Theoryland of the Wheel of Time

TOR Questions of the Week Part II (Verbatim)

If a wolfbrother is reborn in another Age, will he be a wolfbrother again? In other words, is being a wolfbrother a trait related to the soul? Can women be wolfbrothers?

Women certainly can be wolfbrothers, though the term would be wolfsisters. A wolfbrother or wolfsister reborn in another age would only be a wolfbrother or wolfsister again if that were possible in that Age. The ability to speak with wolves doesn't exist in every Age. In the "current" Age, it is a fairly new thing, appearing not too long ago. There are tales of it, sometimes just vague stories of people who supposedly "can talk to animals," without necessarily mentioning wolves, but remember that Elyas's ability was taken, at least by some Aes Sedai, as a sign that he was linked to the Shadow.

wolfbrothers, wolfsisters, elyas,

Twitter 2009-2010 (WoT) (Verbatim)

A Question: I'm curious, how did Elyas escape Tar Valon and Blacks in the Red Ajah? Did Ila, Raen, Luca help him? Laras?

Going to have to RAFO anything about Elyas.

elyas,

Twitter 2009-2010 (WoT) (Verbatim)

Terez

Terez

Brandon Sanderson

Maria Simons

I can’t find anything to clarify this, either. I will just offer up anecdote: I have been reading WoT for 22 years, and went to work for its creator over 17 years ago. I could be said to live and breathe The Wheel of Time. But Terez has taught me much about WoT. It could be a TEOTWism, or Lan could have been thinking of some very specific things that Elyas shared that he found helpful.

Footnote—Terez

I thought about asking how Elyas could teach Lan anything about the sword, too, but I figured the Blight bit was the most incredible. TEOTWism: this was stolen from the fandom for Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. The first book of that series is called Gardens of the Moon, and in that fandom, details that are particular to the first book—details that cause continuity issues later in the series—are referred to as GOTMisms.

mafo, maria, elyas, lan, the blight, errors,

Twitter 2011 (WoT) (Verbatim)

Is it error when Elyas told Perrin [in The Eye of the World] chapter 29 that no Hawkwing's kin stayed in Randland? (Mayene's Firsts claim kinship)

I haven't looked at it specifically, but my guess would be that Elyas doesn't know or believe the claims.

hawkwing, elyas, berelain, mayene, errors,

Twitter 2011 (WoT) (Verbatim)

BRANDON SANDERSON

LORI ELENA MELE

BRANDON SANDERSON

BRANDON SANDERSON

TEREZ

TEREZ

BRANDON SANDERSON

TEREZ

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TEREZ

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TEREZ

wotrr, perrin, elyas, wot themes,

Sydney Independent Theatre Q&A (Verbatim)

Would a Gaidin be aware if his Aes Sedai was Black?

There are some ways that the Aes Sedai can fuzz, so to speak, the two way nature of the bond. After all, think about it a minute. Do you know many women who'd really like to have this guy looking over her shoulder if she was getting it on with somebody? This minute that she doesn't really want him to know what's going on, what she's doing, she can fuzz the bond to the extent that Elyas Machera has to ask whether the woman who is his... who held his bond has perished. He needs to know. He can't be sure simply by feeling because she fuzzed the bond after he ran away so he wouldn't know until she tapped him on the shoulder.

elyas, warder bond, warders, aes sedai, black ajah,

DragonCon Report - Isabel (Paraphrased)

I have a question regarding the Wolfbrothers such as Perrin and Elyas and Thom's nephew.

Question

Robert Jordan

perrin, elyas, wolfbrothers,

Sydney Signing Report - dicetosser (Paraphrased)

Is speaking to Wolves hereditary?

RJ's notes say it is a soul-bound ability which basically means every time Perrin Noam and Elyas are born they will have the ability to speak to wolves.

wolfbrothers, souls, perrin, elyas,