Wheel of Time CYOA: Third Age

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World Notes

The Wheel turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Now, at the end of the Third Age, the Pattern stirs violently. On November 11, 1000 NE, at the hidden battlefield of Shadar Logoth, the taint was cleansed from Saidin. For the first time in thousands of years, male channelers can touch the One Power without inevitable madness.

Yet the world is about to enter the darkest period of the Third Age. Kingdoms fracture. The Seanchan tighten their grip across the western lands. The White Tower struggles to regain its authority. The Black Tower rises, a new power among the ruins of the old.

Of every thousand born, only about 1% possess the ability to channel. Of these, perhaps one in 10,000 is strong enough to be noticed, trained, and feared.

You are one of these rare souls — born with an above-average strength in the Power, destined to make your mark upon an Age trembling on the edge of catastrophe.

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Difficulty / Role in the Pattern

Your connection to the Pattern determines the dangers you will face.

Involved in the Pattern +25 points

Fate actively weaves around you. Heroes, villains, and Forsaken will cross your path.
Major threats and opportunities will seek you out.
Expect to be drawn into great battles, ancient plots, and world-changing events.

Ignored by the Pattern +15 points

You live quieter, outside the direct pull of prophecy.
Most dangers must be sought out deliberately.
Greater safety, but lesser natural chances at fame, fortune, or catastrophe.

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Starting Place

The lands of the Westlands offer many beginnings. Choose your birthplace carefully; it shapes your early skills, alliances, and dangers.

🌊 Seanchan Empire +6 points

You were raised among the Seanchan conquerors.

You are either:

A sul'dam whose talents awakened.
An escaped damane hiding your identity.

Advantages:

Rare access to Seanchan military knowledge, Traveling secrets, and exotic training methods.

Disadvantages:

Hunted by seekers and slave-catchers if discovered.

🏰 Andoran Borderlands +0 points

Raised near the powerful kingdom of Andor, close to Tar Valon's sphere of influence.

Familiar with noble politics, minor wars, and White Tower presence.

Advantages:

Easier access to formal training, patronage, and safety.

🌊 Illian +0 points

Born in a bustling trade city of sea, ships, and coin.

Loose channeling oversight allows freedom — and danger.

Advantages:

Access to rare goods, diverse fighting styles, and mercenary networks.

♟️ Cairhien +0 points

Raised in the heart of Daes Dae'mar — the Great Game of noble intrigue.

You grew up surrounded by plots within plots.

Advantages:

Naturally gifted at politics, espionage, and maneuvering between powers.

No White Tower or Black Tower starting option: you must first find your path to them through the Pattern.

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Starting Training Level

Your education will dramatically affect your early strength.

🔥 Untrained +5 points

You have no formal instruction. If you pick Wanderer, you have no channeling knowledge at all.
Your instincts guide your channeling.

Advantages:

Full creative freedom. Learn lost or rare weaves more easily.

Disadvantages:

Poor control, slower spellcasting without focus, and risks of burning out.

📚 Graduated from Tower Training +0 points

You have completed core training at one of the major schools:

White Tower (Aes Sedai)
Black Tower (Asha'man)

You have basic mastery over:

Standard battle weaves.
Basic Healing techniques.
Opening and closing Traveling gateways.
Setting simple wards.

Advantages:

Highly stable spellcasting, formal recognition, easier access to allies and resources.

Disadvantages:

Political entanglements; enemies and rivals may already know your name.

🚶 Wanderer +3 points

You grew up outside any major channeler structure. This might include:

Wisdom from a remote village.
Windfinder of the Sea Folk.
Tairen city channeler hiding in the slums.
Two Rivers Talent with deep but wild roots.

Advantages:

Greater creativity and flexibility. Closer bond to non-channeler cultures.

Disadvantages:

No early formal training; must survive first trials by instinct.

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Affinities

You are naturally gifted in certain types of channeling. Affinities make learning related weaves easier, faster, and more powerful.

Pick up to 1 Affinity for free. Each additional Affinity costs 2 points.

💙 Healing Free/-2 points

Natural ability to repair injuries, cure disease, and stabilize critical wounds.
Healing is faster, more complete, and costs less strength compared to ordinary channelers.
Unlocks specialized Healing weaves at lower skill thresholds.

⚔️ Combat Weaving Free/-2 points

Expertise in destruction, battle wards, and offensive weaves.
Stronger fire, earth, and air-based attacks.
Easier combination of multiple weaves in live combat.

🌀 Traveling and Skimming Free/-2 points

Faster mastery over opening gateways and traveling between locations.
Can open larger, more stable portals with less effort.
Minor chance to invent rare movement techniques.

🛡️ Warding and Detection Free/-2 points

Craft powerful protective barriers, alarm wards, and anti-scrying fields.
Easier time detecting hidden presences, masked channelers, or dream-walkers.

🔗 Binding and Stilling Free/-2 points

Strength in shield weaves (blocking another's ability to channel) and immobilization.
Easier time cutting someone off from the One Power if sufficiently strong.
Boosts defensive techniques dramatically.

🌩️ Weather Working Free/-2 points

Influence local weather patterns: rain, storms, calming winds.
Can resist minor environmental hazards (cold, heat, storms) with ambient weaves.
With training, capable of major-scale weather manipulation in circles.

👁️ Illusion and Masking Free/-2 points

Talent in disguise, concealment, and appearance-shifting.
Stronger versions of Mirror of Mists, masking gender, hiding strength.
Passive bonus against detection by Wards or the keen senses of Wolfbrothers.

💤 Dreamwalking Free/-2 points

Easier and safer entry into Tel'aran'rhiod, the World of Dreams.
Ability to resist some dream manipulation or nightmares.
Unlocks rare dream-weaves and defense against Dreamspike traps.

🔮 Ter'angreal Creation and Use Free/-2 points

Can instinctively activate, decipher, or cautiously test ter'angreal devices.
Minor talent for constructing new minor ter'angreal given time and resources.
Lower risk when experimenting with dangerous artifacts.

Affinity grants you easier growth in your chosen path — but specializing too narrowly leaves weaknesses.

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Special Spells

Special spells are elite signature weaves within broader Affinities. They represent major narrative and mechanical advantages.

Cast ~2x faster than normal versions.
Stronger effect (damage, healing, size, potency).
Resistance against disruption.
Access to rare or secret weaves otherwise locked.

You may purchase as many Special Spells as points allow.

🔥 Firestorm -4 points

Unleash a localized inferno, engulfing a battlefield in fire and air. Devastates unprepared foes.

💖 Sever Healing -5 points

Heal someone who has been cut off from the One Power. Rare, difficult, and life-altering.

🌌 Rapid Gateway -5 points

Open stable gateways instantly, even under duress. Critical for retreat or rapid deployment.

🛡️ Inviolable Ward -4 points

Creates a powerful defensive barrier that resists intrusion, attack, and scrying.

🛑 Chain Shield -3 points

Shield multiple channelers at once. Excellent for crowd control, less effective on elites.

🌩️ Stormcall -3 points

Summon a thunderstorm across 1–2 miles. Dangerous to both enemies and terrain.

🕵️ True Mask of Mirrors -2 points

Advanced illusions — scent, voice, touch. Highly convincing to most observers.

🌠 Worldwalker -3 points

Move between Tel’aran’rhiod and the waking world. Extremely rare and dangerous.

🛠️ Ter’angreal Crafter -6 points

Construct basic ter’angreal. Takes time and resources, but unlocks custom magical tools.

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Unique Items and Special Abilities

The Third Age is a time of relics — many lost, some rediscovered. You have access to rare ter'angreal and unique abilities. Choose wisely.

📦 Personal Ter'angreal

Choose from the list below:

Guardian Ring -3 points

Creates a passive defensive aura against physical projectiles and basic channeling attacks.

(Lasts several hours once activated.)

Skimming Stone -3 points

A ter'angreal that enhances Skimming — allowing you to create fast-moving platforms without needing full gateways.

Sifter Lens -2 points

Reveals hidden weaves, wards, or disguised objects nearby.

(Effective against illusions, maskings, and dream influences.)

Pocket Haven -6 points

Opens a small, stable shelter in the World of Dreams or nearby "frozen" time bubbles.

(Allows 6 hours of protected rest; extremely rare and prized.)

Luck Charm -5 points

A token that subtly shifts probability in your favor during high-stakes weaves (combat, Healing, duels).

(Not absolute, but adds a strong edge.)

🛠️ Special Abilities

(Standalone powers that can also be purchased.)

Waygate Mastery -3 points

You can sense, manipulate, and even open/create hidden exits into and out of the Ways.

Fae-Luck Curse -3 points

Like Matrim Cauthon, you are strangely lucky in danger — but misfortune stalks your victories.

(Gain random boons, but sometimes attract unforeseen enemies.)

Memory Fragment -2 points

You possess flashes of forgotten Age knowledge: ancient languages, sword forms, lost weaves.

Living Ward -3 points

Passive minor resistance to true power taint, nightmares, dreamspike effects, and mental intrusion.

Prophetic Dreamer -5 points

Occasionally receive highly accurate visions of future possibilities — but interpreting them is tricky.

Ter'angreal are physical items. Special abilities are innate talents granted by the Pattern — or by past lives.

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Warders and Bonds

Bond a fierce protector, loyal companion, and extension of your will. Warders can be male or female.

🤺 Named Warders

Lan Mandragoran -2 points

Legendary Blademaster. Unbreakable honor, unmatched survival and sword skill.

Tomas -1 points

Cautious veteran and woodsman. Loyal, subtle, and wise.

Jahar Narishma -4 points

Asha'man with talent in Fire and Spirit. Young, bold, unpredictable.

Amys -3 points

A powerful Wise One and Dreamwalker.

Hurin -1 points

"Sniffer" tracker. Detects violence, excellent scout, quiet companion.

Birgitte Silverbow -2 points

Hero of the Horn. Archer, gambler, and fearless warrior with deep lore knowledge.

Faile Bashere -2 points

Saldaean noble and guerrilla tactician. Loyal, fierce, and politically adept.

Chiad -1 points

Aiel spear-maiden. Stealthy, agile, and deadly in close quarters.

Custom Warder -2 points

Design your own: Aiel Wise One, Kin guardian, Sea Folk warrior, Blademaster exile, etc.

🔗 Bond Enhancements

Bondmate Boost -1 points

Improves emotional stability, resists Compulsion, and eases Traveling together.

Shared Senses and Spellcasting -2 points

See and hear through your Warder. Cast minor weaves through them at close or bonded range.

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Oaths

Oaths grant spiritual weight, protection, or power. Choose up to two.

🛡️ Oath of Truth +2 points

Cannot speak deliberate lies. Gain trust bonus in political and lawful circles.

🕊️ Oath Against Violence +2 points

Cannot kill except in immediate defense.

⚖️ Oath of Service +3 points

Bound to serve a nation, Tower, or group. Gain protection, access, and support.

✒️ Unique Personal Oath +3 points

Create your own rule (e.g., never use Balefire). It should be as hard as the other choices.

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Personal Goals

Your ambitions guide your story. Choose one personal goal to define your journey — or none, and let the Pattern decide.

🏰 Found a School 0 points

Build a new sanctuary for rogue channelers, a unique magical philosophy, or a rebel splinter of Tower tradition.

🛡️ Protect a People 0 points

Serve and defend a nation, village, or group — be it the Borderlands, Sea Folk, or Aiel.

⚔️ Master the One Power 0 points

Dedicate yourself to magical supremacy. Seek lost weaves, forbidden strength, and mastery of all threads.

🌌 Wander the Pattern 0 points

Forsake permanence. Walk the dreamworlds, the Ways, and forgotten roads of the Pattern as a living myth.

🗡️ Hunt the Forsaken 0 points

Declare war on the Chosen of the Shadow. A dangerous goal, but one the Pattern may reward.

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Outro: The Pattern Awaits

Your Journey:

The Pattern weaves your fate — but your hand holds the shuttle.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills — yet your choices echo louder than most.

You stand at the turning of an Age. Heroes rise. Darkness gathers. The world trembles under prophecy, war, and power.

Will you forge a sanctuary? Command armies? Walk between dreams? Or disappear, legendless, into the fog of time?

The Pattern stirs.