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Lews Therin Telamon was the leader of the Aes Sedai of the Age of Legends. He was married to Ilyena Therin Moerelle and was involved with Mierin Eronaile , one of the Forsaken . He was the most famous man of his age, and earned his third name Telamon because of his fame. He led the Hundred Companions to win the War Of The Shadow by resealing the Dark One away in his prison in Shayol Ghul . However, the Dark One's counterstroke caused a taint to be placed upon '' Saidin '', the male half of the One Power. This taint caused Lews Therin and the remaining Hundred Companions to go Mad . Eventually all the other male Aes Sedai became mad also. The immediate effect was that Lews Therin killed his wife Ilyena, everyone who carried a drop of his blood, and everyone he loved thus becoming known as the Kinslayer. The eventual effect was the Breaking Of The World , caused by the insane male Aes Sedai and the end of the Age Of Legends . Ishamael taunted Lews Therin Telamon into killing himself by drawing too much of the One Power, creating Dragonmount in the process. Rand Al'Thor was born on its slopes, 3000 years later. Rand al'Thor hears the voice of Lews Therin in his head. Originally there was some speculation as to the nature of this voice, with some evidence indicating that Rand was slowly being driven mad by ''saidin'''s Taint, and other indications suggesting that Rand really is somehow communing with the voice of Lews Therin. It has been claimed by Semirhage that the voice Rand communicates with is not a figment of deranged imagination, but is in fact that of the original Dragon, Lews Therin Telamon. Semirhage further indicates that this is somehow worse than the alternative. That Rand is indeed Lews Therin's soul reborn into a new body was never in question, nor was the fact that Lews Therin is insane, as is made apparent by his communication with Rand al'Thor. Rand himself suffers from spells of anger and fatalism. However, Lews Therin is also able to show Rand new uses of the One Power, and it is debatable whether Rand could be inventing these (often in the heat of battle) on his own. Others who have had previous lives do not display the ability to speak with those lives (though a few characters have memories from prior lives). It is implied by Cadsuane that men who are being driven mad by the taint on Saidin often hear voices in their heads. These voices may be a psychological manifestation of memories from previous lives, taking the form of voices, as the men's minds attempt to separate the previous life's memories from those of the soul's current life. |
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