Forsaken (person)

In The Wheel of Time, Forsaken are the 13 most powerful channelers that went over to the Shadow during the Age of Legends. Their souls are so black that some people think the golden rule "no man can walk so long in the Shadow that he can not come back to the Light" does not apply to them.

Forsaken call themselves the Chosen, and make their servants do so also. They are very thirsty of power and not so enthuastic about having to share it with the 12 other Forsaken, which is why they plot against each other as much as against the world, and while even they fear Dark One enough not to kill each other (at least obviously), they wouldn't mourn seeing the others dead.

Lately, Rand al'Thor with his friends has been exterminating the Forsaken with nice speed. Luckily, Dark One has been resurrecting them at (almost) equal speed, or so it is suspected

. They are:

• Aginor (dead, suspected to be resurrected)
• Asmodean (dead, almost confirmed to have stayed dead, only the most wacko people even suspect him to be alive)
• Balthamel (dead, generally thought to have stayed dead)
• Be'lal (dead, generally thought to have stayed dead)
• Demandred
• Graendal
• Ishamael (dead, suspected to be resurrect in the form of Moridin)
• Lanfear (disappeared, apparently dead, suspected to have been resurrected)
• Mesaana
• Moghedien (captured)
• Rahvin (dead)
• Sammael
• Semirhage