The first episodes in the second season of Amazon Prime’s other fantasy world epic, The Wheel of Time, deliver some revelations.
First, Rima Te Wiata is in it. She’s Sheriam Bayanar, the “Mistress of Novices”, a mother superior figure to the young women aspiring to become Aes Sedai. They are channellers of the One Power, the cosmic energy having proved problematic to males with a spark for channelling. Generally speaking, it drives them mad, bad or both. The Aes Sedai, though, bring a female balance to the Force, sorry, the One Power.
It’s Te Wiata’s first northern hemisphere screen role in the production, which shoots in Prague and the Canary Islands. Dressed in blue,
