The Great Hunt
Second book of The Wheel of Time, published by Tor Books in November 1990.
The Great Hunt is the second novel of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, released by Tor Books on November 15, 1990. It has a prologue and 50 chapters, and in 2004 was reissued as two separate books, The Hunt Begins and New Threads in the Pattern. Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon and Perrin Aybara join Shienaran soldiers in a quest to recover the Horn of Valere, while Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara and Elayne Trakand go to the White Tower in Tar Valon to learn the ways of the Aes Sedai.
Quick Facts
- Author
- Robert Jordan
- Cover artist
- Darrell K. Sweet
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Series
- The Wheel of Time
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Publisher
- Tor Books (North American) and Orbit Books (UK)
- Released
- November 15, 1990
Lore & Background
The prologue shows Ba'alzamon presiding over a secret meeting of Forsaken and Darkfriends that also includes two Aes Sedai and a Questioner of the Children of the Light, at which Rand, Mat and Perrin are all named.
At Fal Dara in Shienar, Lan Mandragoran trains Rand with the sword while Mat sickens from his bond to the tainted dagger of Shadar Logoth and the Darkfriend Padan Fain sits imprisoned. The Amyrlin Seat, Siuan Sanche, arrives and identifies Rand as the Dragon Reborn; she and Moiraine are revealed to be old friends with a secret plan for him. Dark forces attack the keep, free Fain and steal the Horn of Valere and the dagger. Rand, Perrin and Mat ride south with a Shienaran party led by Lord Ingtar and guided by Hurin, a tracker who can smell past violence, while the Amyrlin takes Nynaeve and Egwene to Tar Valon, where they befriend the Daughter-Heir Elayne Trakand and the clairvoyant Min Farshaw and Nynaeve passes the test to become Accepted.
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