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2010-08-28: According to recent news on Tor.com, the prologue to Towers of Midnight will be available September 21st, less than four weeks away. We will be seeing Lan, Perrin, Galad and the Blight. I have put a link to the download on Amazon.com, although I'm assuming there are other locations for the download.
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Kindle Edition - Distinctions: Prologue to TofM
2010-08-17: As tweeted by Brandon Sanderson a short while ago, "And the file is off to Tor. Final version crept up to 328,000 words (with the new scenes) and is 57 chapters + a prologue and epilogue." The book is set for a November 2nd release. Be on the look out for news of the prologue and the upcoming tour! Can't wait!
2010-06-10: As Brandon Sanderson is finishing the Wheel of Time series, we thought you might want to give The Way of Kings, his new epic coming in August, a first look. Tor.com has unveiled the prelude, prologue and first three chapters, which you can find at the link below. Makes us wonder if The Way of Kings will deserve its own land of Theories...
2010-05-25: Here it is folks - the final cover. Where does it rank for you? Love it? Hate it? Meh?
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@Terez RJ (and Rand perspectives) hinted t...by Homeschool
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@Homeschool - Why do you think they would ...by terez
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There's fair evidence that Fain and the Da...by Homeschool
I concur with Scaw, that Bair is the Dark ...by Vicious Circle
@Tam As I write in the introduction, thos...by Scaw
I have no comment other than that I agree ...by Davian93
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Fain: Shadowspawn Thiefby terez
Linking the Prophecies: The LB, the Great Battle and Rands D...by Scaw
The Hunt for the Hornby Linda
Sorilea is a Darkfriendby terez
Shai'tan and the Great Serpent, One and the Same.by RichardFife
Gawyn Will Kill Randby terez
Seed Singing the Pattern Shutby Anonymous
The Seals and the Prisonby ReDragon
Serving the Great Lord is morally OK? Or how I learned to st...by Unknown
Tarmon Gaidon Break Down.by GamblersDice
Total Number of Theories: 1491
Warning: longtheory is long. However, if you are familiar with the passages that I have quoted from the books, then the theory itself isn't all that long. For those who are less familiar with those passages, I have bolded what I think are some particularly important bits for easy skimming. I do recommend reading all of the quotes in full, though...there are good tidbits in all of them. I will give my interpretation of the quotes, but for the most part, I like to let RJ's words speak for themselves. And Brandon's too, of course. I feel a bit like I am going great lengths to state the obvious here; I have been surprised since Knife of Dreams that the old hats of the fandom are in general so resistant to this idea. Since The Gathering Storm, that resistance is even mor...
CONTENT
1. Introduction
1. 2 Guidelines for interpretation
2. What's up with all the blood?
3. Can Rand survive the Last Battle?
4. Rands funeral
5. Conclusion
6. What is to come
7. A note about babies
1. INTRODUCTION
For me it does not really make sense to write a synopsis, but those who want to know what my conclusion is can read section 5 and section 6 first.
Prophecies & foretellings can obviously be interpreted in many different ways. RJ wrote the prophecies based on what he decided will happen. So the more prophecies relate to the same event, the more likely it is to understand how the event will unfold if you combine different prophe...
My theory explains how Verin delicately guided Egwene to contact the person in the Tower who Verin trusted with the knowledge of the location of the Horn of Valere.
Verin hid the Horn cleverly even to get it to the Tower:
"The Horn of Valere" she (Siuan) gasped. "You brought that all the way here, across hundreds of leagues, with the Hunters looking everywhere for it? Light, woman, it was to be left with Rand al'Thor."
"I know, Mother," Verin said calmly, "but the Hunters all expect to find the Horn in some great adventure, not in a sack with four women escorting a sick youth.
- The Dragon Reborn, The Amyrlin Seat
So when Siuan told Verin to hide it away without telling anyone:
"For the mo...
This is not my theory - the idea was first mentioned on the 13th Depository forums after the release of The Gathering Storm - but I thought it would be a good idea to get all of the evidence for the theory together in one place for easy linking, and to introduce the theory to those who follow Theoryland but might not have considered it.
I didn't consider it, even after reading the book (and apparently, neither did Cadsuane), but now that the idea has been brought to my attention, I realize that it's probably true. If it is true, then Sorilea is probably the most powerful of the unrevealed Darkfriends; her influence among the Wise Ones is almost unchallenged.
Sorilea is first intr...
Do I have your attention? Do you think I'm crazy? Well, take a trip down this rabbit hole with me, then. A few weeks ago was JordanCon, where I was hanging out and talking with Team Jordan one-on-one quite a bit, and collecting interviews that shed light on information in ways that simple Q&A sessions don't. If you haven't checked out the official interviews I did over on Tor.com, you might want to. There is insight to be gleaned by those who would dig.
Anyway, so I have all this rumbling around in my head, and then one day not long ago, I am looking at my car's bumper, where I have the Wheel-and-Serpent bumper sticker I got at the Charleston The Gathering Storm signing. As I look at it, my eyes start tracing the Great S...