Unfulfilled Prophecy
From Tar Valon Library
Events
There are many events which must occur, because they have been seen in vision or prophecy (assuming the Dark One doesn't win)
Characters
Characters can be built up so as to seem of major importance, the suddenly killed off. This has mostly applied to villains so far, such as Carridin, Couladin and Niall, but there is no reason to suppose it can't apply to those on the hero's side, especially given Adeleas' death. Many characters, have visions involving them, which must be fulfilled before they can possibly die. These include:
- She is going to kill you (Rand)...she was going to help me (Rand) die," (WH, Ch. 25).
- 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 (WH, Ch. 12).
- The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle (LoC, Ch. 14).
- 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 (ACoS, Ch. 41).
This has at least been partially fulfilled, according to TGS book tour 2009 Nov. 15 in San Diego, CA.
- They would marry - after Caraline had led him a merry chase (ACoS, Ch. 35).
- He'll die in bed, and she will survive him (TPoD, Ch. 27).
- An image of a raven floating beside her dark hair; more a drawing of the bird than the bird itself (TFoH, Ch. 26)
Carlinya is believed killed and Brandon Sanderson has confirmed this was not a mistake. It is either yet to be fulfilled, or has been met in an unexpected way
- They would marry - after Caraline had led him a merry chase (ACoS, Ch. 35).
- He'll die in bed, and she will survive him (TPoD, Ch. 27).
- Rand confronting her, and the women with her, and one of them was a Seanchan (TDR, Ch. 48)
- A woman appeared, clambering down the sheer side of the cliff out of the clouds, making her way as deftly as if she were walking down stairs. There was a sword strapped to her back. Her face wavered, never settling clearly, but the sword seemed as solid as the stone. The woman reached Egwene's level and held out one hand. "We can reach the top together," (CoT, Ch. 10).
- The White Tower will be whole again, except for remnants cast out and scorned, whole and stronger than ever. Rand al'Thor will face the Amyrlin Seat and know her anger. The Black Tower will be rent in blood and fire, and sisters will walk its grounds (ACoS, Prologue).
The unification has been fulfilled, but Rand is yet to know her anger and the Black Tower has not been rent.
- A red hot iron and an axe (TGH, Ch. 43)
- A boy and a girl; both healthy and strong (WH, Ch. 12)
- The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle (LoC, Ch. 14).
- An image flickered above Enaila's head and was gone. A wreath of some sort (LoC, Ch. 41)
- If there was any justice, she would have an unpleasant future ahead of her (TFoH, Ch. 50)
- He was standing in the road in front of him, and he reined in. Not because he saw her (Egwene), this time, but the road that had been straight now forked right where she stood, running over tall hills so no one could see what lay beyond. She knew, though. Down one fork was his violent death, down the other, a long life and a death in bed. On one path, he would marry her, on the other, not. She knew what lay ahead, but not what way led to which (ACoS, Ch. 7).
The marriage has been agreed, but we still don't know which path it put him on.
- One day you will be the Mistress of the Ships (ACoS, Ch. 34).
- Who draws it (Callandor) out shall follow after (TSR, Ch. 21)
- Glory, a flaring halo around his head, radiant in gold and blue (TSR, Ch. 17; Ch. 47; TFoH, Ch. 1; Ch. 26; CoT, Ch. 24).
- Logain, laughing, stepped across something on the ground and mounted a black stone; when she looked down, she thought it was Rand's body he had stepped over, laid out on a funeral bier with his hands crossed at his breast, but when she touched his face, it broke apart like a paper puppet (ACoS, Ch. 10)
- A woman, face shrouded in shadow, beckoned him toward great danger (LoC, Ch. 6)
- Mat, weighing two Aes Sedai on a huge set of balance scales, and on his decision depended.... She could not say what; something vast; the world, perhaps (TPoD, Ch. 8)
- Two daughters. Twins like mirrors (LoC, Ch. 41).
- The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle (LoC, Ch. 14).
- Moiraine was the only viewing of hers that had ever failed (ACoS, Ch. 35).
It is assumed this viewing was of Moiraine helping Rand, as it fits with the other viewing that he would almost certainly fail without a woman who was "dead and gone" and Mat's giving up half the light of the world to save the world.
- Honors, and fame. A huge building appeared above her head and vanished. A library she would found (TPoD, Ch. 29)
- Broken crown, Trees around him flowering TEotW, Ch. 15).
- If he's not, something bad will happen to you. Very bad. It will happen if he is not there, but nothing I saw said it won't because he is. It will be very bad (LoC, Ch. 46).
- A bloody hand and white-hot iron (TEotW, Ch. 15)
- Three women standing over a funeral bier with you on it (TEotW, Ch. 15).
- Black rock wet with blood (TEotW, Ch. 15).
- Walking down into a great hole in a black mountain, a hole filled with a reddish glare as from vast fires below (TDR, Ch. 25)
- 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 (LoC, Ch. 41).
- Rand confronting her (Egwene), and the women with her, and one of them was a Seanchan (TDR, Ch. 48).
- Him walking toward a burning mountain, something crunching beneath his boots. She stirred and whimpered; the crunching things were the seals on the Dark One's prison, shattering with his every step (LoC, Ch. 6).
- Logain, laughing, stepped across something on the ground and mounted a black stone; when she looked down, she thought it was Rand's body he had stepped over, laid out on a funeral bier with his hands crossed at his breast, but when she touched his face, it broke apart like a paper puppet (ACoS, Ch. 10).
- The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle (LoC, Ch. 14).
- The White Tower will be whole again, except for remnants cast out and scorned, whole and stronger than ever. Rand al'Thor will face the Amyrlin Seat and know her anger. The Black Tower will be rent in blood and fire, and sisters will walk its grounds (ACoS, Prologue).
- He wore rags and a rough cloak, and a bandage covered his eyes (TSR, Ch. 53).
- He shall bind the nine moons to serve him (TSR, Ch. 6).
- He didn’t seem blinded yet (TGS, Ch. 19).
- A tempestuous love affair (TPoD, Ch. 29)
General
The Seanchan, too, of women in dresses with lightning bolts woven on their breasts, collaring a long line of women who wore the Great Serpent rings, forcing them to call lightning against the White Tower (TDR, Ch. 25) This seems to be in process
- He will take you back, and he will destroy you (TSR, Ch. 25)
- He shall spill out the blood of those who calls themselves Aiel as water on sand, and he shall break them as dried twigs, yet the remnant of a remnant he shall save, and they shall live (TSR, Ch. 34).
- He Who Comes With the Dawn appears to take us back to what was ours (TFoH, Ch. 5).
