Mat, the last of the three, is mischievous, quick-witted, has money issues, and is utterly devoted to his younger sisters with a strong sense of responsibility and duty to others, no matter how much he tries to cover it up with sass. He makes up one third of his core friend group and plays the role of “hopeless romantic.” (His pining and besotted grins, all directed at Egwene, are adorable.) Perrin, a blacksmith, is the steady one: already married and settled, he’s somber and serious, concerned about things like a war in Ghealdan. That would be Rand, a mountain shepherd whose desires are simple: keep sheep, marry Egwene, raise a family. Egwene is a self-possessed and capable young woman just entering adulthood, facing an age-old question: career or family? Self-actualization or domesticity? Her decision to apprentice under Nynaeve as Wisdom-a role that precludes marriage-throws her fiancé for a loop. Nynaeve is the village Wisdom-a leader, teacher, healer, and semi-priest who glows with pride at her charge’s accomplishments, as well as being fiercely protective of everyone under her care.
Once we’re in the Two Rivers, we first meet Egwene and Nynaeve during Egwene’s Women’s Circle initiation ceremony.
#The wheel of time pilot full
The magic system is closely related to gender, and men who can touch it are doomed to go “nuclear” (to use an apt metaphor), and finally, Moiraine is headed to a place full of history called the Two Rivers-all squeezed into less than three minutes. An extended landscape pan reveals elegantly twisting, but overgrown, skyscrapers, illuminating how this world is not vaguely medieval but post-apocalyptic. Even the second sequence is a firehose of information: Aes Sedai-this world’s magic users-do not work in lock-step with each other toward a singular purpose, but instead have different motivations and beliefs.
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