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Silviana Brehon

2023-06-28T17:01:59Z

Blythe Alawdin: copy editing

''Author: Estyrien al'Halien''

==General==

'''Silviana Brehon''' is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]]. She, of course, sided with [[Elaida]] after the division of the Tower and became the [[Mistress of Novices]] ({{tpod|25}}).
Silviana is stocky and has a square face. She speaks with a gruff voice ({{tpod|25}}). She has dark hair and large eyes. She wears her hair in a bun ({{Prol11}}). She is appointed [[Keeper of the Chronicles]] after [[Egwene]] is officially named [[Amyrlin]] and reunifies [[the Tower]] ({{tgs|46}}).

==Timeline==

*999 NE: Silviana becomes the Mistress of Novices ({{Prol5}}).
*999 NE: Elaida sends an [[Accepted]] to Silviana ({{Prol5}}).
*1000 NE: [[Alviarin]] asks Silviana to help with Elaida’s supposed private penance ({{tpod|25}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana is repeatedly summoned to administer Elaida’s "penances" ({{Prol10}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana is summoned to administer Alviarin’s "penances" ({{cot|21}}).
*1000 NE: [[Egwene]] is sent to Silviana after she is captured. Silviana tells Egwene that she is to become a [[novice]] again ({{Prol11}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana questions [[Leane]] to see if she is who she claims to be ({{kod|24}}).
*1000 NE: Egwene is sent to Silviana several times a day for punishment. Silviana gives orders for her to be [[Heal]]ed every morning ({{kod|24}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana decides that Egwene needs to be Healed twice a day because of the amount of punishments she has been receiving ({{kod|24}}).
*1000 NE: Egwene talks to Silviana about [[Shemerin]]’s demotion to the level of the Accepted ({{kod|24}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana beats Egwene, the severity of the beatings has increased. She wears a simple grey dress with red trim. She is tall, stocky and has black hair ({{tgs|2}}).
*1000 NE: She asks Egwene when she is going to give up ({{tgs|2}}).
*1000 NE: She instructs the Mistress of the Kitchens to hold meals because Egwene needs to eat ({{tgs|2}}).
*1000 NE: Elaida has been worried that Silviana was shirking ({{tgs|2}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana is reading "Meditations on the Kindling Flame" when Egwene gets to her study ({{tgs|2}}).
*1000 NE: [[Katerine]] tells Egwene that Elaida has decided that Silviana is to blame for her not being broken, and that she has replaced Silviana as Mistress of Novices ({{tgs|38}})
*1000 NE: [[Saerin]] tells Egwene that Silviana stood before [[the Hall]], told them Egwene's treatment was unlawful and demanded her release. Then Silviana denounced Elaida and called for her to be removed ({{tgs|38}}).
*1000 NE: Elaida told Silviana to take up novice white and Silviana refused. Elaida ordered her [[stilled]] and executed ({{tgs|38}})
*1000 NE: Silviana is still being held while the Hall decides what to do with her ({{tgs|39}}).
*1000 NE: Egwene orders Silviana brought to her when she is about to be raised to Amyrlin ({{tgs|46}}).
*1000 NE: Egwene appoints Silviana [[Keeper of the Chronicles]] ({{tgs|46}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana is performing well as Keeper ({{epi12}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana summons Egwene, telling her that the [[Dragon Reborn]] is in [[Tar Valon]] and has requested an audience ({{tom|3}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana is present when [[Rand]] tells Egwene he intends to break the [[seals]]. She agrees with Egwene that he should not. She wonders how Egwene could resist him ({{tom|3}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana tells [[Gawyn]] he must wait to see Egwene, as she is busy. After he talks to Egwene, Silviana gives him a disappointing look on the way out ({{tom|5}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana tells Egwene that the [[Eyes-and-Ears|eyes and ears]] report a massive war going on in the [[Borderlands]]. The [[Trollocs]] have begun their invasion. She also tells Egwene that the [[Sitters]] are meeting ({{tom|27}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana announces Egwene at the meeting the Sitters were trying to have without her ({{tom|27}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana questions Egwene on choosing Accepted to retrieve the [[sleepweaver|dream ter'angreal]] and not swearing them to secrecy. Egwene tells her she is using them to spread rumors. She then asks Silviana about Gawyn and tells her to send him a message to come back to Tar Valon ({{tom|27}}).
*1000 NE: Egwene asks Silviana about Gawyn. After she tells Egwene she has not heard anything, Egwene asks her to write him again and ask him to return instead of telling him to ({{tom|35}}).
*1000 NE: The morning after the fall of [[Caemlyn]], Silviana sends reports to Egwene on the situation ({{amol|5}}).
*1000 NE: Egwene meets Silviana a the [[Field of Merrilor]] ({{amol|5}}).
*1000NE: While they wait for the meeting at Merrilor to begin, Silviana speaks with [[Gregorin]] ({{amol|5}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana attends the meeting at Merrilor as one of the five advisors Egwene is allowed to bring with her ({{amol|5}}).
*1000 NE: Before the Last Battle begins, Silviana performs Egwene and Gawyn’s marriage ceremony ({{amol|9}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana and Egwene discuss the central hospital Elayne wishes to set up for use during the Last Battle ({{amol|9}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana goes to [[Kandor]] with Egwene and the rest of the White Tower to help hold off the [[Trollocs]] there ({{amol|18}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana fights Trollocs in Kandor alongside Egwene ({{amol|18}}; {{amol|20}}).
*1000 NE: When things begin to go terribly wrong in Kandor, Egwene sends Silviana to find [[Gareth Bryne]]. She finds him in the mess tent ({{amol|31}}).
*1000 NE: Egwene sends Silviana to gather the Hall before she confronts Bryne about his mishandling of the battle in Kandor ({{amol|31}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana attends the meeting that Egwene holds with Tuon ({{amol|32}}).
*1000 NE: Once the armies of the Light have gathered at Merrilor and the fighting begins, Silviana surveys the battle through a gateway, alongside Egwene ({{amol|37}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana fights at Merrilor alongside Egwene ({{amol|37}}).
*1000 NE: When Egwene senses that Gawyn is dying, Silviana tries to convince Egwene to pass his bond to her. Egwene refuses ({{amol|37}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana helps Egwene try to reach Gawyn before he dies ({{amol|37}}).
*1000 NE: When Gawyn dies, Silviana stops Egwene from drawing too much of the One Power and accidentally hurting their own forces. She then manages to get Egwene through a gateway to [[Mayene]] ({{amol|37}}).
*1000 NE: Silviana tries to convince Egwene to remain in Mayene ({{amol|37}}).

==Relationships==

Silviana respects Egwene a great deal and is proud of her ({{tgs|38}}).

Silviana and Gawyn do not get along. Silviana thinks that he is foolish and a liability to Egwene because of their bond ({{amol|37}}).

==Miscellaneous==

*Silviana has considerably less mercy with sisters than she does with the novices and Accepted ({{tpod|25}}).

*Silviana believes that anything that takes her attention away from the novices and Accepted is a needless disruption ({{tpod|25}}).

*Alviarin visits Silviana every morning for her daily penance ({{kod|24}}).

*Silviana is not weak in the [[One Power]]. She is [[Strengths in the One Power|stronger]] than [[Katerine]] and [[Barasine]] ({{Prol11}}).

*Silviana’s punishments make novices and Accepted wish to never be sent to her again ({{Prol11}}).

*Silviana dislikes [[forkroot]] because she thinks that it seems to be directly aimed at Aes Sedai ({{Prol11}}).

==Quotes==

"Even to the Amyrlin, she made no effort to hide her disgust. Silviana believes private penance a ridiculous affectation. Penance was public; only punishment took place in private." (Elaida about Silviana; {{tpod2|Chapter 25}})

"Elaida seemed fiercer than ever since she began summoning Silviana for her own supposedly private penances. The whole Tower was still buzzing with that." ([[Yukiri]] about Silviana and Elaida; {{cot2|Prologue}})

"A hard woman, Silviana Brehon. Fair, so I hear, but hard enough to break iron." (Leane; {{kod2|Chapter 24}})

"Only one woman in this room was willing to stand up for what she knew to be right. Only one woman dared defy Elaida and she accepted the price of doing so" ({{tgs2|Chapter 46}}).

"Men are not to be trusted" - Silviana ({{tgs2|Chapter 46}}).
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Turese

2023-05-31T18:10:09Z

Blythe Alawdin: copy editing

'''Turese''' is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]], and therefore was loyal to the [[White Tower Aes Sedai|Tower]] during the [[Rebel Aes Sedai#The Split|split]]. She guards [[Egwene]]'s cell while [[Verin]] visits, telling Egwene not to disturb Verin. She looks in on her again as [[Meidani]] demonstrates some of the [[weaves]] used in the [[Aes Sedai Test]] and is seemingly about to object when Egwene cuts her off before she has the chance. She has been raised fairly recently and does not yet have the [[Ageless look]].

Reference: {{tgs2|Chapter 39}}).

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Viria Connoral

2023-05-31T18:08:12Z

Blythe Alawdin: copy editing

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'''Viria Connoral''' is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]] chosen as a [[Sitter]] after the reunification when [[Duhara Basaheen]] has been exposed as [[Black Ajah]] and [[Pevara]] and [[Javindhra]] are at the [[Black Tower]]. She is in the meeting of [[the Hall]] that [[Romanda]] organizes to try and limit [[Egwene]]'s power. Her sister is [[Raechin Connoral]] and they are the only sisters in [[the Tower]] following the deaths of [[Vandene]] and [[Adeleas]].

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Galina Casban

2023-04-16T14:19:22Z

Blythe Alawdin: /* General */

''Author: Estyrien al'Halien''

==General==
'''Galina Casban''' is the [[Highest]] of the [[Red Ajah]], though nobody outside of the [[Ajah]] knows that. She also sits on the Supreme Council of the [[Black Ajah]] and is second only to [[Alviarin Freidhen]], the head of the Black Ajah. She is no longer bound by [[the Three Oaths]] but by a different set of oaths that each Black sister must swear ({{acos|40}}).

Galina was part of the [[White Tower]] embassy to [[Rand]]. She would have been the leader had she not pointed out that Rand would be suspicious of an embassy led by a Red. ({{Prol6}}) The embassy soon come to realize that he is playing with them and decide to kidnap him. Galina takes charge because it was agreed that a Red should be in charge if it came to that. Thirteen sisters of the embassy shield Rand and take him from the [[Sun Palace]] to Lady [[Arilyn]]'s house. ({{loc|51}}) They leave [[Cairhien (City)|Cairhien]] and travel towards [[Tar Valon]] but stop at [[Dumai's Wells]]. It is here that they are attacked by [[Shaido]] trying to capture Rand and [[Asha'man]], [[Aiel]] and [[Two Rivers]] men trying to free him. Galina disappears during the fighting. ({{loc|55}}) Shaido Aiel capture her and take her to [[Kinslayer's Dagger]]. She is made ''da'tsang'' ({{acos|40}}). She is later forced to swear an oath of loyalty on a binding rod supplied by [[Sammael]] to the [[Wise Ones]] but [[Sevanna]] and [[Therava]] above all. They make her ''[[gai'shain]]'' ({{tpod|11}}). Galina [[Travel]]s with the Shaido to [[Ghealdan]] ({{wh|4}}).

Galina has a round face and a plump mouth. ({{Prol6}}) She has black eyes. ({{loc|25}}) Galina has long black hair. ({{acos|40}}) Galina has the ageless face of an Aes Sedai and is pretty, though not beautiful. ({{cot|9}})

==Timeline==
* C. 910 NE: Galina is raised [[Aes Sedai]]. ({{acos|40}})
* C. 915 NE: Galina joins the Black Ajah ({{acos|40}})
* 979 NE: Galina is part of the Black Ajah group who torture and kill [[Tamra Ospenya]]. ({{acos|40}})
* 982 NE: Galina becomes the Highest of the Red Ajah. ({{Prol6}})
* 999 NE: Galina leads the circle that stills [[Siuan Sanche]]. ({{acos|40}})
* 999 NE: Galina and the Tower embassy meet with Sevanna and the Shaido. ({{Prol6}})
* 999 NE: Galina and the Tower embassy meet with Rand. ({{loc|27}})
* 999 NE: Galina and the Tower embassy kidnap Rand. ({{loc|51}})
* 1000 NE: Galina is captured and taken to Kinslayer's Dagger by the Shaido Aiel. She is made ''da'tsang''. ({{loc|25}})
* 1000 NE: Galina swears an oath of loyalty to the Wise Ones. She is made ''gai'shain''. ({{tpod|11}})
* 1000 NE: Galina is captured by [[Gaul]] and taken to [[Perrin]]'s camp. She weeps when she realizes Therava will not accept kidnapping as a valid excuse for being late ({{prol11}}).
* 1000 NE: Galina tells Perrin that she is about White Tower business, and that [[Faile]] and [[Alliandre]] are under her protection ({{prol11}}).
* 1000 NE: Galina tries to convince Perrin that his forces are inadequate to win against the Shaido. She reiterates that when her business is finished, she will take Faile and Alliandre to safety, and by the Three Oaths he knows her words are true. She lies further to Perrin and decides that Faile and the others cannot be left alive ({{prol11}}).
*1000 NE: Galina confronts Faile about the location of the Oath Rod. She states again that she will take Faile and her friends with her when she leaves ({{kod|26}}).
*1000 NE: Galina is handed the Oath Rod by Faile. She tells Faile and the others to wait in a building while she checks outside to see if the coast is clear. Once outside she traps the others in the building and leaves ({{kod|26}}).
*1000 NE: Galina is retaken by Therava when trying to ride away. She is forbidden to ride ever again and told they are returning to the [[Three-Fold Land]].
*She is ordered to never touch the Oath Rod again and to never try to escape again ({{kod|26}}).
*It becomes known she is Black Ajah when she is on the [[Verin's List|list]] that [[Verin]] gives [[Egwene]] ({{tgs|39}}).

==Strengths and Talents==
Galina is stronger than [[Micara]], an Aiel Wise One, but weaker than Therava and [[Someryn]]. Few Aes Sedai are stronger than Galina. ({{acos|40}}; {{tpod|11}})

She can [[Heal]]. ({{wh|4}})

==Relationships==
If [[Elaida]] deferred to anyone, she would defer to Galina. ({{Prol6}})

For safety reasons few people know that Galina and Alviarin are more than acquaintances. ({{loc|27}}) Galina is only one of three people who know that Alviarin is the head of the Black Ajah. ({{acos|40}})

Rand was furious that Galina had escaped after Dumai's Wells. ({{acos|2}})

Men make Galina's skin crawl. ({{acos|40}})

==Miscellaneous==
* Galina insisted that Rand was beaten every day during his captivity. ({{loc|55}})
* Galina was given orders by Elaida to have [[Gawyn]] and the [[Younglings]] killed. ({{acos|32}})
* Galina has helped to break two [[Amyrlin Seat]]s, Tamra Ospenya and Siuan Sanche. She enjoyed stilling Siuan. ({{acos|40}})
* Galina does not enjoy gentling men but sees it as a necessary duty. ({{acos|40}})
* Galina was severely punished for trying to escape from the Shaido twice. ({{acos|40}})
* The Wise Ones know that Galina can lie but have not made the connection to the Black Ajah. ({{acos|40}})
* The Shaido Wise Ones believe that Galina killed [[Desaine]]. ({{acos|40}})
* Galina met Alliandre, Queen of [[Ghealdan]], when Alliandre was a girl. ({{wh|4}})
* Therava calls Galina "Lina". ({{wh|4}})
* Galina Heals Faile, [[Morgase]] and Alliandre when they arrive at the Shaido camp. She blackmails them into trying to steal the oath rod from Therava's tent. ({{wh|4}})
* Galina often shares Therava's tent. ({{cot|9}})

==Quotes==
"She was too hard for logic- she believed what she believed whatever the evidence- yet [[Sarene]] had always believed that great fires roared somewhere in Galina's depths." Sarene about Galina ({{loc2|Chapter 25}})

"Galina, a Red, had been in charge of the sisters who had held him prisoner, and if he was calm about her today, yesterday he had been in a fury that she had gotten away." Perrin about Rand's reaction to Galina's escape ({{acos2|Chapter 2}})

"She would be rescued eventually, of course; she knew that. The Tower would not allow a sister to remain in captivity. Elaida would not allow a Red to be held. Surely Alviarin would send rescue. Someone would, anyone, to save her from these monsters, especially from Therava. She would promise anything for that deliverance. She would even keep those promises." Galina ({{acos2|Chapter 40}})

"Galina was Aes Sedai. She must be. But what was an Aes Sedai doing here, in ''gai'shain'' robes? Not to mention apparently ready to lick Sevanna's wrist and kiss Therava's feet! An Aes Sedai!" Faile about Galina ({{wh2|Chapter 4}})

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Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan

2023-04-16T14:10:39Z

Blythe Alawdin: /* The Gathering Storm */

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''Author: Praesmed Phoenix''

eh-LY-da doh AHV-rih nee ah ROY-han
==General==
Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]].
===Personality===
Elaida has always had an exacting personality. She loves flowers, in particular red roses, and has always made it a priority to surround herself with them, even during droughts. She also enjoys knitting, and often occupies her time with the activity. She has a special loathing for rats, perhaps because they can be spies for the [[Dark One]]. Her composure is often compared to unveiled steel, as [[Rand]] muses that, "He had sometimes thought of [[Moiraine]] as steel covered with velvet; with Elaida the velvet was only an illusion" ({{teotw|40}}). Egwene notes, "She had always thought of Moiraine as strong, steel under silk, but Elaida dispensed with the silk" ({{tgh|24}}).

Elaida has no interest in novices, but the novices know of her and her reputation ({{tsr|1}}).
===Appearance===

"Elaida was a handsome woman rather than beautiful, and the sternness on her face added maturity to her ageless [[Aes Sedai]] features. She did not look old, yet [[Egwene]] could never imagine her looking young." ({{tgh|17}})

===Condensed Timeline===
==Strengths and Talents==
Elaida is one of the strongest Aes Sedai in [[the Tower]] (prior to the arrival of Egwene and company) and according to [[Verin]], is one of the few living Aes Sedai who could wield the [[Choedan Kal]] ({{tgh2|Chapter 31}}).
===Foretelling===
Elaida has the [[Talent]] of [[Foretelling]]. It is faint and comes rarely, but it is still more than any Aes Sedai has had since [[Gitara Moroso]] ({{tsr2|Chapter 1}}).

Elaida's first Foretelling, as an [[Accepted]], was that "the Royal line of [[Andor]] would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle" ({{tsr2|Chapter 1}}).

"From this day Andor marches toward pain and division. The Shadow has yet to darken to its blackest, and I cannot see if the Light will come after. Where the world has wept one tear, it will weep thousands. Pain and division come to the whole world, and this man (Rand) stands at the heart of it." ({{teotw2|Chapter 40}})

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|"The [[White Tower]] will be whole again, except for remnants cast out and scorned, whole and stronger than ever. Rand al'Thor will face the [[Amyrlin Seat]] and know her anger. The [[Black Tower]] will be rent in blood and fire, and sisters will walk its grounds." ({{acos2|Prologue}})}}

==Relationships with Other Characters==

{{Spoiler|the whole series|Upon her initial meeting with Rand, she believes that he may be a [[Darkfriend]], and she finds his heron-mark sword and appearance to be quite remarkable for someone from [[Emond's Field]] ({{teotw|40}}). She is one of the first to declare him ''[[ta'veren]]'', and "more dangerous than any man since [[Artur Hawkwing]]" ({{tgh|4}}). Above all, she sees Rand as a threat to Andor and seeks to eliminate him ({{tsr|1}}). Upon learning that he has taken the [[Stone of Tear]] and wielded ''[[Callandor]]'', Elaida begrudgingly admits that he is indeed the Dragon Reborn ({{prol5}}). In her initial overtures toward the Dragon Reborn, she sends Rand a letter offering him an escort to the White Tower ({{tfoh|51}}). Especially after her embassy captures and shields him, and he escapes from it, there is certainly no love lost between Rand and Elaida.

After Foretelling that Andor would be pivotal in the Last Battle, Elaida attached herself to the soon-to-be-Queen [[Morgase]] as her Aes Sedai advisor. She has watched over and had a vested interest in [[Elayne]] since birth, in particular after discovering her potential as a channeler. Unfortunately, Morgase severed all ties with the Tower (and Elaida with it) after Elayne disappeared.

Despite the fact that [[Alviarin]] is her [[Keeper]] of the Chronicles, there is no love lost between the two characters even during Elaida's first days as Amyrlin, as Alviarin consistently does not show the proper respect for Elaida. Elaida often finds the [[White]] Sister's cool composure to be maddening when the two lock horns. Her choice of Alviarin as Keeper was purely a political one, as she could not have gained the necessary support from the White without Alviarin's help ({{prol5}}).

Elaida holds a special animosity toward [[Thom Merrilin]] after he attempted to meddle in Aes Sedai affairs that involved his nephew ({{teotw|35}}).

Elaida is totally unaware of [[Padan Fain]]'s status as doubly Dark, and attempts to use him to learn more about Rand and perhaps to capture him. Fain, of course, is using her to get his [[ruby dagger|dagger]] back ({{prol5}}).

Elaida takes a particular interest in [[Min]], due to her connections with Rand and Moiraine ({{tgh|24}}). She tries to interrogate Min about Rand.

Elaida is one of the Aes Sedai involved with Egwene's testing for the ring, and after having demanded to be part of it she is very critical of Egwene's character. We later learn that Elaida despises Egwene because she is a [[wilder]] and will never consider Egwene a true Aes Sedai ({{tdr|23}}). It is Elaida who pours the first two chalices over Egwene. In Egwene's ''[[ter'angreal]]'' vision of the future, Elaida denounces Rand to the [[Hall of the Tower]], claiming that he is a false Dragon, and Egwene refuses to sentence him ({{tdr|22}}).

Elaida, believing [[Siuan]] to be a threat to the integrity of the Tower (and having never really liked her much, anyway), is the ringleader in deposing her and ascending to the Amyrlin Seat ({{tsr|47}}). Elaida once worked with Siuan to bring "Morgase to heel" ({{tfoh|27}}) but ultimately feels slighted that her efforts to control [[Caemlyn]] may have cost her the Amyrlin Seat, something about which she envies Siuan intensely.}}

==Elaida's Journey==
{{Spoiler|Elaida's life before the beginning of the series|
*Elaida was an Accepted when Siuan and Moiraine were novices, and then an Aes Sedai while the two were Accepted, and is one of the few (if not the only) people in the tower who remember their childhood friendship ({{tsr|1}}).

*All that is known of Elaida's childhood is that, according to [[Joline]] Sedai, "Elaida had been petted too much as a novice, made over too much for her strength and the remarkable speed of her learning" ({{acos|17}}).

*[[Meidani]] and Elaida were [[pillow friends]] but the relationship ended when Elaida gained the ring, out of propriety ({{prol10}}). }}
===The Eye of the World===
===The Great Hunt===
Elaida takes it upon herself to interrogate [[Nynaeve]], Egwene, and Elayne regarding their abduction by [[Liandrin]] and company ({{tgh|17}}).
===The Dragon Reborn===
===The Shadow Rising===
{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|
Though Elaida is extremely dislikable, she is not a [[Darkfriend]], as revealed by a passage from her point of view: "The Dark One was sure to break free -- the very thought made Elaida shudder and wrap her shawl around her more tightly" ({{tsr|1}}). }}
===The Fires of Heaven===
===Lord of Chaos===
===A Crown of Swords===
{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|
Despite becoming Amyrlin Seat, Elaida is frustrated by her debt to her co-conspirators, and their knowledge of this debt. In an effort to assert her authority, she assigns penances to Sisters, something that is nearly unheard of. Feeling a bit envious of the living quarters of other rulers, Elaida has also commissioned the creation of a palace for the Amyrlin, one that would be taller than the White Tower itself ({{prol7}}). Though Elaida's embassy is able to temporarily capture Rand and send word of its success to the White Tower, Rand escapes during the battle of [[Dumai's Wells]]. Having heard only of her embassy's success, Elaida arrogantly assembles a force of fifty Aes Sedai to defeat the Black Tower, refusing to believe any rumors about their power, ignoring Alviarin's warnings to the contrary ({{prol7}}). After learning of the embassy's rout at Dumai's Wells and realizing that the force sent to the Black Tower is doomed to meet the same fate, Elaida is thoroughly cowed by Alviarin, and follows her directions to sow a bit of disorder in the Tower by seizing ''[[angreal]]'' from the [[Green Ajah]] ({{acos|32}}). Searching for a means through which to dispose of Alviarin, Elaida hits upon the idea of searching the Tower for [[Black Ajah]]. She creates a secret committee, headed by [[Seaine Herimon|Seaine]] ({{acos|32}}). }}
===The Path of Daggers===
{{Spoiler|[[The Path of Daggers]]|
After a bit of searching, the committee uncovers the ten rebels who returned to Tar Valon through [[Pevara]] ({{tpod|26}}). Alviarin also has Elaida take private penances for her incompetence. }}
===Winter's Heart===
===Crossroads of Twilight===
{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|
The tables are turned, however, when, through the work of Seaine and company and some political scapegoating, Elaida is able to remove Alviarin as [[Keeper]] due to her absence from the Tower. Further, upon her dismissal, Elaida hints that she knows that Alviarin is Black, and sends her fleeing from Tar Valon ({{cot|21}}). }}
===Knife of Dreams===
{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]|
*She is annoyed that [[Tarna]] does not seem proud to be Keeper ({{kod|2}}).
*She expects to have Elayne back in hand shortly ({{kod|2}}).
*She instructs Tarna to have the streets cleaned and sewers drained ({{kod|2}}).
*She intends to merge the Tower armies with the rebels with Gareth in charge ({{kod|2}}).
*[[Beonin]] tells her Egwene is a Dreamer and makes many good weaves – one of the reasons she decides to save her ({{kod|2}}).
*Beonin teaches Elaida Travelling and Skimming, and Elaida tells her not to teach anyone those weaves ({{kod|2}}).
*Beonin betrays the spies; Elaida realizes why Meidani was so keen on renewing friendship and considers it ({{kod|2}}).
*She orders that Sitters from Ajahs that fail to send Sisters to the chain tower or from those who go to talks with the rebels should submit to penances ({{kod|23}}).
*Elaida orders that Egwene is to attend her and Meidani that night ({{kod|23}}). }}
===The Gathering Storm===
{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|
*Egwene attends Elaida. During the meal, Elaida taunts Meidani ({{tgs|2}}).
*Elaida considers a fourth oath, of obedience to the Amyrlin Seat ({{tgs|2}}).
*Elaida dismisses the [[Seanchan]] as an invention of Rand ({{tgs|2}}).
*When Egwene drops the soup, Elaida sends her for punishment ({{tgs|2}}).
*Elaida has Egwene serve her again, in the company of a group of Sitters ({{tgs|16}}).
*She and Egwene get into a discussion about her failures and she loses her temper when Egwene claims the Dark one would be ashamed to have her. She beats Egwene and orders that it be announced that Egwene is a Darkfriend ({{tgs|16}}).
*[[Silviana]] denounces Elaida and demands her removal. Elaida replaces Silviana as [[Mistress of Novices]], imprisons her, and demands her execution ({{tgs|38}}).
*Elaida is captured in the Seanchan raid ({{tgs|41}}).
*The Ajah Heads decide to replace her ({{tgs|43}}). }}

===Towers of Midnight===
{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|
*Elaida is brought before [[Tuon]] as a ''[[damane]]''. She now has the name Suffa and is being trained by [[Melitene]]. She offers to give Tuon twenty of the most powerful sisters from the White Tower if she is released, but she is quieted by Melitene. Melitene then has her open a [[gateway]], surprising Tuon with the knowledge of Traveling. ({{tom|47}}) }}

===A Memory of Light===

==Changes==
{{Spoiler|the whole series|One of the reasons that Elaida's position in the Tower is becoming so precarious is that she really hasn't changed much at all since we first met her as an officious, stubborn, and stern [[Red]]. Elaida is extremely arrogant and self-absorbed, which is ultimately her tragic flaw despite her strength in the One Power. She supports ideas only when she conceives of them herself, and she is very set in tradition, believing the White Tower to be effectively invulnerable and ignoring intelligence regarding both the [[Salidar Aes Sedai]] and the Black Tower. Her insistence that the Black Tower is a weak entity costs the Tower many sisters, as did her insistence that Rand could be captured and tamed. Further, she unknowingly played directly into the hand of the Black Ajah when Alviarin encouraged her to depose Siuan Sanche.}}

==Quotes==
{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|"Why no oath to obey the Amyrlin? If that simple promise were part of all of us, how much pain and difficulty could we have avoided? Perhaps some revision is in order." (To Meidani; {{tgs2|Chapter 2}})

"I’d name you Darkfriend as well, but I suspect that the Dark One would perhaps be embarrassed to associate with you." (Egwene; {{tgs2|Chapter 16}})

"You must learn. Your name is Suffa. And Suffa will be a good ''[[damane]]''. Yes she will. A very, very good ''damane''." ({{tgs2|Chapter 41}}) }}

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Covarla Baldene

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{{Author Leora}}

==General==

'''Covarla Baldene''' is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]] ({{acos|32}}).

She has pale hair ({{acos|32}}). She has worn the shawl as long as [[Elaida]] has been alive ({{acos|32}}). She is strong enough to [[Travel]] ({{tgs|13}}).

==Timeline==

*Elaida sends Covarla, along with [[Galina]] and other Aes Sedai, to capture [[Rand]] and bring him to [[the Tower]]; she manages to escape after [[Dumai's Wells]] ({{loc|55}}; {{acos|32}}).

*Covarla approaches Elaida in secret to inform her of the failure to capture Rand and what happened at Dumai's Wells ({{acos|32}}).

*Elaide sends Covarla to the village of [[Dorlan]] beyond the bridge towns of [[Tar Valon]] to wait until she sends for her ({{acos|32}}).

*Covarla, as the highest standing Aes Sedai in Dorlan, is in charge until [[Tarna Feir]] arrives; Tarna promptly takes control ({{Prol10}}). Covarla has to give up her room in Dorlan to [[Katerine Alruddin]] once Katerine arrives in Dorlan ({{Prol10}}).

*She is still in Dorlan during the seige ({{tgs|13}}).

*She threatens to replace [[Gawyn]] as leader of the [[Younglings]] ({{tgs|13}}).

==Quotes==

"You will leave the city as circumspectly as you entered, daughter, and keep yourself and the others hidden in one of the villages beyond the bridge towns until I send for you. Dorlan will do nicely." They would have to sleep in barns in that tiny hamlet, which had no inn; the least their bungling deserved. "Go, now. And pray that someone above you does arrive soon. The [[Hall]] will demand amends for this unparalleled catastrophe, and at the moment, it seems you stand highest among those at fault." (Elaida to Covarla; {{acos2|Chapter 32}})

"Your impudence seems to grow by the day child. Perhaps you need to be removed and a more suitable replacement raised to captain that group." (To Gawyn, about the Younglings; {{tgs2|Chapter 13}})

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Bonwhin Meraighdin

2023-04-06T01:47:43Z

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''Author: Atarah al'Norahn''

==General==

'''Bonwhin Meraighdin''' was an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]]. She was raised to [[the Amyrlin Seat]] in the year FY 939, and held the position until the year 992 FY. These dates may not be exact because of the confusion surrounding dates during [[the War of the Hundred Years]] (TWoRJTWoT).

Bonwhin is one of the three Amyrlins who have been publicly deposed. She lost the staff and stole for attempting to manipulate [[Artur Hawkwing]]. She was replaced by a [[Blue]], [[Deane Aryman]]. Since Bonwhin, there has been no Amyrlin raised from the Red Ajah (TWoRJTWoT; {{tgh|5}}).

Bonwhin was an imperious woman, even for an Amyrlin Seat (TWoRJTWoT).

==Timeline==

* Bonwhin is raised to the Amyrlin Seat circa FY 939 (TWoRJTWoT).

* When Artur Hawkwing brings [[Guaire Amalasan]] to the White Tower, Bonwhin has a message sent to Hawkwing saying that he has five days to rest his army and move them beyond the borders of [[Tar Valon]] (TWoRJtWoT).

* In the year FY 968 or 969, either [[Tamika Paendrag|Tamika]], Hawkwing's wife, refused a summons to Bonwhin, or Bonwhin refused to see Tamika (TWoRJTWoT).

* In the year FY 992, Bonwhin is deposed and kept in the Tower as a scullery maid ({{tgh|5}}; TWoRJTWoT).

* Bonwhin dies in the year FY 996 (TWoRJTWoT).

==Miscellaneous==

* There is a triptych of Bonwhin in [[Elaida]]'s study. The first panel shows her, tall and proud, ordering Aes Sedai. The second panel shows her defiant on the walls of Tar Valon under siege. The third panel shows her kneeling before [[the Hall of the Tower]] as she is deposed ({{Prol5}}). Later, it seems that Elaida takes it down for reasons unknown ({{tfoh|46}}).

* The Red Ajah resents the fact that there has not been an Amyrlin raised from the Red Ajah since Bonwhin ({{tfoh|27}}).

* Apparently, Bonwhin never forgave Artur Hawkwing for entering the territory of Tar Valon with an army (TWoRJTWoT).

* It is thought that the Aes Sedai governing provinces for Artur Hawkwing took their orders from Bonwhin more than from Hawkwing. It is thought that she might have been attempting to control his decisions (TWoRJTWoT).

* Some sources claim that Artur Hawkwing began the siege of the White Tower because he learned that Bonwhin had been behind the deaths of [[Amaline Paendrag Tagora|his first wife]] and children (TWoRJTWoT).

==Quotes==

"[[Tetsuan]], who betrayed [[Manetheren]] for jealousy of [[Ellisande]]'s powers, and Bonwhin, who tried to use Artur Hawkwing for a puppet to control the world and so nearly destroyed Tar Valon." ([[Moiraine]] to [[Siuan]]; {{tgh2|Chapter 5}})

"Both of the Red, and both replaced by Amyrlins from the Blue. The reason there has not been an Amyrlin chosen from the Red since Bonwhin, and the reason the Red Ajah will take any pretext to pull down an Amyrlin from the Blue, all wrapped neatly together. I have no wish to be the third to lose the stole and the staff, Moiraine." (Siuan to Moiraine; {{tgh2|Chapter 5}}).

She raised her eyes to the paintings. One consisted of three wooden panels depicting Bonwhin, the last Red to have been raised to the Amyrlin Seat, a thousand years before, and the reason no Red had worn the stole since. Until Elaida. Bonwhin, tall and proud, ordering Aes Sedai in their manipulations of Artur Hawkwing; Bonwhin, defiant, on the white walls of Tar Valon, under siege by Hawkwing's forces; and Bonwhin, kneeling and humbled, before the Hall of the Tower as they stripped her of stole and staff for nearly destroying the Tower. (Elaida; {{tfoh2|Prologue}})

The evidence is conclusive, though, that Bonwhin never forgave Hawkwing for entering Tar Valon's territory with an army. An enmity even deeper might be explained by the possibility that Hawkwing did indeed come to the White Tower's rescue against [[Sawyn Maculhene|Maculhene]] and [[Elinde Motheneos|Motheneos]]. Bonwhin was an imperious woman even for an Amyrlin, and it is unlikely she would either have forgotten the need for rescue or forgiven the one who provided it. (The World of Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time")

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Amira Moselle

2023-04-05T19:29:52Z

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''Author: Kyria d'Oreyn''
==General==

'''Amira Moselle''' was an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]] and [[Mistress of Novices]] under [[Sierin Vayu]] ({{ns|14}}). Later, she was a [[Sitter]] for her [[Ajah]], but stepped down (Tor Q&A). She was stocky with beaded braids that marked her as a Taraboner ({{ns|14}}).

==Timeline==

*After Sierin Vayu was raised [[Amyrlin Seat]] from the [[Gray Ajah]], she chose Amira as her new Mistress of Novices ({{ns|14}}).

*Twice, she birched a sister ({{ns|14}}).

*She was elected to be a Sitter for her Ajah, but stepped down about the time [[Elaida]] returned from [[Caemlyn]] (Tor Q&A).

*She was one of the Aes Sedai of [[the White Tower]] embassy to [[Rand]]. She was killed at [[Dumai's Wells]] ([http://www.encyclopaedia-wot.org/ Encyclopaedia WoT]).

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Red Ajah Character List

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[[Amira Moselle]]: She was a Sitter but stepped down and was replaced by [[Elaida]]. She was killed at [[Dumai's Wells]].

[[Barasine]]: Barasine is mentioned by [[Logain]] as one of the sisters who persuaded him to declare himself the Dragon Reborn. He said "one named Barasine talked a good deal." She is in the Tower during Egwene's captivity and is raised to Sitter to replace Duhara.

[[Bonwhin Meraighdin]]: One of three Amyrlins to be stripped of the staff and stole, Bonwhin tried to manipulate [[Artur Hawkwing]] to control the world.

[[Cariandre]]: Cariandre is one of the Aes Sedai that guards Mattin Stepaneos.

[[Chisaine Nurbaya]]: Chisaine was one of the sisters sent by Elaida to capture Rand al'Thor. She was captured and held captive by the Aiel at Dumai's Wells. She was among the last to swear fealty to Rand.

[[Covarla Baldene]]: Covarla was one of the sisters sent by Elaida to kidnap Rand al'Thor. She escaped capture at Dumai's Wells and carried the news of the others' captivity to Elaida. She has been Aes Sedai as long as Elaida has been alive.

[[Desala Nevanche]]: Desala was one of the Sisters at Southharbor who captured Leane. She was one of the Red Sisters sent to the Black Tower to put the proposition of Red Sisters bonding Asha'man as Warders to Mazrim Taim.

[[Duhara Basaheen]]: Duhara is a Sitter for the Red Ajah. She is described as having coppery skin and big dark eyes. She is sent to Caemlyn to be advisor to Elayne and exposed as Black Ajah while out of the Tower. She is killed during the Last Battle.

[[Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan]]: A minor Murandian noble who took against Siuan Sanche when she thought Siuan had gotten her in trouble when Siuan was an accepted. She organized the coup that deposed Siuan and was raised in her place. She remained Amyrlin as the Ajahs began to isolate themselves and was only removed after being captured and made ''damane''.

[[Galina Casban]]: An Aes Sedai of the Red and Black Ajah, taken by the Shaido and made to swear on an Oath Rod to obey them. They took her back to the Waste when they left the Westlands.

[[Gyldan]]: Egwene saw Gyldan in her Accepted test. Gyldan was Black Ajah, and Elaida's closest confidante. (She is likely fictional.)

[[Innina Darenhold]]: Innina was part of Elaida's embassy to kidnap Rand al'Thor. She was captured at Dumai's Wells and was one of the last to swear fealty to Rand.

[[Jamilila Norish]]: An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah in the Tower during the siege by the Rebels. She vanished after Egwene was raised Amyrlin.

[[Janine Pavlara]]: Janine was part of Elaida's embassy to kidnap Rand al'Thor. She was captured at Dumai's Wells and was one of the last to swear fealty to Rand.

[[Jenare]]: Jenare was with Toveine on their way to the Black Tower. She was bonded by Kajima.

[[Javindhra Doraille]]: A sitter for the Red. She is overseeing the task of returning those who fled the Tower after Elaida deposed Siuan Sanche. She was one of the Red Sisters sent to the Black Tower to put the proposition of Red Sisters bonding Asha'man as Warders to Mazrim Taim. She is unconcerned when Taim forbids them from leaving as she has been Turned to the Shadow.

[[Jezrail]]: She was one of the Red Sisters sent to the Black Tower to put the proposition of Red Sisters bonding Asha'man as Warders to Mazrim Taim.

[[Katerine Alruddin]]: A member of the Red and Black Ajah, captured at Dumai's Wells, but freed by Darkfriends, she returned to the Tower and became a confidant of Elaida's, eventually replacing Silviana as Mistress of Novices, before fleeing when Egwene was raised Amyrlin. She was killed in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''.

[[Laigin Arnault]]: Laigin was a part of the embassy to kidnap Rand al'Thor. She died at Dumai's Wells.

[[Lemai]]: Lemai was in Toveine's party to the Black Tower. She was captured; now she and Desandre (Yellow) rank high among the fifty-one sisters captured.

[[Liandrin]]: A Taraboner Aes Sedai who was a Darkfriend before she even went to the Tower. She fled the Tower when Egwene returned from Falme to avoid exposure and was later shielded by Moghedien after a failed attempt to persuade the other Black Ajah not to heal her. She was given to Suroth as a ''da'covale''.

[[Lirene Doirellin]]: Lirene was exiled from the Tower at the same time as Toveine Gazal. Before exile, she had been a Sitter. Elaida called her back to the Tower after 15 years; Lirene is now a meek and nervous woman.

[[Melare]]: She was one of the Red Sisters sent to the Black Tower to put the proposition of Red Sisters bonding Asha'man as Warders to Mazrim Taim.

[[Memara]]: Memara is sent by the White Tower to be an advisor to Queen Tenobia of Saldaea. She failed.

[[Nesita]]: A member of the Red and Black Ajah. Nesita is mean as a snake with an itch.

[[Notasha]]: An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah present in the Tower when the Seanchan attacked.

[[Patrinda]]: Patrinda is an Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah who is one of the sisters to maintain Egwene's shield after Elaida beats her and declares her a Darkfriend.

[[Pevara Tazanovni]]: A Sitter for the Red Ajah, Pevara is recruited by Seaine (White) to help search for the Black Ajah in the White Tower. She was out of the Tower when Egwene was raised, having gone to the Black Tower to ask to be allowed to bond Asha'man. She forcibly bonds Androl in a moment of panic and is in turn bonded by him.

[[Raechin Connoral]]: A woman chosen Sitter while Javindhra and Pevara are out of the Tower.

[[Sashalle Anderly]]: She was at Dumai's Wells stilled by Rand and later healed by Damer Flinn. She swore fealty to Rand. She is leading the Aes Sedai that remain in Cairhien.

[[Silviana Brehon]]: Silviana was Mistress of Novices under Elaida until being imprisoned after demanding Elaida be deposed. She was named Keeper of the Chronicles by Egwene.

[[Tarna Feir]]: Tarna was Elaida's Keeper and was out of the Tower when Egwene was raised, having gone to the Black Tower to ask to be allowed to bond Asha'man. She underwent a personality change after Mazrim Taim Turned her to the Shadow.

[[Tesien Jorhald]]: Tesien is an older Aes Sedai; she was very senior to Pevara when Pevara was first raised. Tesien cut Pevara off from friends outside the Red Ajah.

[[Teslyn Baradon]]: Teslyn is Illianer who was a Red Sitter before Elaida forced her to resign and go to Ebou Dar with Jolene. She was captured by the Seanchan and made ''damane'', before being rescued by Mat. She turned against Elaida and has returned to the Tower, but was not comfortable there and fought alongside the Dragonsworn in the Last Battle rather than the Aes Sedai.

[[Tetsuan]]: Tetsuan was an Amyrlin, predating Bonwhin. She was stripped of staff and stole. She is rumored to have been involved in the betrayal of Manetheren during the Trolloc Wars.

[[Toveine Gazal]]: An Aes Sedai who was exiled from the White Tower for fifteen years due to "some unpleasantness after the Aiel War" until Elaida assigns Toveine to lead a group of sisters to the Black Tower to detain the men there. Toveine is bonded against her will to Logain after he captures her and her group. She is Turned to the Shadow by Mazrim Taim.

[[Tsutama Rath]]: The Head of the Red Ajah. Tsutama was exiled from the White Tower at the same time as Toveine Gazal. Before exile, she had been a Sitter. Elaida called her back to the Tower after fifteen years; Tsutama was thought to be a meek, nervous woman, but has shown herself strong and controlling since taking control of the Reds.

[[Turese]]: An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah without the Ageless look that guards Egwene while she is a prisoner in the Tower.

[[Vayelle Kamsa]]: Vayelle was part of the embassy that kidnapped Rand al'Thor. She was captured at Dumai's Wells and was one of the last to swear fealty to Rand.

[[Viria Connoral]]: A woman chosen Sitter while Javindhra and Pevara are out of the Tower.

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