Dragonmount
A Tribute to:
The Wheel of Time
By Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving
memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth
is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. The
third Age, an Age of Prophecy when the World and Time themselves hang in the
balance, a wind rises in the mountains of mist…
…Rand al’Thor is cold. Though the spring festival of Bel Tine comes tomorrow, it is a year without spring, a year when green things fail and hope is dying.
It is a year of strangers; of a lady; and a gleeman with his tales of heroes; and a peddler with news of the present –of ware with Ghealdan, far away, and of the rising of a false Dragon- the savior whose coming, foretold and dreaded, will bring a new Breaking to the World. But the worst strangers are monsters Rand thought only legend – the bestial Trollocs, and the horrifying Halfmen, whose eyeless gaze is fear.
They want a boy on the brink of manhood, born within a certain span of months. They want Rand himself, or his burly, deliberate friend Perrin, or the prankster Mat.
It is a world where nothing is what is seems. Not Nynaeve, the village wisdom, who can Read the Wind. Not Moiraine, the lady from outside, whose beauty hides a terrifying identity and a Power that seemed only yesterday to be the stuff of legend. Not the lady’s companion, Lan, whose chameleon cloak is stranger than the fluttering, multihued garment that proclaims the gleeman’s trade of old Thom Merrilin. And not Egwene, the innkeeper’s dark-haired daughter, caught between childhood and womanhood, between love of Rand and determination to become all that her destiny would make her.
The villagers know only that Trollocs hunt them. They have no way of knowing that the Dark One, imprisoned by the Creator at the moment of creation, is stirring in Shayol Ghul.
It is a time for prophecies to be fulfilled. The Wheel of Time is weaving a Web in the Pattern of Ages, a Web to entangle the World. It is a time when Time itself may die, when the Eye of the World may be blinded. What was, and what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.
For centuries traveling gleemen have told the tales of
The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of the Hunters, and so
many Hunters to tell of…
Now the Horn itself if found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the Ages.
And it is stolen.
Rand al’Thor, the farmboy who is thought to be the Dragon Reborn - the leader long prophesied who will save the would, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him - no mater what Myrddrall and Trollocs, Aes Sedai and dreams stand in his way.
But with the Horn another object is stolen: a dagger from the terrible ruins of Shadar Logoth. Unless the dagger is recovered, Mat Cauthon’s life will end. And Mat is Rand’s oldest friend. Unwillingly, distrusting everyone, Rand is drawn into the Hunt.
As Egwene, the innkeeper’s lovely daughter, and Nyneave, the young village Wisdom, set out for Tar Valon’s White Tower, seat of the Aes Sedai, Rand and the Ogier Loial, accompanied by Perrin Aybara, the Wolfbrother who was once a blacksmith, track the Horn and dagger through Shienar – and enter a world stranger than time itself. But Rand cannot escape his Power. The Dark One is stirring in Shayol Ghul. The Dark One wants the Horn. The Dark One wants Rand.
At once a continuation of The Eye of the World and a novel complete in itself, The Great Hunt is written with all the warmth, excitement, and epic strength that distinguished the first volume of The Wheel of Time.
The Dragon Reborn – the leader long prophesied who
will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad
and kill all those dearest to him – is on the run from his destiny.
Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to reach him – for no man has done it in three thousand years – Rand al’Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?
Winter has stopped the war – almost – yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?
Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem – how is he to escape the loss of his own humanity?
Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are spproaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be Healed – if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news – that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits…
Ahead, for all of them, in the Hear of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon Reborn…
The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark
One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.
In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?
In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn.
In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plots the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland.
In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his nex move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.
Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn…
…Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand
al’Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all
about him, even Egwene and Moiraine.
…Into Andor, where Siuan Sanche and her companions, including the false Dragon Logain, have been arrested for barn-burning.
…Into the luxurious hidden chamber where the Forsaken Rahvin is meeting with three of his fellows to ensure their ultimate victory over the Dragon.
…Into the Queen’s court in Caemlyn, where Morgase is curiously in thrall to the handsome Lord Geabril.
For once the Dragon walks the land, the fires of heaven fall where they will, until all men’s lives are ablaze.
And in Shayol Ghul, the Dark One stirs…
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of Heaven"
On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, where Myrddraal swords are forged, and
the sky is not the sky of this world;
In Salidar the White Tower in exile prepares an embassy to Caemlyn, where Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, holds the throne – and where an unexpected visitor may change the world…
In Emond’s Field, Perrin Goldeneyes, Lord of the Two Rivers, feels the pull of ta’veren to ta’veren and prepares to march…
Morgase of Caemlyn finds a most unexpected, and quite unwelcome, ally…
And South lies Illian, where Sammael holds sway…
Click here to listen to Rober Jordan's "Lord of
Chaos"
In this volume, Elayne, Aviendha, and Mat come ever
closer to the bowl ter’angreal that may reverse the world’s endless heat
wave and restore natural weather.
Egwene begins to gather all manner of women who can channel – Sea Folk, Windfinders, Wise Ones, and some surprising others.
And above all, Rand faces the dread Forsaken Sammael, in the shadows of Shadar Logoth, where the blood-hungry mist, Mashadar, waits for prey.
Click here to listen to Rober Jordan's "A Crown
of Swords"
The Seanchan invasion force
is in prossession of Ebou Dar.
Nynaeve, Elayne, and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne’s rightful
throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seanchan.
In Illian, Rand
vows to throw the Seanchan back as he did once before. But signs of madness are appearing
among the Asha’man.
In Ghealdan,
Perrin faces the intrigues of Whitecloaks. Seanchan invaders, the scattered Shaido Aiel, and the
Prophet himself. Perrin’s beloved
wife, Faile, may pay with her life, and Perrin himself may have to destroy his
soul to save her.
Meanwhile the rebel
Aes Sedai under their young Amyrlin, Egwene al’Vere, face an army that intends
to keep them away from the White Tower.
But Egwene is determined to unseat the usurper Elaida and reunite the
Aes Sedai. She does not yet
understand the price that others – and she herself – will pay.
Rand is on the run with Min,
and in Cairhien, Cadsuane is trying to figure out where he is headed. Rand’s destination is, in fact, one she
has never considered.
Mazrim Taim,
leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar. But what is he up to?
Faile, with the
Aiel Maidens, Bain and Chiad, and her other companions, Queen Alliandre and
Morgase, is prisoner of Sevanna’s Sept.
Perrin is
hunting desperately for Faile.
With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet, and a very mixed “army” of
disparate forces, me is moving through country rife with bandits and roving
Seanchan. The Forsaken are ever
more present, and united, and the man called Slayer stalks Tel’aran’rhiod and
the wolfdream.
In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known ad Daughter of the Nine Moons arrives – and Mat, who has been recuperating in the Tarasin Palace, is introduced to her. Will the marriage that has been foretold come about?
You can hear from Robert Jordan himself, detailing the status of his current projects,
by calling the TOR offices at (212) 388-0100 or (1-800) 221-7945 and selecting extension 701.
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