We see them running away from...something, somewhere. It's not Two Rivers/Emond's Field because neither the architecture nor the armor worn by people around them matches Two Rivers stuff (their clothes are wrong, too). It could be the Baerlon/Caemlyn fill in, OR...it could be when the...
It seems readily apparent to me that Perrin inherits Stepin's axe, tbh. :p
My current theory is that they're essentially replacing the Whitecloak storyline in the first book with Dragonsworn instead.
Basically, I think we'll have a couple of different initial groups that we follow:
- Red...