Not from everybody, but any notice at all made him uncomfortable (Rand, The Eye of the World, Chapter 32). Swords were common enough, but the heron-mark attracted attention and speculation. That blade must have traveled a strange road to end up with a sheepherder in the Two Rivers ( Lan, The Eye of the World, Chapter 8) There are places where the heron is a symbol of the master swordsman. It seemed almost fragile compared with the swords of the merchants' guards most of those were double-edged, and thick enough to chop down a tree ( The Eye of the World, Chapter 5). Short quillons, worked to look like braid, flanked the hilt. The blade, very slightly curved and sharp on only one edge, bore another heron etched into the steel. Rand's father's sword - Destroyed fighting Ba'alzamon, despite being power wroughtДЄ thick belt slanted around Tam's waist, and from the belt hung a sword, with a bronze heron on the black scabbard and another on the long hilt ( The Eye of the World, Chapter 5.1).ДЄ number of Heron-marked swords are seen or mentioned in the books Rand later loses this ( This passage needs a reference) and replaces it with another heron marked sword ( TGS, Ch. He eventually gains Laman's sword, which was also heron-marked ( TFoH, Ch. 49), the swords he makes with the Power are heron-marked ( TDR, Ch. Even after Rand's heron-mark sword is destroyed ( TGH, Ch. It is Rand's heron-mark sword that brands his palms ( TGH, Ch. During the Age of Legends, it is likely it was the mark of a general ( TGH, Ch. A heron-mark is the mark of a blademaster, both in the Westlands ( TEotW, Ch.

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