Prime Video announced that Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo has joined the cast of The Wheel of Time for the series’ upcoming season 3 and we’re celebrating! Ready?
Here we go!
Aghdashloo joins series star Rosamund Pike in portraying one of the powerful Aes Sedai – a group of women with the ability to channel the One Power who are part of an elite sisterhood. She will be playing ‘Elaidado Avriny a’Roihan,’ a highly anticipated character from Robert Jordan’s eponymous and epic fantasy book series upon which the show is based.
Elaida is a ruthlessly powerful Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah, as proficient in politicking as she is in channeling. She has a deep history with Moiraine (Pike) and Siuan (Sophie Okonedo), and scores to settle with both of them when she returns to the White Tower. Elaida is someone who believes in ends over means, and is willing to do anything to achieve what she envisions to be the greater good.
At the end of Season 2, after defeating Ishamael, Rand reunites with his friends at Falme and is declared the Dragon Reborn. But in The Wheel of Time Season 3, the threats against the Light are multiplying: the White Tower stands divided, the Black Ajah run free, old enemies return to the Two Rivers, and the remaining Forsaken are in hot pursuit of the Dragon… including Lanfear, whose relationship with Rand will mark a crucial choice between Light and Dark for them both.
As the ties to his past begin to unravel, and his corrupted power grows stronger, Rand becomes increasingly unrecognizable to his closest allies, Moiraine and Egwene. These powerful women, who started the series as teacher and student, must now work together to prevent the Dragon from turning to the Dark…no matter the cost.
The teaser, released at CCXP24 this weekend, unveils a changing world, where the Shadow’s roots have taken hold and the battle between Light and Dark has become so consequential that Moiraine (series star Rosamund Pike) and Egwene will stop at nothing to keep from losing Rand to the darkness.
The Wheel of Time Season 3 will premiere globally March 13, 2025 on Prime Video.
