Mat Cauthon's journey on the map of the Westlands
Mat Cauthon, a farmer's son from Emond's Field. Every stop on Mat Cauthon's road through The Eye of the World, in the order the story gets there, starting at Emond's Field: 17 places, with the chapters, the in-world dates and the key events along the way.
Follow the road on the interactive map of the Westlands, with only Mat Cauthon's route drawn, or open any place to see who else passed through.
Spoiler-free by design: anything past where you are reading stays hidden until you reveal it.
Book 1: The Eye of the World · 17 stops
Emond's Field
Ch. 2Aine 8 · 998 NEVillage, The Two Rivers- WithMoiraine
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.
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.
Baerlon
Ch. 13Aine 10–15 · 998 NECity, AndorShadar Logoth
Ch. 18–24Aine 19 – 23 · 998 NERuin, AndorTrollocs 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.
Whitebridge
Ch. 26Adar 4 · 998 NETown, Andor- WithRand al'Thor
The Spray puts them ashore at Whitebridge. A Fade finds them in the town, and Thom turns to face it so that Rand and Mat can run.
Four Kings
Ch. 32Adar 15 · 998 NETown, Andor- WithRand al'Thor
- 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.
Caemlyn
Ch. 34–45Adar 18 – 25 · 998 NECity, Andor- WithRand al'Thor
- 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.
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.
Fal Dara
Ch. 46Adar 25 · 998 NECity, ShienarSeven Towers
Ch. 48Adar 26 · 998 NERuin, MalkierThe Great Blight
Ch. 48–49Adar 26 – 27 · 998 NE- 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.
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.
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.
Fal Dara
Ch. 53Adar 28 – Saven 8 · 998 NECity, Shienar
In-world dates follow Steven Cooper's Wheel of Time chronology, reconstructed from clues in the books.