The refugees behind, already terrified by what they had just witnessed, shrieked as Ryden’s dragons turned on them, and most of them fell to the ground in fright, clearing a path. A path that exposed the Trolloc-infested city wall. Ryden’s line of dragons bowed inward like a cup, the reverse formation of those firing into the Trollocs behind, so that the tubes were pointed at the same section of city wall.

“Give me one of those bloody punks!” Talmanes shouted, holding out a hand. One of the dragoners obeyed, passing him a flaming brand with a glowing red tip. He pushed away from Melten, determined to stand on his own for the moment.

Guybon stepped up. The man’s voice sounded soft to Talmanes’ strained ears. “Those walls have stood for hundreds of years. My poor city. My poor, poor city.”

“It’s not your city any longer,” Talmanes said, raising his flaming brand high in the air, defiant before a wall thick with Trollocs, a burning city to his back. “It’s theirs.”

Talmanes swiped the brand down in the air, leaving a trail of red. His signal ignited a roar of dragonfire that echoed throughout the square.

Trollocs—pieces of them, at least—blew into the air. The wall under them exploded like a stack of children’s blocks kicked at a full run. As Talmanes wavered, his vision blackening, he saw the wall crumble outward. When he toppled, slipping into unconsciousness, the ground seemed to tremble from the force of his fall.

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Note: Within series, books are best read in listed order.

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THE WHEEL OF TIME^®

The preeminent fantasy epic of our era, created by Robert Jordan and completed by Brandon Sanderson.

The Eye of the World

The Great Hunt

The Dragon Reborn

The Shadow Rising

The Fires of Heaven

Lord of Chaos

A Crown of Swords

The Path of Daggers

Winter’s Heart

Crossroads of Twilight

Knife of Dreams

The Gathering Storm (with Brandon Sanderson)

Towers of Midnight (with Brandon Sanderson)

A Memory of Light (with Brandon Sanderson)

New Spring: The Novel (a prequel)

Young adult editions of the first two books in the Wheel of Time:

From the Two Rivers (Starscape; Part one of The Eye of the World)

To the Blight (Starscape; Part two of The Eye of the World)

The Hunt Begins (Starscape; Part one of The Great Hunt)

New Threads in the Pattern (Starscape; Part two of The Great Hunt)

Companion books to The Wheel of Time containing in-depth descriptions of the characters and the world:

The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time (with Teresa Patterson)

The Wheel of Time Companion (with Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons)

Graphic novel adaptions of The Eye of the World and New Spring: The Novel:

The Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume One

The Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume Two

The Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume Three