Character from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
The Dragon — the man who sealed the Dark One's prison and went mad from the taint, killed everyone he loved, and broke the world. His voice lives in Rand's head, and his memories are both gift and curse.
Lews Therin Telamon was the most powerful channeler of the Age of Legends — the Dragon, the Lord of the Morning, the leader who organized the strike against Shayol Ghul that sealed the Dark One's prison. The Dark One's counterstroke tainted saidin, and every male channeler went mad. Lews Therin killed his entire family — his wife Ilyena, his children, everyone who shared his blood — before a moment of clarity let him understand what he'd done. He killed himself with enough of the One Power to raise Dragonmount. Three thousand years later, his voice speaks in Rand's head — ranting about Ilyena, offering combat advice, seizing control of saidin at critical moments, and providing channeling knowledge from a lost age. Whether he's a real consciousness or a manifestation of Rand's encroaching madness is deliberately ambiguous until Rand's epiphany on Dragonmount, where the two identities integrate. He represents both the greatest power and the greatest danger — proof that even the best of men can break the world if they break first.
In Rand's visions: a tall man with dark hair and an Age of Legends bearing — regal, powerful, and consumed by grief. His hands glow with the One Power even in memory. He appears as he was in his final moments — a madman standing in the ruin of everything he built, weeping over the body of his wife Ilyena.
Also known as: Lews Therin, the Dragon, Lord of the Morning, Kinslayer