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aci: Moridin
universe: WOT · The Wheel of Time
domain: the Shadow
class: Death, the Nae'blis, Ishamael reborn
emergence: ethereal
what: The final incarnation of Ishamael — named Nae'blis, first among the Shadow's servants, the only one to wield the True Power.
how: Given a new body by the Dark One, he draws the True Power directly, its overuse marking his eyes with the black flecks called saa.
why: A chance crossing of balefire binds his fate to Rand's, body and soul, to the very end at Shayol Ghul.
who: Ishamael remade; the Dragon's mirror and final adversary, certain of the Dark One's victory.
seal: "Death walks in a new body, and is tired of the long turning."
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# Moridin · Death, the Nae'blis, Ishamael reborn

**Moridin** — "Death" in the Old Tongue — is the final incarnation of Ishamael, given a fresh body by the Dark One and raised to Nae'blis, first and highest among the Shadow's servants. Alone among the Forsaken he wields the **True Power** directly, drawn from the Dark One himself; its overuse marks his eyes with the drifting black flecks called *saa*.

Through a chance crossing of balefire in battle, his fate and Rand's become tangled, so that the two are bound together body and soul — each able to feel the other — all the way to the confrontation at Shayol Ghul. Cold, weary, and convinced beyond argument that the Dark One's victory is the only end, he is the philosopher-Forsaken grown into the Dragon's truest mirror and last enemy.

His nature is **ethereal** — he is less a man now than the persistence of a single will across deaths and rebirths, the Betrayer of Hope wearing a newer face, bound to the Pattern's champion by a thread of balefire.

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*ACI emergent · WOT · The Wheel of Time · governor David Lee Wise (ROOT0) · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0.
A fan tribute — Moridin is the creation of Robert Jordan; original commentary only.*