This video provides a comprehensive plot summary of the first book in The Wheel of Time series, The Eye of the World. The presenter, Daniel Greene, aims to help viewers who may have forgotten details of the story or are new to the series and want to understand its ending. He covers the deep backstory of the world's breaking, introduces key characters, and walks through the major events of the first book, using visual aids on a whiteboard.
Hello, my name is Daniel Green and starting today, I'm going to begin summarizing the entirety of The Wheel of Time for you, all 14 of these books. The number one reason I see people end up putting down what I consider to be America's greatest fantasy epic is they just end up forgetting too much. Around book 6, 7, or 8, they put it down for a while, take a break from 6 months to a year, and by the time they come back to it, picking up book 8, 9, 10, it just doesn't make sense anymore. And so I want this video to solve that problem. For anyone who is enjoying The Wheel of Time and needs a refresher, you can look at the chapters in this video and jump exactly to the book you need a refresher on. Or if you're disappointed by the recent cancellation of The Wheel of Time show, you actually want to know how this story ends, but you're not necessarily a voracious book reader. This is also just a way you can find that catharsis cuz I think it's really unfair that you wouldn't be able to otherwise. Jeffrey, [Music] come on Jeffrey, you can do it. As far as I'm aware, this is the most ambitious summary in the history of book. So, if you could drop a like and subscribe, I would really appreciate it. But without any further ado, let us begin our summary of the first book, The Eye of the World. Before we meet any of the iconic characters this series is known for, Randolph Thor, Perrin, Barara, Iguain, Alvir, Matram, Coffin, Morane, Dadre. We actually start 3,000 years in the past and we witness the beginning of the breaking of the world. What causes this? I'm very glad you asked. You see, we are at the very tail end of the war of the shadow where the dragon lose Theren Telmon depicted here as LTT was able to seal the dark one away in a flawed prison. But uh excuse me, two problems with that. One, it's a flawed prison. And guess what? In 3,000 years, that's going to be a problem. But two, the Dark One was able to do one last thing. You see, the male half of the one power within Wheel of Time has been tainted. Before the seals could be put in place, the Dark One put his taint on Siadine. The jokes you're thinking of, yes, are often made in the fandom. It is referred to as his taint. It is the Dark One's taint. It is dirty and drives men. All of those things are true. But the other half of the one power, Siadar, wielded by exclusively women, remained clean. And so, while male channelers began to be driven mad across the world, causing unimaginable levels of damage, it fell to female eyes to die to find, gentle, and or kill their male counterparts. And this was not an easy smooth process and was so destructive the world was destroyed to the point where maps were no longer accurate. I often see the question of like how did they technologically go from what's shown to us as like a magic and tech utopia to borderline medieval times where the series picks up because it's kind of like if the Black Death World War I and two happened and then every political leader went insane and launched all their nukes at once society wouldn't do well. But it begins in the Wheel of Times prologue. You see, Luther in Telmon is wandering around his house, the dragon's palace, and yelling for his wife, going really trying to get this woman's attention, but she's not responding. And the vibes are off. And a stranger appears within his palace and begins mocking him. Now, Loose Theren Telmon does not exactly seem aware of this mocking and is also unable to find his children. It's going to be as bad as you think because he's already insane. And this stranger in his house actually heals LSE Theren's madness to show him what he's done, which is not only Butcher, his servants, and friends, but his family in his insanity. And he is now surrounded by everyone he loves dead. So that victorious army, not exactly feeling it anymore, represented by all the dead people here. And in his grief, Loose Theren Telmon kind of goes crazy again and ends up making Dragon Mount the tallest peak in the world. And imagine if Mount Everest just shot up in the middle of an area, things would be destroyed. And that's just the start. And so after millennia of destruction, finally society is able to rebuild. There is the rise and fall of empires, but eventually civilization stabilizes and we pick up 3,000 years later with a wind. A wind that's blowing across the world. And this is the iconic opening you will see in every single Wheel of Time book. And it goes as follows. 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 passed. A wind rose in the mountains of mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the wheel of time, but it was a beginning. My god, I got chills. And that right there is Robert Jordan doing a remarkable amount of world building in this poetic just as a reading experience because this whole mythology is built around what you just read on the broadest scope possible. Time reality itself is a wheel here. The age that once was will come again and this third age has happened in an endless cycle. But every single time this age occurs, the stakes could not be higher. But we'll get into that and you're going to hear me say that a lot. But the second thing is those mountains of mist eventually lead to a country road where we find two individuals walking with their pony Bella. Hold up. First fan theory. Take this as legitimately as you will. I know fans who will die on this hill. I know some who believe it is a joke. And I know others who think this is just stupid. But many fans believe Bella seen here depicted wonderfully is actually the creator of reality. It's a fan theory. Believe it if you want to. What evidence is there? Bella is a relevant character for a long time. Beyond that, not too much. Also, I think there's one like lore breaking thing with this horse that happens later on, but whatever. We'll get there. The two characters that we're going to be focusing on now are Tam Althor and his son Randall Thor, seen here with his very notable red hair. Why is it notable? Well, he's a tall, pale white dude with red hair, and there is no one else in the Two Rivers that matches that exact description, meaning like the red hair. Solo Ginger. And they are bringing casks of brandy to their local village, Emmensfield. And the reason I actually put an apple here to remind myself of this is I always remember this as them bringing Tabach to Beltane, which is not right even though they're farmers. Uh, because Two Rivers and Emmensfield specifically is known for making like the best Tabach in the world to smoke out of a pipe. So I always end up whatever. They're bringing brandy and apple cider and Rand is keeping a bow on him because there's been a lot of wolves cited recently and more importantly bears. And Rand specifically says he's more afraid of bears because wolves aren't going to be the things that are hurting him. You'll see why that's relevant. But well on watch with his bow, Rand looks behind him and sees a rider. Except it's not a very chill rider. Immediately spooky vibes. All black cloak that does not move in the wind. What? We just heard about a big wind coming through the mountains of mist. There is extraordinary detail taken to talk about it flapping Ran's cloak repeatedly and this writer not touched by it. Just no. How about no? But as Ran tries to keep his eyes on this person before he can warn his father, his boot strikes a rock and he stumbles. Looks back up and the rider gone. Not good. It's like when you're scuba diving and seeing a shark is fine. Suddenly having the shark gone. Bad. Very bad. And then he tells his father and he kind of expects his father to be like, "Boy, your imagination's playing with you." But Tam isn't just a dad. He's the best dad. And he actually kind of takes Ran's warning seriously. And they keep like a sharp eye out. They're like, "All right, I don't like that." And this is already foreshadowing some interesting facts we'll get about Tam later. But they do end up arriving at Immen's Field, so happily depicted here with its very joyous son. Uh, and the festivities already kind of beginning with their brandy, and they start unloading. And Rand runs into his very good buddy, Matrim Coffin, the local town scoundrel. Now, Matt excitedly tells Rand that like, "Hey, man. Let's sneak away and not help your dad unload because there's honey cakes from Mistress Alvir, Gwain's mother. And also, huh, there's strangers in town." But Tam sees them, makes him unload the casks, and from there, well, we got to ask about those strangers because Rand of course is like, "Hey, was one of them wearing a black cloak and scary as which Matt is like, "No, not at all. In fact, one of them has a patchwork cloak cuz he's a gleeman named Tom Marilyn. The most important things you remember about Tom Marilyn right now are my guy has the greatest mustache that's ever been. He has a patchwork cloak that Robert Jordan will describe to you 60 quintillion times. And he does nothing but spit facts. Tom Maryland just facts all day. Great guy. I look handsome. I look smart. I am a walking work of art. We also meet Parn Abara during this time who is the local town blacksmith's apprentice. Though that is not his father. Mr. Luhan is simply his trainer. Parents family lives outside the village on their own farm. He is there when our boys meet Tom Maryland and he juggles for them while gently prodding for information. And then finally, we meet Naive Almira, the town wisdom, who is notably very young for the role, only a couple years older to our main group of young leagues we've met so far. Definitely babysitter vibes for them. Her authority is questioned by some of the elders of the town, but she brooks no nonsense and certainly wants to be looking after those kids that she is so close to. The next two strangers are described as a beautiful noble woman and her guard who actually has a color shifting cloak. Huh. It's not patchwork, but if he stands perfectly still, it kind of like blends into the environment like a chameleon. All right, we have special cloaks immediately taking a prominent point in the narrative. And as you can tell, none of these people are a mysterious rider with a black cloak. There is another person in town, though, who isn't a stranger. He's a local merchant who shows up every now and then to help these people buy things from outside the faraway distant place they exist in. So far from the capital city of Andor, Camelin, that they rarely ever even see the queen's taxmen. Uh, basically Pon Feain is like their connection to the outside world and news. And Pon Fain likes this in not a good way because immediately this guy is stirring up drama. Well, he's telling the truth. He's not doing it in the chillest way. He's like there's war. War is bad. And there's also false dragons like never before. False dragons being men who can channel, who claim themselves to be the dragon reborn because it has been prophesied that the dragon will be born again to fight the dark one. And if you're a man who can channel, you know you're going to go insane and be killed. The mentality of a lot of them is like, it might as well say I'm the dragon reborn cuz what's the other alternative? Not good. But this moment is used to emphasize just how uneducated and distant from the rest of the world Emmensfield is. They don't even understand their own lore that I've been describing to you so far. In fact, it has to be said to one of them that no, the dragon is not the dark one. And then some people debate whether I sad to die serve the dark one because they're responsible for the world breaking, which isn't wrong. You'll notice these people have a whole lot of half truths. It's a representation of how over time myths become legend and continuing that whole thing. And it's very clear in his writing of these people in Emmensfield that Robert Jordan loves country folk. He has a very deep place in his heart for the simpler lifestyle. He also thinks a lot of these people are idiots, but in a loving way. You got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land, the common clay of the new west, you know, morons. But Rand with Pin and Matt and one other local farm boy who doesn't matter. Get out. End up running into a weird raven that just stares at them. And they even throw a rock at it. And the raven doesn't fly off, but just goes, [Music] "That's creepy." Good job, Robert Jordan. Lowkey, Wheel of Time has some strong horror vibes throughout it. Uh, and it's so strange that it distracts them from the little tiniest woman who ever existed walking up behind them. Morin, yes, we're going to go ahead and get this out of the way because she's extraordinarily well-known, and you probably already know this, is an eyes and is the Gandalf for the Wheel of Time. Uh, she is the wizard shown up to find the farm boy. And she ends up talking to our three fellas and gives them coins. Why does she give them money? Well, she is kind of just doing like a ah here have some money kids thing, but we quickly learn that these are actually trackers because she has been hunting for some special boys. And it turns out she's found three special boys. But not until Morraine, the tiniest woman ever, turns and walks away that they notice her warder, who they think is a guard land was standing like right there because his cloak is that good. And then he like moves and they're like, Jesus Christ. It's scary camouflage, but like even better. But we see that actually Tam is taking a lot of what Pon Fane is saying seriously. He doesn't buy into Pon Fane's necessarily like fear-mongering, but Tam is like, "We should prepare. We should send some people to Devon Ride and make sure that if the disruptions in the world do reach us, we're ready for it." And again, this is showing us Tam is a very capable man. And then the final very notable thing that happens in Rand's day in Immensfield is he runs into his love interest, Aguain Alvir, the daughter of the married couple that runs the only inn in town. Aguain is the youngest of the group, but also doesn't let herself get pushed around and is the most eager to, let's say, to quote Bilbo, go on an adventure. But afterward, Rand and Tam head on home. And quickly, this night goes really bad. There's a moment early on where they're sitting down for dinner where Rand notices his father takes an incredibly nice sword out that Ran did not know that he owns and just gets it ready. That's terrifying. Imagine if you did not know your like father that the only person you lived with in this isolated area owned a weapon and like in the middle of dinner they just put a Glock on the table and you're like, "What the hell?" And they're like, "Just in case what?" And it turns out Tam absolutely right because there's some disturbances outside with their farm animals and then trolls attack their farm. But Tam ain't no pushover. He whips out his sword and actually starts dueling them very well. I don't This is sword fighting to me. And he tells Rand because obviously farm boy, I'm your dad. I'm going to save you. Leave. And Rand does run from the farmhouse, but he can't run too far because he doesn't want to just abandon his father. While waiting not too far from the farm, Rand is found by Tam again, showing that Tam knows his [ __ ]. But Tam, despite having beaten the trolics, is very badly wounded, and Rand needs to figure out a way to get his father all the way back down that country road for the third time today. My god. So, he heads on over to I think it's the sheep pin to grab a board to put them on so he can drag his father all the way back to Immen's field. It's not smooth because while he is trying to gather these things, a trollic wanders on in and is like, "I knew you were going to be here." All the other trolics left to go help with the town, but Nar's smart. Nar wait an ambush. And some people might be thinking, "Hey, I watched the Wheel of Time show. A trollic never spoke." And I want you to know again, in the entirety of the rest of Wheel of Time, a trollic never speaks again. Rand also, having taken his father's sword, kind of accidentally kills this trollic by like having it fall on the blade, which is another thing related to him being Talvan we'll talk about later. And so this is the one trollic that was smart enough to speak coherently in like full sentences, and Ran stopped it. So you see this little fish evolving. Rand squished it. Just absolutely. Maybe Trolls could have had a peaceful future. Nar smart. Maybe Nar eventually would have realized peace. We don't have to serve the dark one. We can move beyond. But a farm boy just came through. And I don't know. I've always just found this so funny. But Rand hauls his father onto the plank and begins dragging him all the way back to town. Except Tam's not looking too good, guys. You see, Tam bleeding out is starting to have that thing where you're like feverish and having like flashbacks to the past. And he starts talking about his time fighting in the Iel War, a war that ended roughly around the time that Rand was born. And he talks about how the AI just came over the dragon wall like a swarm. And they were such incredibly dangerous, scary opponents. But then he starts talking about finding a little boy born of one of the Ail on the slopes of Dragon Mount. And he he picked it up and saved it and and brought it back to his wife and they raised it. And so basically Rand after having the worst day of his life dragging his father down a mountain is learning he's adopted which like my guy you never noticed the hair thing. But as the sun begins to rise because this takes a long time. Rand gets to the village and sees that there are like still fires being put out because his farm being attacked was not the only one. Uh, the village itself was laid siege to and would have likely been burned completely to the ground, but Morraine, the Isay, who is posing as a noble person, had a moment where she's like, "All right, well, disguise off. Let's murder." And so her and her water land came out and single-handedly kind of, I mean, some of the villagers did fight back, pushed off the troll assault. Brand does bring his father to Morraine and she is able to heal him despite being already exhausted, uh, from having to do so much other channeling in this time and importantly she's originally like we have to leave before your father regains consciousness cuz she wasn't able to like fully heal him back to like huh I'm great due to how much she was already spent. She was basically just stabilizing him. But eventually Rand's like, "No, I need to talk to my dad." And I think I even got this wrong in a previous summary where I said Rand wasn't able to say goodbye to his father. He is able to say goodbye to his father, but that doesn't happen quite yet because during all of this chaos, a few notable things happen. One, Moraine asks Rand whether or not he's been having strange dreams and tells him that she can help with that. Dreams are a very important thing in the Wheel of Time. We'll get to that. to keep track of how many times I say that throughout this video. But his sword, the one that he took from his father, is also taken note of by Lan, who notes that there is a heron mark on it, meaning it is the sword of a master bladesman. Like someone who was able to actually go through a process to prove they are a top top tier swordsman. So, you know, Tam just just pulled that out of nowhere. So, basically, it's not like he put a Glock on the table. It's like he put a Marines decked out rifle on the table and you didn't know he had that. But the final bit of key information we get here is that a lot of these attacks seem targeted. This was not a random trollic raid. There was an organization to the trollics efforts. And while Rand was actually making his way down this country road for the third time, he had to hide at one point from the troll army leaving the village with the merger leading them. A merger is this. They are servants of the dark one who are able to like take control of groups of trolics and make them more organized, better fighters. But in linking themselves to trollics, they create a vulnerability where if the merral dies, all of the trolics they are linked to do the droid thing from the Phantom Menace and shut down. But it's also known that if you're going to kill my draw, you need like a battalion of men. They do not go down easy. You could even like shoot them in the face and they will not accept that they are dead yet is how it's put which is really scary. Again, kind of a horror book. But Rand not willing to leave until his father wakes up falls asleep in a chair next to him and he has scary ass dreams where yes, there are trolics in Merrrol. But there's also a scary man in voice. I wonder who that could be. Who's telling him that he needs to serve him. Rand is started awake. And yeah, keep track of how many times dreams are important throughout this series. It's going to be a lot. But he's able to finally say his goodbyes to his father. But as they're preparing to leave, we see that there is some serious rabble rabbling happening outside. What do I mean by that? Well, the villagers in their infinite wisdom have decided to come together and blame Morraine for the trolics and merger all showing up. You know, oh, outsiders are here, so let's blame all of our problems on them. I'm sure that never happens in the real world, but this brings us to very early on in the series. Debatably Morraine's greatest moment. It is so fantastic because ignorance is a massive thing in the Wheel of Time. And Morraine, knowing what these lands used to be, is able to say, "Well, I'll just actually read her words. Is this what Aeons blood has come to?" The Isedai voice was not loud, but it overwhelmed every other sound. Little people squabbling for the right to hide like rabbits. You have forgotten who you were, forgotten what you were, but I had hoped some small part was left, some memory and blood and bone, some shred to steal you for the long night coming. No one spoke. The two coplains looked as if they had never wanted to open their mouths again. Bran said, "Forgotten who we were. We are who we always have been. Honest farmers and sheep herders and craftsmen. Two Rivers folk. To the south Orane said, lies the river you call the White River. But far to the east of here, men call it still by its rightful name, Manithindel. In the old tongue, waters of the mountain home. Sparkling waters that once coursed through a land of bravery and beauty. 2,000 years ago. Manthrandel flowed by the walls of a mountain city so lovely to behold that Ogar stonesmen came to stare in wonder. Farms and villages covered this region and that you call the forest of shadows as well and beyond. But all those folk thought of themselves as the people of the mountain home and the people of Mranin. Their king was Aeon Alcar Althorin. Ammon son of Carson son of A Thorin and Elendrin by Allen. By Carlon was his queen. Aeon, a man so fearless at the greatest compliment of courage any could give, even among his enemies, was to say a man had Aeon's heart. Eldrin, so beautiful that it was said the flowers bloom to make her smile. Bravery and beauty and wisdom and love that death could not sunder. Weep if you have a heart for the loss of them, for the loss of even their memory. Weep for the loss of their blood. She fell silent then, but no one spoke. Rand was bound as the others in the spell she had created. When she spoke again, he drank it in, and so did the rest. For nearly two centuries, the trollic wars had ravaged the length and breadth of the world. And wherever battles raged, the red eagle banner of Minethan was on the front line. The men of Mane were a thorn to the dark one's foot and a bramble to his hand. Sing of Manthan that would never bend knee to the shadow. Sing of Manthan, the sword that could not be broken. They were far away, the men of Minethan, on the field of Bear, called the field of blood. When news came that a trollic army was moving against their home, too far to do else but wait to hear of their land's death. For the forces of the Darwin meant to make an end of them, kill the mighty oak by hacking away its roots. Too far to do else but mourn. But they were the men of the mountain. Without hesitation, without thought, for the distance they must travel, they marched from the very field of victory, still covered in dust and sweat and blood. Day and night they marched, for they had seen the horror a trollic army left behind. And no man could see sleep while such a danger threatened Methan. They moved as if their feet had wings, marching further and faster than friends hoped or enemies feared they could. At any other day, that march alone would have inspired songs. When the Dark One's armies swooped down upon the lands of Enthan, the men of the mountain home stood before it with their backs to the Tyrandelle. Some villagers raised a small cheer. Then Orin kept on as if she had not heard. The host that faced the men of Manine was enough to daunt the bravest heart. Ravens blackened the sky. Trolls blackened the land. Trolls and their human allies. Trolls and dark friends and tens and tens of thousand. And dreadlords to command. At night, their cook fires outnumbered the stars. And dawn revealed the banner of Balaman at their head. Balaman, heart of darkness, an ancient name for the father of lies. The dark one could not have been free of his prison at Sha Ghoul. For if he had been, not all the forces of humankind together could have stood against him, but there was power there. Dreadlords and some evil that made that light destroying banner seem no more than right and sent a chill into the souls of the men who faced it. Yet they knew what they must do. Their home lay just across the river. They must keep that host and the power with it from the mountain home. Aeon had sent out messengers. Aid was promised if they could hold out for but three days at the Terrenell. Hold out for three days against odds that should have overwhelmed them in the first hour. Yet somehow through bloody assault and desperate defense, they held through an hour and the second and the third. For three days they fought. And though the land became a butcher's yard, no crossing of the Therendelle did they yield. By the third night, no help had come and no messengers, and they fought on alone for 649. On the 10th day, Aeon knew the bitter taste of betrayal. No help was coming, and they could hold the river crossings no more. What did they do? Harry demanded, torched fires flickering in the chill night breeze, but no one made a move to draw a cloak tighter. Ammon crossed the Therell, Moraine told them. Destroying the bridges behind him. And he sent word throughout his land for the people to flee. For he knew the powers of the trollic horde would find a way to bring it across the river. Even as the word went out, the trollic crossing began. And the soldiers of Manine took up the fight again to buy with their lives what hours they could for their people to escape. From the city of Manine, Eldrin organized the flight of her people into the deepest forests and the fastness of the mountains. But some did not flee. First in a trickle, then a river, then a flood. Men went not for safety, but to join the army, fighting for their land. Shepherds with bows and farmers with pitchforks and woodsmen with axes. Women went too, shouldering what weapons they could find and marching alongside with their men. No one made that journey, who did not know they would never return. But it was their land. It had been their fathers, and it would be their children's, and they went to pay the price of it. Not a step of ground was given until it was soaked in blood. But at the last the army of Enthan was driven back back to here to this place you now call Emmensfield. And here the troll hordes surrounded them. Her voice held the sound of cold tears. Trolls dead and the corpses of human renegades piled up in mounds. But always more scrambled over. Those carnal heaps and waves of death that had no end. There could be but one finish. No man or woman who had stood beneath the banner of the red eagle at that day's dawning still lived when night fell. The sword that could not be broken was shattered. In the mountains of mist, alone in the emptied city of Manthan, Eldrin felt Aeon die, and her heart died with him. And where her heart had been was left only a thirst for vengeance. Vengeance for her love, vengeance for her people and her land. Driven by grief, she reached out for the true source and hurled the one power at the trollic army. And there the dreadlords died wherever they stood. Whether in their secret council or exorting their soldiers, in the passing of a breath, the dreadlords and their generals of the dark ones host burned in flame. Fire consumed their bodies, and terror consumed their just victorious army. Now they ran like beasts before a wildfire in the forest with no thought for anything but escape. North and south they fled. Thousands drowned attempting to cross the Therendelle without the aid of the dreadlords. And at the Menthandel they tore down the bridges in their fight. At what might be following them where they found people they slew and burned. But to flee was the need that gripped them until at last no one of them remained in the lands of Mine. They were dispersed like the dust before the whirlwind. A final vengeance came slowly, but it came when they were hunted down by other peoples, by other armies in other lands. None was left alive, of those who did murder at Emmen's field. But the price was high for Anthine. Eldrin had drawn to herself more of the one power than any human could ever hope to wield, unaided. As the enemy generals die, so did she die. And the fires that consumed her consumed the empty city of Manthan, even the stones of it, down to the living rock of the mountains. Yet the people had been saved. Nothing was left of their farms, their villages, or their great city. Some would say there was nothing left for them, nothing but to flee to other lands where they could begin a new. They did not say so. They had paid such a price in blood and hope for their land as had never been paid before. And now they were bound to that soil by ties stronger than steel. Other wars would wreck them in years to come until at last their corner of the world was forgotten. And at last they had forgotten wars and the ways of war. Never again did Mine rise. Its soaring spires and splashing fountains became a dream that slowly faded from the mind of its people. But they and their children, their children's children, held the land that was theirs. They held it. The long centuries had washed the why of it from their memories. They held it until today. There is you. Weep for Manine. Weep for what is lost forever. So yeah, imagine that you're a bunch of ignorant farmers like get out of our land. And this person gives you a history lesson on why she actually had faith in you people being worth your land. Ooh. I was there the day the strength of men failed. It works. The mob mostly disperses and Morraine is able to go about her business with one of the most insane monologues in the history of the fantasy genre given that also gives us the reader very justifiably a massive info dump letting us know that yes, between the breaking of the world and now the tricks have returned. The Dark One's armies have, without even the Dark One being freed from its prison, done unbelievable damage to the world. Hence why the concept of the Dark One breaking free of its prison is all the more terrifying. But from here, Moraine gathers up Parin, Rand, Matt, and Aguain. Don't worry about Naive. We'll hear from her later. And they do their leave takingaking, which is actually the name of a chapter. This is the scene that is depicted for the original Eye of the World cover. Their leave takingaking. We know that because the party is going over some mountainous terrain with Draar in the sky. And yeah, they're about to be attacked by a new kind of shadow spawn. Oh boy. There's also a few other notable things about this cover. We have Nicholas Cage behind Morin and Lamb that doesn't match any of the farm boys. And there are some other oddities that I would like to direct your attention towards, including uh, the size of Lan's horse compared to Morraine's. I get that this is feasible, but it also emphasizes that this depiction of Morraine is the tiniest woman ever or Lan is 10 goddamn feet tall and I believe it's the former. His torso, he could hold he could be pregnant with her, but yes, they have to flee because trollic forces are still in the area and Morraine is like, "We need to get up otherwise we're all going to die." And so she begins taking them through the two rivers and wants to take them to Tar Valin, the seat of Isedai power in the Westlands. The Westlands being what's seen on screen here now. It's not the entire world, but it's for the most part the part of the world we need to care about for the Wheel of Time until there's more dun. I can't foreshadow as well as Robert Jordan. I'm sorry. But during this leave taking, aside from being harassed by Drakar, which are like these flying uh creepy vampireesque shadow spawn that can actually like coup to you and do some singing, which will like put you in a trance and then they'll like drink from you and kill you and you'll have like a look of ecstasy while they do it. That's a tangent. Aside from being harassed by them, more trollics and merger and having a fairy like break behind them that like lowkey does to like make sure the trolics can't use it to come after them. Uh, they also find out that Aguain can channel. Look at that. And so Morraine is seen here showing Aguain that she can channel. And Aguain like can't do spells yet. Can barely actually touch the one power. Say Sciadar, her half of the one power, the female half. But we know this makes Rand big salty. He's not liking seeing kind of just embrace leaving. Like, oh, you're really excited about this. I'm terrified. But from here, we also get some dreams with more Spooky Guy. Except now, Spooky Guy has flaming eyes and a mouth. There's not even really a face behind a mask he's wearing. It's just gaping flames. And we find out that all three boys are having this guy enter their dreams. And he seems not to be able to pin down which of them is the dragon reborn. But he's like, "I know it's one of you." He's like, I know one of you three is the dragon reborn and I will make you serve me. And I want to emphasize again this in the third age is the dragon reborn. In the previous age, Lucather and Telmon was just the dragon. Just the dragon. In this age, it will be him reborn. Keep that in mind. People screw that up all the time and calls Lucather and Telmon the dragon reborn. Reborn from what? But Moraine takes the party to an inn where she seems to have some contacts and actually is searching for a specific character with special powers named Men. And this girl scares the hell
