Potential
Spoilers Below
I keep telling everyone that
similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire
(ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise.
Verin
had her quarters above the library, in corridors used only by a few other Brown
sisters. There was a dusty air to the halls there, as if
the women who lived along them were too busy with other things to bother having
the servants clean very often, and the passages took odd turns and twists,
sometimes dipping or rising unexpectedly. The tapestries were few, their
colorful weavings dulled, apparently cleaned as seldom as everything else here.
Many of the lamps were unlit, plunging much of the hall into gloom. Egwene thought she had it to herself, except for a flash of
white ahead, perhaps a novice or
a servant scurrying about some task. Her shoes, clicking on bare black and
white floor tiles, made echoes. It was not a comforting place for one thinking
of the Black
Ajah.
She found what Verin had told her to look for. A dark paneled door at
the top of a rise, beside a dusty tapestry of a king on horseback receiving the
surrender of another king. Verin had named the pair of them—men dead hundreds
of years before Artur Hawkwing was born; Verin always
seemed to know such things—but Egwene could not remember their names, or the
long-vanished countries they had ruled. It was the only wall hanging she had
seen that matched Verin’s description, though.
Minus the sound of her own footsteps, the hallway seemed even emptier
than before, and more threatening. She rapped on the door, and entered
hurriedly on the heels of an absentminded “Who is it? Come in.”
One step
into the room, she stopped and stared. Shelves
lined the walls, except for one door that must lead to inner rooms
and except for where maps hung, often in layers, and what seemed to be charts of the night sky.
She recognized the names of some constellations—the Plowman and the
Haywain, the Archer and the Five Sisters—but others were unfamiliar. Books and papers
and scrolls covered nearly every flat surface, with all sorts of odd things
interspersed among the piles, and sometimes on top of them. Strange shapes of
glass or metal, spheres and tubes interlinked, and circles held inside circles,
stood among bones and skulls of every shape and description. What appeared to
be a stuffed
brown owl, not much bigger than Egwene’s hand, stood on what seemed
to be a bleached white lizard’s skull, but could not be, for the skull was
longer than her arm and had crooked teeth as big as her fingers. Candlesticks
had been stuck about in a haphazard fashion, giving good light here and shadows
there, although seeming in danger of setting fire to papers in some places. The
owl blinked at her, and she jumped.
Sam stops and stares |
Shelves lined the walls |
Charts of the night sky |
Books and papers and scrolls covered nearly every flat surface |
Strange shapes of glass or metal, spheres and tubes interlinked, and circles held inside circles |
This guy is the representation of the stuffed brown owl |
“Ah, yes,” Verin said. She was seated behind a table as cluttered as
everything else in the room, a torn page held carefully in her hands. “It is
you. Yes.” She noticed Egwene’s sideways glance at the owl, and said absently,
“He keeps down mice. They chew paper.” Her gesture took in the entire room, and
reminded her of the page she held. “Fascinating, this. Rosel
of Essam claimed more than a hundred pages survived the Breaking, and she should have known,
since she wrote barely two hundred years afterwards, but only this one piece
still exists, so far as I know. Perhaps only this very copy. Rosel wrote that
it held secrets the world could not face, and she would not speak of them
plainly. I have read this page a thousand times, trying to decipher what she
meant.”
The tiny owl blinked at Egwene again. She tried not to look at it.
“What does it say, Verin Sedai?”
Verin blinked, very much as the owl had. “What does it say? It is a
direct translation, mind, and reads almost like a bard reciting in High
Chant. Listen. ‘Heart of the Dark. Ba’alzamon. Name hidden within name
shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret. Betrayer of
Hope. Ishamael betrays all hope. Truth burns and sears. Hope fails before
truth. A lie is our shield. Who can stand against the Heart of the Dark? Who
can face the Betrayer of Hope? Soul of shadow, Soul of the Shadow, he is—’ ”
She stopped with a sigh. “It ends there. What do you make of it?”
“I don’t know,” Egwene said. “I do not like it.”
“Well, why should you, child? Like it, or understand it? I have studied
it nearly forty years, and I do neither.” Verin carefully placed the page
inside a silk-lined folder of stiff leather, then casually stuffed the folder
into a stack of papers. “But you did not come for that.” She rummaged across
the table, muttering to herself, several times barely catching a pile of books
or manuscripts before it toppled. Finally she came up with a handful of pages
covered in a thin, spidery hand and tied with nubby string. “Here, child.
Everything that is known about Liandrin and
the women who went with her. Names, ages, Ajahs, where they were born.
Everything I could find in the records.
Name hidden within name
shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret. Betrayer of
Hope. I think this is going to represent
Daenerys. Click here to
see what anagram makes up Daenerys name and why I think she will become the “Betrayer of Hope”.
Ba’alzamon, Ishamael & Moridin are
all names used by the same Forsaken. Click here to see what I believe "Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret" represents.
Comments encouraged. Love to hear the idea’s of
others. Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m
not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth. I simply look
at the information presented and go from there. If you can shine a light
on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.
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