Lord of Chaos
Chapters - Robert Jordan
Prologue: The First Message
Demandred journeys to Shayol Ghul, where the Dark One asks if he would like to be Nae'blis and delivers a message that brings tears of joy to his face. In Salidar, Nynaeve studies stilling through the a'dam while Elayne learns she will not join the embassy to Caemlyn, and Min confesses her love for Rand before departing. Faile holds court in Emond's Field as Perrin feels the pull of Rand's ta'veren nature, and Gawyn leads the Younglings toward Cairhien harbouring a murderous grudge against the Dragon Reborn for the rumoured deaths of his mother and sister. Morgase negotiates for soldiers in Amador while Pedron Niall schemes to bind the nations under his leadership, and in a hidden meeting the Forsaken receive the Dark One's command to let the Lord of Chaos rule.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 1: Lion on the Hill
Rand practises the sword against five opponents in the Royal Palace of Caemlyn, where the Andoran nobles who once served Gaebril now fawn over him with hollow praise. Bashere warns him that swords are useless when he has the Power and loyal guards, then asks after Mat's surprising talent for command. Rand reveals his knowledge of the Tower split and his intention to use the rebel Aes Sedai even as they try to use him, before a Saldaean soldier announces that Mazrim Taim has arrived.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere·On page: Perrin Aybara, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 2: A New Arrival
Taim arrives in Caemlyn and immediately taunts Bashere, who barely recognises him, before Rand silences the provocation with a threat. When Rand refuses a compact of equals, Taim kneels and submits, claiming he wants whatever glory may come his way. Rand charges him with teaching men to channel, and Taim admits he has tried before, though the only student he ever had went mad and had to be killed. Taim presents one of the Seals on the Dark One's prison, and Lews Therin's voice nearly drives Rand to shatter it before Bashere intervenes.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 3: A Woman's Eyes
Rand Travels with Taim to a remote farm in Andor where a handful of men have answered his amnesty for male channellers. Taim tests the recruits for the ability to learn, beginning with a weathered old soldier named Damer Flinn, while Rand releases his gateway before Aviendha can follow. Rand instructs Taim to forge these men into weapons above all else and to watch for any student who learns suspiciously fast, as it could be a Forsaken in disguise. In an unguarded moment, Rand lets slip that he intends to cleanse saidin, leaving Taim genuinely astonished.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 4: A Sense of Humor
Rand visits the army encampment near Tear, where Cairhienin and Tairen nobles pointedly ignore the Aiel and one another. Learning that lords Hearne and Simaan have joined Darlin's rebellion, he strips them of lands and titles but offers mercy to any who surrender. At a war council he restrains Weiramon from a reckless charge and privately consults the Aiel clan chiefs, who chafe at being overlooked by the wetlander nobles. The Maidens tease him about Aviendha, and he returns to his tent pleased by a kind word from her.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 5: A Different Dance
Mat leads the Band of the Red Hand south from Maerone, dancing with a serving girl and inspecting his troops at the various inns of the town. He comes across two Hunters threatening a small orphan boy named Olver for sitting on a horse and beats them soundly, then takes the boy under his wing. The men sing a bawdy marching song Mat taught them, which paradoxically serves as a recruiting aid, and at first light the Band moves out under the disciplined structure Mat has imposed upon them.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 6: Threads Woven of Shadow
Sammael visits Graendal in Arad Doman, where she displays her collection of Compelled rulers, including the Domani King's brother and the rulers of distant Shara. The two Forsaken spar verbally over Rand's growing strength and the fates of their vanished fellows, with Graendal insisting they must stand together as never before. Privately, Graendal's true aim is to point Sammael at Rand like a weapon while concealing the plans of her allies. Semirhage, meanwhile, tortures the captured Aes Sedai Cabriana Mecandes for information, accidentally killing her Warder with an excess of stimulated pleasure.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 7: A Matter of Thought
Elayne and Nynaeve lead the Salidar Aes Sedai into Tel'aran'rhiod, where a terrifying nightmare in the White Tower traps six sisters in scenes of torture until Elayne and Siuan convince them to deny its reality. Elayne slips away to the Grand Hall in Caemlyn and is dismayed to find the Lion Throne displayed as a trophy beside a throne of golden Dragons. The Aes Sedai read disturbing reports from Elaida's desk, including an arrest warrant for Moiraine and news that Elaida has sent her own embassy to Rand. Unseen by all, Demandred watches Elayne's distress from behind the columns and murmurs the Dark One's command.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 8: The Storm Gathers
Nynaeve finds Logain holding court in Salidar, telling crowds how the Red Ajah set him up as a false Dragon, while Lelaine keeps a watchful eye on him. She stumbles upon Siuan and Gareth Bryne quarrelling over a compliment and learns that the Aes Sedai have forbidden her from meeting the Wise Ones in Tel'aran'rhiod. After enduring questions about Rand from the Sitters Delana and Janya, Nynaeve retreats to her room, where an unshackled Moghedien practises teaching her to detect male channelling until Elayne bursts in with news that an emissary from the White Tower has arrived.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 9: Plans
Pedron Niall receives reports from his spymaster Balwer and the bumbling Omerna, piecing together intelligence about Dragonsworn, the split Tower, and strange rumours from the west of leashed Aes Sedai and flying creatures. He dispatches Carridin to Altara to stir up a plague of false Dragonsworn, hoping to bind the nations together against Rand. Morgase goes hawking under heavy Whitecloak escort and learns that her son Galad has joined the Children of the Light. She rides back toward Amador past refugees and the hungry, silently vowing that if Rand has brought this ruin upon Andor, he will pay.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 10: A Saying in the Borderlands
Rand walks the halls of the Royal Palace with Bashere and Bael, learning that two Aes Sedai are staying in the New City, and goes to investigate. He finds a group of young women from the Two Rivers, including Mat's sister Bodewhin, who have come with Verin and Alanna because they can learn to channel. When Rand speaks with the two Aes Sedai privately, Alanna bonds him as her Warder without his consent, and in a surge of fury he seizes saidin and shields them both. He storms out, terrifying the Two Rivers girls with a display of the Power, and rides away knowing it is better that they fear him.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 11: Lessons and Teachers
Verin tries to calm the Two Rivers girls after Rand's display while privately pondering Alanna's reckless decision to bond him against his will. Alanna, still raw from the death of her Warder Owein, insists they should have bonded all three boys when they had the chance, though Faile's threats kept her from bonding Perrin. Rand gallops away and Travels to the farm, where Taim's students are already hurling fire and erecting shields of saidin. He forbids all contact between the male channellers and the Aes Sedai in Caemlyn, then reluctantly agrees to let Taim recruit from other villages using gateways, with Taim promising to match the White Tower's numbers within a year.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 12: Questions and Answers
Nynaeve and Elayne spend days trying to eavesdrop on the Hall's meetings with the Tower envoy Tarna, while Moghedien slyly suggests they flee to Caemlyn. Nynaeve seeks out Birgitte for horses but is refused, and the Sitters Delana and Janya interrogate her about Rand yet again. Eavesdropping beneath the Hall's window, Nynaeve overhears the Aes Sedai debating cautiously about a biddable child and wondering whose heads will end up on spikes. Theodrin catches her skulking outside and leads her away for another attempt at breaking her block.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 13: Under the Dust
Theodrin tries to break Nynaeve's block by dumping a bucket of water over her head, leaving both women bruised from the resulting scuffle. Tarna Feir visits Nynaeve and Elayne in their room, trying to persuade each of them to return to the Tower, but both refuse. That night in Tel'aran'rhiod, Nynaeve and Elayne use the concept of need to search for something that might help their cause, and they discover a crystal bowl in a storeroom that Elayne identifies as being in Ebou Dar. Nynaeve stays awake as Theodrin ordered, desperate to break her block, and does not realise she has begun to cry.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 14: Dreams and Nightmares
Egwene wanders the space between dreams, studying the pinpricks of light that represent sleeping minds, and is drawn unwillingly into Gawyn's dream where he fights and kills Rand to rescue her. She gives in to his kisses before finally tearing herself free. In Salidar, a bubble of evil animates everyday objects into weapons, killing several people before the Aes Sedai form circles and suppress the attack. Nynaeve and Elayne explain they have seen such phenomena before, and Anaiya sends Nynaeve to bed, ending her vigil for Theodrin.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 15: A Pile of Sand
Egwene wakes from prophetic dreams of Perrin fleeing his axe, Mat with ravens' talons digging into his shoulders, and Rand walking toward a burning mountain while crunching the seals underfoot. The Wise Ones Amys, Melaine and Bair visit her tent, weighing whether to let her return to Tel'aran'rhiod, and set the gai'shain Cowinde to a futile task of picking one red grain from a pile of sand. In Salidar, Tarna departs without a resolution, and Nynaeve and Elayne petition the Hall to send them to Ebou Dar to find the ter'angreal, but Nynaeve loses her temper and both are sentenced to scrub pots under Faolain's supervision.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 16: Tellings of the Wheel
Rand learns from the Andoran nobles Dyelin, Abelle, Ellorien and Luan that he bears a striking resemblance to Tigraine, the Daughter-Heir who vanished a quarter century ago, confirming what the Wise Ones told him of his true mother. Dyelin pledges to support Elayne for the Lion Throne and to judge the Dragon Reborn by his actions, while the others warn they will oppose him if he breaks his word. A messenger from Sammael proposes a truce, which Rand coldly refuses, and the messenger collapses into a puddle of blood and flesh. Sickened, Rand opens a gateway to Cairhien, eager to put distance between himself and Alanna's bond.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 17: The Wheel of a Life
Rand arrives at the Sun Palace in Cairhien, where Rhuarc and Berelain report on rebellions, the Shaido settling in the Kinslayer's Dagger, and rumours of unusual fighting in distant Shara. Trade is slowly resuming, though the drought persists, and a rare Sea Folk vessel has docked at the city's harbour. Mangin, an Aiel who helped take the Stone of Tear, confesses to killing a Cairhienin man for wearing fake dragon tattoos, and Rand has no choice but to sentence him to hanging under the laws he himself declared.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 18: A Taste of Solitude
Rand visits the academy he founded in Cairhien, inspecting inventions including a failing steam engine and awarding gold crowns for a telescope, then enjoys a philosophical conversation with Herid Fel about the seals and the turning of the Wheel. Egwene tracks him down at the Sun Palace to ask him to intervene with the Wise Ones on her behalf, but Rand refuses to help unless she reveals where Elayne is, and she will not break her promise. The Maidens struggle to keep watch over the only son of a Maiden ever returned to them, and Sulin signals her sisters when Rand slips out again.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount
Chapter 19: Matters of Toh
Rand returns to Caemlyn from Cairhien with Aviendha and Melaine, and Aviendha shares several troubling Dreams the Wise Ones have had about him, including a man holding a dagger at his throat unseen. She tells him she must find a way to meet her toh, but Rand cannot fathom what obligation she feels, since Moiraine saved her life. In the corridor outside, Aviendha takes a few deep breaths, silently tormented by the toh she owes both Rand and Elayne, knowing that the obvious solutions to one debt are blocked by the other.
POV: Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Elayne Trakand·On page: Perrin Aybara, Thom Merrilin, Aviendha, Min Farshaw, Loial, Verin Mathwin, Gawyn Trakand, Logain Ablar
Source: Dragonmount