The Wheel of Time is one of the biggest fantasy book series of all time, and over the past few years, it's also been making a mark as one of the hottest new fantasy television adaptations on Prime Video. The anticipation is high for season 3, and now, at last, we have the first major update about its return: The Wheel of Time season 3 will premiere March 13 on Prime Video! Mark your calendar's friends, because we're heading to the Two Rivers, the Aiel Waste, Tar Valon and beyond!
We know this because showrunner Rafe Judkins and actors Josha Stradowski (Rand al'Thor) and Madeleine Madden (Egwene) were on hand at CCXP, a yearly Comic Con event held in Brazil. There, they revealed the very first trailer for The Wheel of Time season 3, and I won't lie, I've got so many chills from watching it I can hardly write this post. Watch it right here:
Moiraine contemplates an impossible choice in The Wheel of Time season 3 trailer
This trailer may technically be labeled a "teaser," but it contains enough exciting material in its 1:19 run time that we'll be poring over it for details for days. Season 3 of The Wheel of Time is set to adapt the fourth book in the series, The Shadow Rising, which is largely considered one of the best that author Robert Jordan ever wrote. That novel sees Rand al'Thor head out to the Aiel homeland in hopes of winning them to his side in the fight against the Shadow, while Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford) faces threats closer to home and budding Aes Sedai trainees Nynaeve (Zoë Robins) and Elayne (Ceara Coveney) hunt for the sisters of the Black Ajah, a sect of Aes Sedai who serve the Dark One.
The trailer teases all these plotlines and more, set to an eerie choral arrangement of the words "time, time, time." And despite all the exciting things (Lanfear! Moghedien! Egwene's Accepted trial! The glass columns of Rhuidean!), there is a foreboding feeling that time may be running out for at least one of our key players. The most haunting line of the trailer comes from Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike), who says, "I have seen a thousand thousand futures. In every future where I lived, Rand dies. And the only way he lives...is if I don't."
There are some obvious theories we can draw from these lines, but since they would require us to pull spoilers from both The Shadow Rising and the following book, The Fires of Heaven, let's save that for another day. The Wheel of Time was originally planned to run for eight seasons in order to adapt the entire 15 book story by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. The show's third season is cruising toward the mid-point of that arc, and it's safe to say that not all characters are safe as we head into more dangerous times. I have a feeling it's going to make for a thrilling seasonf of television!
The Wheel of Time season 3 premieres March 13! Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time, right onto our TV screens.
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