The Wheel of Time: Origins (2021) s01e01 Episode Script

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For centuries,
our sisters of the Aes Sedai
have sought to understand
the Breaking of the World.
Three thousand years ago,
Lews Therin and the forces of Light
struck the Dark One and sealed him away.
Before he was imprisoned,
the Dark One delivered
one last defiant strike.
The Dark One poisoned the source of power
for male Aes Sedai.
With this, Lews Therin lost his mind.
He murdered his beloved wife.
He slew his children she bore him.
His friends, his court everyone.
The Dark One released Lews Therin
from his madness,
just to show him what he had done.
But it wasn't Lews Therin alone
who suffered.
The poison spread.
No male Aes Sedai was spared.
And so began the Breaking.
The time of madness.
It was a time of unchecked, unhinged rage
that destroyed the world.
They changed the face of the world
and ended the Age of Legends.
Humanity is driven
to the brink of extinction.
What few survivors remained
are scattered across
a broken and unrecognizable land.
The breaking lasts for over 100 years
and ends only when the last
male channeler alive is gentled.
By then,
entire civilizations had disappeared.
Centuries of progress and knowledge, gone.
The very lives we live today are shaped
by this immeasurable loss.
For those of you destined
to take the shawl,
it would be among the most
sacred of duties, as an Aes Sedai,
to protect the world
from another such breaking.