Moiraine, Aviendha, Mat, and Rand enter the legendary, forbidden city of the waste, Rhuidean where each enters a ter’angreal. Rand uses a portal stone to transport Mat, Egwene, Moiraine, and the Aiel from the Stone of Tear to the Aiel Waste, and are met by Taardad and Shaido Aiel. Thus, The Shadow Rising follows four groups of characters in four plotlines. Finally, Min Farshaw arrives in Tar Valon to report to the Amyrlin Siuan Sanche. Elayne Trakand, Nynaeve al’Meara, and Thom Merrilin depart to Tarabon to hunt the Black Ajah. Perrin Aybara hears of trouble in The Two Rivers, his native region, and returns thereto, accompanied by Faile Bashere and Loial. Other characters in the Stone of Tear also learn that they must travel elsewhere. Thus, Rand, Mat, Moiraine, Egwene, and Aviendha all travel to the Aiel Waste. Egwene al’Vere and the Aiel Aviendha are also summoned to the Aiel Waste, Egwene to learn Dreamwalking and Aviendha to become a Wise One. Mat learns from them that he must go to Rhuidean or die and also that he is destined to marry someone called “the Daughter of the Nine Moons”. Before leaving, Rand, Mat Cauthon, and Moiraine Damodred visit a ter’angreal that lets them talk to a mysterious snakelike race called the Aelfinn, who seemingly know the answer to any question.

Rand then decides that he must travel to the Aiel Waste, to be acknowledged as the Aiel’s prophesied leader. In defense, Rand uses Callandor to create a lightning storm killing all the Trollocs and Fades. However, the fortress known as the Stone of Tear is stormed by Trollocs and Fades, sent by another Forsaken (Sammael), while a third, Semirhage, sends her followers into the Stone, to oppose Sammael’s forces. He is approached by Lanfear, who tells him of the Forsaken’s plans. Rand al’Thor has just claimed the crystal sword Callandor to prove himself the Dragon Reborn. The shadow rising video review (wheel of Time)

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