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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- ChangeFive candidates, not three
In the book, only Rand, Mat and Perrin are ta'veren, and Moiraine is after one of the three boys. The show adds Egwene and Nynaeve and makes all five possible Dragons.
source ↗ - ChangePerrin wasn't married
The show gives Perrin a wife, Laila, whom he accidentally kills with his axe the night the Trollocs attack. None of that is in the book, and Brandon Sanderson, a consultant on the show, disagreed with the change.
source ↗ - ChangeCaemlyn got cut
In the book, Caemlyn is where Rand meets Loial and Elayne and first sees Logain. The show cut the whole city from Season 1.
source ↗ - ChangeA different climax at the Eye
In the book, all five Two Rivers friends reach the Eye, the Green Man sacrifices himself and they face the Forsaken Aginor and Balthamel. In the show, Rand goes alone with Moiraine, and she ends up cut off from the Source.
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- ChangeMoiraine keeps her power
In the book, Moiraine never loses the ability to channel and mostly works behind the scenes. In the show, she spends much of S2 cut off from the Source.
source ↗ - ChangeThe dragon over Falme
In the book, the sky over Falme shows images of Rand's fight with Ishamael, and Moiraine has no part in it. In the show, Moiraine herself conjures a dragon of light around the tower.
source ↗ - ChangeLiandrin has no son
The show invented Aludran, a son Liandrin secretly cares for until Lanfear kills him. That storyline isn't in the book.
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- ChangeNo Stone of Tear
The book's climax is Rand taking the Stone of Tear and claiming Callandor in front of everyone. The show never got to that moment.
source ↗ - ChangeNo Be'lal
In the book, the Forsaken Be'lal lies in wait for Rand inside the Stone, and Moiraine destroys him with balefire. He never appears on the show.
source ↗ - ChangeMat locked up in the Tower
In the book, Mat is healed in Tar Valon and soon sets off through Andor to Tear. In the show, he spends months locked up by Liandrin in the White Tower, where he meets Min.
source ↗ - ChangeLanfear gets there sooner
In the book, Lanfear only sets Rand up with his first male teacher at the end of The Dragon Reborn. On the show, she's already with Rand in Cairhien in S2, and he talks with Logain.
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- ChangeThe Waste before Tear
The book opens with Rand already holding the Stone of Tear. On the show, he changes course in S3's first episode and heads straight into the Aiel Waste.
source ↗ - ChangeMat goes to Tanchico
In the book, Mat follows Rand into the Waste and to Rhuidean. On the show, he beats Galad and Gawyn in a duel and leaves for Tanchico, with Min on his heels.
source ↗ - ChangeSiuan escapes in the book
On the show, Elaida has Siuan beheaded after she's stilled. In the book, Siuan is stilled and deposed but escapes the White Tower.
source ↗ - ChangeElayne and Aviendha
The show makes Elayne and Aviendha a couple. In the book, the two grow close as friends, with no romance between them.
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- ChangeMoiraine and Lanfear face to face
In the book, Moiraine sacrifices herself to save Rand from Lanfear. On the show, the two duel at the end of S3, Moiraine slashes Lanfear's neck with Lan's sword and Lanfear escapes through a portal.
source ↗ - ChangeCouladin loses another way
In the book, Mat kills Couladin, the Shaido leader, in combat. On the show, Couladin claims to be the Dragon with tattoos Lanfear gave him, and Rand wins over the Aiel by bringing rain to the Waste.
source ↗ - ChangeMoghedien stays free
In the book, Nynaeve captures Moghedien with forkroot. On the show, Moghedien stays free and kills Sammael in S3's last episode.
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- Behind the scenesThe first with an epilogue
Lord of Chaos is the first book in the series with an epilogue. It has a prologue, 55 chapters and an epilogue.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA Locus nominee
The book was nominated for the 1995 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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- ReferenceWhere the title comes from
Illian's crown was called the Laurel Crown. Once Rand takes it, it becomes known as the Crown of Swords.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo famous covers
Darrell K. Sweet's original cover shows Rand in Shadar Logoth. The 2013 edition got a new cover by Tyler Jacobson.
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- Behind the scenesThe first to hit No. 1
It was the first book in the series to debut at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and it stayed there two months.
source ↗ - ReferenceA Seanchan saying
The title comes from a Seanchan saying: on the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. It's also the shortest book in the main series.
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- Behind the scenesThe prologue came first
The prologue, "Snow," was sold as an e-book two months before the book, in September 2000. It was the first time the series did that.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe winter in the title
The title points to Rand's growing coldness and to winter's return to the world after the unnatural heat of the earlier books.
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- Behind the scenesA parallel book
Much of Crossroads of Twilight happens alongside the end of Winter's Heart, showing the same stretch of time through other characters.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesPrologue six months early
The prologue, "Glimmers of the Pattern," came out as an e-book in July 2002, six months before the book. It still debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times list.
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- Behind the scenesJordan's last complete book
Knife of Dreams was the last book Robert Jordan wrote entirely on his own. He died in 2007, and Brandon Sanderson finished the series from his notes.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFour No. 1s in a row
It debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times list, the fourth straight book in the series to do so. The prologue came out early as an e-book in July 2005.
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- Behind the scenesChoosing Sanderson
Harriet McDougal, Jordan's widow and editor, picked Brandon Sanderson after reading his novels and the eulogy he wrote when Jordan died. The news broke in December 2007.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesOne book became three
Jordan meant to end the series with a single volume, A Memory of Light. It would have run about 2,000 pages, so it became three books. This one was going to be "A Memory of Light: Gathering Clouds."
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- Behind the scenesSanderson's title
Sanderson suggested the title, replacing the working title "Shifting Winds."
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCodes on bumper stickers
To promote it, Tor handed out bumper stickers with codes that unlocked pages of chapter 8. The codes were chapter names, and the last one was left in Venice.
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- Behind the scenesAlmost a year late
The book was expected in March 2012 and didn't reach stores until January 8, 2013.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe late e-book
The e-book didn't come out until April 8, 2013, three months after print. Many readers complained and review-bombed the book in online stores.
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- Behind the scenesIt started as a novella
New Spring first ran as a novella in the Legends anthology, edited by Robert Silverberg, in 1998. Jordan later expanded it into a novel, published in 2004.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe trilogy that never happened
Jordan planned three prequels. The second would follow Tam in the Illianer army, and the third, Moiraine and Lan's trip to the Two Rivers. He put it off, and those books were never written.
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