{"id":2039,"date":"2025-09-09T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:13:09","slug":"chapter-11-tar-valon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 11: Tar Valon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Egwene&#8217;s group arrives in Tar Valon. Hurin departs for Fal Dara, while everyone else proceeds to the White Tower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_pmsbbxpmsbbxpmsb.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2046\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_pmsbbxpmsbbxpmsb.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Picture of a middle-ages-era man contemplatively watching a sloppily painted dragon on the wall dry. Captioned &quot;The Dragon Reborn Chapter 11 Experience.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_pmsbbxpmsbbxpmsb.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_pmsbbxpmsbbxpmsb.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_pmsbbxpmsbbxpmsb.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_pmsbbxpmsbbxpmsb.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Usually I write about the chapter first, then the TL;DR. This time, the TL;DR was so fucking obvious, it practically wrote itself. Nothing strange, interesting, noteworthy, or even remarkable happens during the course of this chapter. I&#8217;ll bet even Robert Jordan fell asleep at the keyboard while he was writing it. Basically, unless your hobbies include watching paint dry, you can go ahead and skip this one.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone arrives in Tar Valon. Hurin splits, because of course a man like him would nope out of going to the White Tower. Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne begin to realize how much trouble they&#8217;re in for leaving without permission. Mat gets whisked away to the mystical ER. Verin goes to see the Amyrlin Seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egwene&#8217;s group arrives in Tar Valon. Hurin departs for Fal Dara, while everyone else proceeds to the White Tower. Usually I write about the chapter first, then the TL;DR. This time, the TL;DR was so fucking obvious, it practically wrote itself. Nothing strange, interesting, noteworthy, or even remarkable happens during the course of this chapter. [&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-2039","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\/2039","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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}