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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Common Wheel of Time Abbreviations

For your reference, some shorthand commonly used in Wheel of Time discussions online. More can be found here.

Book Titles:
tEotW - The Eye of the World
tGH - The Great Hunt
tDR - The Dragon Reborn
tSR - The Shadow Rising
tFoH - The Fires of Heaven
LoC - Lord of Chaos
ACoS - A Crown of Swords
tPoD - the Path of Daggers
WH - Winter's Heart
CoT - Crossroads of Twilight
KoD - Knife of Dreams
tGS - The Gathering Storm
ToM - Towers of Midnight
AMoL - A Memory of Light

Character names:
Asmo - Asmodean
Avi - Aviendha
Caddy or Cads - Cadsuane
DO - the Dark One
Eg or Eggy - Egwene
El - Elayne
Ishydin - Ishamael/Moridin
LTT - Lews Therin Telamon, or the voice in Rand's head
Messi or Messy - Mesaana
Moggy - Moghedien
Nyn - Nynaeve
Semi - Semirhage

Groups:
AS - Aes Sedai
BA - Black Ajah
BT - Black Tower
DF - Darkfriends
Rand's Harem - Elayne, Aviendha, and Min (pretty obvious)
Supergirls - Elayne, Egwene, and Nynaeve collectively
WT - White Tower

Places:
Finnland - the land of the Aelfinn/Eelfinn (the Tower of Ghenjei)
Randland - the main continent on the map, west of the Spine of the World (i.e. not Shara and not Seanchan, typically not the Aiel Waste or the Blight either)
TAR or T'A'R - Tel'aran'rhiod

Things:
CK - the Choeden Kal
OP - the One Power (saidar and saidin)
TP - the True Power (the Dark One's power)

Other:
AoL - the Age of Legends
BS - Brandon Sanderson
RJ - Robert Jordan
VoG - Veins of Gold - tGS Ch. 50(probably the first chapter title to get its own abbreviation)
WoT - Wheel of Time

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