Words of the Ages

[Tony]

If you post a quote, prophecy, ect, I'll give you 10 posts if it is acceptable. More if it is excellent.

[Temanin]

Well, how could I pass such a thing up?

There's the famous:

[glow=red,2,300]Twice and twice shall he be marked,
twice to live, and twice to die,
Once the heron to set his path.
Twice the heron, to name him true.
Once the Dragon for remembrance lost.
Twice the Dragon for the price he must pay.[/glow]

[Temanin]

I'll break these up into a few different posts. Wouldn't want to make 'em too big, now would we?

[glow=red,2,300]Twice dawns the day when his blood is shed.
Once for mourning, once for birth.
Red on black, the Dragon's blood stains the rock of Shayol Ghul.
In the Pit of Doom shall his blood free men from the Shadow.[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be born among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows from out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of bonds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny.[/glow]

Everyone knows this one:
[glow=red,2,300]On the slopes of Dragonmount shall he be born, born of a maiden wedded to no man.[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]Power of the Shadow made human flesh,
wakened to turmoil, strife and ruin.
The Reborn One, marked and bleeding,
dances the sword in dreams and mist,
chains the Shadowsworn to his will,
from the city, lost and forsaken,
leads the spears to war once more,
breaks the spears and makes them see,
truth long hidden in the ancient dream.[/glow]

I think that's all for this post...

[Temanin]

and here we see some more:

[glow=red,2,300]Into the heart he thrusts his sword,
into the heart, to hold their hearts.
Who draws it out shall follow after,
What hand can grasp that fearful blade?[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]With his coming are the dread fires born again. The hills burn, and the land turns sere. The tides of men run out, and the hours dwindle. The wall is pierced, and the veil of parting raised. Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered, and the Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of the Age, and the DO 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 nor abide...
Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow...and there shall 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 Last Battle, and his blood shall give us the Light. Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Weep for your salvation.[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]The unstained tower breaks and bends knee to the forgotten sign. The seas rage, and stormclouds gather unseen. Beyond the horizon, hidden fires swell, and serpents nestle in the bosom. What was exalted is cast down; what was cast down is raised up. Order burns to clear his path. [/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]There can be no health in us, nor any good thing grow, for the land is one with the Dragon Reborn, and he one with the land. Soul of fire, heart of stone, in pride he conquers, forcing the proud to yield. He calls upon the mountains to kneel, and the seas to give way, and the very skies to bow. Pray that the heart of stone remembers tears, and the soul of fire, love. [/glow]

- From a much-disputed translation of The Prophecies of the Dragon by the poet Kyera Termendal, of Shiota, believed to have been published between FY700 and FY800

[glow=red,2,300]Master of the lightnings, rider on the storm, wearer of a crown of swords, spinner-out of fate. Who thinks he turns the Wheel of Time, may learn the truth too late.[/glow]

-From a fragmentary translation of The Prophecies of the Dragon, attributed to Lord Mangore Kiramin, Sword-bard of Aramaelle and Warder to Caraighan Maconar, into what was then called the vulgar tongue (circa 300 AB)

we'll stop here for a little break

[Temanin]

Here we go, yet again

[glow=red,2,300]The seals that hold back night shall weaken
And in the heart of winter shall winter's heart be born
Amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth,
For winter's heart shall ride a black horse,
And the name of it is Death.[/glow]

Prophecy / Quote:
[glow=red,2,300]Tuon: "'I must find a way to make contact with the Dragon Reborn as soon as possible. He must kneel before the Crystal Throne before Tarmon Gai'don, or all is lost.' The Prophecies of the Dragon said so, clearly." [/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]His blood on the rocks of Shayol Ghul, washing away the Shadow, sacrifice for man's salvation.[/glow]

That's some Karaethon Cycle stuff, but there are other prophecies floating around...

[Temanin]

Here's some interesting prophecies that I happen to like.

[glow=red,2,300]Blood feeds blood.
Blood calls blood.
Blood is, and blood was,
and blood shall ever be.
The man who channels stands alone.
He gives his friends for sacrifice.
Two roads before him, one to death beyond dying, one to life eternal.
Which will he choose? Which will he choose?
What hand shelters? What hand slays?
[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]The Watchers wait on Toman Head.
The seed of the Hammer burns
the ancient tree.
Death shall sow, and summer burn,
before the Great Lord comes.
Death shall reap, and bodies fail,
before the Great Lord comes.
Again the seed slays ancient wrong,
before the Great Lord comes.
Now the Great Lord comes.[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]In the last, lorn fight
'gainst the fall of long night,
the mountains stand guard,
and the dead shall be ward,
for the grave is no bar to my call.
[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]Elaida: "This I Foretell...and swear under the Light that I can say no clearer. From this day Andor marches toward pain and division. The Shadow has yet to darken to its blackest, and I cannot see if the Light will come after. Where the world has wept one tear, it will weep thousands....This, too, I Foretell. Pain and division come to the whole world, and this man stands at the heart of it." (refering to Rand, obviously)[/glow]

Answers to Mat's questions:
[glow=red,2,300]To marry the Daughter of the Nine moons.
To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was.
To give up half the light of the world to save the world.[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]Prophecy of Rhuidean:
The stone that never falls will fall to announce his coming. Of the blood, but not raised by the blood, he will come from Rhuidean at dawn, and tie you together with bonds you cannot break. He will take you back and he will destroy you.
[/glow]

I think that's all the prophecy for now. I don't want to add Egwene's and Perrin's dreams, and Min's viewings.

[Temanin]

But quotes I can do! ;D

[glow=blue,2,300]"Rand al'Thor," Nynaeve shrieked, "that is the most outrageous thing I ever heard out of your mouth! The very idea of telling three women you love them! You're worse than a lecher! You apologize right now!"[/glow]

- Nynaeve to Rand

[glow=blue,2,300]"You must kill him before he kills you, Lews Therin giggled. They will you know. Dead men can't betray anyone. The voice in Rand's head turned wondering. But sometimes they don't die. Am I dead? Are you?"[/glow]

- LTT

[glow=blue,2,300]"That mountain can grow awfully heavy sometimes," he sighed, taking a spear and buckler from Rhuarc. "When do you find a chance to put it down awhile?" "When you die," Lan said simply. [/glow]

- Rand and Lan

[glow=blue,2,300]"If it hurts too much, Lews Therin laughed, make it hurt someone else instead"[/glow]

- LTT

[glow=blue,2,300]"I came to bloody rescue you, " he said. "Burn me if I expected to be greeted as if I had come to steal a pie."[/glow]

- Mat

Ah, that Lews Therin's got some true words of wisdom

[Temanin]

and they just keep coming

[glow=blue,2,300]"Sa souvraya niende misain ye."[/glow]

- Mat

[glow=blue,2,300]"The Lord Dragon has been Reborn. The Shadow hangs over the world, and only the Lord Dragon can save us. Only belief in the Lord Dragon, submission and obedience to the word of the Lord Dragon."[/glow]

- Masema

Now we take a trip to the fall of LTT

[glow=blue,2,300]"Look at you," he said scornfully. "Once you stood first among the Servants. Once you wore the Ring of Tamyrlin, and sat in the High Seat. Once you summoned the Nine Rods of Dominion. Now look at you!" [/glow]

- Ishamael

[glow=blue,2,300]"Yes, Betrayer of Hope. So have men named me, just as they named you Dragon, but unlike you I embrace the name."[/glow]

- Ishamael

[glow=blue,2,300]"You can have her back, Kinslayer. The Great Lord of the Dark can make her live again, if you will serve him. If you will serve me." [/glow]

- Ishamael

[Temanin]

[glow=blue,2,300]Slowly the shadow descended, resolving into Ba'alzamon, clothed in dead black, like a Myrddraal's black. Yet even that was not so dark as the shadow that clung to him. He hung in the air, two spans above the floor, glaring at Rand with a rage as fierce as his eyes.
...
"It is time for you to die! I take your soul!"
...
Ba'alzamon's blow struck him as he leapt, struck inside him, a ripping and crumpling, tearing something loose, trying to pull a part of him away. Rand screamed. He felt as if he were collapsing like an empty sack, as if he were being turned inside out.
......
As if to answer him, a blazing shaft like the one Moiraine had made shot out of the shadows among the columns, straight toward his chest. . . The shaft of light struck the blade of Callandor - and parted on its edge, forking to stream past on either side. He felt his coat singe from its near passage, smelled the wool beginning to burn.
...
And Ba'alzamon backed away from him, eyes burning, shadow cloaking him. Black lines like steel wires seemed to run off from Ba'alzamon into the darkness mounding around him, vanishing into unimaginable heights and distances within that blackness.

"I will not be undone!" Ba'alzamon cried. His mouth was fire; his shriek echoed among the columns. "I cannot be defeated! Aid me!" Some of the darkness shrouding him drifted into his hands, formed into a ball so black it seemed to soak up even the light of Callandor. Sudden triumph blazed in the flames of his eyes.

"You are destroyed!" Rand shouted. Callandor spun in his hands. Its light roiled the darkness, severed the steel-black lines around Ba'alzamon, and Ba'alzamon convulsed. As if there were two of them he seemed to dwindle and grow larger at the same time. "You are undone!" Rand plunged the shining blade into Ba'alzamon's chest.
...
One by one, veiled men and helmeted, they knelt to him, crying, "The Dragon is Reborn! The Dragon is Reborn!"
[/glow]

[Temanin]

[glow=blue,2,300]Like Mar Ruois. He tried to shake the thought away, but in his head he could see that great city after it was retaken, immense towers blackened and collapsing, the remains of great bonfires at every street crossing, where those who had refused to swear to the Shadow had been bound and thrown alive into the flames. He knew whose memory it had to be, though he had not discussed it with Moiraine. I am Rand al'Thor. Lews Therin Telamon is dead three thousand years. I am myself! That was one battle he meant to win. If he did have to die at Shayol Ghul, he would die as himself.[/glow]

- Rand

[glow=blue,2,300]He could remember being tall. Taller than Rand, when he rode against Artur Hawkwing. And a hand shorter than he was now when he fought beside Maesine against the Aelgari. He had spoken to Lan, claiming he had overheard some names; the Warder said Maecine had been a king of Eharon, one of the Ten Nations - that much Mat already knew - some four or five hundred years before the Trolloc Wars. Lan doubted that even the Brown Ajah knew more; much had been lost in the Trolloc Wars, and more in the War of the Hundred Years. Those were the earliest and latest of the memories that had been planted in his skull. Nothing after Artur Paendrag Tanreall, and nothing before Maecine of Eharon.[/glow]

- Mat

[glow=blue,2,300]"I think I will turn you into a horse. It is quite possible, here. A horse, a mouse, a frog...." She paused, listening. "...a cricket. And every time you come to Tel'aran'rhiod, you'll be a horse, until I change it. Or some other with the knowledge does so." She paused again, looking almost sympathetic. "No, I'd not want to give you false hope. There are only nine of us now who know that binding, and you would not want any of the others to have you any more than myself."
"But first, you are going to bring the girl Elayne to me. You will shield her and bind her and bring her to lie at my feet. Do you know why? Because some things are actually stronger in Tel'aran'rhiod than in the waking world."[/glow]

- Moghedian

[glow=blue,2,300]"She was one of the heroes bound to the Wheel of Time, destined to be born again and again to make legends. She wasn't born this time, Elayne. She was ripped out of Tel'aran'rhiod as she stood. Is she still bound to the Wheel? Or has she been ripped away from that too? Ripped away from what her own courage earned her, because I was so proud, so man-stubborn stupid, that I made her hunt for Moghedian?"[/glow]

- Nynaeve

[glow=blue,2,300]He pulled open a small door, intending to find his way to the pantry. There should be some decent wine. One step, and he stopped, the blood draining from his face. "You? No!" The word still hung in the air when death took him.[/glow]

- Asmodean

[Temanin]

I think that is all for a while. This right here is what happens when I am bored. Just hope it doesn't happen again...

[Tony]

With your outragous need for posts, I'll only give you up to 100. You can't get anymore after that. NO MORE! That is freaky! Very freaky!

[Temanin]

Freaky? Freaky?! What are you talking about?! I am simply a WoT fan with a lot of spare time! ;D

Yea, I know that was a little foolish, but I had nothing better to do, you must believe me!

[Tony]

I believe you. Its just REALLY freaky, thats all.

[Temanin]

You must explain to me why that is "REALLY freaky." Right now. And I have another question. Did you read all of them, or did you just look to see how many they were?