There is also some explanation of the high technology of this time, such as sho-wings and jo-cars, and musings on forms of the One Power not available to later generations, such as advanced Healing and Traveling. This section contains a detailed description of life during the Age of Legends and how the Aes Sedai, Da'shain Aiel, Nym, Ogier, and other groups and races operated. The nature of the One Power is described, as are angreal, sa'angreal, and ter'angreal, and the nature of the Creator and Dark One. This section contains descriptions of the Wheel of Time, the True Source, the Pattern, the circular nature of time, and other metaphysical and magical concepts of the world and setting. The book features new and original art by Todd Cameron Hamilton and republishes earlier maps by Ellisa Mitchell, John M. This companion is an attempt to fill in the enormous backstory to the novels and also expand on the world featured in them. This is the current UK and Australian edition. All the illustrations save only the new maps were removed. This edition was reprinted in softcover in November 1999.įinally, on Jthe guidebook was reprinted in the UK as a 461-page mass-market paperback using the black cover design of the later paperbacks in the series. In the UK, the book was reprinted in the same hardcover format a year later, but with a new cover (a map of the Westlands) and an expansion to the gallery to include the cover of the then-recently-released The Path of Daggers.
This edition of the book ran to 304 pages.
This led to the book being dubbed the 'Big White Book' by fans at the time.
The book was originally published on Novemas a large-format hardcover with a predominantly white cover.
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