Hey everybody and welcome back to another installment in our series of companion guides to each chapter of I of the world, the first book of the Wheel of Time series. Now this is a series of videos for those of you that are reading the books for the first time and it's going to have a spoiler section at the end of the video for those that are rereading the books and want to go a little bit more deep into the material. Make sure to check out all of the previous videos in this series and again all of those videos will have a company-ing written guide with access to all of the maps on the grapeflight.com. Today we're going to be tackling chapter 7 of I of the world titled Out of the Woods. Now all of the videos in this series are broken down into two sections with the first section being a basic recap of the chapter. There are going to be some visuals and additional maps that are going to help you understand what you just read. Sometimes it's just helpful to have some visuals to accompany your read. This section is safe for first time readers and will not spoil anything past this particular chapter in the books. This is designed with first time readers in mind. The second section of the video will be spoiler-filled and will have not only a breakdown of what happened in the chapter but it's going to get to all of the foreshadowing for the future in the books, Easter eggs, general thoughts, things like that. This section is designed for folks that are rereading the series and want a little bit more depth. 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 kick ass. My favorite way to reread the series Audible is offering a free audiobook to all of my viewers. All you have to do is head to www.AudibleTrial.com. Forward-sash-nabeless. And sign up for the free trial. You're going to get a book even if you don't want to keep the service. You really help the channel by doing that anyway. So go get a free book, help the channel, helps everybody. Check out that link in the description. So let's go ahead and recap chapter 7 of I of the World titled Out of the Woods. Now the chapter opens with Rand dragging Tam on the makeshift litter into the town of Emmensfield. He finds that the town has been attacked by trolics as well and it appears that about half the buildings are burned. As Rand takes in the damage to the village, Harle Luhan, the blacksmith, comes running towards him. He calls for a Gwein Alveer who has been helping with the other people that were injured and a Gwein comes running. Now seeing Tam's condition, she takes them directly to Naineeb who is the village wisdom. Naineeb very quickly checks Tam, opening his eyelids, looking at the wound. And in a moment that obviously pains her, she turns to tell Rand that there is nothing that she can do. Rand is crushed, obviously, but he will not give up on saving his father. And he decides to take Tam to see Bran Alveer, the village mayor, to see if he can do anything just in kind of a desperate move to save his father. Now as Rand moves towards the Winespring Inn with Tam in tow to find the mayor, he comes across Tom Maryland. Now Tom Maryland is the Gleaman, he's sitting on the foundation stones next to the inn. Tom tells Rand that it will be okay and that the wisdom should be able to heal his father. As she's done miraculous work all night, he obviously doesn't know that Rand has already seen Naineeb. He also mentions that the peddler, Pa'dan Fein, has apparently disappeared in the attack. Now as Rand approaches the door to the inn, he sees a dragon's fangs scrolled on the door to the inn. Rand wonders why anybody would want to put a dragon's fang on the mayor's door, because that basically accuses people that live there of being evil, and who thinks that Bran is evil. Rand enters the inn and he finds Bran Alveer working with some papers on the tables. As soon as Bran sees that it's Rand and Tam, he immediately jumps up to help Rand, and he sends Tom to get Naineeb. He sends him really quickly before Rand can actually say that he's already seen her, so Tom runs out. When Rand finally does tell Bran that Naineeb couldn't help, Bran tells Rand to get Tam into one of the empty beds in the inn. Tom finally returns and then tells them that Naineeb won't come. He also mentions to Bran that there is a dragon's fang on his door, and Bran just misses it saying that it's probably just the Congress and the Coplins. That conversation turns to Moraine and Lan, who are guests at the inn, and their feats that past night. Bran tells Rand that Moraine called Lightning from the sky and threw fireballs to kill trullix, and Lan killed many trullix with his sword. He says Moraine is an Iced Eye, and Lan is her Wörter. Bran then mentions to Bran that there is a chance that Tam could be healed by Moraine, but he's not sure if he would take it. Tom and Bran tell Rand that Iced Eye can heal, but that that help typically comes with conditions, and most people don't want to get involved. Bran jumps at the chance, and he sets off to find Moraine, who is on the other side of the bridge across the green, where they are burning dead trullix bodies. When Rand finally gets to Moraine, she is sitting there speaking with Lan about the number of trullix fists that have showed up. That's the number of trullix clans that have been there. When Rand approaches, Moraine asks Rand how his dreams are. He's taken a back at the question, but he says there's nothing wrong with his dreams, and then immediately asks for help with his father. Moraine agrees, and they head towards Tam, with Rand telling him to hurry in a desperate attempt to make sure his father doesn't die. Lan warns Rand that Moraine is tired, and that even with her angriol, something that will come up later in the books, she is still tired, and wonders aloud if helping Rand is worth it. They continue off to find Tam, and the chapter ends. So that's the recap of chapter 7 of I of the World. We are now going to jump into the spoiler section. The rest of this video will carry a spoiler rating of red, with major spoilers running all the way through the final book of the series, a memory of light. If you have not finished the final book of the series, go do that, and then come back and watch this. So we'll start with foreshadowing. The first piece of foreshadowing is when Rand is entering the town, and starts talking with Master Luhan about the trullic attack. Now, Master Luhan mentions that the trullics came right for his smithy, like there was something of value there, which kind of confused him. Rand also notices that the coffin house was burned. Now, this is obviously foreshadowing that the shadow was after them, specifically, coming after Matt and Perrin, as well as Rand, at his farm. When Rand is approaching the end with Tam in tow, trying to find the mayor, he runs into Tom Maryland. Now, Tom mentions a few things, which sort of foreshadow events to come. First, he says that in the chaos, pot on fame has disappeared. Now, at the time, I believe it was meant to make it sound like he's dead, but it's actually that pot on fame was the one that brought the trullics there, and then he stuck away in the fighting. The second thing he mentions is that Nineeve is amazing at healing, which sort of foreshadows her great ability and affinity for healing later. The last piece of foreshadowing is the question that Maureen asks Rand as he approaches. She says, how are your dreams Rand out there, which is sort of a weird question, right? Obviously, dreams become a big deal throughout the book for Rand, as Bealsamon is entering his dreams, math dreams, parents dreams, pulling them into dream shards, etc. So the fact that she asks this question kind of foreshadows that dreams are going to be important, and that Maureen knows something that they don't. So let's go ahead and move on to some general thoughts throughout the chapter. First, Harleluhawn mentions when talking to Rand that everyone will be okay, and that they're going to rebuild. Now this is very indicative of the stubborn, two-river spirit. The very day of this disaster, they are already talking about how they're going to move on. Again, just very good world building from this regard. When Rand does talk to Nineeve, you see the pain in her eyes and in her voice when she tells him that there's nothing that she can do. You can tell it crushes her basically in the heart, but it also makes her angry that she can't heal Tam. But she does stay focused on her task, and this is something I love about Nineeve, and it's a trait that she doesn't really lose at any point in the story. Part of the reason why she's my favorite character, by the way. Now when Rand speaks to Tom and Rand about taking Tam to Maureen for healing, you can see how superstitious they are about Isodai, and though those superstitions are super strong here in the two rivers, because they haven't really ever met an Isodai. Rand acts as if it might be a better idea to let Tam die than go to her for help, which is sort of utterly ridiculous, honestly. Now what's interesting here is Tom's reaction. Tom, who obviously has quite a bit of experience with Isodai that we later learn about, he begrudgingly says that all Isodai are not that bad. Sort of softening Rand to the idea of speaking with her. Tom knows that they aren't evil, and he knows Maureen won't do anything awful to the boys or to Tam, but he is still holding on to his hatred over what happened to Owen, his nephew. The last general bit, I think that's worth mentioning here, are Rand's comments to Rand after he tells Maureen to hurry. He says to Rand, I don't know that you are worth it, she perter, no matter what she says. Now this is obviously about the quest that they are on, and it shows that although Leia knows why they are there, he isn't sure Maureen's safety is worth the trouble for these boys, who don't even seem grateful, or knowing what Maureen is about really. Now Maureen, however, is much more focused, and you can completely see that she is somebody who is willing to do anything to achieve her mission, which is very on-brand for both of these characters. Now there was one unanswered question, or basically, issue I have with the chapter that I want to mention here, and that also comes from Leia and Maureen's conversation at the end of the chapter. They are speaking about Trollic's that attacked, and they mentioned that seven bands had attacked the two rivers. Then Leia says that many Trollic bands have not acted together since the Trollic Wars. Now this is an interesting statement for a couple of reasons, and raises some questions. For one, it implies that the Trollic bands do not often work together, or that they really never do, and if that is the case, why in the world would several bands be sent to the two rivers for this? When it's really just a really small group of Trollics that showed up anyway, it's not like there were 50,000 of them. It was a very small number. So why would they have sent more than one band? Are they trying to do forced integration inside a sort of diversity training with Trollics here? Like it just doesn't make sense that there would be seven different bands in such a small rating party. I'm sure that this mention was there to give us the idea that something was different about these attacks. It just doesn't make a lot of sense in context. Anyways, what did you guys think of Out of the Woods? Is there any foreshadowing or points that I missed? Please let me know in the comments of the video, and make sure to stay tuned for the other videos in this series. We'll be going through all of the chapters of the world, and depending on when you watch this, there may be tons of additions of this series out, so make sure to watch the entire playlist and be sure to mention it. 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