From the
Glossary of The Wheel of Time
According to
prophecy and legend the Dragon will be born again at
mankind's greatest hour of need to save the world. This is not something people
look forward to, both because the prophecies say the the Dragon Reborn will bring a new
Breaking to the world, and because
Lews Therin Kinslayer, the Dragon, is a name to make men shudder, even more than three thousand years after his death.