The Wheel of Time: Origins (2021) s01e06 Episode Script

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It is indeed the very rare
and unusual Ogier
who will decide to leave
their Stedding homes.
In the years that followed the Breaking,
during the Long Exile,
we Ogier wandered lost
in search of our Steddings.
It was then that Ogier began
to succumb to the Longing
to the point of death.
Even after finding our Steddings
once again,
we Ogier continue to be bound
to our homes.
There is no lovelier place
than an Ogier Grove.
With its great trees,
some stand towering
since the Age of Legends.
No Shadowspawn will enter.
There is no way to channel the One Power.
In the Stedding, there is rest.
While humankind has long prized
Ogier masonry,
from Illian, Tear to the great Tar Valon,
it is not the true thing.
For us, it has always been the forest.
You cannot bring stone to life.
When we sing to the forest,
it is much as if the earth itself
sings to us.
As a young Ogier,
I had few prized possessions,
of which, beyond my books,
I have not many.
And whilst there is nothing better
than to be at home in the Steddings,
surrounded by the comforts,
which offer wisdom and peace,
with our beloved groves in sight
true adventure calls.
Adventure that cannot be found in a book.
Adventure that may, in fact,
risk the Longing.