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The Shadow Rising

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.

In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?

In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn.

In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plots the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland.

In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.

Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn. . . .

Quotes of the Dragon

--from the front and end of the book.

"The Shadow shall rise across the world, and darken every
land, even to the smallest corner, and there shall be neither
Light nor safety. And he who shall be born of the Dawn, born
of the Maiden, according to Prophecy, he shall stretch forth
his hands to catch the Shadow, and the world shall scream in
the pain of salvation. All Glory be to the Creator, and to the
Light, and to he who shall be born again. May the Light save
us from him.

      --from Commentaries on the Karaethon Cycle
      Sereine dar Shamelle Motara
      Counsel-Sister to Comaelle,
      High Queen of Jaramide
      (circa 325 AB, the Third Age)"

"And when the blood was sprinkled on ground where nothing
could grow, the Children of the Dragon did spring up, the People
of the Dragon, armed to dance with death. And he did call them
forth from the wasted lands, and they did shake the world with
battle.

--from The Wheel of Time by Sulamein so Bhagad
Chief Historian at the Court of the Sun, the Fourth Age."