The previous episode of Wheel of Time had Mat becoming corrupt from the dagger most likely, but does he also have corruption as the Dragon? Thom Merirlin watches over Rand and they find bodies of the kind farmers with Mat in some kind of trance pointing his dagger. Thom realizes that it is a Fade, Myyrdraal, and takes it on with his daggers and sword. Rand takes away Mat and they escape. Perrin and Egwene travel with the Tinker caravan and find the cost of a peaceful life from the leader, Ila. Keren’s wards are broken. The army of Logain invade the Aes Sedai camp to free their leader. Alanna forms a weave that halts arrows, Logain knocks back Liandrin and Kerene, Alanna sends the arrows back at the army!
Moiraine enters to confront the False Dragon. The three Aes Sedai sisters combine their powers, but Logain manages to kill Kerene. On the battlefield, many Aes Sedai fall which I find improbable especially by ordinary weapons. Stepin is enraged at Kerene’s death and tries to attack Logain, but he sends weapons to take down Moiraine, Liandrin, and Lan. Nynaeve watches as Lan is about to die and then unleashes her full power! It heals everyone. Logain from his conversation with Moiraine knows that the true Dragon would have power like the “raging sun” which he sees with Nynaeve. Liandrin combines the power of all of the Aes Sedai to gentle Logain, cutting him off from the One Power. A forest and snowy mountains is the setting of a ceremony for all of the fallen is presided by Alanna.
Stepin carries the body of Kerene followed by Aes Sedai. He lays her body in a grave and takes her ring. Moiraine places a candle on the cloth covering Kerene. We see that the same rite is given to all of the bodies placed in a circle. We are shown that it is one month later, the Aes Sedai ride on a path through a forest, Logain is a prisoner, but without the One Power, he is blankly staring. What happened in that gap of time would probably be best answered in the Wheel of Time novel. Lan notes that they are within sight of the White Tower. Rand is walking the road in a green cloak, Mat walks behind him weary, apparently they lost their horses, other travelers are behind them. Rand sees a white mountain, the Dragonmount, from his dreams, they climb a hill to see the city of Tar Valon. The White Tower dominates the island with bridges across the River Erinin. Erin is an ancient name for Ireland, after a goddess, this seems to be a variant of that name.
Entering the busy streets of Tar Valon, Rand is stunned at its size, without his hood, he strikes me exactly as the image of Rand al’Thor from the books. Rand leads them to a tavern recommended by Thom. At the expensive, taven room, Mat rests, but wants to know if he killed the farmers including the little girl. Rand answers that it wasn’t him. Nynaeve, Lan, and Moiraine enter the White Tower and go to the rooms of the Warders. This is to keep her away from the other Aes Sedai. Moiraine reassures Nynaeve that she will be informed if her fellow villagers enter the city. She warns her about the politics of the Tower. Moiraine also tells her that once she touched the One Power there is no going back. Perrin and Aram walk with the caravan and Egwene points out the White Tower. The caravan stops and the others check to see the disturbance, it is Whitecloaks and their leader, Eamon Valda, a bit foolish to be so near the White Tower.
He notices Egwene and Perrin and orders them brought to him. Ilia and Raen say they are part of the Tinkers. They defy Eamon and lock arms together, peaceful protest in a fantasy world!, love it! He strikes her, Aram takes away Perrin and Egwene, and other Whitecloaks start beating the Tinkers, bullies. Aram is leading them to a village allied to the Tinkers and says the Whitecloaks won’t kill Tuatha’an. He is knocked down by a Whitecloak rider. The others are surrounded! Rand is looking through bookshelves and finds the Karatheon Cycle in one book. He is startled by a large person with a lion-like nose and a curled top of hair. Rand realizes that he is an Ogier and he introduces himself as Loial (Hammed Animashaun). Loial is an instantly likeable character, a gentle giant like the Beast, but more learned and calm.
He identifies Rand as an Aelman from his red hair and thinks he’s an oddity coming from Two Rivers. Rand notes the book he was interested in was like the one read by Egwene thinking she was Jain Farstrider from the text. The Aes Sedai bring in the False Dragon, the crowd gasps at the empty horse that Stepin is leading, Rand joins Mat at the edge of a building. They see Logain in his cage with Liandrin and Alanna seated behind him. Logain eyes the Two Rivers folk and starts laughing! Stepin returns to the White Tower and other Warders try to console him, but he is only there to return Kerene’s ring. His friends escort him past the lines of Warders and statues of past Warders. He goes to a stone bowl lit with a fire at a White Tower room open to the air. Stepin sheds a single tear and then drops the ring into a molten circle. The Wheel of Time episode has reached the end of the quest, but if still offers a threat for Nynaeve, Rand makes an ally, and Egwene and Perrin are in danger as prisoners!
Five Ter'angreal out of Five!
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