A full picture of the US cover art and a longer synopsis
Lordling Send a noteboard - 30/04/2010 02:02:14 PM
This was posted on some other WOT forum, no idea where it was got. Tells a bit more than the Orbit synopsis.
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The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.
The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.
Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a way – at long last – to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever.
Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways – the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn – have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.
This penultimate novel of Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling series – the second of three based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007 – brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.
Dovie’andi se tovya sagain . It’s time to toss the dice.
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The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.
The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.
Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a way – at long last – to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever.
Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways – the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn – have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.
This penultimate novel of Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling series – the second of three based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007 – brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.
Dovie’andi se tovya sagain . It’s time to toss the dice.
A full picture of the US cover art and a longer synopsis
- 30/04/2010 02:02:14 PM
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Hmmm...
- 30/04/2010 02:28:14 PM
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I've really no idea (about the text or the cover). My first thought about the foe was Demandred *NM*
- 30/04/2010 02:36:30 PM
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I agree with you Etzel - I think the unseen foe is Slayer. "Unseen" may imply operating from T'A'R *NM*
- 30/04/2010 02:40:51 PM
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I meant that the text implies that Slayer and the unseen foe are different people.
- 30/04/2010 02:49:10 PM
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Yeah, it does
- 30/04/2010 03:48:25 PM
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Or, as said, the unseen foe is Aran'gar...
- 30/04/2010 04:02:33 PM
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Ah, ok. I don't agree, then! 
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- 30/04/2010 04:13:16 PM
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- 30/04/2010 04:13:16 PM
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I'm assuming the text is fake as well, or they would have released it during Jordancon *NM*
- 30/04/2010 03:37:34 PM
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Ugh. My two least favorite characters seem like they get all the screen time in this book.
- 30/04/2010 02:39:34 PM
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The unseen foe might also be Fain, who we know will also show up in ToM. *NM*
- 30/04/2010 03:00:07 PM
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Dude on the right looks like a tinker, and ya, Thom's legs look really really short for his torso *NM*
- 30/04/2010 03:30:54 PM
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Hm, ya. The cover is a fake.
- 30/04/2010 03:34:36 PM
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I think you're right
- 30/04/2010 04:59:28 PM
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Sweet has some serious problems with proportions of body parts...
- 30/04/2010 07:11:52 PM
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Still an atrocious cover. I hope this isn't the final version *NM*
- 30/04/2010 08:01:07 PM
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This is the cover to Loial's book, this is how everyone actually looks to an Ogier! *NM*
- 01/05/2010 06:15:21 AM
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