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Lord of Chaos Lord of Chaos Lord of Chaos The lions sing and the hills take flight.?The moon by day and the sun by night.?Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.?Let the Lord of Chaos rule. —chant from a children's game?heard in Great Arvalon,?the Fourth Age PROLOGUE (Serpent and Wheel) The First Message Demandred stepped out onto the black slopes of Shayol Ghul, and the gateway, a hole in reality’s fabric, winked out of existence. Above, roiling gray clouds hid the sky, an inverted sea of sluggish ashen waves crashing around the mountain’s hidden peak. Below, odd lights flashed across the barren valley, washedout blues and reds, failing to dispel the dusky murk that shrouded their source. Lightning streaked up at the clouds, and slow thunder rolled. Across the slope steam and smoke rose from scattered vents, some holes as small as a man’s hand and some large enough to swallow ten men. He released the One Power immediately, and with the vanished sweetness went the heightened senses that made everything sharper, clearer. The absence of saidin left him hollow, yet here only a fool would even appear ready to channel. Besides, here only a |
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