Artifacts of the Breaking
When Lews Therin Telamon and the Hundred Companions resealed the Dark Ones prison, the counterstroke tainted saidin, the male part of the Power. Eventually every male Aes Sedai went horribly insane. In their madness these men, who could wield the One Power to a degree now unknown, changed the face of the earth. They caused great earthquakes, leveled mountain ranges, raised new mountains, lifted dry land where seas had been, made the ocean rush in where dry land had been. Many parts of the world were completely destroyed, and the survivors were scattered like dust on the wind. This destruction is remembered in stories, legends and history as the Breaking of the World. These are artifacts which miraculously survived the Breaking, and have found their way into my hands.