The Wheel of Time set photos hint at events of final two episodes

The Wheel of Time fans will find a lot to love in photos from the set of Amazon’s new adaptation, with characters like Rand and Egwene brought to life onscreen for the first time.

After a coronavirus-mandated halt in filming, Amazon is back shooting the final two episodes of its adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic The Wheel of Time series.

Well, the final two episodes of the first season, that is; The Wheel of Time is 14 books long, so if season 1 is a hit, it’ll take a while to get through it all. In any case, a number of photos have been leaking from set and giving fans a glimpse into what’s coming. The leaks may help us answer the pesky question of just how much of Jordan’s series will be adapted in the first season?

Most of the photos coming out appear to be from the set of Fal Dara, a walled city our heroes visit towards the eye of the first novel, The Eye of the World, although they spend time there at the start of the second, The Great Hunt, as well.

Fal Dara is located in the far north, near the Blight, an encroaching disease upon the land. There, the company meets the Lord of Fal Dara, Agelmar Jagad, a character who (so far as we know) has yet to be cast. It looks like the production may use the town of Terezín, Czech Republic to stand in for the city:

The banner in the picture above appears to be from Shienar, one of the four Borderlands nations. That’s the region where Fal Dara is located.

Another photo shows a banner with three running foxes. Fans recognized it as Lord Agelmar’s banner:

Next, we have set photos featuring Josha Stradowski (Rand al’Thor) and Madeleine Madden (Egwene al’Vere). Interesting items include a bow that looks too small to be from the Two Rivers, a chest large enough to fit a human body, and a Trolloc skull on a target dummy.

Rumor has it that filming could go on until mid-December. That’s well over a month and likely time saved for the final episode. Could filming have wrapped on the seventh episode, where all the leaks are coming from? Unless they are shooting the season out of order, Fal Dara remains to be the location for episode 7 and maybe 8.

So what does this mean for how much of the book will be adapted in the first season, which consists of eight episodes? The first Wheel of Time book ends at the Eye of the World, a pool of magical energy where our heroes battle members of the villainous Forsaken. Episode 7 could pick up after the battle at the Eye and start digging into material from The Great Hunt, which sees the party return to Fal Dara with the Horn of Valere and introduces Siuan Sance, the Amyrlin Seat of the White Tower, before Trollocs attack. The season could end on the beginnings of the hunt for the horn and journey to Tar Valon.

Another possibility is that Episode 7 will end with the battle at the Eye, and then Egwene, Rand, and company will return to Fal Dara for Episode 8. Perhaps the final scene of the season could be Rand’s audience with the Amyrlin Seat, where she reveals to him how important he is to the turning of the wheel of time.

Game of Thrones regularly had its big climax in the penultimate episode of the season; maybe The Wheel of Time could follow suit?

No matter what happens, the set photos are pretty incredible, especially if you’ve been waiting for this story to come to life onscreen for a long time.

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