Winternight

"I got it a long time ago, a long way from here. And I paid entirely too much..."
   —Tam al'Thor (about his sword)

For the holiday by the same name, see Winternight. For other uses of the words "winter" and "night," see Winter and Night.

Book Index
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Chapters
Dragonmount - Ravens 1 An Empty Road 2 Strangers 3 The Peddler 4 The Gleeman 5 Winternight 6 The Westwood 7 Out of the Woods 8 A Place of Safety 9 Tellings of the Wheel 10 Leavetaking 11 The Road to Taren Ferry 12 Across the Taren 13 Choices 14 The Stag and Lion 15 Strangers and Friends 16 The Wisdom 17 Watchers and Hunters 18 The Caemlyn Road 19 Shadow's Waiting 20 Dust on the Wind 21 Listen to the Wind 22 A Path Chosen 23 Wolfbrother 24 Flight Down the Arinelle 25 The Traveling People 26 Whitebridge 27 Shelter from the Storm 28 Footprints in Air 29 Eyes Without Pity 30 Children of Shadow 31 Play for Your Supper 32 Four Kings in Shadow 33 The Dark Waits 34 The Last Village 35 Caemlyn 36 Web of the Pattern 37 The Long Chase 38 Rescue 39 Weaving of the Web 40 The Web Tightens 41 Old Friends and New Threats 42 Remembrance of Dreams 43 Decisions and Apparitions 44 The Dark Along the Ways 45 What Follows in Shadow 46 Fal Dara 47 More Tales of the Wheel 48 The Blight 49 The Dark One Stirs 50 Meetings at the Eye 51 Against the Shadow 52 Neither Beginning Nor End 53 The Wheel Turns

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Setting: The al'Thor farm in the Westwood near Emond's Field, The Two Rivers

Summary

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Rand and Tam return to their farm and do chores until time for dinner. Tam locks the doors of the house, even though no one in the Two Rivers ever does such a thing, saying it's best to be safe. While dinner is cooking, he goes upstairs and retrieves a sword from an old chest under his bed. Rand is surprised; he has never seen the sword, and decides to ask more questions over dinner.

"Where did that come from? Did you get it from a peddler?"

As dinner is being served, Trollocs burst into the farmhouse. Rand flees through a side window as Tam holds them off, killing three. The two men regroup in the woods, where Rand finds that his father has been wounded and is suffering from a high fever. He returns to the farmhouse to collect supplies.

After entering, Rand meets a Trolloc named Narg who asks him to put his sword down and says a Myrddraal will be coming and will want to speak with him. When Rand lowers his sword, Narg tries to rush him. Standing his ground, Rand manages to raise the sword in time and kills the beast, mostly by accident. After collecting needed supplies from the house, he goes to the barn to get Bela and the cart, but finds the horse and milk cow are missing and the cart mostly destroyed. Wondering how he is going to carry Tam back to Emond's Field, he realizes timbers from the cart could be used for a litter. After using Tam's sword to cut the hard wood and finding the blade miraculously unaffected, he bundles all the gathered gear up and makes his way back to Tam.

"Others go away. Narg stay. Narg smart."

Characters

• Tam al'Thor
• Rand al'Thor
• Bela (animal)
• Narg (first appearance)

Referenced

• Myrddraal
• Kari al'Thor - as Rand's mother
• Jain Farstrider
• al'Lan Mandragoran
• Oren Dautry
• Perrin Aybara
• Dark One
• Nynaeve al'Meara
• Haral Luhhan - as Master Luhhan

Groups

• Trollocs

Referenced

• Aes Sedai
• Myrddraal

Places

• Two Rivers
• Westwood

Referenced

• Emond's Field
• Winespring Inn

Items

• The Travels of Jain Farstrider (book)
• Tam al'Thor's sword

Events

• Winternight

Referenced

• Bel Tine

Concepts

• False Dragon