Forsaken (Wheel of Time)

Forsaken (Wheel Of Time)

In the fictional world of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series, the Forsaken (or Chosen, as they would prefer to be called) are the most powerful and favored servants of the Dark One. They were formerly Aes Sedai, but became corrupted by the desire for power and immortality. At the beginning of the series there are thirteen Forsaken whose names are well known but originally there were more than this. Moghedien, one of the Forsaken herself, suggests twelve were killed during the The War of Power, due to arousing the Dark One's suspicions. She also suggests that there were many more chosen before this but they were killed in the War of Power. At the end of the war, those that remained were all meeting at Shayol Ghul when Lews Therin Telamon and his Hundred Companions sealed the hole in the Dark One's prison, and the Forsaken in it.

The leader of the Forsaken is the Nae'blis, and that member of the Forsaken is counted as second only to the Great Lord of the Dark.