Late tonight, Prime Video will drop the season 3 finale of The Wheel of Time, its stellar adaptation of Robert Jordan's high fantasy book series. TV Insider has a new clip from the finale. Liandrin (Kate Fleetwood) is hanging out in the city of Tanchico with other sisters of the Black Ajah. One of them is fiddling with a rod that seems to spark at the end. Liandrin tells her to put that thing down, because it "actually creates balefire."
Balefire is an incredibly destructive magical weapon within the world of The Wheel of Time. Not only can it kill people, but it also removes them from the Pattern, making it like they never existed. It has yet to show up on The Wheel of Time TV show despite featuring heavily in the books, so this is a decently big deal. And I doubt that they'd bring up balefire if they weren't going to use it later. Call it Chekhov's magic gun.
As for the rest of the clip, the Forsaken sorceress Moghedien (Laia Costa) shows up and gives Liandrin what she and the rest of the Black Ajah have been searching for: part of a magical artifact capable of subduing the Dragon Reborn, the most powerful channeler alive. Moghedien is posing as a servant working in the house where the Black Ajah are staying, biding her time until she can seize her moment.
Liandrin then says that she and the other Black Ajah are heading to the Panarch's Palace to look for the other part of the magical artifact. That's basically what happens in The Shadow Rising, the book on which this season of The Wheel of Time is based, although the order of events is scrambled a little bit. We'll find out the specifics when the season 3 finale of The Wheel of Time airs at 12 midnight PST!
To stay up to date on everything fantasy, science fiction, and WiC, follow our all-encompassing Facebook page and Twitter account, sign up for our exclusive newsletter and check out our YouTube channel.