> The One Power is divided into male and female halves, saidin and saidar, which work in opposition and in unison to drive the Wheel.
okay so this is like yin and yang. yin, darkness, passivity, femininity, and yang, light, activity, masculinity. surely they are present in all living things and drive the events of history.
> The Creator imprisoned its antithesis, "Shai'tan," the Dark One, at the moment of creation, sealing him away from the Wheel.
okay hold up
@Lady So the Wheel of Time is simultaneously both a metaphor for the passage of time and the forces of Fate and Destiny but also a semi-sentience that actively interferes in the workings of the world in order to achieve what is Fated to happen
@witchfynder_finder right but what doesn’t make sense to me is why this is what is Fated
@witchfynder_finder but……… why………