![]() ![]() Robert Jordan’s basic idea for these books was to explore what it would be like for someone to walk up to you, tap you on the shoulder, and say, “you’re the savior of mankind.” So much of the beginning of these books is the savior character grappling with this reality, and coming to terms with his fate. ![]() This incarnation is the lead up to the final battle: Tarmon Gai’don. He may go by different names, but he is the same soul each time. Lews Therin battles the Dark One across time and space. Heroes are born again in different ages, and battles are fought and fought again. Central to these legends, and the telling of them, is the idea that time is circular, not linear. If these books can be said to be about anything, they are surely about how legends are formed, and how truth diffuses through a culture and changes with the telling. ![]() Thus begins every book in The Wheel of Time. there are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. In one Age, called the third age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. Legends fade to myth, and even myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. ![]()
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