The Eye of the World

In the sheltered village of Emond's Field, life has changed little for generations, until the night monstrous Trollocs descend from the north and burn through the Two Rivers. Three young men, Rand al'Thor, Matrim Cauthon, and Perrin Aybara, learn that the creatures came hunting them, though none can say why. They flee into a wider and far more dangerous world, guided by Moiraine, an Aes Sedai who wields the One Power, and her Warder, Lan. With them go the village Wisdom, Nynaeve, and Egwene, a young woman bound for a training of her own. Pursued by servants of the Dark One and haunted by a figure who walks their dreams, the company travels toward a refuge that may not exist, while one among them edges toward a power that has driven men mad for three thousand years. The first volume of The Wheel of Time establishes a world where time turns in cycles, prophecy binds the living, and the line between legend and history has worn thin. It opens on deliberately familiar ground before widening into one of epic fantasy's largest and most detailed settings.