The Fires of Heaven on the map of the Westlands
Chapter by chapter through The Fires of Heaven: its 93 key events and the 26 places it reaches, starting at The Royal Palace.
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The Fires of Heaven · chapter by chapter
- Prologue
The First Sparks Fall
A new Amyrlin bends her council to her will and hears a strange visitor, while far away some of the Shadow's chosen begin to plot.
- Ch. 1
Fanning the Sparks
Three fugitive women are sentenced to work for a retired general, and a noblewoman from Tear finds Caemlyn's queen strangely changed.
- Ch. 2
Rhuidean
In the half-built city of the Waste, Rand meets the clan chiefs and argues with Moiraine and Egwene over what he means to do.
- Ch. 3
Pale Shadows
Rand presses his reluctant teacher for answers and crosses the darkening city, while Mat, drunk and lucky, wins a knife game.
- Ch. 4
Twilight
At the Roof of the Maidens, where he sleeps, Rand gets blankets from an angry Aviendha and spares a girl a harsher punishment.
- Ch. 5
Among the Wise Ones
In the Wise Ones' tents beside Rhuidean, Egwene sits in the sweat tent while Moiraine pleads with the Wise Ones about Rand.
- Ch. 6
Gateways
Rand fights Shadowspawn high in the Maidens' building, learns a new way to travel, hears a warning, and at dawn orders the march.
- Ch. 7
A Departure
In the gray dawn the Aiel and Kadere's wagons leave Rhuidean westward with Rand, climbing over Chaendaer onto the rock flats beyond.
- Ch. 8
Over the Border
After weeks of bandits and heat on Tarabon's roads, the wagon carrying Nynaeve, Elayne and Thom meets Whitecloaks near the border.
- Ch. 9
A Signal
Camped near Mardecin, Thom goes shopping while Nynaeve and Elayne walk into town, where flowers on a seamstress's door catch their eye.
- Ch. 10
Figs and Mice
Held helpless in a Mardecin seamstress's house, Elayne and Nynaeve wait for help and learn who she answers to.
- Ch. 11
The Nine Horse Hitch
In Lugard, Siuan, travelling in disguise with Min and Leane, bullies a secret informant for word of where some missing sisters went.
- Ch. 12
An Old Pipe
Gareth Bryne and his old soldiers learn in Lugard that the women they are hunting rode west a day ago, and follow.
- Ch. 13
A Small Room in Sienda
Posing as a lady and her maid, Elayne and Nynaeve race east across Amadicia by coach to an inn in a village full of Whitecloaks.
- Ch. 14
Meetings
In the World of Dreams, Nynaeve meets a figure from legend, then Egwene and a Wise One, and hears news of Rand's march.
- Ch. 15
What Can Be Learned in Dreams
Nynaeve and Egwene slip into the White Tower's reflection in the World of Dreams to read the Amyrlin's papers.
- Ch. 16
An Unexpected Offer
Over breakfast at the inn in Sienda, a familiar face in a white cloak sits down at Elayne and Nynaeve's table with an offer.
- Ch. 17
Heading West
In bonnets and in a hurry, the women slip out of the inn by the back way and look for a place among travelling performers.
- Luca's high rope near Sienda
- Ch. 18
A Hound of Darkness
In a merchant's house in the Amadician capital, a new mistress takes command of the Black sisters and sets some of them hunting.
- Ch. 19
Memories
Morgase shakes off a fog long enough to hear hard truths from her old nurse, while in Tar Valon a Darkfriend breaks into a storeroom.
- Ch. 20
Jangai Pass
Rand's column reaches the foot of the great pass and finds a walled town burned, left as a message by those who went ahead.
- Ch. 21
The Gift of a Blade
The Aiel camp at the mouth of the pass beside the burned town, and that night Aviendha brings Rand a gift he did not expect.
- Ch. 22
Birdcalls by Night
In the dark the camp at the pass is attacked from two sides, and something comes for Rand himself.
- Ch. 23
The Fifth, I Give You
Four days through the pass bring the host down into green Cairhien past another burned town, and Rand sets rules for the Aiel.
- Ch. 24
A Message Sent
Egwene beds down in a new camp in Cairhien and, in the World of Dreams, meets Elayne for news of the travelling show.
- Ch. 25
Dreams of Galad
In the World of Dreams Egwene and Elayne search the White Tower's reflection for letters, and Egwene is nearly caught in a dream.
- Ch. 26
Sallie Daera
After fifteen days in the woods, Min, Siuan, Leane and their companion ride into a half-rebuilt village full of Aes Sedai.
- Ch. 27
The Practice of Diffidence
Siuan and Leane work on the sisters of the village to win them a place and a voice, until a rider arrives from the east.
- Ch. 28
Trapped
Gareth Bryne reaches the end of his long chase in the village of Aes Sedai and finds himself bargained with.
- Ch. 29
Memories of Saldaea
In his wagon beside a Cairhien town at night, the peddler Kadere finds a mysterious note and deals with a spy of his own.
- Ch. 30
A Wager
Looking at a river by night in a ruined town, Rand meets riders from the besieged capital and makes them a promise.
- Ch. 31
The Far Snows
In an empty merchant town, an accident sends Aviendha through a gateway into a blizzard, and Rand goes after her.
- A gateway in the bedchamberCh. 31–32 at Eianrod
- Ch. 32
A Short Spear
At sunrise in a frozen land, Rand and Aviendha find strangers with armoured guards and leashed women at the gateway home.
- Ch. 33
A Question of Crimson
At the menagerie's camp south of a big river, Nynaeve stands blindfolded for knife-throwing practice and Elayne has an idea.
- Ch. 34
A Silver Arrow
After supper by the wagons, Nynaeve and her archer friend in the World of Dreams spy on a meeting they should not see.
- Ch. 35
Ripped Away
In the wagon at night, Elayne watches Nynaeve weep in her sleep, until the men carry in someone who should not be there.
- Ch. 36
A New Name
The women fight to keep a wounded archer alive and tell their friends the truth; at dawn the show prepares to cross the river.
- Ch. 37
Performances in Samara
In the show's meadow outside the Prophet's town, the performers draw crowds, Elayne walks the high rope, and Nynaeve sees a face she knows.
- Ch. 38
An Old Acquaintance
Nynaeve follows a one-eyed man she once knew into Samara, and he offers her help and news of the Prophet of the Dragon.
- Ch. 39
Encounters in Samara
Nynaeve is led through a packed town to meet the Prophet in the house where he lives, and learns how he rules.
- Ch. 40
The Wheel Weaves
Cornered in a Samara street, Nynaeve hears a name she had forgotten, finds unexpected allies, and goes back to be shot at for a crowd.
- Ch. 41
The Craft of Kin Tovere
From a hill east of besieged Cairhien, Rand surveys three armies, then climbs a new log tower to see the city through lenses.
- Ch. 42
Before the Arrow
Mat means to leave the Aiel camp at dawn, but while waiting to say goodbye to Rand he talks battle plans with Lan.
- Ch. 43
This Place, This Day
Rand climbs the tower with Egwene and Aviendha to strike at the Shaido, while Mat, riding south to leave, finds a column in danger.
- Ch. 44
The Lesser Sadness
Rand hurls lightning from the tower until another channeler answers, and Mat keeps a hard-pressed army alive through a day of running fights.
- Ch. 45
After the Storm
After the battle Mat finds that the soldiers he saved now want to follow him, and Rand wakes to hear who came while he slept.
- Ch. 46
Other Battles, Other Weapons
Rand rides from the Aiel camp into Cairhien through cheering crowds and meets the city's nobles in the palace.
- Ch. 47
The Price of a Ship
As riots spread through Samara, Nynaeve and Elayne learn what has become of the ship they were waiting for, and decide to leave the show.
- Ch. 48
Leavetakings
Nynaeve and Elayne leave the menagerie and fight their way through Samara's burning streets to the docks in search of a ship downriver.
- Ch. 49
To Boannda
A crowded riverboat carries the women down the Eldar to Boannda and beyond, with nights in the World of Dreams and news from Egwene.
- Ch. 50
To Teach, and Learn
Nynaeve and Elayne reach Salidar and face the Aes Sedai gathered there, who are not quite what the two expected.
- Ch. 51
News Comes to Cairhien
In Cairhien Rand juggles Cairhienin and Tairen nobles, letters arrive from the White Tower, and Mat brings word from Andor.
- Ch. 52
Choices
Before Rand sets out for Caemlyn, Moiraine leads him and his companions down to Cairhien's docks.
- Ch. 53
Fading Words
In the smoke at the docks the companions take stock, Rand reads a letter left for him, and the Maidens refuse to stay behind.
- Ch. 54
To Caemlyn
Rand, Mat and an Aiel host cross to Caemlyn through a gateway, while Nynaeve, in the World of Dreams, faces a hunter of her own.
- Ch. 55
The Threads Burn
Rand hunts his enemy through Caemlyn's palace and its reflection in the World of Dreams, while the fighting spreads to the plaza before it.
- Ch. 56
Glowing Embers
In Caemlyn's throne room Rand meets a Saldaean marshal and makes an offer to men who can channel, while far off riders make for Altara.
In-world dates follow Steven Cooper's Wheel of Time chronology, reconstructed from clues in the books.