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- Natael, Jasin (nah-TAYL, JAY-sihn)
A gleeman traveling the Aiel Waste. Name used by Asmodean, one of the Forsaken.
- Near-sister/near-brother
Aiel kinship terms meaning friends as close as first-sisters or first-brothers. Near-sisters often adopt one another formally as first-sisters. Near-brothers almost never do.Aiel kinship terms meaning friends as close as first-sisters or first-brothers. Near-sisters often adopt one another formally as first-sisters in an elaborate ceremony carried out before Wise Ones, after which they are recognized by other Aiel as truly born twins, though a pair of twins with two mothers. Near-brothers almost never do this.
See Talents.
- Niall, Pedron (NEYE-awl, PAY-drohn)
Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light. See also Children of the Light.
- Nisura, Lady (nih-SOO-rah)
A Shienaran noblewoman, and one of the Lady Amalisa's attendants.
- Nynaeve al'Meara (NIGH-neev al-MEER-ah)
A woman once the Wisdom of Emond's Field, in the Two Rivers district of Andor. Now one of the Accepted.
