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GOD THE FUCKING SEANCHAN ARE BACK?

NOW IS NOT THE TIME

Haven't been online in a while for WoT, life got crazy, had to pause mid book 9, but one thing I have been up to is collecting WoT books with the original cover art. Every few months my family goes thrifting and this is my hunt for the horn; all 15 books as early release as I can possibly find

"And he shall wear a crown of swords"

Ok, so since my first read of the Wheel of Time, I’ve thought that that was one of the dumber prophecies.

The prophecy says he’ll “wear a crown of swords,” so when he gets a crown with little swords on it, people rename it so it will be the “crown of swords” from the prophecy. If the prophecy hadn’t called it that, neither would anyone else. It’s like Logain calling his army “the people of the Dragon.” Just calling it that doesn’t necessarily fulfill the prophecies.

However, after rereading Towers of Midnight, when Nynaeve learns to see and Heal the madness of the taint, she tries Delving Rand with this new insight, and sees “Thousands upon thousands of the tiny black thorns pricked into his brain, but beneath them was a brilliant white lacing of something.” (ToM 15) The swords in the supposed “Crown of Swords” are often described as pricking his temple like thorns.

So the Laurel Crown isn’t the true “Crown of Swords.” Rand’s madness is. The Prophecies are a list of things that are supposed to help Rand towards the Last Battle and to help humanity prepare for it. Did Rand really need the crown of Illian? No. He just needed them to fight in the Last Battle. But to win, he did need the memories of Lews Therin, which he gained through his madness…through the Crown of Swords.

Nynaeve figures out how to heal stilling and then never thinks about it again, thank you next energy