However, it is not long before Rand, Loial, and Hurin are accidentally separated from the party and transported to another world via a portal stone that they unknowingly slept beside, and somehow activated. Using this sniffing ability, Hurin is able to follow the scent of their quarry across the land. To track them, they enlist Hurin, a middle aged Shienaran with the strange ability to 'smell' things that other people can't, such as being able to smell where there was a battle, even if there is no trace of it. Seeking to recover the Horn, Ingtar Shinowa, a brave Shienaran soldier, leads a small group including Rand, Mat, Perrin, Loial, Verin Mathwin, and about twenty Shienarans after the thieves, a band of Shadowspawn, and Darkfriends. In the wake of the attack, Rand has an audience with the Amyrlin Seat and is told that he is the Dragon Reborn. The evil, twisted, prisoner Padan Fain, takes Mat's mysterious and powerful, but tainted, dagger, without which he would slowly die, as well as the Horn of Valere. Shortly after her arrival, the fortress at Fal Dara is attacked by Trollocs and Myrddraal. Finally, in a distant land, a strange group of people start an invasion of the western coast.įollowing the events in The Eye of the World, the book opens with the major characters united at the city-fortress of Fal Dara in Shienar, where the Amyrlin Seat is traveling to.

At the same time, Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, and Elayne Trakand go to the White Tower in Tar Valon to begin learning the ways of the Aes Sedai.

The main story is about a group of young heroes, namely Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, and Perrin Aybara, all ta'veren, who join Shienaran soldiers in a quest to get the Horn of Valere out of enemy hands. The Great Hunt consists of a prologue and fifty chapters.

The great hunt by robert jordan