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The Fires of Heaven

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1993
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2012
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Maps
Prologue - The First Sparks Fall
1 - Fanning the Sparks
2 - Rhuidean
3 - Pale Shadows
4 - Twilight
5 - Among the Wise Ones
6 - Gateways
7 - A Departure
8 - Over the Border
9 - A Signal
10 - Figs and Mice
11 - The Nine Horse Hitch
12 - An Old Pipe
13 - A Small Room in Sienda
14 - Meetings
15 - What Can Be Learned in Dreams
16 - An Unexpected Offer
17 - Heading West
18 - A Hound of Darkness
19 - Memories
20 - Jangai Pass
21 - The Gift of a Blade
22 - Birdcalls by Night
23 - "The Fifth, I Give You"
24 - A Message Sent
25 - Dreams of Galad
26 - Sallie Daera
27 - The Practice of Diffidence
28 - Trapped
29 - Memories of Saldaea
30 - A Wager
31 - The Far Snows
32 - A Short Spear
33 - A Question of Crimson
34 - A Silver Arrow
35 - Ripped Away
36 - A New Name
37 - Performances in Samara
38 - An Old Acquaintance
39 - Encounters in Samara
40 - The Wheel Weaves
41 - The Craft of Kin Tovere
42 - Before the Arrow
43 - This Place, This Day
44 - The Lesser Sadness
45 - After the Storm
46 - Other Battles, Other Weapons
47 - The Price of a Ship
48 - Leavetakings
49 - To Boannda
50 - To Teach, and Learn
51 - News Comes to Cairhien
52 - Choices
53 - Fading Words
54 - To Caemlyn
55 - The Threads Burn
56 - Glowing Embers
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Copyright © 1993 by The Bandersnatch Group, Inc.
For Harriet
The light of her eyes is my Light.
Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan absently fingered the long, seven-striped stole about her shoulders, the stole of the Amyrlin Seat, as she sat behind her wide writing table.
May contain spoilers
And the Glory of the Light did shine upon him.
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Under the looming Spine of the World, Rand guided Jeade’en up the stony slope from the foothills that began the foot of Jangai Pass. The Dragonwall pierced the sky, dwarfing all other mountains, its snowcapped peaks defying the baking afternoon sun. The tallest thrust well above clouds that mocked the Waste with promises of rain that had never come. Rand could not imagine why a man would want to climb a mountain, but it was said that men who had tried to scale these heights turned back, overcome with fear and unable to breathe. He could well believe that a man might grow too afraid to breathe, attempting to climb so high.

"...yet though the Cairhienin are consumed with the Game of Houses,” Moiraine was saying at his shoulder, “they will follow you so long as they know that you are strong. Be firm with them, but I would ask you to be fair also. A ruler who gives true justice..."

He tried to ignore her, as he did the other riders, and the creak and rumble of Kadere’s wagons, making heavy going further back. The broken gorges and gullies of the Waste were behind them, but these rugged rising hills, nearly as barren, were little better for wagons. No one had traveled this path in over twenty years.

Moiraine talked at him that way from daybreak to sunset whenever he let her. Her lectures could be on small things - details of court behavior, say, in Cairhien or Saldaea or somewhere else—or on large: the political influence of the Whitecloaks, or perhaps the effects of trade on rulers’ decisions to go to war. It was as if she meant to see him educated, as a noble would be, or should be, before he reached the other side of the mountains. It was surprising how often what she said reflected what anyone back in Emond’s Field would have called simple common sense. And also how often it did not.

Occasionally she came out with something startling; for instance, that he should trust no woman of the Tower except herself, Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve, or the news that Elaida was now the Amyrlin Seat. Oath to obey or no, she would not tell him how she knew that. She said it was someone else’s place to tell if she chose, someone else’s secret, and she could not usurp it. He suspected the Wise One dreamwalkers, though they had stared him right in the eye and refused to say aye or nay. He wished he could make them swear Moiraine’s oath; they interfered between him and the chiefs continually, as if they wanted him to go through them to reach the chiefs.

Right that minute he did not want to think about Elaida or the Wise Ones, or listen to Moiraine. Now he wanted to study the pass ahead, a deep gap in the mountains that twisted as though a blunt axe had tried to chop through again and again, never quite succeeding. A few minutes’ hard ride, and he could be in it.

On one side of the pass mouth a sheer cliff had been smoothed over a hundred-pace width and carved, a wind-weathered snake entwining a staff a good three hundred spans high; monument or marker or ruler’s sigil, it surely dated from some lost nation before Artur Hawkwing, perhaps even before the Trolloc Wars. He had seen remnants before from nations long vanished; often even Moiraine did not know their source.

 

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Last Updated: 27-Apr-2022

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 26-Dec-2004
Macmillan Audio
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26-Dec-2004
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Length:
36 hrs 27 min
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1)   7 Mar 2022 - 14 Mar 2022
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1931
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Unknown
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United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Michael Kramer  - Narration
Kate Reading  - Narration
From audible.com

In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times best seller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:

...Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al'Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine.

...Into the Amyrlin's study in the White Tower, where Amyrlin, Flaida do Avriny a 'Roihan, is weaving new plans.

...Into the luxurious hidden chamber where the Forsaken Rahvin is meeting with three of his fellows to ensure their ultimate victory over the Dragon.

...Into the Queen's court in Caemlyn, where Morgase is curiously in thrall to the handsome Lord Gaebril.

For once the Dragon walks the land, the fires of Heaven fall where they will, until all men's lives are ablaze. And in Shayol Ghul, the Dark One stirs.
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 16-Feb-2010
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
16-Feb-2010
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Cover Price:
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Pages*:
926
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Once
Reading(s):
1)   6 Jun 2012 - 6 Jun 2012
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Internal ID:
1686
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ISBN-13:
978-1-429-96037-3
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Dan Dos Santos - Frontispiece
Ellisa Mitchell - Map
Ellisa Mitchell - Illustrator
Matthew C Nielsen - Illustrator
From amazon.com

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.

Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al'Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine.

Into the Amyrlin's study in the White Tower, where the Amyrlin, Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan, is weaving new plans.

Into the luxurious hidden chamber where the Forsaken Rahvin is meeting with three of his fellows to ensure their ultimate victory over the Dragon.

Into the Queen's court in Caemlyn, where Morgase is curiously in thrall to the handsome Lord Gaebril.

For once the dragon walks the land, the fires of heaven fall where they will, until all men's lives are ablaze.

And in Shayol Ghul, the Dark One stirs...
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Notes and Comments:
I read this after finishing The Shadow Rising.

ISBN 978-1-4299-6037-3
First Edition: November 1993
First E-book Edition: February 2010

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Author(s)

Robert Jordan  
Birth: 17 Oct 1948 Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Death: 16 Sep 2007 Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Notes:
From About the Author in The Eye of the World:

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 was 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 also wrote dance and theater criticism. He enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He began writing in 1977 and continued until his death on September 16, 2007.

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