Its been quite a while since I read a book with such a pithy prologue. Most tend to be much longer, whereas the Prologue here is just over 6 pages in length. And quite packed as well, though there is some really excellent scene-setting which is done is a very lush Tolkien-esque way:
"Bars of sunlight cast through rents in the walls made motes of dust glitter where they yet hung in the air".
The bulk of the chapter is given over to some sort of confrontration between a fellow called Lews Therin and a Satan-type entity (or maybe an emissary of a Satan-type entity, if I read it correctly). The Therin fellow seemed to have succumbed to madness and basically destroys himself and the other entity in anger using tainted magic. Its quite well done, and poses a lot of questions, however, I think that it was over perhaps a bit too quickly for me. Perhaps it was a bit too dramatic?
There is a very curious line near the end of the prologue, which piqued my interest:
"You cannot escape so easily, Dragon. It is not done between us. It will not be done until the end of time..."
Ominous!
This is followed up by two extracts from prophecies ("The Breaking of the World" and "Cycle of the Dragon" and I would guess they indicate that there seems to be some sort of eternal battle going on between the forces of light and the forces of dark. So the rest of the books cover this battle?
But what about the mysterious Aes Sedai mentioned on the back cover? No mention of them at all in the prologue. Who or what are they?
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