Difference between revisions of "The Eye of the World: Prologue"

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Author: Dinn da Noor

Chapter Icon: Wheel and Serpent

Point of View: Lews Therin

Setting: A destroyed palace and Dragonmount.

Characters: Lews Therin Telamon, Elan Morin Tedronai.

Outline

Lews Therin realises he has killed his family while mad and draws the Power, killing himself and raising Dragonmount, as Ishamael watches.

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 tears 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

Mysteries

Who is the strange Black coated rider who seems to hate Rand then disappears.

Tam’s knowledge of the Flame and the Void –

Is it just something he picked up outside, or is it uncommon even for people outside the Two Rivers?

Why is the Winespring Inn tiled? Who fixes it when the roof breaks?

Not a particularly significant mystery

Common themes

Men and women

Men and women meddle in each others affairs and neither really thinks the other capable of running their own business.

Two Rivers folk

• The villagers believe that Taren Ferry, which is nearby is very different and the folk there are untrusting
• It is noted how the people of the Two Rivers could give mules lessons and teach stones

Smoking

• All the adult males seem to smoke a pipe

Miscellaneous

The Sand Hills at the foot of the Mountains of Mist were once the shore of an Ocean. It seems reasonable to assume that the ocean vanished during the Breaking

Characters

First Mention

Lews Therin Telamon, Elan Morin Tedronai, Ilyena

First Appearance

Lews Therin Telamon, Elan Morin Tedronai

Character Development

Mat

• Mat is quickly established as a thrill seeker who shirks responsibilities and rarely thinks through the effects of his actions.

Other characters

• Keeping his word is important to Tam

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