The story takes place in the Third Age, an age where saidin (the male half of the Source) has been tainted by the Dark One, so any man wielding the Power slowly goes insane and eventually dies of a wasting disease (sometimes lashing out with their magical abilities and harming others in fit of insanity). It is divided into saidar, which only women can use, and saidin, which only men can use. The source of all magic is called the One Power.
This brief summary obviously cannot do justice to a series which ran over fourteen books, (with most books weighing in at over seven hundred pages), but this is the attempt at giving a spoiler free idea of the basics. Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is perhaps one of the richest and most detailed (and therefore, most realistic) fantasy worlds ever created. The last book in the series - " A Memory of Light" - was published on January 8, 2013, almost 22 years after the series began. The first novel in the series - " The Eye of the World" - was published on January 15, 1991. The Wheel of Time book series is an epic fantasy series, written by Robert Jordan, and later finished with the help of Brandon Sanderson.
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