After being exposed to his power, Moiraine begins to question the information she has (which, it appears, no one else among the Aes Sedai does) that the Dragon is only twenty years old. Even captured and shielded, he is confident-which he has the right to be, since it takes the strongest Aes Sedai present working in pairs to keep him caged. Moiraine, after being Healed by Kerene and ending the two-episode search for urgent care, examines Logain, who we know from the cold open is charismatic and genuinely believes he’s the Dragon Reborn. She and Lan also share a quiet, intimate moment, bonding over shared loss in their past and the rituals that bring them comfort. (We, the audience, also see how bisexuality and polyamory are welcomed and considered perfectly normal). As she becomes more comfortable, she shares dinner, stories, and teasing with the Warders around their campfire and learns a different perspective of the Aes Sedai in the process. Nynaeve, at first, floats around the fringes of the Aes Sedai camp, holding herself apart and literally above them-she stands on a cliff looking down at everyone.
Lan and Nynaeve are given the time to build the connection they’ll have through the rest of the series, we start seeing glimpses of White Tower internal politics (especially the division between the Red and Blue Ajahs), and we’re shown-not just told-how people like the Aes Sedai react to the idea of the Dragon Reborn (hint: not well). Here, the writers capitalize perfectly on their source material to introduce a sequence that is incredibly true to the books without being ripped straight from the page. In The Eye of the World, we follow along with Rand and Perrin while Moiraine, Lan, and Nynaeve disappear.
When Thom wakes him and they realize Mat is missing, they rush into the farmhouse to find the entire family slaughtered and Mat standing in the middle of it. He sees Perrin hammering at a body, Mat sleepwalking with his hand covered in red blood, and Egwene being taken by the ember-eyed man. He emphasizes the need to stay very far away from Aes Sedai.Īs they’re lying down in the hay, Rand attempts to reassure Mat that he’ll always be there for him he then falls asleep and has another nightmare. Thom explains what happens to men who can channel when the Aes Sedai find them, that “gentling” leaves anyone who’s already touched the One Power despondent and suicidal.
He shares a story about his nephew Owyn, who got sick, paranoid, and snappish, who irritated animals, and then threw a rock one day without using his hands. As Mat is painfully reminded about his sisters back in the Two Rivers, Thom opens up to Rand about his own history and concerns Mat might be a man who can channel the One Power.
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