The Wheel of Time

Synopsis

In this world time is not a line but an enormous wheel that turns. Ages end and begin again, legends become myth, myth is forgotten, and what was lost reappears in another age. Living an ordinary life in a remote village called the Two Rivers, Rand al'Thor learns one day that he may be the being whose existence will change the world's fate. He and his friends leave the village in what feels like flight, but the flight quickly becomes a walk into the center of prophecy, power, and war. The work refuses to settle into a simple 'chosen hero' narrative. Prophecy is at once a promise of salvation and a sign of ruin; power is a means of liberation and an invitation to madness and corruption. The taint placed on male channelers, in particular, adds a tragic tension to the salvation arc. The story expands into a vast war narrative as countless characters, nations, organizations, and prophecies tangle together. In the end the question is not Rand's personal victory — it is whether humanity, inside the recurring world, can endure despair and still carry the next age forward.

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