It’s been a little bit of a look ahead to season two of High Video’s The Wheel of Time. The difference of Robert Jordan’s (and later Brandon Sanderson) myth novel collection ended its first season in opposition to the tail finish of 2021, and has had a gentle drip feed of details about its 2d season, basically because it pertains to casting.
Right through this weekend’s JordanCon, the display had a digital panel by which High Video showed 4 new additions to the solid in habitual roles. A number of the new quartet are Maja Simonsen (The King’s Guy) and Ragga Ragnars (Vikings), who will respectively be taking part in Chiad and Bain. The pair are bonded sisters from the Maiden of the Spear warrior society who first gave the impression within the collection’ 3rd guide, 1991’s The Dragon Reborn.
The opposite pair of actors are Westside’s Rima Te Wiata as Sheriam Bayanar and fellow Vikings alum Jay Duffy taking part in Dain Bornhald. Sheriam first gave the impression in 1990’s The Nice Hunt and is known as a “extremely influential” Aes Sedai who was once prior to now of the Blue Ajah (the sect Rosamund Pike’s Moiraine belongs to) earlier than later becoming a member of up with the Black Ajah. Duffy’s Dain was once a personality who first gave the impression within the collection’ first guide The Eye of the Global in 1990 as a high-ranking officer of the Kids of Gentle and in the end turns into obsessive about Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford) following the dying of his father.
At time of writing, High Video has but to expose a particular unlock window past “someday in 2023.” On the very least, we all know that the display gained’t finish right here, as a 3rd season may be recently within the works.
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