The story of The Wheel of Time spans fifteen books, but the fantasy world which that story resides within is more complex and detailed than even those books could relate. Only a fraction of what author Robert Jordan imagined ended up on the page, the rest going into his personal files.
On November 3, The Wheel of Time Companion encyclopedia will open those files, but you can get a sneak peek now.
Harriet McDougal, former Editorial Director of Tom Doherty Associates and Robert Jordan’s wife and editor, editorial assistants Alan Romanczuk and Maria Simons, Tor Books, and Tor.com will be previewing portions of The Wheel of Time Companion leading up to its big November release date. But with over a thousand entries, portraits, and miscellany in the Companion, how do we choose which ones to preview?
Well, we don’t. You do!
Every few weeks Wheel of Time fans and Tor.com readers will get a chance to SPIN THE WHEEL. Here’s how it works: Leave one comment in this “Spin the Wheel” post with the Companion encyclopedia entry that you’d like to see revealed. (Such as “Aginor” or “Eelfinn” or “sniffing.”) We will close the thread for this post at 1 PM Eastern Standard Time on Friday, June 19 and randomly select a comment using a random number generator. The entry specified in that comment will be revealed the following week!
Please leave only one comment. There will be further Spin the Wheel opportunities, we promise, as well as other surprises to come! Team Jordan also reserves the right to RAFO an entry that has been selected, in which case another comment will be selected.
Watch for more Wheel of Time Companion and Spin the Wheel coverage through this tag. Now let’s spin!
Cadsuane’s past with Norla.
How about Moraine?
Warders
ter’angreal
Who is Nakomi?
Death of Asmodean
The War of Power.
Shaidar Haran please!
Age of legends.
The Seanchan home continent
June 12th is long past, so I am hoping you mean June 19th. ;) mens One Power scale would be great
Info about Lews Therin (and/or other Aes Sedai) during the Age of Legends would be really quite nice.
pillow friends
Luc Mantear
Whitecloak theology
Tam’s story!
the names of anybody who could access the True Power during the War of the Shadow
Age of Legends.
Doesine :D
@13, are you joking around or do you need an encyclopedic entry to understand this particular concept? :p
Ishamael
Lews Therin (and/or other Aes Sedai) during the Age of Legends… and more on Lan!
House Damodred, hopefully with a complete family tree showing exactly how Moiraine, Caraline, and Barthanes are related.
Age of Legends
What was written in blood on the Tinker wagon that started with “Tell the Dragon Reborn…..”
Aginor’s creations
Latra Posae Decume! I want to know everything about the woman who managed to prevent the tainting of saidar!
The allusive mysteries of Bela. Was she a darkfriend or the creator?
the village in the waste
Whitebridge, the bridge, not the town.
Sho-wings and other Age of Legend technologies
The First Age
Bonwhin
Details about Nakomi.
Age of Legends!!
Tam al’Thor
Verin!
Lionfish
The Land of the Madmen
The nine rods.
Any info there might be about what follows the events of a memory of light?
Seanchan Empire
The tinkers song
The Aelfinn and Eelfinn!
The Ways
Rand’s Children
Luc / Isam
SHARA
Asmodean!
Demandred
Hopper
their future
The Dark One
Queen Morgase’s past experience with the Three Rivers (as mentioned in EOTW).
Shara
Manetheren
Sniffing (As in the Hurin kind not the disgruntled womenfolk kind.)
The Ogier/The Aiel/Singing
Shara/Bao the Wyld
Nakomi
Mat and the Seanchan
Would like to learn more about AOL-tech!
Green Man
How did Rand light his pipe at the end of MOL, was it saidin, saidar, true power or a combination of them?
tinkers song
The First Age? So like… right now, you mean. And if you need to know any more about Asmodean’s death, please, go reread Towers of Midnight. If you still somehow haven’t gotten it, check the glossary.
What I personally want to see information on is the original purpose of certain ter’angreal we know and love [Three Rings, the memory Columns, etc]. Provided that’s going to be in the actual book to begin with.
Barring that, I’d love a look at the Isle of Madmen or any other location we didn’t get to see during the books themselves.
Age of Legends!
Shara!!!
Who is Nakomi?
What happens after “A Memory of Light”?????
Cadsuane’s history in Far Madding.
Portal Stones
sho-wings and other Age of Legends stuff
The song the Tinkers are looking for.
The discovery of the One Power by the Tamyrlin
Tam’s back story
Slayer/Luc/Isam – I’d like to know what the real deal with him/them was.
Isam Mandragoran
Demandred
The con-trail in TGH
Elan Morin Tedronai (in AOL, before turning to the Shadow)
Brigette Silverbows past!! Like her original life!! How did her and Gadail meet? Fall in love? What did they do that bound them to the horn? I NEED TO KNOW THIS!!
Is there a link between İshamael-Rand since the beginning of time?
Slayer/luc/isam
The Heroes of the Horn of Valere. I’d love a comprehensive list as it stands at the end of AMOL and beak down of what deed each performed that bound them to the horn.
Cadsuane’s hair ornaments.
Verin.
Shara!
Tam Al’Thor
Gitara Moroso.
Pillow Friend
The book of translation and the origin/departure of the Ogier
Arafel. I need to know more about these awesome people who wear bells in their beards!
Nakomi
Wolfbrothers and their abilities
sniffing!!!
Cadsuane’s history and the Aelfinn and Eelfinn :)
@geochic1,
agreed.how did rand light his pipe post last battle?
How about this secret about Bela I’ve heard being whispered about….
Aiel warrior societies
Surviving Aes Sedai (post last battle)
Origins of the Ogier!
Shara.
Yes, I know others have suggested it. Don’t care. I’m stacking the deck!
Veri
Moiraine’s and Lan’s adventures after New Spring and before Eye of the World
I doubt this is in the book, but a summary of all the ages would be greatly appreciated
The complete origin of the Seafolk and details on Sakarnen.
Tamlin al’Thor’s time in the Companions
The Black Tower post Last Battle
Tam’s story
Island of Madmen!
Nakomi
Sindhol
The mentioned spell Milking Tears, whom we only get the name of, never revealing what it actually does…
The story of Tam/Rand’s Heron marked sword.
Far Madding
Verin!!!
The Tinker’s Song and it’s relation to the Aiel and Green Men songs in Age of Legends.
Nakomi
How to Ease the Badger
the siege of Tar Valon, by Arthur Hawking
Dragkhar.
I want to know everything about all Shadowspawn, but have the most questions about those. I also want to know everything about the Sea Folk, naturally, but I guess that can wait.
Nakomi, and if she’s off-limits, then Luc / Isam / Slayer.
@28: Don’t be silly, we all know she was the real Nae’blis – Moridin was just a cover.
Eye of the world
Shara
A glimpse at some of the lives Matt lived when Rand used the Portal stones to travel to Toman Head
Gitara Moroso.
Seandar
The Sea Folk
Callandor
Tel Aran Rhiod
min
The True Power
Rand’s will.
Manetheren
Origins of Balefire and its opposite.
Shara
Trolloc Wars
Mordeth
Fortuna and damane post Last Battle
Mazrim Taim
Norla
Tigraine, showing how she went missing and ended up with the Aiel, and how Rand ended up with the al’Thor
The Ring of the Tamyrlin
The significance of the items given to Mattrim Cauthon. We know what they were for, but why did they take those shapes?
The song, do the traveling people find it. I know the scope of the novels don’t cover it, but will this?
Shara
Shara
Semirhage
Morgase Trakand. She’s fascinating.
Isle of Madness
SHARA
Age of Legends culture
Second Captain Tam al’Thor.
Alanna Mosvani
Darkfriends: After the “Re-inprisonment” are Darkfriends still beholden and under obligation to the Dark One in any way? Or are they now free to continue or not in their badsassiness as they please?
I want to know more about what happens to the characters post the final battle. The bit at the end of book 14 is thin and only sparked interest to know MOAR!
Thom’s daggers
How do you make black cuendillar?
Demandred
Tam’s backstory
Ishamael and his influence on Arthur Hawkwing and Jain Farstrider.
Aes Sedai
The Bore
Who is Nakomi?
Nakomi
geochic1 x2
“How did Rand light his pipe at the end of MOL, was it saidin, saidar, true power or a combination of them?”
???
Demandred in the Age of Legends, specifically his past with LTT and Ilyena.
Their future.
Ishamael…what he was doing for 3000 years!!!!
Ilyena
LTT’s family.
drilling The Bore
Isle of Madmen
Demandred and the other prophecies/continents
The Ages (descriptions, history, etc.)
Who is Nakomi?
Whitecloak theology
More on the aiel, a more precise timeline from when they left paar disen to separating out in the waste. Also if they spent 2000 years in the sun, would their skin not have darken or does natural selection not exist in randland….
I second the request for Portal Stones, I want to read about their study during the AOL
Nakomi.
Bela’s childhood
One Power Weaves
Callandor – more about its origin hopefully? Ack…so hard to pick one topic
Whitecloak theology; I’m a religion buff.
Well-Turned Calves!
crystal throne
Lan’s family
Lighting the pipe at the end of the story was neither the one power, true power or a combination of both. It was done in the same manner that rand made the apple trees reblossom and new healthy apples immune to the Dark Ones evil taint. I would simply call it Rand’s will.
But I digress, the above being just my opinion. I would like to know more about Nakomi as well, as well as numerous other mysteries left behind.
What happened to Moiraine during those 20 years of looking for the Dragon Reborn? Where did Lan and she go?
Birgitte Silverbow
The future of the Black Tower
NAKOMI!!! Please and Thank you! :)
Ogier from both sides of the ocean meeting?
Tigraine’s life
If you ate dinner, then pooed, then balefired the poo strong enough to before you ate, would you end up back with a meal that was just the parts that your body absorbed for nutrients, aka the healthiest meal ever?
Which Ajah would lend itself best to using this method to become nutritionists and dietitians?
I would like to know more about the founding of the white tower and the people responsible
what about Rand pipe? how did he burn it? without saidar or saidin or true power. he has a new power from creator or something like that?
The larger pattern of Ages.
Norla.
The several Ages
Lews Therin
The man that Rand crossed Balefire streams with in Shadar Logoth…
Alivia, former damane.
The dice in Mat’s head
Land of Madmen
Forsaken
Logain’s History
@kari bee,
moridin.
Braid Tugging
Age of Legends
Tom Bombadil
Nakomi
I’d like to know more about pipes, how they differ from land to land, the Aiel, the Seanchan, everyone smokes pipes, how do they differ, and what is culture surrounding the pipes.
Story of Tam Althor
Jain Farstrider
What is Rand’s newest power that revealed in final book is called? As far as I know it doesn’t have name for it.
Strength in the Power list for male channelers
I just finished New Spring, so I want to know what happened to the Amyrlin after Tamra, I think her name was Sierin? Sorry I listened to it so unsure of spelling. When did she die and was she Black Ajah? How was Siuan made Amyrlin?
Cadsuane
Since men cannot link directly through saidin, how were any individual men able to move continents and mountains?
Dai’shain
Shara would be amazing to learn more about
Gaidal Cain and where the heck is he?
The Travels of Jain Farstrider
I also want to know more about the Tinkers Song.
Portal Stones
I have to say either the history of the Seachan on their home continent or some of the other places we heard mentioned but never learned anything about.
Perrin Aybara!
The history of Mazrim Taim
So hard to decide
I think Tam’s story, where he came from, and how he got the heron mark sword how he went to war and how he found the baby etc
Aviendha’s visions of the future through her children’s eyes.
Power-Wrought Weapons.
Add another vote for the “Luc + Isam = Slayer?” conundrum. With that being one of the series’ unsolved mysteries, any extra info would be killer.
The Fourth Age–how do Seanchan, Asha’man, and Aes Sedai get along (or kill each other)?
I want to hear more detail about the age of legends.
Aelfinn
How about more information on the land of Mad Men in the far south?
The 1st Age and what state the world was in relative to our current reality/age at the time the True Source was discovered.
The Watchers would be interesting to investigate.
Logain’s life before we met him
I need to know what’s up with all that spanking.
Bayle Domon
Asmodean
Land of Madmen
Anti-Balefire (which Egwene weaves)
Rand’s children
Rand’s children, and a bunch of other loose threads at the end of A Memory of Light.
Cursing.
Nynaeve al’Meara
the Blue Sitter who failed to survive Elaida’s coup (so either the Hall when Siuan fell or the entry on that individual)
Mice, figs and
Mat and the Seanchan…
Elaine’s kids and the royal line or succession.
Latra Posae Decume
Someshta ^_^
Aelfinn and Eelfinn
Tam al’Thor
Warders
I have to go with Tam.
Lan Mandraggoran, please. I want to know how he gained such huge renown and honor as an adult among the people of the Borderlands before he was Moraine’s warder.
Tuon.
How did the pipe light at the end of AMOL?
Cadsuane’s 3 fish ter’angreal (the ones she doesn’t know or doesn’t say what they do) and any other ter/sa/angreal that were mentioned but didn’t have their powers explained.
Wolf-Brothers
Gaidal Cain – was he spun back into the world? and if so, who is he?
Tinkers
Egwene. As the only major character who died, I want to know RJ’s thoughts on her.
Padan Fain!
Asmodean’s murder
When/How the one power was discovered.
Seanchan
Cadsuane :)
The brown ajah :)
Mordeth
Trolloc Wars Time-line
Age of Legends
5th Age?
Narg’s back story.
History of the Dragon
Who is Nakomi?
How did Moiraine and Lan end up in the Two Rivers, just in time?
Mierin
Nakomi
Do the Portal Stones connect with our world?
Ring of Tamyrlin
Cadsuane – I’d like more of her early history. (Doing a re-read of the series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my 1st WOT book purchase.)
The first fade, or trollic.
Age of Legends
Age of Legends
I want to preview the entry about Nakomi
Nakomi
Graendel
All of the above.
Trigger novels.
Mat and Tuon in Seanchan.
Sorry, meant to read OUTRIGGER novels
Verin
Gaidal Cain?
Shara.
Aes Sedai as channelers . Are they male or female?
A series of maps showing the effect of the breaking on the world. Would love to see how much actually changed in regards to geography…
The Ogier’s history
More about the fall of manetheren
Death of Asmodean
The founding of the Ten Nations would be interesting, too.
sa’angreal
Cadsuane
How did Demandred go to Shara and essentially take over in a short time?
The Dark One
Band of the red hand
The dark one.
I want to hear more about my two favorite Foresaken, Semirhage and Lanfear.
How do you play Snakes and Foxes?
Moiraine
the pithy/wisdom statements made by Elayne’s nurse.
Who is Nakomi or how did Rand light his pipe when he could no longer sense the One Power or the True Power
Traveling
Land of the Madmen!
Gaidal Cain. Where did he come from, where did he go.
how to play snakes and foxes
Nakomi
Lews Therin Telamon and the Hundred Companions
The time line of everything before New Spring
Tel’aran’rhiod
I would love to see what happens in the age before ours that causes us to not remember channelling.
Tam
Bella
I would like to see the entire The Karaethon Cycle listed start to finish, not just the tidbits listed in the books.
The Creation of mankind and how the Dark One came to be imprisoned. I want to know how the Dark One’s power differs from that of the Creator. Does the Creator have his own version of the True Power (or is it called the True Power because it is the original power)?
Veri
Bella
Perrin’s Future
Demandred
Cadsuane!
Lan!
Gaidal Cain
What all the ter’angreal do (the ones we have no confirmed details about – e.g. some of Cadsuane’s hair ornaments, exact details on the red rod, etc.)
The Song
Tam al’Thor. Definitely Tam
I would like to know all about Tam’s story previous to Book 1.
The meeting of Luc and Isam and the creation of Slayer.
Shara
The black tower, the final hierarchy and their relationship with the white tower post AMoL.
Rand’s children
Cadsuane…would love to know more about her history.
The Aiel. Always wanted know more about them.
Graendel
Be’lal
The original voyage to seachan home land
Cadsuane Melaidhrin!!!!
Nakomi!
Where the jade fat man angereal went after DW
The sword that scholars found under a statue that Rand carries in The Gathering Storm.
Corianin Nedeal
manetheren/ Lan
Verin!
Tam al Thor
The blight
Comments are now closed on this round of Spin the Wheel. We’re aiming to reveal the excerpt early next week. Thanks!