A Wheel of Time Wiki
Register
Advertisement
A Wheel of Time Wiki
"If one of you says 'up', the other says 'down'. If you do not stop it, we may not reach Tear."
   — Elayne to Egwene


Book Index

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

Chapters
Fortress of the Light
1 Waiting
2 Saidin
3 News from the Plain
4 Shadows Sleeping
5 Nightmares Walking
6 The Hunt Begins
7 The Way Out of the Mountains
8 Jarra
9 Wolf Dreams
10 Secrets
11 Tar Valon
12 The Amyrlin Seat
13 Punishments
14 The Bite of the Thorns
15 The Gray Man
16 Hunters Three
17 The Red Sister
18 Healing
19 Awakening
20 Visitations
21 A World of Dreams
22 The Price of the Ring
23 Sealed
24 Scouting and Discoveries
25 Questions
26 Behind a Lock
27 Tel'aran'rhiod
28 A Way Out
29 A Trap to Spring
30 The First Toss
31 The Woman of Tanchico
32 The First Ship
33 Within the Weave
34 A Different Dance
35 The Falcon
36 Daughter of the Night
37 Fires in Cairhien
38 Maidens of the Spear
39 Threads in the Pattern
40 A Hero in the Night
41 A Hunter's Oath
42 Easing the Badger
43 Shadowbrothers
44 Hunted
45 Caemlyn
46 A Message Out of the Shadow
47 To Race the Shadow
48 Following the Craft
49 A Storm in Tear
50 The Hammer
51 Bait for the Net
52 In Search of a Remedy
53 A Flow of the Spirit
54 Into the Stone
55 What Is Written in Prophecy
56 People of the Dragon


Cairhien-icon
<<<   Fires in Cairhien    >>>
Setting: River Erinin aboard the Blue Crane, Cairhien

Summary[]

Point of view: Egwene al'Vere

Egwene is aboard the Blue Crane heading downriver on the Erinin towards Tear. Egwene has not seen a living person in any of the villages they passed, most of which were burned. The sailors bow to her, seeing her ring. Captain Chin Ellisor is honored to have three Aes Sedai on his ship. Egwene recalls her dreams of Perrin, Rand, and Mat, and also one of Min

Elayne comes over and feels pained over the devastation wrought by the Cairhienin civil war. Elayne speaks of recent history between Andor and Cairhien; after the Aiel War, the wars between Andor and Cairhien stopped and Andor exported much grain to Cairhien. Egwene says they can't worry about Cairhien's people, they can't do anything about it and have to figure out how to get into the Stone of Tear. Egwene suddenly realizes that one of her dreams means that a Gray Man is after Mat.

The ship suddenly stops, throwing them to the deck. Nynaeve comes up from below and surveys the status of the ship. Nynaeve says they hit a sunken ship and are stuck. The captain says a different ship should be there soon to help get them moving but it might take longer. Nynaeve says that they can just walk to Jurene, the next village on the river, and get on a different ship there. Chin Ellisor tries to talk them out of walking on the Cairhien side, but it is much shorter to the next town there. Egwene and Nynaeve start bickering as they disembark because Nynaeve is used to issuing orders as the Village Wisdom but Egwene will stand it no longer now that they are both Accepted. Elayne tries to play peacemaker with no success. They are walking along the riverside when a figure in brown and gray steps out from the bushes in front of them.

Characters[]

Referenced[]

Places[]

Referenced[]

Items[]

Referenced[]

Notes

  1. Min's return to Tar Valon in The Shadow Rising, Chapter 1 sets off a series of events which leads to the deposition of Siuan Sanche. Min herself is unharmed.
  2. Mat coming to rescue Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elayne in Tear.
  3. Sammael assumed the identity of Lord Brend in Illian.
  4. Be'lal assumed the identity of High Lord Samon in Tear.
  5. Rahvin assumed the identity of Lord Gaebril in Andor.
  6. Semirhage assumed the identity of Anath Dorje, Truthspeaker of the Seanchan Daughter of the Nine Moons.
  7. Mesaana assumed the identity of Danelle Sedai in the White Tower.
  8. Graendal assumed the identity of Lady Basene in Arad Doman.
  9. Demandred assumed the identity of Bao the Wyld, leader of the nation of Shara.
  10. The Whitecloaks invade the Two Rivers in The Shadow Rising.
Advertisement