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The Great Hunt

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The Horn of Valere is stolen, and Rand joins the hunt to get it back

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Yes. It's part of the chronological order leading up to the end of the saga.

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Quick recap

Padan Fain steals the Horn of Valere and the Shadar Logoth dagger in Fal Dara. Rand, Mat and Perrin ride out with Lord Ingtar to get them back. Rand and Loial manage to grab the Horn and the dagger, but Fain takes them again. In Cairhien, Rand meets Selene, who later turns out to be the Forsaken Lanfear. Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne are lured to Toman Head, and the Seanchan capture Egwene as a damane. Nynaeve and Elayne rescue her in Falme, where everyone converges. Mat blows the Horn and summons the dead heroes, Artur Hawkwing among them. Rand faces Ba'alzamon and runs him through with his heron-mark sword. In the end, Ingtar's army wakes up under the Dragon's banner.

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What changed on screen

  1. ChangeMoiraine keeps her power

    In the book, Moiraine never loses the ability to channel and mostly works behind the scenes. In the show, she spends much of S2 cut off from the Source.

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  2. ChangeThe dragon over Falme

    In the book, the sky over Falme shows images of Rand's fight with Ishamael, and Moiraine has no part in it. In the show, Moiraine herself conjures a dragon of light around the tower.

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  3. ChangeLiandrin has no son

    The show invented Aludran, a son Liandrin secretly cares for until Lanfear kills him. That storyline isn't in the book.

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