The Dark One is the main antagonist in the Wheel of Time series. The eldest and most malignant force of execrable desire in the known world and although one might speculate that he is the source of all evil, it is stated he instead intensates emotion, as well as giving new motives for virulant, lowly, or simply chaotic acts. He is said to have been imprisoned by the Creator at the inauguration of time, and has sought ever since to break free of his prison and rupture the Wheel and metamorphose the world according to his image and purpose. He is presently still incarcerated.