing chaos across the Westlands. And the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Saldean Queen was particularly angered by the comings and goings
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: of Rand because Rand had recruited her greatest general, Davren Bashir,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: who was also one of the great the five Great
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Captains so that's kind of how that came as a
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: bit of a blow to her, because you know, Rand
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: basically poached her greatest asset from her Yea. Even though
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Rand wasn't the one who recruited Bashier, Baschir was the
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: one that said, Hey, you're the dragon reborn, I'm gonna
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: join you.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: End up story. So Rand takes it Araul and his
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: remaining forces and distributes them evenly across the borderlands. Because
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: right now, the Borderlanders and their after seeing what Rand
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: has been doing, decided to take a step decided to intervene.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: They gathered their forces and ed march south. What they
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: wanted to do was bring Rand, or at least what
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: they claimed to do, was to bring Rand to heel
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and make him answer for the things he'd done. So
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: pretty much the majority of the Borderlander forces have left,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and now that the last battle is coming, there's no
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: one to defend the borderlands. The borderlands are the literal
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: first line of defense. You can't really defend the first
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: line of defense if you don't have soldiers. So Rand
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: sends him there and orders him to hold out until
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Ran is able to gather the remaining forces of the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Westlands and send help in the coming battle. And I
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: have to say we do see Iterl a little bit
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: more in the rest of the story. The problem is
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: is that Itderal is now once again fighting a losing battle.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: All right. He has limited forces and he's been given
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: vague orders to just hold the line. Meanwhile, meanwhile, we
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: don't really see Land in this story, at least not
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: by much, at least not very often. But Land is
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: currently making his way across the borderlands to Tollman's Gap,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: where he will where he will fight what he believes
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: to be a final, last last stand against the coming
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: trolic forces. And while as he's traveling, he's current Land
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: begins to be uh. Land is joined by other members
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: of his long dead nation of malk Her. So remnants
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: of the malk Her of the Malkier nation began to
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: join him. Uh. He wanted to travel in secret and
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: you know, stealthily, but his wife Ninive had gone across
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the border lands and spread the words saying the King
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: of malk Her is raising the Golden Crane banner and
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: he needs his and he needs his people to help him.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: So all these old malk here Ins because Malkire fell
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: about fifty years ago. So you have all these old
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: coats running to him as dragging their sons and grandsons
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: with them, and they're all like, we're here to support
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: We're here to support our king because len is the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: last king of malk Heir. So he's gathering at forces
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and heading for Tolman's Gap and and unfortunately for Iteralled,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: his forces get pushed back to the point that they're
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: pretty much gonna lose. But unfortunately we're not going to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: see much of him after that. We will see more
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: of Iteralled in book thirteen, and this is when we
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: will see the true beginning of the final battle, and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: we also get to see ran Flex's his newfound power. Yes,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: we love that, all right, And I'm just double checking
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to make sure there's Yeah, I think that's pretty much
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: covered it rolled. So we're gonna talk a little bit
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: about Rand and I'm not Rand paren and Matt, So
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: the two of them don't have much of a presence
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: in this book because the story is more focused on
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Rand and uh Igwaine. Because in this book both of them,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: basically the two of them are often compared. There there
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: are certain similarities between the two of them that if
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: you really pay attention to the understone of the undertone
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: of the entire story, both Rand and Igwaine come to
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: represent powerful leaders like Rand is the dragon reborn and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: he's meant to unite all the peoples against the Dark One.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: And then there's Agwayne, who is currently one of the
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: most powerful channelers in the White Tower. She's more powerful
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: than Aleida by miles, like if even though Agwaine is,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: even though Agwaine is younger and currently being drug to
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the point where she can barely use her power, if
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: she had her full access to her power, she could
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: she could string up Elida like it was nothing. All right.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: The only person who in the White Tower who's stronger
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: than Agwaine would be nine Eve. All right, so let
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: me so let's talk about Paren real quick. But we'll
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: get back to Agwaine. We're gonna talk about Paren really quick.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: So in the wake of the Battle of Malden, Parent
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: inspects his his supplies and his people, making sure everyone
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: is ready for the coming trap, for the coming journey.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Because now Paren, by his own tavern nature, feels that
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: he is being called to Rand. He feels like he's
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: being that the time is coming for him to return
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: to Rand, so he begins inspecting all of their supplies,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: discussing banners with his generals, including Tam as well as
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: his joint forces with the Queen of Galdeen as well
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: as the Naionaters, and begins sending any refugees that they
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: have rescued from Malden to the North. They do encounter
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: some other issues, but more importantly, let me make sure
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: this is the book that this happens, and it may
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: not happen until the next book m HM. So Paren
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: realizes that part of that his uh that part of
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: his purpose in the in the coming battles is that
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: he will need to master his own abilities. So aside
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: from being a taverend, Paren is also a wolf brother.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: This gives him the ability to communicate with wolves, as
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: well as gives him some wolf like abilities like mainly
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: heightened senses as well as some wolfish instincts. And he's
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: also given the added benefit of being a dream walker. So,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: like Igwayne and several of the Forsaken, Parent has the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: ability to enter Teleran Riot, the world, the Unseen World,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: or the world of dreams, but to Parent, he only
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: knows it as the wolf dream and in the Wolf Dream,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: he's been communicating with a with an old friend of
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: his who who unfortunately perished in the book. In the
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: first book, uh, this is the spirit of the Wolf Hopper.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: For those of you you've seen the series, Hopper does
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: make an appearance in season two before being killed by
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the White Cloaks. Pretty much the same thing happens in
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the book, except instead of it happening in book two
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: or season two as it did in the show, it
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: happens in book one. So paren So paren has been
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: relying on Hopper to teach him how to use the
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Wolf dream to his advantage, because he's already gotten a
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: hint that while being in the wolf dream, he's able
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: to do things that you can't do in the real world.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: He can alter his surroundings, he can move himself instantly
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: from one place to another, at least while in the
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: wolf dream. And he knows that there is another that
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: there is another more powerful enemy that has a similar ability,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: all right, and this is the one that and this
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: man they call him, they just simply call him the killer,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the hunter. This dude is. This dude enters the world
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: of dreams and he hunts the spirits of wolves, and
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: when he kills wolves in the wolf dream, they die
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: for real, they permanently die, like their spirits, never get reincarnated,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: they cease to exist. So the thing is is that
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: in there so anyway, so in there in his training
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: with Hopper, Hopper refuses to teach Ran certain things like
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: how to move in the wolf dream all right, like
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: how or like some like certain other things that involves
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Paren delving deeper or becoming too uh enmeshed into the
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: into the wolf dream, and this causes some slight falling
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: out between the two between him and the wolf spirit.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: But Paren will eventually come to convince Hopper to teach
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: him more about how to use the wolf dream to
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: his advantage and continues to and continues with his training.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: In the real world, Paren works with his wife and
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: also he has to settle certain matters concerning rumors that
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: have been spread about him and the first of mayin Beryline.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So in the wake of Beryline's in the wake of
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Fayal's capture, Paren had been comforted by Berylaine. But the
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: thing is that it didn't go further than just a
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: simple like, oh, I'm here for you. I'm just here
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to show you support in your struggles, and we're going
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: to help and we're going to help you find your wife.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Others in his encampment began to believe that he had
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: had an affair with Berline, and Paren, wanting to address
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: that with Fayel, tells her that he did not sleep
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: with her, and also, knowing the knowing something of the
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: ay Eels culture, tells her that if anything had happened
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: between her and her captors in u in Maldon with
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the Aeel, he would not hold it against her because
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: she was of course their prisoner. Yeah, and Fayl of
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: course thinks nothing. That tells them that she thinks nothing
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: of it. And if anything, Fayl and Beryline comes to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: a sort of strained agreement. They figure out a way
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: to convince everyone in their camp that, of course, the
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: whole rumor of Paren having an affair with Berylaine was
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: nothing more than that, just a rumor. And they do
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: that by pretending to be best friends in public. Well,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: in reality, the two of them can't stand each other.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: In fact, Fayel and Berline hate each other. Yeah, they
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: just hate each other. But beyond this, believe that is
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: it for his story. There's not we don't see much
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: of Parent beyond this. Parent, of course, begins to make
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: his way begin to gather his forces to be to
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: begin their journey north to return to Uh to regroup
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: with Rant, and before they're able to do that, they
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: realize that their way is blocked by a large force
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: of white Cloaks. And these white Cloaks are being led
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: by none other than Galed Demadrad. Yeah. So, now, last
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: time we saw ga Galad, he had challenged Uh. He
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: had challenged the uh Uh. He had challenged the new
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: leader of the White Cloaks because of his supposed treatment
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: of galad stepmother more Gaystragan, and Galad didn't like that,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: so he challenged challenged him to a fight, and he
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: was the one who ended up walking away the victor.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: So Galad had gathered the White Cloak's forces and began
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: making their way north out of the Shawn Shawn controlled area,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: and he also come He also learns that Paren had
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: He learned that that Parent's forces were nearby and were
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: being led by none other than Parent. Atbara and several
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: of Galad's men tell him that Paren is wanted by
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: the Parent is wanted by several men of the White
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Cloaks because of his supposed crimes. So Parent had a
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: parent had excuse me. Parent had apparently killed several of
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: the White Cloaks. Now, of course Parent admits that he
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: had done this, but it was done in self defense
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: rather than out of just sure, rather than out of malice.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: And Paren has also been accused of killing one of
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the White Cloaks father, who was a captain of the
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: White Guard of the White Cloaks, But the truth was
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: that his father was actually killed by the Sean Sean.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: So this brings their two groups to a standstill. We
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: won't see much of this in this book because that
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: will actually be settled. That issue will be settled in
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: book thirteen. All right, and now we're going to go back.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: We are going to talk a little bit about Matt.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Let me go ahead and find his let me get
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: my notes together, do do do? Future Devin cut this
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: port So, just like Parent, Matt doesn't have much of
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: a presence here in this story. We will see more
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: of him in book thirteen. And where the fuck is it?
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: I literally go and rework evil. Yeah, so Matt has
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: like such a small role in this that like it's
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: almost a footnote.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: So since since splitting with Tuon and leaving the Shawn
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Shan's control territory, Matt is now in the nation of Mirandi.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Mirandi is a small nation just south of Andor. Matt
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: is currently planning on leading his band of the Red
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Hands to Camelin, then proceeds to the Tower of Genji
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: with Tom Maryland. The Tower of Genji is where they
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: believe that they'll be able to enter the realm of
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the eel Fin in order to rescue Moraine. If you
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: listening in our last episode, you would have learned that
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Morain Demadrid, who was the original Isidai that was Intro,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: who was the first Isidai that was introduced in the
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: entire Wheel of Time series, and was the one who
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: had found Rant determined that he was the Dragon Reborn,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: and had advised him and supported him for the first
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: five novels. And she apparently supposedly she had died in
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: book five. Turns out she's actually alive and she's trapped
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: in the world of the eel Fin. So ran so
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: excuse me. Matt now has an obligation to rescue her,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: and as they're beginning their their way north, they come
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: across a village called Hindersnap or hind Sorry Hinderstap, And
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: before they reach before they head to Hinderstap Uh, he
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: learns that the isad Eye he's traveling with UH have
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: decided that they will split from him and return to
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: the White Tower on her on their own. He they
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: haggle over some supplies and he decides to of course
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: give him a fair share of supplies. But right now
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: supplies are very scarce because due to the dark Ones influence,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: supplies are going are beginning to spoil much sooner than
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: normal or any kind of or becoming infested with bugs.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Matt decides to make a stop in that village of
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Hinderstap for supply to haggle for more supplies. However, they
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: learned Matt learns of a very of a very shocking
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: occurrence happening in Hinderstap Uh. So Matt travels to h
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Hinderstaff with several of his UH band members while and
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: the and of course with the Isadai. While in Hinderstap,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: the town mayor, man named Barlton Assists tells them that
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: they are free to of course UH visit the town
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: agle for supplies enjoy the local haunts and other things
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: that are offered by the village. But they but he
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: insists that they leave by sunset and uh. While in Hinderstap,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Matt begins to gamble uh for it begins to get
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: uh gamble gold as well as other and other valley
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: against the against the locals in an attempt to haggle
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: for supplies. So instead of like gambling for money, he
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: only gambles for chests of food and other and other
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: necessary supplies. Now the mayor steps in and agrees to uh.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: He's The mayor steps in and agrees to gamble with Matt,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: but only if the mayor is able to throw is
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: allowed to throw the dice for Matt, because he catches
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: on quick that Matt's tavern nature makes him extremely lucky,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: so Matt never loses in a game of dice. So
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: the mayor throws the dice for Matt, and as it
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: turns out, even then Matt still won. So the mayork
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: of course, gives Matt the supplies that he had won.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: But they noticed that the sun is still is beginning
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: to set and tells him, all right, get out, you
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: guys need to go Itt And just as the sun sets,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: everyone retreats indoors, leaving Matt and his friends outside, and
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: the Maytala leaves him with one final warning, get like,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: get out of this town before the sun fully he sets.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: It's annoyed because the ice that I had split off
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and gone to an inn and rented room. So they may,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: of course, so they may refresh themselves and have a
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: proper bath, so before he can go and collect the
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: ice ad I. However, that's when all hell breaks loose.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: At this point, the village has completely descended into chaos.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Unarmed villagers begin to pour out of the out of
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: their houses and they begin to attack Matt and the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: red arms they for and this forces them to abandon
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the chest of gold they brought, as well as the
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: provisions they had haggled for and try to escape this mob.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: And as they're trying to escape, they notice that the
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: villagers aren't just attacking them, but they're literally attacking everything
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: in sight, anything that moves they're attacking. It is total
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: This is just total pandemonium, all right. There's brawls in
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: the street. People are throwing each other out windows, all right.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Children are like running around like stabbing each other and
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: stabbing adults. All right. There, this is just like one
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: just it's like a just one chaotic mess of just
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: bodies fighting each other, all right. And they notice that
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: the villagers they're not they're just they've just gone completely mad.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: They have like this extreme look of just rage, like
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: they just want to just kill everything in sight, and
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: they are killing each other and they're trying to Yeah,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: So they managed to reach the ice at eye. Several
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: of them do get wounded, and I believe one actually
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: dies before they can actually get to the ice to
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: get healing. They rescue the ice I who because their
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: lives have been threatened, they are now able to use
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: the power to defend themselves and begin chucking fireballs at
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: the at the villagers. Matt convinces them to leave, and
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: they managed to escape. They had rescued one of the
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: village girls because she had gotten knocked out in the scuffle.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: They take her out of the village and they didn't
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: get much sleep in the night. The villagers don't follow
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: them outside of the outside of their town, but when
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: they reach their camp and the sun begins to rise,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: they noticed that the girl that they had taken from
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: the village just disappears, vanishes, and and once the sun
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: has fully risen, Matt and Tom return to the town
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and see that everything's back to normal. Villagers are like
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: just going about their lives or beginning. They're starting their
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: day like they normally would. Hell, they see a few
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: of the villagers that were dead, like full on on deceased,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: like one had his brains bashed in Jesus, was alive.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: And that's when they learned from the mayor that for
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: some reason, this town was cursed. And it turns out
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: this is a extreme occurrence of a bubble of evil.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: A bubble of evil.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, so the Dark One's influence had cursed this
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: town to uh cause the villagers every night when the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: sun sets, to become completely enraged and go mad, and
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: they begin to kill each other. But in the morning
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: they returned to normal. Even if they died in the
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: middle of the night, they are resurrected in the morning
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: and it's like nothing had happened.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: Weird.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: It is in this it is in this town that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Matt learns that the villagers had not had recognized his
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: face because somebody had been circulating his picture as well
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: as parents picture in a nearby village of True Stare,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: So Matt, deciding just to take his supplies that he
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: had haggled for and just get the fuck out of there,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: makes his way to the next village of Trustair and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: really quick, I'm gonna take a pause because there is
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: more of Gwen's story. I wasn't gonna talk about him
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: much until we get closer to talking about a Guayne.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: But Uh, Gowen had learned that Agwayne was not only
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: with the rebel Isaidaie, but there was their leader, their falls,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: their their ambulance seat all right. And he also learns
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: that she had been captured by the White Tower and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: now is a prisoner. And the thing is Gowan realized
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: that aside from his oaths to Uh, to Camln, to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: his sister all Right, and to his people, his real
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: allegiance lies with Igwaine because he is in love, no
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: love anyway, he decides that he's like, all right, fuck this,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing this shit anymore. He leaves his band behind, yeah,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: and decides to head to the rebel Isidized camp mm hmm.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: There he finds Brin and tries to convince and tries
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: to convince Brent to aid him in rescuing Igwaine, but
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: he's frustrated and also shocked that while Brinn is aware
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: that that Igwaine had been captured, he's also really shocked
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: that Igwaine had apparently given orders that she's not to
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: be rescued.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Mm hm.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: Because the thing is that Iwayine visits su On in
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the World of Dreams every night to report what's going
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: on in the White Tower, and she also gives orders
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: for the rebels. So even though she's captured, she's still
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: leading the rebels from the literally from the inside of
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the White Tower. Okay, So that'll be it for Gowan
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: for now. And so we get back to Igwaine story
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: because he the two of them, there are two stories
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: will overlap later in the book. Let's go ahead and
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: uh close out Matt's story real quick and let me
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: pull his last. Okay. So Matt reaches the village of
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Trustair and they disguise themselves before entering the village. However,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: when they uh, while they're in the village, they come
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: across a surprising figure mm hmm, all right, in this
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: figure like actually, but they don't even they don't even
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: enter the village like before they get into the village.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Their camp is approached by a couple of strangers, and
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: these strangers is actually the I said eye Varren, as
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: well as her warder Thomas or Thomas mm hmm, all right.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Varren reveals to Varren, reveals to h to Matt that
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: she had that she had come into true Stare by
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: a strange occurrence. So Varren had. Last time we saw Varn,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: she had been traveling with kat Swain and Rand in
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: the wake of the events of Malden. Uh, I'm sorry,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: not Malden far matting when Ron was captured there, and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: this is before this was leading up to the cleansing
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: of Sighting. She eventually just leaves without She leaves from
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: the mansion that Ran had been hiding out in Tier
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: and gone on her own way there was. She didn't
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: leave much of a reason why, just a vague noaks
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: saying telling Ran to not trust anybody. Even Kats Wayne
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: was confused why she left, so Varren reveals to Uh,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: reveals to Matt how Matt's tavern power had stopped her
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: from traveling directly to Tarvalan, which is where she was heading. Instead,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: every time she would open a gateway the gateway would
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: take her to a completely random area, so she figured
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: that this was probably being done by a taverin. So
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: she decided to wait in true stare for one of
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: those tavaints to come to her and lo and behold,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: there's Matt. So she tells Matt where she was going
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: and what she can actually do she can do for him,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: and she reveals that of course she knows how to travel,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: and she agrees to take Matt to directly to Kamlin,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: completely allowing them to bypass the hundreds of miles they
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: still have to travel just to get to it. All right,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: the only her only condition is that Matt is to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: uh take a letter. That only if Matt will agree
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: to open the letter from her ten days arriving in Camlin.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Of course, Matt says he's not going to do that,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: but she just says, just take the letter at least
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: if you don't. If you decide not to open it, fine,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: but I do hope you you really open it. And
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: she's really like kind of hinting, like like in ten
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: days open the fucking later letter, like there's important shit
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: in there.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: But this is why I don't really like Matt, because
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: he's stubborn to will fall. The thing is, it is
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: often joked in the story that the two rivers men
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: are are men who are so stubborn they can give
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: They can give a mule a lesson in stubborn in stubbornness,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: all right, But Matt is stubborn to is truly stubborn
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: to a fault, and one of the things, one of
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: the reasons why he's probably my least favorite character. Now.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: So of course everyone has their preferences, He's just not mine.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: So Matt agrees, and they come to a compromise where
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: that Matt will either open the letter in ten days
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: or burn it unopen and remain in Caitlin for thirty days.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: So the condition was that he was to even if
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: he doesn't open the letter, Matt was to stay in
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Camlin for thirty days before leading, and reluctantly he agrees,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: and this is where his story ends. In this book.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: Varren does use her power to take him to Camlin,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: and we will see him again in book thirteen where
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: uh where he will begin, where he'll speak with a Lane.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: He will come to an agreement with her to allow
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: for her to gain access to her resources, mainly her
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: bell founders, so that way a Lodra can create her
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: new weapons.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: Mmmm, it's a canon O of course as a canon,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: I just love canons.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Get that bitch a cannon and guess what I mean.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: I love Elane, but I guess she's the biggest bitch
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: of them all because she gets all the cannons.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: Love canons.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Gotta love them cannons anyway. So here, so We're now
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: going to get to this story that I've been really
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: wanting to talk about. I wanted to get all these smaller,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: shorter stories out of like shorter side stories out of
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: the way before we get to the two main story
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: orries in this book. This is Elaine. So we're gonna
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: go ahead and talk about a Gwayne's story. This her
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: her role in this book. Like this, in this book,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: both she and Ran basically come into theirselves. They come
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: into their like into their full power. They both get
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: a major level up and it is gonna be like
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: this book is so satisfying, Like it's not a bit
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: like the events that happened with the two of them
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: are not on the same level as like what happened
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: with the cleansing of Sighting or when uh the event
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: with the weather Bowl, but it is still the events
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: that happened with these two characters. They are still significant, Okay,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: So so let's go. Agwaine has been reduced in the
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: White Tower. Agwayne had been reduced to the role of
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: an She had been stripped of not only her position
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: as a full fledged isidie, but also as a accepted
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: And she has been fully demoted to the rank of
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: a novice. And now and part of her imprisonment in
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: the White Tower, she's still technically allowed to move about freely,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: but she has to be. She has to remain under
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: constant supervision. Every day. She's dosed with a solution of
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: diluted fork rout so it's enough to prevent her from
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: traveling at her full strength, but it's not enough to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: completely knock her on her ass and like reduce her
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: to just like a sedated state.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: M hm.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: And the thing is is that Agwaine. The thing is Agwaine.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: She's she refuses to accept her role as a novice,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: all right. She knows for a fact that she is not.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: She is no longer a novice or an accepted all right.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: She is a full sister of the ay said I
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: and What's more, she is the what she believes to
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: be the rightful amberline seat. And in a way she's
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: right because for the most part she is right because
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: Elida had illegally assumed the position of the of the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: ambulance seat, and her position was the result of deposing
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: the previous Amberlin. All right, the reasons for deposing Suan
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Sanche for as Amrelin were really stretched. Okay, they used
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: a bunch of loopholes that will never hold up in
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: the court of law. But still she had enough supporters
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: to do it. But by all rights, she is illegally.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: She was illegally raised to that position, all right. So
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: the thing is, because of her defiance, Igwayne is sent
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: is pretty much sent every day to the Mistress of
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Novices to receive punishments. So every day she is beaten
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: by the Mistress of Novice. Is not like full on
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: like just like beaten by like you know, with a
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: with a with a bat or like to the point
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: she's covered in bruises. No, it's just she's just given
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: a good paddling for like like an hour every day.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, though Agwayne refuses to be broken,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: do you know, she refuses and anything. She's taken a
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: she's taking a page out of her ideal training, her
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: wise one training and embracing the pain. So like she
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: she sits there, takes the paddling, stands up, strains her clothes,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: She's like, all right, I'll see you in the morning,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: walks away like she's a total lady boss girl boss.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: Uh iguaine is So is also thoroughly shocked by how
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: divided the white towers become. The Ajas are completely against
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: each other. They walk the towers as with their warders.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Uh they walk there. They walk the towers with their
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: warder guards always nearby. They're always wearing their shawls, which
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: which shows their allegiances. Like is part of becoming a
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: full fledged sister is you were given a shawl with
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: the color of the aja you decided to become a
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: part of. So you know, brown Najas have a brown shawl,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: Blue has a blue and so on. All right. So,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: and the thing is that the shawl is only worn
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: during formal occasions, so like a gathering of the sitters,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: or like just in general, like if they're or if
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: they're meeting with dignitaries or things like that. It's only
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: ever worn during formal occasions. So seeing all these is
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: said eye wearing their shawls and eyeing each other like
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: a bunch of stray cats fighting over territory. It was
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: shot looking to her and also reaffirms her belief that
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Elida has completely broken the tower and that she's unfit
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: to be the leader. Little does she know that Eleida
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: is just is just a pawn. Yeah Uhgwaine witnesses also
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: witness Elida arguing for a fourth oath of obedience to
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: be sworn to the ambulance seat. All right, and the
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: thing is. Upon hearing this argument, Agwaine finally embraces her
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: punishments to the point where like she can take then
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: she can take her punishments and doesn't matter. She's like,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take that bitch down. In her imprisonment,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Agwayne also is allowed to visit her constituent, Leanne Sheriff.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: Leanne was the other ice at eye that was placed
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: that was captured when they were trying to seal up
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: the harbor chains. So unlike Igwaine, Leanne is kept under
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: constant guard and kept in a prison cell every day
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: and night. During one of her visits, they are the
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: two of them are affected by a bubble of evil,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: which causes the walls and floors around them to turn
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: into liquid, but they both managed to sorry. They both
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: managed to escape, and len Is and Leanne has moved
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: to another room. Igwayne is taken back to her room,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: and as she's taken back to her room, she realizes
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: that parts of the White Tower are beginning to shift,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: So sections of the tower which were like like say,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: parts of the Brown Ages quarters, which are usually higher
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: up in the tower, are now suddenly towards the bottom
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: of the tower, where the novice's rooms are. In her
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: time in the tower, uh Igwaine uh also begins to
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: earn the respect of the other novices. At first, the
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: novices kind of look at her like, you ain't shit,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: so you're the false ambulance. You ain't shit. But then
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: Agwaine begins to earn their respect and devotion by not
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: only showing that she's earned her right as an isidie,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: but also working with them and utilizing the new basically
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: practicing the new uh like lessons and techniques that they
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: use when when handling novices in the rebel camp. All right,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: because during her time in the rebel camp. They the
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: not the new novices that they recruited have uh. They
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: began forming a new system or families basically like this
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: system helps the NOVI helps is like a support group,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: so all the novices have some way of supporting each other.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: They don't feel soul alone, unlike in the White Tower,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: because the thing about being a novice in the White
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: Tower is that you're very isolated. I mean, yeah, you're
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: surrounded by all these other girls. But the training is harsh,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: all right, and oftentimes there's not much encouragement for the
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: novices to work together. So igwain begins to show them.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Begins to show them how to work together, how to
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: stick together, and how to help each other learn to
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: master their abilities all right, and slowly, most if not all,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: the novices begin to look to her as their leader.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Back in the rebel camp, Suan is struggling to make
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: sure that the other Isidai sitters, particularly some of the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: sitters like Lelaine, from usurping Igwaine's power. All right. She
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: meets with Igwaine every night, and she reveals that Helena,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: who was at one point Agwainne's handmaiden, was actually a
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: channeler and somehow she was able to channel sighting, which
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: can only be done by men. And of course she
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: correct Agwayne correctly deduces that this must have she must
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: have been one of the forsaken. Yeah. She also reveals
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: to Agwayne that the Ashaman have bonded sisters. Now Agwuayna
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: Agwayne believes that the the corruption on sighting has been
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: has truly been removed, but she wants confirmation and she
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: does encourage the rebels. She does encourage the rebels to
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: take up brands offer to bond a shaman. Yeah, so
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: they do get fifty. They can bond fifty brothers as
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: a as compensation for the fifty sisters that were bonded
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: by it that were taken and bonded. All right, Agwayne
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: begins receiving she used various lessons from the from the Isida.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: During one, she realizes that one sister, a woman named
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Bene Nalsad, is actually asking for her advice in a
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: roundabout way, and slowly Igwayne is beginning to also earn
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: the respect of the of the actual sisters in the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: White Tower. Now a good number of them still treat
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: her like a novice and still refuse to acknowledge her
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: as even a full sister, less than even acknowledging the
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: fact that she was made into the ambulance seat by
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: the rebel Isidai. She's slowly earning their respect and she
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: encouraged and she begins to try to encourage the sisters
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: throughout the tower to work with each other, all right
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: and move past this division between the Ajas and uh
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: Agwayine actually meets one of the rebel spy is a
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: woman woman named Meddani, who leads her to the other
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: sisters that were hunting down the black Azure within the tower.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: This is so one of the one of the black
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Aja hunters, an Isadai named Chayene. I think that's how
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: you pronounce your name. It's spelled like s e A
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: I I n.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: E mm hmmm.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's like either like Gaelic or French. I'm
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: not sure, but I know like it's that kind of
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: word when you when you pronounce it, you're supposed to
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: pronounce it with like an s h. I think I'm
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: not entirely sure, but I'm pretty sure it's pronounced Chyine
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: or Shane. But either way, Chyene is forced to admit
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: to uh that Elda is not legally the ambulance seat,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: having been elected through the interference of the Black Asia,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: and Aguina convinces them that they need to work together
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: to reunite the Tower, and several of the sisters actually
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: do acknowledge the fact that legally, Iguaine is the true
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: ambulance seat all right, so aside from them, she's Elaine's
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Igwaine Is slowly begins working with the individual ajas, trying
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: to impress them, trying to get them to work together,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: and she does it in different ways, like, for example,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: with the White Aja in a discussion of logic, she
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: convinces them that it's not logical to try to control
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: Ran based on his nature. And while talking to them,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: the sisters kinda they're impressed with her and offer her
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: a place in the White Aga, but she states that
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: as the ambulance seat, she represents all ages, so regardless
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: of any more, Because regardless of all the punishments and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: being told that she's no longer the ambulin and she's
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: going to be a novice pretty much for the rest
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: of her life, uh Agwayne is uh Agwayne still holds true,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: holds strong to the fact that she is the ambulance seat,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: and she represents every Asia all right. The thing is,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: she her defiance pisses off. Alais elated to the point
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: that she tells Agwaine that she will no longer be
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: given lessons, but she will only be given manual labor,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: especially because she don't she will not curtsey or show
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: the proper deference to the full fledged sisters. Well mainly
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: because Agwayne sticks to the fact that she is a
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: full sister all right, and and so now she's forced
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: to basically spend most of her days cleaning cleaning the kitchens. Uh.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: I've already talked about this one scene h in the
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: last book, but it actually happened in this book. Agwaine
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: was ordered to serve dinner serve as a maid during
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: a dinner between Alida and a group of the Sitters.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: The thing is, Agwaine is shocked to see how openly
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: Elda brates and insults the Sitters and even begins to
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: question Igwaine. And she even begins to question Agwaine and
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: like try to make a GWayne out to be a
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: fool for pretending to be the ambulance seat. But Agwaine
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: turns things around on her and brates Elda for all
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: her mistakes and reveals her plan and Agwayinne had actually
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: found out that Alda hadn't revealed to the other sitters
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: that she's planning on forcing all the sisters to swear
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: a fourth oath, which forces them into which swears obedience
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: to the ambulance Seat. So Agwaine spills the beans to
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: these sitters about the fourth Oath and criticizes her about
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: the abduction of U of the Dragon Reborn because it's
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: not very well known to the other. To the other,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: I said, I that Alida had not only orchestrated the
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: capture of Rand, but she also kept it quiet of
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: the disaster of Doumai's wells, which you remember, that's where Rand. Uh.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: That's where the isid I were cornered by the Shidow
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: and tried to take Rand, but then ran escaped and
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: ended up capturing the isid Eye and forcing them into
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: swearing obedience to him. So uh. After a GWayne like
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: insults Aleida and even call straight up calls her a
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: dark friend, Eleida begins to brutally beat Agwaine with the
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: one Power, which is a violation of Tower law, but
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: Agwayne takes it, and then after that she's thrown in
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: a cell being declared by Elida as a dark friend.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna do a little bit of a There's
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: another little side story I didn't mention earlier, but this
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: is because it's tied more into the Rebels and the
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: an Agwayne story. But as it turns out, the Black
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: Aja is everywhere, including in both the Rebel and in
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: the White Tower groups, and one particular Isidee, a sister
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: of the Blue Asia named Shariam. For those of you
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: have been following along, Shariam is currently it Wuaine's keeper
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: of the Chronicles, so she's basically her second in command.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: And Shariam was also the former mistress of novices in
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: the White Tower before the schism. Yeah, and as it
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: turns out, Sharium is a dark Friend of course, but
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: we won't actually we won't. Actually she won't actually be
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: reveal until much later. The thing is, she learned she
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: learns that in the pre in the previous book, one
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: of the rebel Isidie, decides to abandon the rebels and
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: returns to the White Tower. And when she returns to
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: the White Tower, she reveals to Alida the secrets of traveling,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: the advanced healing weaves, as well as other secrets that
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Igwaine had uh discovered, and she had also revealed the
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: plot by Igwaine to seal the Harbor chains. So that's
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: why Igwaine had been captured. Now that the rebels know,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: Now that the rebels know that traveling is no longer
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: exclusive to them, they need to figure out uh, they
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: need to figure out how to how to counter it,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: or they need to uh they need to speed up
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: their plans with the siege of the White Tower.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: Uh. Su On alerts Gareth Bryan and is trying and
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: is in the middle of working with him to try
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: to like do damage control and figure out what to
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: do next. She's approached by one of the older novices.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: So when Agwayne had become had become the Ambulance Seat,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: she had opened the Book of Novices to allow older
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: individuals to become novices as the White Tower, and one
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: particular novice is an older woman named Sharina Milloy. Now,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: the thing about Sharina is that she's actually from a
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: region that's not far from the Two Rivers, and she's
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: actually a very powerful channeler. She's actually she's even stronger
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: than I Neive and niniveas a third tier channeler, which
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: means she's like the third strongest channeler with Sharena being
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: a which makes Sharena second tier, means she's the second
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: strongest female channeler out there, with channelers like Olivia Landfeir
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: and Samarage being the strongest female channelers out there. And
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: there's no there's nobody stronger than those three, damn. Sharena
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: tells sue On that Lilaane had allowed the information about
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: their about the betrayal and the revelation of traveling to
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: Alida she had done Lelayne had done this on purpose
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: to promote her own goals because now Lilaane, in Iguaine's absence,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: wants to make herself as the ambulance see all right.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: And the reason why Sharina tells sue On this is
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: because she fears that older Novices may be put out
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: of the tower if another Amberlin takes h takes control.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: Because since Igwayine was the one one who opened the
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Book of Novices to all to all ages all right,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: she fears that future ambulance may decide to just close
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: it and make it to where only younger women can join.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, all right, and excuse me, squeeze me, squeeze me,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: squeeze me, going back, going back. So the reason why
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: I bring up the we're taking a little side step
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: into the rebel camp is because, of course, because of Shariam,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: Sharam is confronted by one of the Forsaken, and this particular,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: this particular Forsaken is none other than Massana. So Massana
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: is one of the last female Forsaken. She is a
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: channeler who is even stronger than Grendel and Mogedian. And
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: the thing about Massana is that she had a rep
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: mutation back in the age of Legends of being a teacher,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: a reputation that she herself hated. But the thing is
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: she lives up to it because in her time, any
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: territories she controlled, she would force children to attend special
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: schools or re education camps and she would teach them,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: basically work to condition them into becoming shot Dark friends.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: And as it turns out, Masana is currently hiding in
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: the White Tower and she is the one behind all
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: of the schism. She's the one that's been manipulating Elida.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: She's the one that's been manipulating even Igwayne and Masana
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: confronts her and just confront sheriam into skies and orders
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: her to steal the tarangriol that the rebels possess that
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: allow the rebels to enter the dream world. And after
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: this we go back to Igwaine. Agwaine is now being
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: kept in a cell and she is surprisingly be being
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: kept She's surprised to find that several of the sisters
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: that she had met, particularly the sisters who are hunting
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: the Black Asia. They continue to keep her apprized of
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: what's going on, mainly by She's mainly kept informed by Cheyenne.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Chayne reveals that Alida is going to be will be
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: facing a trial faith for beating Agwaine with the power,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: but she's really not going to get much of a punishment.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: She tells her that rooms are still randomly being switched,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: food is spoiling unexpectedly and much more quickly, and even
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: servants are beginning to die because of these bubbles of evil.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: Agwayne urges Chine to pass along a message that the
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: Dark One is active and the Tower must work in unity.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: She she compels, she encourages her to plead. She pleads
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: with her make sure that all the ice that I
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: know that we need to work together because the last
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: battle is coming. And she also continues to to warn
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: everyone that there that the Sean Shan are about to
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: attack the White Tower, because she had actually had a
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: dream about it, So she doesn't have so some I said,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: I do get foretellings, and being a dream walker her horror, horror.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: Her foretellings come in the form of dreams, of prophetic dreams,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: so she did have a dream. This occurred in the
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: last book that the imagery and the dream Uh can
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: be interpreted as the Sean Shan. So like the imagery,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: like symboloicy, she like ravens. She saw ravens which represent
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: the shan Chan. She saw a large pillar or a
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: I believe it was like a candle or a pillar.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: It pure white, and when the ravens fly over it,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: it causes this pillar to shiver and shake. And she
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: interprets this message as the shan Chan will attack the
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: White Tower, and while the White Tower will survive it,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: it will shock them to the cour it will rock
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: them to their core. Uh Gowan is even as becoming
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: frustrated that the rebels refuse to rescue Igwayne, but they
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: all tell them the same thing she refused. She herself
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: has refused any help. All right, all right, So back
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: going back to Agwaine, Agwayne continues to meet with the
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: with the rebels in her dreams, mainly sue on to
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: give updates and report what's going on in the tower.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: After she wakes in the morning, she's immediately taken by
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: a pair of Red Sisters, and she's immediately to resume
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: her punishments with the new mistress of novices, a Red
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: sister named Katerine. So the thing is is that the
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: previous mistress that had originally been giving Agwayne's punishments was
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: actually another Red Sister named Sylviana. The thing it is Sylviana,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: even though she of course did her job, did her
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: job and punished a GWayne regularly, Sylvianna had begun to
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: come to respect a GWayne and actually see things from
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: her point of view. But the thing is is that
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Sylviana was dismissed when she demanded that Agwainne be released.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: And the problem is is that Sylviana was threatened by
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: a Leida with stilling and execution. M Igwayne orders the
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: Brown sister Shirene to return to the hall to stop
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: Sylviana's punishment, which is funny because even when she orders this,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: the Brown Sister immediately goes to comply, which irritates the
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: Red Sisters, who she has yet to make find any
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: common ground with. Agwayne is returned to her room, where
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: she finds a surprise visitor, Varren o. Upon seeing Varen,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Varren immediately makes a false statement to Agwayne, which Agwayne
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: immediately realizes that it violates the Oath of Truth and
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: when she realizes that, she's like, you're one of them,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: aren't you? And Varren, and Varren confirms it. As it
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: turns out, Varren, who was a sister of the Brown
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: Aja who had traveled with Ran in book two, who
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: had traveled with the party very at various times throughout
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: the series up to this point, as it turns out,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: she is a member of the Black Ajam. Varren reveals
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: that when she was when she was coerced into becoming
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: a member of the Black Aja, they had used the
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: oath rod to remove the three oaths and she was
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: forced to join the to swear the oaths to the
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: Dark One. So she does have her own oaths of
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: her own three oaths, but these oaths buying only the
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: Dark only the Black Asa to the Dark One, all right. Now,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: Varren reveals that she not She had never originally wanted
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: to be a part of the Black asja she was taken.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: She was taken as a novice and forced to swear
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: allegiance to the Dark One or under threat of being killed.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: She reluctantly did this. And while she did her part
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: as she was expected as a member of the Black Asia,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: she had always been looking for a way to undermine
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: her oaths and figure out a way and figure a
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: way to get out of it. And one way was
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: to use the oath Rod again to break her uh
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: the oaths binding her to the Dark One, and of
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: course reswear the three oaths. But unfortunately she when she
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: came back to the tower, this is what she had
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: attempted to do, but the oath Rod had been kept
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: under lock and key and she was unable to get
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: to it. So she was able to figure out a loophole. Now,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: this loophole allows her to completely circumvent her her binding
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: oaths to the Dark One, but only it's only used
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: as a last resort, all right, And this way the
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: way that she's able to defy the Dark One completely
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: is by basically taking her life. So she reveals to
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: Agwayne that she had just that she had just taken
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: a poison and that she is going to die in
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: a few moments. And in her last moments she is
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: now able to completely defy the Dark One and reveal
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: the better the dark the truths about the Black Asia.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: So Varren thinks Igwaine for her work on the tower
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: and reveals to Agwayne the flaws and the flaws and
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: schemes of the Dark One and the Forsaken. She also
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: explains that excuse me, I'm sorry that she had written.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: So she also explains to Agwayne that she had written
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: a pair of books. One is encoded and the other
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: one is the cipher containing and in these books they
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: contain the identity of hundreds of Black AJA members. So
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: she had basically spent years determining the identities of other
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: members of the Black Aja. So the thing is the
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: Block AJA. I've explained this before. They have a system
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: where no two Ajas know more than two others the
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: names of two others. So each individual Block AJA only
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: knows the identity of two other men of two other members,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: and it's a fail safe system. So in case one,
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: if one is discovered, they wouldn't be able to completely
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: bring down their network. But Varren had spent years studying
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: the Black Aja and their history and managed to identify
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: hundreds of their members, and she gives these She gives
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: these books to Agwaine, and and as she gives to
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: gives them to her, she begins to uh. She's slowly
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: beginning to pass for the poison, beginning to do its
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: job and kill and is slowly killing her. But just
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: before Varren dies, she reveals to Agwayne that Massana is
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: hiding in the tower, so after her death, she manages
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: to get She manages to hide Varren's body with the
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: help of several other Isidye, and they take her. They
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: hide her body, and Agwaine begins to study the book
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: that she was given, uncovering many many names, but surprisingly
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: not Elida. So Alida is not a member of the
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: dart of the Black Aja. She's just an idiot, which
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: is somehow worse that sounds about right, And while she's
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: studying the book, she all in the book, it reveals
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: that Alviarin Elatest, former keeper of the Chronicles, is the
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: leader of the of the Black Aja, she's the supreme
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: leader in Teleranriode. She she meets with Suan again and
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: informs them that both uh that two other members of
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: the rebels, a woman named Maria and Scheriam, are black Aja,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: and she orders Swan that not to take any action
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: against them, but that they are only to be observed.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: But in the middle of a dream, she is suddenly
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: pulled out of it because somebody in the real world
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: is trying to wake her, and when she wakes up,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: she finds one of the other novices, a young girl
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: named Nicola, is frantically trying to wake her. Nicola tells
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: her that shadow Spawn are attacking the White Tower, but
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: Igwayne senses large amount of channeling going on throughout the tower,
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: more than usual, and she realizes that this is the
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: Shawn Shawn. The Shawn Shan's raid has begun. So several
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: things happened leading up to the raid. I'm not really
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: going to talk too much about Tuon or for Tuona,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: as she calls herself before she takes the throne. Before
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: she elevates herself to the status of Empress, Tuon observes
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: the standard morning period for the previous Empress and in
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: that timeframe, she not only learns of the trilic forces
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: attacking the trillic forces that attacked her banner General, but
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: she also learns that Rand had sued for peace and
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: had asked for a meeting with her. So, and the
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: thing is is that Tuon is the shaan Shan nobility
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: are so full of themselves, actually the empress, so the
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Empress elevates themselves so high that like they can't even
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: they can't even smell their own shit coming out of
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: their ass, all right. And the thing is, she believes
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: that as Empress she would not be able to deal
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: with Ran directly because she would technically be higher than him,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: which is not true, like of a higher status than him.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: And think about Sean Shan is that they never address
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: anyone who's on a lower status than they are, unless
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: of course, they are considered favored or like someone who's
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: close to them or something like that. It's it's a
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: weird it's a very weird hierarchy. And like, she decides
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: to hold off her coronation until she deals with Ran.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: So she does meet with Ran, and she immediately noticed
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: Tuan immediately noticed that Ran it seems very dark and unhinged,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: and Ran presses her to agree to a cease fire
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: and form an allegiance for the purpose of fighting in
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: the last battle. But like she feels his tavern nature
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: pushing her to agree to his terms, but she can't
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: help but shake this strange feeling of darkness surrounding him,
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: so she refuses, and because she refused, Rand warns her
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: that he will have no choice but to destroy her
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: and her people, and he walks away, which right now
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: Ran has access to. He still has in his possession
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: the access key for the Chroden call so Sequel. Handedly,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: he does have the power to destroy her and the
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: Sean Sean, but after the meeting, she immediately declares that
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: she is now the Empress, and as part of his
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: becoming the Empress, she takes on the new name of
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: Fortuona and originally Tuon Knew or for two on a
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: Knew that they cannot take They cannot attack the White
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: Tower while Ran is still out and about because since
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: uh she believes that Rand is allied with the White Tower,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: they didn't want to attack because they may antagonize him.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: But now knowing that he is their enemy, she decides
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: to say fuck it and she organizes a raid on
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: the White Tower, and the way they accomplished this is
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: because since the White Tower is further north into deep
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: into the Westlands, outside of the Shawn Shawn's controlled territory.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: She organizes a raiding party of like a like a
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: large group of flyers called rakin and these rack and
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: toll Racken, which are a larger version of the Racken UH.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: These racking hundreds of racing will carry UH hundreds of
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: her of her forces mainly consisting of foot soldiers and
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: demane and soldam. They are going to fly to the
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: White Tower completely bypassing enemy territory and attack from the sky,
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: which is what they do. And now we come back
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: to UH. We come back to the present. When Agwayne
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: is pulled out of the dream world, Suwon wakes up
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: and she believes that she's in danger. She and Gareth
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: Brynn realize that the Shaun Shan are attacking when they look.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: When they look outside the camp, they can see the
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: tower in the distance and they can see flashing light
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: and what looks to be burning looks to be the
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: flickering light of flame. So the White Tower is burning.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: Ah Agwayne from her own experience with the Shan Shan
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: figures out their strategy and immediately gathers the novices around
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: her to fight, and she quickly teaches them how to
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: form circles. Uh. The thing about circles is, she tells.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: The thing about linking with other channelers is that this
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: will prevent the Demane from shielding the individual novices for capture,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: because that's the tactic that the Shaun Shawn used. They
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: use the demane to quickly shield another channeler and then
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: once that channeler has been subdued, Soldam quickly puts a
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: collar on her right. So by having the novices form
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: links with each other, this keeps the individual demane from
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: being able to shield them because since there's more power
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: being flowed channeled through them, they won't be able to
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: break the link with just a simple shield, so they
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: would have to attack them directly. But since they're linked
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: together and sharing their power, they're more than just an
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: individuals Demane can take. And the problem with the Adam
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: is the Adam prevents the Demane from using links of
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: their own. They don't know how to use links and
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: they can't form them because the Adam prevents it. So
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: this game so I. GWayne immediately realizes this is UH,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: this is their advantage and uses it to and uses
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: it to defend the novices. She also gathers UH. She
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: also gathers novices strong enough to form traveling traveling weaves
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: and UH. She also finds several sisters. They open a portal.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: They open a gateway that leads directly into the storeroom
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: where the objects of power are being kept. And she
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: goes into the storeroom, and she finds the one object
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: that she needs. It is a fluted want. It's a
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: white It's a white rod about sixteen inches long. Yeah,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: It's called Vora's sa Angriol. Vora's Sangriol is a female
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: saangriol of incredible power. Its power, as far as I've
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: been able to determine, is almost on the same level
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: as Kalandor, which means anybody who wields it, any Isidai
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: who wields it will have enough power to whoop anybody's
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: ass if they like. So she takes this and begins
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: to She takes voras sangreal and begins to channel through it.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: Now at this point, Agwayne is still being affected by
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: the fork rout in her system, But once she begins
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: channeling power from Vorasangreal, the intake of power is enough
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: to completely cleanse her body of the fork rout, allowing
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: her to access her full strength back in the rebel
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: Back in the rebel camp, Suon recruits both Gowan and
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: Gareth Brnn to help her rescue Agwayne. Knowing that the
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: Sean Shawn are attacking, they can no longer abide by
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: Agwayne's orders. Before they can leave, the brand demands that
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: Suon takes her, that Suon make him her warder, and
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: they also make a promise to get married later. But
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. That's the other that's another matter altogether,
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: because apparently, as it's revealed, Suan and Gareth Brann are
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: in a relationship.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: Uh so back in the White Tower, the isid I
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: have been completely caught off guard, and the Shan Shan
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: are tollering as many as many of these women as possible.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: During uh during one of the scattered uh what do
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: they call it? Like? There's like a specific term for
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: like uh, like for when like a fight like uh
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: an engagement it's another word. Uh, I'll go with that.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: During one of the during one uh conflict between the
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: the Demani and the Isidai. Uh. One of the isid I,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: who is the leader of the Green Aja, gets called,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: gets shielded by the demane and collared, but just as
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: the caller is put on her and the Souldam is
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: standing above her like I'm gonna name you some I'm
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: gonna give you this new name. You're gonna be a
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: You're gonna be nice and good pet for me, right,
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: Because that's the Souldam. Sicken me, okay. Let me tell
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: you something, the soul Dam they sicken me okay because
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: they treat the demane like animals, all right. As soon
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: as they're collared, they give them new names. They begin
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: treating them like they're just a pet, all right, like dogs,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: all right. It is so demeaning and dehumanizing that it
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: makes me physically sick. Like Book two, Oof, it just
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: made me sick to my stomach seeing how they treated
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: it GWayne, and how they treated the other demane and
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: even throughout the other uh the other the later books,
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: whenever the Soldam it shows how the Souldam acts with
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: their demane, it just makes me sick, all right. And
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: and the way that demane are so thoroughly conditioned they
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: not only accept it, but they like they love it.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: They don't know any better. And hell, the demane that
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: are captured here in the Westlands becomes so thoroughly brainwashed
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: that they cannot function on a on a normal level anymore,
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: even if they're freed from the Adam. Like Agwayne got
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: lucky when she was when she was freed. But anyway,
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: back to the conflict. The Sean Sean call her of
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: the leader of the Green Aja. She's actually called the
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: Uh She's she's actually called like the uh banner like
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: I think they call her like the the banner of
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: General or something of the Green Aja. Anyway, she's like big.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: She has like a special title. Uh. This Isidi is
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: a woman named Ada Lorna Bestine And just as she's collared,
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: Agwayne arrives and using a weave of fire of like
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: spirit and air, she unlocks the collar and the collar
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: just pops off her neck and falls to the ground.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, every time this happens, the Souldan
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: are so just behooved, because the thing is is that
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: no one has been smart enough to use the power
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: to unlock an a dam right, Yeah, usually like back
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: in Shondhar the Sean. It's just so like it's such
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: a foreign concept for them that somebody would actually be
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: smart enough to use the power against an Adam to
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: unlock it, that every time it happens, the Souldam are
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: always caught off guard, like like they fail their they
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: fail their wisdom throws every time instant fail whenever it happens.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: So they're just standing there staring at the Adam like
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: what just happened? And then uh Adelanta looks up, sensing
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: Igwayne nearby, because Agwayne is now channeling an obscene amount
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: of power with the songrail on her hand, and she
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: walks up. Let me tell you something Agwaye is wearing.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what she's wearing. She's wearing just
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: a white dress though novices all wear a simple white dress, right,
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: But somehow Agwayne had managed to find a like a
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: shawl like in the general, like someone had brought her
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: the original stripe stole of the ambulance seat they like
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: when some of the iceid eyes she had rescued, they'd
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: add they had kept the seven stripes stole of the
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: ambulance seat because when Aleida came to power, and uh
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: completely uh disavowed the blue aja. She had the blue
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: stripe of the stole removed. So now there's only six
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: stripes on Aleeda's stole, but on the original stoll there's
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: seven stripes for the step for the seven aja, so
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: they had gotten her one. She's wearing it. She walks
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: in right with somehow in the middle of the tower,
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: wind billowing through her dress. Right, she's holding a white
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: a white fluted rod, and she is glowing with power. Right.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, people, I was throbbing. Okay, I
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: had a massive boner in this scene. Okay, I'm gay,
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: but this this gave me a huge boner because this
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: was epic, because this was a confrontation that I have
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: been waiting for for thirteen books. Like I'm sorry, Haun,
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: the Shawn Sean were her deal Hergwayne's ordeal with the
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: Shawn Sean happened in book two, So like two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for ten books, people, Yeah, okay, ten
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: books for this confrontation. Agwayne walks in when billowing through
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: her like just causing her dress to build behind her
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: like a freaking superhero. She is glowing with power and
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: she the Sean Shan's ass. All right, she doesn't hold
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: back either. Okay, soon as she sees it. As soon
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: as she sees a soldam, she immediately uses weaves to
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: unlock the Adam from the Demane and fully trained demane
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: when the when the as soon as the collar comes
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: off them, they become so frightened that they just kneel
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: down and they don't do anything. They're like, oh no,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: oh no, the collar's off, like they become completely useless,
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: completely docile. But the soul Dam, they're not so lucky.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: She as soon as she unlocks the Adam from the Demane,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: she immediately roasts the soldam alive. She sets their asses
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: on fire. She cast fireball left and right, She rolls
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: natural twenties on every attack. Okay, she's just utterly demanded uh,
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: demolishing every Sean Shan soldier she finds. And the thing
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: is that since the Demani are attacking, the Shan Shan
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: attacked from the sky. They entered from the roof of
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: the White Tower. But they but they're racking, flying all
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: around the White Tower and Demane are throwing fireballs at it.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: Blowing holes through into the tower, and Igwayne finds herself
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: in front of one of them, and the Demani on
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: the rock and begin to attack her. But Agwayne just
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: like looks at them, and she begins firing just a
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: barrage of fireballs out of the out from her position
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: in the White Tower. So she's shooting down every racking
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: that she can find, all right. She's killing She's killing
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: Sean Shan left and right. They come up to her
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: in the tower, she roasts them alive and captures the Demane.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: If they fly at her from outside, she she just
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: shoots them down right from outside the tower, like Sue
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: On in her group. As they're sneaking into Targlan to
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: rescue her, they can see it. They can see what's
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: going on, just like flashes of light, massive fireballs being
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: fired into the sky like rack and are just dropping
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: left and right like flies, all right, like swatted flies.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: This was an epic scene and I was just I
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: was living. This was such a girl boss moment, all right,
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: and every and and the thing is that Igwayne is
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: proving that she is, without a doubt the Ambulin seat
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: left and right, all right. So her allies in the
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: lower floors of the tower. They managed to get away
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: from the Seawan Shan's attack, regroup and now and they're
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: slowly pushing their way back up in the tower. They're
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: killing Sean Shan left and right. And then you got
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: Agwayne closer to the top floor of the tower and
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: she's killing Sean Sean left and right. So some of
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: the Sean Sean are still coming in through the top
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: of the tower, but they quickly realize that this raid
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: is over, so they gather what what chance like novices
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: and Isidie that they had captured and collared and immediately
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: like tried taking off UH. The ra can pick up
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: their UH, pick up their their prisoners. Suldam and Demane
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: retreat UH. Some of the soldiers are left behind and
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: they're immediately killed are taken captive. But so like the
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: Shanchon that are kind of like in the middle between
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: Agwayne and the Isidie that are pushing up from the
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: bottom floor there, they're fucked. Those guys are fucked. They're
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: trying to make their way up to the top floor,
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: but they're running into Agwayn who immediately kills them and
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: rescues their captives and help even takes the Demane captive too, damn.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: So the ones that were like higher up in the
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: tower they managed to retreat, but towards the end of it,
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: Igwayne had channeled so much power that she's left completely exhausted.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: Luckily the fighting is over. The shan Chan run like
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: flee from the battle. Unfortunately, they did manage to capture about,
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: like I say, about fifty channelers from the White Tower.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: And just as she's passing out, Gowan and sue On
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: and Gareth Brynn reach her her and they take her
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: from the tower. Uh let me get let me see
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: you here. So they they fought their way into They
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: had actually snuck their way into the White Tower. Gareth
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: Brynn and Gowan disguised themselves as White Tower guards and
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: they make their way up to the up the tower.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: While so on, she doesn't really do much to disguise herself.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, being an isid eye, no one would look
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: twice at her. And since she was stilled and got
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: her power back, she doesn't have the ageless face anymore. Yeah,
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: because when the what a channeler is still an isid
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: eye is stilled, the oh the power binding her to
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: the three Oaths vanish because the u because the oath
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: rod Cause not only causes you to, like any oath
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: sworn on it, are bound by the power, it also
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: shortens your lifespan m m And as a result of that,
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: it causes your face to become ageless, so you won't
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: get wrinkles, you won't like look like you're aging naturally
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: or anything. You just have like a smooth, ageless face.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: And the thing is Suan, having lost that ageless face,
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: looks like a normal person, but she walks like an
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: isid eye, So everyone who saw her would just like,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: wouldn't look twice at her. They're like, oh, she's probably
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: like a novice or a very young isid eye. So
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: they managed to make their way up the tower and
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: they find a GWayne. They find a GWayne. Agwayne had
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: completely exhausted herself. She had not only been using the
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: power of the Avorasangrial, but she had also had been
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: linked to a small group of novices, so she had
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: an obscene amount of power that she was throwing at
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: the Sean Sean. So since she was very exhausted, she
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: didn't really offer much resistance when when they found her
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: and took her. When Suan sees at Agwayne has the
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: uh has Voris Sangreal. She takes it and uses its
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: power to open a gateway back to the rebel camp
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: and Igwaye isn't able to resist and they take her
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: and so in the aftermen in the aftermath of the battle,
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: it is revealed that among the Channelers that were captured,
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: Elida was one of them.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Eleida had been captured and collared by the
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: Shan Shan and they're now taking her back to Abu
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: Dhar and hell, the Sean the Suldan that had collared
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: her gave her a new name, Sufa, which I'm just like.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: It still made me sick, but at the same time,
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: I'm like, eh, eh, we're we're fucked because the Sean
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: Shan now have access to traveling in other advanced weaves.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: But Sergey, right, you bitch. Uh. So, when Agwayne awakens
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: back in the rebel camp, she is angry with both
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: Suon and Gowen for her rescue, but still still she
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: reassumes her role as the ambulance seat in the Rebel
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: Tower in the rebel camp, and using traveling, she travels
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: back to the White Tower and takes the oath Rod
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: from the storeroom and going back to the rebel camp,
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: she gathers the full hall of Sitters in the rebel camp,
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: and before all these witnesses she swears the three oaths
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: in front of them. She will not tell a lie.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: She will not use the power to make weapons for
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: men to kill other men, and she will not use
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: the power as a weapon in less an extreme self
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: defense or the defense of her sisters as well, or
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: in the fight against the Dark One and his dark forces.
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: All right, and in the meeting of the rebel hall,
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: she then states that she is not only not a
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: dark friend, but she also will have everyone in the
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: in the in this hall to retake the oaths, particularly
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: the Oaths of Truth. But before anybody can really react,
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: Igwayne turns on Shariam and the sitter Moria and shields
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: them and subdues them both. While the other Sitters are
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: like shocked. They immediately the retake the oaths to prove
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: that they're not Dark friends. And then she reveals to
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: the others that Shariam and Maria are black Asa and
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: telling and with the sitters, and with the Sitters present,
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: she reveals to them that she knows the identities of
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: over fifty members of the Black Asia, like the total
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: amount was somewhere near seventy, and that these women are
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: all hiding in the rebel rebel camp and having their
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: sitter hall sealed using using the power, she secretly plans
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: with them to purge the Black Aja from the rebel camp.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: They do. They do succeed and create Uh, they do
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: succeed in their plans. They and after and after careful organization,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: they managed to capture fifty members of the Black Azia,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: but unfortunately twenty did manage to escape because as soon
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: as a bunch of these women were being rounded up,
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: the other members of the Black Azure realized, oh shit,
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: oh shit, we've been had and they ran, oh see
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: here what After the Black Azure were captured, they were
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: all really they realized that all uh, all but one
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: of the dream Tarangriela had been taken and had been
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: stolen by Shariam and Uh in the wake of capturing
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: all these sisters of the Black Aza Sherium as well
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: as her other Black Sisters are executed. I should probably
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: reword that because like they're Black Aja, and typically they
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: are referred to as Black Sisters.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 2: But you know, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So anyway, let's let me these evil were
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 3: taken out.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So Shariam, along with the other sisters of the
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: Black Azua that were captured, were all executed, and in
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: the wake of the purge from their camp, Gareth Brynn
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: begins to prepare for an all out assault on the
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: on Tarva Lawn because now that the tower is currently
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: reeling from the assault of the Shan Shan, this is
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: the perfect opportunity for them to strike. But before they
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: can do anything, a delegation of Sitters arrives from Tarvallon
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: to speak with Iguayne. As it turns out, the Sitters
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: in the the remaining sitters in the White Tower come
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: together and realizing that their ambulance seat had been taken,
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: they are now left without a leader, and after reviewing
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: and reflecting on everything that had been done since Elida's
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: in since Elida's reign, they realized that this isn't a
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: matter of choosing an ambulance seat that they're all gonna
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: want that's gonna please every like, every single one of them.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: This is a matter of choosing an ambulance seat that
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: they need, and as it turns out, there is already
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: an Amberland seat and she's just right across the river,
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: so they so they all agreed, So in a surprisingly
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: unanimous decision, the sitters of the White Tower agree that
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: agreed to name Igwaine as the next legal Amberlind seat.
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: So Igwaine is approached by their delegation and they reveal
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: that they want her, that she has been chosen to
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: be the next Amberland Seat, and they also reveal that
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: not only had been had Elate has been captured, but
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: should Igwaine agree to uh become the real, the true
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: Amberlind Seat, the Blue Aja would be reinstated as a
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: as an actual Aja of the Tower, and all the
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: rebels would be welcomed back into the tower as well
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: as and they also as a bonus, they agree to
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: accept Gareth's Brynd Gareth Brynn's army into the city. So
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: because Gareth Brynn had gathered such a massive force to
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: assault the White Tower, so yeah, all the better. Agwayne
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: agrees and goes into the city and goes back into
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: the White Tower where she is formally raised as the
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: Ambulance Seat again, but this time in a proper, in
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: proper and do proper legalities, all right, she observes the process,
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: the rituals. I don't know if I talked about this.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: I don't remember if I talked about how it's done
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: in the books, especially when she was originally raised back
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: in book seven. But part of the ascension ritual is
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: she presents herself before the full haul of this tower,
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: and as a way to prove that she is who
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: she says says she is and that she is a woman,
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: they all strip down to their waists, full titties on display.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: And it's kind of a shrewd ritual. But like one
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: of the sitters goes around and like stares at you
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: and each woman assembled there just to confirm that, yeah,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: those tits are real. Moves on. Oh, I mean like not,
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not like, I don't want to sound like a
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: misogynist or anything like a pig is just like that's
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: how it was done in the book. I'm just I'm
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: just like recapping the events. Okay, part of the ascension
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: ceremony to becoming the ambulance seat is you stripped down
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: to your waist full titties on display, and then and
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: then another woman with her full titties on display, comes
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: up at you and stares at you. Like the process is.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: It's better explained in the book how it's done, like
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: it's it was from they most of the ice that
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: I admit that this is a tradition from a from
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: a different time, yeah, civilized time. But they kept it
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: because you know, part of it has to do with
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: unity and womanhood. All right, they're all sisters, and they
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: they need to make sure that only sisters observe this ritual.
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: This right. But anyway, Igwayne is formally raised as the Amlin,
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: and upon becoming Ammelin, she summons the Mistress of Novices,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: the former Mistress of Novices, Sylviana, who is also a
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: sister of the Red Aja, and names her as her keeper,
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: as her new keeper of the chronicles. So this was
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: kind of controversial in the with the rebel, I said,
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: I because raising a Red sister to be her keeper
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: like kind of it kind of like pissed off a
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: few people because they believe that the Red Aja were
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: responsible for this, for all this mess, right because of Aleida.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: Why should a Red sister be named as keeper? But
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: this was done not only for political reasons, but also
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: because it was the right thing to do, all right.
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: This well, actually this was done completely for political reasons. Also,
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: she had grown. She had come to realize that of
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: everyone that she that of pretty much all the people
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: she could trust, Sylviana was one of the people that
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: she could trust the most, all right. And naming Sylviana
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: as a keeper would also give her a foothold and
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: would also give her like kudos from the Red Aja,
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: because in her time working in the in her time
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: in the White Tower, she had managed to form connections
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: with all seven Ajas except for the Red with all
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: of the other six ajas except for the Red h
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: all right, So by naming Sylviana as her keeper, she
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: has now formed a familiar a. She had established a
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: friendly relationship with the Red Aja. And she also did
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: this because she declared that, uh, this schism, this division
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: between the Ajas needs to end, all right, there can
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: There's not gonna be any more of sisters walking around
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: the tower eyeing each other like a bunch of feral
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: cats about to attack each other over territory, all right,
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: they need to work together. And then she also, uh,
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: she also calls the rebels into the into the city.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: She she has both the rebels and the and the
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: White Tower isid eye before someone before her. She chastises
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: both of them, tells them both like, tells them both like.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: As part of being the the ambulance seat, she can't
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: really show favorites, so she does have to. She does
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: have to order penance to all the Rebel sisters, but
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: but it's basically just a slap on the wrist. But
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: the White Tower sisters don't walk away without proper chastising either,
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: and so she welcomes the She welcomes both sides back
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: into the tower, and the White Tower has now been reforged.
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: It's now one in whole. She begins to she enacts
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: her plans to capture the Black the remaining sisters of
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: the Black Asia in the White that are still in
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: the White Tower. And she does this by like she
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: identifies them from the book Varren Gabor, and she has
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: them secretly pulled aside given fork route course into telling
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: a lie. And then once that is done, they are
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: immediately captured and then later executed. So and just like
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: what happened in the in the Rebel camp, they do
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: manage to capture and execute a large number of the
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: Black Asia, but unfortunately rounding bring up all these sisters
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: gets around and many of them do escape. After purging
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: the Black Tower, about sixty of them had to escape
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: and in the end of Towards the end of Agwayne's story,
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: Agwayine is now making herself at home in the in
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: the empty Ambulance study, she has decided to have the
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: freed Demane trained as I said I since now that
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: she has completely opened the book, the Book of Novices
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: to all Ages, she decided to include the Demane and
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: have them rehabilitated. Aside from that, she also begins reviewing
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: the losses to the Sean Schahan. She realizes that Masana
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: must have been able to get around the rules of
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: the oath Rod and which is why she's been able
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: to hide so effectively in the White Tower. As she's
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: look as she's organizing her her thoughts and her new study,
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: she notices outside the window. This At this point she
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: had gotten used to the very gloomy landscape that has
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: now become the world, the dark clouds that are now
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: ever present, that have been present for months. She notices
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: in the distance over the Dragon Mount, which is about
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: which is not that far away from the from the
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: White Tower, she notices a perfect ring appears just above
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: the mountain, completely clear of clouds, and sunlight is shining through,
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: and she realizes this is the first time that she
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: has seen sunlight in ages. And she also realizes that
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: something significant has just happened and orders Sylviana to mark
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: this date and we'll come back to that because the
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: reason for that break in the clouds has something to
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: do with Rand. So we're almost done. We're almost done, guys.
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: We are now in the final stretch. I've kept you waiting,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: I've dingled little. It's a bait, yeah it it's here
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: and there about Rand. Now it's time to close our
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: story with Rand. In Arid Doman. Rand orders that Samarage
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: not not be hurt. He's captured her and but orders
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: that she's not to be harmed or threatened. The thing is.
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: At this point, Rand is still dealing with the effects
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: of the madness. Though Sighting has been cleansed, the damage
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: has already been done. He's now a near constant battle
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: with his with his alter ego lose then the man
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: is causing him to not only recall snips and snips
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: and pieces of Louis Theron's memories, but also, Louise Terren's
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: personality has manifested itself within his mind, and this has
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: caused him to become slightly unhinged because Lui Tharron is
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: constantly trying to take over he does. Louse Terren's personality
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: often asserts himself in Rand's mind, trying to get him
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: to do things that he would normally wouldn't do, and
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: also causes him to become confused in certain instances because
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: he recalls some parts of Louis Terren's memories, and also
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: because of the events that have happened, especially since the
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: Battle of Dumai, as wells from his imprisonment from his
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: capture of the Isid Eye. He's becoming increasingly paranoid, all right,
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: and his madness, instead of getting better or just not progressing,
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: is for some reason getting worse. Rand had successfully captured
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: raed Domen and is now trying to gather the Merchant
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: Council in order to either choose a new king, have
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: them choose a new king, or figure out some way
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: to uh bring peace to the region because it had
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: been locked in civil war for months, if not years now.
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: He had already had the Ieel come in and seize
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: control of Arab Domin and bring peace. Right and right now,
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: his only order to the Aeel is to keep the peace,
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: to keep the Domani from fighting amongst each other. Ran
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: having already established a bargain with the seafolk, he tells
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: us he orders the sea Folt that now any man
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: that that begins to show the ability to channel among
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: the sea folks, they are no longer to be executed. Instead,
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: they are to be given. They are to be sent
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: to the Black Tower to be trained. H Rand is
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: also beginning to become more and more distrustful of his advisor,
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: mainly katswain Uh, but for the most part he leaves
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: her to her own business. Katzwayne had been put in
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: charge of questioning Samarage, and the thing is is that
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: Samarage is a very hard cookie to crack because she's
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: considered the most blood bloodthirsty of all the forsaken. She
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: is a sadistic psychopath. Those are the best words to
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: describe her, all right. She enjoys inflicting pain on others,
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: and she enjoys finding new ways to inflict pain on others.
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: So now kat Swain needs to figure out a way
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: to break Samarage to get more information out of her.
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: She Semarage is kept under constant surveillance. She's shielded twenty
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: four to seven. And the thing is kat Swayne tried
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: to convince Ran to allow her to put an adam
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: that they have in their possession onto Samarage so that
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: way it'll they'll have a better hold over her because
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: the adam is more effective and less costly in terms
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: of keeping a channeler under control. But Ran refuses and
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: orders her not to even think about using an adam.
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: All right. Hell Rand at the moment currently keeps both
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: the keeps the adam and the domination band, which is
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 1: a male which is the male equivalent of an adam.
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: He keeps those two those items locked away. They had
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: captured these items from Semarage when she herself was captured.
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: Ninive has been uh. It is also a part of
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: his group. Uh. She's current. She in her free time
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: has been She has been practicing for her tests to
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: the Shawl, which involves using one hundred different weaves in
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: a hundred different scenarios. It's very extensive. We won't see
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: that process until the next book, when Ninive is tested
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: for the Shawl. Like I said, Rand had had ordered
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: the Iel to capture all the surviving members of the
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: Merchant's band and bring them to their capital city of
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: vander Evan, both to protect them from the forsaken and
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: make sure that they can choose a new king that
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: the I've already talked about how Rand approached uh rodel
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: Terold and convinced him to defend the Borderlands until Rand
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: is able to get them get the Borderlanders back forces
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: back to the Borderlands to protect against the invading Trols.
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: Uh Rand also has to deal with the ever increasing
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: bubbles of evil. One in particular, turns the Saldian Guard
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: into a mound of black magma, which which is almost
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: impossible to extinguish. It's so hot that it that it
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: almost burns down the mansion Rand had taken shelter in.
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: Avianda is now traveling with Rand as well. She helps
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: put out the fire, but for some reason, Rand seems
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: to be ignoring her. He's keeping her distance from his
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: distance from her even though they share a relationship with
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: each other, and Avianda is beginning beginning to become fearful,
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: not so much as fearful, but concerned about his His
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: ever deteriorating uh sanity, and Avianda also has to deal
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: with the fact that the wise ones continue to give
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: her increasingly useless tasks to do, so much to the
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: point that she finally goes off on them and demands
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: to know what she has done to deserve such a punishment,
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: And to her surprise, the wise ones laugh and rejoice,
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: and they actually celebrate her and tell her, all right,
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: you finally did it. He brew some balls, all right,
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: And she's very confused and asks them what are they
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: talking about? And the wise ones revealed to her that
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: this was her final test. All right. They had deliberately
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: given her these useless tasks because a wise one, a
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: fully fledged wise one, would know her place and also
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: know that she is not someone that she's not someone
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: to be treated as a lesser, but as an equal yea.
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: And by standing up to the others, she had proved
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: that she is ready to be seen as an equal.
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, is that my aunt? Oh yeah, I
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: think it's my aunt. Damn it. She always shows up
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: when our house is at its messius, Like after this,
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to like I'm gonna be washed. I was
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: gonna go downstairs and wash dishes, and now she's gonna
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: show up and start bitching. God damn it. What's she doing?
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: I think she's looking for my cousin because he just left.
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: I think he was supposed to go pick up his
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: daughter or something. I don't know. Anyway, I'm just gonna
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: ignore her for now, unless she like bugs me anyway,
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: Future Devin edit that part out.
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: So back to Aviandau. They tell Avianda that since she
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: has finally since she has passed final tests, her next
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: step is to return to Ruidian, which is a city
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: which is an abandoned city in the ay Eel wastelands.
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: In the city, there is a series of torontongreol called
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: glass pillars. These glass pillars or archways allow an individual
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: to experience the past when they walk through them. This
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: turangreol is used by the a Eel to not only
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: determine not only to select new clan leaders, but it
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: also is used as a test for wise ones. So
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: when an apprentice has reached the point where they're ready
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: to be where they've completed their training and ready to
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: become a full fledged wise one, they send these girls
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: to the archways to walk through them. They experience is
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: pretty much the same thing. They see images of their
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: family's history. So, okay, she left. So they see basically
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: the memories of their ancestors, their parents, their forbearers, all
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: the way back to the Age of Legends, right. And
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: the thing is is that not everyone can, not every
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: Aeel can stand seeing these memories, because the thing is
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: is that the Ieel don't know the full history of them,
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: their full history, or where their how their culture, like,
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: where their culture came from. Because three thousand years ago,
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: in the Age of Legends, the Ieel were not these
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: badass desert warriors. They were actually a race. They were
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: a group of people that had sworn themselves to a
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: philosophy of nonviolence. So they were the three thousand years ago,
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: they were the complete Their culture was the complete opposite
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: of what they are now. And when they learned, when
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: they go through the Tarangrial and see their path, their
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: their entire people's history, in most cases they can't stand
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: it because many of them have these ideas of glory
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: in battle. But then when they realize that, oh, we
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: came from pacifists, our culture originated from a group of pacifists,
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: it's like it's really like it's such a cultural shock
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: and it's just so mind boggling that oftentimes they don't
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: survive the process. But Avianda is given leave to return
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: to the Threefold Land and go and take her and
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: complete her final trial. We won't see the results of
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: the trial until the next books, so she's going to
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: leave from here. We won't see her much again until
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: the next books. But going back to Rand and his party,
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: Katswain continues to study Samourage. The Wise Ones decide to
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: come come in, particularly Sirillia, the decrepit old hag. She is,
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, Cirillia is bad ass, but she could get
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: kat swayin tips on being in a decrepit old bat
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: damn uh. So after studying like while observing the Wise
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: Ones interacting with Samarage, kats Wwayne realizes that when the
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: wise Ones don't really uh treat the Forsaken as anything special,
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: they're just kind of looking at her, like, so this
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 1: is the shadow souled huh yeah, Like they're looking her
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: up and down like I thought she'd be taller.
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 2: How was it? I didn't giving you add to.
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 4: That's fine, God, you guys made me hungry. I saw
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 4: that food m all right.
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: So anyway, so while Katsoen is watching the Wise Ones
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: observe observe Samarage and like question her, she notices that
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: Semarage gets annoyed. She actually gets a reaction out of
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 1: They actually get a reaction out of Samarage because before
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: the only thing that she Samarage would say when question
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: is like she would list off different ways that she's
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: going to torture and kill everyone around her. All right,
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: But then the wise Ones come in look at her
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: and just be like, so you're a shadow. So huh
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: I should be taller, oh right, which is saying something
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: because Semarage is very tall. She's she's very tall for
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: a woman, like over six feet tall.
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, but this is.
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love you. We inter up this
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: program to bring you factory.
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 2: So anyway, an edit part that edit all that out? Yes, no,
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 2: give it here? Is there anything else? Because we need
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 2: to finish.
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 3: We're trying to finish.
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, I love you.
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: We're done.
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 2: I love you. I'm not trying to paper.
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: We're almost done. We really are. Like I'm trying to
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: like get through the brand story because there's a lot,
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: there's already a lot in this book, we've already been
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: droning on for like almost three hours now, so okay, okay,
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: So the Wise Ones actually get a reaction out of
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: Samarage just by treating her like she's nothing special, so
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: like while everyone else the only reaction they get out
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: of Samarage is like like threats of torture and just
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: pure violence when the wise when she does that to
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: the Wise Ones, the Wise Ones kind of shrug it
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: off and like, eh, I've heard and this actually they
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 1: kats Wayne notices that Semarage gets annoyed, like she actually
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: gets like a like a different reaction out of her.
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: And aside from Semarage, kats Wwayne consults with Cirellia on
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: what they need to do about Ran because they both
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: note that Rand is becoming increasingly unhinged yeah and very
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: very harsh person, and they both agree that in order
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: in order for him to succeed in making it through
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: the last battle is that he needs to be taught
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: how to embrace his emotions. So he needs to stop
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 1: burying them deep and learn how to embrace them. Ran
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 1: has been having strange dreams and for some reason, he
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: keeps getting pulled into the dreams of Morgan, who he
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: finally realizes who he had only seen once before back
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: in Shadar loagth Uh when he was fighting some Samiel
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: Morden had stepped in and saved Rand from Mashadar the
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: mist entity, but he didn't know who he was. But
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: in this dream he realizes that Mordon is actually a
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: Shamel reborn oh resurrected as Shameo. Mordan reveals that that
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 1: the Dark One can recall the souls of the dead
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 1: and bring and bring him back to life mainly be
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: Forsakenince the Forsaken are the Dark Ones chosen, they can
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: be resurrected, but only unless, of course, they're killed by bailfire.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: And aside from that, uh Rand's uh Rand's girlfriend min
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: Ah she fuck, I'm sorry, I'm losing my train of
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: thought here. Aside from this strange dream, Rn learns from
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: min who had been studying the notes of a researcher
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: from came from Kyrine about the nature of the seals
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: in the Dark Ones prison. So Rn had met a
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: researcher at one of the schools he opened, and Kyrine
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: and this researcher had some very interesting insight into the
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: nature of the Dark Ones prison and the seals keeping
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: him trapped there. And Ran believed that this man was
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: onto something concerning what to do to properly seal up
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: the Dark One once again. But before they could learn
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: the truth, that man was assassinated by dark friends. So
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: since then Min has been studying his books, his notes, everything,
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what he may have figured out,
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: because before he died, he'd he had alerted Rand that
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: he may have figured out uh, the secret to sealing
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: the Dark One away for good. So after studying his
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 1: notes for months, she reveals that he Uh. She reveals
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: to Rand that Herod Fell, the name of the researcher,
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: had determined that the seals must be destroyed before they
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: can completely seal away the Boar once again. So basically,
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: the seals are like a broken are like broken pillars now,
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 1: and in order to rebuild the foundation, to rebuild the
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: broken Uh, to completely seal away the Boer, they need
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: to clear the rubble, so break the seals and then
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: find and then from there they'll be able to seal
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: the Boar permanently. All right, Rand does learn that the
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: Shawn Shawan agreed to meet with him but uh before
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: they meet, the Ael had also learned that the shadow
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: Wise Ones had been taken as demane by the shan Shan,
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: and though they will abide by the perspective peace that
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: Rand negotiates from the shan Shan, the Aeel promise that
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: it is highly likely that after the last battle, the
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: Aeel will go to war with the shan Shan in
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: order to Yes, because even though the Shidow had proven
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: themselves to be dishonorable, allowing Wise Ones to be taken
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: as demane would go against everything they believe in.
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 3: Yes exactly.
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: So, going back to kats Wayne for a bit, Katzwayne,
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: after watching after observing an interrogation with Samarage, she realizes
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: that Semarage is fueled by the fear that others have
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: for the forsaken, and after a particular after some more questioning,
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: kats Wayne decides to test the theory, so she goes
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: up to Kat's So Kat's Wayite walks up to the
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 1: Semarage and like bitch, slaps her and then grabs her
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: and starts spanking her like she bends so so kats
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: Wayne grabs Camarage, bends her over her knee and starts
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: banking the shit out of her right, and she does
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: this in front of the other Isyesida that are that
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: were originally questioning her. And then she stops and she says, hey,
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: bring everyone else in here, bring more people in here.
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: I want them to see this, and she starts beating
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: her ass again, right, and this gets the most, This
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: gets an even bigger reaction out of her out of
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: Semarage and at the like at first Semarage is just
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: like like yelling insults and threats. But after a while
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: she begins to uh, she begins to cry and be
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: like and like she begins to cry and like begged
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: for them for her to stop, because now this is
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: being done in front of like half a dozen people
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 1: and they're all watching as kats Wwayn thoroughly humiliate one
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: of the forsaken Damn. So like kats Wwayn now realizes
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: that their best, their best way to deal with Samarash,
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: to get information out of her, is to put her
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: in a position where she's utterly powerless. Well, I mean,
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: she was already powerless before, but she the thing is
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: is that she still had power over everyone else because
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: of that fear they had her but now here here
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: kats Wwayne is is just completely breaking that barrier of
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 1: fear by just humiliating the forsaken in front of them.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 1: Soonery of it all. Yeah, So they begin to make
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: uh some steps in getting uh some information out of her,
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: but still she still has a long way of breaking
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: the forsaken. And it's around this time that Rand does
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: go to meet with Tuon. But the thing is that
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: the meeting doesn't go as planned. Tuon refuses to any
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: kind of peace treaties with Rand, and she even demands
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 1: that Ran bend the need to her because the Sea
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: and Sean have their own prophecies that the dragon reborn
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: will kneel to the Empress and like basically swear his
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: allegiance to her. But I'll tell you this now, prophecies
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: are never as what you think they are. Your interpretation
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: of the prophecy will not occur as you think, so
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: not to spoil it, but it technically will come true,
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 1: but not in the way you expect it. Oh interesting anyway,
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 1: After failing to convince the shan Chan to submit to
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: a peace agreement, he goes back to his base of
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: operations and begins to plan for his not only begins
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 1: to figure out what he's going to have to do
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 1: about the shan Shan, but also about ar Doman because
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: they're still trying to secure the city. Hear the region
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: get everything back in order, but it's still just it's
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: just it's just pure chaos. And the war and the
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: civil war had left them very low on supplies because
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: left the people low on supplies because the soldiers were
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: taking it all and farmers were being caught in the middle,
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 1: so there's no crops being harvested. So these people are
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 1: in desperate, are in like a dire situation yea. But
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: before Iran can even do anything about that, Samarage strikes
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: so in while she in her UH. While she's in
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 1: her cell, the the embodiment of the dark One, a
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 1: particularly nasty mirrordrawl called should Shaida Haran Uh appears before
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: her Semarage and releases her uh. So, as it turns out,
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: in Katz Wayne's entourage I'm sorry and Rand's entourage of
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: Isidi that are sworn to him, one of them happens
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 1: to be a black Aja, of course, and Shouldar Haran
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: ordered her to kill the Isidai guarding Samarage as well.
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: As any other guards nearby. And the thing is is
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 1: that the reason why this uh black As sister had
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 1: been following Rand so willingly is because Varren had placed
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: a compulsion on her too to obey Rand, and uh
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: Sho Shouda Haran had given orders to Samarage to remove
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: the compulsion, as well as to have her aid Semarage
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: in capturing Rand. So when so when so after so?
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 1: When Ran returns after meeting with both Tuon and also
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: moving Iterraled and his fifty thousand Demani troops to the borderlands,
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: he returns to get more information. He returns back to
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: his base of operations and while he's in his room
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: with men, his back, his back was turned. There was
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: a servant in the room as well, and his back
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: had been turned to her. And before he realized what
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: was happening, Semarage, who was disguised as the maid sneaks
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 1: up on him and places a domination band on his neck.
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something about the domination band. The
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: domination band is the male equivalent of an adam. Just
• 2:43:08
  Speaker 1: like an adam, it completely places it places a channeler
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: under your control. Now, only now, the thing about the
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: domination band is it is an older design. Adams next
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: to it are crude in comparison because, for one thing,
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: adams are made are considerably poorly made, while the original
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: domination bands were made by channelers of the age of Legends.
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: So unlike an Adam, the domination ban uses a form
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: of compulsion to control you to control a male channeler,
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: it only works on male channelers and only female channelers
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: can control can use it. The problem is is that
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: in order to fully control the male chandeler being collared
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: by a domination ban, you need two sold on to
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 1: wear the bracelets that control you. So unlike a regular adam,
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: which he only needs one soldam to wear the bracelet
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: to control the channeler, the domination ban has two. That
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: has it has two bracelets that need to be worn
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 1: individually by separate channelers. Now, of course, one of the
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 1: female channelers will lead, will have full control, but the
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 1: other one acts as a buffer to help to reaffirm
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 1: the control over the male channeler. Uh. While a regular
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 1: a dam allows the collared channeler to have some freedom
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 1: of movement and some UH like sense of self control
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 1: aside from the fact of being like collared and being
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: able to inflict any kind of pain or punishment on
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: the channeler. The domination band completely controls you. So while
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: so while you may have your own conscious thoughts, anything
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 1: that the person wearing the bracelet compels you to think
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: like wants you to do, you do it. So it's
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: like puppeting you. And it also completely controls your allows
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: them to completely control your ability to channel. So Semarage
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: flips the domination band onto Rand and when it does,
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: it completely causes him to It completely immobilizes him. He
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 1: can't move, He has no control over his body, and
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 1: Min tries to intervene, but Semarage restrains her and after
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: collaring him Uh the other Uh the other black as sister.
• 2:45:49
  Speaker 1: We go back to this part o the Black Aja
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 1: who was with her elsa penfel Uh. She's our already
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: wearing the UH one of the bracelets to the domination band,
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 1: and she hands Samarage the other one. Samarage puts it
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 1: on and immediately takes control of Ran so everything. Every
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 1: time she wills him to do something, he starts moving
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: like so. First she compels him to use a weave
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: of air, fire and spirit and directs that weave at Min.
• 2:46:24
  Speaker 1: And this weave is a torture weave causes extreme pain,
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 1: so she for it, basically forces him to start torturing
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 1: his own girlfriend. And then she decides, you know what,
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 1: using the power isn't enough, use your own hand. So
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: he can't control his he can't control what he's doing.
• 2:46:46
  Speaker 1: He's compelled to reach out and start strangling men. And God,
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. Ran is becoming more and more desperate,
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 1: and while he's trying to like reach for the memories
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: of loose there and get help, h Rand discovers that
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 1: there's something else inside of him, kind of like a
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 1: kind of adjacent to the part of him that's connected
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 1: to the true source. There's another darker part. Oh my god,
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 1: oh no, So Rand, in desperation, reaches for that darker
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 1: part and is suddenly filled with a dark power. Oh no, yep,
• 2:47:31
  Speaker 1: So this is going to be spoiling some things for
• 2:47:35
  Speaker 1: the future. That's not gonna be revealed until future books.
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: But Rand has been is currently connected to Morden. This
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: connection was created when the two of them were in
• 2:47:48
  Speaker 1: Shadar Lo Goth when Mordan saved him from Mashadar. The
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 1: two of them had fired off a beam their own
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: beams of bailfire to dry. I've the missed entity back.
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 1: But while they were firing their own individual streams of bailfire,
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: the beams intersected with each other, and it was during
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: this crossing of streams it created a string. It created
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: a connection between the two of them, and with this connection,
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: Wren got accessed, was able to got was able to
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 1: gain access to the Dark Ones Power. Oh no, the
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 1: True It's called the True Power. Now, I've mentioned the
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: True Power before. Like the True Source, it is a
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: It is similar to the True Source in the way
• 2:48:37
  Speaker 1: it's used. It is magic. It's a weave based form
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 1: of magic. But unlike the True unlike the One Power,
• 2:48:44
  Speaker 1: which works within the laws of physics and the power
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: and the pattern and everything, it doesn't break the pattern.
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: It doesn't like. It just manipulates and warps the pattern
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: to your uh, to your will. The True Power is
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 1: the complete opposite. The way it works is that it
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't bend or warp the pattern to your liking. It
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: breaks and tears it. It doesn't just tear it, it
• 2:49:14
  Speaker 1: shears it. It's brutal, it's haggard. It just like brutally
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: and like filthy. It just fe it just rips it apart,
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 1: all right. And the True power, the amount of power
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 1: that Ran draws into himself, he realizes is almost is
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: pretty much on par with the amount of power he
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: draws from the Troad and Call, which is way more
• 2:49:38
  Speaker 1: than he's able to draw on his own. And using
• 2:49:42
  Speaker 1: the True Power, Ran directs it into the Domination Band
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 1: and destroys it. So the thing about the Domination band
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 1: is that the Domination band is also made of quendiar.
• 2:49:56
  Speaker 1: With with the one power, you can't destroy Quendyar. I mean,
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: you technically can, but you have to use a specific
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: weave to do it. But with the True power. Since
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 1: the True power breaks and destroys the weave, destroys the pattern,
• 2:50:11
  Speaker 1: which is what is used to create Quendyar, you can
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: break Quendyar with the True power. So he destroys the
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 1: domination ban, gets up, turns on Samarage, gives her the like,
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 1: gives her the egle, the evil eye, like that as
• 2:50:31
  Speaker 1: is mad, like your ass is grass and I'm gonna
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: mow it. Yeah, not the mower, and like Samarage has
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: this one moment of like, let's well shit, and Ran
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: uses the True Power to weave bailfire and obliterates both
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 1: Semarage and Elsa. So she is dead, deceased. We will
• 2:50:57
  Speaker 1: never see Samarage again. I'm sorry, I'm a little disappointed
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: because she's probably my favorite of the Forsaken, next to Landfair,
• 2:51:03
  Speaker 1: just because of the sheer batshit crazy.
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 4: All right, because of course, you know, well she got.
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 1: She got got. The thing is that in the wake
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: of this, Rand is so thoroughly pissed off because, for
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 1: one thing, the Domination Band should have been hidden. He
• 2:51:22
  Speaker 1: had left it in kats Wwayne's care, but Samaras had
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 1: not only escaped, but she had gotten a hold of
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: it and used it on him. And also Katswayne had
• 2:51:31
  Speaker 1: been using the had been keeping the Children Call from
• 2:51:34
  Speaker 1: him like he had. She had the access key and
• 2:51:37
  Speaker 1: refused to give it back to him, So Rand orders
• 2:51:41
  Speaker 1: his forces to to raid Katswayne's quarters. They take the
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: children Call access key from her from her possession, and
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: that he has her arrested and he summoned. So he
• 2:51:57
  Speaker 1: summons her to him. He explains what happened, and before
• 2:52:02
  Speaker 1: she can say anything, he turns to the ashaman that
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: are with her and says, I want you to observe
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 1: this weave and memorize it, and he uses bailfire in
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: front of them. He doesn't kill, no, he doesn't kill
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 1: kat Swayne. He just uses it to destroy one of
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 1: his coats, and Kats Swayne immediately admonishes him for using
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: bailfire because I said I forbid the use of bailfire.
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 1: But he tells her to go fuck herself because like
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 1: tells her what just happened, and Kats Wwayne also realizes
• 2:52:35
  Speaker 1: that he has the TODN calls access key now and
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 1: he tells her that he's done with her because she
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 1: had failed him and that she had basically allowed this
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 1: to happen because she got careless, and he exiles her
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 1: from his from his retinue on the threat of death,
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: that if she ever shows her face to him again,
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 1: he'll kill her. So from here it is a downward
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: slope of Jesus. Yeah, it's a downward slope. He's becoming
• 2:53:10
  Speaker 1: more paranoid. He he's become more distrustful and he's keeping
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 1: he's keeping his distance from men now. Even though men
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't blame him, he blames himself because he because it
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: was his hand that was that nearly killed her yeah,
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: so the thing is Matt. The thing is not Matt.
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Rand. Uh. He begins to take a more
• 2:53:40
  Speaker 1: proactive role in and vander Evan. They've captured us. Many
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 1: of the of the merchant, of the merchant council, the
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: sea folk kind of had finally arrived in the city,
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: had finally arrived in their ships with all the provision
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: that he had ordered to be taken to be delivered
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: from Tier and and uh he begins to order its
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 1: distribution among the city and among the people. Uh. Rue
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: Art confronts Ran about the fifth since they took since
• 2:54:13
  Speaker 1: the ael took the city, they are they are entitled
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: to taking the fifth of the plunder, and Rand reluctantly agrees,
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 1: but only but only allows him to take it from
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: the richer districts because you know, as usual, the rich
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: often like hoard their their wealth and also their provisions.
• 2:54:33
  Speaker 1: So he tells him just take from them, leave the
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 1: leave the poor folk alone, all right. Uh. He learns
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: from several of the the quat the quack, I almost
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: said quack, the captured merchant council that they may know
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: of where the the king is, and they get updates
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 1: about the king stat of the king's well being from
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 1: a messenger. The thing is that before the messenger can
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: be brought to him, they find out that the messenger
• 2:55:08
  Speaker 1: had been executed. And this puts this, uh, this put
• 2:55:13
  Speaker 1: to the counsel woman in deep ship because she's like,
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't do it. I swear to God, I didn't
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 1: do it. I had him in my musty. But but
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 1: he's dead and Sorelli I keeps it well, so really
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not so Relia. While Kat Swayine has now
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: is now been exiled, she still follows Rand, but she
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 1: keeps her distance and makes sure to keep her face
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 1: hidden because she's not about to give up on Rand. Uh.
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: She even she even goes so far to get Sorellia
• 2:55:41
  Speaker 1: to help her, which is like real biting of her ego,
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: like real like swallow over her pride and everything. Let's
• 2:55:53
  Speaker 1: see here. He does come to a disagreement with Ninive
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: because since Rn is becoming so like paranoid, and he's
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 1: also becoming very detached, he's not considering people as people
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 1: but as tools and ponds, and this pisses Ninive off
• 2:56:12
  Speaker 1: because he makes a comment about Land being about Land's
• 2:56:16
  Speaker 1: campaign to Toomer's gap as a distraction for the trolux,
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 1: which pisses her off because she's like, he's not a distraction,
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: you need to help him, but doesn't get this doesn't
• 2:56:29
  Speaker 1: get really, this doesn't get far with him. So after
• 2:56:34
  Speaker 1: Rand learns that the King's messenger had been killed while
• 2:56:38
  Speaker 1: in prison, Ran orders her to be thrown into the
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 1: same prison she kept the messenger in, and so Ninive
• 2:56:49
  Speaker 1: and kat Swain and the other isid Eye. They they
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 1: observe the They observe the city of bander Eben, and
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 1: they also began seeing the spirits of the dead appear,
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: and which really reaffirms the fact that the final battle
• 2:57:09
  Speaker 1: is coming because the dead are rising. And during her
• 2:57:16
  Speaker 1: exploration of the city, Ninieve gets an idea to find
• 2:57:20
  Speaker 1: to get more information about the King's messenger who was killed,
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: So she takes she takes some soldiers and they head
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: to where the messenger was being held. They she finds
• 2:57:35
  Speaker 1: the man who is basically in charge of keeping him hidden.
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: Hang God, I'm sorry, somebody, what's going on? What happened? Oh? Sorry?
• 2:57:47
  Speaker 1: My so my work colleagues just messaged me through discord
• 2:57:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm just like, okay, work, what's going on, oh oh,
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: it's nothing near mind like, stop bothering, trying to get
• 2:58:01
  Speaker 1: through this almost eight o'clock. Yeah, anyway, So Naive discovers
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 1: that one of the one of the wardens that was
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 1: that kept the messenger at prison, had been poisoned, and
• 2:58:24
  Speaker 1: she manages to heal him. She learns that after after
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 1: capturing the other jailers and questioning them, they learned that
• 2:58:37
  Speaker 1: the man had died from being poison and they and
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 1: she asked him, okay, well how do you how did
• 2:58:45
  Speaker 1: he get poisoned? If you were if you had been
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 1: given orders just to keep him alive and just hidden here,
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: and they said that, well, the one who prepares his
• 2:58:53
  Speaker 1: food is the young apprentice. And when they say this,
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 1: the very apprentice tries to make a run for it,
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: but Ninive manages to have him captured, and Ninive immediately
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 1: goes to Ran and tells him that they had just
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: captured this this young apprentice. It was just a boy,
• 2:59:14
  Speaker 1: and she believes that he may have some form of
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: block or he may be under compulsion. Ran, after observing him,
• 2:59:22
  Speaker 1: confirms that he is under compulsion and shows him and
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: tells Ninive how to remove it because the thing is
• 2:59:27
  Speaker 1: is that this compulsion was done with weaves of cider,
• 2:59:31
  Speaker 1: meaning it was done by a woman. And since he
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: can't see the weaves, he can't properly remove the compulsion.
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 1: But he shows her how to do it. And the
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 1: way it's done is by using her own weaves of compulsion,
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 1: which she does know how to. She does know it
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: because she learned from Ogedion. She has to create a mirror,
• 2:59:51
  Speaker 1: an exact copy of the of the weave, and overlay
• 2:59:54
  Speaker 1: it on the other weave that's on the mind. And
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: once they touch each other, they cancel each other out. Yeah,
• 3:00:01
  Speaker 1: And the thing is is that rand didn't tell Ninive
• 3:00:06
  Speaker 1: that when Grendel places compulsion on her subjects, she completely
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 1: wipes their brain, making them totally submissive and totally under
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: her control. Because that is, out of all the forsaken,
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: Grendel is the is the strongest. She has the talent
• 3:00:30
  Speaker 1: for compulsion. Her compulsion weaves are so intricate that they're
• 3:00:34
  Speaker 1: nearly impossible to remove, and they're also they also completely
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 1: wipe the person's brain. All right, that's just done as
• 3:00:43
  Speaker 1: a that's just she just does that just in case
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: any of her any of her little Thralls get captured
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 1: and the compulsions removed, they can't they won't be able
• 3:00:52
  Speaker 1: to reveal anything because well, there after the compulsions removed,
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 1: they're basically lobotomized puppets.
• 3:00:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, makes perfect sense.
• 3:01:01
  Speaker 1: So the thing is, though Rand was after the compulsion
• 3:01:06
  Speaker 1: was removed and the boy was rendered catatonic, the boy
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: in like I guess, still had some semblance of his
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: like his own ego, and was able to reveal it.
• 3:01:17
  Speaker 1: Was able to say two words before he dies, Natron's barrow.
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 3: Natron's barrow.
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, that is the location of Grendel's high out ooh.
• 3:01:32
  Speaker 1: So while Nineveh criticizes Rand's method, he replies that this
• 3:01:38
  Speaker 1: is the only way for them to win, especially against Grendel.
• 3:01:43
  Speaker 1: So let's see here. Let me see here. So, now
• 3:02:09
  Speaker 1: knowing where Grendel is hiding, Rand takes one of the
• 3:02:13
  Speaker 1: Domani lords, guy named ram Shalen, and Ninive with him
• 3:02:18
  Speaker 1: to Natrum's barrow. Ran weaves a gateway and sends Ramshalen there,
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 1: telling him that he's to approach the lords of Ramshaalen's barrow.
• 3:02:28
  Speaker 1: He's supposed to approach the lord's overseeing Natrum's barrow and
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: offer a presented a peace offering. The thing is Rand
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 1: knew that as soon as Ramshalen enters natrom barrow and
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 1: is presented to Grendel, Grendel would immediately put him under compulsion.
• 3:02:53
  Speaker 1: So this was meant to be done as a decoy
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: to confirm that she's not only there all right, but
• 3:02:58
  Speaker 1: to like get her to like her guard down. So
• 3:03:02
  Speaker 1: when he sends Ramshalen in, he returns a few like
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 1: an hour later, and they can tell that he's under
• 3:03:07
  Speaker 1: a strong compulsion. So he immediately has ninety removed the compulsion.
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: But as soon as that's done, he turns to the holdout.
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: Natrum's barrow is like a fortress, nice big old fortress.
• 3:03:26
  Speaker 1: Reaching into his pouch, he pulls out the chidren calls
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: access key, and draws on as much power as he
• 3:03:33
  Speaker 1: can from it. As soon as he has enough power,
• 3:03:37
  Speaker 1: he weaves bail fire and fires it at Natrum's borrow,
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 1: completely disintegrating the entire fortress and everyone in it. This
• 3:03:49
  Speaker 1: was a shocking scene because the thing is is that
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 1: aside from Grendel, there are hundreds of innocent people in there.
• 3:03:58
  Speaker 1: But Ran insists that no matter how many people are
• 3:04:03
  Speaker 1: in that fortress, every single one of them will be
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: under the complete control of Grendel's compulsion. So even if
• 3:04:12
  Speaker 1: they were able, if he was able to confront Grendel directly,
• 3:04:16
  Speaker 1: which it would be impossible, because the thing about Grendel
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: is that she's more crafty and more slippery than even Moghedian,
• 3:04:23
  Speaker 1: and Molgeddian is known for being slippery. All right, Yeah,
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: she's very smart and highly intelligent. She's not an idiot, Okay,
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: so much to the fact that this attempt on her
• 3:04:37
  Speaker 1: life doesn't even kill her. He does, so let me explain,
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 1: Let me explain something. The thing is is that I'm sorry,
• 3:04:50
  Speaker 1: I misspoke. So Rand doesn't have Nineve remove the compulsion
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: weave because he knows that once you kill the channeler
• 3:04:57
  Speaker 1: who made it, the compulsion weave will disappear. So by
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: destroying Natchum's barrow with bailfire, it would have also destroyed
• 3:05:10
  Speaker 1: Grendall and anyone else. It would have also destroyed Grendall.
• 3:05:13
  Speaker 1: So as soon as the as soon as the city
• 3:05:18
  Speaker 1: as the fortress was destroyed, the compulsion weaves immediately disappeared,
• 3:05:25
  Speaker 1: leading Rand to believe that Grendall is dead. No, so
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: just a quick switch perspective the store. Later on, we
• 3:05:39
  Speaker 1: do learn that from Grendel's perspective, Ramshaland was presented to her,
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: and she thought it was strange. How would this how
• 3:05:48
  Speaker 1: would this lord know where she was? Like, he didn't
• 3:05:52
  Speaker 1: know that she was Grendall, but it seems strange that
• 3:05:54
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, this random lord just appears on her doorstep,
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: and she immediately suspects that this must be a plot
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 1: from the Dragon Reborn, So instead of placing the compulsion
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: weaves on him herself, she orders uh araan Gar, who
• 3:06:10
  Speaker 1: was also hiding out there with her, to place compulsion
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: weaves on her. But oraan Gar, who was in his Orangar,
• 3:06:19
  Speaker 1: has never been very proficient with compulsive weaves, so he
• 3:06:23
  Speaker 1: tells his attendant, who is a member of the Black Aja,
• 3:06:28
  Speaker 1: to do it for him. So she, so black As Sister,
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: places the compulsion weave on ram Shalen and sends him
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: on his.
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 3: Merry way, little bitch.
• 3:06:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and the thing is is that Grendel, being
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: in somewhat good favor with the Dark One, the Dark
• 3:06:43
  Speaker 1: One gave her limited access to the True Power, and
• 3:06:46
  Speaker 1: using the True Power, she uses a weave to place
• 3:06:50
  Speaker 1: a form of like puppetry on a pigeon or like
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 1: a bird, usually works better on ravens, but she didn't
• 3:06:57
  Speaker 1: want to draw suspicion, so she used a regular bird
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 1: like a pigeon and controlling the pigeon's actions. She can
• 3:07:03
  Speaker 1: also see through its eyes using the True Power, and
• 3:07:07
  Speaker 1: she does. She used the True power because it's undetectable
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: by even Rand. All right, so following Ramschellen using the bird,
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: she sees from its perspective, Ramshellen returning to Rand, she
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: sees Rand order Ninive to check for compulsion and she
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 1: which confirmed, which confirms Grendel's suspicions that Ninive is going
• 3:07:34
  Speaker 1: to be a threat would be a threat to her
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: because Ninive is as powerful as Grendel, like on the
• 3:07:42
  Speaker 1: in terms of power charge Mogeion is like a fourth
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 1: level Ninive and Grendel are a third level channelers. Yeah,
• 3:07:51
  Speaker 1: there's a proper like powering from them from the uh
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 1: Wheel of Time companion, but like they're both like level
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: three channels, which is like third highest and on the charts.
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 1: And anyway, Grendel is like confused, so like why is
• 3:08:07
  Speaker 1: he here and why hasn't Ran just brought it like
• 3:08:10
  Speaker 1: an entire force to attack her right and then she
• 3:08:13
  Speaker 1: sees through the bird's perspective, Ran pulling out the Children
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: Call's access key, and she freaks out. She's like, oh shit,
• 3:08:19
  Speaker 1: oh shit. She immediately breaks the connection with the bird
• 3:08:22
  Speaker 1: and she's trying to keep her coal. She's like, oh,
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 1: it's about to happen. Something's about to happen. And then
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 1: she looks over at araand Gar and the Black As
• 3:08:31
  Speaker 1: Sister and she's like, wait, like, okay, he's gonna do something,
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: and like just a second, and then around Gar, who
• 3:08:43
  Speaker 1: is still connected to sighting senses, Ran channeling from the
• 3:08:47
  Speaker 1: Children Call and immediately like turns to it and she's
• 3:08:49
  Speaker 1: like and he's like that is oh my Like immediately
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 1: like looks away and looks towards where Rn is channeling
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 1: because she can feel that massive amount of power from
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: the from the tod and Call. And as soon as
• 3:09:03
  Speaker 1: he's distracted, Grendal snaps a shield over both him and
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 1: the Black As Sister and pin them in place, and
• 3:09:14
  Speaker 1: she opens a gateway and jumps through it, and just
• 3:09:17
  Speaker 1: as she jumps through it, the entire fortress vanishes in
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: a puff of in a flash, of light, and she
• 3:09:27
  Speaker 1: only had enough time to weave a gateway outside of
• 3:09:31
  Speaker 1: the fortress, like a little like a mile outside of
• 3:09:33
  Speaker 1: the fortress. So she escaped and ran. Now thinks she's dead,
• 3:09:37
  Speaker 1: But just as the fortress vanishes, she experienced she and
• 3:09:43
  Speaker 1: everyone within like several hundred miles of the of this
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 1: event experienced something called a bail scream. So whenever bailfire
• 3:09:54
  Speaker 1: is used to destroy anything people, like whenever just a
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 1: regular channeler fires bailfire and kills another person with it,
• 3:10:06
  Speaker 1: the ripple in the pattern is not really that great
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: because it does affect the pattern by burning through the
• 3:10:12
  Speaker 1: threads that burning through that particular person or object's thread, right,
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 1: But since Rand used an incredibly powerful beam of bailfire
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: to destroy an entire fortress, the ripple that it created
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 1: is called is something called a bail scream. Bail scream
• 3:10:31
  Speaker 1: is like a warp in the pattern. It's just this
• 3:10:34
  Speaker 1: feeling of sheer wrongness. It's like the whole It's like
• 3:10:37
  Speaker 1: you can feel the fabric of reality shifting around you.
• 3:10:40
  Speaker 1: It's a very unpleasant feeling. And the thing is it
• 3:10:43
  Speaker 1: also ripples through time because earlier on in the story,
• 3:10:47
  Speaker 1: like Hell, even in the previous book, several characters suddenly
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 1: experienced this wave of just wrongness that like it felt
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 1: like the pattern was shifting around them. And the first
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 1: the reason it's called a bail screen because back in
• 3:11:04
  Speaker 1: the age of Legend, so many channelers in the height
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 1: of the war were using bailfire that it caused such
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: a massive distortion in the pattern that that was what
• 3:11:14
  Speaker 1: caused bailfire to become forbidden, because it literally almost tore
• 3:11:19
  Speaker 1: a hole through the pattern. It almost broke the pattern
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: break space time. So the thing is is that upon
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 1: returning to Bander Evan Rand realizes that there's nothing he
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 1: can do the people. The people have no king. He
• 3:11:39
  Speaker 1: can't find the remaining members of the merchant Council to
• 3:11:43
  Speaker 1: name a new king, and he refuses to insert himself
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 1: as a king over this country because it's already proven
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: to be that's already proven to have caused problems in
• 3:11:53
  Speaker 1: the past, and instead he decides to completely abandon the
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 1: city as well as would as well as arid Doman,
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 1: and he begins ordering his forces to withdraw from the
• 3:12:09
  Speaker 1: from the country. It's also revealed that the food that
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: he brought to the people had completely gone bad. So
• 3:12:20
  Speaker 1: like all that food he had the Seafold bring bring
• 3:12:24
  Speaker 1: spoiled instantly. So now because of his failure to bring
• 3:12:34
  Speaker 1: peace super peace with the shan Shan, Ran now has
• 3:12:39
  Speaker 1: to focus his forces on dealing with them before they
• 3:12:41
  Speaker 1: can focus on on the borderlands. Because now he had
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 1: just received reports from Iterul that the Troalic forces have
• 3:12:49
  Speaker 1: gathered in the Blight and now are attacking, so the
• 3:12:55
  Speaker 1: last battle is beginning. Uh. Rand tells Dabran Bashir that
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 1: he expects to begin UH gathering their forces and take
• 3:13:12
  Speaker 1: Uh and orders him to find the Borderland the Borderlander army,
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 1: So they're not gonna they're not gonna worry about Arab
• 3:13:19
  Speaker 1: Domin anymore. They're gonna begin focusing their attentions on the
• 3:13:23
  Speaker 1: on finding the Borderlanders and on the borderlands itself. Which
• 3:13:28
  Speaker 1: this was also another fucked up moment because all these
• 3:13:31
  Speaker 1: people in Arid Domin were abandoned, no food, no hope
• 3:13:37
  Speaker 1: for anything. It was a really shitty moment for for Randu.
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: Rand and his force, Ran himself along with his retinue,
• 3:13:48
  Speaker 1: returned to Tyr to begin making their plans to meet
• 3:13:50
  Speaker 1: with the Borderlanders army. Because they finally track them down
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 1: the Borderlanders are in far Matting, which is a city
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: that is protected by powerful tarangreal that creates that simulates
• 3:14:03
  Speaker 1: a steading, which basically is an area where the one
• 3:14:06
  Speaker 1: power does not exist, so Chandlers can't channel in Far Matting.
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 1: The thing is is that he believes that the Borderlanders
• 3:14:17
  Speaker 1: are trying to trap and trap him and refuses to
• 3:14:19
  Speaker 1: meet with them in far Matting, deciding that he's going
• 3:14:22
  Speaker 1: to just try to just take them by force, right,
• 3:14:25
  Speaker 1: And this is like he's becoming more and more erratic.
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: And the thing is is that behind his back, Kat swayin.
• 3:14:37
  Speaker 1: After consulting with Ninive and other members of the two
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: Rivers that had traveled with them, they realized that Rand
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: still has a father and that is tamal Thor, and
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 1: Tam Althor is currently traveling with Perrien. So get enlisting
• 3:14:54
  Speaker 1: Nineve's help. Enlisting that needs help. She goes to parents
• 3:15:06
  Speaker 1: encampment and finds Tam, and she convinces Tam to return
• 3:15:09
  Speaker 1: to Tear with him to speak with Rn, though upon
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: seeing Tam that although the two of them talk for
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit, Tam accidentally let slip that Kat Swayne
• 3:15:24
  Speaker 1: was the one who can who sent him there and Ran.
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: This enrages Rand and he lashes out and almost kills
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 1: Tam and after realizing that he'd almost killed his own father,
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 1: he flees, opening a gateway and flees the city entirely.
• 3:15:43
  Speaker 1: Ran ends up in Abu Dhar, the heart of Shan
• 3:15:47
  Speaker 1: Shan's controlled territory. And while Ran Yeah, while Rand is
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 1: impressed by the peace in the city that the shan
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: Chan has brought, he decided he's still planning. He decides
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 1: that he's just going to destroy the destroy the chan
• 3:16:03
  Speaker 1: Chahan here. Now he has the access key, he's going
• 3:16:07
  Speaker 1: to do it. But when he tries to seize the source,
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 1: he's still at this point, he's still being affected by
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 1: the by this physical sickness that channeling causes him. And
• 3:16:18
  Speaker 1: when he tries to sees Sidon he UH. He gets
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: really sick, falls over over, extreme nausea and cramping in
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: his stomach. And the thing is is that a crowd gathers.
• 3:16:31
  Speaker 1: Some Sean Chan soldiers approach him and he flees through
• 3:16:35
  Speaker 1: a gateway when he UH. When he opens the gateway,
• 3:16:41
  Speaker 1: when he comes out on the other side of the gateway,
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: he realizes that he has traveled to the very top
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  Speaker 1: of the Dragon mount the very place that he had
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  Speaker 1: died in his previous life. Oh my god, so Rand
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  Speaker 1: is now basically he's having this complete moment of break,
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  Speaker 1: like he's basically experiencing a mental break. He's like he's
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  Speaker 1: in complete sorrow. He's realizing that his that he's failing,
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't seem much hope for his future. And
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  Speaker 1: he takes the Todn call and begins to draw more
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  Speaker 1: power through it, and there's a moment where it's like
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  Speaker 1: he's going to give into the madness and take his
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  Speaker 1: own life. It's much the same way that Loves there
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  Speaker 1: and had taken his own life three thousand years before,
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  Speaker 1: and that very in that very spot he's standing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Though granted three thousand years ago that spot was flat
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  Speaker 1: and didn't have a mountain. Then when he took his
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  Speaker 1: life created it literally blew a hole through the earth
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  Speaker 1: and created a volcano. But the thing is Ran has
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a has an epiphany that moment, the
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  Speaker 1: voice of Louse Theren whispers in his mind and makes
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  Speaker 1: a point that Rand hadn't realized before that they had
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  Speaker 1: already taken their life once before, and now they live again,
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  Speaker 1: and this is their second chance to make everything right
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  Speaker 1: they made that Rand had made some very terrible mistakes
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  Speaker 1: as Loose Thearn in his past life, but now they
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to make these two make it right.
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  Speaker 1: This is their second chance, and this is his moment
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  Speaker 1: of where this was the make or break moment where
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  Speaker 1: he can either succumb to the madness or overcome it,
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  Speaker 1: and he does. Instead of using the power of the
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  Speaker 1: Chodn Call to destroy himself in the pattern, he begins
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  Speaker 1: redirecting the power through back through the access key into
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  Speaker 1: the massive statue outside of Kyrine. This causes the statue
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  Speaker 1: and the access key to disintegrate, destroying the Choden Call,
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  Speaker 1: and in that moment, Rand realizes that he will never
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  Speaker 1: again hear the voice of Loose then and he accepts
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  Speaker 1: that they are actually one and the same, because his
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  Speaker 1: entire time he's been thinking that he and Luc Tharn
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  Speaker 1: are two different people. Luc Theren was his past life
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  Speaker 1: and he's the reincarnation, but they're two separate people. But
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  Speaker 1: at that moment he realizes they're actually the same person,
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  Speaker 1: just different lives, just different lives. Yeah, And at that moment,
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  Speaker 1: the madness leaves him, and just above him on the
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  Speaker 1: dragon in the clouds, above him, a ring breaks, a
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  Speaker 1: ring in the clouds breakthrough and allowing sun to shine through.
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  Speaker 1: And it's at this moment He's smiles and he laughs,
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  Speaker 1: fulfilling kats Wayne's promise that she will make him, that
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  Speaker 1: he will learn to laugh again and embrace his emotions.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where book twelve, The Gathering Storm ends.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So just as I said, this is the moment, this
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  Speaker 1: book was the moment where both Ran and Agwaine and
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  Speaker 1: have a massive level up. They both come into extraordinary power.
• 3:20:32
  Speaker 1: In Igwaine's case, she became the true Ambulance seat. She's
• 3:20:38
  Speaker 1: no longer just the ambulin of the rebel Isid Eye.
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  Speaker 1: She is the Amberlind Seat, the Amberline Seat. She's united
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  Speaker 1: the White Tower once again, and now they are ready
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: to prepare for the final battle. In Ram's case, he
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  Speaker 1: has overcome He's finally overcome the madness and deciding that
• 3:20:58
  Speaker 1: the Todn Call was too much power for him to hold,
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: destroys it and completely cleanse himself of the dark of
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  Speaker 1: the Darkness. So he did some fucked up things in
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  Speaker 1: this book. But now in book thirteen, which we will
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  Speaker 1: be reviewing next week. Yep, he's going to be making
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 1: things right. He's going to be bringing people together. He's
• 3:21:23
  Speaker 1: going to be uniting the nations and to Timer Guidan.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you all for the Say's episode. Catch us
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  Speaker 3: next time. As we're talking about Book thirteen, which is called.
• 3:21:37
  Speaker 1: Book thirteen. You think I remember this after reading it?
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  Speaker 3: You do a thing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, because like there's fourteen books and I was reading
• 3:21:47
  Speaker 1: them back to back to back, so I wasn't like
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 1: looking at them as their names. I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: book nine, Book ten, Book eleven, The next one is
• 3:21:55
  Speaker 1: Book thirteen. Towers of Midnight or the Tower of Midnight,
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  Speaker 1: the Night Tower. Oh wait, no, no, no, it's Towers
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  Speaker 1: of Midnight.
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  Speaker 3: Towers of Midnight. Okay, I guess we talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 3: So then