Who are the Aes Sedai in ‘The Wheel of Time’? Rings, Explained – menshealth.com

After spending close to $7 billion on Amazon Prime Video by 2019, Jeff Bezos reportedly had a simple message for his executive team, looking to craft content for its streaming arm: I want my Game of Thrones. And receive Bezos didthat is, adaptation rights for Robert Jordans fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, which currently comprises 14 novels and some 8,000 plus pages, an entire world of peoples and powers and organizations. At the center of this fantasy epicnessand, therefore, at the center of the reported $80 million first seasonare the Aes Sedai.

The success of the first season seems to rest on Amazons ability to faithfully bring these women to screen. To capture their powers and history and culture and politics. While the world of the Wheel of Time novels spans several domains of characters, the Aes Sedai will anchor the action of Amazons first season; they are the force that stands against the seasons main antagonists; they are the order sought by its principal characters and hunted by its white-adorned foes.

But after the opening episodes of the series, the Aes Sedai remain a force most readers will barely know how to spell, let alone understand enough to appreciate future actions. For more than enough information, you can check out A Wheel of Time Wiki, which chronicles every instance of Aes Sedai in fictional history.

To keep things simple, were breaking down the most important features of this magical order. Heres what you need to know about the Aes Sedai to follow the $80 million events of the first season of The Wheel of Time.

The Aes Sedai are an order of women, each with access to the One Powerwhich comes from the True Source, something like the lingering fumes following the creation of the world. Aes Sedai can access (or channel) this inexhaustible resource. Any woman who can channel the One Power or are born with the spark (channeling abilities on steroids) can become an Aes Sedai if properly trained. Egwene, the closest thing to a main character for the shows first season, is one such person born with a spark.

The ringsin the shape of an Ouroboros, or in the series called Great Serpent, a snake swallowing its tale and representing eternitydont give the Aes Sedai power. They are simply awarded to students after reaching a certain level of training.

The entire order of Aes Sedai is divided into Ajahs or individually-governed groups corresponding to a different color. Each has a separate philosophical focus.

Early on in the series we meet a Red Ajah hoping to capture men attempting to channel the one powercapturing them is the role of the Red Ajah.

The primary Aes Sedai we meet in season 1, Moiraine Damodred (Rosemand Pike) is a Blue Ajah, which focus on righteousness and justice.

Read more about the other colors here.

All the handsome men accompanying the Aes Sedai are Warders, bodyguards bonded psychologically and spiritually to the Aes Sedai. Each Aes Sedai is bonded to one Warner, though some polygamy is allowed.

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