Robert Jordan’s number one New York Times best-selling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, continues as Rand al’Thor and his companions set out to retrieve a powerful magical artifact from The Dark One’s Shadowspawn in The Great Hunt.įor centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Weep for your salvation.Now an original series starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Like the unfettered dawn shall he blind us, and burns us, yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last battle, and his blood shall give us the Light. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing apart all ties that bind. The Dragon shall be Reborn, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow, born once more as he was born before and shall be born again, time without end. Women shall weep and men quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. “And it shall come to pass that what man made shall be shattered, and the Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of Age, and the Dark One shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man. And at the end of every life, as he lay dying, as he drew his final breath, a voice whispered in his ear. Elayne, and Min, and a fair-haired farmer's daughter met on the road to Caemlyn, and women he had never seen before he lived those lives.

He loved other women, married other women. Egwene married him Egwene, stern-faced in stole of Amyrlin Seat, led Aes Sedai who gentled him Egwene, with tears in her eyes, plunged a dagger into his heart, and he thanked her as he died. Sometimes Moiraine came and took him away from the Two Rivers, alone or with those of his friends who had survived Winternight sometimes she did not. He held off the madness and the sickness for years he succumbed between two winters. He proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn and flung his banner across the sky he ran from the Power and hid he lived and died never knowing. He was executed, and multitudes cheered his death. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter.

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