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24 places and 26 key events, in the order The Eye of the World reaches them — starting at Al'Thor Farm.

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The Eye of the World · journey order

24 places, in the order the story reaches them

  1. Dragonmount

    PrologueThe Breaking of the WorldPeak
    • Lews Therin's end; a mountain risesPrologue

      Ages before the story, the Dragon, driven mad, wanders the ruin of his own home among the dead. His enemy gives him a moment of clear sight; he destroys himself, and Dragonmount rises where he falls.

  2. Al'Thor Farm

    Ch. 1–5Aine 8 · 998 NEFarm, The Two Rivers
    • A black-cloaked rider on the roadCh. 1

      Walking to Emond's Field with Tam, Rand glimpses a rider in a black cloak watching him from the road. A moment later it is gone, and Tam saw nothing.

    • Trollocs attack the farmCh. 5

      On the night before the festival, Trollocs break into the al'Thor farm. Tam is badly wounded holding them off, and Rand gets him away into the woods.

  3. Emond's Field

    Ch. 1–7Aine 8 – 9 · 998 NEVillage, The Two Rivers
    • Strangers arrive in the villageCh. 2

      Strangers come for the festival: a lady called Moiraine and her silent companion, Lan. She gives Rand and Mat a coin each and asks about the village, and Mat has seen the black rider too.

    • The village after the night's attackCh. 7

      Rand carries Tam to Emond's Field and finds the village half burned by its own attack that night. When the Wisdom cannot help Tam, Rand turns to Moiraine.

  4. Ghealdan

    Ch. 3Aine 8 · 998 NENation, The Westlands

  5. Taren Ferry

    Ch. 11–12Aine 9 · 998 NEVillage, The Two Rivers
    • Across the TarenCh. 12

      Fleeing the Two Rivers by night, the group crosses the Taren on the ferry. Moiraine sinks the ferry and draws fog over the river behind them, and tells Egwene she could learn to channel.

  6. Baerlon

    Ch. 13–16Aine 10 – 16 · 998 NECity, Andor

  7. Shadar Logoth

    Ch. 18–24Aine 19 – 23 · 998 NERuin, Andor
    • Shadar Logoth, and the party scatteredCh. 18–22

      Trollocs drive the group off the Caemlyn road and close in. Moiraine spends her strength to get them into the ruined city of Shadar Logoth, a place even Trollocs fear to enter.

    • Downriver on a trading boatCh. 20–24

      Rand, Mat and Thom escape onto a river trader, the Spray, and her captain takes them on downriver.

  8. Tower of Ghenjei

    Ch. 23Aine 23 · 998 NELandmark, The Westlands

  9. Among the Traveling People

    Ch. 25Aine 26 · 998 NE
    • Among the Traveling PeopleCh. 25

      The wolves lead Perrin and Egwene to the wagons of the Traveling People, who follow the Way of the Leaf and will not fight. They stay with them for a while.

  10. Whitebridge

    Ch. 26–28Adar 4 – 5 · 998 NETown, Andor

  11. Artur Hawkwing Statue

    Ch. 29–30Adar 10 · 998 NERuin, Andor
    • A fallen statue of Artur HawkwingCh. 29

      Hunted across open grassland by ravens, Perrin, Egwene and Elyas shelter in an old stedding beside the fallen remains of a great statue of Artur Hawkwing.

    • Ravens, then the WhitecloaksCh. 30

      Whitecloaks ride into the stedding. The wolf Hopper is killed, Perrin kills two men in his rage, and he and Egwene are taken prisoner.

  12. Grinwell Farm

    Ch. 31Adar 4–12 · 998 NEFarm, Andor

  13. Arien

    Ch. 31–38Adar 4 – 20 · 998 NEVillage, Andor
    • Rescue from the WhitecloaksCh. 37–38

      Moiraine, Lan and Nynaeve catch up with the Whitecloak column holding Perrin and Egwene. Nynaeve takes horses from the picket lines while Lan goes in after the prisoners.

  14. Four Kings

    Ch. 32Adar 15 · 998 NETown, Andor
    • Lightning at Four KingsCh. 32

      At their inn in Four Kings, a merchant who followed them from Whitebridge corners Rand and Mat and shows what he serves. Lightning strikes, and they escape.

  15. Market Sheran

    Ch. 33Adar 15–18 · 998 NEVillage, Andor

  16. The Queen's Man

    Ch. 33Adar 15–18 · 998 NEInn, Andor

  17. Carysford

    Ch. 34Adar 18–19 · 998 NEVillage, Andor

  18. Goose and Crown

    Ch. 34Adar 18–19 · 998 NEInn, Andor

  19. Caemlyn

    Ch. 34–45Adar 18 – 25 · 998 NECity, Andor
    • Arrival in CaemlynCh. 35

      Rand and Mat reach Caemlyn and take rooms at The Queen's Blessing, the inn Thom told them to find; its keeper remembers him well.

    • The false Dragon paraded through CaemlynCh. 39

      The captured false Dragon is brought through Caemlyn in a cage. Trying to see him, Rand climbs a wall of the palace and falls into the garden beyond it.

    • Into the palace gardenCh. 40

      In the garden Rand meets the Queen's daughter and son and is brought before Queen Morgase herself, where her Aes Sedai adviser speaks a troubling prophecy about him.

    • Reunion at The Queen's BlessingCh. 41

      Moiraine, Lan, Nynaeve, Perrin and Egwene reach the inn and the company is together again. Mat meets Moiraine with the dagger he took from Shadar Logoth.

    • Into the WaysCh. 44–45

      With danger closing in on Caemlyn, the company goes down to a Waygate hidden under the city and into the Ways, a lightless maze of ramps and bridges that leads to distant places.

  20. Fal Dara

    Ch. 46–53Adar 25 · 998 NE – Adar 28 – Saven 8 · 998 NECity, Shienar

  21. The Great Blight

    Ch. 48–49Adar 26 – 27 · 998 NERegion
    • Into the BlightCh. 48–49

      From Fal Dara the company rides north into the Blight, the poisoned land along the Shadow's border, searching for the Eye of the World.

  22. Seven Towers

    Ch. 48Adar 26 · 998 NERuin, Malkier

  23. The Eye of the World

    Ch. 49–52Adar 27 · 998 NESanctuary, Malkier
    • Meetings at the EyeCh. 50

      Beneath the hill lies the Eye, a pool of untainted power guarded by the Green Man. Two of the Forsaken come down after them, and the Green Man fights so the others can get away.

    • What the Eye leaves behindCh. 52

      Rand wakes to find his friends alive. Where the Eye was, they find a banner, a horn, and one of the seals on the Dark One's prison already cracked.

  24. Stedding Qichen

    Ch. 51Adar 27 · 998 NEStedding, Malkier
    • Rand at Tarwin's GapCh. 51

      Carried beyond himself by the power, Rand sees the battle at Tarwin's Gap from above and strikes the Shadow's army with light, turning the fight.

    • Against the ShadowCh. 51

      Rand faces the Dark One's champion, who has haunted his dreams since he left home, and cuts him down with a sword made of light.

In-world dates follow Steven Cooper's Wheel of Time chronology, reconstructed from clues in the books.