Memories of Light

[Aethling he/him]

It looks like Tor is doing a daily spoiler for Amol. You have to sign up for it on their site.

[Lady_Yasha she/her]

For those interested I can post the quotes as I get them. They're short, but they make you think. Here's the first one:

It had been useful at Maradon. Nobody knew he had it. That was important.

There's also a discussion about it over on Tor.com.

Edited November 27, 2012 by Lyrebon

[Aethling he/him]

Day two:

"I should like to hear one of your stories. Perhaps you could tell me of the time your father and you visited Shara?"

[Aethling he/him]

Day Three:

"Being married is not so bad, Perrin. Why didn't you tell me it was not so bad? I think I am rather fond of it."

[name_here]

Guesses:

#1 is probably Rand talking. I've thought that the two non-Oath rods from the tower (the balefire generator and the super-sa'angreal) are among the Nine Rods of Domination mentioned in the series prologue, so there would be a male sa'angreal in the set too. That would certainly be a handy surprise.

#2 is just too vague, as the most plausible canidate of known characters for actually visiting there is presently dead.

#3 seems like Gaul to me.

[Aethling he/him]

I think some of them are coming from older books. They seemed to hint that not all of the quotes would be from AMOL. Some of them seem very familiar, anyway.

Day Four:

"Pass his bond to me."

[Aethling he/him]

Day 5:

"Creator shelter us," she whispered.

Mat scowled. "You know, that's what Tuon said.

[Aethling he/him]

Day Six:

The right thing had always seemed clear to Galad before, but never had it felt as right as this. Those streaks of light were like indicators on a map, arrows pointing his way. The Light itself guided him. It had prepared him, placed him here at this moment.

[Aethling he/him]

Day 7:

"Nobody travels the Ways," Ituralde said, aghast.

[name_here]

Probably referring to the attack on Andor. Which raises a very good question: How DID they get an invasion force through the Ways?

[Aethling he/him]

Trollocs and Fades have traveled the Ways several times throughout the series.

[Voidus]

But it's been mentioned that moving a sizeable force takes time, they have to travel in small groups. I doubt they'd be able to move an army big enough to take Caemlyn without someone noticing, my guess is that Fain was involved somehow and got the Black Wind to back off so they could move more forces. Either that or someone else has similar control over it, Moridin probably would.

[name_here]

I don't know why Fain would help them, or be relied on to do so, and I don't think he controls the Black Wind as such given how it totally ruined his planned schedule back in book 2. I also doubt Mordin can control it, but it probably fears balefire, so that might be it.

[Aethling he/him]

For a last desperate push, I doubt they were really worried about losing many of the Trollocs. The Shadow has shown a willingness to just throw them away before, and this is a distraction for the Final Battle.

[Aethling he/him]

Day Eight:

Egwene strode around a frozen pillar of glass in her dream. It almost looked like a column of light. What did it mean? She could not interpret it.

[name_here]

For a last desperate push, I doubt they were really worried about losing many of the Trollocs. The Shadow has shown a willingness to just throw them away before, and this is a distraction for the Final Battle.

Well, yes, but I'm pretty sure that if they sent a huge number of Trollocs into the Ways at once, none of them would be coming out.

[Ryan he/him]

Guesses:

#3 seems like Gaul to me.

Sounds like Loial to me. <3 Loial.

[Aethling he/him]

Day 9

The letter was written in Mat's hand. And, Elayne noticed with amusement, the handwriting was much neater and the spelling much better in this one than the one he'd sent her weeks ago.

[Aethling he/him]

Day 10:

"And farewell to you, old friend," she said to the air. "Until I dream again."

[Aethling he/him]

Day 11:

"One more thing, the marath'damane . . ."

"I'll deal with those channelers personally," Mat said.

She gawked at him as if he were insane.

[Aethling he/him]

Day 12:

"Enough talk. You will bed me now."

[Aethling he/him]

Day 13:

"We must spread the word to all of our allies," Amys said. "We must not use this weave."

This almost has to be balefire. Entire series has been talking about how it is bad to be used.

[Lady_Yasha she/her]

Day 12: "Enough talk. You will bed me now."

...is a little saucy

I expect that weave will be something different to balefire though. Several characters have already used it, so maybe they discover a new weave more heinous than balefire.

Edited December 8, 2012 by Lyrebon

[Aethling he/him]

Possibly, but it would be hard to find something worse than burning someone completely out of the pattern.

I felt day 12 was probably Avi confronting Rand. We know from the previews she is already back at camp, and she was adamant about jumping him once she wouldn't be far below him.

[Aethling he/him]

Day 14:

That, she replied back, is something one should never, never say to an Aes Sedai. Ever.

Probably something like "I owe you," or "You are too old for this," or "I love you."

Edited December 9, 2012 by Aethling