Lore & History
20 entries in the The Wheel of Time compendium.
The Dark One's ImprisonmentA desperate seal holds back the end of all things, though the cracks are widening.The Taint on SaidinA spiritual poison that drove men mad and shattered the world until its final cleansing.The Aes Sedai and the White TowerA fortress of white stone where power is absolute, secrets are deadly, and sisterhood is fThe Pattern and BalesTime turns like a wheel, but the Shadow seeks to tear the spokes from the hub and burn theThe ForsakenThirteen traitors of legend, freed to unmake the world once more.The Dragon Banner and CallandorThe banner binds a fractured world in hope; the sword channels the fire that may save it—oThe Aiel WarA single act of hubris shattered a thousand-year peace and unleashed the desert's fury upoThe Seanchan EmpireAn empire built on the enslavement of magic, seeking to reclaim a world they believe is thThe Age of ProphecyWhere Karaethon’s ink bleeds into history, and one man must weave salvation from destructiBreaking of the WorldA thousand years of madness that shattered a perfect world into fragments.War of PowerA war that shattered the world and sealed a god in a prison of light.Lews Therin TelamonThe Dragon of the Age of Legends, the Kinslayer who broke the world.IshamaelThe only Forsaken who believed the Wheel would break anyway.The Dark OneThe eternal Shadow seeking to unravel the Pattern itself.Prophecy of the Dragon RebornHe will break the world to save it, born of two mothers to face the Dark.The BoreOne wound in the Pattern turned a utopia of light into a battlefield for the Shadow.The SealsThirteen ancient barriers holding back the darkness.DragonmountThe scarred heart of the world where the Dragon is born and destiny turns.Shai'tanThe ancient embodiment of evil trapped behind a seal, waiting to corrupt the world.Trolloc WarsThe ancient struggle that forged the White Tower and shaped the Third Age.
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