00x01 - Origins: The Breaking of the World

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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 m*rder*d 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 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.