The Wheel of Time · Journey map

Moiraine's journey on the map of the Westlands

Moiraine, a stranger newly come to the Two Rivers. Every stop on Moiraine's road through The Eye of the World, in the order the story gets there, starting at Emond's Field: 10 places, with the chapters, the in-world dates and the key events along the way.

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Moiraine's road · journey order

Book 1: The Eye of the World · 10 stops

  1. Emond's Field

    Ch. 2–7Aine 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Baerlon

    Ch. 13Aine 10–15 · 998 NECity, Andor

  4. Shadar Logoth

    Ch. 18–22Aine 19 – 20 · 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.

  5. Whitebridge

    Ch. 28Adar 5 · 998 NETown, Andor

  6. Near Arien

    Ch. 37–38Adar 20 · 998 NE
    • 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.

  7. Caemlyn

    Ch. 41–45Adar 23 – 25 · 998 NECity, Andor
    • 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.

  8. Fal Dara

    Ch. 46Adar 25 · 998 NECity, Shienar

  9. Seven Towers

    Ch. 48Adar 26 · 998 NERuin, Malkier

  10. The 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.