Amazon drops an official (audio) teaser for The Wheel of Time show

Amazon has released an official teaser for its Wheel of Time show! It’s kind of mysterious, but we’ve figured out what it means.

Amazon is currently hard at work on a TV show adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, a 14-book epic that has never gotten an adaptation despite being beloved among fantasy fans. (Or at least, never gotten a good one.)

The hype is real. And now, Amazon has given us our first teaser…kind of. The official Wheel of Time Twitter account just dropped a short audio clip of two unnamed characters having a panicked conversation while it sounds like a battle (or a raid) rages in the background:

"Woman: “You ready?”Man: “No.”Woman: “Me neither.”"

Madeleine Madden, who plays Egwene al’Vere, has confirmed that this is a clip of Egwene and Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford), two of our main characters. They both hail from the sleepy Two Rivers region and find themselves leaving their home town and going on a long adventure when the Ais Sedai sorceress Moiraine (Rosemund Pike) visits their town.

At one point in the first book, The Eye of the World, Egwene and Perrin are separated from the larger group and travel by themselves for a while. This clip might be from that stretch, although I don’t recall them ever coming upon a village that’s getting attacked. Their home village of Emond’s Field is attacked by Trollocs — orc-like followers of the terrifying Dark One — early on in the book, so maybe that’s what we’re hearing.

Visually, all we get is water droplets forming into the yin-yang symbol, which is also the mark of the Aes Sedai.

Vague as it is, it’s all pretty exciting. While this is the first official sneak peak, there have been lots of behind-the-scenes images leaking from the set. For example, this looks like Rutherford (as Perrin) and actor Zoë Robins as Nynaeve al’Meara, another of the Two Rivers characters. You can tell it’s Nynaeve because of the braid, which she is famously always tugging in the books:

That sais, Egwene also has a braid for part of the story, so it could be Madeleine Madden, as well.

Then there’s this gorgeous set photo posted by WotSeries.com:

This was taken on set in Jaromer, Czech Republic. It looks like the city of Fal Dara, which is located on the edge of the Great Blight, where the Dark One still holds a lot of sway. The group spends time there towards the end of The Eye of the World.

There’s no release date for The Wheel of Time yet, but everything looks like it’s coming together nicely.

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