The Great Hunt on the map of the Westlands
Chapter by chapter through The Great Hunt: its 54 key events and the 27 places it reaches, starting at Fal Dara.
Each one opens the interactive map of the Westlands right where it happened, with the characters' routes drawn up to that chapter. Or open the map and step through the book chapter by chapter.
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The Great Hunt · chapter by chapter
- Prologue
In the Shadow
Masked servants of the Shadow gather in a hidden hall, and one of them is told the Dark One's hour is close.
- Ch. 1
The Flame of Tar Valon
Rand's sword practice on Fal Dara's tower is cut short by a column of Aes Sedai riding in under a white flame.
- Ch. 2
The Welcome
With the Amyrlin Seat arriving, Rand tries to slip out of the keep and meets an Aes Sedai's gaze on the way.
- Ch. 3
Friends and Enemies
Every gate is barred against him, and Egwene talks Rand into a visit to Padan Fain's cell.
- Ch. 4
Summoned
Moiraine is called before the Amyrlin Seat, with Liandrin watching every step.
- Ch. 5
The Shadow in Shienar
Moiraine and the Amyrlin argue over a plan that is slipping away while, below the keep, someone comes for Fain.
- Ch. 6
Dark Prophecy
Rand wakes from a nightmare of Ba'alzamon into a worse one: Trollocs and a Fade inside the walls, and two friends struck down.
- Ch. 7
Blood Calls Blood
Moiraine and the Amyrlin take stock of what was lost, Perrin sits by Mat's bed, and Rand comes out of hiding.
- Ch. 8
The Dragon Reborn
Summoned at last, Rand is told what Moiraine has known since the night he was born.
- Ch. 9
Leavetakings
Rand rides out of Fal Dara with Ingtar's hunting party, while Egwene and Nynaeve are left to follow the Amyrlin.
- Ch. 10
The Hunt Begins
Ingtar drives south after the thieves at a punishing pace; each abandoned camp is worse than the last, and a village by the Erinin stands empty.
- Ch. 11
Glimmers of the Pattern
Ingtar halts early, and Rand, Mat and Perrin finally say aloud what each has been afraid of.
- Ch. 12
Woven in the Pattern
Egwene and Nynaeve ride with the Amyrlin's column toward the river, taking their first hard lessons in the Power along the way.
- Ch. 13
From Stone to Stone
Rand wakes in a washed-out copy of the world beside a stone column that was not there the night before.
- Ch. 14
Wolfbrother
With Rand gone without a trace, Perrin reaches for the wolves, and Verin joins Ingtar's search.
- Ch. 15
Kinslayer
Lost in a pale world, Rand, Loial and Hurin ride south, and in the night a masked figure sits down at Rand's watch.
- Ch. 16
In the Mirror of Darkness
A white-clad woman rides out of the empty land to guide them, while something far worse than Trollocs starts to hunt them.
- Ch. 17
Choices
Chased by beasts that never give up, Rand has to trust a second stone and the stranger who seems to know its secrets.
- Ch. 18
To the White Tower
The Amyrlin's ships race down the Erinin, and Egwene and Nynaeve reach Tar Valon to find nobody waiting for them.
- Ch. 19
Beneath the Dagger
Camped under Kinslayer's Dagger, Rand sees his one chance at the Horn in an enemy camp.
- Ch. 20
Saidin
Over the mountain with the Horn, Rand finds something buried under a village that answers to him alone.
- Ch. 21
The Nine Rings
At a village inn Rand meets Cairhienin soldiers who are glad to escort him to the city.
- Ch. 22
Watchers
In a quiet Arafel village, Moiraine searches old books and old friends for answers, and something with wings arrives.
- Ch. 23
The Testing
Nynaeve is led beneath the White Tower to be tested for the shawl of the Accepted.
- Ch. 24
New Friends and Old Enemies
Egwene settles in as a novice, makes friends with Elayne and Min, and learns that Tar Valon holds enemies too.
- Ch. 25
Cairhien
Rand and his friends ride into Cairhien's crowded Foregate, where a rumour about a gleeman catches his ear.
- Ch. 26
Discord
Thom is alive, and Rand tells him about the Horn and asks for his help.
- Ch. 27
The Shadow in the Night
At dusk, Trollocs begin to stalk Rand and Loial through the Foregate.
- Ch. 28
A New Thread in the Pattern
High in Kinslayer's Dagger, the Hunt meets an Aiel clan chief who is searching for someone.
- Ch. 29
Seanchan
Far to the west, a Whitecloak captain watches Almoth Plain burn, and a trader sails into Falme under the guns of strange ships.
- Ch. 30
Daes Dae'mar
Rand and Loial scramble for a way out of Cairhien as the Great Game closes in; then a fire, and old friends in the crowd.
- Ch. 31
On the Scent
The Hunt is whole again in Cairhien, and two sniffers pick up Fain's trail.
- Ch. 32
Dangerous Words
Verin brings Rand to a Cairhienin lord's feast, where Thom warns him that courtesy is a weapon here.
- Ch. 33
A Message from the Dark
In Lord Barthanes's gardens Hurin finds a Waygate and Fain's trail through it, and a message waits for Rand.
- Ch. 34
The Wheel Weaves
Thom comes in at dawn with news of his own, while Fain carries his stolen prize to the Seanchan at Falme.
- Ch. 35
Stedding Tsofu
The Hunt rides out of Cairhien and finds an Ogier stedding that Loial has been dreading.
- Ch. 36
Among the Elders
Loial faces his Elders, and the Hunt is offered a way west.
- Ch. 37
What Might Be
Through a Portal Stone Rand sees a life he might have lived, and wakes on the far side of the world.
- Ch. 38
Practice
Egwene, Nynaeve, Elayne and Min make a plan to leave Tar Valon.
- Ch. 39
Flight from the White Tower
Slipping out under Liandrin's escort, the four women ride into the Ways.
- Ch. 40
Damane
The Ways let the women out among strangers with leashes.
- Ch. 41
Disagreements
In cold rain the Hunt comes to a village the Seanchan have emptied, and Rand argues with Ingtar and Verin.
- Ch. 42
- Ch. 43
A Plan
Min brings word of Egwene to Nynaeve and Elayne, and a familiar captain offers a way out by sea.
- Ch. 44
Five Will Ride Forth
The Hunt follows Fain's trail with Whitecloaks riding in behind it, and Ingtar lays his plan for Falme.
- Ch. 45
Blademaster
Ingtar's men slip into Falme at dawn, and Nynaeve takes a risk with a collar of her own.
- Ch. 46
To Come Out of the Shadow
Nynaeve's rescuers reach the damane houses just as Falme begins to erupt.
- Ch. 47
The Grave Is No Bar to My Call
Mat lifts the Horn over Falme, and Rand rides into the fog.
- Ch. 48
First Claiming
Min walks through a shattered Falme and carries off the one man she knows she must.
- Ch. 49
What Was Meant to Be
Days from Falme, Rand wakes to the cost of what he did and to Moiraine's offer of a choice.
- Ch. 50
After
The tale spreads along the coast faster than any rider.
In-world dates follow Steven Cooper's Wheel of Time chronology, reconstructed from clues in the books.