Chapter 1: The prophecy

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"And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered,
and the shall lie across the of the Age,
and the shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man.
Women shall weep and men quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth.
Neither shall anything stand or abide...

The Shadow shall rise across the world, and darken every land, even to the smallest corner, and there shall be neither Light nor safety.
And he who shall be born of the Dawn, born of the , according to ,
he shall stretch forth his hands to catch the Shadow,
and the world shall scream in the pain of salvation.
All Glory be to the Creator, and to the Light, and to he who shall be born again. May the Light save us from him.

Yet shall be born to face the Shadow,
born once more as was born before,
and shall be born again, time without end.
The shall be Reborn,
and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth.
In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people,
and he shall break the world again by his coming,
tearing apart all ties that bind.
Like the unfettered dawn shall he blind us, and burn us,
yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the ,
and his blood shall give us the Light.
Let tears flow, O ye people of the world.
Weep for your salvation.

On the slopes of shall he be born,
born of a wedded to no man. .
He will be of the , and raised by the .
When the winds of scour the earth,
he will face the Shadow and bring forth Light again in the world.
For he shall come like the breaking dawn,
and shatter the world again with his coming, and make it anew."


I was in the same room as the Aei Sedai that for told the prophecy, of the Dragon Reborn. 

Only three people knew of this, Moiraine Damodred, Siuan Sanche and me, Liana Driskel. All we did was look at each other and you could see the fear and hope in our eyes. 

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