The Dragon Reborn - the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the saviour who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him - is on the run from his destiny. Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how - for no man has done it in three thousand years - Rand al'Thor knows only that he must fact the Dark One. But how?