These are my (Gary) predictions for Season 2. I will try to incorporate all the news and hints dropped as well as the new role castings. I won't be trying to pull stuff in from future books (TFoH and beyond) to condense the story, which I think the show writers will be doing.
Overall, I think the main story line of Season 2 will be Falme. I don't think they'll include Tear and Callandor until Season 3.
Sources#
Here's the sources I'm using for my predictions.
- Where Season 1 left off
- The books
- Online interviews of the actors and the show runner
- Leaked audition tapes
- Role Castings
- Other fan predictions, with credit given, of course
Straight From The Books#
In the books, what happened after the Eye of the World?
Rand sticks around Fal Dara, saying that he's planning on leaving. In the meantime, he's learning swordwork from Lan. He stays long enough that he's still there when the Amyrlin arrives. Moiraine has his old clothes taken away and replaced with new clothes. (TGH,Ch2) One morning, Fal Dara is attacked. Fades and Trollocs have invaded. (TGH,Ch6) Rand heads to the dungeon, finds Fain is gone but left a message for him about Falme. The Horn and the dagger have been stolen. The next morning, he has his audience with Siuan. (TGH,Ch8) After the meeting, Rand, Mat, Perrin, Loial and the Shienarans prepare to leave. Hurin is introduced as a sniffer. They start riding south. Three days later, they find a Fade nailed to a door. (TGH,Ch10) That night, Ingtar gives Rand a package from Moiraine which contains the Dragon banner. Rand, Hurin and Loial go to sleep next to a portal stone and wake up in a washed-out version of the world. Hurin can still smell the Trollocs, so they keep going south. That night, Rand and Ba'alzamon dream-chat and Rand wakes up with a heron branded on his hand.(TGH,Ch15). The next day, Selene shows up and keeps trying to get Rand to go back to the real world via another Portal Stone, which he eventually does. They're now ahead of Fain, so they wait until he catches up and then they go into the camp and steal back the Horn and the dagger. (TGH,Ch19) They ride south into Cairhien (Country) and pass by a Choedan Kal which mesmerizes Rand. (TGH,Ch20) Rand remembers that Bayle Domon told him that there's another one on Tremalking. They stay overnight at The Nine Rings and in the morning, Selene has gone. Rand and the others head to Cairhien (City). When they arrive, Daes Dae'mar begins. Rand runs into Thom. That night, Thom tells the story of Owyn. The next day they encounter Aludra. (TGH,Ch27) The day after that, their inn catches fire and the Horn and the dagger are gone (TGH,Ch30). Soon after, Mat, Perrin and Ingtar arrive and then Verin arrives. The next night they go to Barthanes' manor (TGH,Ch32). They try to go through the Waygate but Machin Shin stops them. Barthanes tells Rand that Fain is waiting for him at Falme. Rand and the others head to Stedding Tsofu, where they meet Erith (TGH,Ch35). Three Aiel Maidens also arrive. Perrin and Mat tell Rand that the Aiel are looking for him. They try to use the nearby Waygate, but Machin Shin is there again, so they head to a nearby Portal Stone.
New Characters#
- Gregg Chilingirian
as Ingtar Shinowa (IMDB)
- Ceara Coveney as Elayne Trakand (IMDB)
- Ayoola Smart as Aviendha (IMDB)
- Arnas Fedaravicius as Masema Dagar (IMDB)
- Meera Syal as ? (IMDB)
- Natasha O'Keeffe as Elaida? (IMDB)
- Julian Lewis Jones as Bayle Domon (WoT Series)
- Laia Costa as “Magdelena” (WoT Series)
- Will Tudor as Barthanes Damodred (WoT Series)
- Gary Beadle as Elyas Machera (WoT Series)
- Daniel Francis as Turak Aladon (WoT Series)
- Karina McAdams as ? (WoT Series)
- Xelia Mendes-Jones as ? (Wot Series)
- Jay Duffy as Gawyn? (Wot Series)
- Laura Crowhurst as Verin? (Redanian Intelligence)
- ? as Hopper (from Rafe Judkin's tweet)
- ? as Adeleas Namelle (my guess)
- ? as Vandene Namelle (my guess)
- ? as Galad (my guess)
Likely Locations#
A lot of my predictions are based on what locations I think will be in the next season. I think that having five locations will push the budget for the season.
Caemlyn has been confirmed by CBR for Season 2 (or has that rumor been busted?). I don't think we'll see Cairhien for budgetary reasons plus I haven't read of any word about Cairhien being in Season 2. I also don't think we'll see any steddings.
Post Comic-Con update#
After seeing this question, I now have doubts.
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My new predictions are:
Why Falme?#
It's the next big event in the books.
Why Not Tear until Season 3?#
Having Falme and Tear, two big events, might be too much for one season. I'm pretty sure it will be included somewhere in the series because they already gave us a glimpse of Tear in Episode 106's cold open and I can't see Rafe teasing us with just that glimpse and not letting us see the whole thing later.
Plot-wise, Why Falme?#
There has to be a plot reason for them to go to Falme. I think it will be similar to the books. While in the books (TGH,Ch6), Padan Fain was captured and scribbled a message on the wall of his cell, in the show I think that Fain will stop while leaving Fal Dara and scribble the same message on a random wall: "We will meet again on Toman Head. It is never over, al'Thor." See the Notes section of TGH,Ch6 for why Fain chose Falme.
Predictions By Character And By Episode#
Predictions by Character#
Padan Fain#
Fain will take almost the same path to get to Falme as in the books: Fal Dara to the Cairhien Waygate. However I believe that the Waygate that he used in the books (TGH,Ch33) at Barthanes Damodred's manor will be moved from Cairhien to Caemlyn. He can't use the Fal Dara Waygate because it's been bricked up. So he'll just head directly south, bypassing Tar Valon and Cairhien and on to Caemlyn. I don't think we'll see much of Fain until the end of the season, except for evidence, like a Fade nailed to a door, that he's still headed to Falme.
Maybe Padan Fain stops at Tar Valon for a minute to speak to Liandrin? That would allow the Hunters for the Horn to also stop there and pick up Mat and Verin.
Post Comic-Con update
I think that Barthanes Damodred's manor will remain at Cairhien.
Fade nailed to a door is confirmed! (TGH,Ch11)
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Barthanes#
Barthanes Damodred has been cast, but he only shows up in the books for five chapters (TGH,Ch30 through TGH,Ch34). His manor is outside of Cairhien, but I haven't read of any word about Cairhien being in Season 2. Do they move it to outside of Caemlyn along with the Waygate there? The whole reason Rand goes to the manor is because of Cairhien's Daes Dae'mar and that Rand gets an invitation because of it. Will the writers leave all of this out and maybe just make Barthanes a minor character that visits Moiraine at Tifan's Well?
Moiraine and Lan#
Moiraine's going to be at Adeleas and Vandene's place at Tifan's Well in Arafel for a while (like in TGH,Ch22). I say this because in the Decider interview, there's this:
Since Tifan's Well is west of Fal Dara, I think Moiraine's going to send Nynaeve and Egwene south to the Tower to be Apprentices while having the others (Perrin, Loial, Uno, Ingtar and Masema, i.e. the "Hunters of the Horn") chase the Horn. Nynaeve and Egwene will go by river to Tar Valon, meeting Bayle Domon.
Q: Why would they chase after the Horn and the dagger? Mat is not around to be re-healed. (thanks to The Dusty Wheel for the question)
While she's staying with the Namelle sisters, we're going to get some exposition on the Karaethon Prophecy, such as it stating that the Stone of Tear will not fall until the Dragon Reborn wields the Sword That Cannot Be Touched (originally in TEotW,Ch13).
In ContentMode, Daniel Henney had this to say:
So, like in TGH,Ch22, she'll send Lan away, but I'm not sure that the part about her bond to him being passed to another Aes Sedai will be included. This tweet gave me the idea that maybe Moiraine will send Lan after Rand to deliver Fain's message. Lan will track him easily enough, and maybe find him in time to save him from a Trolloc or two. This will start Rand's sword training.
Moiraine will find a way to break the shield that Ishamael put on her, maybe through her research. Maybe Adeleas and Vandene will be helping her and find it. I bet that Lan starts returning to Moiraine soon after she breaks her shielding.
Will Rand go back to Moiraine with Lan or continue on to Falme directly?
Still looking for a reason that Moiraine and Lan don't go to Falme.
Update:
I didn't look closely enough at the books. Moiraine and Lan do go to Falme, (TGH,Ch49) but seem to arrive after the battle. So maybe the breaking of her shield will make her not feel useless at Falme and give her incentive for her and Lan to get moving.
Min#
Min will make her way down to Tar Valon in time to be part of the kidnapping like in TGH,Ch39.
Nynaeve and Egwene#
Nynaeve and Egwene will go by boat with Bayle Domon and arrive at Tar Valon in time to be part of the kidnapping like in TGH,Ch39. This means they will use a Waygate to get to Toman Head. Nynaeve will block herself from any more channeling. We already had a hint of that in Episode 108 when she couldn't hear the wind anymore. They might get a (mud) flat and meet Aviendha while on foot to Tar Valon.
Mat#
Last we saw, Mat was entering Tar Valon. He'll be captured by the Red Ajah and probably be (mostly?) healed of the dagger by some other Aes Sedai(s). He'll speak the Old Tongue during the healing. He will meet Gawyn and Galad, who probably have been there the whole time and just not introduced in Season 1, and have the quarterstaff fight (TDR,Ch24) and will also reunite with Nynaeve and Egwene.
How will he join the Hunters of the Horn? Will the Hunt for the Horn lead them to Tar Valon so they can pick up Mat and Verin on their way to Caemlyn? Maybe Padan Fain stops at Tar Valon for a minute to speak to Liandrin?
Whatever the case, I believe that Mat will be at Falme to blow the Horn of Valere, just as in TGH,Ch47.
Perrin, Loial, Uno, Ingtar, Masema and Mat#
The Hunters of the Horn will continue to Caemlyn. They'll all meet Elayne. Afterwards, they'll take the (moved) Waygate to Falme. It could be that the Waygate is blocked by Machin Shin and they have to take a Portal Stone, but I doubt it.
In the books, this group plus Rand uses the portal stone near Stedding Tsofu, which is a day and a half from Cairhien, to get to Toman Head.(TGH,Ch37).
Elayne#
I'm guessing that the whole trip of Elayne, Gawyn and Elaida to Tar Valon in TGH,Ch4 has already happened off-screen in Season 1 and we were just not introduced to them. I think Galad arrived before them for Warder training. Elayne will meet Egwene and Nynaeve and introduce them to Gawyn and Galad.
Rand#
I'm guessing that Rand will head off into the Waste and not Tear. I'm not sure what he'll do there, except maybe meet Aviendha, but Rhuidean is too early in the story to happen (TSR,Ch23). He'll end up at Falme, though, for the battle.
Like I said above, Lan might catch up to him and save his skin and that will be the start of Rand's sword training. Rand will then know that he needs to go to Falme.
Aviendha#
In the books, Aviendha meets Nynaeve and Egwene on their journey to Tear (TDR,Ch38) and first talks to Rand in TSR,Ch22. In the show, will she meet Rand first or meet Nynaeve and Egwene on their way to Tar Valon?
Thom#
My bet is no Thom this season. In the books, Rand runs into Thom who is performing in Cairhien. (TGH,Ch25) I don't know, maybe they'll change it so that Mat runs into him in Tar Valon, but I just doubt it.
Predictions By Episode#
Episode 201 - Split the Party#
Rafe said that every character would be on their own for at least a little while, telling their own story (source?). I think this will start by splitting the party in the very first episode.
I'm hoping the cold open will be the DFS, setting the stakes for this season onward.
There will be a scene showing Fain writing something on a wall, but we won't see the message.
Then a scene with lots of grief from Nynaeve, Egwene and Perrin over Rand's "death".
Moiraine tells the Two Rivers folk that she and Lan must leave them to research stuff and that Nynaeve and Egwene should take a boat to Tar Valon and that the others should follow Fain and the Horn (the "The Hunt for the Horn").
Ingtar and Masema will be introduced.
Mat will be captured by the Red Ajah in Tar Valon. They'll try to gentle him, but of course that will fail. The Reds will be asking themselves, "WTF, Moiraine?" Mat will be (mostly?) healed. Maybe Elaida and Verin are introduced.
There will be some scene with Rand entering the Aiel Waste or the Borderlands.
Nynaeve and Egwene board Bayle Domon's boat.
Perrin and Loial (TV), plus Uno, Ingtar and Masema leave to follow Fain.
Someone discovers Fain's writing and tells Moiraine. She and Lan go to read it (without us seeing it yet). She tells Lan to "Find Rand". The camera turns away from Moiraine to the wall and Fain's message is scribbled in blood on it. When we see Fain's message, we hear him in a voiceover of it.
Go to a closeup of Fain's face. He turns around and starts walking away. Soon after, two Fades and then Trollocs come into the picture, following him. Fade to black.
Episode 202#
Nynaeve and Egwene journey to Tar Valon. Maybe they get a (mud) flat, leave the boat, meet Aviendha and continue to Tar Valon.
The Hunt for the Horn heads south. They encounter Elyas. Comic-Con update: and Hopper.
Moiraine arrives at Tifan's Well and settles in.
Also some scene with Rand. Maybe Lan catches up with him, saves his life and they start Rand's training while continuing into the Waste.
Episode 203#
Nynaeve and Egwene arrive at Tar Valon, become apprentices, reunite with Mat and Min. They also meet Elayne, who introduces them to Galad and Gawyn.
Mat's quarterstaff fight.
Elaida and Verin are introduced, if they haven't been already.
The Hunters of the Horn find a Fade nailed to a door.
Episode 204#
The Hunters of the Horn arrive at Tar Valon (why? still working on that) and leave for Caemlyn a bit later. Mat and Verin join them. There's no reason for that bunch to stick around Tar Valon long.
Episode 205#
Nynaeve, Egwene, Elayne and Min kidnapped. Well, like the books, I think only Egwene and Min will actually be captured and the others escape. Rafe Judkins has basically confirmed that the kidnappings will happen.
Something with Rand.
Episode 206#
Caemlyn. We'll meet Morgase. Like others think, I also think that Morgase will be relegated to a minor role and her main plot will not be included in the series.
Something with Rand.
Something with Egwene.
Episode 207#
Caemlyn. Last scene is all entering the Waygate to Falme.
Episode 208 - Battle of Falme#
Battle for Falme. Verin and "Five ride forth, four return." Ingtar will have his moment (TGH,Ch46). Mat will blow the Horn.
Other Predictions#
There are others out there who have their own predictions. I'll include them here as I find them or someone tells me about them.
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