outside the king's mine, teams had to use hammer and chisel to retrieve their next clue, that was inside a concrete block. the central theme of angel, fury explains, is that "the fight never ends...you can't ever win but the fight is worth fighting. the three volumes were published from 2009 to 2013,  as the gathering storm, towers of midnight, and a memory of light, with the last book using jordan's title. at writing school, the youngest students learned the alphabet by song, then later by copying the shapes of letters with a stylus on a waxed wooden tablet. 