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For centuries,
our sisters of the Aes Sedai

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have sought to understand
the Breaking of the World.

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Three thousand years ago,
Lews Therin and the forces of Light

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struck the Dark One and sealed him away.

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Before he was imprisoned,

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the Dark One delivered
one last defiant strike.

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The Dark One poisoned the source of power
for male Aes Sedai.

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With this, Lews Therin lost his mind.

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He murdered his beloved wife.

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He slew his children she bore him.

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His friends, his court... everyone.

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The Dark One released Lews Therin
from his madness,

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just to show him what he had done.

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But it wasn't Lews Therin alone
who suffered.

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The poison spread.

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No male Aes Sedai was spared.

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And so began the Breaking.

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The time of madness.

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It was a time of unchecked, unhinged rage
that destroyed the world.

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They changed the face of the world
and ended the Age of Legends.

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Humanity is driven
to the brink of extinction.

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What few survivors remained

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are scattered across
a broken and unrecognizable land.

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The breaking lasts for over 100 years

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and ends only when the last
male channeler alive is gentled.

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By then,
entire civilizations had disappeared.

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Centuries of progress and knowledge, gone.

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The very lives we live today are shaped
by this immeasurable loss.

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For those of you destined
to take the shawl,

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it would be among the most
sacred of duties, as an Aes Sedai,

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to protect the world
from another such breaking.