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"Go easy when you pass through a Waygate, Rand. Things are... different inside the Ways than out. Look."
   —Loial


Book Index

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

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 Queen's Blessing in Caemlyn, The Ways

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Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, Nynaeve, Moiraine, Lan and Loial leave The Queen's Blessing in the pre-dawn darkness and head to the stable led by Basel Gill. Because of the need for secrecy, they do not use any torches or lanterns. Loial stumbles multiple times and grumbles that he is not a cat and cannot see in the dark. Inside the stable are horses for everyone including Loial, even though he would rather walk. The back wall of the stable is a hidden door to an alley. Before they leave, Moiraine tells Master Gill that if he gets any trouble due to their presence, he should write to Sheriam Sedai of the Blue Ajah for assistance. The party exits the stable and Loial leads them to the Waygate beneath a house in Caemlyn. Loial has an innate sense of direction pointing to the Waygate.

Moiraine channels to unlock a basement door. Lanterns are lit and the horses led down a ramp into the basement. Lan closes the door behind them. What appears to be a wall decorated with flowers and vines is really the Waygate. Mat is confused as to why there would be a Waygate placed in a basement, but Loial explains that this spot used to be an Ogier grove. Ogier grew groves with Great Trees in various places so that they would be reminded of the peace of the stedding. Sadly, many of the groves have since been cut down by humans and often replaced with urban infrastructure. Moiraine does not wish to speak of the past and instead lifts a special trefoil leaf off the wall and places it lower down, which opens the gate to The Ways.

Lan leads the way through the Waygate and is followed quickly by Loial and Rand. Time passes faster in the Ways and as Rand looks back out through the Waygate, the remainder of the party in the regular world seems to be moving very slowly. Moiraine is last to come through and closes the Waygate behind them. The Ways is a very different environment where the darkness presses down on them and the lanterns can barely hold back the darkness. Loial leads them through The Ways by reading special Guiding stones on each island. Sometimes they travel over a bridge to the next island and sometimes a curving ramp. The bridges are not held up by anything and are just suspended in the darkness. There is much evidence of decay. Time is precious in the Ways and Moiraine insists that they eat while still moving on horseback. Just as Rand is starting to think that traveling the Ways is almost monotonous, they discover that the bridge they are using is broken and does not connect to the next island.

Caemlyn Waygate

The Caemlyn Waygate

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