Scouring through various sites, I collected through all the prophecies that I think haven’t been fulfilled yet (I know, controversial!). I’ve grouped them together into some of the events I think will happen in A Memory of Light. The disclaimer is that this is all hearsay and I may have most, if not all of it wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that, and posting anyway.

So you’ll find the event title, the quotes regarding that event, and the (generally misguided) take on those events. Within an event, I’ve tried to order the quotes in some sort of logical progression. I’ve also tried to put the events in order, but have no real basis for most of the ordinance. There’s no real spoilers regarding KoD – there wasn’t much prophecy there. Apologies for the length as well!

Prophecy Key: E – Egwene Dream’s, DP – Dark Prophecy, AP – Aiel Prophecy, G, General Prophecy, M – Min’s Viewings, P: Perrin, D: Dreamer, KP: Prophecies of the Dragon

All quotes, of course, are from the Wheel of Time books, whatever the copyright thing is.

The Song

The Quotes

E: “Perrin stepping willingly over the edge of a towering cliff while saying, "It must be done. I must learn to fly before I reach the bottom."

M: Perrin – “And trees flowering all around him.”

AP: "He shall spill out the blood of those who call themselves Aiel as water on sand, and he shall break them as dried twigs, yet the remnant of a remnant shall he save, and they shall live."

AP: "Prophecy says when the Stone of Tear falls, we will leave the Three-fold Land at last. It says we will be changed, and find again what was ours, and was lost."

AP: "When the Trollocs come out of the Blight again, we will leave the Three-fold Land and take back our places of old."

G: “…it is prophesied that a child born of a Maiden will unite the clans and return to the Aiel the greatness they knew during the Age of Legends.”

The Take

I’ve got the feeling that Perrin’s stepping off the proverbial cliff will be intricately linked to his finding the song. The Aiel quotes are there for proof that he will find the song – I’m interpreting their places of old as being that of the Da’ishan Aiel, ie. Tinkers, who just so happen to be looking for a song that will grow trees. My completely unsubstantiated guess is that the cliff will be a choice to no longer commit violence in accordance with the Way – and that as ta’veren, the Pattern will protect Perrin. This will then lead somehow to the finding of the Song – which will open the eyes of the remnant of the remnant of the Aiel to the Way of the Leaf and their greatness of old.

Moiraine

The Quotes

M: “What good to tell him he would almost certainly fail without a woman who was dead and gone?

M: “Moiraine was the only viewing of hers that had ever failed.”

E: “Thom Merrilin put his hand into a fire to draw out the small blue stone that now dangled on Moiraine's forehead.”

The Take

Lots in KoD about Moiraine, but mainly verification. As posited so long ago, Thom will probably rescue her. She has stuff to do for Rand – maybe making him cry? The woman at the top of his list suddenly returning would do that, yeah? This leads directly to…

Laughter & Tears

KP (disputed): "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."

Not much by the way of prophecy here, but I’m gambling on something or someone teaching Rand laughter and tears, mainly for thematic reasons. I’m picking any one of Moiraine’s return, meeting Tam again or the first sight of his children as the thing that does the trick. No idea where it will fit in turns of the timeline.

Battle For The White Tower – Part 1

The Quotes

M: "I've read you, Egwene.... I see things I am sure link you to Rand, and Perrin, and Mat, and - yes, even Galad."

M: Berelain: "Just a man in white who will make her fall head over heels."

E: “A golden hawk stretched out its wing and touched her, and she and the hawk were tied together somehow; all she knew was that the hawk was female.”

The Take

I’ve split these quotes into three sections. The first has to do with Galad and Berelain. If Egwene is going to have something to do with Galad (who sees that the Whitecloaks must unite with Aes Sedai to fight the Last Battle) and Berelain is going to team up with Galad, then Berelain may have something to do with Egwene. Lots of ifs, but, you know. I’m positing that this will have something to do with the Battle for the White Tower.

Battle For The White Tower – Part 2

The Quotes

E: “Straps at waist and shoulder held her tightly to the block, and the headsman's axe descended, but she knew that somewhere someone was running, and if they ran fast enough, the axe would stop.”

E: “In another he began swinging a door closed on her, and she knew if that narrowing gap of light vanished, she was dead.”

E: “Twice, right on top one another, she dreamed of taking him by the shoulders and trying to turn him to face the other way against his will. Once he brushed her hands away roughly; the other time, she was somehow stronger than he. The two blended together hazily.”

M: “Gawyn - Gawyn kneeling at Egwene's feet with his head bowed, and Gawyn breaking Egwene's neck, first one then the other, as if either could be the future. She had never seen that fluttering back and forth, as though not even the viewing could tell which would be the true future. Worse, she had a feeling near to certainty that it was what she had done this day that had turned Gawyn toward those two possibilities.”

E: “Gawyn - Him kneeling while she cupped his head in her hands.”

The Take

The second set have to do with Gawyn. My guess is that Egwene is going to annoy the living bejeebers out of Elaida to the extent that her death will be ordered. Gawyn shows up to find the woman of his dreams opposing the woman of his choosing. What’ll happen then? Gawyn rescues her, and she bonds him – but whether that leads to a long life or not is a whole ‘nother thang.

Battle For The White Tower – Part 3

The Quotes

D: “The land divided by the return..”

E: “A small white plinth stood centered in that circle, supporting an oil-lamp made of clear glass. The flame on that lamp burned bright and steady, without flickering. It was white too. Suddenly a pair of birds flashed out of the mist, two ravens black as night. Streaking across the spire-top, they struck the lamp and flew on without so much as a pause. The lamp spun and wobbled, dancing around atop the plinth, flinging off droplets of oil. Some of those drops caught fire in midair and vanished. Others fell around the short column, each supporting a tiny, flickering white flame. And the lamp continued to wobble on the edge of falling.”

E: “She had dreamed of the Seanchan, too, of women in dresses with lightning bolts woven on their breasts, collaring a long line of women who wore Great Serpent rings, forcing them to call lightning against the White Tower.”

E: “She was struggling up a narrow, rocky path along the face of a towering cliff. Clouds surrounded her, hiding the ground below and the crest above, yet she knew that both were very far away. [...] Abruptly, the ledge dropped away from under her with the crack of crumbling stone, and she caught frantically at the cliff, fingers scrabbling to find a hold. [...] Suddenly a woman appeared, clambering down the sheer side of the cliff out of the clouds, making her way as deftly as if she were walking down stairs. There was a sword strapped to her back. Her face wavered, never settling clearly, but the sword seemed as solid as the stone. The woman reached Egwene's level and held out one hand. "We can reach the top together," she said in a familiar drawling accent.”

D: The great battle done, but the world not done with battle. The future teeters on the edge of a blade."

F: "The White Tower will be whole again, except for remnants cast out and scorned, whole and stronger than ever.

E: “Rand confronting her, and the women with her, and one of them was a Seanchan.”

The Take

The third set are about the battle itself. Egwene escapes to lead the attack on the White Tower. The Seanchan turn up, attacking the White Tower in turn and offer a truce of sorts to Egwene, who uses them in much the same way that Elayne used the Borderlanders. She regains the White Tower, with a Seanchan ambassador in tow (maybe Tylee? Or even Tuon?). This is the great battle done. I’m guessing this because there’s no other looming big battle (apart from Tarmon Gaidon, though the Seanchan could get nasty). The Tower is wholer and stronger than ever, meaning that the nasty BA are booted out. Rand turns up for a chat and finds an Amyrlin angry over his unification plans (see below).

The Second Hurting

The Quotes

M: “Twice he's (Perrin) going to have to be there, or you... If he's not, something bad will happen to you. Very bad. It will happen if he is not there, but nothing I saw said it won't because he is. It will be very bad, Rand.”

M: “Rand in chains, and it was he who was screaming.”

M: Rand – “a bloody hand and white-hot iron”

M: Elayne – “A severed hand, not hers”

M: "above Elayne's, a red-hot iron and an axe."

M: "And there's something...dark...in the images I saw around Lord Davram."

The Take

Those Borderlanders, who have been hungrily hovering since Book 6, will finally have something to do. If Rand is to tie the north to the west (see The Split below), then he’s gonna have to take these guys by the scruff of the neck and show them who’s boss. But I’m guessing that this will be his second hurting by women who can channel. It may involve chains, Elayne, and another hand, though I can’t seeing Rand losing another one. I’ve also thrown in the Bashere quote – maybe Tenobia tells him to get back into line and he betrays Rand as a result. And that betrayal ends up with Tenobia dead and a Broken Crown for Perrin? Anyway, Rand gets seriously hurt (again!), Elayne saves him and Rand cracks the whip over 200,000 or so new borderland recruits. Of course, Semirhage lurking doesn’t bode well for Rand either…

The Split

The Quotes

D: “The land divided by the return..”

KP: "The north shall he tie to the east, and the west shall be bound to the south."

D: “Bair and Amys dreamed of you cutting the wetlands in two with a sword.”

KP: He "shall bind the nine moons to serve him."

The Take

Knife of Dreams makes it clear that Rand will split the wetlands in two, as a direct consequence of prophecy and the Seanchan. As a supposition, Rand will only divide the wetlands in two when he has control of the Seanchan (after the binding. I suppose this could take place through Mat). And he will only have control of the Seanchan after the Battle for the White Tower is completed. Note also that Rand will have to take control of the Borderlanders, before the Split can happen.

The Beggar’s Staff

The Quotes

M: Rand – “a beggar's staff”

P: “Perrin thought it was Rand. He wore rags and a rough cloak, and a bandage covered his eyes.”

Moridin: "The Fisher was always worked as a man, a bandage blinding his eyes and one hand pressed to his side, a few drops of blood dripping through his fingers. The reasons, like the source of the name, were lost in the mist of time."

The Take

As Min’s earliest viewing of Rand and given the importance of every other foretelling in that viewing (the crown, Callandor etc.), I’m assuming there’s something really significant about the Beggar’s Staff, but have no idea what or when. Maybe it occurs after the second hurting? Or maybe it’s a strategy to get him closer to Shayol Ghul?

The Black Tower

The Quotes

F: “The Black Tower will be rent in blood and fire, and sisters will walk its grounds."

E: “Logain, laughing, stepped across something on the ground and mounted a black stone; when she looked down, she thought it was Rand's body he had stepped over, laid out on a funeral bier with his hands crossed at his breast, but when she touched his face, it broke apart like a paper puppet.”

M: "It's Cadsuane. She is going to teach you something, you and the Asha'man. All the Asha'man, I mean. It's something you have to learn, but I don't know what it is, except that none of you will like learning it from her. You aren't going to like it at all."

The Take

Sisters already walk it’s grounds, but my interpretation is that this is a significant ‘walking’ and will occur after the rending. Taim (the paper puppet) and his cronies will be cast out by Logain, who, with or without Rand’s help will rather easily dispose of him (why else would he be laughing?). Logain will then take up the post of M’Hael or leader of the male channelers and go forth unto glory. Subsequent to this, Cadsuane will finally step in and teach all of those arrogant, rude Asha’man some manners – maybe in the form of written law by which they must all abide (this would certainly make all of them unhappy as they’ve been free to do whatever they want up until then), or maybe even by forcing White Tower law down their throats.

Reunition

The Quotes

D: “…and the guardians balance the servants.”

E: “Rand building a wall with him on one side and her on the other, her and Elayne and others she could not make out. "It has to be done," he was saying as he piled up stones. "I'll not let you stop me now."

E: “She stood before an immense wall, clawing at it, trying to tear it down with her bare hands. It was not made of brick or stone, but countless thousands of discs, each half white and half black, the ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai, like the seven seals that had once held the DO's prison shut...the wall stood strong however she beat at it. She could not tear it down. Maybe it was the symbol that was important. Maybe it was the AS she was trying to tear down, the White Tower. Maybe....”

E: “Rand confronting her, and the women with her, and one of them was a Seanchan.”

F: “Rand al'Thor will face the Amyrlin Seat and know her anger.”

AP: “Under this sign (the ancient Aes Sedai symbol) he will conquer."

The Take

I’m throwing these quotes together, because I think (but hey, what would I know?) one of the MAJOR events that has to happen in Book 12 is reunition of male and female channelers. Why? Because last time the DO popped out they weren’t that united and look what happened. As RJ has repeatedly stated, the greatest deeds are always wrought when men and women work together and when saidar and saidan work together. So I’m positing that the channelers will once more be reunited and that Egwene will not be happy about it, either during or after. After fighting and regaining the Tower, she’ll be pretty narky about someone coming in and saying that the Tower’s should merge.

The Choice

The Quotes

E: “In another a woman, face shrouded in shadow, beckoned him (Mat) toward great danger; Egwene did not know what, only that it was monstrous.”

E: “Mat, weighing two Aes Sedai on a huge set of balance scales, and on his decision depended....She could not say what; something vast; the world, perhaps.”

AE: “To give up half the light of the world to save the world.”

E: “Mat, placing his own left eye on a balance scale.”

M: Mat – “..an eye on a balance scale…”

E: “Mat throwing dice with blood streaming down his face, the wide brim of his hat pulled low so she could not see his wound”

The Take

It’s been mentioned numerous times. Mat will have to choose between two Aes Sedai and the fate of the world rests on that choice. I think he’ll lose an eye in the process as the balance theme is common to all of these quotes. What’s the choice, though, and between who? I’m guessing that one (or more) of his three Aes Sedai is currently black, but can’t trace that through to the end of the world.

Tarmon Gaidon

The Quotes

M: Mat – “…a horn..”

G: “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.”

F: "The very first thing Elaida had ever Foretold, while still an Accepted - and had known enough even then to keep to herself - was that the Royal line of Andor would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle."

AP: "He shall spill out the blood of those who call themselves Aiel as water on sand, and he shall break them as dried twigs, yet the remnant of a remnant shall he save, and they shall live."

AP: 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."

M: Logain - a flaring halo around his head, radiant in gold and blue. It shouted of glory and power to come.

M: "When you two (Rand & Perrin) were together, I saw those fireflies and the darkness stronger than ever...But with the two of you in the same room, the fireflies were holding their own instead of being eaten faster than they can swarm, the way they do when you're alone.

DP: 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.

The Take

All pretty self-explanatory. The heroes will fight in the Last Battle, Mat and Perrin will have to be with Rand. But the DP quote is the interesting one. The Seanchan (the seed) will slay an ancient wrong – then the Dark One will return. Maybe their action will presage Tarmon Gaidon? An even more interesting bit (to me) is that they’ll slay it again (which is one interpretation of the line). Which means they’ve slain it already.

The Final Confrontation

The Quotes

E: “Him walking down into a great hole in a black mountain, a hole filled with a reddish glare as from vast fires below.”

E: “Him walking toward a burning mountain, something crunching beneath his boots. She stirred and whimpered; the crunching things were the seals on the Dark One's prison, shattering with his every step. She knew it. She did not need to see them to know.”

KP: 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.

KP: "When the winds of Tarmon Gai'don scour the earth, he will face the Shadow and bring forth Light again in the world."

The Take

Rand deliberately breaks the seals and brings on Tarmon Gaidon (which could be fairly brief if he has to confront the Dark One immediately). He then goes to Shayol Ghul for the grandstand finish we’ve all been waiting for – yea verily, it will rock. How he defeats the Dark One? Plenty of ideas, no clues.

Rand’s Death

The Quotes

DP: 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?

AE: “He had been told by those he had to believe. To live, you must die.”

E: “Rand, wearing different masks, until suddenly one of those false faces was no longer a mask, but him.

M: Rand: "I saw you and another man. I couldn't make out either face, but I knew one was you. You touched, and seemed to merge into one another, and....one of you dies, and one doesn't."

M: "Rand, I like Alivia. But she is going to kill you." Rand replies, "Helping me die isn't the same as killing me. Unless you've changed your mind about what you saw."

M: “Three women standing over a funeral bier with you on it, black rock wet with blood.”

KP: "The blood of the Dragon Reborn on the rocks of Shayol Ghul will free mankind from the Shadow."

KP: "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."

KP: "Twice and twice shall he be marked,

twice to live and twice to die.”

The Take

Right. Rand’s now got nine (count ‘em!), nine people in either permanent or temporary residence in his head: Himself, Lews Therin, Moridin, Alanna, Elayne, Aviendha, Min, Mat and Perrin. That’s a helluva lot, and I’m guessing the mask thing has something to do with these guys, though more particularly, I can see he and Ishamael wrestling for control of their respective bodies, with Lews Therin not helping in the slightest.

Now I’m guessing this will take place at Rand’s death, though I’m not sure how or why. Let’s be honest here. I’m pretty sure that Rand is gonna die. Min’s quote, the Finns. And that he will then be bought back to life. I’m hoping, anyway. The guy sure deserves it. Maybe as ta’varen, the Dark One will try to take control of the pattern through Rand. Rand will allow himself to be taken over, only to have Alivia kill him off and end the Dark One’s control. I dunno. I just can’t wait to read it.

After

The Quotes

JP: The Jendai Prophecy says the Sea Folk will serve the Coramoor. It says the Coramoor will bring the Sea Folk to glory - all the seas of the world will be theirs.

KP: "For he shall come like the breaking dawn, and shatter the world again with his coming, and make it anew."

KP: “Who draws it out shall follow after,

What hand can grasp that fearful blade?"

He had thought carefully before choosing Narishma…

M: Lan: “Seven ruined towers around his head, and a babe in a cradle holding a sword.”

M: “A fire-haired novice and a guard - they would be married soon. There was a farm in that pair's future, and a swarm of children.”

M: "You will be punished for what happens here today, Harine, but not so much as you fear, I think. At least, one day you will be the Mistress of the Ships."

M: “Caraline and Darlin - Darlin will die in bed and Caraline will survive him.”

M: “Nesune - She will found a library and receive honors and fame.”

M: “Aviendha would have Rand's babies, too. Four of them at once! Something was odd about that, though. The babies would be healthy, but still something odd.”

E: “...a man riding on a black stallion. Gawyn. Then she was standing in the road in front of him, and he reined in. Not because he saw her...but the road that had been straight now forked right where she stood, running over tall hills so no one could see what lay beyond. She knew, though. Down one fork was his violent death, down the other, a long life and a death in bed. On one path, he would marry her, on the other, not. She knew what lay ahead, but not which way led to which. Suddenly he did see her, or seemed to, and smiled, and turned his horse along one of the forks...”

M: Perrin – “..a broken crown..”

The Take

Just an interesting collection of quotes that seem to indicate that there is indeed life after Tarmon Gaidon….