02761cam a2200361 4500 516968396 TxAuBib 20210811120000.0 090824s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009035171 9780765302304 $29.99 0765302306 $29.99 (OCoLC)318422996 TxAuBib Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007. The gathering storm / Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009. 783 p. ; 25 cm. Wheel of Time, The ; 12 "A Tom Doherty Associates book.". "Maps by Ellisa Mitchell; interior illustrations by Matthew C. Nielsen and Ellisa Mitchell.". Tears from steel -- Nature of pain -- Ways of honor -- Nightfall -- Tale of blood -- When iron melts -- Plan for Arad Doman -- Clean shirts -- Leaving Malden -- Last of the Tabac -- Death of Adrin -- Unexpected encounters -- Offer and a departure -- Box opens -- Place to begin -- In the white tower -- Questions of control -- Message in haste -- Gambits -- On a broken road -- Embers and ash -- Last that could be done -- Warp in the air -- New commitment -- In darkness -- Crack in the stone -- Tipsy gelding -- Night in hinderstap -- Into bandar eban -- Old advice -- Promise to lews therin -- Rivers of shadow -- Conversation with the dragon -- Legends -- Halo of blackness -- Death of Tuon -- Force of light -- News in Tel'aran'rhiod -- Visit from Verin Sedai -- Tower shakes -- Fount of power -- Before the stone of tear -- Sealed to the flame -- Scents unknown -- Tower stands -- To be forged again -- One he lost -- Reading the commentary -- Just another man -- Veins of gold -- Epilogue: Bathed in light -- Glossary. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. Meanwhile, Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is being held captive by the White Tower. Knowing the Seanchan attack is imminent, she fights to hold the Aes Sedai together in an epic contest that will prove the mettle of her followers and will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself. The first of three novels that will make up "A Memory of Light" and mark the conclusion of the Wheel of Time. 20210811. Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character) Fiction. Fantasy. Sanderson, Brandon. Tor Books. The Wheel of Time ; 12. BTCLS