“Spin Wheel” series give readers chance for choose entries from The Wheel of Time Companion book before Narg eat it.
Narg good guy. Likes comment #15 from DavidW for selecting Narg. Put sword down. Read about Narg. He have Theater Production degree from Ithaca.
Narg have layers.
Narg — A smart Trolloc who could speak the human tongue. It had a wolf’s muzzle, goat hooves, ears that twitched incessantly and all-too-human eyes. Narg was one of those who attacked Tam’s farm; after Rand and Tam got away from the first attack, Narg played dead and waited until Rand returned. He told Rand that he would not hurt him, and that a Myrddraal was coming. Rand pre- tended to go along; when Narg lunged for him, Rand brought up Tam’s sword and impaled Narg.
We can’t find who made the great Narg meme up top, but we found it in this “Ask Narg!” Dragonmount thread.
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OK, so the introduction to this article was brilliant. Again, the information we get from the Companion is what we can read in “The Eye of the World”. A little information as to why Narg was one of the only (if not the only) Trollocs to ever speak in the series would be enough. I sincerely hope that these sample articles aren’t indicative of the rest of the entries. Or maybe we’re not getting all the information in these snippets. I really want this book to be a supplement to the novels, not a print form of http://encyclopaedia-wot.org/.
We find out that the wolf-head trollocs are considered the brainy ones, so I am guessing that is why Narg can speak.
Narg has been a good dose of humor for Wheel of Time fandom
I agree there isn’t anything particular interesting in this (I was really hoping for some extra info) but this made me chuckle. I am pretty sure my husband either wrote, or at least thought up some idea for, Narg fanfiction. Haha.
There really cannot be a lot of information about Narg itself. Honestly, what did people expect? It is not like you could expect to learn the identities/names of its parents. About the only thing we could have learned about Narg itself is what fist it belonged to. Hopefully, in the Companion this will be a springboard to other information about Trollocs in general: the differences between the fists; is there a hierarchy among the Trollocs, do they eat their young, etc.
Also, I would like to know what happens to the Trollocs after the Last Battle. Did they get wiped out as a species at the Last Battle? I would suspect not. We were told throughout that Trollocs were cowards and that they would run away if they could. I would have thought that when the Myrddraals no longer controlled them, some Trollocs would have fled the battlefield. I wonder if part of the post Last Battle mission of the Green Ajah would be to hunt down and kill all remaining Trollocs.
Thanks for reading my musings.
AndrewHB
I like to think that in different times Rand and Narg could have learned to get along be best friends.
I hope the artwork is good. I already pre-orderd this, and I’m kind of wishing I hadn’t.
See, this is why you shouldn’t make joke suggestions for encyclopedia entries, people! Next time we’ll probably get one about Bela. Sigh. Not that Bela doesn’t have a fascinating backstory, as to how she wound up in the Two Rivers, undoubtedly after having ruled in the Land of Madmen.
The picture was amusing, though. And I’m oddly optimistic about the fact that Narg warranted an entry in the Companion!
Every single entry has been disappointing. What is the point of putting together something like this if you’re not going to reveal extra information? Most obsessive fans (the ones likely to purchase the Companion) don’t need a summary of events that happened in the novels.
For example, why have an entry on power levels and not reveal the levels for every character? There’s basically no reason to hold back at this point.
The only new info I’ve seen was in the Taim article, which confirmed that Taim was not originally a darkfriend but was released and recruited by Demandred, who gave him the seal and sent him to Rand with instructions. That seemed like new information to me, unless it was revealed in MoL and I forgot (I’ve only read it once and I wasn’t impressed).
@9—Taim’s recruitment was mentioned in AMOL. The power levels given in the notes will be revealed in the relevant entries, as Serafelle’s and Elayne’s were. There is nothing about Taim’s power level because it wasn’t in the notes; RJ only noted the strengths for some of the male Forsaken because for the most part the men’s exact strength wasn’t important to the story like it was for the Aes Sedai and all the female channelers who interacted with them.
On seeing the post title: SQUEEEEE.
At the mention of Ithaca, my hometown: SQUEEEEE.
After reading the post: Waaah. The book had better have more new information on Shadowspawn in general. I have priorities.
@@.-@: Yesss, Narg fanfiction. I’ve composed plenty of fanfiction about Shadowspawn, but none featuring him specifically.
@6: If Trollocs eat their young, they sure spare a lot of them.
Fun fact: Narg is one of only two Trollocs described as having features of multiple non-human species. The other was some soldier’s recollection in AMoL that “he could have sworn he’d seen one twisted monstrosity with goat horns and eagle feathers.”
MinNotElmindreda @8. I agree about the picture. Rand looks like after performing his daily chores on the farm, he injected himself with steroids.
Thanks for reading my musings.
AndrewHB
Why Narg speak? Because Narg smart. Obviously.
Narg smart. Narg eat stupid trolloc – all of them! Narg hungry.
Whyso Rand nervous? Myrdraal not like eat him! Myrdraal cuddly, like cuddle people.
Silly knife. Narg play dead. Narg come back as Demandred, rule everybody!
Lunchtime!
I’ve always thought the point of Narg was to get across how disturbing, “abominational” such a thing as a Trolloc really was. They are kind of a mistake that the Shadow used because they were already there. Remember that the notes are mostly stuff needed to write the books; probably not for human consumption. They are not a substitute for stuff already out there; so get used to being disappointed mostly, perhaps intrigued occasionally. I wrote some Narg fanfiction long, long ago. Some of it was almost funny.
I was honestly not expecting more information about Narg, but I did expect more information about Elayne and Taim. I’m hoping that the Companion gives us information about what happened after the Last Battle or other information we didn’t get in the books. I just don’t see the point otherwise.
My worries are a bit different after viewing the last three entries and comparing it the prior ones. I’m fine with the lack of post series info. We didn’t actually get a series ender by the man who created it after all. So his priorities seem rooted in getting the series itself outlines.
What bothers me from these entries is that even though he needed copious notes and assistants, the number of characters being juggled was amazing. And something I had a deep interest in. So reading Serafelle’s background was interesting, but it was rather troublesome to find out that Jordan had in waiting and yet we did not get those details. Someone kindly providing their own take on the notes that said she stayed at the Tower after the coup, went to Dumai’s Wells, escaped there to Dorlan.
I’m weird in that I want to know that stuff. I want to know (assuming Jordan put in notes) the stuff that was off to the side. Because I cannot believe anything other than he wanted to have it ready to use somehow. I can easily had the series been truly finished by it author, Serafelle might have shown up with Gawyn. Or mentioned in some other manner. So for me it is disappointing the latest entries seem to support the idea that only stuff in books is being offered up except for slight backstory. Granted I can separate my wishes from my actual expectations. But even the latter seems to be getting ready for a disappointment if the people behind this can’t understand the reason for publishing such a book.
Jordan didn’t have much time to push out notes about where he wanted to go when the series ended since he wasn’t ending it himself as it were. But he did have years and years filling in every little niche of his world and THAT is why there were so many fans. Why a newsgroup ruled its own little corner of the world and discussed power levels, hierarchies and theories to the nth degree.
As already noted. This is for fans of the series who want to push past what is already known. To have Elayne and Taim’s entries pretty much be nothing but what a devoted, not even fantastical, fan could spout off the top of the head is disappointing.
At least with Elayne’s and Taim’s articles they covered several books worth of information. There’s at least some benefit to having it all in one place. Narg’s entry poorly summarizes a few paragraphs in Eye of the World.
@17 he could have also made notes about stuff that he later decided not to use. Jordan seemed to regard worldbuilding as an end in itself, so he might have made notes on things he knew wouldn’t fit into the stories just for his own amusement.
anthonypero@@@@@ 7. If you are concerned about the artwork, I would recommend looking at Ariel Burgess’ web site. Some of the character illustrations that have accompanied the Tor previews were done by her. I think that her work will be featured heavily in the Companion. I checked it out yesterday. Generally speaking, I like her WoT work (at least what was on her web site).
Thanks for reading my musings.
AndrewHB
I’m also disappointed. But not with the entries.
Who honestly thought there was some earth shattering revelation about Narg? Seriously… Narg.
It’s almost funny, in a sad way. I think I’ll suggest Bela next time, just to see what happens.
I am fairly sure that the fact that Narg gets an entry in the companion is a joke in and of itself. I chuckled :) It would have been fun if there was some other tidbit in there about him, but at the same time, I doubt RJ actually developed him all that much.
I do wonder if the expectations (including my own) are a bit too high. Realistically, how much could RJ have written? But I think it will be neat to at least get something that compiles stuff in one place, is cross referenced, etc. And perhaps there are some new things but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are holding back on that.
@12: Also, Narg wore “leather trousers” instead of that kilty thing and was never described as having horns. Still a fun picture.
Not surprised to see an entry for him in a book which allegedly contains an entry on EVERY named character. It would be remiss not to have one
I’m getting more and more disappointed over these entries. Other then Avi’s, they’ve been more or less what I’ve already gleaned from the stories. I’m seriously thinking about canceling my order on Amazon.