Pit of Doom

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The Pit of Doom is the place in Shayol Ghul in which the Dark One can be sensed and communicated with. It is reached through an opening in the mountain, the only one from which no smoke is emitted and leads to a lake of molten rock, underneath cloud swept sky, that is not the one outside the mountain (LoC, Prologue). The Forsaken swore to the Dark One in the Pit of Doom (TFoH, Ch. 18. Other servants of the Dark One are occasionally taken there to relay information or receive orders, but this is very rare (TFoH, Ch. 19). It is often used to refer to any unpleasant experience (TGH, Ch. 23; TFoH, Ch. 29; WH, Prologue). The last battle is prophesied to take place in the Pit of Doom (TGH, Ch. 26).

Quotes

In these southlands, spring felt like summer, and summer like the Pit of Doom (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 29).

“a lake of molten stone, red mottled with black, where man-high flames danced, died and rose again .There was no roof, only a great hole rising through the mountain to a sky that was not the sky of Thakan'dar. It made that of Thakan'dar look normal, with its wildly striated clouds streaking by as though driven by the greatest winds the world had ever seen. This, men called the Pit of Doom, and few knew how well they had named it.” (Lord of Chaos, Prologue).

"Thom, what in the Pit of Doom does this have to do with making those fool women see sense?" (Mat, Lord of Chaos, Chapter 40).