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[Spoilers All] Congratulations on completing the series. Here is some fun stuff you may have missed first time around and can look for on future re-reads (that wheel keeps on turning!)

Taking a page out of u/mikeofthepalace 's book, I decided to make a self post that I can send people to rather then copy/paste this ever growing behemoth.

Feel free to check back every now and again as I will be updating with other fun tidbits as people point them out.

One thing to note, most of these pertain to the first book, trying to list every cool thing would make a list as long as the books themselves!

  • First thing first, are you sure you have read all of The Wheel of Time?
  1. New Spring, a novella that takes place almost twenty years before the main sequence. Follows a newly minted Aes Sedai in her search for a baby boy that could be anywhere
  2. River of Souls, short story in the Unfettered anthology that follows a man on a dangerous quest to retrieve a prize and accidentally unites a nation.
  3. Strike at Shayol Ghul, The only story to take place in the Age of Legends
  4. The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, affectionately known as either the BWB (big white book) or the BBOBA (big book of bad art), gives a lot of background info, particularly good info on the forsaken, creatures of the dark, and some specifics on the different cultures of the world.
  5. The Wheel of Time Companion This will most likely be the last WoT publication. It is an extended and more in depth version of the glossary found at the end of every book. When I say extend and in depth, I mean its 816 pages, longer than some of the novels. It has an entry for every named character with varying degrees of information. I can't wait to do a re-read with this at my side.

  • Next stop is the FAQ, this has many little connections to our world and mythology.

  • Re read the prologue, you can see clear cases of Ishamel using the true power. The way how he travels, how he heals etc.

  • Lews Therin shows that he is one with the land when he can't sense anyone for a hundred miles.

  • He then makes Tar Valon, which is a giant vagina

  • Every time Rand channels in EotW he gets a symptom that Moiraine describes to Nyneave.

  1. After he heals Bela, he stands up to the lightcloaks while feeling light headed and giddy
  2. After detaching the boom to smack the Trolloc, he does some crazy gymnastic stunts
  3. After calling lightning to save himself from Goode he becomes very sick.

  • Floran Gelb, the man who fell asleep while guarding Domon's boat, shows up again in Tanchico, selling a'dam and "suldam" to Eganin. One of the "suldam" that he mistakenly captures is actually a minor local lord, the lady Leilwin.

  • The nervous young Darkfriend that confronts them after Goode shows up again in Amadecia. He befriends Morgase and is going to smuggle her out of the palace, but then is hung. Morgase thinks that he was falsely accused as a darkfriend...

  • The man Rand and Mat hitch a ride with into Caymlen shows up again in Towers of Midnight, he is the apple farmer. He shows up one lst time in aMoL, Mat notices him leading a group of farmers to Tar'mon Gaidon! (thanks to u/AdamMcFly who spoted it)

  • In Shadar Logoth, notice that the mist is lazy and does not respond to the humans. However when it senses Trollocs it strikes like a lance. That is because the evil that destroyed Aridhol was a weapon against the DO. The two are diametrically opposed even though they are both evil. That is why they annihilate when they touch. Rand uses this to his advantage when he cleanses the source.

  • Morgase is usually referred to as being very beautiful, and looking young for her age. This is because she has Slowed.

  • Check out RJ's typed outline for books 2-6

  • In Tanchico, the style is to wear a veil over ones mouth. Only one character has an issue with this, Elayne. She is constantly complaining about having the veil stick in her mouth. This is because, as Mat has said on multiple occasions, her nose is in the air!

  • This pamphlet, given out at the midnight release of aMoL is chock full of trivia.

  • When Pedron Niall, Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light reflects back on his campaign against Altara during the Troubles, he remembers almost being defeated by a company of Illianers who were somewhere they could not be. That was almost certainly Tam.

  • I always liked the WoT love pentagram instead of the old love triangle...

  • Any and all questions about balefire get "the quote"

INTERVIEW: Feb 26th, 2003 tarvalon.net Q&A (Verbatim)

QUESTION

If I were to open a gateway in front of me that opened behind me, and I balefired myself, what would happen?

ROBERT JORDAN

Young lady, you are entirely too obsessed and have far too much time. You need to get some sort of life. I suggest you go have an intense love affair. Doesn't matter with who, be it man, woman, or German Shepherd.

That young lady did end up having an intense love affair, with a man who also loved WoT. They have a daughter, Aviendha.

  • Rand gets a new sword in The Gathering Storm. This sword is thought to be Justice, Artur Hawkwings sword. (This has now been confirmed by the WoT Companion) The description comes from the sword Brandon was given from RJ's collection

  • Speaking of swords, my biggest "well duh" moment after reading the series for more then a decade, Rand pulled the Sword from the Stone...

  • No, Olver is not Gaidal Cain reborn

  • RJ has a cameo in the form of the library Ter'angreal

  • Ogier St., Charleston South Carolina

  • Think Rand's "I will not kill women" thing was annoying? The origin is most likely from the time RJ killed a woman in combat:

ROBERT JORDAN Vietnam/Rand's "No Kill Woman" Thing

RJ vividly described an experience he had in Vietnam where he killed a female Viet Cong. He said he simply spotted a figure holding a weapon and fired on it, then "acquired the next target." He then realized that he had killed a woman—the first (and I believe only) time he's done that. This provides an obvious basis for Rand's "Achilles' Heel." (I thought he should have offed both the Tower Aes Sedai in the beginning of A Crown of Swords and Lanfear earlier, but I'm rude like that.)

Also

The next day in the orderly room an officer with a literary bent announced my entrance with "Behold, the Iceman cometh." For those of you unfamiliar with Eugene O'Neil, the Iceman was Death. I hated that name, but I couldn't shake it. And, to tell you the truth, by that time maybe it fit. I have, or used to have, a photo of a young man sitting on a log eating C-rations with a pair of chopsticks. There are three dead NVA laid out in a line just beside him. He didn't kill them. He didn't choose to sit there because of the bodies. It was just the most convenient place to sit. The bodies don't bother him. He doesn't care. They're just part of the landscape. The young man is glancing at the camera, and you know in one look that you aren't going to take this guy home to meet your parents. Back in the world, you wouldn't want him in your neighborhood, because he is cold, cold, cold. I strangled that SOB, drove a stake through his heart, and buried him face down under a crossroad outside Saigon before coming home, because I knew that guy wasn't made to survive in a civilian environment. I think he's gone. All of him. I hope so. I much prefer being remembered as Ganesha, the Remover of Obstacles.

Some cross series trivia!

  1. There is mention of a grand Maester Rigney who believes that time is a wheel.
  2. In Dorne there is a Lord Trebor Jordayne, of the house Tor. The house words are "Let it be Written"

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