The Westwood

For the forest by the same name, see Westwood. For other uses of the word "wood," see Wood.

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 Westwood near Emond's Field, The Two Rivers

Summary

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Rand drags Tam towards Emond's Field on a litter in the woods along the Quarry Road. At one point he has to hide from a party of twenty Trollocs led by a Myrddraal. During the journey, Tam talks feverishly, reliving old battles and finding Rand during the Blood Snow. He talks about Kari al'Thor, Rand's mother, who died fifteen years ago. He raves about the Aiel War and Laman's sin, the field at Marath and Cairhien burning. Rand heads through the woods toward the village. While the Fade and its group pass by, Rand can feel the evil emanating from the dark creature. Tam cries out more about Avendoraldera, the cutting of Avendesora that grew for five hundred years before King Laman cut it down. In some stories, Avendesora belongs to the Green Man. Tam also shouts about how pleased Kari will be that he found Rand on Dragonmount. Stunned, Rand wonders who he really is.

Tam finding Rand on Dragonmount

"... battles are always hot, even in the snow. Sweat heat. Blood heat. Only death is cool. Slope of the mountain ... only place didn't stink of death. Had to get away from smell of it ... sight of it ... heard a baby cry. Their women fight alongside the men, sometimes, but why they had let her come, I don't ... gave birth there alone, before she died of her wounds ... covered the child with her cloak, but the wind ... blown the cloak away ... child, blue with the cold. Should have been dead, too ... crying there. Crying in the snow. I couldn't just leave a child ... no children of our own ... always knew you wanted children. I knew you'd take it to your heart, Kari. Yes, lass. Rand is a good name. A good name."
   —Tam al'Thor

Characters

• Rand al'Thor
• Tam al'Thor

Referenced

• Kari al'Thor
• Marin al'Vere - as Mistress al'Vere
• Laman Damodred
• Haral Luhhan
• Alsbet Luhhan - as his wife
• Cenn Buie
• Mat Cauthon
• Green Man

Groups

• Trollocs
• Myrddraal - as Fade

Fade on the Quarry Road

Referenced

• Gleeman
• Ogier
• Aiel - as Aielman

Places

• Westwood
• Quarry Road

Referenced

• Emond's Field
• Dragonwall
• Marath
• Cairhien
• Shining Walls
• Mountains of Mist

Items

• Heron-mark sword

Referenced

• Avendesora
• Avendoraldera

Events

• Winternight

Referenced

• Laman's Sin

Concepts

• Light

Culture

Songs

• Jaem's Folly
• Heron on the Wing
• The Wind in the Barley