A network of paths through a dimension outside the normal world, connecting Waygates near Ogier stedding and major cities. Created during the Age of Legends using the One Power as a gift to the Ogier, the Ways were once safe passages lit by silvery light. But over centuries the corruption of the Dark One's taint on saidin seeped in, filling them with darkness and the deadly wind called Machin Shin, the Black Wind. By the Third Age, entering the Ways is considered suicidal, though desperate travellers still use them.