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"That bloody garden wall again. It should be built three times so high."
   — Martyn Tallanvor upon encountering Mat in the palace


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


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Setting: Caemlyn

Summary[]

Point of view: Matrim Cauthon

Mat decides to try again to get into the palace and to deliver the letter from Elayne to Morgase. He climbs up the wall that Rand used when he first met Elayne.[1] Mat drops down into the palace gardens, where he avoids the guards. Mat hears a man with a commanding voice talking about plots. The man tells Comar to go to Tear and quietly kill Elayne and also kill the other two which Mat realizes must be Egwene and Nynaeve. Mat wonders again what the three women are up to, going to Tear. Mat peeks through the window and sees a man muttering to himself, which must be Comar.

Tallanvor sees Mat and almost draws his blade. Mat manages to tell him he has a letter from Elayne, showing the seal. Tallanvor wants to deliver the letter but Mat tells him he promised to deliver the letter to Morgase himself. On the way to Morgase, Mat ponders on what his reward will be when he tells Morgase of the plot against her daughter. When Mat gives the letter to Morgase, Gaebril ask to see the letter. Mat realizes Gaebril is the voice he heard ordering Comar to kill Elayne so he can't reveal the plot. Gaebril reads that Elayne is out of the Tower again on a service for the Amyrlin Seat and questions Mat about it. Mat claims to be Thom Grinwell and says he knows nothing about it, as he was only visiting his sister Else. Gaebril considers putting Mat to the question, but Morgase disagrees and Gaebril lets it go. Morgase tells Mat to tell Elayne that she will not remove Elayne from the Tower prematurely after all as she had previously decided that in anger. Mat acknowledges this but doubts he will see Elayne again as he will not return to Tar Valon. Gaebril accepts Mat's tale and dismisses him with ten gold marks[2]. Gaebril then starts talking to Morgase about claiming the Sun Throne of Cairhien and Tallanvor leads Mat away.

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Notes

  1. The Eye of the World, Chapter 39
  2. Why doesn't Gaebril recognize Mat as one of the three ta'veren?
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