The Wheel

I've been following the Wheel of Time series for years now, but it's never really dawned on me that it would end. I know, I really should have realised, but it seemed it would just go on for ages, akin to a cheese rolling down a large hill. I mean, come on, not even the death of the author, Robert Jordan, stopped them from being written. His co-author, Brandon Sanderson, and wife, Harriet McDougal, have carried the torch since 2007. I doff my cap to them. 


This November, however, it all stops. A huge part of me will die when I finish that final book; a significantly larger part of me than when I finished the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini)


Speaking of the Inheritance Cycle, the ending to that book disappointed me. Yes, I knew it was going to happen and everything, but still. I was just left with a feeling of anticlimax. I sincerely hope the ending to A Memory of Light doesn't leave me like that, but I have a suspicious feeling it will.


Unlike Inheritance, we only have small clues as to how it will end; sneaky quotes apparently from the Fourth Age showing that there is something left of the world after Rand finishes with it. What we don't know, however, is the specifics. What actually happens to Mat, Perrin, and Rand? I wait in anticipation. 


(No, I don't own the above image, but hats off to whoever made it, it's awesome! Got it from here.)
More about The Wheel of Time here, for those who haven't witnessed it's epic grandeur.