Robert Jordan - The Shaping of a World

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The Shaping of a World

The World of the Wheel of Time

By Robert Jordan

Imagine that time is a vast wheel, with ages that come and go, only to come again as the wheel

turns endlessly. Look far enough into the future along the wheel and you can see the past. Look

far enough into the past and you can see the future. The world of The Wheel of Time -- the Age of

The Wheel of Time -- exists in that distant past that is also the distant future. We are the source

of many of that Age’s myths and legends, and they are the source of many of ours. But our

legends do not record the actual facts of that Age. What really happened has been altered over

time. Events have become twisted by the years. What one person did has been split among

many. What many people did has been compressed and given to one. Almost everything that

could be changed has been changed. But a core remains. You are about to delve into that core

and beyond -- to the truth. You are about to experience the world that gave birth to Arthur and

Thor and Coyote and a hundred more.

Imagine that you were born in that world. You do not know that you live in the breeding ground of

legends. Very likely, you do not know how your world came to be as it is, and, if you know a little

of it, almost certainly what you "know" is untrue -- a fable spun by the years. The truth...? Yes, the

truth. Well.

Three thousand years ago and more, civilization covered the Earth. Technology and science

based on tapping into the power that drove the universe and turned the Wheel of Time, the One

Power, had conquered disease and poverty. Ordinary people could expect to live as much as

three hundred years. They traveled in vehicles driven by the One Power and sailed the seas and

perhaps even to other planets in vessels driven by the Power. Men and women who could tap

directly into the Power and use it -- channel it -- by their will and ability created that very science

and technology. These men and women are called Aes Sedai. In the Old Tongue, that means

Servants of All, or Those Who Serve All. You call this time the Age of Legends when you think of

it at all. It was a time of great wonders or marvels. Unless you are a scholar, you may not really

believe in it all. There are stories that are meant only for children, after all.

The One Power had, and has, two parts, saidin, the male half, and saidar, the female half. By a

complex process called Linking, men or women working together could channel either saidin and

saidar, or both, but without the link of a Circle, only men could touch saidin, and only women

could touch saidar. Some dreamed of finding a source of power that men and women alike could

use, but in the attempt they drilled into the prison that held Shai’tan, the embodiment of evil. The

Creator shaped this prison at the moment of Creation to seal Shai’tan away from the world of

humankind. The opening was only a small hole, but it allowed Shai’tan to touch the world with a

finger -- a finger of evil that touched everything, everywhere. Humanity quickly learned to call

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