WoT Notes is on the Wheel of Time Resource List

Recently I had the shocking surprise to find these two links on Reddit where somebody has made a list with helpful links and resources for super WoT fans who would love to dive deeper into the lore with more content. Huge thanks to JaimTorfinn for putting this blog into the special list!

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Wheel of Time Resource List

It is great honor WoT Notes to sit beside all the WoT places that I’ve been looking up to since my first days around the fandom - Encyclopaedia WoT, TheoryLand Interview Database, The 13th Depository, Steven Cooper’s WoT Timeline or The WoT FAQ. When I started this project 7 (9) years ago I couldn’t dream for the blog to be in one sentence with these titans. I am not worthy and certainly I do not think I have done anything close to the huge inspiration these sites provided for thousands of WoT fans.

But it is still an honor. It is also baffling to think about how this blog doesn’t have alternative after so many years of people visiting the library. I started the project with the idea that it would be temporary. I have no access to RJ’s notes after all and I depend on what other fans share publicly. For the last 9 years I hoped that the others will decide to give us full access to what they collected on their visits. Especially Terez and Matt Hatch who already run the TheoryLand Interview Database and who could know how important is this information to be gathered. But I am surprised to say that even to these days information of the notes is still not easily available for fans. For example Matt Hatch still put some notes only in his videos and never released them in textual form.

This project shouldn’t have to exist and yet it is the only place where you can find (most of the shared in public) the notes gathered in one place. Truly wild thought.

May be someday I will have the chance to visit the notes myself.

I hope you really enjoy your time with the notes devouring for more WoT content.

The notes are great insight in the mind of great man and author.

Let the Light keep you safe.

LightOne

P.S. WoT-Notes was created 7 years ago in 2016 but the first share of the RJ’s notes is in 2014 in my main blog WoT-Tidbits.

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RJ’s notes Part 80 by Bain & Chiad

Bain & Chiad

Robert Jordan was not sure about whether or not Bain & Chiad would go with Perrin to rescue Rand at Dumai’s Wells. In Bain’s entry RJ wrote - Bain remained in Cairhien with Faile and Chiad went to Dumai’s Wells. In both entries RJ says: Or did both go? Check the markbench for Cairhien. In Chiad’s entry RJ wrote: Or did Bain and Chiad go?

Gaul’s entry is very much just what we know. Nothing juicy there.

BOX 20, Folder 19, page 16, Wise Ones

Effect of marriage on Melaine: she seems to have to work at being prickly, or so it seems to Egwene. She is quite besotted with Beal, and despite her pregnancy very much caught up in the discovery of sex, as I think she was a virgin despite her age.

BOX 20, Folder 19, Page 69

The idea of one woman having more than one husband (as Myrelle has done) is bizarre to the Aiel. They do not believe that men can be as close friends as women. Though men can be spear-brothers, if in the same society, and men can be near-brothers, there is no provision for men adopting one another as first-brothers. OR IS THERE? I THINK I SAID SIMPLY THAT THIS RARELY HAPPENS. NEED TO CHECK.

Aiel do not know mushrooms as food. Few such grow anywhere in the Waste and when some are used medicinally by Wise Ones, all of these can kill, some in very small doses.

Box 20, Folder 19, page 74

A man listens to his _______ before his own mother, and a woman to her ______ before her own. NEED TO WORK THIS OUT.

Box 60, Folder 19, page 90,91

Speaking to a man of his father-in-law or to a wojman of her mother-in-law (second father and second mother) is considered hostile enough to justify drawing weapons unless they had mentioned them first.

Box 61, Folder 2, page 10

Myrelle took him (Lan) to bed; this to last until she has begun making his (sic) think of life again, to however small a degree, it being her belief that fucking makes you center on life rather than death.

Lamelle, Maiden, one of the three worst at mothering Rand, made lousy soup.

Maidens at night wear small clothes.

Nuditiy is not usually casual at Aiel culture but there are some public places where people are nude – the sweat tent is ok, in front of gai’shain is not ok. Sweat tents are casual with the same gender otherwise it’s embarrassing. Being naked outdoors before or after the sweat tent is ok. Otherwise outdoor nudtity is extremely shaming if you are seen. The amount of shame you feel if naked outside of the sweat tent depends on how well you know the person seeing you. It boils down to the idea that nudity is more embarrassing the less control you have over the situation.

Box 20, Folder 19, page 23

Status amond Wise Ones is determined by ji, not by channeling strength or age. Plus leadership abilities and fitness for specific tasks. Among the Wise Ones, leadership can pass from one woman to a second to a third and back to the first as the task before them changes.

Box 20, Folder 19, page 26-27

Sorilea overrides the usual process of choosing an appropriate leader for each situation. She takes charge whenever she is there. But she is considered to have very great ji, plus being a very forceful personality; besides which, most of the Wise Ones think she is very smart, very capable, and very likely the best leader in most situations.

Box 62, Folder 11, pages 1-2

The Maidens stopped following (Rand) around at the time of the attack in Cairhien, though they ran to try to defend him. They were angry, and sulking, because he had not taken them on the attack against Illian or the attack against the Seanchan, and they barely bought his explanations. They would be worried at his disappearance, worried that he had been killed. When they find out he isn’t dead, they’ll be furious with him. It isn’t quite the same as keeping them out of battle, but clearly he is in dange, and he has excluded them. Remember that Someryn and some others beat him up.

The sources of the bleakness are manifold. There is the fact that the Car’a’carn really is a wetlander. He may be of their blood but he knows only what he has been taught of Aiel customs. There is the secret revealed to them by Rand at Al'cair Dal dome of their origins in the Age of Legends. The fear that perhaps their warlike ways are in themselves another betrayel of the Aes Sedai and inability to accept those origins. The fear that Rand has somehow an Aes Sedai leas fastened to his neck added to the new view of Aes Sedai manifesting itself has created a new source to feed the bleakness.

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RJ’s notes Part 79 by Bain & Chiad

Note. The following text is manually written by listening as most of the notes were only read and not shown on the screen. There are going to be some mistakes from the original text because of it as English is not my native language. I would appreciate if someone can help me to fix the transcription.

FOR USE WITH AELFIN OR EELFIN (COLON) PIXIES/FAIRIES STEAL THE NOURISHMENT FROM HUMAN FOOD. IT STILL LOOKS RIGHT BUT YOU COULD SUPPOSEDLY STARVE TO DEATH WHILE EATING YOUR FILL.

The Aelfinn do not require any bargaining but questions touchning on the Shadow? or your own future? are exceedingly dangerous. What the Aelfinn take in return is emotion, a recording so to speak from the questioner as well as from others who fall into their hands in ways other than coming to ask questions. To the Aelfinn human emotions is like a drug while their answers are true if cryptic they will maintain a contact with anyone they deal with continuing to record their emotions. They can force someone who is their captive to relive memories so as to produce fresh emotions? Anyone who visits them is fitted with a “link” that also feeds emotion to the Aelfinn.

[Rhuidean, Eelfinn] What they get out of it is a recording of the asker’s memories including physical sensation which acts on them as human emotion does on the Aelfinn. Like the Aelfinn they also maintain contact with people with whom they have come into contact and so can continue to record memories from that point right up to the person’s death. They can force someone “relive” their memories again and again. Or can they?

The Eelfinn and Aelfinn sometimes work together especially with captives. For both the snakes and the foxes the repetition of one person’s emotions or memories eventually causes a dulling effect from them. Together however they can force variations in the emotional responses and the memories that are being relived. They must do it together since is the Eelfin who imbide memory who can alter the emotional responses though incrementally in the Aelfin who imbide emotion who can alter their living on memories again incrementally. In this way they can put the victim through variations of their memories with the result that the intensity of the experience and thus of the emotion and memory are heightened. Victims frequently can no longer tell which are true memories of events or their true emotional responses to certain things in their past. It can also damage certain abilities in people such as the ability to channel.

Rhuidean and Ogier stedding are among the few places that cannot be entered in Tel’aran’rhiod. THIS MAY HAVE CHANGED CONCERNING RHUIDEAN NOW THAT THE BARRIER HAS BEEN DESTROYED. RHUIDEAN IS THRIVING, GROWING. ALL CLANS EXCEPT THE SHAIDO HAVE PEOPLE THERE NOW. FIRST OGIER MAY BE BEGINNING TO REBUILD BY END OF FIRES [of Heaven].

Graendal herself is not one to go digging about hunting for things. Whatever she finds she wants to keep for herself and if any sharing is done it will be on her terms.

In the outline for A Memory of Light Egwene does not die, instead she is actually pregnant at the end of the books. And Egeanin does save her which she does in the books but in the outline that’s her end.

In the outline the Horn of Valere is actually retrieved by Mat, Olver and one of Perrin’s Asha’man from the White Tower. It is hidden in a secret panel in the White Tower and only Siuan and Verin know where it is.

Elayne fills the basements [of Caemlyn] with oil and sets them on fire.

Traditionally the Aiel sweat tents are men only and women only and to have co-ed sweat tent would be uncomfortable.

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RJ’s notes Part 78 by Matt Hatch

Note. The following text is manually written by hearing as most of the notes were only read and not shown on the screen. There are going to be some mistakes from the original text because of it as English is not my native language. I am sorry for the inconvenience and I would appreciate if someone can help me to fix the transcription.

1996 Letter to Bill Fawcett

34. World View. […] Also, extend Seanchan a little farther south. Make southern portion of Seanchan wider by 75%, all south of equator.

Professional correspondence, 1996-2008, Box 57

Seanchan’s salute is a fist pressed to the heart normally to the left.

Seanchan insists on protocol before comfort including damane rising and bowing when sul’dam enters the room. Someone out of the Blood greeting a High Lord or High Lady is expected to prostrate themselves fully and usually to kiss the floor ground.

Carlinya Sorevin - an Aes Sedai of the White Ajah. Min had a viewing about her and in that viewing there was a tattoo of a raven on or near her. A lot of people thought that had to do with the Seanchan. That’s not how it turned out. But in Robert Jordan’s notes does say she is fated to be captured by the Seanchan and made damane. Everything that shows up in the Robert Jordan’s notes doesn’t necessarily mean it actually translates to a plot that ends up happening. Carlinya stayed in the White Tower and she didn’t end up captured by the Seanchan. 

Although that king Roedran as much looked down upon, he will turn out to be one of the better opponents of the Seanchan. He is willing to follow Mat’s lead much more than any other nobles.

Fate of the Shaido.

This is from the beginning of book 8. The Shaido will fall under the control of the Seanchan. Mainly because they have no other choice. They are scattered, not united, surrounded by enemies for most Shaido the choice between annihilation and fighting for the Seanchan rather than against them is not a hard call. They would be welcomed in a way because Seanchan’s records would indicate their fierceness as fighters. The fact that the Aiel were the only ones to defeat Hawkwing. Plus by that time the Seanchan will have encountered the Aiel here and seen it firsthand. Under Seanchan law they would be allowed to keep their permanent gai-shain, their slaves who simply count as covale - property. Under Seanchan law however Wise Ones who can channel, of course are marath’damane – there is no getting around that. The discoveries of the true nature of sul’dam is still fairly closely held secret. Sevanna might well cooperate in this amalgamation of the Shaido and the Seanchan forces in the beginning at least. Especially if she is encouraged by the apparent promise of wealth etc. Her normal desire for power would lead her to fight the Seanchan the same as any other wetlander but she is no fool. Besides discovering some of the Wise Ones who opposed her have been collared placed at her disposal would help. Rather along the lines of better to rule in hell then serve in heaven. Especially if your enemies are made to serve you in turn. May be what she would not want to cooperate is in being tattooed with the ravens which all the Shaido are to be and the rituals of submission which she as property of the Imperial family is expected to make. Given the choices though except the ravens as Deathwatch Guards do proudly accept their servants do as property does submissively or fail to accept and face the impaling stake Sevanna would decide to kiss the Daughter of the Nine Moons’ feet, so to speak, and pledge to serve. She would be expected to make sure that the rest of the Shaido accepted as well by emphasizing the honor or however.

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RJ’s notes Part 77 by Shanbear16

A visit to the James O. Rigney, Jr. archives

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A few weeks ago I was visiting family in Myrtle Beach for the first time. I figured since we were only a few hours away from Charleston I would take a trip down there to visit the College of Charleston’s James Oliver Rigney, Jr. archives. I’ve been a massive WoT fan since around 1998 and was active in online fan communities for a while. Visiting the archives was sort of like a bucket list thing for me. Unfortunately, they didn’t allow any photos (I think that restriction drops sometime in the 2030s). However, they did have a great display put up in honor of the TV show so I was able to take pictures of that. I was also able to take notes! I know there have been a couple of other fans who have posted about what they found in the archives, but I’m hoping I found a couple of things that haven’t been mentioned yet. I’m just going to kind of bullet list some things others might find interesting. Things in quotes are as they were written in the files.

In the plot summary circa 1984-1989 Egwene is spelled “Eguene”

Speaking of different names, Rand was originally Rhys al’Thor The Dragon Reborn, The Hammer

There were a lot of notes and prophecies from Le Morte D’Arthur (which is Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th century telling of the King Arthur story) including a note about “sangreal” being an alternate name for The Holy Grail.

There were a bunch of notes on Arthurian lore in general

There were also notes from The White Goddess (a book by Robert Graves published in 1948 that draws a lot on Irish and Welsh mythology. As far as I can tell Graves tries to connect poetry and mythology together somehow. I’m not sure as I’m unfamiliar with this book). Jordan made a specific note of the name Kadsuane from the book.

Also from the outline: “If the power wielder who first finds al’Thor is at some point made into a crone by the Powers of Sa’khan, she will be a perfect precursor for the hag in the Maiden-Nymph-Hag trio. al’Thor would be the means of her rescue, but not in the same book in which the disaster strikes her.” I found this really interesting because it highlights where Jordan initially wanted this story to go

He also had a note to himself asking if the number of ages should be 7 (“as in so many legends and the bible”) or 9 which would be “a number of magical properties.”

The outline also names “Nyneve Bayal” and “Thom Merilyn”

In his original description of Emond’s Field he noted that the stones from the quarry near the town were used more than 1,000 years before. Also, the ancient city that existed was not noted as Manetheran but as “Etheran”

In the original outline I couldn’t find any mention of Mat or Perrin.

The original name for angreal was “Cris”

Ogier was initially spelled “ogyr.” Speaking of Ogyr, they were initially shorter than men. They were primarily lumbermen and miners.

Lews Therin Telamon? Nah, he was originally called Jaran Telamon!

In Jordan’s notes on books 2-6 the story was originally going to go in a totally different place. Rand was going to be shipwrecked on the coast of “a blight” and he wanders. He becomes Morgase’s lover for a time (!!!!). This is what makes Galad bitter. Rand was to be taken prisoner by “the Queen of the land where he was raised, Elyn’s mother. She wants to kill him but Elyn convinces her not to.“ Rand is instead blinded by hot irons and turned loose to wander as a beggar. There was a note that he would regain his sight later.

Sea Folk= “oriental/Polynesian” people in appearance

Stone of Tear was originally “Stone of Stair”

“Parts of the Arthurian Legend will be blended with Norse myth, Greek myth, and others.”

From the Memory of Light outline: a reminder to himself that “Dragon is one with the land,” “eclipse should be a central scene in the Last Battle,” and a reference to the Karaethon Cycle told by Thom in The Great Hunt chapter 26 to Rand.

Egwene was to become pregnant!

I can’t remember if this was in the book or not. Mat was to go to Tar Valon. Egwene summons Siuan. Siuan retrieves the Horn of Valere from a secret hiding spot in the study and gives it to Mat.

Aludra’s cannon was originally 3 miles long. RJ made a note that this might possibly be excessive. I personally found that note to be hilarious.

A continuity note from the 1980s says bonding is sex specific (note from me: I think he means gender here?). Men can bond women and women can only bond men. Sooooo clearly this is something that changed!

Warder weapon skill and tracking ability is not given via bonding - this is a skill the warder inherently has.

Jordan considered the name Garad Winden Marsan for Artur Hawkwing.

Here’s another one about the Ogier - there were to be tales that Ogier possess boots that allow one of them to cover ten leagues at a stride in the ways. “Jarad Farstrider (of the story)” supposedly stole (or came in possession of ) a pair of these boots.

Parry Coomb was going to be the closest village to Emond’s Field.

The following may be the absolute best thing I read in Jordan’s notes. I loved it so much I wrote the whole thing word for word:

“How many traditional fantasy elements do we have? If so, under what conditions, and in what manifestations? Giants? Elves? Dwarves? Trolls? Ogres? (no fucking unicorns, that’s for damned sure!) Dragons? Beasts of mystery and magic? Sentient animals? Sentient plants? Spirits? Gods?

No Gods

No spirits

No dragons

Beasts of mystery? Certainly, creatures of and creations of the Power

Trolls:Trollocs

Ogres:Ogyr

Giants: The Green Man might qualify. Others? Most likely not”

I went through stacks and stacks of world building notes (an example of this is a list of what each nation calls The Dark One). I also came across a stack of papers about 4 inches tall of questions for Maria Simons (continuity editor and research assistant for Team Jordan) with a few answers that she provided.

So that’s everything I took notes on! It was really neat seeing his world building and original ideas for the series. Every now and then I saw a personal note in there including a note about taking Harriet’s car to the mechanic!

I will say the librarians and staff in Special Collections were lovely (even if they had to talk me down from 45 boxes I asked to be pulled down to 20). I’m a librarian who has had some training in archives which I mentioned when I made my appointment, but nothing I looked at required special handling so I think if anyone is interested in visiting they need only make an appointment!

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While watching the DustyWheel episode about Galad in the notes, I discovered something very curious in them that they didn’t pay attention on.

There is the quote from “Notes on books two trough six” that in this timeline Rand’s mother is Morgase’s sister. Ok.

But few lines later while still on that quote they showed another text that Rand’s first ally will be Morgase who becomes his lover.

Sooo Rand bangs his aunt at that timeline? Are these two quotes connected? Or these are from two different timelines?

I asked Matt Hatch for confirmation about the timelines and here is his answer:

Checked the quotes in that file. It would appear the same timeline.

“After Rand decides that he is indeed the Dragon his first ally will be Morgase, who becomes his lover for a time.”

“His mother was Morgase’s sister who, refusing an unwanted marriage to Maric, fled […].”

(The connection unknown to them both I’d assume.)

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Sooo that scene in Lord of Chaos where Rand is worrying about his blood relation to Elayne gets even more hilarious as a nod by Robert Jordan for the previous incest version of the story.

RJ’s notes Part 76 by Matt Hatch

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THE EYE OF THE WORLD

OUTLINE/EXPANDED VERSION

Book One: The Eye of the World

(handwritten note: 3rd)

Box 20, Folder 2

File includes an early TEOTW concept from Beginning to end.

-         “The Two Rivers” is not a thing yet.

-         Tam dies. Moiraine is unable to heal him.

-         Moiraine convinces all men of a certain age from villages nearby they should go to Tar Valon to discover why this attack happened.

-         Nyneve and Eguene accompany them, and the party stays together. As every village they visit has been struck by misfortune. They are often attacked by Trollocs.

-         In Tar Valon, Rand meets Queen Morgase of the city-state of Caemlon, who is married to King Maric Damodred. She hopes that Moiraine finds the true Dragon Reborn so she can rule at his side (until he is gentled, of course)

While there in Tar Valon in this version of the story, they get word that the forsaken and the trollocs are moving through the northern Blight (there is more than one Blight). But the Great Northern Blight is the main one. And they are threating the Eye of the World. So they go rushed to the Blight to protect the Eye of the World from this invading army. And that is how they end up there.

The whole Ba’alzamon blindsiding the Eye of the World doesn’t come in until the next version of the story. Egwene is get raped by one of the Forsaken and then Rand has to heal her. And he does it like in his sleep or something. Or he thinks he is sleeping. And that he uses the power of the Eye of the World. And then Moiraine tells him he is the Dragon Reborn on the spot.

THE EYE OF THE WORLD

OUTLINE/EXPANDED VERSION

Box 20, Folder 2, p.9

One of Morgase’s sons, Galad, who is also in Tar Valon, hates the way his mother flirts. As a reaction to his mother, he not only does not consort with women but has become a total ascetic, expounding on the need for complete purity of the flesh. Also he evinces a strong dislike for any man in whom Morgase shows interest. He goes out of his way to snub the village youths, and even tries to humiliate them.

The one man Galad does not dislike is Lan, who returns the friendship. Lan, co-incidentally, is one of the few men for whom Morgase apparently holds no attraction, and for whom she shows total disregard [NOTE: The last was not always so, for unknown to any but Lan and Morgase, Galad is Lan’s son. Morgase married Maric instead of Lan, and Lan has ignored her existence ever since. She reciprocates. Lan cares for his son a great deal, however, though he cannot reveal his fatherhood.]

Eye of the World [Part One]

FILE: OUTLINE1

and

Book One: The Eye of the World

[Part Two]

FILE: OUTLINE2

Box 20, Folder 2

Highlights of some changes from the prior file:

-         The “Two Rivers” take shape including names like Mountains of Mist & Taren Ferry.

-         The pre-Festival trip to Emond’s Field takes shape in all its detail including the Fade.

-         The gleeman Thom Merilyn was brought down from Baerlan, and Edward White the peddler is in the village with his stories.

-         Tam still dies.

-         The party still goes to Tar Valon but includes an unspecified number of boys from only Emond’s Field. Nyneve goes with, Eguene followes them and joins in Taren.

-         This time the party splits, and some are driven to the land of the Ogyr near the Dragonwall, Rand befriends Jak Vladad, a young Ogyr, who joins the party.

-         Morgase is now the ruler of the city-state of Arranellon. Still married to Maric.

Padan Fain (Edward the White) met with the boys and tells the story of his escape in Tar Valon instead of Baerlone.

Book One: The Eye of the World [Part Two]

FILE: OUTLINE2

Box 20, Folder 2, p.5

One of Morgase’s sons, Galad, who is also in Tar Valon, hates the way is mother flirts. As a reaction to his mother, he not only does not consort with women but become a total ascetic, expounding on the need for complete purity of the flesh. [NOTE: Galad will become a Power Wielder of great ability after Rand cleanses the male source of Power, but he will go over to Sha’tan] Also he evinces a strong dislike for any man in whom Morgase shows the slightest interest. He goes out of his way to snub the village youths, and even tries to humiliate them.

The one man Galad does not dislike is Lan, who returns the friendship warlmly despite Galad’s somewhat cold nature. Lan, co-indcidentally, is one of the few men for whom Morgase apparently holds no attraction, and for when she shows total disregard. [NOTE: This last was not always so, for unknown to any but Lan and Morgase, Galad is Lan’s son. Morgase married Maric instead of Lan, for Lan was already a Warder and Maric was powerful lord in his land. SEE NOTES AT END. Lan has ignored her existence ever since. She reciprocates. Lan cares for his son a great deal, however, though he cannot reveal his fatherhood.]

NOTES/BOOKS TWO – SIX

Notes on Books Two Through Six

Box 20, Folder 2, p.3

This is notes on books 2-6, but it is not clear that they follow the outline in previous files. Maybe written earlier?

-         In previous outlines, it may be that after the events at the Eye of the World. Rand flees his fate, ends up shipwrecked on the coast of a Blight, though Elyn/Arinel (earlier names for Elayne) is not with him as she was in TEOTW outlines when he fled.

-         The Aes Sedai are rulers of city-states in this land (like pre-a’dam Seanchan was in canon). He is captured and given to a woman and a general who is the daughter of one of those Aes Sedai rulers. They fall in love, but Sha’tan is moving there too and he reveals himself as a Power wielder and has to flee. The woman lets him go but her army takes Stair (Tear) for him later.

-         Rand spends some time with the Sea Folk.

-         Rand’s mother is Morgase’s sister in this version.

After Rand decides that he is indeed the Dragon his first ally will be Morgase, who becomes his lover for a time. This makes Galad his bitter opponent, and sends Galad over to Sha’tan.

THE GREAT HUNT

Continuity #1

Box 45, Folder 1, pp.19-26

A few Highlights from this File

-         Galad overhears Nynaeve, Egwene, Elayne, and Min talking about Toman Head, insists on going with them because they won’t stay behind.

-         Jordan considers how much Galad hear about the Black Ajah, and maybe that convinces him he has to go.

-         Liandrin isn’t happy but accepts taking Galad along through the Ways.

Elaynes’ feelings about Galad. She despises him. All her life she has seen him doing good, doing the right thing no matter who was hurt. It is his lack of compassion, his lack of give for human weakness, that makes her sure he is a fraud in his goodness. She cannot trust him.

They travel the Ways (safely, despite Egwene’s/Nynaeve’s extreme nervousness about Machin Shin. Is Liandrin surprised at their knowledge of the Ways?), and on Toman Head Liandrin turns them over to the invaders, but Galad, Nynave and Min escape. (Galad causes this escape.) NOTE: Galad is alone, but Nynaeve and Elayne may be together. Nynaeve is angry enough to be able to channel, but she is foiled by the leashed channelers of the invaders. (?Does Liandrin take part in this? Some small confrontation between Liandrin and invaders?)

[This is part of Ba’alzamon’s plan. He intends to draw Rand to Toman Head and force him to fulfill one of the prophecies, namely proclaiming himself across the sky. Nyneave and Egwene, imprisoned and endangered, are meant to be keys to forcing him to use the Power. Foreshadowing in dream/not dream in pale land, when B speaks of what Rand (whom he calls Lews Therin, and Kinslayer) will do when those he loves and cares for are in danger and enslaved.] Galad takes up partisan activity. Has some contract with Bornhald, or at least with the Whitecloaks. He intends to rescue the women, especially Egwene and Elayne, for he does not know that Elayne and Nynave also escaped. Thinks he failed them. Small Galad POV for this?

NOTE1: considering that he sees Liandrin betray Elayne (if she goes) and Egwene, much less the others, he will certainly lose even the little trust of Aes Sedai that he has.

NOTE2: once he sees Rand in the sky, fighting as the Dragon, he will certainly see him as the worst danger possible. If Rand is the Dragon, he must be able to channel the Power and the evidence of it is certainly in his battle projected across the heavens. Such men are worse than merely dangerous; they must be killed or gentled (which last takes Aes Sedai, and he is not so hot on Aes Sedai, now.), therefore, Rand must be killed, in his view.

NOTE3: Note 1 and Note 2 make Galad a prime candidate for the Children of the Light.

THE GREAT HUNT

Continuity #3

Box 45, Folder 2, p.7

Galad had been sent off to Kairhein as a child to be raised at the court there.

Box 45, Folder 2, p.8

Both Elayne and Gawyn have dichotomous feelings about Galad. He is their brother (half, sure, but they have grown up with him), but he is strange. He believes in doing what is right, and often does not seem to care who gets hurt by it. He professes to have no jealousy that he will not become the First Prince etc, and indeed has never showed any. He even saved Gawyn’s life despite the fact that Gawyn’s death would have made him next in line for that position.

But he has always seemed very conscious of differences between them, that they will be Queen and First Prince, although they have tried to make him feel there were no differences. He is always too protective toward them, and always tries to get them to do the right thing, to behave as they should, which means he has often been a spoilsport as they grew up. His view of good and right is absolute, untempered by mercy or humor.

Continuity #3a

Box 45, Folder 1, p.6

NOTE: Galad did not, at first, intend to come to Tar Valon. Perhaps he felt that taking Warder training would seem as if he were attempting to challenge Gawyn’s place. It was his encounter with Rand in the garden that made him ask to go along, Elayne, as he sees it, needs someone to look after her.

INDIVIDUALS

Box 46, Folder 1, p.22

Mat will leave Tar Valon (after making an enemy of Galad). He will end up in the Aiel Waste with Rand.

Knife of Dreams notes, undated

(Contains base notes on Egwene, Leane, the Loyalist Aes Sedai, the White Tower, Elaida, Alviarin, Seaine and Pevara.)

Box 61, Folder 8, p.90

Gawyn’s death. Galad is present. Galad promises to protect Egwene (and child?) Gawyn either tells him that Rand is his half-brother or starts him on the way of knowing or confirms something learned earlier. This comes after Gawyn married Egwene, and she is pregnant

Memory of Light Outline

II. MAIN BODY [NOT NECESSARILY IN ORDER]

Box 44, Folder 2, pp 1-2, p.7

Egwene and Gawyn

[…]

5. Egwene becomes pregnant.

K. The Last Battle

[…]

12. Egwene is nearly killed and is saved by Egeanin.

13. Gawyn is mortally wounded, and, as dying, tells Galad about Rand being his half-brother.

(Handwritten note: “by Demandred/Lan then kills Demandred)

Notes on Galad

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Galad’s emotional connections to various women. He flirted with Nynaeve, and believed himself in love with Egwene, but once he learns she has become not only Aes Sedai but the rebel Amyrlin, the impossibility of it hits him. It may not be for quite some time that he does Berelain, maybe not until near the very end of it all, but that is when he is struck head over heels, and so is she.