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"You cannot escape so easily, Dragon. It is not done between us. It will not be done until the end of time."
   —Ishamael, staring at the fiery mountain.


Book Index

0 I II III IV V VI VII
VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV

Chapters
Dragonmount - Ravens
1 An Empty Road
2 Strangers
3 The Peddler
4 The Gleeman
5 Winternight
6 The Westwood
7 Out of the Woods
8 A Place of Safety
9 Tellings of the Wheel
10 Leavetaking
11 The Road to Taren Ferry
12 Across the Taren
13 Choices
14 The Stag and Lion
15 Strangers and Friends
16 The Wisdom
17 Watchers and Hunters
18 The Caemlyn Road
19 Shadow's Waiting
20 Dust on the Wind
21 Listen to the Wind
22 A Path Chosen
23 Wolfbrother
24 Flight Down the Arinelle
25 The Traveling People
26 Whitebridge
27 Shelter from the Storm
28 Footprints in Air
29 Eyes Without Pity
30 Children of Shadow
31 Play for Your Supper
32 Four Kings in Shadow
33 The Dark Waits
34 The Last Village
35 Caemlyn
36 Web of the Pattern
37 The Long Chase
38 Rescue
39 Weaving of the Web
40 The Web Tightens
41 Old Friends and New Threats
42 Remembrance of Dreams
43 Decisions and Apparitions
44 The Dark Along the Ways
45 What Follows in Shadow
46 Fal Dara
47 More Tales of the Wheel
48 The Blight
49 The Dark One Stirs
50 Meetings at the Eye
51 Against the Shadow
52 Neither Beginning Nor End
53 The Wheel Turns


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Setting: Lews Therin's palace

Summary[]

Point of view: Lews Therin Telamon, Narrator

Lews Therin Telamon wanders through his nearly destroyed palace, looking for his wife Ilyena Therin Moerelle. Dead men, women, and children lie everywhere, but the taint on saidin has driven Lews Therin insane and he does not notice his surroundings. Ishamael appears, having Traveled[1] there, approaches Lews Therin saying "I have come for you." Lews Therin does not recognize him, and Ishamael realizes he is mad.

Traveling

"And he travelled. He was alone."

Ishamael identifies himself as having once been Elan Morin Tedronai, and Lews Therin manages to recognize him as Betrayer of Hope.[2] Ishamael says that after today people will call Lews Therin Kinslayer as well as Dragon. He goes on to say that Lews Therin was once first among the Servants, and other things, and that he is now greater in power than Lews Therin and won't let him die without realizing that. He Heals[1] Lews Therin of his madness, who screams in pain.

As the pain recedes, Lews Therin comes to his senses. He sees Ilyena's body and is consumed with sorrow. Ishamael says that the Great Lord of the Dark can bring her back, and Lews Therin turns to him with murderous intent. He says he will have revenge for Ilyena's death, but Ishamael asks him to cast his mind back, to remember the Dark One's counterstroke against saidin. Ishamael says the Hundred Companions are tearing the world apart, and more men join them every day. He tells Lews Therin to remember who it was who killed all of his friends and family.

Lews Therin remembers the deeds, and howls in torment as he looks at his surroundings. Unable to bear his shame, he Travels to a flat, empty land beside a river. He can feel the taint on saidin, and cries out for forgiveness as he channels more and more. A bolt of fire comes down from the sky, burning through him and the earth below him, sending lava spouting upwards to form a mountain. The river has been redirected in an arc around the mountain, with an island in the middle. Ishamael appears on the island, and vows that all is not yet over between him and the Dragon.[3]

Characters[]

Ilyena Therin Moerelle

"Ilyena... Light help me..."

Elan Morin Tedronai

"Lord of morning I have come for you."

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Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 The description given of Ishamael's Traveling does not match the One Power Traveling seen later in the series, and Ishamael's comments "I follow a different power now" and "Shai'tan's Healing is different from the sort you know" imply that both were done using the True Power of the Dark One.
  2. The name Ishamael means Betrayer of Hope in the Old Tongue.
  3. The scene takes place after the Dark One has been sealed back in his prison, along with all the Forsaken. It is strange that Ishamael appears when he is meant to be trapped in Shayol Ghul. This is explained later in the series.


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