The Shadow Rising
Chapter Breakdown
Characters with Points of View in The Shadow Rising
Interview Questions
| Question | Action |
|---|---|
| In Winters Heart, you mention that back in the Age of Legends, there were several other Forsaken that the Dark One had killed because he suspected they would betray him. What's their story? Were those people ever as high ranking as the thirteen survivors, or where they more like high-ranking Dreadlords then actual Forsaken? | See Answer |
| How can Slayer know that Rand is his nephew? | See Answer |
| Have you ever thought about reinstituting some of the old ideas from earlier books? For example, in The Dragon Reborn you had a situation with thirteen dark sisters and thirteen Myrddraal to forcibly convert someone to the darker side of things. It seems you have abandoned that. Do you think you might have something like that pop up again at some unexpected moment? It doesn't seem realistic for the Black Ajah to abandon the idea. | See Answer |
| Well, then is there something unique about the Forsaken other than the fact that they are his favorites that he would transmigrate them, or be able to? | See Answer |
| Ishamael mentions in prior Turnings of the Wheel that the soul of Lews Therin was raised up as the Shadow's champion, and if that is the case, who was the champion of the Creator? | See Answer |
| Will Fain be in the next book [Towers of Midnight]? | See Answer |
| Is Rand's world an atheistic world, based on only human "powers"? There seems to be a "devil" but nothing on the flip side. | See Answer |
| Before he went to the King and became the counselor, Mordeth was this guy that went around searching for Power? | See Answer |
| So, [Fain's] influence, how long for example…wasn’t Egwene exposed to Padan Fain? Are there still effects that Egwene has on people because of him? | See Answer |
| When a channeler is forcibly turned to the Dark, is his/her former personality lost to eternity? Are they in a permanent state of mindless Compulsion? Furthermore, can a channeler forcibly turned to the Dark return to the Light unaided? | See Answer |
| Was Isam raised by the Shadow directly, by his mother, or by someone else? | See Answer |
| Was Taim turned by a circle of thirteen? | See Answer |
| I find it interesting that there is no formal theology in the series. Why is this? | See Answer |
| Was there any time when there was no Blight? | See Answer |
| You mentioned that Mordeth was a man that had "power". You are reported as saying that his power was that "which he got by seeking out all of the evil things that weren’t related to the Shadow"… | See Answer |
| John from Front Royal, Virginia: Were either of the Aes Sedai seen at Rhuidean in The Shadow Rising Deindre, the Age of Legends Aes Sedai from the beginning of the Breaking? Is she responsible for Foretelling the entire Prophecies of the Dragon? Thank you for taking time to respond to our questions this evening. | See Answer |
| John from Front Royal, Virginia: Were either of the Aes Sedai seen at Rhuidean in The Shadow Rising Deindre, the Age of Legends Aes Sedai from the beginning of the Breaking? Is she responsible for Foretelling the entire Prophecies of the Dragon? Thank you for taking time to respond to our questions this evening. | See Answer |
| You once said that all the info needed for solving Asmodean was there by the end of The Fires of Heaven. Does this eliminate a gholam from being a suspect? It's generally believed that a gholam was responsible for the murder of Lord Barthanes in The Great Hunt and the two Black sisters in The Shadow Rising, but I don't think it mentions a name. | See Answer |
| In The Shadow Rising, Lanfear mentioned two sa'angreal stronger than Callandor that a male could use. Is the second one ever going to appear? | See Answer |
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