By skipping two villains from the first book, The Wheel of Time set up a better Forsaken storyline. Lightly foreshadowed in the Amazon series, the Forsaken are the central antagonists in most of the books in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. The Dark One, of course, is the overarching villain of the saga itself, but it’s the Forsaken whom the main characters have to contend with from book to book.
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