JordanCon 2015 presentation: The Forsaken - Their Place in History and Myth.

By Linda

What if you wanted to create a group of villains serving a Dark Lord? You want the characters to be powerful, but certainly not invincible, a realistic group, but also disparate enough to be far from united. It's a fine line.


Here is a copy of the presentation I gave at JordanCon 2015 on the creation of the Forsaken, a group of just such villains. Like so much of Jordan's work, they had a solid grounding in reality.





For further reading, there is my essay Three Strands Common to the Forsaken which predates this presentation.

I have written detailed analyses on eight of the Forsaken:


Asmodean


Balthamel


Demandred


Graendal


Lanfear


Mesaana


Sammael


Semirhage

These elaborate on the summaries given in the presentation. I'll gradually write up the last 5.