Prologue, and Chapters 1 through 4 Summary

LORD OF CHAOS is fantasy novelist Robert Jordan's sixth book of his epic THE WHEEL OF TIME series. Concerning hundreds of characters in a swords-and-sorcery fantasy setting, the WHEEL OF TIME centers on young Rand al'Thor, who is destined to defend humankind from The Dark One and usher in a new Age.

Prologue - Demandred, one of the Thirteen Forsaken who serve as Agents of the Dark One, visits the Dark Lord at Shayol Ghul. Demandred relates the news from the last book — Asmodean disappeared; Rahvin dead; Lanfear apparently dead, and Moghedien disappeared. Demandred receives orders, including the cryptic phrase "Let the Lord of Chaos rule."

Elsewhere, Nynaeve is using Seanchan slave bracelets, linked to Forsaken Moghedien, who she enslaved in the last book, in an attempt to find a way to heal Siuan Sanche, the...