Kairen Stang

Kyria d'Oreyn

General

Kairen Stang was an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah. She was beautiful and not overly tall with steady cool blue eyes in an oval face (NS, Ch12; CoT, Ch17). She was originally from Andor (LoC, Ch41).

She was bonded to Llyw. The Sitters think maybe Myrelle will take over his bond to save him after she has died (CoT, Ch30).

Timeline

• She welcomed Siuan and Moiraine after they were raised and took them to their quarters. She was going to leave for Tear soon (NS, Ch12).

• Elayne told Nynaeve that the rebel Aes Sedai sent out an embassy to Rand in Caemlyn; Kairen is among them (LoC, Prologue).

• She arrived with the others in Caemlyn and got rooms in The Crown of Roses (LoC, Ch41).

• She talked with the Lady Dyelin and tried to influence her (LoC, Ch43).

• Kiruna assigned her and three other Aes Sedai to take the Two Rivers girls to Salidar (LoC, Ch49).

• Although not mentioned directly, Kairen was one of the two Aes Sedai who joined the rebel Aes Sedai with the girls from the Two Rivers (TPoD, Ch30).

• She was making cuendillar when Egwene came to see how everyone was improving (CoT, Ch17).

• She was killed during the night using saidin; the murderer was Halima/Aran'gar (CoT, Ch30).

Miscellaneous

• She was long time friends with Anaiya and Cabriana, but both deferred to Anaiya, because of their strengths in the Power (NS, Ch12). They were often called "the Three" because of their closeness (KoD, Ch23).

• Kairen was quite good at making cuendillar, so Egwene was considering her and Leane to turn the chains at the harbors of Tar Valon to cuendillar. Egwene also thought of Kairen meeting Lelaine often of late (CoT, Ch17).

• After Nisao tells Egwene of Kairen's death, Egwene wants her to start investigating just as she did after Anaiya's death (CoT, Ch30).

• Lelaine later asks Nisao to stop asking questions about the two sisters, but Nisao is determined to find out the link between them (KoD, Ch23).

Quotes

"'There isn't much skill involved, Mother. All that's needed is to set the weave and wait.' The last word held a touch of acridness, and for that matter, there had been a slight hesitation before Mother. Kairen had been sent off from Salidar on a very important mission only to see it collapse in a shambles, though from no fault of hers, and she had returned to them in Murandy to find everything she had left behind stood on its head and a girl she remembered as a novice wearing the Amyrlin's stole." (Kairen to Egwene; Crossroads of Twilight, Chapter 17)