List of The Wheel of Time characters

[3] The Wheel of Time follows the characters Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere and Nynaeve al'Meara, teens from a remote village whose important destinies are recognized by Moiraine Damodred, a powerful member of the Aes Sedai.

[4] Introduced in The Eye of the World (1990), Rand al'Thor is a sheep herder whose remote village Emond's Field, in the Two Rivers, is attacked by a horde of monstrous Trollocs.

Rand and his friends flee with Moiraine Damodred, an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah who believes that one of them is the prophesied Dragon Reborn, the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon, a hero of the Age of Legends.

[5] Matrim "Mat" Cauthon is a mischievous farm boy who, as a possible reincarnation of the Dragon, flees Emond's Field with Rand and his other friends in The Eye of the World.

In The Shadow Rising, the snakelike Aelfinn foretell that Mat will marry "the Daughter of the Nine Moons", and the foxlike Eelfinn grant him memories of his past lives before hanging him from the Tree of Life, leaving his neck forever scarred.

Mat escapes from Seanchan-occupied city of Ebou Dar in Winter's Heart (2000), kidnapping the High Lady Tuon, heir to the Seanchan Crystal Throne, when he learns she is known as the Daughter of the Nine Moons.

[6] Perrin Aybara, a blacksmith and woodworker in Emond's Field, is also possibly the Dragon Reborn, and leaves the village with his friends and Moiraine Damodred in The Eye of the World.

[5] In The Eye of the World, the arrival of Moiraine Damodred, an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah, to the remote village of Emond's Field precedes an attack by Trollocs.

She and her companion, the Warder Lan Mandragoran, lead the trio and some others away to safety, but face danger along the way to the Aes Sedai's White Tower in Tar Valon.

They lead a trio of young men, one of whom Moiraine suspects is the prophesied Dragon Reborn, away from their small village with a horde of Trollocs, serving the Dark One, in pursuit.

Aware of Min's talents, which are unconnected to the One Power, Moiraine summons her to the White Tower of the Aes Sedai in The Great Hunt, where she meets Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara and Elayne Trakand.

Thom is presumed killed when he helps Rand al'Thor and Mat Cauthon escape by fighting a Fade, or Myrddraal, the deadly, eyeless creatures who lead the pursuing Trollocs.

Thom is proven to be alive after all when he is reunited with Rand in The Great Hunt, and he helps Mat foil a plot to assassinate Elayne Trakand in The Dragon Reborn.

[27] A visiting Moiraine, long absent from the family and distracted by her Aes Sedai business, initially rebuffs Barthanes's efforts to reconnect in "Eyes Without Pity", but later has kind words for him.

In Knife of Dreams, he learns that Eamon Valda, Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light, has raped and presumably murdered Galad's stepmother, Queen Morgase Trakand of Andor.

[20][35] In the Wheel of Time television adaptation, the Dark One is depicted as a charred figure with flames in his mouth and eyes in the season one episode "Shadow's Waiting".

[37] Padan Fain is a traveling merchant who comes to the remote village of Emond's Field in The Eye of the World, just as it is attacked by a horde of fearsome Trollocs.

Fain is a Darkfriend, a servant of the Dark One given otherworldly powers by the Forsaken Ba'alzamon so he may track Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon and Perrin Aybara, one of whom is believed to be the prophesied Dragon Reborn.

Fain sees a chance to escape the Myrddraal when Rand's group evades capture by entering the cursed city of Shadar Logoth, where the Fades and Trollocs will not go.

In The Great Hunt, she lures Aes Sedai novices Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara and Elayne Trakand to Falme by telling them their friend Rand al'Thor is in trouble.

[46][48][49] Sean T. Collins of Vulture described the character as "Handsome, worldly, sophisticated ... and he's one of the most innovative big bads I've seen on genre television since the psychotically chipper Lalo Salamanca on Better Call Saul.

[50] Introduced in The Great Hunt as the mysterious Selene, she stages her rescue by Rand al'Thor, the reincarnation of Lews, from an attack by strange beasts called grolm in a distorted, alternate world.

[52] Verin Mathwin is an Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah, introduced in The Great Hunt as part of the Amyrlin Seat Siuan Sanche's escort to Fal Dara.

[46][48][49] Alanna Mosvani is an Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah, introduced in The Great Hunt as part of the Amyrlin Seat Siuan Sanche's escort to Fal Dara.

[39] Kerene Nagashi is an Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who appears in the prequel novel New Spring, in which she is killed searching for the Dragon Reborn before the events of The Eye of the World.

[67][68] Sammael is one of the Forsaken, a top military general in the Age of Legends who turned to the Shadow out of bitterness after Lews Therin Telamon was given supreme command of the forces of the Light.

Leane is portrayed by Jennifer Cheon Garcia in the Wheel of Time television series adaptation,[10] first appearing in the 2021 episode "The Flame of Tar Valon".

High Lady Suroth is portrayed by Karima McAdams in the Wheel of Time television series adaptation, first appearing in the 2023 episode "Strangers and Friends".

As the leader of the Aes Sedai, which at that time was made up of both men and women, Lews conceived a risky plan to reseal the prison of the Dark One, whose influence had begun to seep out into the world.

She is introduced in The Eye of the World, and in ;The Great Hunt is furious to find that her daughter and heir, Elayne Trakand, has disappeared from the Aes Sedai school at Tar Valon.