The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time,9780312869366

The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780312869366
ISBN10: 0312869363
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-10
Publisher(s): Tor Books
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Summary

Since the debut of Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling series in 1990, The Wheel of Time has transported readers to a world so strikingly real, so rich in detail and complexity, it seems to rise from memory rather than a printed page. This essential companion to The Wheel of Time is for the millions interested in the history and the background of this incredible series-never-before-told legends, previously unknown peoples and lands, exotic beasts, and portents of what may come to pass. With more than seventy new full-color paintings that include stunning new world maps, portraits of the central characters, landscapes, objects of Power, and national flags, this comprehensive guide is indispensable to any Robert Jordan fan

Author Biography

Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he has also written dance and theater criticism and enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting.
Robert Jordan began writing in 1977 and went on to write The Wheel of Time®, one of the most important and best selling series in the history of fantasy publishing with over 14 million copies sold in North America, and countless more sold abroad.
Robert Jordan died on September 16, 2007, after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis.

Table of Contents

Preface 9(11)
Section 1: The Wheel and the Power 11(16)
The Wheel and the Pattern
13(4)
The One Power and the True Source
17(10)
Section 2: The Age of Legends 27(60)
The Age of Legends
29(11)
The Fall into Shadow
40(8)
The Dark One and the Male Forsaken
48(13)
Shai'tan
48(1)
Dreadlords
49(1)
The Forsaken
49(1)
Ishamael
50(3)
Aginor
53(1)
Balthamel
54(1)
Sammael
54(2)
Rahvin
56(1)
Be'lal
56(1)
Demandred
57(2)
Asmodean
59(2)
The Female Forsaken and the Darkfriends
61(11)
Lanfear
61(3)
Graendal
64(1)
Semirhage
65(2)
Mesaana
67(1)
Moghedien
68(1)
Osan'gar and Aran'gar
69(1)
Friends of the Dark
69(3)
Shadowspawn
72(10)
Trollocs
72(1)
Myrddraal
73(5)
Draghkar
78(2)
Darkhounds
80(1)
Gray Men
81(1)
The Breaking of the World
82(5)
Section 3: The World Since the Breaking 87(40)
Formation of the White Tower
89(6)
Rise and Fall of the Ten Nations
95(6)
The Second Dragon and the Rise of Artur Hawkwing
101(7)
The Reign of the High King
108(8)
The War of the Hundred Years
116(3)
The New Era
119(8)
The Aiel War
121(6)
Section 4: Some Narrative Paintings of Questionable Authenticity 127(16)
Section 5: The World of the Wheel 143(62)
The World After the Breaking
145(6)
The World
145(1)
The Main Continent
146(3)
Continent of the Seanchan
149(1)
Land of the Madmen
150(1)
Shara
151(5)
Land of Barriers
152(1)
Hazardous Trade
153(1)
Rulers and Government
153(1)
The Ayyad
154(1)
Manifest Destiny
155(1)
Slavery
155(1)
Seanchan
156(7)
One Nation
158(1)
Leashing the Power
158(1)
Class Structure
159(1)
Imperial Control
160(1)
Seanchan Honor
160(1)
Imperial Security
161(1)
The Return
162(1)
The Exotic Animals of Seanchan
163(10)
Torm
164(2)
Corlm
166(1)
Lopar
167(1)
Grolm
168(1)
Raken
169(2)
To'raken
171(2)
The Sea Folk Islands
173(6)
The Atha'an Miere
174(1)
Chain of Command
174(2)
The Ships
176(1)
The Amayar
177(2)
The Aiel
179(12)
The Waste
179(1)
History of the Aiel
180(1)
The First Division
180(1)
The Second Division
181(1)
The Maidens of the Spear
181(2)
The Water Gift
183(1)
Rhuidean
184(1)
Legacy of Rhuidean
184(1)
Growth of the Aiel Clans
185(1)
The Code of Honor and Obligation
186(1)
The Wise Ones
186(2)
Aiel Culture
188(1)
Aiel Kinship
189(1)
The Lost Ones
189(2)
The Ogier
191(6)
Stedding
193(1)
History
194(1)
Lifestyle
194(3)
The Ways
197(3)
The Gift
197(1)
The Waygate
198(1)
Within the Ways
198(1)
Deterioration of the Ways
199(1)
Tel'aran'rhiod
200(5)
The World of Dreams
200(1)
Entering Tel'aran'rhiod
201(1)
A Different Reality
201(4)
Section 6: Within the Land 205(92)
The White Tower
208(16)
Aes Sedai
208(3)
Political Strength of the Tower
211(2)
A Breed Apart
213(1)
Talents
213(1)
Becoming Aes Sedai
214(1)
Warders
215(3)
The Hierarchy of the Tower
218(1)
The Seven Ajahs
219(1)
Spies and Informants
220(2)
The White Tower
222(1)
The Library
222(1)
Tar Valon
222(2)
The Children of the Light
224(5)
History
224(1)
Purpose
224(2)
The Hand of the Light
226(1)
The Spymasters
227(1)
Organizational Structure
227(2)
The Military of the Land
229(5)
National Armies
229(1)
Order of Command
230(2)
The Band of the Red Hand
232(2)
Andor
234(12)
History
234(1)
Succession
235(1)
National Stability
236(2)
The Queen's Guard
238(1)
Caemlyn
238(3)
Whitebridge
241(1)
The Mountains of Mist and Baerlon
242(1)
The Two Rivers
243(3)
The Borderlands: Shienar, Arafel, Kandor, and Saldaea
246(10)
Holding Back the Shadow
246(3)
Shienar
249(1)
Fal Dara
250(1)
Arafel
251(1)
Kandor
252(1)
Saldaea
253(3)
Cairhien
256(7)
History
256(1)
The Game of Houses
257(1)
The City of Cairhien
258(2)
The Sun Palace
260(2)
Foregate
262(1)
The Other Nations
263(25)
Amadicia
263(1)
Altara
264(6)
The Unsteady Throne
264(1)
Ebou Dar
265(2)
The Tarasin Palace
267(1)
The Rahad
268(1)
Dueling
269(1)
Salidar: The Tower in Exile
269(1)
Murandy
270(1)
Lugard
270(1)
Arad Doman
271(1)
Tarabon
272(4)
King, Panarch and Assembly
273(1)
Tanchico
274(2)
Ghealdan
276(2)
Illian
278(3)
Rule of Three
278(1)
The City of Illian
279(1)
The Companions
280(1)
Tear
281(5)
High Lords of Tear
282(1)
The Stone of Tear
282(1)
Treasures of the Stone
283(1)
The One Power and Tear
283(1)
The City of Tear
283(2)
A Rich Nation
285(1)
Mayene
286(2)
Holidays and the Calendar
288(5)
The Prophecies of the Dragon
293(4)
Index 297

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