WoT Spoilers

Sponsored by: Binding The Shattered Harp  Moiraine informs the Hunters Three that their two Black Ajah Captives have been assassinated while in their cells. Amico and Joiya were found with their throats slit, and their tongues cut out. Their doors were never opened, and their guards heard nothing. As readers we find out later who killed them and why, MUCH later. There is a long list of Egwene's prohetic dreams in this chapter, that we'll interpret for you, as well. Egwene has been stumbling her way through Tel'aran'rhiod until, while looking for information on the whereabouts of the Black Ajah in the World of Dreams, she stumbles upon one of the few talented dreamers in the world. Her name is Amys, a Wise One from the homeland of the Aiel. Now Egwene knows she needs to go to the Aiel Waste and Rhuidean, with Rand and Aviendha, while Elayne and Nynaeve travel to Tanchico, hunting their darkfriend quarry.WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

Our friend Daniel Greene joins us again to discuss The battle for the Stone. Rand wades out into the madness, now unafraid of the Shadowspawn, and begins rallying defenders, Aiel, and whoever he can to defend the women and children who live in the Stone.  Robert Jordan gives us a beautiful and unrelentingly brutal depiction of the battle that we will discuss line by line. Sammael sent the half dozen graymen to assassinate Rand, and the first wave of Trollocs and Myrdraal, Semirhage sent the SECOND wave of Trollocs and Myrdraal to kill the first, but once Rand comes to his senses enough to pick up Callandor, The Dragon kills them ALL. In a moment of fear, panic, and emotional distress, after creating a kind of sentient lighting which hunts all the Shadowspawn in the area into extinction, Rand attempts to save the life of a child who is lying dead in front of him. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

For this episode we have a very special guest, Daniel Greene, a WoT fan, and book reviewer whose work we really enjoyed Click here to visit his Youtube page. Seriously.  Do it and tell him we sent you.  We'll spend a little time talking with Daniel about the Kingkiller Chronicles, Daniel's other projects,  how we found eachother, and ended up working as book reviewers and book-club runners. As we break in to Chapter 9, we find our characters suffering a particularly hot summer day in Tear. Chapter 9 has no solid perspective switches, it simply sets us up to understand where our characters are, and what they're doing, because SOMETHING is about to happen. This is the calm before the storm. We'll talk about Rand's relationships with his three future wives, the interesting cultural divides between many of our current characters, why Aviendha hates chairs, the upcoming JordanCon, our very own SpoilerCon 2019, the difficulties in getting our WoT pronunciations correct, Rand's style of governance and moral disgust with Tairen leadership, and a ton more. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

After Egwene leaves Elayne and Rand alone, the daughter heir makes her feelings clear him, and guides him through the budding romance. After the first of their many make-out sessions, Gaul enters the room to warn Rand that a group of Tairen High Lords are waiting outside to negotiate some of the Dragon's new legislation. After Elayne leaves him to it, and Rand finds the Lords' protests disgust him, he threatens to hang two of them a day until his orders are carried out, meaning full well to carry out those threats, and we leave him contemplating what sort of man he has become. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

Egwene and Elayne implement their plan to deliver the Dragon into the arms of the daughter heir of Andor. Rand is still suffering from his haunted dreams. Some are real, some are not, but it makes little difference, the young man is under an incredible amount of stress, he isn't sleeping, and someone or something tries to kill him on a nearly daily basis. Is Rand on edge for these reasons, is it the madness, or both? The two young women try to teach Rand what they can about channeling the One Power. Rand picks up more tips in this scene than he initially realizes, particularly, how to detect that Saidar is being channeled near him, shielding a channeler, and tying off weaves, among other things. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

While Nynaeve takes pleasure in Moiaine's frustrated attempts to direct Rand's actions, Moiraine informs the prisoners and their jailers that she has made arrangements for the captives to be sent by river boat to Tar Valon, to be tried, and undoubtedly executed by the women of the Tower. We'll spend a bit of time explaining the over-arching timeline of Moiaine's messages to the tower, the assassination of Joiya and Amico, the deposition of Siuan Sanche and the split in the Tower, Nynaeve and Elayne's activities in Tanchico, Rand, Egwene, and Aviendha in the Aiel Waste. Their threads will be spread apart, before the are woven together again. Moiraine explains to us a little of the rules that govern the worlds of the Snakes and Foxes, as well as the existence of the red-stone doorway underneath the Stone and how it works. Finally, the three Accepted hatch a plan to help Elayne make her feelings for Rand clear to him. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

After healing and counseling Rand, Moiraine returns to the Hunters Three, to advise them in their questioning of Joiya and Amico, the two captured Sisters of the Black Ajah. The three younger women have managed to glean a few choice bits of information from their interrogation, but don't know what they can trust, let alone act on. Aviendha notices that the stilled Sister's appearance has changed - our first hint about the dynamic between channeling, stilling, the Three Oaths, and aging. We'll also explain the Three Oaths to the Dark Lord that replace the original Three Oaths of an Aes Sedai. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

A Gleeman's Strings, The strings which tie Thom and Mat to the Dragon, and just for good measure, Thom is playing the games of houses like a fiddle for them both. When Mat arrives at his door, Thom is just finishing up a forged letter. His intent is to create a rift between Rand's detractors. This plot eventually leads to one of the Dragons enemies killing another in a 'hunting accident'. We spend some time talking about Thoms strategies in the Great Game, and how he is subtely manipulating the powerful people that surround the Dragon, keeping them at each other's throats so they have no time to conspire against Rand. We believe Thom was also instrumental in Morgase's rise to power. Thom advises Mat, pushing him ever in the right direction. Toward Rand, and his own and their shared destiny. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

Perrin and Faile move quickly through the corridors of the Stone. The Tairen High Lords avoid the Dragon and his retinue. The first section of this chapter really highlights the growing tension between the two groups in the Stone. Rand's Aiel guards try to discourage Perrin from bothering Rand, but even Bain's spear point directed at his neck doesn't deter him. We'll spend some time discussing the vast cultural canyon that separates the Aiel from the Rand-landers. Upon entering Perrin witnesses the aftermath of Rand's bubble of evil. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds

This section begins with Rand, dreaming a sexually charged dream about Min and Elayne. Berelain enters his room and he snaps awake. She wants to seduce him, but Rand is having none of it. He does try to remain polite through most of the encounter, even when Berelain refuses to take no for an answer. Luckily for her, Rand loses his patience, and slowly pushes her away with a wall of air. Before she's out of the door, a cock crows in the distance, a widely known omen of death; the moment that ties each of the boy's timelines together for us. In that moment, Rand's own reflections in the mirrors step out into the room. In a beautifully dark action scene Rand fights many copies of himself in a long drawn out battle. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wotspoilers Email us: wotspoilers@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelOfTimeSpoilersPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/wotspoilers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wot_spoilers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WOTSpoilers/Podcast artwork: Leah DavisTheme music: Thread of Clouds - Blue Dot Sessions https://bluedotsessions.bandcamp.com/track/thread-of-clouds