The
Great Hunt
Prologue Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 3 Ch 4 Ch. 5
Ch 6 Ch 7 Ch 8 Ch 9 Ch 10 Ch 11 Ch 12 Ch 13 Ch 14
Ch 15 Ch 16 Ch 17 Ch 18 Ch 19 Ch 20 Ch 21 Ch 22 Ch 23
Ch 24 Ch 25 Ch 26 Ch 27 Ch 28 Ch 29 Ch 30 Ch 31 Ch 32
Ch 33 Ch 34 Ch 35 Ch 36 Ch 37 Ch 38 Ch 39 Ch 40 Ch 41
Ch 42 Ch 43 Ch 44 Ch 45 Ch 46 Ch 47 Ch 48 Ch 49 Ch.50
And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered, and the
Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of the Age, and the Dark One shall once more
lay his hand upon the world of man. Women shall weep and men quail as the
nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. Neither shall anything
stand nor abide...
Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow, born once more as he was born before and will be born again, time without end. The Dragon shall be Reborn, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing apart all ties that bind. Like the unfettered dawn shall he blind us, and burn us, yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last Battle, and his blood shall give us the Light. Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Weep for your salvation.
- from The Karaethon Cycle:
The Prophecies of the Dragon
as translated by Ellaine Marise'idin Alshinn, Chief Librarian at the court of Arafel,
in the Year of Grace 231 of the New Era, the Third Age
Ishamael's hall - tall marble fireplace; tapestries; gold lamps; intricately
patterned mosaic floor; fireplaces give no heat; undressed stone walls; no
windows, no doorways - p.xv
List of Darkfriends: wealthy/noblewoman from Illian; woman - first blood of Arad
Domon; Shienaran, high-collared blue coat, soldier; "merchant and warrior,
commoner and noble"; "from Kandor and Cairhein, Saldaea and Ghealdan";
Tinker, green breeches and yellow coat; High Lord of Tear, silver-worked boots;
Andoran Queen's Guards, golden lion-head spurs; Sea Folk man; two Aes Sedai
- p.xvii-xviii
The smooth white face swiveled, regarding them all
one by one, it seemed. A visible shiver ran through them under that
eyeless look. Thin, bloodless lips quirked in what might almost have been
a smile. . . - p.xix
He noticed the Myrddraal looking at the figures,
trembling, and unless he misjudged entirely, its trembling was no longer fear,
but hatred. - Bors, p.xxii
The figure of a man floated in the air above the Myrddraal, the hem of his
blood-red robe hanging a span over the Halfman's head. -
Ishamael, p.xx
"The place where you stand lies in the shadow of Shayol Ghul."
- Ishamael, p.xxii
"The Dragon Reborn! Are we to kill him, Great Lord?" That
from the Shienaran, hand grasping eagerly at his side where his sword would
hang. - p.xxiii
The
Shienaran, his stance bespeaking confusion even while he acquiesced.
- p.xxiv
An impossible sky of striated clouds, red and yellow and black, racing as if
driven by the mightiest wind the world had ever seen. A woman - a girl? -
dressed in white receded into blackness and vanished as soon as she
appeared. A raven stared him in the eye, knowing him, and was
gone. An armored man in a brutal helm, shaped and painted and gilded like
some monstrous, poisonous insect, raised a sword and plunged to one side, beyond
his view. A horn, curled and golden, came hurtling out of the far
distance. One piercing note it sounded as it flashed toward him, tugging
his soul. At the last instant it flashed into a blinding, golden ring of
light that passed through him, chilling him beyond death. A wolf leaped
from the shadows of lost sight and ripped out his throat. He could not
scream. The torrent went on, drowning him, burying
him. - Carradin, p.xxv-xxvi
Emptiness came. As was too often the case of late it was not a perfect
emptiness; the flame still remained, or some sense of light sending ripples
through the stillness. - Rand, p.2-3
The wind howled across the tower... and trapped him. It was as if the air
had suddenly jelled, holding him in a cocoon. Pushing him forward.
Time and motion slowed; horrified, he watched Lan's practice sword drift toward
his chest. - Rand, p.3
"For someone like you..." Lan shrugged as if that explained
everything. - Lan, to Rand, p.4
"Ingtar's with them." Lan sounded as if his thoughts were
elsewhere. "Back from his hunting at last. Been gone long
enough. I wonder if he had any luck?" - p. 10
He would never see legendary Tar Valon - he could not afford that risk, now or
ever - but he might catch a glimpse of the Amyrlin Seat before he
left. - Rand, p.18
Lord Agelmar faced the palanquin from the far end of the court, bluff and square
and face unreadable. His high-collared coat of dark blue bore the three
running red foxes of House Jagad as well as the stooping black hawk of Shienar.
- p.20
"No horse may leave this stable until the order is changed. Nor any
stable in the keep, my Lord. . ."
"The order, Tema. It came from Lord Agelmar?"
"Of course, my Lord. Who else? Lord Agelmar did not speak the command to Tema, of course, nor even to the man who did speak to Tema, but, my Lord, who else could give such a command in Fal Dara?" - Rand and Tema, p.22-3
eyes following Rand around courtyard, laughter - p.28-9
"I seem to have luck with the dice. I can hardly touch them without
winning." - Mat, p.32
Rand slumped against the stacked sacks of grain. Well, a voice in
his head taunted, you did it, didn't you. I had to, he told
it. I will be dangerous just to be around. Blood and ashes, I'm
going to go mad, and... No! No, I won't! I will not use the
Power, and then I won't go mad, and... But I can't risk it. I can't,
don't you see? But the voice only laughed at
him. - p.36
"Soon comes the day all shall be free.
Even you, and even me.
Soon comes the day all shall die.
Surely you, but never I." - Fain, p.43
Moiraine permitted herself a small smile, quickly masked. If the girl
shows as much initiative in Tar Valon, she thought wryly, she will sit in
the Amyrlin Seat one day. If she can learn to control that
initiative. If there is an Amyrlin Seat left on which to sit.
- Moiraine, about Egwene, p.50
"There was even some talk, open talk, that I should not leave the White
Tower at all."
. . . The Amyrlin Seat was the Amyrlin Seat. Every Aes Sedai was pledged to obey her. No one could question what she did or where she chose to go. This proposal went against three thousand years of custom and law. - p.59
"Moiraine, if anyone, even Leane, discovers what we plan, we will both be
stilled. And I can't say they would be wrong to do
it." - Siuan, p.61
"Tetsuan, who betrayed Manetheren for jealousy
of Elisande's powers, and Bonwhin, who tried to use Artur Hawkwing for a puppet
to control the world and so nearly destroyed Tar Valon." - Moiraine,
p.63
"They will travel as safely as I can manage,
Siuan." - Moiraine, about Rand and co., p.70
At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn,
night died, and at twilight, day. The Dark One's power was rooted in
death; he gained power from death, and at those times she thought she could feel
his power stirring. - Liandrin, p.75
"Please, Liandrin Sedai, say you do not mean Agelmar. It cannot be
him." - Amalisa, p.77
Liandrin feels the hidden eyes as well - p.75, 80
The Fade had raised its sword, for Ingtar. A silent snarl twisted Ingtar's
mouth, but Rand knew it was not fear. - p.91
"The Fade... you killed it?"
"No!" Ingtar slammed his sword into its sheath; the hilt stuck up above his right shoulder. He seemed angry and ashamed at the same time. "It's out of the keep by now, along with the rest of what we could not kill." -p.97
You really are going mad if you suspect Ingtar. -
Rand, p.99
How will this affect matters? Moiraine wondered. He is not
necessary with the Horn gone, and yet... -Moiraine,
about Mat, p.102
"He may already be changed beyond the reach of full Healing, even if no
longer enough to contaminate others." - Verin,
about Mat, p.103
Dark Prophecy - p.106-7
Some said she had really been the most powerful of the Forsaken, next to
Ishamael, the Betrayer of Hope, but had kept her powers
hidden. - Moiraine, about Lanfear, p.107
"There are rumors of war on Almoth Plain and Toman Head," Moiraine
said slowly. "And Hawkwing sent two of his sons, as well as
armies." - p.108
The Aes Sedai shook her head. "The world grows stranger every
day. I suppose the blacksmith will wear a crown and speak in High
Chant." - Leane, p.123
"Tam al'Thor left the Two Rivers as a boy, Mother. He joined the army
of Illian, and served in the Whitecloak War and the last two wars with
Tear. In time he rose to be a blademaster and the Second Captain of the
Companions. After the Aiel War, Tam al'Thor returned to the Two Rivers
with a wife from Caemlyn and an infant boy." -
Moiraine, p.124
"But, Mother," Agelmar was protesting, "you've had no time to
rest from the journey here. Stay at least a few days more. I promise
you a feast tonight such as you could hardly get in Tar Valon."
- p.147
"The Horn cannot be left in the wrong hands, especially in Darkfriend
hands. Those who come to answer its call, will come whoever blows it, and
they are bound to the Horn, not to the Light." -
Siuan, p.149
Hidden eyes return, atop the walls - p.150
Agelmar moved closer. "Mother, if there are Whitecloak killers about,
or Darkfriends, you must allow me to send men with you. As far as the
river, at least. I could not live if harm came to you in Shienar.
Please, return to the women's' apartments. I will see them guarded with my
life until you are ready to travel." - p.151
A small, age-dark ivory carving of a man holding a sword. The fellow who
sold it claimed if you held it long enough you started to feel warm. Domon
never had, and neither had any of the crew he let hold it, but it was old, and
that was enough for Domon." - p.162-3
The skull of a cat as big as a lion, and so old it was turned to stone.
But no lion had ever had fangs, almost tusks, a foot
long. - Domon, p.163
"Gone, my Lord. But she was there. A woman in a white dress, at
the window. I saw her. I even thought I saw her inside, for a
moment, but then she was gone, and. . ." - Uno,
p.175
Desperately he reached for the flickering light. His stomach twisted, but
the light was warm. Hot. He was hot.
Suddenly he was tearing at... something. He did not know what, or how. Cobwebs made of steel. Moonbeams carved from stone. They crumbled at his touch, but he knew he had not touched anything. They shriveled and melted with the heat that surged through him, heat like a forge fire, heat like the world burning, heat like - - Rand, p.185-6
Ch. 11 Glimmers Of the Pattern
"All I'm bloody saying," he heard Uno tell Ragan as they dismounted,
"is that I bloody saw her, burn you. Just before we found the
goat-kissing Halfman. The same flaming woman as at the flaming
ferry. She was there, and then she bloody wasn't. You say what you
bloody want to, but you watch how you flaming say it, or I'll bloody skin you
myself, and burn the goat-kissing hide, you sheep-gutted
milk-drinker." - p.188
Suddenly his shoulders shook with silent laughter. "Now I'm talking
to myself. Maybe I'm going mad already." -
Rand, p.195
An exhausted sleep finally came, and with sleep, unbidden, the void surrounded
him, flickering with an uneasy glow that disturbed his
dreams. - Rand, p.196
Fain drew a deep breath and fingered the ruby-hilted dagger at his belt.
That had come from Shadar Logoth, too. It was the only weapon he carried,
the only one he needed; it felt like a part of him. He was whole within
himself, now. That was all that mattered. - p.197
Lying there in his blankets, he stared northward. He could not feel
al'Thor, now; the distance between them was too great. Or perhaps al'Thor
was doing his vanishing trick. Sometimes, in the keep, the boy had
suddenly vanished from Fain's senses. He did not know how, but always
al'Thor came back, just as suddenly as he had gone. He would come back
this time, too. - p.199
Alanna showed too much interest in Rand and Mat and Perrin for Egwene's comfort,
though. Especially Rand. - p.210
"First Moiraine vanishes with Lan, then Liandrin right on Moiraine's heels,
and then Verin, none of them with so much as a word for anyone. Verin did
not even take her Warder; Tomas is chewing nails with worry over
her." - Anaiya, p.212
First there had been a man with a mask over his face, and fire in place of his
eyes. Despite the mask, she had thought he was surprised to see her.
His look had frightened her till she thought her bones would break from
shivering, but suddenly he vanished, and she saw Rand sleeping on the ground,
wrapped in a cloak. A woman had been standing over him, looking
down. Her face was in shadow, but her eyes seemed to shine like the moon,
and Egwene had known she was evil. Then there was a flash of light, and
they were gone. Both of them. And behind it all, almost like another
thing altogether, was the feel of danger, as if a trap was just beginning to
snap shut on an unsuspecting lamb, a trap with many jaws. As though time
had slowed, and she could watch the iron jaws creep closer
together. - Egwene, p.213
"Rand, that fragment said the Stones came from an older Age than the Age of
Legends, and even the Aes Sedai then did not understand them, though they used
them, some of the truly powerful did. They used them with the One Power,
Rand." - Loial, p.222
"Moiraine Sedai sent me, Lord Ingtar," Verin announced with a
satisfied smile. "She thought you might need
me." - p.231
The burned swathes, sometimes a mile wide, sometimes only a few hundred paces,
all ran east and west as straight as an arrow's path. Twice Rand saw the
end of a burn, once as they rode over it, once as they passed nearby; they
tapered to points at the end. - p.234-5
There was one sign of life; at least, Rand thought it must be so. Twice he
saw a wispy streak crawling across the sky like a line drawn with cloud.
The lines were too straight to be natural, it seemed, but he could not imagine
what might make them. - p.235-6
Rand opened his mouth, but the song quieted him. It seemed so familiar,
that song, as if he should know it. - p.236
The darkness behind Ba'alzamon swelled and grew, threatening to swallow
everything. - p.243
"And this time the cycle will not begin anew with your death. The
grave belongs to the Great Lord of the Dark. This time if you die, you
will be destroyed utterly." - Ishamael, p.243
The mask came away. It was a man's face, horribly burned. Yet
between the black-edged, red crevices crossing those features, the skin looked
healthy and smooth. Dark eyes looked at Rand; cruel lips smiled with a
flash of white teeth. "Look at me, Kinslayer, and see the hundredth
part of your own fate." For a moment eyes and mouth became doorways
into endless caverns of fire. "This is what the Power unchecked can
do, even to me. But I heal, Lews Therin. I know the paths to greater
power. It will burn you like a moth flying into a
furnace." - p.244
Ch. 16 In the Mirror of Darkness
I didn't ask him to take me for a bloody lord. But he did, a small
voice seemed to answer him, and you let him. You made a choice; now the
duty is yours. - Rand, about Hurin, p.248
He did not know if she was wearing perfume, but there seemed to be a scent to
her, something that filled his head with her. Spices, sharp and sweet,
tickling his nose, making him swallow. - Rand, about
"Selene," p.255
"I am not offended, but I'm no Aes Sedai." Her lips curled into
a sneer; even that was beautiful. "They cower in what they think is
safety when they could do so much. They serve when they could rule, let
men fight wars when they could bring order to the world. No, never call me
Aes Sedai." - "Selene," p.257
"Imagine it! You could go to one of them and meet
yourself." - Loial, p.258
"Wear this void of yours all the time, Rand al'Thor, and you'll learn uses
for it you never expected." - "Selene,"
p.260
It sounded as if the grolm were ranged in a semicircle around them,
closing in from every direction but the front. -p.266
"The records say Aes Sedai could fly, in the Age of Legends, but
they aren't clear on how, exactly. Not this way, though. It doesn't
work like that. You might reach out with your hands and pick up a chest
that weighs as much as you; you look strong. But take hold of yourself
however you will, you cannot pick yourself up." -
Siuan, p.277
"Unless you know some way to kill them all, they will be hunting you now as
you hunted them before." - Lanfear, p.296
"It is dangerous." Selene frowned at the blade as if the snakes
were real, and poisonous. "Throw it away. Leave it, or bury it
if you wish to keep it from other hands, but be rid of
it." - p.297
Light filled him, blinded him.
"Till shade is gone," he mumbled, "till water is gone..."
Power filled him. He was one with the sphere.
"...into the Shadow with teeth bared..."
The power was his. The Power was his.
"...to spit in Sightblinder's eye..."
Power to Break the World.
"...on the last day!" It came out as a shout, and the void was gone. - Rand, p.305
"The Nine Rings" had been one of his favorite adventure stories when
he was a boy; he supposed it still was. - Rand, p.306
Once he was rid of his fancy clothes - once he turned the Horn over to Ingtar
and the dagger over to Mat - he would need the flute to earn his supper again
while he searched for somewhere safe from Aes Sedai. -
Rand, p.311
"Before we left Tar Valon, I made arrangements, should anything happen to
me, for your bond to pass to another." He stared at her, silent.
"When you feel my death, you will find yourself compelled to seek her out
immediately. I do not want you to be surprised by
it." - Moiraine, to Lan, p.322
"It may be that Myrelle will find a slip of a girl just raised to
sisterhood - was that not what you said? - who needs a Warder hardened in battle
and wise in the ways of the world, a slip of a girl who may need someone who
will throw her into a pond." - Moiraine, to Lan,
p.323-4
Moiraine wondered when he would ask her to release him from his bond. And
what she would do when he did. - p.326
Vandene was of the Green Ajah, not Brown like her sister, yet the two of them
had studied so long together that she knew as much about history as Adeleas.
- p.327
"How," Adeleas demanded, "could any creature of the Shadow come
so close without us sensing it?"
"It was warded," Moiraine said.
"Impossible," Adeleas snapped. "Only a sister could - " She stopped, and Vandene turned from Jaem to look at Moiraine. - p.332
Lan looked at her, mouth tight. "If you had not made me so angry I
had to go work forms with Jaem, so angry I gave it up to come back to the
house..."
"But I did," she said. "The Pattern takes everything into the weaving." - p.332
"That we swear these oaths, that we are known to be bound, allows the
nations to deal with us without fearing that we will throw up our own power, the
One Power, against them. Between the Trolloc Wars and the War of the
Hundred Years we made these choices, and because of them the White Tower still
stands, and we can still do what we can against the
Shadow." - Sheriam, p.335-6
Saidar was a torrent rushing through her. She could feel the rocks
around her, and the air, feel the tiny, flowing bits of the One Power that
suffused them, and made them. And she could feel Aginor doing...
something, as well. Dimly she felt it, and far distant, as if it were
something she could never truly know, but around her she saw the effects and
knew them for what they were. - Nynaeve's test, p.340-1
"And she came out with her abilities burned to nothing, unable to channel,
unable even to sense the True Source." - Sheriam, p.343
Ch. 24 New Friends and Old Enemies
He was tall and handsome, short of middle years, with long, dark curling hair,
but his shoulders sagged, and there was sadness in his
eyes. - Logain, p.360
"She said I'd have to share my husband with two other women, and I'd never
put up with that. She just laughs, and says it was never her idea of how
to run things, either. But she said I would be a queen before she knew who
I was; she said she saw a crown, and it was the Rose Crown of Andor."
- Elayne, p.362
"A white flame, and... oh, all sorts of
things." - Min, about Egwene, p.362
"One of the things she said she saw looking at me was a severed hand.
Not mine, she said." - Elayne, p.362
"That one," Min murmured, peering after him, "will always do what
is right. No matter who it hurts." - Min,
about Galad, p.363
"I have met all sorts of people, and they've met Rand al'Thor. Some
do not even know his name, but the description could not be anyone else, and
he's shifted every one of their lives." - Gawyn,
p.364
Something that seemed to be half cat and half eagle. . .
- p.369
"That Fade" - he looked around; there was no one close enough to hear,
but he lowered his voice anyway - "had no interest in me. It left me
a little present of a stiff leg and ran after you and
Mat." - Thom, p.377
"Moiraine said I was still alive, did she? Is she with you, then?"
Rand shook his head. To his surprise, Thom seemed disappointed.
"Too bad, in a way. She's a fine woman, even if she is..." He left it unsaid. - p.378
"Hurin...? No, don't tell me how. I do not want to
know." - Thom, p.385
"Did you see the people laughing in the streets out there? Let the
grain barges stop a week, and they won't laugh." -
Thom, p.385
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.
- p.387
Twice dawns the day when his blood is shed.
One for mourning, one for birth
Red on black, the Dragon's blood stains the rocks of Shayol
Ghul.
In the Pit of Doom shall his blood free men from the Shadow.
- p.387
He leaned over to pick up one of the wooden instrument cases, long and
narrow. When he opened it, a flute lay inside, plainly made but mounted
with silver. He closed it again and slid it across the table.
"You might need to earn your supper again someday,
boy." - Thom, p.389-90
Ch. 27 The Shadow in the Night
In any case, fireworks were too expensive for the Village Council to have
allowed anybody unskilled to open one. He could well remember the time
when Mat had tried to do just that; it was nearly a week before anyone but Mat's
own mother would talk to him. - p.399
When they entered The Defender of the Dragonwall, the innkeeper held out his
tray with a sealed parchment.
Rand took it, and stared at the white seal. A crescent moon and stars. "Who left this? When?"
"An old woman, my Lord. Not a quarter of an hour gone. A servant, though she did not say from what House." - p.404
Ch. 28 A New Thread in the Pattern
Sometimes, to Perrin's eyes, the crescent crest on the Shienaran's helmet looked
like a Trolloc's horns. - Perrin, about Ingtar, p.407
Urien turned to Verin, just getting down off her horse, and made an odd bow,
digging the points of his spears into the ground and extending his right hand,
palm up. His voice became respectful. "Wise One, my water is
yours."
Verin handed her reins to one of the soldiers. She studied the Aiel as she came closer. "Why do you call me that? Do you take me for an Aiel?"
"No, Wise One. But you have the look of those who have made the journey to Rhuidean and survived. The years do not touch the Wise Ones in the same way as other women, or as they touch men." - p.409
"It is said that we will know them when we hear of them, as we will know
him when we see him, for he will be marked. He will come from the west,
beyond the Spine of the World, but be of our blood. He will go to Rhuidean,
and lead us out of the Three-Fold Land." - Urien,
p.411-2
Every stick of furniture had been cleared out of it, even the rugs, and the
stone floor was polished to a bright gleam. Folding screens painted with
strange birds hid walls and windows. - Seanchan room,
p.429
"After the Return, new names will be called to the Blood. Show
yourself fit, and you may shed the name Egeanin for a
higher." - Turak, p.430
"The aroma of kaf," Turak said, "is almost as enjoyable as
the flavor." - p.432
Lord Barthanes is High Seat of House Damodred - p.435
It almost seemed to him that she was in the room with him, that he could smell
her perfume, so much so that he looked around, and laughed to find himself
alone. - Rand, p.449
These hands were made for a smith's hammer, not an axe.
- Perrin, p.450
"One by itself is powerful enough, but I can think of few women strong
enough to survive the flow through the one on Tremalking. The Amyrlin, of
course. Moiraine, and Elaida. Perhaps one or two others. And
three still in training. As for Logain, it would have taken all his
strength simply to keep from being burned to a cinder, with nothing left for
doing anything." - Verin, about the sa'angreal,
p.456
When Rand had asked Verin why she was there, she had only smiled and said,
"To keep the rest of you out of trouble." -
p.459
Ch. 33 A Message From the Dark
"And Verin Sedai was with Barthanes. She gave me such a look when I
came near, I never even tried to tell her." - Hurin,
p.470
Mat shook his head glumly. "The only thing I've sensed is that
somebody's watching me, most of the time." - p.471
But how long before he tells somebody what I am, not even meaning to?
- Rand, about Mat, p.472
Rand landed on his feet with a thud, listening and peering into the night.
For a moment he thought he saw something move, heard a boot scrape on the brick
walk, but neither was repeated, and he dismissed it as
nervousness. - p.477
"What is it he carries with him, with Trollocs to guard it? What is
it you seek?" Barthanes seemed shocked at the directness of his own
questions. - p.479
"And there has been a woman, a lady, I have seen more than once while
asking after him." - a thug, p.487
"If you mean Barthanes, you're too late. Everyone's talking about it
already. He is dead. His servants found him this morning, torn to
pieces in his bedchamber. The only way they knew it was him was his head
stuck on a spike over the fireplace." - Zera, p.488
"If I keep the Horn of Valere, all between myself and the throne would
think I meant to be first hereafter, and while the Empress, of course, wishes
that we contend with one another so that the strongest and most cunning will
follow her, she currently favors her second daughter, and she would not look
well on any threat to Tuon." - Turak, p.497
"I have often wondered if a grolm could kill a Trolloc."
- Turak, p.498
"If they discover I'm Outside without permission, the Elders will almost
certainly decide I need a wife to settle me down. Before I know it,
they'll have sent a message to Stedding Shangtai, to my mother, and she will
come here and have me married before she washes off the dust of her
journey. She's always said I am too hasty and need a
wife." - Loial, p.511
"Trayal was one of the last among us to go along the Ways," Alar said
softly. "He came out as you see him. Will you touch him, Verin?"
Verin gave her a long look, then rose and strode to Trayal. He did not move as she laid her hands on his wide chest, not even a flicker of an eye to acknowledge her touch. With a sharp hiss, she jerked back, staring up at him, then whirled to face the Elders. "He is... empty. This body lives, but there is nothing inside it. Nothing." Every Elder wore a look of unbearable sadness. - p.515
"Verin says you are ta'veren," she said at last, "and I
can feel it in you. That I can do so means that you must be very strongly ta'veren
indeed, for such Talents ever run weakly in us, if at
all." - Alar, p.516
"You will look after him, and when the weaving is done, you will see that
he comes safely home to Stedding Shangtai." - Alar,
p.517
"I do not think Tarmon Gai'don will pass us by, or leave us in
peace." - Alar, p.524
"That indicates a Stone on Toman Head. It is one of the three Stones
for which I know the symbol; the only one of those three I've
visited." - Verin, p.525
At last he settled on one, with an arrow pointing left because it pointed toward
Toman Head, an arrow that pierced the circle because it had broken free, as he
wanted to. He wanted to laugh. Such small things on which to gamble
all their lives. - Rand, p.527
Women came too, shouldering what weapons they could find, marching alongside the
men. Some laughed, saying that they had the strange feeling they had done
this before. - the Two Rivers, p.529
Egwene married him; Egwene, stern-faced in the stole of the Amyrlin Seat, led
the Aes Sedai who gentled him; Egwene, with tears in her eyes, plunged a dagger
into his heart, and he thanked her as he died. - Rand,
p.532
"A surge of the One Power." The Aes Sedai tottered to her feet
and pulled her cloak tight with a shiver. "It was as if we were being
forced... pushed... It seemed to come out of
nowhere." - Verin, p.533
The Shienaran gave a start when she touched his arm, and looked at her with
frantic eyes. "I walk in the Light," he said hoarsely.
"I will find the Horn of Valere and pull down Shayol Ghul's power. I
will!" - Ingtar, p.534
"Rand, I'd never tell anyone about - about you. I wouldn't betray
you. You have to believe that!" - Mat, p.534
Oddly, she felt almost as if he were not there any longer, as if he had ceased
to exist, along with her dreams, a few weeks after reaching the White
Tower. - Egwene, about Rand, p.539
Ch. 39 Flight From the White Tower
Nynaeve looked disappointed, and her voice sharpened. "You trot those
horses out and saddle them, or you'll have need of Liandrin's Healing, if she
will give it to you."
The groom mouthed Liandrin's name, but one look at Nynaeve's face and he saw to the horses with no more than a mutter or two, not loud enough for any but himself to hear. - p.552
"I must go last," Liandrin said. "All of you, in. I
will follow." She was eyeing the woods now, too, as if she thought
someone might be following them. "Quickly!
Quickly!" - p.556
She could sense that taint, after a fashion. It was faint and had nothing
to do with saidar, but she was sure that reaching for the True Source
here would be like baring her arm to foul, greasy smoke in order to reach a
clean cup. Whatever she did would be twisted. -
Egwene, in the Ways, p.559
"Egwene, what if, after all you are going through for him, Rand doesn't
marry you? What if he marries some woman you've never seen before, or
Elayne, or me? What then?" - Min, p.560
"You will make no move against me, Liandrin. Our master would
disapprove, as I am surely needed here more than you, and you fear him more than
you fear being made damane." - Suroth, p.568
"You must find the woman Nynaeve," Liandrin said sharply. "Elayne
is of no importance, but both the woman and this girl here must be taken with
you on your ships when you sail." - p.568
Alwhin: blue-eyed sul'dam to Suroth - p.574
"There isn't much time," he said. "I feel... something...
pulling me to Falme, and there isn't much time." He saw Verin
watching him and added harshly, "Not that. It's Fain I have to
find. It has nothing to do with... that." -
Rand, p.586
"The grave is cold and lonely, save for the worms. The grave is
mine. This time there will be no rebirth for you. This time the
Wheel of Time will be broken and the world remade in the image of the
Shadow. This time your death will be forever! Which will you
choose? Death everlasting? Or life eternal - and
power!" - Ishamael, p.587
Ba'alzamon took half a step back, holding the banner clutched before him.
Flames leapt in his wide eyes and mouth, and the darkness seemed to cloak him in
shadow. In the Shadow. The Power sank into that black mist and
vanished, soaked up like water on parched sand. - p.588
But on the chair back, tendrils of smoke still rose from the charred impressions
of fingers. - p.589
"I don't understand most of it - I almost never do - but I see things I am
sure link you to Rand, and Perrin, and Mat, and - yes, even Galad, the Light
help you for a fool." - Min, to Egwene, p.600
A man's ring of heavy gold floated above Nynaeve's head, and above Elayne's, a
red-hot iron and an axe. - Min, p.605
There had been something about the heavy-shouldered man who had dashed out of
sight, something that tickled his memory. Yes, of course. The lad
who claimed to be a blacksmith. What was his name?
- Geofram Bornhald, p.615
She added a fifth line and drew a circle around all five. The hair on
Rand's neck stirred; it was the same wheel she had rubbed out in the first
place. "Five will ride forth," she
murmured. - Verin, p.619
"The only way I could help you would be if I channeled the Power, and that
would be no help at all if I brought them down on you. Even if they were
not close enough to see, one might well feel a woman - or a man, for that matter
- channeling, if care was not taken to keep the Power channeled
small." - Verin, p.620
"What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I
did that, the Horn couldn't save me. The Creator couldn't save me. I
would damn myself."
Ingtar stared at him, his face unreadable. "You mean that exactly, don't you?" - p.640
"I have been dreaming. I thought Rand was here. I couldn't see
him, but I thought..." Her voice trailed off.
- Egwene, p.644
"And I think whoever finds you will ask a great many questions before they
remove those collars." - Nynaeve, to the sul'dam,
p.648
"She's in trouble," Rand muttered. Egwene. There was an
odd feeling in his head, as if pieces of his life were in danger. Egwene
was one piece, on thread of the cord that made his life, but there were others,
and he could feel them threatened. Down there, in Falme. And if any
of those threads was destroyed, his life would never be complete, the way it was
meant to be. He did not understand it, but the feeling was sure and
certain. - p.653
"The prophecy says, 'Let who sounds me think not of glory, but of
salvation.' It was my salvation I was thinking of. I would sound the
Horn, and lead the heroes of the Ages against Shayol Ghul. Surely that
would have been enough to save me. No man can walk so long in the Shadow
that he cannot come again into the Light. That is what they say.
Surely that would have been enough to wash away what I have been, and
done." - Ingtar, p.654
Ch. 47 The Grave Is No Bar to My Call
Gaidal Cain, a swarthy man with the hilts of his two swords sticking out above
his broad shoulders, guides his horse with his knees -
p.660,1
Michael instead of Mikel. Patrick instead of Paedrig. Oscar instead
of Otarin. - p.660
"You could tell him, Lews Therin, could you but remember when you wore
flesh." He was looking at Rand. - Artur
Hawkwing, p.661
"I have fought by your side times beyond number, Lews Therin, and faced you
as many more. The Wheel spins us out for its purposes, not ours, to serve
the Pattern. I know you, if you do not know
yourself." - Artur Hawkwing, p.661
"The Pattern weaves itself around our necks like halters," Artur
Hawkwing said. "You are here. The banner is here. The
weave of this moment is set. We have come to the Horn, but we must follow
the banner. And the Dragon." - p.661-2
Artur Hawkwing clapped the sniffer on the shoulder. "Sometimes the
Wheel adds to our number, friend. Perhaps you will find yourself among us,
one day." - p.662
"You are mine, or you are dead. In which case, you are mine
anyway." - Ishamael, p.664
"I will never serve you, Father of Lies. In a thousand lives, I never
have. I know that. I'm sure of it. Come. It is time to
die." - Rand, p.666
And there was something drawing her on, as surely as if she had a string
attached to her. - Min, p.667
"I - I felt him pulling at me. Needing me. Elayne felt it
too. I thought it must be something to do with - with what he is, but
Nynaeve didn't feel anything." - Egwene, p.670
"I have guided his steps, pushed him, pulled him, enticed him. He was
always stubborn, but this time I will shape him. Ishamael thinks he
controls events, but I do." - Lanfear, p.671
"Moiraine said Nynaeve must have done something, or you wouldn't have lived
till we carried you to Verin, but Nynaeve says she was too frightened to light a
candle." - Min, p.674
"I did not send Verin." Moiraine frowned. "She did
that on her own." - p.675
"You battled the Dark One," Masema said. Masema, who hated
him. Masema, who looked at him as if seeing a vision of the Light.
"I saw you, Lord Dragon. I saw. I am your man, to the
death." His dark eyes shone with fervor. -
p.679
And men cried out to the Creator, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of
the World, let the Promised One be born of the mountain, according to the
Prophecies, as he was in Ages past and will be in Ages to come. Let the
Prince of the Morning sing to the land that green things will grow and the
valleys give forth lambs. Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us
from the Dark, and great sword of Justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride
again on the winds of time.
- from The Cycle of the Dragon,>
author unknown, the Fourth Age - p.681
His sign was an acorn. - Luc, p.697
The Pattern of an Age is slightly different each time an Age comes, and each
time it is subject to greater change, but each time it is the same
Age. - p.706
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