The wind

The wind is a framing device used in the novels of the Wheel of Time. Each book's first chapter starts with a similarly structured paragraph:
Only New Spring omits this framing device, being a prequel outside the main sequence.
==Locations==
Where the wind originates usually changes from book to book, reflecting the next focus of the story:
* The Eye of the World: born in the Mountains of Mist, blows into the Westwood.
* The Great Hunt: born in the Mountains of Dhoom, blows south across the Great Blight to the towers of Fal Dara.
* The Dragon Reborn: blows within the Mountains of Mist.
* The Shadow Rising: born in the Caralain Grass, blows north and east into Tar Valon.
* The Fires of Heaven: born in Braem Wood, blows into Kore Springs.
* Lord of Chaos: born in the hills of Cairhien, blows west into the Royal Palace of Andor.
* A Crown of Swords: born in Braem Wood, blows all the way to Dumai's Wells.
* The Path of Daggers: born on Tremalking, blows east across the Sea of Storms to Ebou Dar.
* Winter's Heart: born above the Aryth Ocean, blows east across Tarabon and Amadicia to Abila.
* Crossroads of Twilight: born in the Rhannon Hills, blows west and north to the hills outside Ebou Dar.
* Knife of Dreams: born above Dragonmount, blows east into the siege camp around Tar Valon.
* The Gathering Storm: born near the damaged White Tower, blows out of Tar Valon all the way to a manor house in Arad Doman.
* Towers of Midnight: born above Imfaral, blows across Seanchan and the entire Aryth Ocean to Alysa Bunt's orchard near Dragonmount.
* A Memory of Light: born in the Mountains of Mist, blows out of the Two Rivers, past Caemlyn, into the encampment at the Field of Merrilor.
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