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Season 2 - What Might Be
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Scenes are as identified by the TV series. The non-story scenes are listed first.
  • Scene 1 - Amazon Original
  • Scene 2 - Previously On
  • Scene 8 - Opening Credits
  • Scene 23 - End Credits
Scene 3 - What Is it?
Sheriam, Leane, and Liandrin stand with Nynaeve in a chamber at the White Tower containing the Three Arches, a ter'angreal from before the Breaking of the World. They explain that ter'angreals serve many purposes, but their creation is a lost art, and many Aes Sedai have been killed or burned out studying them. Leane reassures Nynaeve that this ter'angreal’s function is known: it forces a novice to confront her greatest fears, though what she experiences remains private, and she need only walk through each arch and return. They then share two rules, kept secret until this moment:
  1. Once you start, you must continue to the end or otherwise they will be put out of the Tower with enough money for a year, and never be allowed back.
  2. "To seek, to strive, is to know danger." and there is the possibility of danger. Some women have never returned.

They offer Nynaeve one last chance to refuse, noting that each woman gets three attempts before permanent expulsion from the Tower. Leane admits she failed her first attempt. Nynaeve declares she’s ready, and Sheriam instructs her to strip to her shift, as she can bring nothing inside and cannot channel. Sheriam, Leane, and Liandrin weave to activate the Three Arches. Sheriam warns, "The way back will come but once."

Nynaeve steps into the first arch.

Scene 4 - What Was

Inside the first arch, Nynaeve finds herself in her childhood in the Two Rivers. Her father, Beerien, notices crimsonthorn root in her hand and takes her to a nearby stream to rinse it off. Bandits armed with bows emerge, shooting at Nynaeve and Beerien. They flee, pursued by the bandits, until Nynaeve’s mother, Elnore, appears with a bow, shooting back to cover their escape. The al’Mearas reach their home, locking the door, and hide Nynaeve in the cellar. Beerien urges her to be brave and quiet, saying in the Old Tongue, "We shall go into the old land so our children can always hold us and will never be alone."[1] As the bandits break in, Beerien closes the cellar door and joins Elnore upstairs to fight. Nynaeve grabs a meat cleaver just as Sheriam’s voice echoes, "The way back will come but once," and an arch doorway appears. After a moment’s hesitation, Nynaeve steps through, returning to the Three Arches chamber in the White Tower. Liandrin pours water over her in a symbolic cleansing, and Leane heals her minor injuries. Nynaeve asks if the vision was real, but Sheriam replies that no one knows.

The Three Arches activate again, and Sheriam repeats her warning, "The way back will come but once."

Nynaeve enters the next arch.

Scene 5 - What Is

Inside the second arch, Nynaeve awakens on a bed in the Two Rivers, surrounded by sick villagers in a room possibly within the Winespring Inn. Tam, lying in the bed beside her, explains that a fever has ravaged the community since her departure. Nynaeve opens his shirt, revealing fever blisters on his chest, and spots crimsonthorn root on a nearby table. Tam reveals that the new Wisdom, Natti, gave it to him. Confronting Natti, Nynaeve learns she’s administering the root to Tam and others for a painless death. Nynaeve insists Aes Sedai can heal the fever, but Natti retorts that they sought help months ago with no response, accusing Nynaeve of abandoning them and declaring the Two Rivers is no longer her home.

Returning to Tam, Nynaeve reassures him he’ll be fine, but he knows the truth and asks her to stay until the herbs "have done their work." Sheriam’s voice echoes, "The way back will come but once," and an arch doorway appears. Despite Tam’s plea to stay, Nynaeve steps through, returning to the Three Arches chamber in the White Tower. Liandrin pours water over her in a symbolic cleansing. Nynaeve pleads with the Aes Sedai to aid the Two Rivers against the plague, but Liandrin insists she must continue through the arches.

The Three Arches activate again, and Sheriam repeats her warning, "The way back will come but once."

Nynaeve enters the next arch.

Scene 6 - What Might Be

It's a scene of madness. Screaming voices, images of Nynaeve floating around in space wearing a red dress, with hands over her ears, visions of Lan speaking the words from scene 8 of Episode 108 and then Nynaeve being flung out of the arches with two bloodstains on her shirt. Nynaeve says she doesn't remember what happened. Sheriam pours water on her. Leane checks Nynaeve over and declares that the blood is not hers.Nynaeve opens her hand to discover that she's holding on to Lan's hadori. Sheriam announces that Nynaeve is now Accepted and gives her an Aes Sedai ring, without the stone in it, but Nynaeve rejects it, saying that if the point of the tests is to trust the Tower over everything else, then she rejects it. As Nynaeve leaves the room, Liandrin warns her that if she leaves, then she will never be allowed to return. Nynaeve continues on out.

Back in Nynaeve's room, she's packing her things. Egwene comes in asking her not to go, but Nynaeve tells her that she came to the Tower for Egwene, but she doesn't need Nynaeve anymore and will live up to the true meaning of an Aes Sedai ("servants of all").

Nynaeve rides away from the Tower and Lan gallops up to meet her. She tells him that she couldn't stay in the Tower and is going to return to the Two Rivers and he says that he could join her, if she would have him. She asks about Moiraine and the bond, but he doesn't respond. Sheriam's voice is faintly heard saying "the way back will come but once" and an arch doorway appears. Nynaeve ignores it and it goes away.

Scene 7 - She Made Her Choice

In the Three Arches room, the last arch has closed and Leane says that Nynaeve has made her choice and leaves the room. Sheriam admits that Alanna was right. Liandrin tries to defend what happened, but Sheriam says that Nynaeve trusted all of them, and that got her killed. Sheriam hopes that Liandrin will feel guilty forever and says that she herself will. She then leaves the room. Once she leaves, Liandrin, still holding the vase of water meant for Nynaeve, throws it away out of frustration.

Scene 9 - Stolen Land / Bend the Knee and Swear the Oath / All Will Bow

TBD

Scene 10 - How Long Will It Take You / I Remember You / Brighter Than Any I Had Ever Seen / Control

TBD

Scene 10 - Hunt for the Horn

TBD

Scene 11 - She Never Came Out

TBD

Scene 12 - You Left Them

TBD

Scene 13 - It's the Ones Who Survive

TBD

Scene 14 - One Less Poor Mouth

TBD

Scene 15 - You Can't

TBD

Scene 16 - Not Now

Mat finds Egwene crying by herself in Tower garden. He start to go to her but stops and then decides to leave and return to his room.

Scene 17 - The Door Is Open

Mat at Min talk. They both decide to leave.

Scene 18 - Wolf Rescue

Ishamael talks with Perrin before the wolves and Elyas rescue him.

Scene 19 - Setup

Min conspires with Liandrin.

Scene 20 - The Roof Is On Fire

Rand is burning down the house.

Scene 21 - Help Me Or Leave

Egwene tries to bring Nynaeve back.

Scene 22 - Home

Nynaeve's life back in Two Rivers. It ends badly, but she returns back through the arch where Egwene and Elayne are sleeping.

Notes (Possible Spoilers)#

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This particular version was published on 15-Mar-2025 01:12 by Administrator.Top