The Eye of the World/Chapter 49

"This place, is always where it is. All that changes is where those who need it are."
   —Green Man

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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 Blight, Eye of the World

Point of view: Rand al'Thor

Summary

"Then we will continue to hunt until we do find it. The Green Man senses need, and there can be no need greater than ours. Our need is the hope of the world" - Moiraine

The stifling heat of the Blight and a sullen dawn wakes Rand and the others. He notices Nynaeve’s eyes, red from crying and Lan's face from their discussion last night. Egwene picks up the Wisdom’s spirits while the party gathers their belongings. Moiraine erases their presence from the campsite with the One Power, Nynaeve’s reaction to the Aes Sedai’s channeling confirms her suspicions that Nynaeve can be taught to channel.

They journey deeper into the Blight, where Mat notices how the trees seem to want to reach out and grab them. Moiraine’s assurances that they want no part of what she is does little reassure the party. As the danger grows, Lan charges into the forest alone, while the Aes Sedai orders the Emond’s Field folk to gather closer to her for protection. The Blight closes tighter around them as the group races to the high passes, not to safety, but toward danger that their current enemies will flee from. A pack of Worms gives them a respite as the creatures they fought fear them. But Lan’s knowledge of Worms gives the party more reason to flee faster than before. As the Wormpack gets closer, Lan announces that they won’t make it. Rand’s desperation increases his need to get to the Eye. That need directs to the Eye, a bountiful garden of trees and wildflowers and butterflies.

A figure out of legend greets them, The Green Man, who greets Loial, Perrin, and Rand oddly and then leads the group the Eye of the World.

Characters

• Rand al'Thor
• Moiraine Damodred
• Lan Mandragoran
• Perrin Aybara
• Mat Cauthon
• Loial
• Egwene al'Vere
• Nynaeve al'Meara
• Green Man

Referenced

• Agelmar Jagad

Groups

• Aes Sedai
• Warder

Places

• Eye of the World
• The Blight
• Malkier
• Two Rivers

Referenced

• Mountains of Dhoom
• Manetheren

Events

• The First Covenant

Animals

• Mandarb
• Aldieb
• Red
• Worms

Items

• Heron-mark sword
• Half-moon axe

Concepts

• Light
• Shadow
• Pattern

The One Power

• True Source
• Fire ball
• Healing

Culture

• Treebrother
• Wolfbrother
• Children of the Dragon

Quotes

"Agelmar said that the Blight stirs. Perhaps the Blight also knows a Web is forming in the Pattern."
   —Al'Lan Mandragoran on the Blight

"Carai an Caldazar! Carai an Ellisande! Al Ellisande! Mordero daghain pas duente cuebiyar! Al Ellisande!"
   —Matrim Cauthon

Notes

The Dark One Stirs

The Eye of the World/Chapter 49