Min's Viewings

Author: Atarah al'Norahn

• (About the whole group.) "Sparks swirling around you, thousands of them, and a big shadow, darker than midnight. The sparks are trying to fill the shadow, and the shadow is trying to swallow the sparks. You are all tied together in something dangerous." (The Eye of the World, Chapter 15.)

• (About Egwene, to Rand.) "She's part of it. You're in love with her. She loves you, too, but she's not for you, or you for her. Not the way you both want. When I look at her, I see the same as when I look at Mistress Alys. She won't refuse it." (The Eye of the World, Chapter 15.)

• (About Lan.) "Seven ruined towers around his head, and a babe in a cradle holding a sword." (The Eye of the World, Chapter 15.)

• (About Thom.) "A man - not him - juggling fire, and the White Tower. (The Eye of the World, Chapter 15.)

• (About Perrin.) "A wolf, and a broken crown, and trees flowering all around him. (The Eye of the World, Chapter 15.)

• (About Mat.) "A red eagle, an eye on a balance scale, a dagger with a ruby, a horn, and a laughing face." (The Eye of the World, Chapter 15.)

• (About Rand.) "A sword that isn't a sword, a golden grown of laurel leaves, a beggar's staff, you pouring water on sand, a bloody hand and white-hot iron, three women standing over a funeral bier with you on it, black rock wet with blood, lightning around you, some striking at you, some coming out of you. You and I will meet again." (The Eye of the World, Chapter 15.)

• (About Nynaeve.) "She's part of it, right along with the rest of you." (The Eye of the World, Chapter 16.)

• (About the whole group.) "The sparks, Rand. She met Mistress Alys coming in, and there were sparks, with just the two of them. Yesterday I couldn't see sparks without at least three or four of you together, but today it's all sharper, and more furious. You're all in more danger today than yesterday. Since she came." (The Eye of the World, Chapter 16.)

• (Elayne speaks about a viewing of herself.) "And she can read things about you from them, though I'm not sure she always tells the truth. She said I'd have to share my husband with two other women, and I'd never put up with that. She just laughs, and says it was never her idea of how to run things, either. But she said I would be a queen before she knew who I was; she said she saw a crown, and it was the Rose Crown of Andor." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 24.)

• (About Egwene.) "A white flame, and...Oh, all sorts of things. I don't know what it means." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 24.)

• (About Galad.) "That one will always do what is right. No matter who it hurts." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 24.)

• (About Galad.) "Egwene, Galad is so good he'd make you tear your hair out. He'd hurt a person because he had to serve a greater good. He wouldn't even notice who was hurt, because he'd be so intent on the other, but if he did, he would expect them to understand and think it was all well and right." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 38."

• (About Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve.) "Danger. You are all in some kind of danger. Or you will be, very soon. I can't make it out, but it is danger." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 38.)

• (About Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve.) "I think she [Elayne] has to come as much as the rest of you. The rest of us. I can see the danger around all of you more clearly, now. Not clearly enough to make it out, but I think it has something to do with you deciding to go. That's why it is clearer; because it is more certain." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 38.)

• (About Elayne.) "She is linked to - to those boys as much as you, or Egwene, or me. She's part of it, Nynaeve, whatever it is. Part of the Pattern, I suppose an Aes Sedai would say." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 38.)

• (About Egwene.) "You know I've read you, Egwene. I don't understand most of it - I almost never do - but I see things I am sure link you to Rand, and Perrin, and Mat, and - yes, even Galad, the Light help you for a fool. How can any of that happen if the Seanchan take you off across the ocean?" (The Great Hunt, Chapter 42.)

• (About Nynaeve and Elayne.) "For an instant Min found herself reading the auras of the other two women. There was danger, but that was to be expected - and new things, too, among the images she had seen before; it was like that, sometimes. A man's ring of heavy gold floated about Nynaeve's head, and above Elayne's, a red-hot iron and an axe. They meant trouble, she was sure, but it seemed distant, somewhere in the future." (The Great Hunt, Chapter 43.)

• (About Leya.) "The Tinker woman is going to die. Perrin, I saw her own face floating above her shoulder, covered in blood, eyes staring. It's never any clearer than that." (The Dragon Reborn, Chapter 2.)

• (About Perrin.) "An Aielman in a cage. A Tuatha'an with a sword. A falcon and a hawk, perching on your shoulders. Both female, I think. And all the rest, of course. What is always there. Darkness swirling 'round you, and - " (The Dragon Reborn, Chapter 6.)

• (About three Aes Sedai in the White Tower.) "A slender woman with black hair falling to her waist, the only one of the three she recognized - her name was Ananda; she was Yellow Ajah - wore a sickly brown halo, shriveled and split by rotting fissures that fell in and widened as they decayed. The small, fair-haired Aes Sedai beside Ananda was Green Ajah, by her green-fringed shawl. The White Flame of Tar Valon on it showed for a moment when she turned her back. And on her shoulder, s if nestled among the grape vines and flowering apple branches worked on her shawl, sat a human skull. A small woman's skull, pricked clean and sun bleached. The third, a plumply pretty woman halfway around the room, wore no shawl; most Aes Sedai did not except for ceremony. The lift of her chin and the set of her shoulders spoke of strength and pride. She seemed to be casting blue eyes on the petitioners through a tattered curtain of blood, crimson streamers running down her face." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About an Accepted in the White Tower.) "Another Accepted came to replace one already there, and to Min's eyes bars floated in front of her apple-cheeked face, like a cage." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About Sheriam.) "Sheriam, the Mistress of Novices, looked into the hall - after one glance, Min kept her gaze on the stone under her feet; Sheriam knew her all too well - and the red-haired Aes Sedai's face seemed battered and bruised. It was only the viewing, of course, but Min still had to bit her lip to stifle a gasp." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About a Brown Aes Sedai in the White Tower.) "The Brown sister was smiling, too, but her aura faded like a guttering candle flame." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About some Warders, servants and Aes Sedai in the White Tower.) "Warders hurried by with barely a glance for the two women, men who moved like hunting wolves, their swords only an afterthought to their deadliness, but they seemed to have bloody faces, or gaping wounds. Swords and spears danced about their heads, threatening. Their auras flashed wildly, flickered on the knife edge of death. She saw dead men walking, knew they would die on the same day as the Aes Sedai in the entry hall, or at most a day later. Even some of the servants, men and women with the Flame of Tar Valon on their breasts, hurrying about their work, bore signs of violence. An Aes Sedai glimpsed down a side hallway appeared to have chains in the air around her, and another, crossing the corridor ahead of Min and her guide, seemed for most of those few strides to wear a silver collar around her neck." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About Gawyn.) "Min flinched; for a moment, streaks of blood had made his face a grim mask. It was like a double hammer blow. Her friends were gone - it had eased her coming to the Tower, knowing they were here - and Gawyn was going to be wounded on the day the Aes Sedai died." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About Gawyn.) "Despite all she had seen since entering the Tower, despite her fear, none of it had really touched her personally until now. Disaster striking the Tower would spread far from Tar Valon, yet she was not of the Tower and never could be. But Gawyn was someone she knew, someone she liked, and he was going to be hurt more than the blood told, hurt somehow deeper than wounds to his flesh." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About Gawyn.) "He scowled, and for an instant his face was that bloody mask again. More: a sword floated above his head, and a banner waved behind it. The long-hilted sword, like those most Warders used, had a heron engraved on its slightly curved blade, symbol of a blademaster, and Min would not say whether it belonged to Gawyn or threatened him. The banner bore Gawyn's sigil of the charging White Boar, but on a field of green rather than the red of Andor. Both sword and banner faded with the flood." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About Leane.) "For a moment the Keeper had been looking through a transparent mask of her own face, a screaming mask." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About Siuan.) "Siuan Sanche was standing there as regal as any queen, and for a moment she was also lying on the floor, naked. Aside from her being in only her skin, there was something odd about the image, but it vanished before Min could say what." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1.)

• (About Logain.) "But she had never before seen a flaring halo around his head, radiant in gold and blue. It was only there for a moment, but that was enough." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 17.)

• (Siuan speaking about some people at the Tower.) "Your viewings have been very useful. It's important to know about Logain. You found the groom who was stealing before suspicion could land on someone else. And that fire-haired novice who was going to get herself with child?!" And later: "Min sighed, and not only because the Amyrlin meant to hold on to her. The last time she had seen that redheaded novice, the girl had been sneaking off to a wooded part of the grounds with a muscular guard. They would be married, maybe before the end of summer; Min had known that as soon as she saw them together, though the Tower never let a novice leave until the Tower was ready, even one who could not go any further in her training. There was a farm in that pair future, and a swarm of children, but it was pointless to tell the Amyrlin that."(The Shadow Rising, Chapter 17.)

• (About Logain.) "Suddenly, for a moment, that flaring halo of gold and blue shone about his head, speaking of glory to come as surely as it had the first time she had seen it." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 47.)

• (About Gawyn.) "For a moment she let herself think of the images she had glimpsed, just for a moment, flickering around Gawyn's head. Gawyn kneeling at Egwene's feet with his head bowed, and Gawyn breaking Egwene's neck, first one then the other, as if either could be the future." (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 47.)

• (About Logain.) "For an instant, to Min's eyes, a halo flared around his head, a radiant crown of gold and blue." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 1.)

• (About Logain.) "The halo of greatness, blue and gold, flickered around Logain's head, though he rode slumped in his saddle." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 26.)

• (About Sheriam.) "Rays of silver and blue flashed about her fiery hair, and a soft golden light." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 26.)

• (About Carlinya.) "For an instant Min saw an image of a raven floating beside her dark hair; more a drawing of the bird than the bird itself. She thought it was a tattoo, but she did not know its meaning." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 26.)

• (About Edesina.) "To Min's eyes, a silvery collar suddenly appeared, snug around the woman's neck, and as suddenly seemed to shatter. Min shivered. She did not like viewings connected to the Seanchan. At least Edesina would escape somehow." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 26.)

• (About Gareth Bryne. Min speaking to Siuan.) "When Bryne came in, I had a viewing. An aura, and a bull ripping roses from around its neck, and?None of it matters except the aura. I didn't even really understand that, but more than anything else. If you want to stay alive, you had better stay close to him. All I know is this. If he stays close to you, you live. If he gets too far away, for too long, you are going to die. Both of you. I don't know why I should have seen anything about you in his aura, but you seemed like part of it." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 28.)

• (About Faolain.) "A nasty woman. You'd think, if there was any justice, she would have an unpleasant future ahead of her." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 50.)

• (About Areina, Nicola and Marigan.) "Those three you brought with you are trouble." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 50.)

• (About Rand.) "I saw you'd fall in love with him. I don't know what he feels for you, only that he's tied to you some way." Elayne says, "And you saw there would be someone else. Someone I'd have to share him with." Min's reply: "Two. Two others. And...And I'm one." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 50.)

• (About an unknown woman, to Elayne.) "And Cairhienin women aren't all like Moiraine. I saw a Cairhienin woman in Baerlon once. On the surface, she made Moiraine look like Leane, but sometimes she said things, hinting. And the auras! I don't think a man in the whole town was safe alone with her, not unless he was ugly, lame, and better yet, dead." (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 50.)

• (About Enaila.) "An image flickered above Enaila's head and was gone. A wreath of some sort; Min had no idea what it meant." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 41.)

• (About Rand.) "One of those images she had seen every time she saw him. Countless thousands of sparkling lights, like stars of fireflies, rushed into a great blackness, trying to fill it up, rushed in and were swallowed. There seemed to be more lights than she had ever seen before, but the darkness swallowed them at a greater rate, too. And there was something else, something new, an aura of yellow and brown and purple that made her stomach clench." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 41.)

• (About Rand.) "I might as well tell you something else while I'm about it. I saw an aura around you in the throne room. Aes Sedai are going to hurt you. Women who can channel, anyway. It was all confused; I'm not sure about the Aes Sedai part. But it might happen more than once. I think that's why it seemed all scrambled." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 41.)

• (To Melaine.) "You will have two daughters. Twins like mirrors." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 41.)

• (About Perrin.) "He's found his falcon, and I wouldn't be surprised if she kills him when the hawk appears." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 46.)

• (About Rand and Perrin, to Rand.) "When you two were together, I saw those fireflies and the darkness stronger than ever. But with the two of you in the same room, the fireflies were holding their own instead of being eaten faster than they can swarm, the way they do when you're alone. And something else I saw when you were together. Twice he's going to have to be there, or you?If he's not, something bad will happen to you. Very bad." Rand replies: "Then I'll just have to keep him around." Min's answer: "I don't know that that will be enough. It will happen if he is not there, but nothing I saw said it won't because he is. It will be very bad, Rand. Just thinking of that viewing makes me?" (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 46.)

• (About Bera and Kiruna.) "Images and auras flickered about them as always around Aes Sedai and Warders. One caught Min's eye when it flashed around both women at the same instant, brownish yellow and deep purple. The colors themselves meant nothing, but that aura made Min stop breathing." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 49.)

• (About Bera and Kiruna, to Rand.) "Blood, death, the One Power, those two women and you, all in the same place at the same time. Kiruna and Bera do not like you, not at all! Remember what I saw around you? Women who can channel, hurting you. It is the auras, and the thirteen, and everything, Rand. It is too much!" (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 49.)

• (About Colinda.) "And that Colinda. I saw - No. No, it doesn't have anything to do with you. Maybe the heat is affecting me. When I know, I always know. It must be the heat." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 50.)

• (About various people.) "The sitting room turned out better, with Min peering through cracked doors into the anteroom, but not everyone showed image or aura to her eyes during the audience with him, and what she did see, there and simply walking about in the hallways, was bleak. Maringil, white-haired and blade-slim and cool as ice, was going to die by poison. Colavaere, her more than handsome face calm and collected once she learned Aviendha was not with Rand this time, would die by hanging. Meilan, with his pointy pointed beard and oily voice, would die by the knife. The future carried a heavy toll for the High Lords of Tear. Aracome and Maraconn and Gueyam were all going to die too, bloody deaths, in battle, Min thought. She said she had never seen death so often in one group of people. By the time she saw blood covering Gueyam's broad face, their fifth day in Cairhien, she felt so ill at the thought that Rand made her lie down and had Sulin bring damp cloths to lay on her forehead." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 50.)

• (About Berelain, to Rand.) "I saw nothing of any use to you. Just a man in white who will make her fall head over heels." (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 50.)

• (About Mazrim Taim.) "Taim has blood in his past and blood in his future, but you could guess that. He's a dangerous man." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 2.)

• (To Rand.) "I saw you and another man. I couldn't make out either face, but I knew one was you. You touched, and seemed to merge into one another, and I don't know what it means, Rand, except that one of you dies, and one doesn't." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 33.)

• (About Alanna, Bera, Faeldrin, Merana and Rafela, to Rand.) "They will keep their word. I just saw these five in your hand." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 34.)

• (To Harine.) "You will be punished for what happens here today, Harine, but not so much as you fear, I think. At least, one day you will be the Mistress of the Ships." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 34.)

• (About Rand.) "A tiny stab of guilt made her shift her seat on the coverlet. She had not really lied when he asked what viewings she had kept back. Not really. What good to tell him he would almost certainly fail without a woman who was dead and gone?" (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 35.)

• (About Moiraine.) "Min sighed regretfully, but it was not as if she had really expected Moiraine to turn up alive. Moiraine was the only viewing of hers that had ever failed." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 35.)

• (About Caraline Damodred and Darlin Sisnera.) "Caraline Damodred drew herself up on her saddle, face cold enough to shame an Aes Sedai, but suddenly auras of red and white flashed around her and Darlin, and Min knew. The colors never seemed to matter, but she knew that they would marry - after Caraline had led him a merry chase. More, to her eyes a crown suddenly appeared on Darlin's head, a simple golden circlet with a slightly curved sword lying on its side above his brows. The king's crown he would wear one day, though of what country, she could not say. Tear had High Lords instead of a king." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 35.)

• (About Daved Hanlon.) "He glared at her back as she took a goblet of punch and waved the servant away, and Min's breath caught at the aura that suddenly flashed around him, bruised hues so dark they seemed nearly black. 'Don't trust that man, Lady Caraline.' She could not stop herself. 'He will murder anyone he thinks is in his way; he'll kill for a whim, kill anybody.'" And later, "How do explain what she did know about Hanlon now, that his hands would be red with more rapes and murders before he died?" (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 35.)

• (About various people.) "Furtively she studied the three people gathered around the bed. Cadsuane in her chair, Amys standing opposite, Dashiva leaning against one of the square bedposts at the foot, all with unreadable auras and images dancing around them." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 36.)

• (About Cadsuane, to Rand.) "It's Cadsuane. She is going to teach you something, you and the Asha'man. All the Asha'man, I mean. It's something you have to learn, but I don't know what it is, except that none of you will like learning it from her. You aren't going to like it at all." (A Crown of Swords, Chapter 41.)

• (About Caraline and Darlin, to Rand and Dobraine.) "As for Darlin, aside from the fact that he'll marry Caraline, after she's wrung him out and hung him up to dry, all I can say is that one day he'll be a king. I saw the crown on his head, a thing with a sword on the front of it, but I don't know what country it belongs too. And, oh, yes. He'll die in bed, and she will survive him." (The Path of Daggers, Chapter 27.)

• (About Beldeine.) "Light, she was going to bond an Asha'man as a Warder! How?? No; it was not important now." (The Path of Daggers, Chapter 29.)

• (About Sarene.) "Images and auras; a tempestuous love affair, of all things! The woman was ice, however beautiful. And there was nothing useful in knowing some man would melt her!" (The Path of Daggers, Chapter 29.)

• (About Nesune.) "One red-and-green aura spoke of honors, and fame. A huge building appeared above her head and vanished. A library she would found." (The Path of Daggers, Chapter 29.)

• (About Beldeine, Elza, Erian, Nesune, Sarene and Sorilea.) "Among all of those images spilling around Rand and the women, suddenly an aura flashed, blue and yellow tinged with green, encompassing them all. And Min knew its meaning. She gasped, half in surprise, half in relief. 'They will serve you, each in her fashion, Rand,' she said hurriedly. 'I saw it.' Sorilea would serve him? Suddenly Min wondered exactly what 'in her fashion' meant. The words came with the knowing, but she did not always know what the words themselves meant. But they would serve; that much was plain." (The Path of Daggers, Chapter 29.)

• (About Elayne.) "She should have drunk that heartleaf tea. She'll get with child from this. Two of them; a boy and a girl; both healthy and strong." (Winter's Heart, Chapter 12.)

• (About Aviendha.) "Min wondered whether to tell her what she had seen while they were all together. Aviendha would have Rand's babies, too. Four of them at once! Something was odd about that, though. The babies would be healthy, but still something odd." (Winter's Heart, Chapter 12.)

• (About Birgitte.) "Auras danced around her and images flickered, more than Min had ever seen around anyone, thousands it seemed, cascading over one another." And later, "And what did she mean, Silverbow was dead? The woman was standing right in front of her! Besides, those multitudes of images and auras flashed by too quickly for her to make out any clearly, but she was certain they indicated more adventures than a woman could have in one lifetime. Strangely, some were connected to an ugly man who was older than she, and others to an ugly man who was much younger, yet somehow Min knew they were the same man." (inter's Heart, Chapter 12.)

• (About Alivia.) "Rand, I like Alivia. I do, even if she does make Nynaeve have kittens left and right. But she is going to kill you." (Winter's Heart, Chapter 25.)

• (About Logain.) "Logain's aura still speaks of glory, stronger than ever. Maybe he still thinks he's the real Dragon Reborn." (Crossroads of Twilight, Chapter 24.)

• (About Davram Bashere.) "And there's something...dark...in the images I saw around Lord Davram. If he turns against you, or dies..." (Crossroads of Twilight, Chapter 24.)