Who is baalzamon

Year of Birth:. Roughly Years Before the Breaking. Hair Color:. Eye Color:. Other Names:. Article Author:. Page Contents. Basic Information. Actions During the Story Spoilers. Actions Before the Story. New Spring. Actions Between The Books. Eye of The World. The Great Hunt. The Dragon Reborn. The Shadow Rising. Fires of Heaven. Lord of Chaos. Crown of Swords. Path of Daggers. Winter's Heart.

Crossroads of Twilight. Knife of Dreams. A Gathering Storm. The Towers of Midnight. A Memory of Light. Character Summaries Spoilers. Special Abilities. Notable Possessions. In Other Media. Ishamael is considered to be a handsome man. He is shorter than Lews Therin Telamon but still tall. He has black hair and dark eyes. While acting as Ba'alzamon, his eyes and mouth would occasionally transform into caverns of fire. Ishamael was a brilliant mind. His philosophy theories led him to a more nihilistic outlook.

He hated the infinite turning of the Wheel and felt that he was trapped in the turnings. His only real desire was for a way to break that cycle so he could be free. This combined with his belief that the Dark One would inevitably win eventually led him to the decision to join the Dark One.

It also made him look down upon the other Forsaken and their petty squabbling. As the years ground on, Ishamael seemed to have gone at least slightly crazy. He began impersonating the Dark One, and it seems likely that he actually believed that he was the Dark One. He also was highly addicted to the True Power granted to him from the Dark One.

Spoilers Below!!! Actions During the Story. Elan Morin Tendroni was a philosopher and theologian. Days after Artur's death, he became counselor to, and then ordered killed, the three closest contenders for the throne Marithelle Camaelaine, Norodim Nosokawa, and then Elfraed Guitama , one after another.

Then, forty years after his appearance, Moerad disappeared, having never aged a day. In his wake however, he left a fragmented number of fiefdoms that had been carved out of Hawkwing's empire, which solidified into individual nations and prevented humanity from forming a unified government.

Ishamael's final cycle of freedom occurred as the seals on the Dark One's prison were weakening, resulting in him being permanently released from the Dark One's prison in NE. At some point before the other Forsaken were released, he was informed by the Black Ajah that the Dragon had been reborn. By that time, his overuse of the True Power, possibly combined with his cycles of being thrown out of the Bore, had driven Ishamael completely insane.

His dependance on the True Power had also warped his body to the point where his eyes and mouth were occasionally replaced by what appeared to be endless caverns of fire, though he maintained his original appearance in all other ways. Learning of the Dragon's rebirth, he used Padan Fain to locate Rand al'Thor , hoping to come across the Dragon Reborn before he could become dangerous.

He hunted Rand relentlessly through his dreams he also pursued Matrim Cauthon and Perrin Aybara until he was certain Rand was the Dragon Reborn , attempting to turn him to the Shadow.

Rand finally confronted him at the Eye of the World in a Dreamshard of Ishamael's own making. There, he drew upon the Power in the Eye and severely burned Ishamael, though he did not manage to do any lasting damage.

Once he had sufficiently recovered, Ishamael began his pursuit again, culminating in a duel between himself and Rand at Falme. Through unknown means, he and Rand appeared in the sky above Falme as they dueled, visible to anyone near the city. It is theorized that the borders between the worlds fracture whenever the light confronts the shadow. During the Last Battle, another example of a clash between the light and the shadow, Rand and those with him are able to interact with Perrin who is in the World of Dreams.

We don't know what causes the walls between the real world and the Wolf Dream to crumble. The evidence points against this being a frequent event but does not rule it out entirely.

Ultimately, Rand managed to wound Ishamael with his Power-wrought sword, which melted from the heat of Ishamael's body when it struck him. However, Rand received a far more grievous wound in return, as Ishamael struck him in the side with a quarterstaff,.

In the Pit of Doom shall his blood free men from the Shadow. Rand receives no bleeding wound from his fight with Moridin but his old wound on his left side opens and bleeds during the fight. His third and final confrontation with Rand occured a few months later in the Heart of the Stone of Tear.

There, Rand managed to acquire the sa'angreal sword Callandor , and with it, was able to overwhelm Ishamael's own power. Ishamael escapes to Tel'Aran'Rhiod through a gateway, though it is not explicitely stated here and Rand does not know, where he chases him. However, the manipulations of "reality" performed by Ishamael are characteristic for Tel'Aran'Rhiod.

Rand faces them intuitivelly, not knowing what he is doing maybe thanks to Lews Therin's memories or thanks to Callandor. However, before he could use this power to attack Rand, he was impaled by Callandor through the heart and slain.

Ishamael was resurrected by the Dark One into a new body giving him a new name Moridin Old Tongue for death. Ishamael was incredibly intelligent, and had profound insight into the nature of the Wheel of Time and the struggle between the Dark One and the Dragon. Before the War of Power, he had been a philosopher and theologian of great renown, and was noted for his extraordinarily logical demeanor and way of thinking.

He was unique among the Forsaken in that he was the only member of the group who did not join for the promise of power or immortality at least not per se , but because his logic concluded that the Dark One must inevitably win against the Dragon, and therefore the only path was to join him and rule for a time.

All of the other Forsaken believed him to be insane, though some of Ishamael's statements, which were taken to be mad, were in fact simply esoteric beyond what the other Forsaken were capable of understanding his brief talk on Chaos Theory for example.

However, by the time of the Third Age, he was in fact completely mad, and may have even believed that he himself was the Dark One at times. He was also fairly disdainful of the other Forsaken, regarding them all as fools for not understanding the nature of the Dark One, and for believing that he would hold to his promise of giving them power and immortality.

As Ishamael, he appeared to desire power and recognition, both of which he achieved in spades as the Dark One's most favored disciple. This went hand in hand with a desire to demonstrate how pointless he believed fighting against the Dark One was. He also appeared, as numerous other Forsaken were, to have had a desire to prove himself greater than Lews Therin. However, his desire seemed to be at least partially rooted in his idea that he and Lews Therin were each the respective champions of the Dark and the Light, and that they were destined to always battle each other so long as the Wheel turned.

He also was noted by Moghedien as having had a sadistic streak, at least when it came to watching his rivals suffer. As Ishamael, he was once described by Sammael as having been "more than half mad, and less than half human. When he was later re-incarnated as Moridin , his personality changed drastically. Though his madness was said to have been even greater as Moridin than as Ishamael, he exhibited a preternatural calm most of the time, and appeared to have left both his pride and his desire for power behind him.

Additionally, he lost any hint of sadism that he had once had, and took more often than not to simply brooding in silence. Instead, he seemed fatalistically devoted to seeing the Dark One triumph, as he believed that his service to the Dark One would grant him his truest desire; to die so completely that he would never have to be reborn again. This desire was brought on by an overwhelming sense of self-loathing, and utter despair regarding what he saw as the inevitability of the Dark One's victory.

This desire was apparently so strong that, rather than being punished both for dying and for impersonating the Dark One upon resurrection like the other re-incarnated Forsaken, the Dark One deemed that returning Ishamael to life in and of itself was punishment enough. There is some evidence that Ishamael was free during, and was influencing events in, both the Trolloc Wars and the War of the Hundred Years. Once he was truly free from his prison, Ishamael started hunting for the Dragon Reborn.

He used dreams to contact each of the boys TEotW, Ch. Ishamael claimed that the struggles between good and evil had been going on since creation and that human substitutes were used to fight the war.

Moghedien believed that Ishamael was only half human when she met him again after being freed TSR, Ch. Sammael believed that he was more than half-mad and less than half-human TFoH, Prologue. It is said that even he forgot his true name. You and I have fought a thousand battles with the turning of the Wheel, a thousand times a thousand, and we will fight until time dies and the Shadow is triumphant!

They are jealous of what you will be, once you have knelt at my feet. It is your destiny.