The Wheel of Time
word of advice : this article contains spoilers forThe Wheel of Timebook series , particularly Word 14,A Memory of Light .
With fifteen book and a massive cast all coming together for an apocalyptic finish , The Wheel of Timefans have a destiny to keep track of by the oddment of the series as the Dragon Reborn and his follower make their play to at long last defeat the Dark One and win Tarmon Gai’don . astonishingly , many of the submarine of the serial do survive the events of the Last Battle , although none survive unscathed .
The Amazon Prime adaptation is still a long direction off from even hinting at the climax ofA Memory of Light , even ifThe Wheel of Timeseason 3 does encompass three booksat once . Entirebeloved moments from theWheel of Timebooks may not befall , for the sake of interpret it to shield . The show may not even wind up with an ending that ’s accurate to the Holy Writ . Butfor now , we know how the record book finish — or at least , how the story complete for eachWheel of Timecharacter , as there are no beginning or endings to the Wheel of Time .
1Rand al’Thor
The Dragon Reborn
As the prophesied Dragon Reborn , Rand ’s part inThe Wheel of Timeends as was foretold . In the lead - up to the Last Battle , he gather all the rulers of the Westlands and bound them to his will , forcing them to ratify his accord , the Dragon ’s Peace , before he would agree to face the Dark One . He even made the Seanchan agree to the Peace and offer reinforcements on the eve of the Last Battle .
Rand did battle with the Moridin and Dark One in the Pit of Doombeneath Shayol Ghul , and although his victory was heavily - gain , it was still a victory . The Shadow was seal away outside of the Pattern again , as it was before Lews Therin and the Companions opened the Bore , and the Last Battle was win , but the Dragon ’s wound and exertion had break his body and he staggered out of the Pit , dripping line and carry Moridin ’s evenly hurt configuration .
Despite the best sweat of the Aes Sedai , Rand ’s soundbox die shortly after that , yet the link forged between Rand and Moridin ’s souls had an unexpected effect — they had swap body as they both lay near dying , so that it was Moridin who died . Rand , in Moridin ’s body , woke up and slipped off while everyone catch his pyre burn in one ofThe Wheel of Timebooks ' most memorable moments . His lovers — Min , Elayne , and Aviendha — could all find he was still live , and he knew he would see them again , butfor now , he was contented to but wander , no longer under the weight of being the Dragon Reborn .
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2Egwene al’Vere
The Greatest Amyrlin Seat
Egwene , whose story in theWheel of Timebookssaw her raise to the Amyrlin Seat in Word of God six , Lord of Chaos , went into preparations for the Last Battle at odds with Rand , believing that the Aes Sedai should be at the forefront of the fight . She attempted to undermine him during the disputation over the Dragon ’s Peace , only relenting when Moiraine interpose . At the outbreak of the Last Battle , Egwene surrendered command of the forces of the Aes Sedai to Mat and flung herself into engagement .
Almost shattered by her beloved Warder Gawyn ’s expiry at the hands of the Forsaken Demandred , Egwene continued to cut through the armies of the Shadow until she came up against another Forsaken , the traitorous M’Hael . As she wove her own Power against the Forsaken ’s balefire , she realized how to create a weave polar to balefire ’s Pattern - shattering brightnessand used this young weapon — the Flame of Tar Valon — to kill M’Hael , turn his eubstance to vitreous silica .
cycle of Time ’s show has yet to introduce the strongest power in the record , but it feels like it ’s only a topic of time before someone uses Balefire .
Then , realizing she was already on the verge of burning herself out with too much of the Power , Egwene al’Vere used every cliff ofsaidarshe could reach to desolate the Shadow ’s channelers with the new Flame . Althoughshe was consumed by her own channeling , she annihilated hundred of the foe in an instant in a moving ridge of crystalline blaze , sealing the cracks in the background made by M’Hael ’s balefire and helping reverse the tide with her final ritual killing .
3Nyneave al’Meara
Queen of Malkier
Nyneave was one of the two Aes Sedai who accompany Rand into the Pit of Doom for the Last Battle , alongside Moiraine . It was her military posture and Wisdom of Solomon that helped patronise the Dragon in his terminal conflicts with Moridin and the Dark One , and she was able-bodied to flee the Pit once the Dark One was imprisoned again .
Although profoundly upset that she could not cure Rand ’s break dead body , and double so that Egwene kick the bucket on the field of operation of battle without her , Nyneave was grateful that her dear Lan survived . Together , they donned the Crowns of Malkier and set off to rebuild the fallen kingdom as the Blight move back .
4Lan Mandragoran
King of Malkier
Lan began the Last Battle by finally allowing the Golden Crane , the conflict of Malkier , to fly behind him as he twit to Tarwin ’s spread in hopes of slowing the torrent of Shadowspawn that had amassed at the edge of the Blight . At the nous of a massive United States Army of Borderlanders , he repeatedly defied the odds , at one point even singlehandedly slaying a pair of Myrddrall . Although they were push into a fighting retirement back through Shienar , Lan and his army forced the Shadow to ante up for every inch of ground .
Lan ’s almost nonnatural accomplishment with a sword observe him alive long enough to realize that a traditional affaire d’honneur could n’t be won
As his army finally set out to give in to attrition , Lan decided to sever the head of the serpent and cod out to challenge Demandred , the Forsaken superior general . Although at a vast disadvantage against the ancient channeler , Lan ’s almost preternatural skill with a leaf blade continue him alivelong enough to realize that a traditional affaire d’honneur could n’t be won ; or else , he used the proficiency of sheathe the Sword , which he taught Rand back in the beginning , and allowed Demandred to land a near - calamitous puff on him so as to find an opening , neatly piercing the Forsaken leader through the pharynx .
Lan ’s victory rekindled the team spirit of the forces of the Dragon , and as he stood prevail Demandred ’s severed head mellow , the Shadow ’s army broke and fly . bring around by one of the patriotic Asha’man , Lan was then taken to meet Nyneave at Thakan’dar , where they wear the Crowns of Malkier together andset off to tame his lost birthright .
5Moiraine Damodred
Aes Sedai
Thought utter since the terminate ofThe Fires of Heaven , Moiraine was in reality a prisoner of the Finn , the inhuman tricksters that live in a strange parallel globe where Lanfear had trapped her . She was deliver by Mat and Thom , though only just , and upon their riposte to the Westlands she asked Thom to marry her and become her Warder , which the preoccupied gleeman concur to .
A big change to Moiraine ’s story in The Wheel of Time time of year 2 lays the groundwork for a major fictitious character connection that the books ignored .
Moiraine ’s show at the summit for the Dragon ’s Peace surprised everyone there , and her pleader drive the tiff leader to gibe that the Peace was necessary . She accompany Rand into the Pit of Doom along with Nyneave , help him to eventually varnish the Dark One away . Unlike the other survivor of the Last Battle , who all regain greater condition or glory in their victory , Moiraine was contented to grieve Rand ’s end and find comfort in the arms of her new married man .
6Mat Cauthon
Prince of Ravens
The risk taker in Mat had already conduce him on a merry route before even accomplish the Last Battle , losing an eye to the Eelfinn in gild to free Moiraine , accidentally marrying Tuon , the standoffish Empress of the Seanchan , and just broadly speaking managing to be a pain in such a direction that he always came out on top . Finding himself third in billet for command of the Seanchan force out and in full command of the Westland ’s Army , Mat organized the last stand of the Light at the Field of Merrilor , where the dice once again came up in his favour .
After the goal of the battle at Merrilor , Mat flew to Shayol Ghul to serve Rand ’s beleaguered Aiel army . He scent up finally pop Padan Fain , who had , by this level , been completely taken over by the twisted entity Mashadar . Immune to Mashadar ’s taint since overcome it before , Mat was able to kill Fain with the very ruby dagger he had take from Shadar Logoth .
return to his army ’s clique at Merrilor , Mat observe with his friends and comrades . Upon memorize that Tuon was pregnant with his child , and that she could have him killed now that he ’d produced an heir , his only answer was to say,“Tell me , do you ever play dice ? "
7Perrin Aybara
Lord of the Two Rivers
With the Power - wrought pound Mah’alleinir in his hands and his married woman Faile at his side , Perrin direct his USA of Saldeans and Two Rivers folk to the Field of Merrilor to aid in the Last Battle , but missed the combat at the Field as he insteadtraveled in the flesh to Tel’aran’rhiod to follow the distorted shadow of a man that called himself Slayer . The two track each other across the Westlands and the World of Dreams both , and Perrin was finally victorious at Shayol Ghul .
When Perrin fail to the entrance to the Pit of Doom to check on Rand , he get along across Lanfear , who attempted to apply Compulsion to get Perrin to kill Moiraine and disrupt the weaving that was sealing the Dark One . The intensity level of Lanfear ’s weave bumble in the face of Perrin ’s will , though , as he knew that kill Moiraine would mean Rand ’s bankruptcy , which would mean Faile ’s demise , and that was the one thing he could not let happen .
overcome the irresistible impulse , he snapped Lanfear ’s neck and went off to find his married woman . f the vision Aviendha had in Rhuidean were reliable , Perrin would go on to take the Two Rivers into becoming a kingdom in its own right field . If not , he was still married to the Queen of Saldea , as Faile ’s relatives died at the Field of Merrilor .
8Elayne Trakand
Queen of Andor and Cairhien
meaning with Rand ’s twins and the queen of two separate kingdoms , Elayne was the first ruler of the Westlands to signalize the Dragon ’s Peace , and led a monolithic U. S. Army to release her majuscule of Caemlyn from Trolloc moving in at the eruption of the Last Battle . A Pyrrhic victory there led her forces to a second conflict with Trollocs just outside Cairhien , and from there they retrograde to link the independent boniface at Merrilor .
Although Elayne was almost killed several time during the Last Battle , she managed to survive through her own tenacity and skill , with the supply help of take Birgitte , Hero of the Horn , as one of her Warders . After the end of the Battle , she gathered at Rand ’s funeral pyre with Min and Aviendha , watching the body burn but know her beloved still live .
9Loial
Great Scholar of the Ogier
Loial , son of Are nt , moved heaven and ground in social club to convince his young man Ogier to aid in oppose the Last Battle rather than use the Book of Translation to flee to another world . Loial ’s impassioned argument at the Great Stump , the meeting of all Ogier senior , convinced them that fleeing was a fool ’s choice , as if the Dark One was victorious than no world would be safe .
As a part of the Ogier force that go far at Merrilor , Loial oppose alongside Elayne Trakand ’s army , where he and the other Ogier proved that although it had been ages since they had raised weapons in angriness , they were still a force to be count with , and in prison term Trollocs start to take flight at the spate of them . Althoughlittle is known of Loial after the Last Battle other than that he survived , it ’s inevitable that he ultimately render to his belovedsteddingto fall down with his wife and catch up on his reading .
10Thom Merrilin
Warder
Thom was implemental in rescuing Moiraine from the Finn at the Tower of Ghenjei , in no small part because he had plenty of instruments with which to provide music to dazzle the fey kinsfolk . After rescue her , Thom agree to her married couple proposal and accept her Warder bond .
During the Last Battle , Thom stood guard at the entrance to the Pit of Doomas Moiraine , Nyneave , and Rand enrol , and kill at least five Darkfriend channelers who tried to enter in various disguise , floor their body in a nearby ditch . In between these moment of profound violence , he passed the prison term composing a ballad of Rand ’s exploit and the events of the Last Battle , and was there to help Moiraine and the others flee from the Pit as the Bore close behind them .
