Thank the Light: The Wheel of Time Podcast

The Dragon Reborn: Chapter 33 - Within The Weave "The Creator is good, Perrin. The Father of Lies is evil. The Pattern of Age, the Age Lace itself, is neither. The Pattern is what is. The Wheel of Time weaves all lives into the Pattern, all actions. A pattern that is all one color is no pattern. For the Pattern of an Age, good and ill are the warp and the woof." “Perrin recalls the various village...

Unconfirmed returning cast: Thomas Chaanhing as Lord Agelmar [22] Stuart Graham as Geofram Bornhald [41] Alexander Karim as Lews Therin Telamon [15] Álvaro Morte as Logain Ablar [15] Abdul Salis as Eamon Valda [41] Sandra Yi Sencindiver as Lady Amalisa [22] https://wheeloftime.fandom.com/wiki/Season_2#Unconfirmed The Wheel of Time, an epic fantasy book series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson...

The Dragon Reborn: Chapter 30 - The First Toss “He bundles up the food and takes everything with him, including the quarterstaff which he uses as a walking stick. It is obvious to everyone that he is planning a journey but nobody stops him because they are confident that he will be stopped by the guards. He decides it is best to make a show of it so that the Aes Sedai will expect him to fail spect...

Jeremy is back on the mainland and I can’t talk about the reality of The Wheel of Time season 2 too much, so we are going to keep the hype alive.  The Wheel of Time, an epic fantasy book series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Now, an Amazon Prime TV series. All manner of characters populate the vast world of the series. With fourteen books and a prequel, The Wheel of Time series contains t...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 25 - Questions "I have never been able to like Elaida , but I cannot truly believe she is Black Ajah. And Sheriam ? It's impossible."    — Elayne to Egwene and Nynaeve “Elayne says they have no pattern in their birthdays, names, Ajahs or nationalities. The sisters are evenly distributed with two in each Ajah and Liandrin as the only Red . This means there is a pattern...

“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. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings...

We are talking about WoT news, some good, some bad, much speculated. “Moiraine, Lan , Uno and Loial join them. Moiraine relates the news from Leya . Almoth Plain is in chaos. Hunters for the Horn of Valere have appeared on the plain, but they won't find the horn since it has already been found. A huge force of Whitecloaks is pushing out the Taraboners and Domani rather than attacking those followi...

…following the Last Final Countdown We are breaking down some post JordanCon news, and utilize the information to make some wild predictions about the upcoming seasons of The Wheel of Time Here is a link to JordanCon AMA video,  Jordan Con AMA with Cast and Crew Link to WoT Up! JordanCon AMA video breakdown WoT Up! Jordan Con News WoT Up! Thank The Light Shout Out!! The Wheel of Time, an epic fant...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 22 - The Price Of The Ring Jeremy is BACK, so we can get his take on the first two arches and go through the third together.  “After going through the last arch Egwene finds herself…” “She awakens to find herself surrounded by thirteen Myrddraal and thirteen of the Black Ajah.” https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dragon_Reborn/Chapter_22 The Wheel of Time, an epic fantasy...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 22 - The Price Of The Ring We are sans Jeremy Sedai today, but don’t fret his comments on this topic will not go unrealized, hang in there, the way back will come but once; be steadfast. "The hour waits on no woman. The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, when the Wheel wills."    — Sheriam Bayanar “The novice is presented with fears from her past, present and future whic...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 24 - Scouting and Discoveries "If you spend much time around Nynaeve , you'll need bow, quarterstaff, and sword to protect yourself. And I don't know whether that would be enough."    — Galad to Gawyn and Mat “Mat seems to be in a battle trance and almost instinctually lands a killing blow on Galad's throat but he stops himself. Galad can no longer stand and Hammar dec...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 21 - A World Of Dreams "There is one Creator, who exists everywhere at once for all of these worlds. In the same way, there is only one Dark One, who also exists in all of these worlds at once. If he is freed from the prison the Creator made in one world, he is freed on all. So long as he is kept prisoner in one, he remains imprisoned on all."    — Verin Mathwin “There...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 19 - Awakening "You can turn the worst that comes to your advantage if you only think."    — Abell Cauthon “Mat awakens and cannot tell if the thoughts of battles and Moiraine are dreams. Everything is bits and fragments. He thinks of a battle where he is giving commands and knows that he must win or die. Mat does not know if this is real but he is known as a gambler....

We do not get to our chapter this week, but we have a great conversation anyways. Some of it, even, about The Wheel of Time. Enjoy this great chat with your favorite podcast boys and stay tuned for next week's talk about, The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 19 - Awakening,  I Promise you, it’s already edited.  "And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did d...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 18 - Healing A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself."    — Siuan Sanche Among the ten Aes Sedai there for the Healing includes the Amyrlin , Leane , Verin , Serafelle , Sheriam, Alanna , Anaiya and Brendas . Using Vora's sa'angreal and combining powers, the Amyrlin leads the circle as they attempt...

The Dragon Reborn -  Chapter 15 - The Grey Man "Remember that body, Egwene . Remember that he tried to kill you. Kill us. Remember the Black Ajah. Remember them all the time. Because if you forget, just once, the next time, it may be you lying dead."    — Nynaeve al'Meara “Sheriam says he is one of the Soulless, a Gray Man . They give up their souls to serve the Dark One, Sheriam explains; one has...

The Dragon Reborn - Chapter 13 - Punishments / Chapter 14 - The Bite of the Thorns "And lest you start thinking it's some sort of reward, remember that the first few weeks as one of the Accepted are used to pick the rotting fish out of the basket of good ones." "Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels, sometimes. The point is, you two are what I have to work with, thin reeds though you may be."  ...

The Dragon Reborn - Chapter 12 - The Amyrlin Seat " Verin , you are worrying about a lionfish out in the Sea of Storms, while here and now the silverpike are chewing our nets to shreds."    — Siuan Sanche The One Power emanates from the True Source, which is made up of two complementary parts: saidin , the male half, and saidar , the female half. People who can wield it are called channelers . htt...

The Dragon Reborn - Chapter 9 - Wolf Dreams "Dreams can be dangerous for you, Perrin."    — Moiraine to Perrin She saw a fragment of a book from the Age of Legends . [1] Some of the few who run with wolves get swallowed up by them. Dreams can be dangerous for him because wolves live partly in a world of dreams. The wolfspeak method of communication is related to dreams. – https://wot.fandom.com/wi...

The Dragon Reborn - Chapter 8 - Jarra "I am an Ogier! What did you think I was? A Trolloc?"    — Loial son of Arent son of Halan Perrin asks Simion if he saw someone matching Rand 's description. Apparently Rand came through and played the flute for all the weddings in exchange for food and board. He awoke in the middle of the night rambling about someone being after him and left immediately, head...

The Dragon Reborn - Chapter 5 - Nightmares Walking We go deep on this chapter beginning to end. Rand and Perrin are starting to come to terms with their “powers” like it or not, and that’s a heavy mountain.  “All existing angreal are left over from the Age of Legends . The knowledge of their construction was lost during the Breaking of the World , along with the knowledge of creating ter'angreal ,...

"Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live and twice to die. Once the heron, to set his path. Twice the heron, to name him true. Once the Dragon, for remembrance lost. Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay." The Wheel of Time, an epic fantasy book series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Now, an Amazon Prime TV series. All manner of characters populate the vast world of the ser...

The Great Hunt - Chapter 37 - What Might Be We discuss the Portal Stone mishap, wherein Rand and his fellow travelers experience many alternate timelines of their lives where things went differently.  Fatty and Jeremy are walking Des through Channeling Sickness, and he’s not on board, at first. "She tells Rand that he'll just have to arbitrarily pick one of these alternative worlds and quotes her...

The Great Hunt - Chapter 29 - Seanchan “At the highest level are the Blood who trace their lineage back to Artur Hawkwing by way of his son Luthair .” - Fandom, The Wheel of Time Wiki Who ARE The Seanchan, where DID they come from? We are going to meet The Seanchan along with Bayle Domon. Talk a little more about the Seanchan, Desmond is going to be confused, you’ll love it.  #BillyZaneAsAsmodean...

“a shaping stone to make them, a testing ground to prove their worth, and a punishment for their sin” Today we talk about the Aiel and who IS or IS NOT Aiel, get it? We also get into the general landscape of the Wheel of Time, because Desmond still can’t understand given the size and scope of WoT how no one knows of anyone else.  Welcome to Season 2 of Thank The Light, cause I don’t care if Amazon...