Doesine Alwain

Author: Atarah al'Norahn

General

Doesine is Aes Sedai of and Sitter for the Yellow Ajah of considerable repute (TPoD, Ch. 26; WH, Prologue). She was born to a cuttler in Cairhien. She is boyishly slim, and is tall for a Cairhienin woman. Seaine thinks that she looks like a pretty boy, despite her elegant bearing (TPoD, Ch. 26).

She sometimes uses coarse language, and has a tongue like a boy who needs his mouth washed out. However, when matters are serious, her tongue is as clean as any Mistress of Novices could have wished (TPoD, Ch. 26). When she is under stress, touches of her native Cairhienin accent appear in her voice (WH, Prologue).

Doesine is not overly strong in the One Power. She is weaker than Seaine, who is weaker than Pevara, Saerin, Talene and Yukiri (TPoD, Ch 26).

Doesine ran away three times as a novice; however, only once did she make it as far as the bridges. (TPoD, Ch. 26).

Timeline

• Doesine, along with Saerin, Yukiri and Talene, find Seaine and Pevara with the Oath Rod (TPoD, Ch. 26).

• Doesine re-swears the oath of truth and claims that she is not a Darkfriend (TPoD, Ch. 26).

• Doesine works the Chair of Remorse (WH, Prologue).

• Doesine and the other Sitters meet with Elaida to discuss the rebels (CoT, Ch. 21).

Miscellaneous

• Apparently, Doesine has strayed too near the Red quarters, with unfortunate results (TPoD, Ch. 26).

• Like Saerin, Talene and Yukiri, Doesine has recently been set a penance by Elaida and was humiliated by her (TPoD, Ch. 26).

• Out of the Black Ajah search group, only Doesine knows how to work the Chair of Remorse (WH, Prologue).

• Doesine seems to suggest that they kidnap every sister in the Tower, make them swear an oath to obey the searchers, and find out who is of the Black Ajah (WH, Prologue).

Quotes

"Bloody useless and I bloody knew it. Why I ever flaming let you talk me into this? Just as bloody well nobody else knows, or we'd have sheepswallop all over faces for the whole bloody Tower to see." (Doesine to Saerin, Talene and Yukiri; The Path of Daggers, Chapter 26)

"Blood and fire. Are you down here raising new bloody sisters?" (Doesine to Pevara and Seaine; The Path of Daggers, Chapter 26)

"She is bloody being flogged by bloody Trollocs. When they are done...She can see the Trollocs' cook kettle boiling over a fire, and a Myrddraal watching her. She must know it will be one or the other next. Burn me, if she doesn't break this time..." (Doesine to Pevara, Saerin, Seaine and Yukiri about Talene; Winter's Heart, Prologue)

"The Trollocs are dragging her toward the kettle. I -- I do not know if I can...can flaming make myself..." (Doesine to Pevara, Saerin, Seaine and Yukiri about Talene; Winter's Heart, Prologue)