![]() The Aes Sedai reconstituted and guided humanity out of this dark time. Eventually, the last male channeler was killed or cut off from the One Power, leaving the human race all but destroyed and only women able to wield the One Power safely. The other male channelers devastated the world with the One Power, unleashing earthquakes and tidal waves that reshaped the world. Lews Therin killed his friends and family and then, by intentionally overloading himself with the One Power, killed himself. However, at the moment of victory, the Dark One was able to taint saidin, driving male channelers of the One Power insane. After a grueling 10-year war, Lews Therin led his forces to victory in a daring assault on the volcano of Shayol Ghul (the site of the earthly link to the Dark One's prison) and was able to reseal the prison. In the Age of Legends, the Dragon was a man named Lews Therin Telamon, who eventually rose to command the Aes Sedai and their allies in the struggle against the Dark One's forces. In response to this threat, the Wheel spun out the Dragon, a channeler of immense power, to be a champion for the Light. He rallied the proud, the corrupt, and the ambitious to his cause and these servants began an effort to fully free the Dark One from his prison, so he might remake time and reality in his own image. However, in a time called the Age of Legends, an Aes Sedai experiment inadvertently breached the Dark One's prison, allowing his influence to seep back into the world. ![]() The Creator imprisoned its antithesis, "Shai'tan", the Dark One, at the moment of creation, sealing him away from the Wheel. Humans who can use its power are known as channelers their principal organization is called the Aes Sedai or "Servants of All" in the Old Tongue. The One Power is divided into male and female halves, saidin and saidar, which work in opposition and in unison to drive the Wheel. The Wheel has seven spokes, each representing an age, and it is rotated by the One Power, which flows from the True Source. a section of the companion book The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time).Īt the dawn of time, a deity known as the Creator forged the universe and the Wheel of Time, which spins the Pattern of the Ages using the lives of men and women as its threads. Fans have come to refer to this world as Randland (from the name of the central character) or the World of the Wheel (cf. The series is set in a future unnamed world and that, due to the cyclical nature of time as depicted in the series, is simultaneously the distant past and the distant future Earth. Main articles: The World of the Wheel and List of Wheel of Time characters ![]() A TV series adaptation produced by Sony Pictures and Amazon Studios premiered in 2021. Its popularity has spawned a collectible card game, a video game, a roleplaying game, and a soundtrack album. As of 2021, the series has sold over 90 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling epic fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings. ![]() After its completion, the series was nominated for a Hugo Award. The eighth through fourteenth books each reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. The Wheel of Time is notable for its length, detailed imaginary world, magic system, and its large cast of characters. The series draws on numerous elements of both European and Asian mythology, most notably the cyclical nature of time found in Buddhism and Hinduism the metaphysical concepts of balance, duality, and a respect for nature found in Taoism the dualistic concepts of God and Satan and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. He prepared extensive notes which enabled fellow fantasy author Sanderson to complete the final book, which grew into three volumes: The Gathering Storm (2009), Towers of Midnight (2010), and A Memory of Light (2013). Jordan died in 2007 while working on what was planned to be the final volume in the series. Originally planned as a six-book series at its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time came to span 14 volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and two companion books. The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three novels. ![]()
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