Eye of the World Log In

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The Eye of the World is a place that can only be found in times of great need. Someshta the Nym resided there until the battle against Aginor and Ba'althamel. It also contained the object the Eye of the World.

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New Dreadlords? Via True Power? What are limits of True Power? When did we see it used before? Access to the True Power is a matter of wanting it and the Dark One letting you. NOT black cords. In Prologue to The Eye of the World, we saw Ishamael use the True Power to Heal insanity. The One Power can not be used to Heal insanity. True Power used at Shayol Ghul will fry you instantly.	View More Details
What Age was the Age of Legends? The Age before the Third Age. The Breaking of the World brought on the Third Age. The Trolloc and Hundred Years Wars were only punctuations in local history.	View More Details
Did Egwene as Amyrlin happen to be watching people's dreams while Rand was shielded? (Tries again) Since Rand was shielded and couldn't form any Wards on his dreams could Egwene have spied out that he was in trouble while in Tel'aran'rhiod? Ah. Yes, she could have. The problem is, when you've learned that something is impossible, you have a tendency to stop trying it. She just didn't try to spy during the period in question.	View More Details
What about those Warders in Caemlyn around Logain in The Eye of the World? Didn't Moiraine say that they were all Red sisters? Reds don't have Warders! Moiraine never mentioned the sisters escorting Logain (not all of whom were Red). The ones with Logain weren't in Caemlyn at the time. Moiraine was referring to those that were in Caemlyn. There is something explaining this in Lord of Chaos. Remember that the interleaving of plot threads goes backward as well as forward.	View More Details
How did Aginor manage to sense the Shadar Logoth dagger in the The Eye of the World? That has to do with the end of Winter's Heart. It's an effect of resonance. The dagger is the same evil as the evil of Shadar Logoth. You can say its diametrically opposite to the taint, thats the evil on saidin. Rand, in one point in Shadar Logoth feels it repulsing with each other. And especially in the wounds on his side. There is a resonance created. A positive and negative pulse of evil, you might say.	View More Details
Please find out if Lews Therin balefired himself in the prologue in The Eye of the World, or if he just drew too much of the One Power. If it isn't critical to the continuing plot, I'm sure he'll say. Lews Therin did not use balefire on himself; he simply drew as much of the One Power as he could, then kept on pulling it in.	View More Details
Are Tel’aran’rhiod, skimming space and Gap of Infinity (the dream part of Tel'aran'rhiod) all part of the unseen world? No, they are all separate from each other.	View More Details
Are you ever going to expand the existing map and perhaps open up the lands east of the Spine of the World? There are no known maps of the Aiel Waste. That has been established.	View More Details
During the raising tests for Accepted and Aes Sedai, are the ladies taking the tests actually inside of the World of Dreams? No...well, I am not going to say where they are for the tests for Accepted, that might be a RAFO, probably not, but it might be. For the test for Aes Sedai, they are in effect inside what you might call an uber-virtual reality device where what happens is entirely controlled in this case by the sisters controlling the device, but it is a virtual reality that is so terrific that it is reality for you. You die, you are dead. No game over, start again. You are dead.	View More Details
So the Eye of the World is a well, right Could it be refilled by a male channeler? Are wells made with the opposite half of the power that they were meant to contain, like Rand did at Shadar Logoth? Yes and no. It's in the same class of objects as a well, but on a different scale. No. Remember, lots of Aes Sedai died to make it. [To keep it pure]. Look, a normal well is like this water glass. The Eye is like a liquid nitrogen canister. [But] no, they don't work like that.	View More Details
(from Vanin) What did Aginor mean in The Eye of the World when pointing towards Mat and saying something about old history, old friend, old enemy? RAFO you horsethief!	View More Details
Why was Aginor so interested in the Eye of the World? He could channel clean saidin anyway so it shouldn't have been an issue? He was able to channel clean saidin, true, but only through the "filter" which had been provided by the Dark One just a short time previously, which meant the Dark One would be aware of him channeling wherever he was. Remember, Aginor was the creator of the Trollocs; he is quite able to reason things out clearly, at least in a scientific sense. Also, he wasn't certain whether or not the Dark One also would know what he was doing when he channeled, too. For someone as secretive, competitive, and generally untrustworthy as the one of the Forsaken, the Eye of the World amounted to a valuable asset if it could be secured. To put it simply, Aginor saw a means of channeling without the Dark One looking over his shoulder, and maybe a way to increase his own power at the expense of those who didn't have that advantage. Balthamel might well have been for the long drop, administered by Aginor, if things hadn't worked out differently.	View More Details
Did Ishamael come to Lews Therin Telamon’s palace in the prologue of The Eye of the World to kill him? No. To taunt him with his defeat. Ishamael would much rather have had Lews Therin alive and suffering from the knowledge of defeat, not to mention the murder of his wife and other blood kin, than simply dead.	View More Details
Aside from the Heroes of the Horn waiting around in the World of Dreams, is there any kind of afterlife in Wheel of Time? Do the Heroes get a choice when they are linked to the Horn; can they retire, or take 'ordinary life' sabbaticals? In answer to the first question, yes, there is an ordinary afterlife. In answer to the second, no. You cannot decide not to be a Hero linked to the Wheel.	View More Details
Are you ever going to expand the existing map and perhaps open up the lands east of the Spine of the World? There are no known maps of the Aiel Waste. That has been established.	View More Details
First Congratulations on your new book. I'm absolutely dying to read it and I'm sure it will be as awesome as the rest. My question regards The Eye of the World: Near the end of the book Rand hears a voice that vibrates his skull with its intensity. Was that the Creator taking to him? I believe the voice even said "I WILL TAKE NO PART...." Read and find out. Ain't I a stinker?	View More Details
Nansen from Ithaca, NY: Hi, just curious -- in the last section of The Eye of the World, Lan says that the Bond does not tell him the direction where his Aes Sedai is exactly; it is just a general feeling. But then later in series, both he and Rand had the ability to tell in an exactly straight-line direction the location of whom they are bonded to. Is this an inconsistency, or is there an explanation? Thanks! Yes. There is an explanation: a change that was supposed to be made in manuscript in The Eye of the World and did not get set into type and which I thought had been corrected. I have been trying to get that changed since I discovered that The Eye of the World had been published with the erroneous information. I hope they are still not printing the books with it.	View More Details
I just started The Great Hunt and I find the religious and political aspects very interesting. I notice the dedication for The Great Hunt says, "They came to my aid when God walked across the water, and the true Eye of the World passed over my house." Has your own religion in any way helped to shape the book? Only in the sense that it helped to shape my moral and ethical beliefs. My work certainly is not religious in even the sense that J.R.R. Tolkien's was, much less the work of C.S. Lewis. That inscription, by the way, referred to Hurricane Hugo striking Charleston, where I live. The word hurricane comes from the name of a god of the Caribe Indians, who believed that the storm was that god walking across the water. Anyone who has ridden out a hurricane, and I have ridden out several, can well believe that it is. And if a hurricane isn't the Eye of the World, it's as close as we will come in this world.	View More Details
Hi, Mr, Jordan, I have been an avid reader of your books since I first read The Eye of the World about a year ago. I was wondering how did you choose the colors for the Ajahs, ie. why are some colors such as orange left out and gray is in? Thanks for answering my question. I stuck with what you might call basic colors, and orange is not a basic color.	View More Details
Are any of your characters or cultures designed to pay specific homage to any particular work or author? No. In the first chapters of The Eye of the World, I tried for a Tolkienesque feel without trying to copy Tolkien’s style, but that was by way of saying to the reader, okay, this is familiar, this is something you recognize, now let’s go where you haven’t been before. I like taking a familiar theme, something people think they know and know where it must be heading, then standing it on its ear or giving it a twist that subverts what you thought you knew. I must admit that I occasionally drop in a reference — for example, there’s an inn called The Nine Rings, and Loial is seen reading a book entitled To Sail Beyond the Sunset — but it isn’t a regular thing by any means.	View More Details
I understand there would be a person in The Eye of the World, but that he was cut out or something. Who was he? One of the characters who I have brought in later was a fellow named Daniel in The Eye of the World, and I brought him out because I realized he didn't have anything to do there. I reintroduced him later. At that point, he was simply taking up space.	View More Details