Rereading New Spring and found what I think is foreshadowing…
[Books] New Spring Chapter 7 where >!Moraine is sent to deliver a message to Kerene!< Here’s the text:
!The few tapestries in Kerene’s sitting room were scenes of war or hunting, but most of the wall space was given over to bookshelves carved in the styles of half a dozen countries. Along with a few books, they held a large lion’s skull and an even bigger from a bear, glazed bowls, vases in odd shapes, daggers adorned with gems and gold and daggers with plain wooden hilts, one with just the nub of a broken blade. A blacksmith’s hammer with the head split in two lay next to a cracked wooden bowl that held a single fat firedrop, fine enough to grace a crown. A gilded barrel clock with the hands frozen at just before noon, or midnight, stood beside a steel-backed gauntlet stained black with what Moiraine was sure was blood. They and all the rest were mementos of well over a hundred years wearing the shawl.!<
I see parallels to other events through the series WoT in the objects listed, but I haven’t read the series since 2019.
Posted Aug 1, 2025, 5:56 AM UTC