The Shadow Rising/Chapter 24

"Light, I want free of the Power and Aes Sedai. Burn me, I do!"
   — Mat to himself

For other uses of the word "Rhuidean," see Rhuidean.

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Chapters
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

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Setting: Rhuidean, Sindhol

Summary

Point of view: Matrim Cauthon

Rand and Mat arrive outside Rhuidean, which is veiled in fog. Mat spied Aviendha running to the city, but Rand had not noticed. They begin to walk through the wall of fog and come out into the city which is still domed by fog. Mat walks to the nearest fountain but finds it empty. Then Rand channels and a stream of water flows out, filling the basin. After walking for a mile, they reach a huge plaza with an enormous tree at the center. The tree overlooks concentric rings of clear, glittering glass columns. The plaza is cluttered with many other things, which Mat realizes must be ter'angreal when he sees a spear standing upright with nothing to support it.

Rand notices two small figurines, about a foot tall, a man and a woman, each holding a crystal sphere. Rand sees the tree and recognizes that it is Avendesora the Tree of Life. Rand decides it is time to go in the columns but warns Mat away, telling him it is only to become an Aiel clan chief.

As Mat wanders among the ter'angreal he spies a Twisted redstone doorframe, similar to the one in Tear but with different decorations. He steps through and finds out he is not in the same place as last time. He is greeted by one of the Eelfinn. They walk down a corridor for a long time, perhaps more than an hour before reaching a doorway ahead. There were many side corridors, but they all showed the same scene, the ter'angreal where he entered and their boot prints leading away from it.

Mat enters the chamber with eight pedestals in a star shape. As he looks around he notices the doorway is gone. Mat begins asking questions, but the fox people do not answer. He becomes angry and rambles on. Finally he says that if he had his way he would want the holes in him memory filled and one of the Eelfinn responds "done". He continues by saying he wants a way to be free of Aes Sedai and the Power and he wants to be away from them and back to Rhuidean. He again gets responses of "done", not realizing that this doorway grants wishes and he has just made three of them. Suddenly he is in darkness and something is around his throat so that he cannot breathe.

Characters

• Mat
• Rand
• Aviendha
• Fox people

Referenced

• Egwene
• Pips
• Ghoetam
• Moiraine

Places

• Rhuidean
• Sindhol

Referenced

• Aiel Waste
• Tear
• Tar Valon
• Caemlyn
• Borderlands

Notes

Rhuidean

The Shadow Rising/Chapter 24