{"id":1229,"date":"2025-07-31T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2025-11-29T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:04:09","slug":"chapter-53-the-wheel-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 53: The Wheel Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Spring returns, the Shadow retreats, and Rand thinks running away will solve everything. Moiraine, meanwhile, has found what she spent twenty years looking for: the Dragon Reborn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess killing two of the Forsaken left the Shadow reeling, because it&#8217;s suddenly a lot easier to leave the Blight than it was to enter. Once the group has traveled far enough south, we see that spring has finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Near Fal Dara, men speak of a miraculous victory at Tarwin&#8217;s Gap. They believe the Creator intervened, but we know better. So does Lord Agelmar &#8212; he witnessed the battle, and has no doubt that he saw a man channel.<\/p>\n<p>Moiraine entrusts the Horn of Valere to Lord Agelmar, with strict instructions to deliver it to Illian.<\/p>\n<p>Rand gets some sword lessons from Lan, and has a talk with Egwene. He says he&#8217;s &#8220;going away&#8221; but won&#8217;t say where. Even he doesn&#8217;t seem to know, but he doesn&#8217;t want to be gentled, and he doesn&#8217;t want to bring trouble to Emond&#8217;s Field. So&#8230;\u00a0<em>somewhere<\/em>. He\u2019s also trying to convince himself he won\u2019t channel again. That\u2019s adorable &#8212; like a kid swearing he\u2019ll never grow up. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<p>Moiraine is content. Ever since Gitara&#8217;s foretelling twenty years ago, she has been desperately searching for the Dragon, and she has finally found him.<\/p>\n<p>The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring returns, the Shadow retreats, and Rand thinks running away will solve everything. Moiraine, meanwhile, has found what she spent twenty years looking for: the Dragon Reborn. I guess killing two of the Forsaken left the Shadow reeling, because it&#8217;s suddenly a lot easier to leave the Blight than it was to enter. Once the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-eye-of-the-world","book-the-eye-of-the-world"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}