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1. ". . . a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. Down long valleys the wind swept, valleys blue with morning mist hanging in the air, some forested with evergreens, some bare where grasses and wildflowers would soon spring up. It howled across half-buried ruins and broken monuments, all as forgotten as those who had built them. It moaned in the passes, weatherworn cuts between peaks capped with snow that never melted. . . Sitting his horse just inside a thicket of leatherleaf and pine, Perrin Aybara shivered and tugged his fur-lined cloak closer . . . The wind jerked at his cloak, pulling the hood back from his shaggy curls, and cut through his coat."
2. ". . . a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. East the wind blew across Tremalking, where the fair-skinned Amayar farmed their fields, and made fine glass and porcelain, and followed the peace of the Water Way. . . Onward the wind blew into the Sea of Storms, eastward beneath a searing sun in a sky abandoned by clouds, whipping the tops of green sea swells, battling winds from the south and westward winds, shearing and swirling as the waters below heaved. . . East and north and on, and the wind reached the broad, ship-filled harbor of Ebou Dar, where hundreds of Sea Folk vessels rode as they did in many ports, awaiting word of the Coramoor, the Chosen One."
3. ". . . a wind rose among brown-thicketed hills in Cairhien. Westward the wind blew over abandoned villages and farms, many only jumbles of charred timber. . . The wind held no moisture, and the sun tried to sear away what little remained in the land. . . Westward the wind blew, stirring drought-shriveled leaves on the trees, riffling the surface of shrinking streams bordered in hard-baked mud. . . Westward, until the wind passed into Caemlyn, lifting two banners above the Royal Palace, in the heart of the Ogier-built Inner City."
4. ". . . a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. Born below the ever cloud-capped peaks that gave the mountains their name, the wind blew east, out across the Sand Hills, once the shore of a great ocean, before the Breaking of the World. Down it flailed into the Two Rivers, into the tangled forest called the Westwood, and beat at two men walking with a cart and horse down the rock-strewn track called the Quarry Road."
5. ". . . a wind rose above the Aryth Ocean. East the wind blew above the cold gray-green ocean swells, toward Tarabon, where ships already unloading or waiting their turns to enter the harbor of Tanchico tossed at anchor for miles along the low coastline. . . East the wind blew for leagues, gusting and fading, dividing but never dying, east and veering to the south, across forests and plains wrapped in winter, bare branched and brown-grassed, at last crossing what had once been the border between Tarabon and Amadicia. East and south, around the southern reaches of the Mountains of Mist, swirling across high-walled Amador. Conquered Amador."
6. ". . . a wind rose on the great plain called the Caralain Grass. North and west the wind blew beneath early morning sun, over endless miles of rolling grass and far-scattered thickets, across the swift-flowing River Luan, past the broken-topped fang of Dragonmount, mountain of legend towering above the slow swells of the rolling plain, looming so high that clouds wreathed it less than halfway to the smoking peak. . . North and west, across the villages of Jualdhe and Darein and Alindaer, where bridges like stone lacework arched out to the Shining Walls, the great white walls of what many called the greatest city in the world. Tar Valon."
7. ". . . a wind rose in the great forest called Braem Wood. North and east the wind belw as the searing sun rose higher in a cloudless sky, north and east through parched trees with brown leaves and bare branches, through scattered villages where the air shimmered from the heat. The wind brought no relief, no hint of rain, much less snow. . . Onward the wind traveled, across the gray-green River Erinin, heeling ships that still carried trade north and south. . . On a makeshift flagstaff, trimmed from a young tree dead in the drought and lashed to a bare wagon hoop for more height, waved a crimson banner, a black-and-white disc in its heart. . . The wind shook the banner hard and was gone quickly, as if glad to be away."
8. ". . . a wind rose in the Mountains of Dhoom. Born among black, knife-edged peaks, where death romed the high passes yet hid from things still more dangerous, the wind blew south across the tangled forest of the Great Blight, a forest tainted and twisted by the touch of the Dark One. . . The smell of death was all but gone long before the wind reached the stone-walled town of Fal Dara on its hills, and whipped around a tower of the fortress in the very center of the town, a tower atop which two men seemed to dance."
9. ". . . a wind rose in the Rhannon Hills. Born among the groves and vineyards that covered much of the rugged hills, the olive trees in evergreen rows, the ordered vines leafless till spring, the cold wind blew west and north across the prosperous farms dotting the land between the hills and the great harbor of Ebou Dar. . . West and north the wind blew, across the broad blue-green expanse of the harbor, where hundreds of huge ships sat rocking at anchor on choppy swells, some bluff-bowed and rigged with ribbed sails, others long and sharp-prowed, with men laboring to match their sails and rigging to those of the wider vessels."
10. ". . . a wind rose in the great forest called the Braem Wood. South and west it blew, dry, beneath a sun of molten gold. There had been no rain for long weeks in the land below, and the late-summer heat grew day by day. . . Scattered villages appeared before the wind crossed the border of Andor, and fields where worried farmers trudged arid furrows. The forest had long since thinned to thickets by the time the wind swept dust down the lone street of a village called Kore Springs."
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reedy
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