"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and go, leaving memory that becomes legend.
Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgoten when the Age that gave
it birth returns again." So begins each saga within the world of the Wheel, a
universe in which the major controlling factor is the Wheel of Time and the
Great Pattern it spins. A pattern in which light and dark, good and evil, male
and female, and life and death struggle for balance within the weave of destiny.
What is the Wheel of Time? Imagine a great cosmic loom in the shape of a seven-spoked
wheel, slowly spinning through eternity, weaving the fabric of the universe.
The Wheel, but in place by the Creator, is time itself, ever turning and returning.
The fabric it weaves is constructed from the threads of lives and events, interlaced
into a design, the Great Pattern, which is the whole of existence and reality,
past, present, and future.
