Nynaeve al'Meara

The big weapon that Felix and Edwin are going to find.

• How are the Artificers tablets integral to the function? The tablets are a key to powering the weapon. 
• What truth about the world does it reveal that was previously unknown? We learn that The Foundation Stone is the bringer of balance to the midworld.
• What danger does it pose by using it? It’s unknown – it may reconfigure the world. 
• What power does it contain? It reconfigures the continents of the world and causes a cataclysmic event. It is a physical manifestation of the change of the world.

The Foundation Stone (the big stone all leaders of the world signed agreeing to not fight each other) is cracked . 

Roll up a level 3 Psychic character who is Barb’s apprentice.  Create Josef with a lisp – he’s a human.

Luther knows who broke the Great Crystal.  Says the Effendi will follow whoever is the rightful queen. Elektra has the Magespawn in her power, which are immensely powerful. They are a magical construct created prior to the Daemon (from Yeven blood) – they aren’t inherently evil. The original Magespawn were designed by Tazira, who has been struck from the lore. She was a High Person Supremacist, and was banished.  Luther has collected the memories of the high people that he’s encountered over the years and knows the whole history of the high people.

If Nyn wants to win, she has to find a way to master the Magespawn. This may be something Barb can do. Tazira is alive, trapped in the astral veil. Barb needs to go into the astral veil and find her, and she will try to make Barb a vessel. Barb can steal a memory from her on how to master the Magespawn.

Prince Inan – one of the princes of the Caliphate from Mamara, who fell in love with Josef. He tells us about the political state of affairs in Mamara. He agrees with our vision of the future and hopes Nyn will succeed. In Mamara – things have been tumultuous. the Caliphate once ruled, but were cast out by the Sultana. She thinks she has the rightful ownership of this land. She is extraordinarily powerful. The Caliphate surrendered and rule subordinate to her. The Shyer, her holy men, liaise with the world and give her judgements. Lord Donovon is a Shyer.  She despises the human empire and wants to defeat them. 

We propose an alliance with the Sultanate of Mamara. The Sultanate doesn’t have a lineage. It seemed to come into existence a few hundred years ago. She came out of nowhere and crushed the Caliphate, and she is super powerful. She is a Raza. She has a tiger’s head and her body is half human.

We’re coming at the Sultana with strongarm diplomacy. We go to meet with Lord Donovan who is our way to the Sultana.  Kris negotiates with the Sultanae and leaves with her believing his sincerity, and that she wants to meet with Nyn.

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Luther offers to train Barb. We’re gonna try to steal the information from him via torture /coercion rather than allowing him to hurt Barb again.

There’s a potential deserter in The Inquisitor’s Ranks in Arcadia, showing a potential for a schism in the world of the Emporer. He needs to be rescued, and Nyn asks Fodel to come up with a way to get this guy back.

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Luther says there’s an army of men like him, slumbering in the water where he came from – the Affendi. They are loyal to the Crown of the High People, which Nyn has. He also says that Nyn has to destroy the changelings completely or else the war will never end.

Turns out we don’t actually have Luther in custody. Seems like we actually have his little servant who has a Sending Stone, which allows you to communicate psychically. Luther says he’s not the enemy and he has the same goal as we do.

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Fodel & I go and meet with Mesamphur. She wants to know if I’ll allow the Raza to exist in my world, and offers me a blood bond that will link our fates. I refused, and we eventually agree that she will allow us to move through her country, but we are not allied. We’ll have to fight eventually.

At skeleton face rock place, we have a giant orb we can see anywhere.

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Pre-Cap

Prisoners being tortured, suspended on columns – a Yevem and a Changeling – over a crown of thorns. The crown has chunks of rotting flesh. A torturer comes into the room – the blood of the Changeling and Yevem mingle on the altar and the crown drinks the blood. The torturer, in his full gold armor and domed helmet, lifts the crown and it glows.

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Fellrock

Nyn is feeling a little bit adrift without Fodel’s steadying hand or Mr Loan’s strength. She’s conflicted, hearing the voice of T’sain in her head telling her to be bold and sometimes break boundaries. Her mother’s voice is telling her to act with decorum.