Article: First Time Reader: The Great Hunt - By Zandera Sommers

[Stephen Lightheart]

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[Keisha al'Benn]

How awesome to have a fresh perspective! I have often wondered about the fight in the sky (similar to what happened at Tarwin's Gap in EotW) but after so many re-reads and no clear answers I guess I just quit wondering. I am on my re-read for the last book and will be sure to pay close attention to that scene this time in search of clues.

 

[Axis m'Troutilas]

For those reading this and wondering the same thing, the answer to the vision at Falme is the following about it being a Wheel Level Event.

Interview: Sep 4th, 2005
DragonCon Report - Matt Hatch (Verbatim)
Question

At the end of The Great Hunt when Rand and Ishamael were fighting in the air above Falme, they appeared in the sky over many places and my question is whether this is something done by the One Power or something done by the Creator? How did they appear in the sky?
Robert Jordan

An effect of the Wheel, really. It wasn't the Creator. The Wheel is more than a simple mechanism. Remember the Wheel can spit out ta'veren, can spit out Heroes as a self-correcting device because the Pattern is drifting from what it is supposed to be. We are not talking about something as simple as a spinning wheel at all, we are talking something more along the lines of the most complex computer you could possibly imagine. There were at that time, two, there were false Dragons that had a chance to create a lot of disruption. By the appearance in the sky at that battle, not just in Falme but in other places, those false Dragons were taken off the board because there was only room now for one, for one Dragon.

 

[Megana Vallentin]

For those reading this and wondering the same thing, the answer to the vision at Falme is the following about it being a Wheel Level Event.

Thanks for sharing that answer! I...I can't believe I never even wondered about it.

 

[Kassina Tendar]

Oh, thanks for clearing that up! I hadn't seen that interview before and I'd always wondered.

 

[Mattrim al'Korin]

Yeah I never really thought about the vision, either. Just took it for granted that such things would happen to push prophecy forward.

 

[Brandegoris Al'Mor]

That's funny. I just sort of assumed that the wheel did it too! I win! Im Finally right about something in a novel. Wow.