Blood and Ashes: A Wheel of Time Spoilercast

Welcome back to this, our penultimte episode for The Fires of Heaven! Nynaeve and Elayne make it to Salidar where they're given a rather cold welcome, and their companions find their own way of integrating with the group already gathered there. But before then they have to fight their way through the streets of Samara to make it onto a boat. Min finally comes clean to Elayne about being one o...

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, this episode. Wow.  All four chapters covered in this episode centre around the battle for Cairhien and the immediate aftermath.  Not much else to say here. Stop reading and jump in! Ok, you can continue reading now that you've listened to the episode. How good is it? Let us know using any of the links below! Twitter - @BloodAndAshPod YouTube - Blood and Ashes Facebook -...

We're back once again with another great primer episode! Elayne performs before her frist real crowd and Nynaeve finds Uno. She also finds The Prophet and Galad though, but at least both of them present a possible escape from the whitecloak and dragonsworn infested Samara. Rand surveys the battleground around Cairhien as they prepare to take on the Shaido, but not before Lan coaxes a detailed...

Hello and welcome to our cozy little episode set almost completely in Valan Luca's menagerie! Nynaeve meets up with Birgitte in Tel'aran'rhiod, decides a good idea to spy on Moggy, who's spying on the other fab four forsaken, and is ultimately captured by the Spider. But before Moghedien can enact her evil pla, Birgitte puts an arrow through hjer chest before being unceremoniou...

Welcome back for a doozy of an episode! 7 chapters covered in this one... Siuan, Min, Leanne and Logain make it to Salidar where they get a bit of a cold welcome, followed shortly by Gareth Bryne who promptly joins the Salidar cause as their shiny new general! Partly because he can't helphimself, but mostly because he's kinda into ol' Siuan... We have a brief moment of horror with H...

And just like that we're back from the dead! Well, a 2 week break, but it feels like forever! In this episode we cover, basically, a long walk through a mountain pass. Rand and the Aiel come across a village at the mouth of Jangai Pass that's been ravaged by the Shaido, and Rand has to start managing the Aiel perception and treatment of wetlanders. Rand and Aviendha continue their dance...

Welcome back friendly friends! In this episode we are... treated? To a bunch of darkfriendery. First Nynaeve has Birgitte report back on Forsaken activity in Tel'aran'rhiod, and then uses the world of dreams to spy on [GASP] the new Amyrlin Seat!  Egwene swings the power pendulum back in her own direction, getting one over on an obviously rattled Nynaeve, and then has a lovely conversati...

Welcome back to Blood and Ashes: Eyes and Ears Edition! Nynaeve and Elayne identify a member of the Yellow Ajah message network but their interaction does not go down well. Not as well as a delicious cup of Forkroot tea. Luckily Thom and Juilin have their wits about them. Then Siuan gets a crucial clue from a bawdy tavern, giving her their next destination, but the wily ol' Gareth Bryne and h...

Welcome back to a very special episode of the podcast. One with a touching dedication which I'll let Jody make in the episode itself. Then we get back to our regular shenanigans, recapping and discussing Rand's coterie of women that can't seem to leave him alone, Egwene and Aviendha's burgeoning friendship, a healthy dose of teaching from the Wise Ones, and a darkhound attack....

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! A new episode and a new book! Right off the bat we get into some serious plotting. First between Elaida and her cronies and then 4 of the Forsaken working together! For now... Meanwhile Rand is in Rhuidean planning his next move and taking Saidin 101 with his pet Forsaken bard, while Mat spends his time gambling, drinking and philandering. We also join up with the White Tow...

Well here we are again, a season finale! We have a very cathartic end to "The Siege of the Two Rivers", Rand throws the cat among the pigeons in the Aiel Waste and then has a showdown with a Forsaken while wrecking an entire city. Good times! We also discuss the book as a whole and talk about our favorite moments from The Shadow Rising. Let us know what you think of the book, of the podc...

Right! We're in it now folks! The penultimate episode for The Shadow Rising. Perrin has a showdown with Slayer in the Wolf Dream, Loial and Gaul return from their mission to seal the Waygate, and Perrin and Faile tie the knot. All in one chapter. Then we have our intrepid Black Ajah hunters in Tanchico pull off a heist from the Panarch's palace, managing to find their quarry, face down o...

Hello friends! Things are really starting to hot up now... Rand and friends arrive at Cold Rocks hold and get a crash course in Aiel custom. Rand ingratiates himself with the Maidens of the Spear, but the hold is attacked in the night by trollocs and multiple Draghkar! But not before Rand has a steamy Waterwood dream... In Tanchico our intrepid investigators have located the Black Ajah sisters, an...

And we're back! In this week's episode we get a great mix of plotlines. Perrin settles into the leadership role in Emond's Field and finally comes face to face with Dain Bornhald and his Whitecloaks. Nynaeve and Elayne bumble their way through the dangerous streets of Tanchico but get their bacon saved by everyone's least hated Seanchan officer, before coming face to face with...

Hello friends! In December Willie and I participated in the WoTaHoliday 24h charity stream for the Lightweaver Foundation where we discussed the short story "The Strike at Shayol Ghul". In the season 1 finale of the Wheel of Time series on Amazon they actually did a cold open set in this time, so it turns out our discussion was quite timely! The stream itself is archived and available on...

In this stretch of chapters we focus solely on Perrin and his exploits in the Two Rivers as he comes to grip with the expectations placed on him by his fellow farmers and villagers. First he stuns his trolloc hunting party by being very familiar with the Tinkers and their ways, undergoes a bit of healing in the Tinker camp and eventually makes his way back to a now well fortified Emond's Fiel...

We get treated to wide range of points of view this week as we check in with our main cast and a number of ancillary characters we haven't seen in a while. Some pleasant, some less so... Rand, Mat, Moiraine, Lan and the Aiel have departed from Rhuidean and have made their way to Imre Stand. But things are not exactly going to plan. We jump to Tanchico as Nynaeve, Elayne, Thom and Juilin arriv...

Welcome back! In this episode we stick with the two main plotlines: Perrin in the Two Rivers and Rand, Mat & Egwene in the Waste. Perrin is starting to come into his own, giving orders to respected Two Rivers elders, barking at Aes Sedai and organising the farm folk against the dual assault of Whitecloaks and Trollocs. He also puts Slayer in his place and it all just feels... right. And everyo...

And now for something completely different... Well, somewhat different. Join us for a trip down memory lane as we travel with Rand through the history of the Aiel in the glass columns in Rhuidean. We recount his visions in chronological order in a bid to make it more digestible. Let us know if we succeeded at all! Then Perrin, Faile, Gaul, Bain, Chiad and Loial have an encounter in the Ways before...

We're in for a real treat here, folks! Not only do we get a very rare glimpse into the thoughts of our favorite Blue Ajah champion, but we get a big dose of culture and lore dumps from not one, but TWO thus far mysterious nations: The Sea folk and our beloved Aiel! Nynaeve and Elayne book passage on a Sea Folk raker, making some interesting discoveries in the process. They're joined by T...

There's a lot going on here.  In this episode Perrin sets off via the Ways on his quest to liberate the Two Rivers from the Whitecloaks, in a bizarre and spiteful arrangement with Faile. Good thing they have Aiel backup. Egwene meets Amys in Tel'aran'rhiod and is summoned to The Waste to learn about Dreaming.  Nynaeve, Elayne and Aviendha prepare to leave for Tanchico, and Moiraine...

I hope you like The Stone of Tear, because we're still here. Much to the frustration of Moiraine. The girls are having no luck squeezing information out of the captured Black Ajah sisters. And Moiraine is having no luck pushing Rand into action.  Elayne is trying to process her feelings for Rand, so after she and Egwene take a crack at learning something about Saidin and Saidar and their diff...

It might be a new book but we pick up right where we left off. Almost. After checking in with Min who's finally made her way to the White Tower we also get a brief catch up with some of our least favourite characters. Padan Fain, Dain Bornhald and High Lady Suroth. Gross. And then it's straight back to The Stone of Tear where all breaks loose when a bubble of evil targets our 3 favourite...

And here we are, the finale for The Dragon Reborn! Mat, Perrin, Rand, the girls, Moiraine, the Aiel and just about every person you can think of converge on The Heart of the Stone and action ensues! We summarize the final chapters, pick our favorite moment from the episode and then spend a bit of time talking about the book as a whole and pick our favorite moment (thing?) from the book as a whole....

Oh boy, Tear is bursting with ta'veren as virtually everyone converges on the troubled city.  Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne arrive and immediately set about tracking down the Black Ajah with the help of a fan favorite character.  Perrin, Moiraine, Lan, Faile and Loial arrive and take up lodging next to a smithy where Perrin gets to flex some old muscles. Literally and figuratively. And as a resu...