Ilyena Therin Moerelle

Kyria d'Oreyn

General

Ilyena Moerelle Dalisar was Lews Therin Telamon's wife and true love during the Age of Legends.

She was a golden-haired beauty with cream-like skin (The Eye of the World, Prologue, Lord of Chaos, Chapter 19; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 2)

Her third name, an honorific, indicates that she was a woman of importance.

After marrying Lews Therin Telamon, about fifty years before the beginning of the War of the Shadow, she changed her name into Ilyena Therin Moerelle.

Miscellaneous

-Lews Therin kills her and the rest of their family in his madness (The Eye of the World, Prologue).

-Lanfear had been Lews Therin's lover, before Ilyena met him (The Great Hunt, Chapter 7).

-Lanfear claims that Ilyena stole Lews Therin away from her and that he belonged to her before (The Dragon Reborn, Chapter 36; The Shadow Rising, Chapter 40; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 6).

- Lanfear calls her "straw-haired chit" (The Dragon Reborn, Chapter 36), "milk-hearted" (The Shadow Rising, Chapter 50), and "yellow-haired trollop" (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 6).

-Lews Therin called her Ilyena Sunhair (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 55).

-Lews Therin moans about his lost Ilyena (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 55, Lord of Chaos, Chapter 3; Lord of Chaos, Chapter 10; Lord of Chaos, Chapter 18; Lord of Chaos, Chapter 51; Lord of Chaos, Chapter 53, The Path of Daggers, Chapter 23).

-Rand adds her name to his list of women who have died for him (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 26).

-Demandred wanted Ilyena (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 51).

-Lews Therin whispers he should have sent Ilyena away (The Path of Daggers, Chapter 29).

Quotes

"Ilyena, forgive me." (Lews Therin; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 43; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 51, The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 52)/

"Ilyena never flashed her temper at me when she was angry with herself. When she gave me the rough side of her tongue, it was because she..." (Lews Therin; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 2).

"Mustn't use that. Threatens the fabric of the Pattern. Not even for Ilyena? I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again." (Lews Therin about balefire; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 44).

"I will never forget Ilyena, not if all the world burns!" (Lews Therin; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 44).

"I was never yours, Mierin. I will always belong to Ilyena." (Rand to Lanfear; The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 52).