E 41 Westlands 101: Thom Merrilin, Gleeman of Mystery and Owner of Badass Blades

SPOILER WARNING: In order to avoid any spoilers regarding our favorite gleeman, you should have read up to Chapter 26 in Eye of the World. Did you really think now that we are past Whitebridge we wouldn’t have a few words to say about our beloved Thom?  We dig into what it meant to be a gleeman in the Westlands and why Thom was so exceptional. As usual, the first half is spoiler free and the second half is more theories that lean on spoilers in the later series. The music at the beginning of the spoiler section was a fun little exercise in inspiration and the power of community.  Thanks so much to James for giving us proper Thom tribute music.  More of James content can be found on his YouTube page https://youtube.com/channel/UCugWDodqLjHkzr8WpBEyY7g. Also, we finally did it; we have a Patreon page!  Amber cleverly came up with a travel themed set of tiers ranging from $3 to $25 a month.  You can help fund the growth of this podcast and in return, we will make sure you have access to things like our ridiculous outtakes, video clips, VIP status, and merch not available on our Threadless shop. Speaking of Threadless...We have a shop where you can find Wheel of Time inspired designs on t-shirts, coffee mugs, phone cases, stickers, buttons, and MORE.  Seriously.  You need to go look.  It’s so cool.  There are new designs uploaded on the regular, as well as sales and specials that we will share with you on our social media pages. https://roadtotarvalon.threadless.com/ We are really pleased with our beautiful website and would love for you to go check it out, even if it has one of the most needlessly long web addresses ever but we’re working on it. https://roadtotarvalonawheeloftimepodcast.wordpress.com As always, thank you for joining us!  Contact us if you feel inspired to do so, at any of the links below. Email: roadtotarvalon@gmail.com Amber Twitter: @RoadtoTarValon Traci Twitter: @MistressLaras Instagram: roadtotarvalon If you haven’t done so already, come join us on Discord!  If you think it’s just WoT related, y