The Dragon Reborn on the map of the Westlands
Chapter by chapter through The Dragon Reborn: its 58 key events and the 17 places it reaches, starting at Jarra.
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The Dragon Reborn · chapter by chapter
- Prologue
Fortress of the Light
In Amador, the aging head of the Whitecloaks weighs reports of Falme and a self-proclaimed Dragon, and gambles on a dangerous new plan.
- Ch. 1
Waiting
After a winter hidden in the Mountains of Mist, Perrin watches for Moiraine's messengers and guides a lone Tinker woman toward a secret camp.
- Ch. 2
Saidin
Min sees death over the Tinker; then Perrin follows a brooding Rand to a hidden vale and sees how hard saidin pulls at him.
- Ch. 3
News from the Plain
As the camp mends after Rand's tremor, Moiraine relays the Tinker's news from Almoth Plain: Whitecloaks oddly sparing Dragonsworn, and tall young men murdered.
- Ch. 4
Shadows Sleeping
Perrin dreams: a stranger in an inn, a beautiful woman offering glory, a meeting among endless bridges, and a crystal sword he cannot reach.
- Ch. 5
Nightmares Walking
Trollocs and Myrddraal storm the hidden camp by night; Perrin fights to reach the Tinker woman, and unexpected allies join the battle.
- Ch. 6
The Hunt Begins
Rand is gone by dawn, leaving only a note; Moiraine draws his likely goal from Perrin's dreams and sends everyone their separate ways.
- Ch. 7
The Way Out of the Mountains
Following Lan's trail signs, Moiraine, Perrin and Loial descend from the Mountains of Mist after Rand, riding from winter into spring.
- Ch. 8
Jarra
In a border village swept by sudden weddings and unruly Whitecloaks, Perrin asks after Rand, and Moiraine is begged to help a sick man.
- Ch. 9
Wolf Dreams
Shaken by Noam's fate, Perrin asks Moiraine what the wolves may cost him, then strays into a perilous dream; elsewhere, hounds hunt Rand.
- Ch. 10
Secrets
After a winter's ride from Toman Head, Egwene's party brings a dying Mat within sight of Tar Valon, where Whitecloaks bar the road.
- Ch. 11
Tar Valon
Verin leads her charges through Darein and over the great bridge into Tar Valon, where Hurin takes his leave and the Tower awaits.
- Ch. 12
The Amyrlin Seat
In her study, Siuan Sanche hears Verin's news from Falme: Rand's proclamation, the Horn of Valere's return, and the Seanchan threat.
- Ch. 13
Punishments
Summoned before the Amyrlin, Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne learn what became of Liandrin and what price they will pay for running off.
- Ch. 14
The Bite of the Thorns
Alone with Egwene and Nynaeve, the Amyrlin weighs whom she can trust, then lays a dangerous secret task upon them.
- Ch. 15
The Gray Man
Leaving the Amyrlin's study, Egwene and Nynaeve return to the novices' galleries, where a hidden attacker strikes from across the empty tiers.
- Ch. 16
Hunters Three
In Nynaeve's room, Galad and Gawyn press for answers before Nynaeve decides how much to share with Elayne, and what to do about Mat.
- Ch. 17
The Red Sister
Elaida of the Red Ajah corners the three in Nynaeve's room, probing where they went and what they know of Rand al'Thor.
- Ch. 18
Healing
Beneath the Tower, Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne watch the Amyrlin and her sisters, through a sa'angreal, fight to free Mat from the Shadar Logoth dagger.
- Ch. 19
Awakening
Mat wakes, weak and ravenous, in a lavish room he guesses is in the White Tower, and starts planning how to get away.
- Ch. 20
Visitations
A mysterious woman calling herself Selene, then the Amyrlin Seat, visit Mat's sickroom, each wanting something from him.
- Ch. 21
A World of Dreams
Summoned to Verin's cluttered rooms above the Tower library, Egwene gets notes on the fled sisters and a lesson about worlds, dreams and Dreamers.
- Ch. 22
The Price of The Ring
Hurried beneath the Tower that night, Egwene enters the silver arches, where three visions test whether she can walk away from what she loves.
- Egwene's testingCh. 22–23 at The White Tower
- Ch. 23
Sealed
Egwene comes out of the arches to a worried circle of sisters, takes the Accepted's ring, and leaves with fresh suspicions about whom to trust.
- Ch. 24
Scouting and Discoveries
Bent on leaving Tar Valon, Mat scouts the Tower grounds for a way out and talks himself into a wager at the Warders' yard.
- Ch. 25
Questions
Next morning Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne sift Verin's lists for a pattern among the fled sisters, and decide who will sleep with the stone ring.
- Ch. 26
Behind a Lock
Following a tip, the three slip into the basements under the Tower library to search what the fled sisters left behind.
- Ch. 27
Tel'aran'rhiod
Egwene sleeps with the stone ring and enters the World of Dreams, where she finds distant friends and a crystal sword turning in midair.
- Ch. 28
A Way Out
Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne ask Mat to carry a letter to Caemlyn, but he insists the Amyrlin has him penned on the island.
- Ch. 29
A Trap To Spring
The Amyrlin storms through the Tower kitchens, and under cover of her temper Nynaeve trades news with her about the storeroom find and their plan.
- Ch. 30
The First Toss
Slipping out of the Tower at dusk, Mat makes for the docks, but Southharbor's dice games, and his uncanny luck, hold him all night.
- Ch. 31
The Woman of Tanchico
Fleeing trouble in Tar Valon, Mat stumbles on Thom Merrilin, drunk and sorrowful in an inn, and tries to coax the gleeman away.
- Ch. 32
The First Ship
Mat talks his way aboard the first ship out of Tar Valon, but trouble follows downriver; elsewhere, a haunted Rand sits alone by his fire.
- Ch. 33
Within the Weave
Tracking Rand's trail of strange luck, Perrin and Moiraine's party ride into the river town of Remen, where an Aielman hangs caged in the square.
- Ch. 34
A Different Dance
In Remen, Perrin puzzles over Min's viewing and a staring young woman, then slips out by night to the caged Aielman in the square.
- Ch. 35
The Falcon
The party steals out of Remen by night on a riverboat, and a sharp-eyed young woman who has been shadowing Perrin leaps aboard after them.
- Ch. 36
Daughter of the Night
Sleeping at last aboard the riverboat, Perrin follows a wolf into a perilous dream; in the Murandian hills, Rand wakes to approaching riders.
- Ch. 37
Fires in Cairhien
Sailing down the Erinin past war-ravaged Cairhien, Egwene broods over her dreams, until a hidden wreck halts the Blue Crane and the women go ashore.
- Ch. 38
Maidens of the Spear
On the Cairhien riverbank the three women meet Maidens of the Spear, who ask the supposed Aes Sedai to save a gravely wounded companion.
- Ch. 39
Threads in the Pattern
Leaving the Aiel, the three women push south toward Jurene and a ship, but brigands lurk in the riverside thickets, and worse follows.
- Ch. 40
A Hero in the Night
Mat and Thom land at refugee-choked Aringill, scrape together a hayloft and horses, then find themselves in someone else's fight in a rainy stable.
- Ch. 41
A Hunter's Oath
Moiraine's party lands at Illian's marsh-ringed harbour, and Moiraine finally confronts the stubborn Hunter who keeps following them.
- Ch. 42
Easing the Badger
Riding across canal-laced Illian to an old haunt, Moiraine's party hears strange news of the city's newest lord, and trouble finds them over supper.
- Ch. 43
Shadowbrothers
After the attack, Lan finds uncanny tracks outside the inn, and Perrin goes looking for Hopper in the wolf dream for answers.
- Ch. 44
Hunted
Moiraine's party flees Illian up the Maredo Causeway with a hunting pack behind them; near Caemlyn, Mat and Thom's campfire draws late visitors.
- Ch. 45
Caemlyn
After riding all night, Mat and Thom reach bustling Caemlyn, and Mat tries to hand Elayne's letter in at the palace gates.
- Ch. 46
A Message Out of the Shadow
Mat slips over the palace garden wall to deliver Elayne's letter himself, overhearing something on the way that changes his errand.
- Ch. 47
To Race the Shadow
Back at the Queen's Blessing, Mat tells Thom and Master Gill what he heard in the palace, and they weigh what to do.
- Ch. 48
Following the Craft
Seasick and wary, Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne land at Tear and look for a safe place to stay while they hunt the Black Ajah.
- Ch. 49
A Storm in Tear
The women hire a thief-catcher and Egwene dreams into the Stone, while Mat and Thom land in stormy Tear hunting Gaebril's assassin.
- Ch. 50
The Hammer
Perrin's party ferries into Tear and lodges at the Star; at the forge next door Perrin rediscovers his trade while Moiraine and Lan scout.
- Ch. 51
Bait for the Net
Nynaeve haggles through the Maule's mud until the thief-catcher brings word of the Black Ajah, and she hurries him back to Ailhuin's.
- Ch. 52
In Search of a Remedy
Mat half-carries a coughing Thom to a Maule Wise Woman for medicine, and stumbles on news of the women he has been seeking.
- Ch. 53
A Flow of the Spirit
As Moiraine and Lan prepare to strike at the Stone, a trap left at the Star catches Faile, and Perrin refuses to abandon her.
- A surprise at the StarCh. 53–55
- Ch. 54
Into the Stone
Mat creeps across rooftops and along the city wall to breach the Stone, while Rand climbs it, Egwene dreams, and Perrin hunts as a wolf.
- Ch. 55
What Is Written in Prophecy
Rand confronts a Forsaken beside Callandor in the Heart of the Stone, as Egwene battles her jailers in dreams and Mat reaches the cells.
- Ch. 56
People of the Dragon
Tear wakes to a new banner over the Stone, as Moiraine, the women, Mat and an Aiel chief weigh what the night has won.
In-world dates follow Steven Cooper's Wheel of Time chronology, reconstructed from clues in the books.