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The Wheel of Time series is a collection of books that so far only seven books have been written by the author Robert Jordan. The books so far are:
"Fantasy adventure in the grand
tradition -
The Dark One was convinced that his age-old enemy has been
reborn as a villager named Rand al'Thor, and he meant to
destory the young man - or seduce him away from the Light.
But as Rand took up the battle against the Shadow, he was
not alone. There were Aes Sedai -- women who could channel
the One Power -- determine to thwarting the Dark, as well
as Rand's own life-long friends who, as it turned out, had
their own strands of the Pattern to weave ..."
-- Science Fiction Book Club advertizement
Background:
The series is about a world
exists in a closed universe that has circular time. There are seven
Ages to the Wheel of Time. The series begins with Eye of the World
which takes place about 3,000 years after the Ending of the Second Age
(Age of Legends), which was ended by the Breaking of the World.
Within the Wheel of Time series the the Magic-Users are called Aes
Sedai, which in the Language of the Age of Legends (the Old Tongue)
means 'Servants of All'. The second Age ended by the War of the
Shadow in which the Forces of Light led by the Dragon (Lews Therin
Telamon) with the Hundred Companions (male Aes Sedai) against the
Forces of Darkness led by the Dark One (Shai'tan) with the Forsaken
(thirteen of the most powerful Aes Sedai who defected to the Dark)
with their Shadowspawn (Trollocs, Fades, and other nasty). The War of
the Shadow was ended with the Hundred Companions and the Dragon
re-sealing the Dark One back into his Creator-made prison with the
Forsaken trapped in the Seals. As a counterstroke the Dark One taints
the male half of Magic-Users source (Saidin) which causes any male who
touchs it to go Mad. The Madness of the taint caused the the male Aes
Sedai to break the World in which civilation as they know it was
destroyed. About thousand years after the last mad, male Aes Sedai
had died civilization was again threatened by Shadowspawn in the
Trolloc Wars which was ended by Artur Hawkwing, who defected the
Trollocs by uniting the various spinter nations of the world into a
single Empire under him. The surviving female Aes Sedai (only type
now that men who use Saidin go mad) have gathered in Tar Valon in the
White Tower. Autur's Empire did not survive his death which caused
the Hundred Year War to be fought over the piece of his Empire. The
current time of the books is about a thousand years after the Hundred
Years War. Things have settle down a bit from the Hundred Years War,
with most people believing that Shadowspawn are just myths to frighten
children.
Summaries of the Books follow ...
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