WoT Spoilers

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Suian Sanche is deposed and stilled. Gawyn forms his band of younglings, while Galad is nowhere to be found. Elaida has collected her followers, and the Tower is taken by force. You should have seen this coming, because Robert Jordan has left us dozens of little clues along the way. WoTSpoilers is a weekly book discussion podcast. You can help us by writing a review, or donating on Patreon: https:...

Support our Sponsors! https://astridjef.com/nadec/nadec-podcast/   How does Leilwin Shipless end up named so? Why, and is it is releveant? Hint: it is perfectly suited and relevant, tune in and we'll explain why it's so fitting. Elayne and Nynaeve walk through the streets if Tanchico, when they are attacked by an overwhelmingly large group of street-toughs, Captain Eagnin emerges from the crowd to...

In the bloody aftermath of the first (recent) battle for Emond's field, Perrin has to take a group of Congars and Coplins to task for firing on a group of Tinkers who had been fleeing toward the town in search of safety. It is the first of many tasks presented to Perrin as the emerging leader of Emonds Field and the surrounding communities. Perrin will struggle with accepting his role and responsi...

Perrin wakes up, weak and tired, but healed from the brink of death. He senses that Faile is hiding something from him, and eventually drags out of her that Loial and Gaul have gone to re-lock the Waygate against his explicit wishes. Suddenly a cry of “Trollocs!” goes up outside the inn. Although Faile manages to convince Perrin not to go charging off into battle, he does go over-see it. The defen...

Perrin try's to emotionally deal with the Two Rivers men he's lost in the battles with trollocs, although he has an arrow shot throw his own ribs. Trebuchet or Catapult, get your terms right. Perrin alerts Loial to the unlocked Waygate. Suspicions finally arise about Lord Luc's motivations. Where is he, and what is he doing? We'll break it down for you. Alanna does One Power surgery on him to remo...

WoT Spoilers welcomes The White Tower Podcast one more time to join us in our ongoing conversation. Perrin uses the Wolf Dream for reconnaissance. He knows Slayer is out there somewhere, but still hasn't made the connection to Lord Luc. He spots a group of ravens flying toward the the mountains and follows them to the Waygate, which he finds has been unlocked. As it happens Slayer is there doing s...

Hey Darkfriends! For this episode and the next, WoT Spoilers had the co-hosts of The White Tower podcast on to discuss the relationship between Perrin and Faile, and all the dynamics of Perrin returning to the Two Rivers. A storm is coming... 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: w...

Hey folks, Sorry for the 'call in' quality of Patrick's audio track on this one. Rest assured, the problem has been fixed! Perrin visits the graves of his family members,and slowly counts his arrows, as if anticipating murder. Faile appears and informs him that Alanna is acting suspiciously, and that hundreds or thousands of people have flocked to Emonds' Field in search of safety, and because a T...

Nynaeve and Elayne have arrived in Tanchico. The people are starving. Things are so bad there that Captain Domon has started running a soup kitchen. When the young women have a conversation with him for the first time since Falme, he quickly picks up on their good cop/bad cop style, although Elayne and Nynaeve only do this accidentally, it sure does work very well for them. Elayne gets wasted, con...

Egeanin receives a bag from our old friend Floran Gelb (Captain Domon's boat hand who Rand kicked in the face in EOTW). It contains one of the A'dam that was lost during the initial Seanchan invasion. He is helping her look for many things... Jaichim Carridin is making a deal to place Amathera as the new Panarch of Tanchico in hopes that his plans will stem the flow of deaths in his family. He kno...

Although there is plenty of Daylight left, Rhuarc decides to stop the large group at a place called Imre Stand where he can be sure of water. Rhuarc's scouts make a grizzly discovery. A group of Aiel goat herders have been literally liquefied, and their remains used to paint the inside of a small shelter. With their goats left behind, we can tell this not only wasn't other Aiel raiders, it wasn't...

Aviendha has been assigned to Rand, and the tension between the two is palpable. The Jindo Sept of the Tardaad clan, Much of the Shaido clan, and small group of Wise Ones and Wetlanders are traveling from Chaendar to Alcair Dal, a gathering place for Aiel Clan Chiefs. There is evident tension between these groups as well. All parties are well aware that violence very well might break out at any mo...

Egwene meets Elayne in Tel'aran'rhiod. The two spend some time catching each other up on everything that has happened since the parted ways. Elayne with the Sea folk, and Egwene with the Aiel. The Aiel's Dreamwalkers are busy visiting the dreams of Sept and Clan chiefs, as well as other Wise Ones, alerting them to gather; that Car'a'carn has been found and tested. That's why Egwene thinks it's a g...

Rand and Mat return to the Aiel camp, and are greeted by the thrown spears of a small group of Shaido led by Couladin, although the gathered Wise Ones quickly put a stop to hostilities. Rand presents his dragon tattoos to the large group of Aiel who have assembled outside of Rhuidean. When they see that he is indeed marked as the Car'a'carn, they simply file out quietly. It's no surprise to us tho...

Lord Luc aka Slayer seems nervous when he meets Verin. Is it because she asks poignant questions, or because she knows who he really is? Slayer is such a complex and poorly understood character, that during this episode we decide on the spot that our next Patron only episode will be a character profile on Luc/Isam. In an action packed sequence Perrin begins to become the leader and hero that these...

Perrin and his small group travel from the old sick-house in Westwood across Emonds Field, to scout the Whitecloak camp. On the way, Tam and Abell suggest stopping at the al'Seen Farmstead, which has become one of the many small collections of families who've banded together for self defense. Even with several families under one roof, lookouts on top of the house, and everyone going about armed, t...

Suddenly in the midst of Aes Sedai, Perrin has some awkward and confusing interactions. Verin and Alanna tell him that they are simply searching for untrained channelers in the region. We don't believe that's the full story, and Perrin doesn't seem to either. The two women heal the small group of warriors, likely to keep tabs on them, because no one is badly hurt. Ordeith is making alliances with...

Mistress al'Vere is doing her best to be a gracious host to a Saldean Lady, an Ogier, and three Aiel warriors. You'd hardly know this is a strange event to her. Nor does anyone know that there are two Aes Sedai and their Warders being kept hidden by a conspiracy among the women's circles of the surrounding villages. When Marin al'Vere brings Perrin and his small group to Verin and Alanna's hiding...

Perrin comes home. He purposely leads the party in a circuitous route, probably hoping to find Tam, but when he reaches the al'Thor farm there's little more than ashes where it once stood. When the group arrives in Emonds Field the al'Veres urge Perrin to leave, but he's having none of it. Bran has terrible news for him. The Luhans, and the Cauthon women have been kidnapped and are being held by W...

Perrin and Faile's parties make their separate camps. Perrin prepares himself for his own death privately, and enters the Wolf Dream to look for clues about his next step in confronting the Whitecloaks, and how to proceed. Instead he finds Slayer killing wolves in Tel'aran'rhiod, and gives chase. Hopper has some small explanation of who this man is, but leaves Young Bull with more questions than a...

Perrin keeps his ears sharp as he rides through the Ways. He knows he'll be the first person to hear a wind rise, signifying the imminent death of everyone in the party, including himself. There is no outrunning the Black Wind. The rising tension between Faile and Perrin comes to a crescendo (of spanking) early in this chapter. As the small group arrives at the Manetheren gate, Perrin hears and sm...

Our friends Bambi and Nic join us again to help us explain the sequence of ancestral visions Rand experiences after entering the crystal columns Ter'angreal in Rhuidean. There's so much in these episodes! Including the emergence of the Aiel's Short Spear, the first Maiden of the Spear (a grieving mother bent on revenge), the origins of the Shoufa and black veil, the construction of Rhuidean, the g...

Wotspoilers welcomes special guests, Bambi and Nic to discuss Rand's visions as he enters the crystal column Ter'angreal in Rhuidean. Robert Jordan wrote this chapter in reverse chronological order. In an attempt to clarify the events leading up to the founding of Rhuidean and Aiel culture as we know it we'll be breaking down this chapter in chronological order. When read in this way the visions R...

Rand and Mat make their way into the ancient abandoned city. The boys are thirsty after walking through the desert all morning, which leads Rand to discover that with the Power, he can make the long forgotten fountains of Rhuidean produce water again. We believe Rand has been going mad for BOOKS now, using Callandor can only have accelerated the process, and there is a little more evidence in this...