Daniel Ramirez > Recent Status Updates

Colavaere has crowned herself Queen of Cairhien. The Tairen and Cairhienin rebels are gathering to the south of the city. Many of the Aiel are leaving, thinking Rand has been captured or bent his knee to the Aes Sedai.

“The wheel of time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again… There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.” woohoo lets do this again

Elaida demands Elayne and Nynaeve are brought to her, and Ewgene stilled for posing as the Amyrlin Seat. Sevanna escapes the battle of Dumai’s Wells. Alviarin pledges herself directly to Mesanna who lurks in the White Tower. Pedron Niall is assassinated by Omerna, who is then killed by Eamon Valda, the true orchestrator of the murder alongside Asunawa, the High Inquisitor. Valda will be named Captain Commander.

The Sending may be my favorite chapter of this book. Being in the POV of my favorite wolf lord Perrin is probably why. He gathers an army of Mayener Winged Guards, Dobraine’s Cairhienin soldiers, Two Rivers Men, Aielmen and Maidens, aes Sedai, and of course, wolves to chase down the Tower witches that have taken Rand. Robert Jordan must have missed writing Perrin chapters because this is a long one. Worth the wait

Rand is captured by the Tower Aes Sedai. At least 15 ambushed him. Elayne encounters a Domani wilder in the Rahad of Ebou Dar. Mat unknowingly dices with a Seanchan man (I think).Egwene secretly plans to free Logain before he is gentled. Lan is now bonded to Myrelle, and appears before her.

Elayne and Nynave meet with Tylin, Queen of the Winds in Altara. She takes a liking to them and agrees to help in finding the ter’angreal. With two new arrivals, thirteen Aes Sedai are now in Caemlyn, so Rand flees to Cairhien with Perrin, Loial, Faile, and 500 Maidens. The Salidar embassy falls apart, some bringing the two rivers girls to Salidar and some heading to Cairhien.

Min and the Salidar embassy arrive in Caemlyn. Rand gives the men who can channel ranks and badges. They begin as soldiers, then Dedicated, and finally, Asha’man, or Guardians. The badges are of a silver sword and a golden dragon. Mat and the band arrive at Salidar, and Egwene forces him to join Elayne and Nynaeve on their trip to Ebou Dar.

Egwene is raised to the Amyrlin Seat with Sheriam as her Keeper of the Chronicles.

Egwene meets her toh for lying to the Wise Ones and the apprentices by letting herself be lashed by them all. Once over, they say tearful goodbyes and treat her with love and respect. She enters the World of Dreams in the flesh and rides Bela to Salidar. Sheriam and her group tell Egwene that they plan to make her the next Amyrlin Seat. Rand sends Mat and the band to Salidar to retrieve Elayne.

Egwene tries to board the Sea Folk ship but is thrown off, mistaken for one of Elaida’s Aes Sedai. In the Telaranrhiod version of the Stone, Egwene is summoned to the Hall of the Tower to await judgement. Siuan conjures a map to Salidar for her, which accidentally gives Rand the directions too, since no one knows he is secretly watching.

Nynaeve heals Siuan and Leane. They are now Aes Sedai again. A mysterious woman named Halima arrives in Salidar, clearly a dark friend. She presents herself to a friend of Siuan, Delana Sedai, who is secretly Black Ajah.

Thom and Juilin return to Salidar. Nynaeve heals Logain by bridging “something that has been cut” with fire and spirit.

Sulin has become a Caemlyn palace servant because she has great toh. Rand received letters from two Sea Folk wavemistresses and from the Queen of Ghealdan. A gray man tries to kill him. Taim says he is training a man with much potential in the power. Padan Fain lurks, he was the one that orchestrated the assassination attempt using white cloaks.

Rand learns some history of the first king and queen of Andor from a noblewoman. He meets with three Aes Sedai while Egwene listens secretly while invisible in a weave of Saidin.

Egwene has learned Moiraine’s spying trick. She runs into Gawyn, they confess their love for each other, Ewgene assures him Elayne is alive and safe, and promises to provide proof that Rand did not kill Morgase. Gawyn promises to protect her, and even betray the Tower for her if he must. The tower aes Sedai politic with the Tairen and Cairhienin lords against Rand. Six Aes Sedai are present, but more trickle in.

The Aes Sedai sent by Elaida arrive in Cairhien.

Mat and the band come across the remains of Tinkers who were slaughtered. Then they are attacked by Aiel trying to assassinate Mat. Aes Sedai travel on the other side of the Erinin. Sammael manipulates Graendal into telling him that Mesaana is in the White Tower.

Loial’s mother, bride-to-be, and Elder shaman have come from the stedding to bring him home. If he stays outside any longer he may die. They show Rand locations of steddings across the world, and Rand asks them if they can show him the waygate in Aridhol, or Shadar Logoth, if he takes them there.

Rand learns he’s the son of Tigraine after she left Caemlyn and became a Maiden. Young Cairhienin men and women are trying to adopt ji’e’toh, but Rhuarc says they don’t understand it. An Aiel that has followed Rand since the Stone of Tear admits to murder, and says he owes toh to Rand.

In Tel’aran’rhiod Nynaeve and Elayne find a blue bowl with clouds on it, a ter’angreal that affects weather. They suspect it’s in Ebou Dar. Egwene travels through the infinity between dreams and reality. She gets trapped in Gawyn’s dream where he saves her from Rand then professes his love. Nynaeve and Elayne link with Aes Sedai for the first time to fight bubbles of evil.

Verin and Alanna bring the Two Rivers girls to train at Tar Valon, stopping at Caemlyn, where they all see Rand. Alanna bonds Rand as her Warder, and he lashes out, scaring the girls with his power. Taim will set out looking for men who can channel. Nynaeve spies on the Little Tower meeting with the Red Ajah, unaware someone spies on her too. Theodrin also sees her but says nothing. Nynaeve plans to leave.

Pedron Niall plans to spread a rumor that the black Ajah controls the tower and that the Aes Sedai in Salidar want to renounce their position. He learns of Logain, Ogier steddings gather, and the Sea Folk dock in the south. He believes Murandy and Altara will be his. Morgase believes she must defeat Rand to gain the Lion throne back. She learns that Galad is a whitecloak.

A red Ajah sent by Elaida arrives in Salidar. Logain speaks to Altaran nobles of the intel he received by the red Ajah that helped him wreak havoc in Altara as a false dragon. Elayne teaches novices. Nynaeve studies how to detect men’s channeling with Moghedien. Theodrin tries to help Nynaeve break the self imposed block that only lets her channel when angry. Gareth Bryne wants to get his army moving

The band of the red hand moved towards Illian. Sammael wants to be Naeblis and is under orders to not kill Rand. Graendal is likely in Arad Doman. Semirhage tortures Aes Sedai in Shayol Ghul. In Telehranrhiod, the salidar Aes Sedai learn about emissaries sent by Elaida to Rand. She also orders the return of Elayne and a Yellow Ajah has been lowered to accepted, breaking tower law. Demandred spies on Elayne.

“The Woodfelling” begins with Nikolay Petrovich receiving orders to take his platoon to chop trees. He outlines the three types of Russian soldiers with their respective subdivisions. 1. a) the coolly submissive b) the fussily submissive, 2. a) the sternly domineering b) the diplomatically domineering, and 3. a) the reckless humorists b) the reckless libertines