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With Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Zoë Robins, Madeleine Madden. Set in a high fantasy world where magic exists, but only some can access it, a woman named Moiraine crosses paths with five young men and women. This sparks a dangerous, world-spanning journey. Based on the book series by Robert Jordan.
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The Wheel of Time is an American high fantasy television series developed by Rafe Judkins for Amazon Prime Video. The series is based on the book series of the same name by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.
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- 16 (list of episodes)
- November 19, 2021 –, present
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At 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. The Wheel has seven spokes, each representing an age, and it is rotated by the One Power, which flows from the True Source. The One Power is divided into male and female hal...
The prequel novel, New Spring, takes place during the Aiel War and chronicles the end of the conflict and the discovery by the Aes Sedai that the Prophecies of the Dragonhave been fulfilled and the Dragon has been Reborn. Aes Sedai agents are dispatched to try and find the newborn child before servants of the Shadow can do the same. The series prop...
The world
The world of The Wheel of Time novels is our own world, both in the distant future and distant past. It has been hinted that our time is the First Age, the age before the Age of Legends, due to heavily distorted references to the Cold War and the US space program in the most ancient legends of the Third Age, and the presence of ancient friezes showing extinct animals, including giraffes. By the time of the Third Age, the geography of the world has shifted almost out of recognition. There are...
The main landmass
There is no universally-recognized name given for the land that stretches from the Aryth Ocean to the Spine of the World, from the Great Blight to the Sea of Storms. The Aiel call it the wetlands, while The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game calls it the Westlands, and The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time refers to it simply as "The Land." Amongst fans, the landmass is known informally as 'Randland', but this is not an in-universe title. Robert Jordan used the term 'Westlands' in the RP...
In the early 1980s Robert Jordan wrote several Conan the Barbarian novels for Tor Books, including a novelization of the movie Conan the Destroyer. These proved successful and in 1984 he proposed an idea for an epic fantasy series of six books to Tom Doherty, the head of Tor Books. Doherty approved the idea and Jordan began writing the novel that b...
Jordan had repeatedly said that the main sequence would conclude with the twelfth book, with a working title of A Memory of Light. Numerous times, including most recently at ComicCon 2006, he said he would hold to this statement even if it had to be 1500 pages long. Before his death Jordan had planned to write two more short prequel novels, an ency...
PC and Board Games
The online game Wheel of Time Multi-User Dungeon(WoTMUD for short) is the oldest authorized game based on the series (started 1993). In 1999, Atari and Legend Entertainment released a first-person shooter based on the franchise. Titled simply "The Wheel of Time", the game is set roughly 150 years before the first book and follows an Aes Sedai who uses ter'angreal in place of weapons. There is also a soundtrack album, which includes music designed for the game. A pen-and-paper role-playing gam...
Graphic novels
An eight-issues graphic novel adaptation of New Spring, produced by DB Pro, was released in 2005. In 2009 Dabel Brothers Publishing started releasing a graphic novel adaptation of The Eye of the World in monthly issues. The publishing was later taken over by Dynamite Entertainment.
TV series
A live-action TV series produced by Amazon premiered in 2021. The first season consists of 8 one-hour-long episodes that adapt the story of The Eye of the World.
Description. References. The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is an encyclopedia for the bestselling The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series of novels by Robert Jordan about the unnamed world where the plot takes place, which is often referred by fans of the series as the World of the Wheel.
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The Wheel of Time is a novel from the modern fantasy genre, specifically high fantasy. The book is set in a world that is simultaneously the distant past and distant future of the real world, as a result of time being cyclical rather than linear. The opening of the first book establishes the concept:
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Set in a high fantasy world where magic exists, but only some can access it, a woman named Moiraine crosses paths with five young men and women. This sparks a dangerous, world-spanning journey ...
Welcome to The Wheel of Time Wiki. The Wheel of Time season 2 premiered September 1, 2023 on Prime Video. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass... The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance ...
