THE WHEEL OF TIME REFERENCE LIBRARY

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The Aes Sedai

• Aes Sedai Attitudes to Male Channellers: The Unbeliever


• Aes Sedai History from the Breaking to the Hundred Years War


• Aes Sedai History: New Era


• Aes Sedai Laws and Customs: Administration


• Aes Sedai Laws and Customs: Society


• The Composition and Politics of the Halls 998-1000 NE


• Dead, Captured and Missing Aes Sedai


• Elaida's Embassy To Rand

The Nations

• The Age of Legends


• The Mainland Rulers


• Mapping the Wheel of Time (WOT cartography project)


• The Military Forces of the Westlands


• The Noble Houses of Andor


• The Noble Houses of Cairhien


• The Nobles of Tear

Society

• Costume and Hairstyles in the Wheel of Time


• Dew Drop Inn (Compendium of the Inns and their parallels)


• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pillowfriends…


• The Long-winded Lunch – Dining Out in the Wheel of Time


• Private Lives of the 17th and 18th Centuries


• Protection against Evil (Hand gestures and protective devices)


• Wheel of Time Music - Performance and Instruments


• Wheel of Time Music - Regional and Cultural Variation


• Wheel of Time Music - Songs and Dances


• Writings For Armchair Travellers

The Shadow

• The Black Ajah


• Forsaken and their Deeds and Plans


• The Shadow and Darkfriends: Who Is A Darkfriend?


• The Shadow's Influence on the Black Tower

Channelling

• Angreal and Sa'angreal


• The Cache from Ebou Dar


• Cadsuane's Ornaments


• Channeller Training Outside the White Tower


• How Channellers Detect Other Channellers


• The Onset of Rand's Channelling


• Robert Jordan's Channeller Strength Ranking


• Saidar Strength Ranking


• Ter'angreal and Allied Items


• Weaves and Talents

Wheel of Time Science and Philosophy

• The Aelfinn and the Eelfinn


• Freemasonry and the Wheel of Time


• Herbs and Other Medicines


• Horn of Valere


• Inventions From Rand’s Academies


• Mat, Fireworks and Bellfounders


• The Price and Prize of Knowledge (To be updated)


• The Tao of the Pattern


• Some Sort of Balance is Perfect: Wheel of Time Theology


• There Are No Beginnings or Endings...The Paradox of WOT's Eschatology


• Time of Illusions

Characters

• The Ages of the Characters


• Egwene, Leane and the Harbour Chains


• The Importance of Setalle Anan


• Moiraine's Rescue


• Verin and Her Letters


• Who Is Not A Darkfriend?

Into the Future

• The Aelfinn's Answers


• Aiel Prophecy


• Dreamers, Foretellers and Mystics


• Egwene's Dreams


• Fate, Free Will and Divining the Pattern


• Foretellings


• Min's Viewings


• Off-shore Prophecy


• Omens


• Perrin's Dreams


• The Prophecies of the Dragon


• Shadowy Prophecy

The Wheel of Time Games

• Arrays


• Chop


• Dice Games: It’s Time to Roll the Dice!


• Foxes and Snakes


• Sha'rah, the Fisher King and Their Equivalents


• Stones


• Tcheran

Main Character Parallels

• Matter of Britain 2: An Arthurian Who's Who


• Egwene al'Vere and Gawyn Trakand


• Faile Bashere and Berelain sur Paendrag Paeron


• Lews Therin


• Mat Cauthon


• Moiraine Damodred and Thom Merrilin


• Perrin Aybara


• Rand al'Thor


• Nynaeve al'Maera and Lan Mandragoran


• Three Women - Character Parallels for Elayne, Aviendha and Min


• Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag

The Forsaken and their Parallels

• Asmodean


• Balthamel


• Demandred


• Graendal


• Lanfear


• Mesaana


• Sammael


• Semirhage


• Three Strands Common to the Forsaken

Names Parallels

• Names of the Shadow


• Origin of the Place Names


• Character Names and their parallels A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U to Z


• Character Names Derived from Readers' Names

Creatures Parallels

• Darkhounds


• Nym


• Ogier

Myths and Symbols

• The Fool and the Joker in The Wheel of Time


• It Does Add Up: Number Symbolism


• Lord of the Rings parallels


• Matter of Britain 1: Arthurian Myth Parallels


• Narnia Parallels


• Not Just the Dragon: Animal Symbolism


• Redressing the Balance and the Boundaries: Wheel of Time Tricksters


• Refining Principle: Alchemical Symbolism in the Wheel of Time

What RJ Said

• Dragoncon 05 Reports


• Plots, Characters and the Wheel of Time


• Real Life Influences


• RJ's Blog Posts Post Knife of Dreams


• RJ's Blog Posts Pre Knife of Dreams


• TOR Questions of the Week


• Wotmania 2004 Interview


• Writing the Wheel of Time