Hey everybody and welcome back to another video in our series of companion guides to the Eye of the World, the first book in the Wheel of Time series. Now today we're going to explore chapter 5 of the world titled Winter Night. Make sure to check out the previous videos in this series as we're going to be breaking down all of the chapters of Eye of the World and all of these videos are going to be available on the grapelight.com, in the written companion guides that are there and then you can also find them in YouTube playlists. The videos in this series are broken down into two sections. The first section is a basic recap of the chapter but with additional maps and visuals to help you understand what you just read. This section is completely safe for first time readers and it's not going to spoil anything beyond that point in the books. In fact it's designed with first time readers in mind. The second section of the video will be completely spoiler filled and it's going to not only break down what happened in the chapter but we'll also dive into all of the foreshadowing, the Easter eggs to our world, the cool stuff that you might have missed buried in the chapter. Robert Jordan is the master of this and so every chapter tends to have a ton of stuff to get to. Now this entire video series is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible is the world's largest provider of audiobooks and the Wheel of Time audiobooks are outstanding. This is my favorite way to reread the series. I'm basically always doing it right now. I'm on a memory of light. Now Audible is offering a free audiobook to all of my viewers. All you have to do is head to www.audibletrial.com forward slash naveless and get the free trial for the service. You can keep the book even if you don't want to keep the service and you really support the channel by doing so. Again, www.audibletrial.com forward slash naveless or you can just click the link in the description of the video. Let's go ahead and recap chapter 5 of I of the World titled Winter Night. The chapter begins as Rand and Tam arrive back at their farm after spending the day in Emmons field. Tam sends Rand to do some basic chores around the farm while Tam gets ready for dinner. Rand stables Bella, gathers some eggs from the chicken and hose the vegetable garden and then he splits some firewood for a while. All the time while he's doing that he's thinking about how long the winter has been and wondering if anything is going to sprout in the garden and what they're going to do. Now Tam eventually gets Rand and brings him inside for dinner. The house is a small house with a large stone hearth that's got a fire in it. Now as they wait for the stew that Tam is cooking to finish, Tam locks the front and the back doors in the house, something that Rand hasn't seen him ever do. Basically he says that they're going to do this as a precaution against the man in black. Then he proceeds to go get a heron marked sword out of a chest upstairs from his room. Rand has never seen his father with a sword and he becomes very curious as to where Tam had gotten the sword. Now Tam gives him some vague answers about getting it a long time ago but he really can't get any further as the door they hear a slamming sound on the door and then suddenly it shattered off its hinges and a large humanoid figure with ram's horns and taller than Rand had ever seen rushes in the door. Now Rand throws the boiling water that he was holding at that figure at the humanoid that walked in. We later find out that's a trawlic and Tam proceeds to fight off the beasts with his sword. Now Tam tells Rand to run out and Tam runs out the back of the house and he goes and hides in the trees around their farm. Now it's very dark and Rand sees more of the large humanoids again, trawlicks, coming around the backside of the house where Rand had left. He warns Tam by yelling at him and Tam jumps out one of the windows of the house with his sword in hand. Tam then tells Rand to run and leaves the invaders off a different direction away from Rand to buy him time to get away. Eventually Tam sneaks back up to where Rand was hiding, having lost the trawlicks for the time being. Rand explains to Rand that they are trawlicks, a former Shadowspawn, that Rand hadn't really even believed existed. Rand notices that Tam had been wounded and he was starting to run a fever. He collapses from the exhaustion and Rand realizes that he's going to need to get Tam back to the safety of Emmons Field where Nainive could help heal him. And so to do that he's going to need Bella and their cart to get in there. Rand takes Tam's sword and goes back into the house to try to get some supplies. He notices a number of dead trawlicks in the room and begins to gather some supplies and water. Now while he's inside, one of the trawlicks stands up that had been pretending to be dead and starts to speak with Rand. He names himself Narg and he tells Rand to put the sword down so that the murderer can come speak with him. The trawlick then lunges at Rand and Rand stabs him through the chest as it falls on him. Rand leaves the house and finds Bella gone and the cart broken, but he quickly modifies the cart with his sword so that he can pull it himself and then he pulls it back outside and finds Tam in worse shape than when he originally left him, so the fever is progressing. He loads Tam into the cart and tells him that he's going to get him to Nainive and the village. That's it for the recap of Winner Night, Chapter 5 of I of the World. We're now going to jump into the spoiler section. The rest of this video is going to carry a spoiler rating of red with major spoilers running all the way through a memory of light, the final book in the series. If you have not finished reading all of the books, watch this at your own risk. So let's kick things off here by taking a look at some of the foreshadowing in the chapter. We'll start with a very small thing, but when Rand enters the house, he points out that Tam's the Travels of Jane Farstrider book is sitting next to his reading chair. This is the first mention of Travels of Jane Farstrider and Jane Farstrider in general. But this is very subtle setup that eventually leads to us meeting him. This is one of many times that you're going to see the book in the series. Now this is the first time actually, and we sort of understand that Jane Farstrider is a celebrity of sorts in the Westlands, so it really adds to the impact when we finally discover that Noel was actually Jane. The next piece of foreshadowing surrounds the hair and marked sword. When Rand asks Tam where he got that and how much it cost him, Tam just brushes it off and says that he paid too much for it. A somewhat cryptic response to the question, or at least dodging, we'll find out later that Tam actually got the sword in service to the King of Ilian as a member of the Ilian or Companions. Tam's avoidance of the subject of his past leads Rand to start wondering who his father is. This is just one of the small clues that there's more to Tam's author than Rand knows. The writing around Tam's character is very subtle and strung out over the novels. We really don't get large chunks about him, which is one of the reasons I think he's such a great character, but it's so well done throughout, and this is kind of the beginning of that. So let's hit on some general thoughts from the chapter. First of all, I love how Rand's descriptions of the house when they first walk in, they're super cozy and relaxing. He talks about the large hearth, the warmth of the fire, the order and cleanliness of the house. This is truly the very last time in the series that you're going to see Rand relaxed. And I love that. Not much later than they walk into the house and he starts talking about this, Trollix bust down the door, and then he's fighting the shadow for three years and it ends with Rand at Shaeogul, like he's literally never this relaxed. Now along that same line of thought, this is the first time that we're introduced to Trollix and Rand is extremely frightened and feels really, really helpless. He even leaves his father fighting alone as he runs away, which kind of gets at him. Now this scene is really kind of the setup for the power creep that Rand is going to go through over the course of the novels. He starts off scared of a few Trollix and he's going to progress to the point within three years of this that he's able to wipe out armies of 100,000 Trollix all by himself. And then he later finds himself in a position where he can literally kill a godlike entity in the dark one. He really comes a long way and it kind of starts here with him running away from a couple Trollix. So let's also talk about Narg. Everyone's favorite meme shadow spawn from the Wheel of Time. Narg is the only Trollix that we hear speak with a human in the series. Narg plays dead and then when Rand is back in the house to get supplies for Tam, Narg stands up, surprising him and tells him to put the sword down and come talk to the merger all with him. He attempts to be sly and then when Rand lowers the sword just a little bit, the Trollix brushes him and Rand stabs him and that's the end of Narg. Now we do know that Trollix speak with each other. They have their own language and it's likely that they would also speak some English as they need to be able to be commanded by the Chosen or by our ranking dark friends. We just don't ever get to hear it again so that's why this sort of stands out. And also we know Narg's mark. The last thing to mention here is the Herod Mark Sword itself. We see the signs that it was a power forged as Rand uses it to cut and shave down a cart to modify it so he could pull it himself since Bella was gone. After hacking the wood for some time, the blade wasn't dulled at all showing its strength. You can learn more about a Herod Mark Sword by the way by checking out a video by unraveling the pattern. Did an awesome non-spoiler and spoiler breakdown of Herod Mark weapons. Definitely check that out. I'll have that link in the description. Now one thing I will always remember about Winter Night as a chapter at least is that this is where I of the world essentially picks up and it doesn't let up until the end of the book. I mentioned for the boys, specifically Matt, Rand and Perrin, they are constantly being chased, they're on the run, they're in danger for the entire book after this chapter. I always felt like this is where Wheel of Time truly began. What are your thoughts on Winter Night? Make sure to let me know what you think of the chapter in the comments of this video. Also make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel to be updated when I post more Wheel of Time content. That is literally all I do here on this channel. Again, remind your go check out Audible by clicking on the link or going to www.audibletrial.com forward slash naveless, get your free audiobook, listen to the series, it's awesome. And depending on when you watch this video, there are likely other videos just like this breaking down the later chapters of the book. So keep watching this playlist. If you want to see all of them, it is great binge content. Thank you for watching everybody and until next time, peace out. Tinker in the kitchen with a job of work to do. Misstress up above, slipping on the rope of blue. She prancers down the staircase, her fancy us a free cry. A tinker, oh did tinker, won't you mend a pop for me?