In this exciting new comics adaptations of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, the momentous events related in the prologue of the novel The Great Hunt are brought to vivid life! Dive back into Jordan’s captivating fantasy world and discover the fascinating events that set the stage for the adventures of Rand and his compatriots as they hunt down the Horn of Valere! In chapter 1, “In the Shadows,” the Dark One gathers his sinister followers, the Darkfriends, and charges them to find the new Dragon that has been born into the world – at any cost. For unless he can separate the Dragon from the light, all of the Dark One’s meticulously crafted plans are threatened!

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Strangers have come to the village of Emond's Field, located in Two Rivers, during the Bel Tine holiday. With theses strangers come stories of the outside world: tales of war and of a man who claims to be the Dragon Reborn, the one prophesized to save the world, and also to destroy it in his madness. For it is known that no man can channel the One Power without going horribly insane!

This volume is the prequel to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World, also being adapted to comic book format by Dynamite.