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''Author: Atarah al'Norahn''

==General==

Beslan Quintara is the son of [[Tylin Quintara]], Queen of [[Altara]]. He is about [[Elayne]]'s age, eighteen years old, and is a soft-spoken youth with a mild manner ([[Lord of Chaos: Chapter 48|LoC, Ch. 48]]; [[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 16|ACoS, Ch. 16]]). 

Beslan is slender, with beautiful black eyes and black hair to his shoulders ([[Lord of Chaos: Chapter 48|LoC, Ch. 48]]; [[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 16|ACoS, Ch. 16]]). [[Mat]] thinks that he is a little too fine looking ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 29|ACoS, Ch. 29]]). 

When Mat first meets Beslan, he is "blithely rakish". After the [[Seanchan]] arrive, he becomes serious ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 15|WH, Ch. 15]]). 

==Timeline==

* Tylin introduces Beslan to Elayne and [[Nynaeve]] ([[Lord of Chaos: Chapter 48|LoC, Ch. 48]]). 

* Tylin introduces Beslan to Mat. He has just returned from fighting a duel, which he won ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 16|ACoS, Ch. 16]]). 

* Beslan goes out drinking with Mat and Birgitte on Swovan Night ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 21|ACoS, Ch. 21]]). 

* On the Festival of Birds, Beslan goes out with Mat and company. They are attacked, and Beslan is very pleased to engage in battle ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 29|ACoS, Ch. 29]]). 

* Mat and Tylin speak about Mat's relationship with Tylin. Beslan approves of it ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 29|ACoS, Ch. 29]]). 

* Beslan goes to the Rahad with Mat, Elayne and Nynaeve to search for [[the Bowl of the Winds]] ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 37|ACoS, Ch. 37]]). 

* Beslan participates in the fight in the Rahad at the building with the ter'angreal ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 38|ACoS, Ch. 38]]). 

* Beslan is with Mat and [[Thom]] at [[Valan Luca]]'s circus. He and Thom speak to Valan Luca while Mat speaks to Aludra ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 15|WH, Ch. 15]]). 

* Beslan is plotting to get the Seanchan out of Altara ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 16|WH, Ch. 16]]). 

* Beslan overhears Mat, [[Juilin]] and Thom working on their plan to escape and insists on helping. He says that he will start an uprising, and the other three try to talk him out of it ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 28|WH, Ch. 28]]). 

* Beslan arranges to have some of his friends set some fires to help Mat escape. Beslan promises to be seen at an inn getting drunk so that nobody will suspect him ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 30|WH, Ch. 30]]). 

* When Tylin is killed by the ''[[gholam]]'', Beslan's coronation is planned to take place on the same day as her funeral feast ([[Crossroads of Twilight: Chapter 3|CoT, Ch. 3]]). 

* Beslan is now the King of Altara ([[Knife of Dreams: Prologue|KoD, Prologue]]). 

==Relationships==

Tylin seems to be genuinely fond of her son ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 16|ACoS, Ch. 16]]). Before everything that Rand has done, she had hoped to pass on to Beslan a control of Altara that was twice what she currently has, and allies of a sort beyond that. She no longer believes she has a chance to do this ([[Lord of Chaos: Chapter 48|LoC, Ch. 48]]). 

When Mat and Beslan first meet, Tylin expresses a wish for them to go to the Swovan Night dances together. Mat thinks to himself that the last thing he wants is to go anywhere with a man who fights duels and whose mother is interested in him. Mat thinks that Beslan is crazy ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 16|ACoS, Ch. 16]]). After Tylin finally corners Mat and sleeps with him, he is afraid that Beslan will be angry, but it turns out that Beslan is completely fine with it. Beslan likes Mat. ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 29|ACoS, Ch. 29]]). 

==Miscellaneous==

* His father died ten years ago ([[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 29|ACoS, Ch. 29]]). 

* Beslan is teaching Olver how to use a sword ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 15|WH, Ch. 15]]). 

* Beslan admits that Tylin is becoming a bit possessive of Mat ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 15|WH, Ch. 15]]). 

* Beslan promises not to start un uprising until a month after Mat, Thom and Juilin have left [[Ebou Dar]] ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 28|WH, Ch. 28]]). 

* Beslan considers himself to be at war with the Seanchan ([[Winter's Heart: Chapter 30|WH, Ch. 30]]). 

* [[Suroth]] is insulted by the fact that the servants at the Tarasin Palace seem to think that deep bows and curtsies are sufficient in place of prostration, and that they look her in the eye. She thinks to herself that perhaps she should have a word with Beslan about it, but then reminds herself that he is now her equal, in law at least. She doubts that he will make his servants behave "properly" ([[Knife of Dreams: Prologue|KoD, Prologue]]). 

==Quotes==

"Nevin nicked my leg on the second pass, then slipped on the third so I ran him through the heart instead of his sword-arm. The offense was not worth killing, and now I must pay condolences to his widow." (Beslan to Tylin; [[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 16|A Crown of Swords, Chapter 16]]). 

"A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you're dancing at the moment is always the most fun." (Beslan to Mat; [[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 16|A Crown of Swords, Chapter 16]]). 

"Mat won't corrupt Beslan. I doubt nine feather dancers with a shipload of brandy could corrupt him. They wouldn't know where to begin." (Birgitte to Elayne and Nynaeve; [[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 21|A Crown of Swords, Chapter 21]]). 

"I cannot think it is ever boring around Mat. I've never had so much fun as I did drinking with him and the Lady Elayne's Warder on Swovan Night, though truth, I remember little." (Beslan to [[Nalesean]]; [[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 29|A Crown of Swords, Chapter 29]]). 

"You think I will be angry. Forgive me, I forget you're an outlander. Mat, she's my mother, not my wife. Father died ten years ago, and she has always claimed to be too busy. I am just glad she chose someone I like." (Beslan to Mat about Tylin; [[A Crown of Swords: Chapter 29|A Crown of Swords, Chapter 29]]). 

"You don't understand, Mat. Mother still sits on the throne, and Suroth says she will rule all of Altara, not just what we hold around Ebou Dar, and maybe more besides, but mother had to lie down on her face and swear fealty to some woman on the other side of the Aryth Ocean. Suroth says I should marry one of their Blood and shave the sides of my head, and mother is listening to her. Suroth might pretend they are equals, but she has to listen when Suroth speaks. No matter what Suroth says, Ebou Dar isn't really ours anymore, and the rest won't be either. Maybe we can't push them out by force of arms but we can make the country too hot to hold them." (Beslan to Mat; [[Winter's Heart: Chapter 16|Winter's Heart, Chapter 16]]). 

"Beslan's coronation. Light! How would Beslan cope with that, when he hated the Seanchan? It had been his plan to fire those supplies on the Bay Road. He would have tried an uprising if Mat had not convinced him it would only result in a slaughter, and not of Seanchan." (Mat thinks about Beslan; [[Crossroads of Twilight: Chapter 3|Crossroads of Twilight, Chapter 3]]).

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