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"That's right! The Dragon's banner! Moiraine wants me to be a puppet on Tar Valon strings, a false Dragon for the Aes Sedai. She's going to push it down my throat whatever I want. But - I - will - not - be - used!"
   — Rand to Mat and Perrin
For the chapter with the same title in Crossroads of Twilight, see Crossroads of Twilight/Prologue.


Book Index

0 I II III IV V VI VII
VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV

Chapters
In the Shadow
1 The Flame of Tar Valon
2 The Welcome
3 Friends and Enemies
4 Summoned
5 The Shadow in Shienar
6 Dark Prophecy
7 Blood Calls Blood
8 The Dragon Reborn
9 Leavetakings
10 The Hunt Begins
11 Glimmers of the Pattern
12 Woven in the Pattern
13 From Stone to Stone
14 Wolfbrother
15 Kinslayer
16 In the Mirror of Darkness
17 Choices
18 To the White Tower
19 Beneath the Dagger
20 Saidin
21 The Nine Rings
22 Watchers
23 The Testing
24 New Friends and Old Enemies
25 Cairhien
26 Discord
27 The Shadow in the Night
28 A New Thread in the Pattern
29 Seanchan
30 Daes Dae'mar
31 On the Scent
32 Dangerous Words
33 A Message from the Dark
34 The Wheel Weaves
35 Stedding Tsofu
36 Among the Elders
37 What Might Be
38 Practice
39 Flight From the White Tower
40 Damane
41 Disagreements
42 Falme
43 A Plan
44 Five Will Ride Forth
45 Blademaster
46 To Come Out of the Shadow
47 The Grave Is No Bar to My Call
48 First Claiming
49 What Was Meant to Be
50 After


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Setting: South of Shienar

Summary[]

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

After seeing the Fade nailed to the door and the guards hanging from the trees, everyone is a bit shaken. Uno mentions he spotted the white-dressed woman[1] again in the second village, shortly before finding the dead Fade. Rand doesn't think it's possible that it was the same woman. Due to the current morale of the group, Ingtar calls for an early stop and is extra vigilant in posting guards. Rand receives a package from Ingtar that he says is from Moiraine. Ingtar also tells Rand that he is second in command of the party and if Ingtar dies, Rand must complete the mission. Rand objects to no avail.

Rand goes into the forest to open the package and discovers that it is the Dragon BannerMat sees him with the banner and gets even angrier at Rand. Perrin reacts differently and just ponders. Rand gets angry too and exclaims that Moiraine is setting him up to be a False Dragon despite his best efforts to stop it. Perrin asks Rand whether he can channel, and Rand admits he can. Mat panics and starts rambling about all of them getting killed but Perrin tells him to shut up. Rand says that Moiraine told him that he is the real Dragon but he doesn't believe it. Rand finally gets to explain his earlier words and his friends understand, although Mat is still afraid of him. Perrin advises him to run away but admits that it may not be possible. Rand keeps trying to figure out what Moiraine wants him to do so he can do something else, but all he does is confuse himself in the increasing layers of psychology.

Rand joins Loial and Hurin on the other side of the hollow, separate from the rest of the men. Loial is examining a half-buried, weathered stone[2] which he thinks may have been worked in some fashion. The three lay down next to the stone. Rand goes to an uneasy sleep holding the Void.

Point of view: Padan Fain

Fain reflects on the changes that Ba'alzamon made to him. He is now permanently aware of the location of the three ta'veren, especially Rand, except the moments when Rand uses his "vanishing trick."[3] He followed the three to Shadar Logoth where he was transformed further. He carries the ruby-hilted dagger and it is now a part of him. He recalls his power struggle with the Fade, feeling weak every morning and losing command before wrestling it back later in the day. The weakness reduced gradually until he was able to take over completely and nail the Fade to the door in the village. The Fade had wanted to go north to the Blight and Shayol Ghul, not south where they are going now.

He has twenty Trollocs under his command along with twelve remaining Darkfriends. He is annoyed that he let the Trollocs take an entire village captive, slowing him down. He orders the Trollocs to cut all the villagers down and eat what they can, but to leave the rest of the remains in a pile for Rand to find. He threatens to feed the remaining Darkfriends to the Trollocs should they get hungry again. The Darkfriends babble how they are important nobles and useful to him; he ignores them completely. He thinks about the Horn of Valere which is in a locked chest that he can't open. He is tired of following Rand; this time Rand must do the following. They will meet again on Toman Head. There he will kill Rand and be free of him at last.

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Notes

  1. Lanfear, as proven later.
  2. Later identified as a Portal Stone.
  3. Probably when Rand uses the Void technique.
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