It begins with a visit from unusual strangers for three friends— a journey that will overturn their entire lives, teach them much, and reveal things in themselves. Against their will, a whirlwind of events will draw them in, weaving their fates into an exquisite pattern of a many-faceted and wonderful world created by Robert Jordan— a world where everything depends on the next turn of the Wheel of Time.
The residents of the small village of Emond’s Field had good reason to believe that the approaching holiday would be the best one in many years. But their hopes didn’t come true: on the night before it, a band of Trollocs—soldiers of the Shadow, still considered no more than a myth—attacked the village. To protect their loved ones and friends, three young men—Rand, Mat, and Perrin—are forced to go far away in search of refuge, because precisely they were the target of the attack. But is there any safe refuge in this world for those whom the darkest has set his sights on?
“The Eye of the World” is perhaps the most imposing fantasy epic in the history of the genre. Robert Jordan managed to create a grand secondary reality based on the mythology of both the West and the East.