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Greetings, esteemed members of the White Tower and Warders’ Yard. I am Heavy, the Amyrlin Seat, the Watcher of the Seals, the Flame of Tar Valon (for this Event), and I would like to invite you to a great party as part of our Feast of Fools* in the White Tower. It would be great to see you there as you can check out the renovations to your quarters and the Tower. Renovations so skillfully done that you would never guess at the level of… non-devastation that the Tower has undergone. Now might also be a good time to report that there was some tiny, trifling damage to the Tower and few other bits here and there, caused by some completely well-meani…

Please be welcome to Tar Valon, the Board where the White Tower & Warder Official Events will be held. All members of Dragonmount are welcome to join in our Events, though only the board moderators and Event Leaders will be allowed to start threads here. For further information about the White Tower and Warders, see this thread.

We all enjoy a good dose of chocolate and we tend to enjoy it even more when it looks really pretty first! Share your favorite chocolate sculpture finds in this thread!

we cant do chocolate week without the delivery service! for those unfamiliar, this is how it works. have a note or appreciation you want to send someone here? simple, PM me with the name of your target, a message, what kind of chocolate you want to give them and whether or not you want your name attached. then i send them all out here in batches! (and if you dont know what kind of chocolate to send i can handle that for you) it's a great way to spread some love, some fun and of course some chocolate. my pm box is open and waiting! who in your world needs some chocolate?

Time to have some Halloween fun! With some rules, obviously 🙂 Here's how it will work: I'll post a picture of a Deemer in Halloween disguise. If you think you know who it is, PRIVATE MESSAGE me the name. With all the different time zones we have, let's be fair and give everyone a chance to play, heh? I'll give it a day or so and if no-one has guessed correctly, I'll post an easier picture of the person. etc. When I think everyone has had a chance to guess, and I have a few guesses, I'll post the answer and move on to the next person.

Time to show off all the fancy chocolate sculptures one can find! Books, dragons, and more have been made of chocolate across the world, so share them here for us all to go 'oooo' 'aahh'

The Brownie Ajah (I heard that was an official rename...) proudly brings to you... chocolate recipes, version 2025! There is no beginning nor ending to the Turning of the Wheel, and you may see recipes from a previous Age not far from here BUT... we ask for your best recipes of this Age! For the Novices who may be confused, that means your grandma recipe that's to die for is absolutely ACCEPTED. On the other hand, the Compulsive recipe you found in the forbidden library from the Forsaken of another age are NOT. Ahem, well, just thought I'd clarify... Now, to launch things: a 2-ingredient chocolate ganache! - Wands at the ready (sorry, wrong fa…

A deep dive into making the wrong gastronomical choice...It's time to re-open the age old debate....Dark Chocolate or White Chocolate. (And can there really be a wrong choice between these two)? Before the debate starts and in true Brown Ajah fashion; a little chocolate history from that source of ALL KNOWLEDGE for our modern generation...yep, WIKIPEDIA. Chocolate history according to Wikipedia (with hyperlinks thoughtfully removed)... "The history of chocolate dates back more than 5,000 years, when the cacao tree was first domesticated in present-day southeast Ecuador. Soon after domestication, the tree was introduced to Mesoamerica, where c…

it's that time of year again. and yes i almost forgot. but its still the Brown's Chocolate Week(end)! that's right, the delivery service, sculptures, recipes and of course what Brown event wouldn't have a discussion? from today on through monday it's all about chocolate! who's ready?!

It's that time of year! The White Ajah welcomes you to our Winter Carnival! We're pretty quiet nowadays, though. So, we're just hosting an easy-going get-together. Join us, grab some cocoa (or just a bunch of marshmallows) and tell us something good that happened to you this year. Give us a good memory. Tell us something you're excited for. Just get in here and chat with us! We're happy to have you here. 🤍

I know, what a catchy title, took me a while to come up with it. Anyway, recipes, you have them, I want them. And anyone with recipes involving white chocolate will have amnesty from the Cocoacloaks that throng around these parts. All chocolate is worthy of devouring, we will not have discrimination here. As I am sure everyone is aware of, chocolate originated in South America. The cocoa tree was first domesticated 5,300 years ago in present-day Ecuador. The seeds of the fruit of the cocoa tree are very bitter and need to be fermented before being processed. The fruits of the three types of cocoa tree are shown above. After fermentation…

Ask and you shall receive!

Happy Halloween! If you celebrate, enjoy the festivities, and if you do not, you can still join us in a discussion of your favorite treats. When I was a kid and went trick-or-trearing, some of my favorite treats to find were Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Mounds, and Three Muskeeters bar. What are some of your favorite treats?

This year we are doing an AI costume contest. There are a couple of examples in the banner above. Everyone who wants to have a costume in the contest, please PM Elgee with a picture of yourself, and she will use AI to make a "costume" pic for you. The pics will then be put in a thread on the Tar Valon board for people to guess who is "wearing" each costume. The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Please PM your pics by 10/24. Sorry for the short notice.

most of you know how this goes, but a reminder and for those who get to experience this for the first time. welcome to the Brown Ajah Chocolate Delivery Service! the only place, the only time in the year that you get to send anyone on the boards a happy thought and some chocolate. here's how it works: if there's someone here you'd like to give a chocolate to, simply PM me, provide their name, any message you wish to send and whether or not you want your name attached or wish it to remain anonymous. once i get it their special treat will be posted here with a tag for them to come see their surprise. its a great way to se…

it's that time of year again! the annual Brown Ajah Chocolate week is here! where we celebrate all things chocolate, share sweet sentiments with eachother and just have a good old brown kind of time. this time round we'll be having a special on Chocolate Statues, Chocolate recipes (a brown ajah pastime) and of course the ever popular Chocolate Delivery Service! soooooo who wants some

pick one, pick your positions and wear em loud and wear em proud!

For the Feast of Fools we'll be having a small story-writing contest, with the prize being... Well, there's no prize, really, except for the feeling of a job well done. Or the feeling of bring a smile to the face of your fellow DragonMounters. Or some other emotion. Who knows what your writing will stir up! At any rate, this will be a story continuation thread. At the bottom of this post I will begin a story by writing a single sentence, and the next poster will continue it by posting the next sentence of the story. And so on, and so forth. Please wait until at least one other person has posted before continuing the story yourself. Simple enough, y…

It was unmistakable to miss the flour all in the Algai's hair, flour fruit smudges, and a grin. It had been too long since she had played in the kitchens and it felt GOOD. Too long since the Mistress of Pies brought her wares to an event. Too long since she had seen the surprise smiles on her patrons. Such an event as this could not be missed by the Mistress of Pies and she came prepared!! "PIES PIES!! GET YOUR PIES!! A SINGLE SILVER FOR A PIE!!"

Do you remember when? Do it like you did back then And then we'll do it again Do you remember when? Reminiscing and more on what we had before Makes me feel so warm inside said Tony Braxton So I'm sure as you can gather, this thread is about reminiscing and catching up with old friends. Just like at any reunion, people are going to go "oh do you remember when... !" This place is even better, because you can mostly find the evidence 😁 And if you can't find what you remember and post a link here, ask me - maybe I can! Please all get your party clothes on, come in, grab something to drink and eat and start the trip down mem…

Hello and welcome back! Have you ever wondered what the strangest, or even the most frighteningly bizarre bondings between book characters might be? Here's the chance to let your imaginations run wild! What if Lan had been bonded to Moghedien? Or who would have bonded Juilin Sandar? Please specify if the bonded pair would be Warder bonded or Sourva'Dar bonded. A poll will be created at the end of our Feast of Fools event for everyone to vote in, with special prizes for coming up with The Funniest and The Most Frightening pair to bond!

We've waited a good while for the second season of the Wheel of Time to drop. and this is the week! for all intents and purposes it looks even better than the first season. and while we all may not watch or be able to watch it, we all can get together and enjoy a good old fashioned Wheel of Time party! so pull up your favorite stool at the tavern, play games with some warders, mingle with all levels of Aes Sedai and lets have some fun! Dancing, darts, and axe throwing are outside: drinks and tales to be told inside: if you find something you want to bring bring it! the more the merrier

Welcome to the Chocolate Delivery Service! How does this work, you ask? To send someone some chocolates and good wishes, simply PM me and I will post the deliveries in this thread. All deliveries can be tailor made - but will be anonymous unless you tell me. So, in your PM let me know if you want to include a specific message or chocolate for the person and link it to me in the PM or I’ll be happy to find some chocolate sweets for you. Today is Super Bowl Sunday so I’ll start the deliveries later on tonight, or at the latest, tomorrow AM.

We can't really have a Chocolate week without this thread. because lets face it, chocolate is made for eating and we need to know ALL the ways to eat it! so share your favorite recipes that involve chocolate, and even some that you havent tried but might want to, perhaps some odd ones that are a bit beyond what you'd try as well! let's talk food!

so this game's easy. just come in here, shout that you want chocolate and see what kind the chocolate fairy decides to give you! it could be good, could be bad, but it'll definitely be a chocolate surprise! who wants some chocolate?!

its that time again, the Brown ajah's famous chocolate week! lets face it, a lot of people are getting a lot of chocolate this time of year and we at the Brown Ajah love the stuff! from hot chocolate to brownies, we eat it up and love celebrating it. which is what this week is all about. so hop on in and get some chocolate loving in! Our Famous CHOCOLATE DELIVERY SERVICE! Share Chocolate Recipes here! See what the Chocolate Fairy has for you!

*Valan Luca Voice* Welcome one and all to the Red Ajah New Year Event! \ This particular thread will be based around how to ... or how you ... dominate your year. Red Tips on 2022 Domination You are your own competition. The only person you have to be better than, is the person you were yesterday. Set small achievable goals. Reward yourself for reaching goals, however small. Every person you lure into the dungeon is a personal success. Torture is totally okay, as long as Mother doesn't find out... or joins in. What does dominating the year mean to you? I k…

What are your goals for this year? COVID and crisis seems to have dominated the past few years, and though I personally don't do "resolutions" I have set a few goals for myself that I'm willing to share. - Get healthy. This is not a diet, for me this is a lifestyle change towards healthier living in general. - Get happy. I love to learn, so I've challenged myself to learn a new skill this year (knitting, it's going alight thus far). Do you set resolutions at the start of the year? What are your resolutions? How do you set, and keep those resolutions? What keeps you motivated? *cracks whip* Discuss!!

You wanna play a game? Of course you do! Each lucky victim participant tells the fortune of the person who posted last. Who dares to go first?