What will happen in 'The Wheel of Time' season 3, if it follows the book series

Season two mainly adapted the second book of the series, "The Great Hunt," while taking a few moments from the third book, "The Dragon Reborn."

Showrunner Rafe Judkins told Deadline last year when the series was renewed that the third season would adapt the fourth book, "The Shadow Rising." It is likely the season will also adapt big chunks of "The Dragon Reborn," as there are key story elements from that novel that have yet to be shown in the TV series.

One of the main focuses of book three is Rand's journey to the Stone of Tear (a giant fortress) to collect the legendary sword called Callandor to prove he is the Dragon Reborn.

"The Shadow Rising" directly follows that event and shows Rand going back to his original people, the Aiel in the Aiel Waste, to prove the legend to them as well. We have already met three Aiel – Aviendha (Ayoola Smart), Bain (Ragga Ragnars), and Chiad (Maja Simonsen) – who travel with Perrin to Falme and help him help Rand.

However, it's worth noting that "The Wheel of Time" TV series has made several changes from the book, especially in season two. This means that what we see in season three may be vastly different from both "The Dragon Reborn" and "The Shadow Rising."

For example, Rand gets near-fatally stabbed by Mat by accident in the season finale. This doesn't occur until book seven, "A Crown of Swords," and the accidental stabbing is done by an entirely different character in the book.

In season two, we meet Lanfear (Natasha O'Keeffe), an immortal forsaken who is stuck between her loyalty to the Dark One's plan and her love for the Dragon Reborn.

Thus in the season finale, she betrays Ishamael and at the end of the episode aims to get rid of the dials that contain imprisoned Forsakens.

However, when she arrives in Ishamael's room to get rid of them, the prisons are broken into pieces. Instead, she finds one of the Forsaken, Moghedien (Laia Costa), who tells her that Ishamael freed the six remaining Forsaken before his death and they will all be hunting the Rand and his four friends.

In the book series, we are not told when the Forsaken are freed exactly, but throughout the story, they try to kill and turn Rand to their side so that the Dark One can rule the world.

Moghedien specifically is one of the villains in "The Shadow Rising" whom Nynaeve encounters and battles. Asmodean, Sammael, and Semirhage are three Forsaken who also appear in the book.

However, while the book series has 13 Forsaken, the series only indicates there are eight so far, including Lanfear and Ishamael. It is unclear whether the remaining five will be introduced at some point or have been cut out.

The Children of the Light, also known as the Whitecloaks, are a religious group in "The Wheel of Time" world who want to get rid of all the darkness in the world. However, they do not really know for sure who is working with the Dark and really just torture and kill all those who oppose them.

This includes the Aes Sedai, who are powerful channelers of the One Power. Egwene, Nynaeve, and Moiraine belong to the Aes Sedai, and the group is under an oath to protect the world from the Dark One. In the season finale, after thinking the invaders are working with Aes Sedai, the Children of the Light attack Falme to defeat them.

However, it seems by the end they have to pull back and will likely want revenge on Aes Sedai. In "The Shadow Rising," the group also attacks the Two Rivers, the home of the five heroes, after being corrupted by the Dark One's followers into thinking there is evil there.

This seems to be where the show is heading after giving Dain Bornhald (Jay Duffy), who is introduced in season two as the son of the Children of the Light battle commander Geofram Bornhald (Stuart Graham), a good reason to hate Perrin and the Two Rivers.

In the season finale, Geofram kills Perrin's wolf and friend Hopper, and Perrin kills Geofram in revenge right in front of Dain. It is likely Dain goes to the Two Rivers to find Perrin and avenge his father — and Perrin, as in the book, will likely head back to try and protect his hometown.

In the Aes Sedai organization, every witch who has passed their training and initiation is split into different groups, called Ajah, based on their talents.

However, the Dark One has been able to convert some of the Aes Sedai to their side, and those converts form the secret Black Ajah to try and do his bidding. In episode four of season two, we learn that Liandrin Guirale (Kate Fleetwood) is one of the Black Ajah, secretly corrupting the Aes Sedai.

In "The Dragon Reborn" and "The Shadow Rising" books, Egwene, Nynaeve and fellow Aes Sedai ally Elayne Trakand (played by Ceara Coveney in the series) try and hunt down the Black Ajah to stop their corruption.

In "The Shadow Rising," this all leads to a coup in the White Tower, the Aes Sedai base, where Siuan Sanche (Sophie Okonedo) is deposed from being the leader of the Aes Sedai.

Part of Mat's journey in "The Shadow Rising" — discovering his past lives — has been adapated already in season two. But there's still a major aspect of his story in book four that we could potentially see in season three.

During their journey in the Aiel Waste in the fourth book, Mat, Moiraine, and Rand go to a different dimension where they meet a fox-like race called Eelfinn.

The Eelfinn grant Mat three wishes which lead to him being gifted the knowledge of military generals, a polearm called the ‎‎ashandarei‎‎, and a medallion that protects him from the One Power.

However, when he makes a wish that he wants to leave, they misinterpret his words and hang him to a tree, almost killing him. He barely survives after being revived by Rand.