RIP Robert Jordan

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning."

 

On a whim this morning I looked up the wikipedia entry on author Robert Jordan and discovered, to my shock, that he passed away yesterday of complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis).

 

Jordan is the author of the Wheel of Time books, a series I greatly enjoy even if it has grown too long for its own good.

 

How this will affect the as yet unwritten finale to the series is unknown, but I've read that he passed on his ideas to his family.

 

He will be missed.

 

Robert Jordan  October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007