The Eye of the World: Prologue
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Author: Dinn da Noor
Chapter Icon: Wheel and Serpent
Point of View: Lews Therin Telamon
Setting: A destroyed palace and Dragonmount
Characters: Lews Therin Telamon, Elan Morin Tedronai
Contents
Outline
Lews Therin, after being confronted by Elan Morin, realizes he killed his friends and family while in the throes of madness. In his grief, he departs from the scene of the kinslaying and draws deeply on the One Power, killing himself, and raising Dragonmount.
Summary
Lews Therin Telamon wanders through a palace filled with dead bodies lying everywhere. The palace is smeared in soot and has scorch-marks on the walls, floors and ceiling as a result of the lighting and fires, which killed many. It had once been pretty, with bright murals, colorful tapestries and paintings and finely carved furnishing inlaid with ivory and gold.
Lews Therin calls for his wife, Ilyena without noticing the dead people on the floor. He's wearing what was once a fine cloak, on which is embroidered a circle half white and half black, the colors separated by a sinuous line. When he sees it in a mirror, he remembers that it meant something, but he can't remember what.
The air behind him ripples and shimmers, solidifying a black-clad man who calls Lews Therin 'Lord of the Morning' and says that he has come for him.
Lews Therin asks if he has the Voice, as it will soon be time for the Singing. He then calls for Ilyena to meet the guest, something that makes the man wonder if "the taint already has you so far in its grip".
The man tries to make him remember more, when Lews Therin recognizes the name Shai'tan as a dangerous one that is better left unspoken, but the man says that it isn't dangerous for him.
When Lews Therin asks him who he is and what he wants, he presents himself as Elan Morin Tedronai, the Betrayer of Hope. That's what men named him just as Lews Therin was named the Dragon, but from now on people would call Lews Therin Kinslayer.
As Lews Therin again calls down the ruined hall for Ilyena, Elan Morin says that Lews Therin once stood first among the Servants, wore the ring of Tamyrlin, sat in the High Seat, summoned the Nine Rods of Dominion and once defeated him at the Gates of Paaran Disen. He then says that that he himself was never very skilled at Healing and that he follows a different power now. He then Heals Lews Therin, who screams of the pain while he staggers around. After some time the pain recedes, and he recognizes Ilyena, a golden-haired woman lying among the dead on the floor.
Elan Morin tries to make him serve the Great Lord of the Dark and says that he can make Ilyena live again. Lews Therin says that he will destroy Elan Morin for Ilyena's death, but he responds by reminding him on his futile attack made by him and his Hundred Companions, who tear the world apart as they talk, on the Great Lord.
Lews Therin looks around and sees faces he loved all slain by him. He then reaches out for the tainted saidin and Travels to a flat and empty landscape where he draws deeply of the Source as he remembers how he had believed in his pride, and while he shouts for forgiveness, a bolt of lightning and fire strikes from the heaven and through Lews Therin, making the earth heave while molten rock fountains high up in the air. When the earth's trembling has finished, Lews Therin is gone and where he stood is now a tall mountain.
Elan Morin appears at the mountain where he promises that it won't end that easily for the Dragon.
Notes
Characters
First Mention
- Lews Therin Telamon, Elan Morin Tedronai, Ilyena Therin Moerelle
First Appearance
- Lews Therin Telamon, Elan Morin Tedronai, Ilyena Therin Moerelle
Mysteries
- Who is Elan Morin Tedronai?
- What does the Voice and Singing refer to?
- How is Lews Therin Telamon Healed of his madness and what power does Elan Morin wield??
- Was Elan Morin telling the truth that Lews Therin's madness could be Healed by other means?
- Who are the Servants?
- Who are the Hundred Companions?
- What is the Ring of Tamyrlin?
- What are the Nine Rods of Dominion?
- What is Paaran Disen?
Spoilers
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Mysteries
Who is Elan Morin Tedronai?
- Elan Morin Tedronai was an Aes Sedai of the Age of Legends before leading a group of fellow Servants to serve the Dark One. After that, he became known as the Betrayer of Hope, Ishamael, one of the Forsaken.
What does the Voice and Singing refer to?
How is Lews Therin Telamon Healed of his madness and what power does Elan Morin wield?
- Lews Therin is Healed through the use of the True Power, a force granted by and of the Dark One to the Forsaken.
Was Elan Morin telling the truth that Lews Therin's madness could be Healed by other means?
- Yes, though he believed that its extent would be "a few lucid minutes". In Towers of Midnight, Nynaeve al'Meara is able to Heal the madness entirely, after cleansing the Taint on saidin with Rand al'Thor and the Choedan Kal in Winter's Heart.
Who are the Servants?
- The Servants are the Aes Sedai of the Age of Legends from a translation of the Old Tongue meaning, "Servant(s) of All".
Who are the Hundred Companions?
- The Hundred Companions were the one-hundred and thirteen male Aes Sedai led by Lews Therin to reseal the Dark One at the Bore.
What is the Ring of Tamyrlin?
- The Ring of Tamyrlin was a ring worn by the leader of the Aes Sedai of the Age of Legends.
What are the Nine Rods of Dominion?
- The Nine Rods of Dominion symbols of office during the Age of Legends.
What is Paaran Disen?
- Paaran Disen was a capital city and seat of government during the Age of Legends.
Miscellaneous
- Ishamael's traveling
- This is different to how we later see people Travel, but it is how Traveling using the True Power is described
- Lews Therin's claim that the Dark One ravaged the world for Ten Years
- The War of the Power was ten years long, but the Bore was almost a century before that, and Ishamael had revealed that the Collapse of society during that time was due to the influence of the Dark One.
- After Lews Therin kills himself, Ishamael states, "It will not be done until the end of time."
- Although most of the Forsaken seemed to want to rule or live forever, we know that Ishamael actually did seek the end of time if he was able to fully free the Dark One.
- Other
- The description of the people sunk into stone is very similar to what we see later with the Trollocs caught in a trap in the Ways
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