Knife of Dreams
Eleventh book of The Wheel of Time and the last Robert Jordan completed himself.
Knife of Dreams is the eleventh novel in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time and the last he wrote in full before his death in 2007; Brandon Sanderson finished the series from his notes. Published by Tor Books in the US and Orbit in the UK on October 11, 2005, it went straight to number one on The New York Times hardcover fiction list, the fourth consecutive book of the series to do so. It runs 784 pages including a glossary.
Quick Facts
- Author
- Robert Jordan
- Cover artist
- Darrell K. Sweet
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Series
- The Wheel of Time
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Publisher
- Tor Books (U.S.) &; Orbit Books (UK)
- Released
- October 11, 2005
Lore & Background
Unusual Trolloc attacks, the dead walking and ripples in the fabric of the world signal that the Last Battle, Tarmon Gai'don, is near.
In the prologue Galad Damodred confronts Eamon Valda, Lord Captain Commander of the Whitecloaks, kills him and takes his heron-mark sword and his rank; Rodel Ituralde campaigns against the Seanchan in Tarabon and Arad Doman; and the High Lady Suroth learns that the Seanchan Empress is dead, implicitly killed by the Forsaken Semirhage. Mat Cauthon travels into Altara, where Talmanes arrives with much of the Band of the Red Hand and fights off a Seanchan force sent to kill Tuon, using fireworks as artillery. Tuon marries Mat, making him Prince of the Ravens, then returns to Ebou Dar to destroy Suroth and take command of the Seanchan. Moiraine Damodred is revealed to be held by the Aelfinn and Eelfinn, Perrin Aybara plans his attack on the Shaido with the Black Ajah sister Galina Casban, and Egwene al'Vere begins her captivity among the Aes Sedai loyal to Elaida.
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