Rand al'Thor's journey on the map of the Westlands

Book 1: The Eye of the World · 20 stops

1. Al'Thor Farm

   Ch. 1 · Aine 8 · 998 NE · Farm, The Two Rivers

   • A black-cloaked rider on the roadCh. 1

     Walking to Emond's Field with Tam, Rand glimpses a rider in a black cloak watching him from the road. A moment later it is gone, and Tam saw nothing.

2. Emond's Field

   Ch. 1–2 · Aine 8 · 998 NE · Village, 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.

3. Al'Thor Farm

   Ch. 4–5 · Aine 8 · 998 NE · Farm, The Two Rivers

   • Trollocs attack the farmCh. 5

     On the night before the festival, Trollocs break into the al'Thor farm. Tam is badly wounded holding them off, and Rand gets him away into the woods.

4. Emond's Field

   Ch. 7 · Aine 9 · 998 NE · Village, The Two Rivers

   • 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.

5. Taren Ferry

   Ch. 11–12 · Aine 9 · 998 NE · Village, The Two Rivers

   • WithEgwene al'Vere, Mat Cauthon, Moiraine, Perrin Aybara

   • 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.

6. Baerlon

   Ch. 13 · Aine 10–15 · 998 NE · City, Andor

   • WithEgwene al'Vere, Mat Cauthon, Moiraine, Perrin Aybara
7. Shadar Logoth

   Ch. 18–24 · Aine 19 – 23 · 998 NE · Ruin, Andor

   • WithNynaeve al'Meara, Egwene al'Vere, Mat Cauthon, Moiraine, Perrin Aybara

   • 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.

   • 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.

8. Whitebridge

   Ch. 26 · Adar 4 · 998 NE · Town, Andor

   • WithMat Cauthon

   • The gleeman's stand at WhitebridgeCh. 26

     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.

9. Grinwell Farm

   Ch. 31 · Adar 4–12 · 998 NE · Farm, Andor

   • WithMat Cauthon
10. Arien

    Ch. 31 · Adar 4–12 · 998 NE · Village, Andor

    • WithMat Cauthon
11. Four Kings

    Ch. 32 · Adar 15 · 998 NE · Town, Andor

    • WithMat Cauthon

    • 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.

12. Market Sheran

    Ch. 33 · Adar 15–18 · 998 NE · Village, Andor

    • WithMat Cauthon
13. The Queen's Man

    Ch. 33 · Adar 15–18 · 998 NE · Inn, Andor

    • WithMat Cauthon
14. Carysford

    Ch. 34 · Adar 18–19 · 998 NE · Village, Andor

    • WithMat Cauthon
15. Goose and Crown

    Ch. 34 · Adar 18–19 · 998 NE · Inn, Andor

    • WithMat Cauthon
16. Caemlyn

    Ch. 34–45 · Adar 18 – 25 · 998 NE · City, Andor

    • WithMat Cauthon

    • 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.

    • The false Dragon paraded through CaemlynCh. 39

      The captured false Dragon is brought through Caemlyn in a cage. Trying to see him, Rand climbs a wall of the palace and falls into the garden beyond it.

    • Into the palace gardenCh. 40

      In the garden Rand meets the Queen's daughter and son and is brought before Queen Morgase herself, where her Aes Sedai adviser speaks a troubling prophecy about him.

    • 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.

17. Fal Dara

    Ch. 46 · Adar 25 · 998 NE · City, Shienar

    • WithNynaeve al'Meara, Moiraine, Egwene al'Vere, Perrin Aybara, Mat Cauthon
18. Seven Towers

    Ch. 48 · Adar 26 · 998 NE · Ruin, Malkier

    • WithNynaeve al'Meara, Moiraine, Egwene al'Vere, Perrin Aybara, Mat Cauthon
19. The Great Blight

    Ch. 48–49 · Adar 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.

20. The Eye of the World

    Ch. 49–52 · Adar 27 · 998 NE · Sanctuary, Malkier

    • WithNynaeve al'Meara, Moiraine, Egwene al'Vere, Perrin Aybara, Mat Cauthon

    • 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.

21. Near Stedding Qichen

    Ch. 51 · Adar 27 · 998 NE

    • Rand at Tarwin's GapCh. 51

      Carried beyond himself by the power, Rand sees the battle at Tarwin's Gap from above and strikes the Shadow's army with light, turning the fight.

22. Near Stedding Qichen

    Ch. 51 · Adar 27 · 998 NE

    • Against the ShadowCh. 51

      Rand faces the Dark One's champion, who has haunted his dreams since he left home, and cuts him down with a sword made of light.

23. Fal Dara

    Ch. 53 · Adar 28 – Saven 8 · 998 NE · City, Shienar