Pronunciation: Ah-vehn-deh-SO-rah [{LinkedImagePlugin image-src='Pronunciation/soundbut.gif' href='Pronunciation/avendesora.wav'}]\\ %%ot [Avendesora|Compleat]%% means "Tree of Life" in the [Old Tongue]. It is the last existing chora tree. It grows in the city of [Rhuidean] in the [Aiel Waste]. ! References (Possible Spoilers) %%collapse # In [The Eye of the World] ## [TEotW,Ch6] - When [Tam] raves about %%ot Avendesora%%, [Rand] recalls that he heard in stories that it belongs to the [Green Man|Someshta]. ## [TEotW,Ch36] - [Loial] knows that the [Aiel] have %%ot Avendesora%%. ## [TEotW,Ch44] - The key to a [Waygate|Ways] is in the shape of a trefoil leaf like those of %%ot Avendesora%%. ## [TEotW,Ch50] - The [Green Man|Someshta] says it has been two thousand years since he has seen %%ot Avendesora%%. # In [The Great Hunt] ## [TGH,Ch7] - [Verin] recounts the rumor that the nation of [Almoth] once had a branch, perhaps a live sapling, of %%ot Avendesora%%. # In [The Dragon Reborn] ## [TDR,Ch39] - [Elayne] recounts how the [Aiel War], from their perspective, was simply an execution of King [Laman] for cutting down %%ot [Avendoraldera]%%, a sapling of %%ot Avendesora%%. # In [The Shadow Rising] ## [TSR,Ch24] - [Rand] and [Mat] discover %%ot Avendesora%% in the center of [Rhuidean]. ## [TSR,Ch26] - When [Rand] exits the [glass columns], he sees [Mat] hanging by his neck from a rope tied to the %%ot [Ashandarei]%% which lies across a couple of low branches of %%ot Avendesora%%. ## [TSR,Ch58] - %%ot Avendesora%% burns like a torch after the battle between [Rand] and [Asmodean]. # In [The Fires of Heaven] ## [TFoH,Ch2] - %%ot Avendesora%% is badly charred, but [Moiraine] says it is still alive. # In [Towers of Midnight] ## [ToM,Ch48] - %%ot Avendesora%% is already completely regrown. %% ---- More [Category Items]