Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

The Eye of the World revolves around the lives of a group of young people from Emond's Field in The Two Rivers district: Rand al ' Thor, Matrim ( Mat ) Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, Egwene al ' Vere, and Nynaeve al ' Meara.

The story features young heroes Rand al ' Thor, Mat Cauthon, and Perrin Aybara, who join Shienaren soldiers in a quest to retrieve the Horn of Valere.

Rand al ' Thor meets Siuan.

* Rand al ' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, prepares to attack the Forsaken Sammael in Illian while enjoying life with his friend, Min Farshaw, and attempting to quell the rebellion by nobles in Cairhien, during which Padan Fain severely injures him with the Shadar Logoth dagger.

The book's title is a reference to the increasing coldness of Rand al ' Thor's personality and to the return of winter following the reversal in the previous book, The Path of Daggers, of the unnatural heat caused by the Dark One's manipulation of climate.

Rand al ' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, is bonded as a Warder by Elayne Trakand, Aviendha, and Min Farshaw.

Rand and Nynaeve al ' Meara Travel to Shadar Logoth.

During the course of the events of the book, Rand al ' Thor made an extraordinary claim: he believed he had discovered how to cleanse the Dark One's 3000-year-old taint on saidin.

Rand al ' Thor did this by creating a funnel of pure saidar and forcing saidin through the funnel.

* Rand al ' Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series

Other than apparently ordering the death of Rand al ' Thor at least once, his plans have yet to be revealed.

One of the most prominent causes currently undertaken is that of Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche: the discovery, assistance, and protection of the Dragon Reborn Rand al ' Thor.

Accompanying, guiding, and protecting the three potential boys — Rand al ' Thor, Mat Cauthon and Perrin Aybara — she took along a few others ( Thom Merrilin, Nynaeve al ' Meara and Egwene al ' Vere ) to the safety of the White Tower.

At the beginning of the saga, Siuan is the Amyrlin Seat, secretly supporting Moiraine's machinations of Rand al ' Thor.

Rand al ' Thor, also known as the Dragon Reborn, is the fictional main character and protagonist of The Wheel of Time, a series of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan.

Rand al ' Thor has many other titles within the series:

Rand was found by Tam al ' Thor, an Andoran man who had joined the Illianer army and fought at the Blood Snow.

He and his new wife, Kari al ' Thor, took Rand back to Tam's home village, Emond's Field.

Rand, his two friends ( Perrin Aybara and Mat Cauthon ), his childhood sweetheart Egwene al ' Vere and the gleeman Thom Merrilin were led out of Emond's Field by Aes Sedai Moiraine Damodred and her Warder, al ' Lan Mandragoran ( the group is eventually joined by Emonds Field's Wisdom, Nynaeve al ' Meara ).

Rand al ' Thor is special in that he is the only known soul to be woven out by the Wheel of Time for a specific rebirth.

It is supposedly fated for Rand al ' Thor to die at Tarmon Gai ' don, as one prophecy is " His blood on the rocks of Shayol Ghul.

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She has sworn fealty to Rand Al ' Thor.

In the novel Lord of Chaos, Padan Fain speculates that now that he has " brushed " Elaida with some of the taint of Shadar Logoth, she " might " trust her own mother, but never Rand al ' Thor.

Huston is currently part of the NBC television series, Smash, portraying Broadway producer Eileen Rand.

Rand currently lives in the Cleveland, Ohio area, close to Craig Woodson.

Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni ( East Rand ), and Tshwane ( greater Pretoria ) are currently merging to form a region that comprises a population of 14. 6 million people.

Binswanger is currently on the Board of Directors of the Ayn Rand Institute, and is a professor at its Objectivist Academic Center.

Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, and South Africa also form a common currency and exchange control area known as the Rand Monetary Area that uses the South African rand as the common currency.

Rand defeats Aginor and guided by blind luck uses the pure Saidin to decimate the Trolloc army and defeat Ba ' alzamon.

Rand McNally is an American publisher of maps, atlases, textbooks, and globes for travel, reference, commercial, and educational uses.

The serial comma after Ayn Rand creates ambiguity about the writer's mother because it uses punctuation identical to that used for an appositive phrase, leaving it unclear whether this is a list of three entities ( 1, my mother ; 2, Ayn Rand ; and 3, God ) or of only two entities ( 1, my mother, who is Ayn Rand ; and 2, God ).

In defense, Rand uses Callandor to send a lightning storm to kill all of the Trollocs and Fades, leaving some believing Rand has gone mad.

Rand uses a Portal Stone to transport Mat, Egwene, Moiraine, and the Aiel at the Stone of Tear from Tear to the Aiel Waste, where Taardad and Shaido Aiel are waiting for them.

An uproar breaks out among the Aiel, and, hoping to avert violence, Rand uses the One Power to bring a rainstorm to the Aiel Waste for the first time since the Breaking of the World.

Though successful in early skirmishes, things go awry later, when Rand uses Callandor on the Seanchan army.

The unnatural winter was broken by Rand al ' Thor, as he unintentionally uses the store of pure Saidin at the Eye of the World.

She is horrified when Rand uses balefire to destroy the fortress where Graendal and hundreds of her mentally-enslaved courtesans are situated.

During the surprise attack by Trollocs in Caemlyn he is hit by lightning created by Rahvin, killing him, but he is resurrected along with many of the others in the party when Rand uses balefire to kill Rahvin.

The Goddess of Reason ( 1907 ) uses the theme of the French Revolution and in Lewis Rand ( 1908 ), the author portrayed political life at the dawn of the 19th century.