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Egwene was officially raised to the amyrilian seat. She executed 50 black ajah before doing so and claimed the former red mistress of novices to be her sitter

A lot is about to change for them

Rand is completely unraveling. Cadusane planned to use Tam his father to help settle Rand but he crowed it as just another box.
He left to destroy the seanchan

Rand abandons the arad domain. He has no way of helping them more without taking his attention away from the last battle
He returns to Tear greeted by cheers from the crowd(for him or the army) plans on getting borderlanders back to the blight

Egwene is mad about being pulled from the tower. The tower actually wants her to be the Amyillian but she doesn’t know that. Outs a 70 black sisters in camp. Capturers 2

The seanchan strike the tower to take aes sadia as damaine. Suine rallies gareth and gawayne to free Egwene using the river escape mentioned earlier.
Egwene has the novices link together and grabs a ter’angrial to combat the seanchan. She kills a bunch of them and manages to avoid many injuries. Better than the rest of the tower sadia.
Mins foretelling comes true g saves s
They take them back to the rebels

Egwene, caged in a small cell of the tower, meets with suine in a dream, realizes she has been single minded
She is awoken and told that she is to be released after the mistress of novices publicly disavowed Elida
The red ajah is falling
Eladia is almost deposed but isn’t
Verin announces to Egwene she was a black ajah double agent. Gives her a book filled with secrets that turns invisible. Verin dies to do this

Rand used the fool Nobel to test if the forsaken he was tracking was killed by balefire. It worked but min and nyneve where shocked enough to visit caddusane
She lets them help her with her plan but doesn’t tell them what it was

Rand met with Tuon in falme to talk about a treaty and it did not go well despite his taveren nature almost winning her over. She saw his darkness

Vernon explained how she ended up near Matt again taveren pulling her to him. They make a bargin for him to open a packet in 10’days or wait 30. She in return will open a gate to camylin

Seanchan begin the raid on tar valon

Nyneve untrained the compultion on a kid and he does after telling Rand where the forsaken is.

Rand has to be harder….we get it
He spares cadusane on a technicality oh not seeing her actual face

Nyneve hatches a plan to help Rand (ironically so does caddusane). She talks to the head servant who takes them to the docks and the owner of brands house’s prison. Everything seems to be in order despite the terrible conditions however N finds that the lady was poisends. Chef runs away and is stopped outside

Gwayne learns from gareth that he needs to pick a side
Cadduance still following Rand visits a tavern to meet with an old friend. He is rich enough that he doesn’t need the tavern for money and has a well placed wife that tells him gossip

Matt escapes the town of crazies returning to find everyone they killed was alive again rebuilding the town. A snare in the patter thom called it


Rand goes to Ebou Debar and finds things mostly under control after Dobrain and the Aiel spent some time quelling the riots