Lews Therin Telamon
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Lews Therin Telamon is a fictional character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He was the Dragon of the Age of Legends.
Lews Therin Telamon was the leader of the Aes Sedai of the Age of Legends. He was married to Ilyena Therin Moerelle. He was the most famous man of his age, and earned his third name Telamon because of his fame.
He led the Hundred Companions to win the War of the Shadow by resealing the Dark One away in his prison in Shayol Ghul. However, the Dark One's counterstroke caused a taint to be placed upon saidin, the male half of the One Power. This taint caused Lews Therin and the remaining Hundred Companions to go mad. Eventuall all the other male Aes Sedai became mad also. The immediate effect was that Lews Therin killed his wife Ilyena, everyone who carried a drop of his blood, and everyone he loved thus becoming known as the Kinslayer. The eventual effect was the Breaking of the World, caused by the insane male Aes Sedai and the end of the Age of Legends.
Ishamael taunted Lews Therin Telamon into killing himself by drawing too much of the One Power, creating Dragonmount in the process. Rand al-Thor was born on its slopes, 3000 years later.
Rand al'Thor hears the voice of Lews Therin Telamon in his head, though whether this is really the Dragon's soul speaking or a symptom of Taint-induced madness is unclear. That Rand's Lews Therin is insane is not in doubt.