Elayne Trakand's journey on the map of the Westlands

Elayne Trakand, the Queen's daughter, in a Caemlyn palace garden. Every stop on Elayne Trakand's road through The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn, in the order the story gets there, starting at The Royal Palace: 10 places, with the chapters, the in-world dates and the key events along the way.

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Book 1: The Eye of the World

On the page in 1 of the book’s 54 chapters.

Book 2: The Great Hunt

On the page in 8 of the book’s 48 chapters.

Book 3: The Dragon Reborn

On the page in 21 of the book’s 55 chapters.

Elayne Trakand's road · journey order

Book 1: The Eye of the World · 1 stops

  1. The Royal Palace

    Ch. 40The Web TightensAdar 23 · 998 NELandmark, Caemlyn
    • Into the palace gardenCh. 40

      In the garden Rand meets the Queen's children, and then the Queen and her Aes Sedai adviser.

Book 2: The Great Hunt · 4 stops

  1. The White Tower

    Ch. 4–38Landmark, Tar Valon
    • New friends in the TowerCh. 24

      On her first day as a novice, Egwene finds a friend in Andor's Daughter-Heir and an old acquaintance from Baerlon.

    • A summons from LiandrinCh. 38

      A Red sister comes to Egwene's room with word that the boys from home are in danger, and a way to reach them.

  2. Tar Valon Waygate

    Ch. 39Flight from the White TowerWaygate, The Westlands
    • Flight from the White TowerCh. 39

      Slipping out of the Tower with Elayne and Min, they follow Liandrin to a fenced Waygate in the Ogier grove and into the Ways.

  3. Toman Head Waygate

    Ch. 40DamaneWaygate, Toman Head

  4. Falme

    Ch. 42–46Town, Toman Head
    • Captive in FalmeCh. 42

      Weeks into Falme's occupation, Egwene is being trained in the damane houses while Nynaeve and Elayne watch them from the street.

    • The captain at the Three Plum BlossomsCh. 43

      Min brings Nynaeve and Elayne down to a harbour inn to win over a ship's captain the Seanchan will not let leave.

    • A way into the damane housesCh. 45–46

      At sunrise Nynaeve, Elayne and Min put their plan for Egwene in motion, beginning with a sul'dam out on the street.

Book 3: The Dragon Reborn · 5 stops

  1. Tar Valon

    Ch. 10SecretsCity, The Westlands
    • Whitecloaks on the road to Tar ValonCh. 10

      After a winter's ride from Toman Head with Mat dying in a litter, the party is in sight of Tar Valon's towers when a band of Whitecloaks gallops up to bar the road.

  2. The White Tower

    Ch. 11–29Landmark, Tar Valon
    • Back to the White TowerCh. 11

      Verin leads the party through Darein and over the great bridge to a side gate of the Tower, where the Mistress of Novices is waiting for her runaways.

    • Mat's HealingCh. 18

      Deep beneath the Tower, the Amyrlin and her sisters gather around Mat with one of the Tower's strongest sa'angreal, while Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne watch from the wall.

    • A novice's messageCh. 25

      While the three are going over Verin's lists in Nynaeve's room yet again, a novice appears in the doorway with a message, and Egwene runs after her.

    • The storeroom under the libraryCh. 26

      Acting on the message, the three slip in by a labourers' door beneath the library and go two levels down, to a storeroom door that someone has lately chained shut.

    • Into the World of DreamsCh. 27

      With the stone ring on a cord round her neck, and Nynaeve and Elayne keeping watch by her bed in the dark, Egwene goes to sleep looking for answers about the Black Ajah.

    • A favour for the Daughter-HeirCh. 28

      Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne turn up in Mat's room after breakfast, suspiciously cheerful, with something they want him to do.

    • The Amyrlin in the kitchensCh. 29

      When the Amyrlin storms through the Tower kitchens in a temper, Nynaeve, sweating at the roasting spit, at last gets the quiet word with her she has been waiting for.

  3. Jurene

    Ch. 37–39Village, Cairhien
    • Fires along the Cairhien bankCh. 37

      Passing for Aes Sedai aboard the Blue Crane, Egwene watches smoke rise from burned villages on the Cairhien bank and turns her dreams over for meaning, until the deck lurches under her feet.

    • Maidens on the riverbankCh. 38

      Less than a mile below the stranded Blue Crane, the stranger who stood up in their path asks the three women whether they really are what their rings say.

    • Trouble on the way to JureneCh. 39

      Leaving the Maidens with their healed companion, the three push south for Jurene and a ship, keeping well clear of the riverside copses.

  4. Tear

    Ch. 48–51Capital, Tear
    • Ashore in TearCh. 48

      Ashore in Tear after too many seasick days on the Darter, Nynaeve steers the others away from the inns, down an alley to a house with herbs in its windows.

    • Dreaming into the HeartCh. 49

      With a Maule thief-catcher hired to find thirteen women, Egwene takes the stone ring to bed that night and goes looking for the Heart of the Stone.

    • Word from the thief-catcherCh. 51

      Back from haggling over mutton in the Maule's mud, Nynaeve all but runs down Juilin Sandar at a corner, and he has news of the thirteen.

  5. The Stone of Tear

    Ch. 54–56Fortress, Tear
    • A cell beneath the StoneCh. 54

      Waking bruised and shielded in a cell beneath the Stone, with a Black sister on guard outside the door, Egwene resolves to try the World of Dreams once more.

    • Down to the cellsCh. 55

      While Egwene searches a dream of the cells beneath the Stone, Mat and Juilin come down to the waking ones, past a room hung with whips and irons.

    • Dawn over the StoneCh. 56

      As Tear wakes and looks up at the Stone, Moiraine, the women, Mat and an Aiel chief meet in the High Lords' council room to weigh what the night has won.

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

Lands and waters on Elayne Trakand's road

Book 1: The Eye of the World

Lands

Book 2: The Great Hunt

Lands

Rivers and seas

Forests and marshes

Book 3: The Dragon Reborn

Lands

Rivers and seas

Mountains and hills

Forests and marshes