The Shadow Rising/Chapter 1

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“The Shadow shall rise across the world, and darken every land, even to the smallest corner, and there shall be neither Light nor safety. And he who shall be born of the Dawn, born if the Maiden, according to Prophecy, he shall stretch forth his hands to catch the Shadow, and the world shall scream in the pain of salvation. All Glory be to the Creator, and to the Light, and to he who shall be born again. May the Light save us from him.”

— from Commentaries on the Karaethon Cycle
Sereine dar Shamelle Motara
Counsel-Sister to Comaelle,
High Queen of Jaramide

(circa 325 AB, the Third Age)

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Chapter Index

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

1	Seeds of Shadow
2	Whirlpools in the Pattern
3	Reflection
4	Strings
5	Questioners
6	Doorways
7	Playing With Fire
8	Hard Heads
9	Decisions
10	The Stone Stands
11	What Lies Hidden
12	Tanchico or the Tower
13	Rumors
14	Customs of Mayene
15	Into the Doorway
16	Leavetakings
17	Deceptions
18	Into the Ways
19	The Wavedancer
20	Winds Rising
21	Into the Heart
22	Out of the Stone
23	Beyond the Stone
24	Rhuidean
25	The Road to the Spear
26	The Dedicated
27	Within the Ways
28	To the Tower of Ghenjei
29	Homecoming
30	Beyond the Oak
31	Assurances
32	Questions to Be Asked
33	A New Weave in the Pattern
34	He Who Comes With the Dawn
35	Sharp Lessons
36	Misdirections
37	Imre Stand
38	Hidden Faces
39	A Cup of Wine
40	Hunter of Trollocs
41	Among the Tuatha'an
42	A Missing Leaf
43	Care for the Living
44	The Breaking Storm
45	The Tinker's Sword
46	Veils
47	The Truth of a Viewing
48	An Offer Refused
49	Cold Rocks Hold
50	Traps
51	Revelations in Tanchico
52	Need
53	The Price of a Departure
54	Into the Palace
55	Into the Deep
56	Goldeneyes
57	A Breaking in the Three-fold Land
58	The Traps of Rhuidean

[edit] Summary

Point of view: Narrator and Min

Min Farshaw, wearing a dress as a disguise with a hooded cloak over top, approaches the White Tower afraid someone will recognize her. She has just ridden from the Mountains of Mist on orders of Moiraine Sedai to tell Siuan Sanche of what had happened when she left ^[1]

Min enters the White Tower, and finds herself in the entry hall along with other women and men, waiting for someone to answer each of their questions. After a slight wait, the Accepted Faolain asks Min, "How may the Tower help you?" Min lowers her face so it can't be seen, and says she needs to ask the Amyrlin Seat something, when three Aes Sedai enter the chamber. Min has a viewing of them that she understands, seeing that they'll all die on the same day. Faolain tells her that the Amyrlin can't see everyone, but Min says it's her right. Faolain says she will ask if the Amyrlin can see her, and when asks for a name, Min gives her full name, "Elmindreda".

(To be continued...)

Point of view: Elaida

Elaida doesn't like Siuan.

Point of view: Dain Bornhald Setting: East bank of the River Taren

Dain doesn't like anybody.

Point of view: Suroth Setting: Cantorin

The High Lady Suroth has rallied the remaining Seanchan forces to the Sea Folk island of Cantorin after High Lord Turak's debacle at Falme. Suroth now leads the Hailene. The Sea Folk of the islands have all been captured. She may not have to return to the Court of the Nine Moons and apologize to the Empress after all. To avoid that, she must re-take the Westlands and deal with this man who claims to be the Dragon Reborn. If she cannot deal with him, the Empress will be the least of her worries.

Suroth enters a room where two sul'dam wait with a damane. One of the sul'dam, Alwhin, has been raised to so'jhin, a high level servant, and now shaves the left side of her head. No sul'dam has ever been raised to so'jhin, but she knows too much. Suroth is uneasy. She no longer trusts sul'dam. The other sul'dam, Taisa, holds the leash on the damane, Pura, who used to be Aes Sedai. Suroth questions Pura about how the White Tower controls the man claiming to be the Dragon Reborn, but Pura does not know. Suroth knows from Falme that the man can channel. When she persists, Pura insists that she does not know. She says she has learned how to obey and begs her not to punish her. While she is begging, Pura almost touches Suroth, so Alwhin orders Taisa to punish Pura then report herself to Surela for punishment. Suroth wishes she had the other captured Aes Sedai to question but she does not know what became of her. Pura was unable to tell simple lies, but Suroth still doubts that Aes Sedai cannot lie.

Suroth dismisses Alwhin, but Alwhin is slow to respond; she is not well trained as so'jhin. Suroth says to herself that the worst news in known only by four, and two will surely never speak of it. Alwhin overhears and adds that all three must be kept alive. Suroth dismisses her and thinks about what she must accomplish.