The Wheel of Time
Summary
Amazon’sThe Wheel of Timehas start to introduce its most muscular baddie , the Forsaken , and while not all 13 have been properly explain on the show yet , important details have been revealed . Few characters in Robert Jordan’sWheel of Timenovel series are as life-threatening and malicious as the Forsaken . The Forsaken are a group of powerful channelers who gave themselves , body and soul , to the Dark One during the Age of Legends .
As the Dark One ’s top lieutenant and some of the most hefty channelers ever inThe Wheel of Time , they were interlace by just before the break of the World . However , with the stamp of the Dark One ’s prison house weakening duringThe Wheel of Time , the Forsaken are begin to walk the continent again . That leaves some Forsaken membersThe Wheel of Timehas revealed detail about , and some who remain shrouded in mystery .
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13Ishamael
Ishamael , or the Betrayer of Hope , is the most powerful and serious of the Forsaken . Ishamael is the Dark One ’s closest servant , and he is even granted the championship of Nae’blis during the serial publication , giving him lineal bureau over all other servants of the Dark . Ishamael is one of two channelers have it away to have about equal strength in the One Power to Lews Therin Telamon / Rand al’Thor . Ishamael join the Dark One during the Age of Legends because he conceive multitudinous turning of the Wheel made it inevitable that evil would finally pull ahead .
Ishamael reasoned that it would be better to fall in the Dark One and enjoy the benefits of his power before his lord destroyed the world and ripped the Pattern apart . Ishamael declare himself the Champion of the Dark , just as Lews Therin was the Champion of the Light , and began a rivalry with the Dragon , as Lews Therin hail to be known . He has committed numerous atrocities over the ages , and his weak imprisonment by Lews Therin allowed him to walk the world in roughly 40 - year period every thousand or so class . Fares Fares portrays Ishmael on theWheel of Timeshow .
12Lanfear
TheWheel of Time ’s Lanfearis the most brawny of the distaff Forsaken , and she was antecedently in sexual love with Lews Therin Telamon during the Age of Legends . She come to detest Lews Therin when he leave her for his wife , Ilyena , but never fully quashed her desires . During the Age of Legends , it was Lanfear and her fellow researchers who circumstantially bore a bore into the Dark One ’s prison while seeking a new source of superpower , which wrick out to be Dark One ’s highly life-threatening straight Power .
Lanfear ’s seeking for this unexampled case of power led her to lose the Dark One in the domain , do the War of the Shadow and the collapse of the near - utopian society that live before then . She join the Dark One because of her luxuria for power , and promptly became one of his most important creature . She is also known for being a master of the World of Dreams , sleep with as Tel’aran’rhiod . InThe Wheel of Time , Lanfear escapes her prison house and disguises herself as Selene , played by Natasha O’Keefe in the series , then attempts to make Rand al’Thor and change by reversal him toward the Shadow .
11Aginor
Aginor is one of the most oblique of the Forsaken , and he is best know for make the Shadowspawn , include Trollocs , Gholam , Myrddraal , and Draghkar . Before unite the Shadow , Aginor was a celebrated biologist , but want of morals in his genetic experiments caused him to be forbidden from conducting any further enquiry . Aginor get together the Shadow in ordination to continue his arcane skill projection without restriction . In theWheel of Timebooks , Aginor go at the Eye of the World , but he is later resurrect by the Dark One and renamed Osan’gar .
10Balthamel
Balthamel was a historiographer before joining the Shadow , and it was his desire for infinite life that force him to eventually unite the Dark One . He be given an extensive spy mesh during the War of the Shadow , and is known for overseeing camp of world that were used for feeding Trollocs . Balthamel also dies at theEye of the World in theWheel of Timebooks , but is resurrected by the Dark One , receiving the name Aran’gar .
9Asmodean
Asmodean was well have sex for being a talented player before turning to the Shadow during the Age of Legends . Asmodean , feeling his gift was not recognized as it should be , joined the Dark One in order of magnitude to obtain infinite life , which he could use to gain the musical acknowledgment he mat he deserved . Asmodean is known for blind or maiming musicians he felt were rivals to himself . He swear out as a regulator for the Shadow ’s forces during the War of Power , and was an effective executive .
In Robert Jordan’sThe Wheel of Timebooks , Asmodean joins personnel with Lanfear for a metre , before being defeated by Rand at Rhuidean . Rand captures him , with Lanfear ’s help , and forces Asmodean to learn him how to channel properly . He is subsequently murdered on Graendal ’s order , though it ’s unclear who really carried out the violent death .
8Graendal
Graendal , who was a psychologist during the Age of Legends , is sleep together for her fixation with looker and ascendence . Graendal carried rigid moral standard for centuries before turning to the Shadow , but after concluding that nobody could live up to those standards , she opted to begin living in verbatim dividing line to them . Abandoning her humble , minimalist style in favour of decadent jewelry and seductive nightgown , Graendal began using her knowledge of the human nous to become one of the most brawny wielders of Compulsion in the world .
Compulsion is a weave ofThe Wheel of Time ’s One Powerthat essentially permit the substance abuser to see to it another ’s head . Graendal is noted for using Compulsion to essentially empty the brains of her servants , reducing them to small more than husks . In theWheel of Timebooks , Graendal is killed for failing to trance or defeat Perrin Aybara , but she is afterward uprise by the Dark One .
7Moghedien
Moghedien , also roll in the hay as The Spider , bring together the Shadow shortly after the photograph of the Bore . However , Moghedien kept her allegiance a closed book for a long time , working from within Lews Therin ’s web to undermine the force of the Light , earn her the Spider moniker . She also led the Shadow ’s most broad spy web during the War of the Shadow . In theWheel of Timebooks , Moghedien is finally captured by Nynaeve , who forces the Spider to teach her and Egwene weaves from the Age of Legends .
6Mesaana
Mesaana turned to the Shadow after being overlook by the Collam Daan University during the Age of Legends . Mesaana resented being forced to learn rather than research as she desired , prompting her to bring together the Shadow and be given the freedom to conduct her inquiry . Mesaana is one of the most powerful female channelers ever , and became extremely cruel after joining the Shadow . She is infamous for instruct children to idolize the Shadow and encourage them to betray their family . In Robert Jordan’sWheel of Timebooks , she infiltrates the White Tower and directs the Black Ajah .
5Demandred
Demandred is one of the most brawny of the Forsaken , impregnable in the Power than all besides Lews Therin , Ishamael , and Rahvin . He change by reversal to the shadow out of jealousy , coming to hate Lews Therin after the submarine sandwich continually bested him in all fields . Demandred became the Shadow ’s top military full general during the War of Power , and he execute the forces of the Shadow in The Last Battle during the finalWheel of Timebook . Demandred is one of the most sly and grievous characters in the whole serial , and his hate for the Dragon force him above all else .
4Sammael
Sammael , like Demandred , joined the Shadow because he was overjealous of Lews Therin . Sammael served as a military commander on the side of the Light during the War of Power , but after the Dragon was given sovereign instruction of the forces of the Light , his bitterness caused him to turn to the Shadow . Sammael is one of the most brawny channelers ever , and he sets up his base of office in Illian duringThe Wheel of Time ’s main timeline . He is considered one of the top military generals from the Age of Legends , making this Forsaken penis a formidable adversary .
