{"id":1943,"date":"2025-09-06T20:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:09:22","slug":"chapter-3-news-from-the-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 3: News from the Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Leya brings news that the Whitecloaks have amassed legions on the Almoth Plain, yet are ostensibly acting peacefully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The title of this chapter couldn&#8217;t be any clearer, and yet it is not until the\u00a0<em>fifth page<\/em> of the chapter that we hear what the news from the Plain is. No, first we have to review <em>in detail<\/em> how everyone in the camp was affected by Rand&#8217;s earthquake. Half the stew Min was cooking spilled, a bunch of people got bruises, and Leya ended up with a bloodied scalp. Wait, Jordan! We forgot to check in with Loial and make sure he&#8217;s doing okay, too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whitecloaks-habitat.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1951 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whitecloaks-habitat.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A flyer for Whitecloaks Habitat for Humanity, saying &quot;Here to spread the Light... and maybe some drywall&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whitecloaks-habitat.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whitecloaks-habitat.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whitecloaks-habitat.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whitecloaks-habitat.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Finally, we learn about the news. 5,000 Whitecloaks have amassed on the Almoth Plain, and they&#8217;re trying to make <em>peace<\/em>. That&#8217;s like having the Ku Klux Klan show up to build houses after a devastating tornado. They are trying to diffuse the Tarabon\/Domani conflict and are not moving against groups that support the Dragon. At the same time, young men who match Rand&#8217;s description are mysteriously dying. Well played, Mr. Carradin! Turns out, you can, in fact, serve two masters, as long as everything they do is cloaked in plausible deniability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leya brings news that the Whitecloaks have amassed legions on the Almoth Plain, yet are ostensibly acting peacefully. The title of this chapter couldn&#8217;t be any clearer, and yet it is not until the\u00a0fifth page of the chapter that we hear what the news from the Plain is. No, first we have to review in [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dragon-reborn","book-the-dragon-reborn"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","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=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}