In fact, Ishamael may not have been initially bound at all, since he visited Lews Therin Telamon (apparently in person) after the seals on the Dark One's prison had been placed (as Ishamael spoke of the sealing in past tense, and Lews Therin was already mad). What is known for certain is that his soul was spun out of the Dark One's prison and into the Pattern from time to time after the prison was sealed. When the Dark One's prison was sealed, it is thought that Ishamael was only partially sealed behind it (in contrast to Aginor and Balthamel who were merely sealed too close to the edge, and thus susceptible to the passage of time). He was defeated in some capacity by Lews Therin at the gates of Paaran Disen, and he was humbled at some point by Lews Therin in the Hall of Servants, though it is not known if either event occurred during the war as Ishamael never personally directed any battles. This title gave him supreme command over the forces of the Shadow and made him the de-facto leader of the Forsaken. At some point during the war, he was named Chief Captain-General of the Shadow, despite the fact that he never held a field command. It has been confirmed however that his soul and that of the Dragon are often spun into the Pattern together.ĭuring the subsequent War of Power, he became the Dark One's greatest champion and the only Forsaken equal to Lews Therin in the One Power. Despite the fact that he appears to be the only human being with the same strength in the One Power as the Dragon, it is not known whether there is any truth to his belief. After his conversion to the Shadow, he came to believe that he himself was part of the eternal conflict between the Dragon and the Dark One, serving throughout the ages as the Dark One's champion.
He was given the name Ishamael by the people: Betrayer of Hope. He announced his betrayal at a conference of Aes Sedai in the Hall of Servants, informing them of what it was they faced. In accordance with his belief that the Dark One's victory was inevitable, he became one of the first Aes Sedai in the Age of Legends to publicly declare himself for the Shadow. However, he failed to realize that every version of the battle between the light and the shadow has already been fought throughout the ages and that the Dark One had never been able to escape his prison.
He also realized that because the Dark One had a theoretically infinite number of chances to win, it became a statistical certainty that he eventually would. The Dark One, on the other hand, needed to win only once, as once he did, that victory would be absolute as it would be impossible for humanity to combat him once freed from his prison. As such, he realized that humanity would have to continually fend the Dark One off so long as the Pattern existed, and that each victory by humanity simply led to another battle. This theory led him to realize that, due to the Wheel's cyclical nature, the Dark One would invariably receive an infinite number of chances to escape from his prison. Once it became known just what it was that those researchers had unleashed, Elan put forth a theory that the war between the soul of Lews Therin and the Dark One had occurred since the beginning of time, recurring at intervals along the Wheel of Time. Despite his acclaim however, his writings and philosophies were often considered too esoteric for popular appeal.Īt some point, a group of Aes Sedai researchers drilled the Bore into the Dark One's prison, and caused the Collapse. Elan Morin Tedronai was a critically acclaimed philosopher and theologian who wrote several influential books, among them Analysis of Perceived Meaning, Reality and the Absence of Meaning and The Disassembly of Reason.
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