The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep The prophecies are being fulfilled but Rand al'Thor, the shepherd the Aes Sedai have proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn, desperately seeks to escape his destiny But Rand cannot run forever With every passing day the Dark One grows in strength and strives to shatter his ancient prison, to break the Wheel, to bring and end to Time and sunder the weave of the Pattern