Adan

Kyria d'Oreyn

General

Adan was a Da'shain Aiel during the Breaking of the World, and Rand's ancestor. His parents were Jonai and Alnora, his siblings Esole and Willim. Together with his wife Siedre he had five children, Elwin, Jaren, Marind, Rhea and Sorelle.

In Rand's first vision of him he is a white-haired old man; then a man in his middle years; a tall, young man with weary blue eyes and at last a child of ten (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 25; The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

From his first days he had been faithful to the duty toward the Aes Sedai and he did not abandon it, no matter the cost (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 25; The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

Timeline

• His father Jonai got the instruction to lead the Aiel out of Paaran Disen to a place of safety when Adan was ten (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

• He saw his first Ogier as a young man (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

• On the same day, his father died (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

• Elwin, Sorelle and Jaren died one after one, Marind was killed and Rhea got taken away in a raid (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

• During this raid Siedre was killed as well (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

• His Aiel split with the Lost Ones (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 26).

• When his greatdaughter Maigran got kidnapped during another raid years later, he and his family are ready to take the pain and go on, as the Covenant says (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 25).

• He would have prevented his greatson Lewin from rescuing his sister if he had known, but Maigran is freed in trade for the raider's life. Adan and his family do not want killers among them and leave Lewin with his friends behind. The Jenn Aiel split with the rest (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 25).

Quotes

"What of the Covenant? We harm no one. No one! There is no reason good enough to justify killing another human being." (Adan to Lewin; The Shadow Rising, Chapter 25)