Chapters 57-58 Summary

Chapter 57

Rand enters Alcair Dal. Inside, Seanna, the young Wise One of the Shaido, is trying to convince the clan chiefs that Couladin is He Who Comes With the Dawn. Couladin bares his forearms, revealing dragons exactly like Rand's. When Rand shows his arms, the clan chiefs decide that the best way to determine who is the real Car'a'carn is to ask each man what the ter'angreal in Rhiudean revealed. As clan chiefs, they had traveled into Rhuidean and used the circle of crystalline columns and would know which man described the visions correctly.

Couladin, who had never entered Rhuidean, tells them that his visions were of the Aiel crossing the Spine of the World and conquering the west. Rand, to the horror of all the clan chiefs including Rhuarc, tells the whole assembly about the origin of the Aiel, and...