{"id":2152,"date":"2025-09-13T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:58:37","slug":"chapter-21-a-world-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 21: A World of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"tldr\"><p>Verin gives Egwene notes on Liandrin and her accomplices, and a\u00a0<em>ter&#8217;angreal<\/em> that helps the user enter the World of Dreams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Egwene goes to see Verin after receiving a summons. She navigates the passages near the library, noting the accumulation of dust on every surface, even the tapestries. The Brown sisters seem to wear this layer of grime like a badge of honor showing that they&#8217;re too busy to bother with such things, but to me it just sounds gross. I&#8217;ll bet their personal hygiene is terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Verin gives Egwene a packet of papers containing information on Liandrin and the twelve women who fled the Tower with her, as well as details about the <em>ter&#8217;angreal<\/em> they stole. Verin doubts it will be useful, but she knows of Egwene and Nynaeve&#8217;s mission, so she passes it on anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Verin also gives Egwene something else &#8212; a\u00a0<em>ter&#8217;angreal<\/em> that was used by Corianin Nedeal. She was an Aes Sedai who lived over 400 years ago, and was the last to have the Talent of Dreaming &#8212; foretelling the future through dreams. Some in the Tower suspect Egwene is a Dreamer because of the dreams she has had. Verin wants Egwene to have the <em>ter&#8217;angreal<\/em> because it &#8220;eases the passage to\u00a0<em>Tel&#8217;aran&#8217;rhiod,<\/em>&#8221; but warns her to be cautious &#8212; she tried using it herself some years ago, and ended up with a nasty scar to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>After Verin sends Egwene on her way, we learn that she has <em>notes<\/em> from Corianin about the\u00a0<em>ter&#8217;angreal<\/em>, and held them back from Egwene on purpose! That&#8217;s like handing the keys to a motorcycle to a sixteen-year-old, purposely withholding the instruction manual, and then saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s see if you can figure out how to work this thing!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verin gives Egwene notes on Liandrin and her accomplices, and a\u00a0ter&#8217;angreal that helps the user enter the World of Dreams. Egwene goes to see Verin after receiving a summons. She navigates the passages near the library, noting the accumulation of dust on every surface, even the tapestries. The Brown sisters seem to wear this layer [&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-2152","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\/2152","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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}