Third Age

The Wheel of Time is divided into seven Ages. One Age, called the Third Age by some, is the focus of the book series. The entire book series, aside from debatably the prologue to The Eye of the World, which could be considered part of the Second Age, and the epilogue and last chapter or so of A Memory of Light, which could be considered part of the Fourth Age.

The Third Age follows the Second Age, also known as the Age of Legends, and precedes the Fourth Age. The Third Age is marked by a repeating pattern of human progression largely undone by cataclysmic events incited primarily by Ba'alzamon. The Age can be roughly divided into three periods of approximately a thousand years each:

1. From the Breaking of the World until the Trolloc Wars.

2. From the Trolloc Wars until the War of a Hundred Years.

3. From the War of a Hundred Years until the Last Battle.