From: steevesm@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: Aes Sedai (VERY LONG!)
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:32:33 GMT

Part two of two.

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>                         P R O P H E C I E S
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>..............................................................EGWENE's DREAMS
>Midrash:
>Its clear that Faile is the falcon on Perrin's shoulders.  I believe that
>Bayle Domon will fail to dispose of the evil bracelet/necklet set and they
>will be used against Perrin.  Perrin has already led the wolves at least once.
>Perrin, of course, has already fought and may have killed Luc/Isam.

Ummm...the other bird (already been said) is probably Whats_Her_Face from
Tear.  The necklace won't work on Perrin because he can't channel.  And Isam
wasn't killed.  Just wounded in the hand by one of Perrin's arrows.

>Mat, poor guy but true Ta'Veren, is likely to lose one of his eyes this
>time 'round.  He's already been hanged, but looks like the Seanchan will
>torture him first physically and then by making him marry the Empress's 
>daughter. The leash is most likely marriage.

I like the theory that he will lose the eye in some contest with the
Aelfinn/Eelfinn, possibly sent there by the Seanchan.

>									Galad
>condemns himself by becoming a white cloak and Gawyn, woefully hurt, becomes
>Egwene's warder.

Unless he kills her first.  That was also a possibility, remember?

>...............................................................MIN'S VIEWINGS
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>PERRIN: A wolf/A broken crown/Trees flowering around him/
>      An Aielman and a cage/A Tuatha'an with a sword/
>      A falcon and a hawk, perching on his shoulders, both female.
>Midrash: He's a wolf, hanging around in Manatherin the land of broken
>	crowns, he's going after slayer to restore the trees to Manatherin,
>	he already released the Aieldude, no clue about the tinker,
>	the falcon is Faile, the hawk is ?Berelain?

Ummm...trees?  I thought that it was the wolves that are missing 'cuz Isam
killed them all.

>RAND
>      Black rock wet with blood: "His blood on the rocks of Shayol Ghul,
>      	washing away the Shadow, sacrifice for man's salvation" (p.71 TSR)

Possibly that wound in his side opening up??

>LOGAIN A halo of gold and blue, signifying glory to come.  
>Midrash: he runs of with Siuan to have fun.

Possibly with Callandor....

>GAWYN A heron marked sword, his or threatening/
>      His banner with a field of green rather than white/
>      Either breaking Egwene's neck or kneeling to her
>Midrash: He becomes Egwene's warder, she is of the green Ajah.  They are
>	lovers with normal fights.  He's fighting in master-class competition.

Or else something happens to Elayne or Egwene getts pissed at him for the coup
in Tar Valon, and they end up fighting each other....

>.............................................................VARIOUS PROPHECIES

>      Twice dawns the day when his blood is shed. :Beats me
>      Once for mourning, once for birth.

The first is the Toman Head affair, the second will probably be when he
saves/breaks the world.

>      Red on black, the Dragon's blood stains the rock of Shayol Ghul.
>      In the Pit of Doom shall his blood free men from the Shadow.

Explanatory.

>      Power of the Shadow made human flesh,
>      wakened to turmoil, stife and ruin. :???
>      The Reborn One,  marked and bleeding, :Rand, one of his bleedings
>      dances the sword in dreams and mist, :fights in the dream world too

The Toman Head mess.

>      chains the Shadowsworn to his will, :uses the one-power
>      from the city, lost and forsaken, :from Rhuidean
>      leads the spears to war once more, :leads the Aiel
>      breaks the spears and makes them see, :but makes 'em tinks
>      truth long hidden in the ancient dream. :the truth is the way of the leaf

That whole Rhuidean/Alcair Dal mess.

>.............................................................THE DARK PROPHECY
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>      Luc came to the Mountains of Dhoom.
>      Isam waited in the high passes.
>      The hunt is now begun. The Shadow's hounds now course, and kill.
>      One did live, and one did die, but both are.
>      The Time of Change has come.
>Midrash: Luc killed by Isam and his body taken over.  He is now Slayer.  

Actually, I feel that Isam converted Luc, and that Luc is now part of the 
"hounds", Isam and Padan Fain.

We shall see.

>      The Watchers wait on Toman's Head.
>      The seed of the Hammer burns the ancient tree.
>      Death shall sow, and summer burn, before the Great Lord comes.
>      Death shall reap, and bodies fail, before the Great Lord comes.
>      Now the Great Lord comes.
>Midrash:  The hammer is Perrin.  The great lord coming is Slayer.

Hmmm...The Watchers were the people that were waiting for the lost armies of
Artur Hawkwing to come back.  That part with the seed of the Hammer could be
the second closing of the waygate at Manethrin (how was that done?).

>.......................................................MORRAINE IN CONVERSATION
>He has yet to break the nations, or shatter the world.  Even scholars
>who have studied the Prophecies for their entire lives do not know how
>to interpret them all.  What does it mean that he shall 'slay his people
>with the sword of peace, and destroy them with the leaf'?  What does it
>mean that he 'shall bind the nine moons to serve him'? Yet these are
>given equal weight with Callandor in the Cycle. There are others.
>What 'wound of madness and cutting of hope' has he healed?  What chains
>has he broken, and who put into chains?
>Midrash: Nations are breaking left and right already.  Rand is going to
>way-of-leaf the Aiel until it Tinks them.  He'll bind the nine-moons by
>defeating the Seanchin.  The chains are those of the damani.

Ummm...maybe the binding is the marriage of Mat to the daughter of the Nine
Moons?  The 'wound' bit stumps me, and that part about the chains could
also refer to all the oaths that people are swearing to him in place of the
old ones that bound them, and the put into chains could be the forsaken that
he bound in Rhuidean.

-darkelf
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