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Gabal. One of Perrin’s erroneous attempts at “Gaebril,” when speaking of Rahvin.

Gabil. Another of Perrin’s erroneous attempts at “Gaebril.”

Gabrelle Brawley. An Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a strength level of 19(7). Born in northern Murandy in 902 NE, she went to the White Tower in 917 NE. After spending seven years as a novice and six as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 930 NE. About 5'5" tall, with an average build, she was a pretty woman, though not beautiful except when she smiled. She had a dusky complexion, with large dark green eyes, an upturned nose and brown hair worn short, barely to her shoulders. A member of the expedition to take the Black Tower, she was captured and bonded by Logain. She seduced him and tried to make the best of her situation. Like Toveine she was under orders, enforced by the added bit in the bond, not to embrace the Source without Logain’s permission, not to attack anyone in a black coat, and not to try to escape. Gabrelle thought Toveine’s stubborn bitterness was defeatist. Gabrelle suggested to Toveine that they submit to Desandre and Lemai to unify the sisters. Toveine thought Logain was taking advantage of her, but Gabrelle told her that was not true. Gabrelle’s notion of making Logain her lover began purely to obtain information, but Gabrelle found making love with Logain exhilarating in two particular ways. The first was that while she had always known that she was stronger than the men she made love with, because of the Power, this didn’t apply with Logain, and that made her feel helpless, which she found strangely thrilling. The second was that sometimes his masking of the bond slipped, which meant that she got the effects of positive feedback through the bond. Gabrelle went with Logain to Cairhien and then to Tear to join Rand; she participated in the defense of Algarin’s manor. Gabrelle fought in the Last Battle, and gave Logain the name “Sealbreaker.”

Gadarin, Shevan. See Shevan Gadarin

Gadren Grady. Jur and Sora Grady’s ugly young son.

Gaean, River. A muddy stream in Bellon, Amadicia, twenty miles from Amador.

Gaebril, Lord. The persona taken by Rahvin when he awoke in the Third Age. See also Rahvin

Gaelin. A Two Rivers family. See Edelle and Jon Gaelin

Gaelin, River. A river flowing west from the Spine of the World below Kinslayer’s Dagger, into the River Alguenya.

Gaffin. Someone known to Renald Fanwar.

Gahand, Daria. The author of Essays on Reason, a book studied by Min.

Gahaur. An area of Saldaea; Lady Zavion was from there.

gai’shain. Aiel term meaning those sworn to peace in battle. They were required by ji’e’toh to serve for a year and a day in any capacity required, humbly, obediently, touching no weapon, doing no violence, making no effort to escape. Gai’shain were dressed in cowled white robes and sandals when outdoors; they often wore much less indoors. When the year and a day was up, they were sent home. There was no shame in being gai’shain, unless one escaped or tried to. An escapee was returned by his/her family to begin the year and a day all over again. Sometimes another family member or two, closely related, demanded to be made gai’shain as well, to lessen dishonor to clan and sept. There were cases of men and/or women touched by an enemy while armed demanding to be made gai’shain to lessen their own loss of honor and also lessen the enemy’s gain. Stone Dogs and Maidens of the Spear had a reputation for being especially touchy about points of ji’e’toh and carrying it to that extreme, but others also believed there was much honor to be gained from walking unarmed into an enemy hold and demanding to be made gai’shain, especially if there was a blood feud in effect. It was not usual to take gai’shain on a journey any distance from the hold. Gai’shain were never allowed to wear anything that those who could touch weapons did.

Many Aiel were disgusted by the idea of servants, the idea of someone voluntarily spending their entire life serving others. This despite gai’shain. The only way to incur toh toward a gai’shain was reminding him or her of what/who they were before having been made to put on white, though there were some exceptions, including roofmistresses, with whom it was almost obligatory to remind her of her former status. Toh owed to a gai’shain was considered the hardest of all to meet. While harming or killing a gai’shain was considered akin to harming or killing a child, they were definitely not considered children in any way. They were expected to be worked, and hard, and they generally were.

It was perfectly all right to be physically harsh to a gai’shain. Beatings and switchings were not uncommon, and gai’shain submitted to them meekly, to the extent that a full-grown warrior would allow himself to be switched by a child. There were gai’shain who tried to induce such treatment; this gai’shain pride was disapproved of as a violation of proper meek and humble spirit. A gai’shain could be bedded by whomever he or she served, and would submit to that also. Some individuals would not bed a gai’shain, but this was personal, not a matter of custom in any way. Custom neither required nor rejected it. A gai’shain obeyed, and that was that. Gai’shain were not sold, like slaves, but they—or rather their service—could be given as a gift. Captured gai’shain normally served whoever captured them, but since the belief was that there was no point to having more gai’shain than you could use, the excess were given away. An additional check on anyone keeping too many gai’shain was that you were responsible for the shelter and feeding of those who served you, and while you could work them hard, by ji’e’toh they had to eat as well and sleep as comfortably as you did yourself.

Except in certain specified instances—such as trades—gai’shain had to be allowed to follow any trade they had, and in some instances had to be allowed to work some days for themselves alone. They could not be compelled to follow their trade, though. In no instance was anyone allowed to keep all of the profits of a gai’shain’s labors; in fact, in some cases, what one was allowed to keep amounted to no more than the gai’shain’s upkeep and in some instances less.

That one had been gai’shain was not mentioned after the white was put off, nor was one reminded of anything that might have happened to one while one was gai’shain. To do so was to shame the one who had been gai’shain, and while it incurred only very minor toh, it was considered rude. In effect, the person was treated as if he or she had never been gai’shain; that year and a day never happened, and neither did anything that occurred during it.

After Rand’s revelations of the pacifistic history of the Aiel, there were some who refused to leave being gai’shain, and even some who deliberately had themselves taken gai’shain.

Wise Ones, blacksmiths, children, pregnant women and women with a child under ten could not be taken captive.

The Shaido broke with tradition, taking wetlanders as gai’shain and holding them for life instead of the traditional year and a day. Many of them were abused beyond the limits of discipline imposed on normal gai’shain.

Gaidal Cain. A hero-swordsman of legend and story, always linked to Birgitte. Legend said that he was as handsome as she was beautiful, but legend was inaccurate. He was one of the Heroes of the Horn, called back when the Horn of Valere was sounded at Falme. He had already been reborn at the time of the Last Battle. See also Birgitte Silverbow and Horn of Valere

Gaidin. 1) An alternate term used for Warders meaning “brothers to battle.” 2) A black stallion that belonged to brigands who captured Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne; after the brigands were killed, Nynaeve chose him, named him and rode him to Tear.

Gainor Furlan. The innkeeper at The Wayland’s Forge in Remen, Altara, where Moiraine, Lan, Loial and Perrin stayed and where Perrin first encountered Faile. Furlan was plump and bald-headed with brown eyes.

Galad (Galadedrid) Damodred. The son of Tigraine of Andor and Taringail Damodred of Cairhien. Born in 970 NE, he was tall and slender with dark hair and dark eyes; he was almost too handsome for masculinity. His sign was a winged silver sword, point down. He was half-brother to the Lady Elayne and the Lord Gawyn and to Rand al’Thor. Galad always wanted to do what was right, and did so whatever the cost, either to himself or to others. He went to the Tower to be trained with the Warders, then left and joined the Children of the Light. He helped Nynaeve and Elayne get a ship out of Samara, causing a riot in the process.

Galad had emotional connections to various women. He flirted with Nynaeve, and believed himself in love with Egwene, but once he learned she had become not only Aes Sedai but the rebel Amyrlin, the impossibility of it hit him. When he saw Berelain, though, he was struck head over heels, and so was she.

When Galad learned that Elayne had put in a claim for the Lion Throne, he wanted to help and support her, but he had sworn to the Whitecloaks. He learned that there was an agreement signed by Morgase practically handing over Andor to the Children; his investigation into that led to his learning of Morgase’s treatment by Asunawa and Valda, which culminated in his duel with Valda. Galad became Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light after defeating Valda in a Trial Beneath the Light.

Galad found his brother Gawyn near death after fighting a duel with Demandred in the Last Battle; Gawyn told him that the Dragon Reborn was his half-brother. Galad subsequently dueled against Demandred and was severely injured; Annoura managed to get him away to be Healed, but he lost his right arm.

Galbrait. The leader of the Ayyad women in the Last Battle.

Galfrey, Ryma. See Ryma Galfrey

Galgan, Lunal. See Lunal Galgan

Gallanha. A woman living in the Borderlands who was Thulin’s wife and Mirala’s mother. She was from the south and had yellow hair. She had a set of copper-bottomed pots that she cleaned and left for Auaine, and she gave Auaine and Renald a basket of eggs.

Galina Casban. An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah publicly and the Black Ajah in truth. A member of the loyalist contingent, she had a strength level of 14(2). Born in 875 NE, she went to the White Tower in 891 NE. After spending nine years as a novice and seven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 907 NE. Galina joined the Black Ajah in 910 NE. Standing 5'5" tall, with a round face, a plump mouth, black hair and dark brown eyes, she looked to be in her mid to late twenties, and might have been thought a nice armful, except for her sharpness with men, who made her skin crawl.

She was a lesbian; she was very interested in Erian Boroleos. Galina took no real pleasure in inflicting pain, though personal animus could produce a certain enjoyment. By and large, she went about it like a carpenter hammering nails; it was necessary work, and it was best if it were done properly and well. If she could achieve a goal without pain, she certainly would, but if pain was needed to convince someone, then pain it would be.

In 981 NE, she was made Highest of the Red Ajah; at age 106 she was young for the job—the youngest ever—but her predecessor, also Black, had died in Ba’alzamon’s punishment of the Supreme Council, and the deaths of so many older sisters in recent years had led to something like a youth movement in many Ajahs. Galina was not involved in questioning Tamra Ospenya—that was a Supreme Council job, and she was not then a member—but she might have been involved in kidnapping her, or putting her body into her bed. Galina was also involved in putting to the question some of the sisters Tamra had gathered, as well as in killing those and others. Later, Galina stood next to Alviarin on the Supreme Council, and knew Alviarin’s identity; Talene Minly and Temaile Kinderode were the members of her heart. Galina was involved in putting Siuan Sanche and Leane Sharif to the question, and maybe in stilling them as well. She was part of Elaida’s embassy to Rand; Elaida would have liked to make her the leader, but feared choosing a Red would cause Rand to be suspicious. Galina met with Sevanna and arranged for the Younglings to be killed.

During the battle of Dumai’s Wells, Galina managed to escape Rand’s forces, but was captured by the Shaido. She was treated as an oathbreaker, a truce-breaker, a killer of Wise Ones (for Desaine’s murder) and declared da’tsang. Finally broken by Sevanna, she was forced to swear absolute and utter lifelong obedience to Sevanna on a binder, which (unknown to her, of course) was supplied by Sammael. Other Shaido Wise Ones, opposed in part to Sevanna, forced their way into this, also obtaining Galina’s oath of obedience despite Sevanna’s disapproval. After Galina swore on the binder to obey the selected Wise Ones—and Sevanna and Therava first of all among them—her situation changed somewhat. She was then considered gai’shain, and dressed in robes of white silk and a wide choker of gold and firedrops, along with a matching belt, though jewelry had been unknown to gai’shain before. She was sycophantic and cringing toward Sevanna and the other Wise Ones, a real lickspittle and fawning crawler. It was not playacting; she was terrified of their punishments. Toward Therava she was more than sycophantic; the woman terrified her more than all the others and was the cruelest of all the Shaido toward her, not allowing her the smallest slip or mistake, and at the same time requiring her presence in Therava’s bed. Galina wanted very badly to escape, and took advantage of her knowledge of Faile’s background to blackmail her into helping steal the binder from Therava. She obtained the binder, trapping Faile and her allies in the process, and escaped the Shaido and the Seanchan when they attacked at Malden. Her escape was short-lived, however; Therava and other Shaido who had also escaped the Seanchan recaptured her a short time later. Therava ordered her to never touch the binder again, and they headed back to the Waste.

Galldrian su Riatin Rie. A king of Cairhien; his personal sign was the Stag. After the Aiel War there was conflict in Cairhien, never quite breaking into open civil war despite a number of skirmishes and minor battles, which resulted in House Damodred losing the throne to House Riatin, primarily through the Game of Houses, because of what Laman had brought to Cairhien. Galldrian took the throne; he was not the best of kings. He refused to pay the Ogier who were working in Cairhien, kept his people quiet by entertaining them and ordered the excavation of the male Choedan Kal. His final mistake was having Dena, Thom’s ladylove, killed; Thom assassinated Galldrian in 998 NE.

Gallenne, Bertain. See Bertain Gallenne

Gallger, Mistress. The innkeeper of The Golden Wheel in Far Madding. She was thin and wore her dark hair in a bun. Rand visited her inn while looking for Kisman.

Gambler. The name that the Heroes of the Horn called Mat in the Last Battle.

Game of Houses. See Daes Dae’mar

Gamel Loune. A Seanchan Banner-General from Dalenshar. Tall and slender, with skin blacker than charcoal, he had no softness in him. The top of his left ear was missing and he had a white slash through his white-flecked tight black curls, marking the scar. Mantual was his manservant. Karede met with Loune while searching for Tuon to get information on the forces attacking the Seanchan, that is, Mat’s troops, for whom Loune had been searching.

Ganai. An area of Saldaea; Tenobia was a Lady of Shahayni, Asnelle, Kunwar and Ganai.

Gann, Lord. A braggart Hunter of the Horn whom Moiraine and her company encountered at Wayland’s Forge Inn in Remen, Altara. He and his fellow Hunter Orban believed that the Horn of Valere was in the Forest of Shadows. The two came across Gaul and Sarien, killed Sarien and took Gaul prisoner; they told everyone that they had fought twenty Aiel. The Hunters lost several men and were wounded.

gara. A poisonous lizard in the Aiel Waste. It grew to about two feet long; its thick body was covered in bronze scales with irregular yellow streaks running vertically along its sides. It had horny ridges in its mouth and exuded a clear, oily venom as if it were saliva. The gara was not particularly dangerous unless it was stepped upon, but it could bite through a boot and its venom was strong enough to kill a bull.

Garam. The son of a landowner west of the Spine of the World after the Breaking. He was slight and dark-eyed. Garam’s father gave Jeordam, Rhodric and the Aiel with them permission to fill their waterskins on his property. Garam took news to the Aiel that the Jenn Aiel were moving. He believed that the Aes Sedai should be killed before they destroyed the world again. Garam’s family founded the nation of Cairhien; the Aiel, in thanks for the gift of water, sent Cairhien Avendoraldera and granted Cairhienin the exclusive right to travel the Silken Path.

Garan. A man of the Jhirad Goshien Aiel. He was gai’shain to Joinde of the Black Rock Shaarad, who laid a bridal wreath for him the day before his term as gai’shain ended, and they married.

Garden of Silver Breezes. The most expensive wineshop in Tanchico. Its proprietor was Selindrin, a sleek woman of indeterminate age who allowed no weapons past the street. Egeanin met with Florin Gelb there, and Carridin with King Andric and his advisors.

Gardeners. Ogier members of the Seanchan Deathwatch Guard. Unlike the human members of the Deathwatch Guard, Gardeners were not da’covale; they were provided as bodyguards to the Imperial family as a symbol that the Ogier were loyal to the Empress. The Gardeners were the only Ogier in Seanchan allowed to bear arms outside the stedding. The First Gardener, a rank equivalent to captain, commanded the Gardeners who composed Tuon’s bodyguard. The Master Gardener was commander of all of the Gardeners, including the Empress’s Gardeners. See also Deathwatch Guard

Garen’s Wall. A rock formation found just east of Jehannah, on the northeastern border of Ghealdan, with a northwest-southeast orientation. It was named after an ancient king of Dhowlan, one of the nations that came into being after the Trolloc Wars. He had a number of wars with his northern neighbor, Farashelle, and the extremely long cliff line gave him a defensive advantage. Garen frequently used it defensively, enough so that the name stuck. One of the ruler of Ghealdan’s titles was “Defender of Garen’s Wall.”

Garenia Rosoinde. A Saldaean Kin whose true identity was revealed to be Zarya Alkaese. See Zarya Alkaese

Gareth Bryne. An Andoran man who was High Seat of House Bryne, in Kore Springs, he was considered one of the five great captains. The sign of House Bryne was a wild bull collared with the Rose Crown of Andor; Gareth Bryne’s personal sigil was three golden stars, each of five rays. He was born the younger son of a minor noble House in 939 NE. Standing 5'11" tall, and stocky, with a bluff, weathered face and dark hair heavy with gray, he was in his late fifties when Rand first saw him. From 961 to 964 NE there were intense border skirmishes between Andor and various lords of Murandy who thought Andor’s attention was all on Cairhien. Bryne served with distinction during the latter part, commanded a considerable force and was militarily responsible for bringing an end to the skirmishes. At age twenty-four, he became the youngest Captain-Commander of the Queen’s Guards. The same year, 963 NE, Queen Dolera was widowed, and Bryne was named First Prince of the Sword. In 964 NE, Dolera died and Mordrellen took the throne; Bryne remained as Captain-General of the Guards. Morgase took the throne in 975 NE; after the death of Captain-General Aranvor Naldwinn in the Battle of the Shining Walls, she named Bryne as head of the Queen’s Guards again; he was later made her First Prince of the Sword. He was also Morgase’s lover, but was supplanted by Rahvin as Gaebril, and exiled. He followed Siuan to Salidar, and agreed to lead the rebel Aes Sedai army. He and Siuan became romantically involved, and she bonded him as her Warder just before entering the White Tower during the Seanchan attack to save Egwene. While on that mission, Bryne saved Siuan, and Siuan saved him; Siuan believed that the event fulfilled Min’s viewing that the two had to stay near each other or die.

Bryne was one of the leading commanders during the Last Battle, but was the object of Graendal’s Compulsion, along with the other great captains, and was relieved of duty when found out. He continued to fight the Shadow, however, and was killed in the Last Battle after going berserk following Siuan’s death.

Garfin. The one-armed Illianer who taught Androl use of the sword and the flame and the void.

Garken. An old man who was killed by Mayor Barlden the first night the madness appeared in Hinderstap. Of course, he was alive again the next day.

Garlvan. An Aiel baby, the youngest child of Norlesh and Metalan. He died of hunger, as seen in Aviendha’s visions of the future in Rhuidean.

Garon Burlow. The Mayor of Dorlan. His house was the largest in Dorlan. Covarla and Lusonia, sent to Dorlan after surviving Dumai’s Wells, stayed in his spare rooms. He stayed out of the way when Aes Sedai talked. .

Garren, Colly. A young Two Rivers man who joined Perrin to fight the Trollocs; he was killed in a Trolloc ambush in the Two Rivers.

Garumand. The captain of Graendal’s palace guard at Natrin’s Barrow and a victim of her Compulsion. Tenobia’s distant cousin, he was handsome and wore a thick mustache. He was killed when Rand balefired Natrin’s Barrow.

Gatano, Hattori. See Hattori Gatano

Gates of Heaven, The. An inn located in Canluum, Kandor. It was the best and largest inn in the city, four sprawling stories of stone with a green roof. Its innkeeper was Master Helvin. Moiraine stayed there when she was searching for the infant Dragon Reborn; several other Aes Sedai stayed there as well, including Cadsuane.

Gates of Hevan. One of the places in history that Sammael, the Destroyer of Hope, devastated, earning him that name.

Gates of Paaran Disen. The site of victory by Lews Therin over Elan Morin (Ishamael).

gateway. A portal created by channeling for the purpose of Traveling or Skimming. It took considerable strength to create a gateway, or, as in Androl’s case, proficiency in the Talent of Traveling. The minimum strength required for making a gateway of useful size, that is, large enough to walk through, was 19(7). The minimum strength required to make any gateway at all out of a circle was 21(9). See Skimming and Traveling

Gaul. A man of the Imran sept of the Shaarad Aiel and the Shae’en M’taal (Stone Dog) society. Handsome in a rugged way, he was about 6'7" and weighed about 240 pounds. His eyes were as green and clear as polished gems, and very long eyelashes seemed to outline them in black. He was a little older than Nynaeve.

Gaul was in love with Chiad, and they were both relieved when the blood feud between their clans ended. He wanted to marry her, but she would not give up the spear for him, though she said she and Bain would take him as a lover; he was offended by the suggestion. Besides, he wasn’t interested in Bain. It irritated him that Chiad told him she would not make a bridal wreath and at the same time that she would not stop “putting herself in his eyes,” enticing him to chase her.

Gaul led the Stone Dogs west of the Dragonwall; while searching for He Who Comes With the Dawn, he was captured and caged by Hunters of the Horn in Remen. Perrin rescued him, and they fought and killed Whitecloaks. Gaul went to the Stone of Tear and accompanied Perrin when he went to the Two Rivers. Gaul fought at Dumai’s Wells; he and Rhuarc alone among the Aiel were not siswai’aman. He went to Ghealdan with Perrin. After Elyas sneaked up on Gaul undetected, he and Elyas became friends. Following the battle at Malden, both Chiad and Bain became Gaul’s gai’shain, and gave him much grief. When Perrin entered the wolf dream in the flesh, Gaul insisted on going along, and fought well and bravely there during the Last Battle.

Gavid. A soldier in the Band of the Red Hand who led about two dozen crossbowmen while defending Caemlyn against the Trollocs.

Gawyn Trakand. Queen Morgase’s son, who was meant to become First Prince of the Sword when Elayne ascended the throne. The oath he took as a child was “my blood shed before hers; my life given before hers.” That oath would later tear at him when his sister affiliated herself with the rebel Aes Sedai and apparently supported Rand, who he believed had killed his mother and was too dangerous to be left free. His sigil was a charging white boar on the red field of Andor. Born in 979 NE, Gawyn was about 6'3" tall and had sun-gold hair and blue eyes. He fought against those who were trying to free Siuan after she was deposed; he killed Hammar and Coulin. He became the leader of the Younglings; their green cloaks bore Gawyn’s white boar. He fell in love with Egwene, and she with him. He accompanied Elaida’s so-called embassy to Rand; on the way, Gawyn heard from a peddler that Rand had killed his mother and he was consumed with hatred for Rand. While in Cairhien, he and Egwene met, talked and canoodled; Gawyn said he would promise her anything that did not harm Elayne or Andor. Galina arranged with Sevanna for Gawyn and his Younglings to be killed; that plot was largely unsuccessful. Gawyn did lose some of his men at Dumai’s Wells, but he survived and returned to Tar Valon, where he was denied entry. He and the Younglings went to Dorlan with Covarla Baldene. Overhearing that Egwene was Elaida’s captive and was being made to howl half the day, he left the Younglings and went to Gareth Bryne and the rebel Aes Sedai. He, Bryne and Siuan led an expedition to rescue Egwene during the Seanchan attack; they were successful, but Egwene was not happy. He worked to please her, stopping assassins and trying to help, but Egwene just wanted him to obey. In frustration, he went to Caemlyn and learned that the assassins were Seanchan with ter’angreal rings; they were called Bloodknives. Returning to Tar Valon, he found three Bloodknives in Egwene’s chambers and defeated them, though he was badly injured. Egwene Healed him, bonded him as her Warder, and agreed to marry him; shortly afterward, he stole the Bloodknives’ rings. Gawyn was overjoyed when he saw his mother at the Field of Merrilor. The night before the Aes Sedai went to Kandor to fight in the Last Battle, Silviana married Gawyn and Egwene. When the Sharans arrived in Kandor and turned the battle around, Gawyn and Egwene hid, and Gawyn used the Bloodknives’ ter’angreal to scout around for a way out; with a little help from Leilwin, they managed to escape. Gawyn used the rings again when he tried to kill Demandred. He was mortally wounded in his fight with Demandred, but he survived long enough to tell Galad that Rand was his half-brother.

Gazal, Toveine. See Toveine Gazal

Gazar, Tiam of. The developer of the Gazaran Calendar.

Gazaran Calendar. The calendar developed by Tiam of Gazar. It was adopted after the Trolloc Wars, when so many records had been destroyed that there was argument as to exactly what year it actually was under the Toman Calendar. The Gazaran Calendar celebrated the supposed freedom from the Trolloc threat by recording each year as Free Year (FY).

Gearan. A young Jenn Aiel male from the time after the Breaking. He was as lanky as a stork and the best runner among the Aiel wagons. He went with Charlin and Lewin to save their sisters from bandits; they used weapons and killed some bandits, and because of their use of violence were cast out by their families.

Gedarien, Stevan. See Stevan Gedarien

Gedwyn, Charl. See Charl Gedwyn

Gelarna. An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah and the loyalist contingent. She and Musarin were guarding Leane when a bubble of evil caused her jail cell to melt; after a moment of understandable shock, the two pulled Leane free.

Gelb, Floran. See Floran Gelb

Gelbarn, Bernaile. See Bernaile Gelbarn

Gelen. A member of the Deathwatch Guard who chased Mat around the Field of Merrilor to try to get him to sit in judgment on people seeking the Empress’s mercy. Gelen finally caught up with Mat on Dashar Knob, but the enemy arrived, and Mat sent him to get everyone to their posts.

Geleni. One of Renald Fanwar’s farmhands. He was in the village to pick up new seed when Renald decided to go north, but Renald sent for him.

Gelfina. A character from stories who was kept locked away in a forgotten tower for a thousand years.

Gemallan, Cowin. See Cowin Gemallan

Gemalphin, Marillin. See Marillin Gemalphin

Gendar. One of Berelain’s thief-catchers from Mayene. He was about 5'10" tall, with dark hair and dark eyes. Bland-faced and ordinary-looking, he was so nondescript one would not notice him if he bumped into one on the street. He was friendly with Rosene and Nana, Berelain’s maids. Berelain used Gendar and Santes to spy by having them make friends with Masema’s people and taking them wine supposedly stolen from Berelain. Santes found the Seanchan document signed by Suroth, picking the lock of Masema’s camp desk under cover of the bustle of setting up camp. Gendar and Santes returned to Masema’s camp with Berelain’s last cask of Tunaighan and were expected to return by an hour after sunset, but they did not. They were presumed dead, killed by Masema’s men.

Generals of Dawn’s Gate. A group of seventeen generals who swore fealty to Lews Therin in the Age of Legends.

Genhal, Lemore. See Lemore Genhal

Genhald, Androl. See Androl Genhald

Genshai. A feast celebrated on the third of Tammaz in Tear, Illian, Amadicia, Tarabon and the southern parts of Altara and Murandy. Brightly colored ribbons were worn by both men and women.

gentling. The intentional process of removing the ability of a man to channel; it was once thought to be permanent.

Geofram Bornhald. One of the Lords Captain of the Children of the Light. He was the father of Dain Bornhald. Geofram captured Perrin and Egwene in the stedding where Hawkwing’s city was to be built; he intended to take them to Amador for trial, but they were rescued. Geofram led a force of Whitecloaks to Falme, where they engaged the Seanchan, and Geofram was killed.

Georg. Pevara’s Kandori brother, who died at twelve during a Darkfriend uprising with a knife in his hand, standing over their father’s body and trying to keep the mob from their mother.

Gera. A cook for the Salidar Aes Sedai. She was a good cook; she dreamed that she was much thinner and an Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah. Elayne saw her in this dream in Tel’aran’rhiod.

Geral. A Malkieri who was a member of Lan’s High Guard in the Last Battle.

Geraneos, Pavil. See Pavil Geraneos

Gerard Arganda. Alliandre’s Ghealdanin First Captain of the Legion of the Wall. He was a hard-bitten, compact man, about 5'8" tall. He looked tough, not like a nobleman; he looked like what he was, a graying soldier who first hefted a lance as a boy. He had fought against Amadicians, Altarans and Whitecloaks; in the Aiel War he survived the Blood Snow at Tar Valon. Arganda was very concerned with the kidnapping of Alliandre; he was loyal to her, and besides, the Crown High Council would have had his head if he hadn’t gotten her back safely. Overall, he was concerned with the entire project from the beginning and considered it harebrained, what with Alliandre swearing fealty to Perrin and riding into Amadicia. But she was the Queen, so he obeyed. During the Last Battle Arganda was wounded severely enough to take him out of the fight, but he continued his command as best he could.

Gerisch. A Seanchan Banner-General with Tuon’s army at the Last Battle. She had a nice backside. When it had become obvious there was a spy in the command tent, Mat wondered if it might be she.

Gerra Kishar. An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah who served as Amyrlin from 601 to 638 NE. Gerra was a strong Amyrlin. She used her skills as a negotiator and mediator to play factions off against each other in the Hall. Chosen in part because her mild personality was so much in contrast to Shein’s—and possibly because the Hall thought she would be controllable—she continually got her way. She was also chosen in part because she was one of the ringleaders of the coup that toppled Shein, which should have given the others some clue to how biddable she would be. An attempted coup against her was crushed utterly. She was remembered as one of the greatest Amyrlins.

Get Ayliah. One of Perrin’s men from the Two Rivers who was a good tracker. He and Hu Marwin went with Jondyn to try to find traces of Faile after she was kidnapped. Jondyn, Get and Hu went after the fleeing inhabitants of Malden, but all they found was some information and a sketched map of the town.

Get Eldin. A Two Rivers farmer. He was leathery, bald-headed and three times Perrin’s age; Perrin asked him to stay and warn off anyone who tried to bother Master Luhhan while they were preparing to fight the Trollocs in Emond’s Field.

Getares, Esmara. See Esmara Getares

Ghar’ghael. A Trolloc tribe. Its sign was piled human skulls.

Gharadin. A man of the Shaido Aiel taken gai’shain at Dumai’s Wells; he was sent to Ghealdan with Perrin. Square-faced and half again as big as Perrin, he had a half-healed slash down his hard face. Seonid wanted to Heal him, but the Wise Ones told her she must ask permission.

Ghealdan. A nation in the south-central part of the continent. Its sigil was three six-pointed silver stars arranged one above and two below: the Stars, or the Silver Stars. Its banner was the Silver Stars on a field of red. Taking its name from the region rather than from any province of Hawkwing’s empire, Ghealdan was founded in approximately FY 1109 by Lord Kirin Almeyda, Lady Valera Prosnarin, Lord Cynric Talvaen and Lady Iona Ashmar. There had been numerous attempts to restore Dhowlan, with the longest lasting only twenty years and collapsing upon the death of the woman who had led it, and attempts to form a new nation in the region had also met with at best mixed results, the longest lived lasting for only thirty-four years and three rulers. The success of Lord Kirin, Lady Valera, Lord Cynric and Lady Ashmar is attributed, at least in part, to their agreement to join four strong Houses together, and to the fact that while Lord Kirin became King Kirin, the other three Houses formed a Royal Crown Council (Crown High Council), which had considerable power to check as well as choose the ruler and which later admitted still more noble Houses to membership. Of course, the relative isolation of Ghealdan played a part; far from the coast and containing neither major trade routes nor a major trading center, the region was not a popular target for others with ambition. And, too, the War of the Hundred Years already had been going on for over a hundred years; weariness on the parts of anyone coveting Ghealdan and the necessity of holding on to what they already held certainly helped Ghealdan survive.

Ghealdan’s historic stability changed with the Prophet. There had been more playing of the Game of Houses in Ghealdan than in Andor, but much less than in Cairhien; that increased somewhat with the Prophet. Ghealdan was always aware of the Whitecloak presence in Amadicia, but was strong enough to keep them out for the most part.

Ghealdan could be ruled by either a king or a queen. The ruler’s power was more than in Altara or Murandy, but less than in Andor, Cairhien or Illian. Marriage to a commoner barred one from the throne, although it was possible for a commoner to become a noble. The Crown High Council was of varying size, depending on what party or group had control, and of varying power in the land. It had a strong say in who ascended to the throne, though ascent was usually hereditary. By law, no one could sit on the Crown High Council if they were in the line of succession, and stepping from the Council to the throne was also against the law. Attempts to do so in the past had caused outbreaks of violence—a civil war in at least one case—and never succeeded. However, the Council did, upon occasion, depose a sitting monarch, change the succession or have someone other than the rightful successor crowned. In other periods the Council had been under the ruler’s thumb to one degree or another. As in most nations, the army historically consisted of the personal levies of the nobles. Ghealdanin noblewomen nearly always used a Master of the Horse to command their troops; it was extremely rare for a Ghealdanin noblewoman to take the field herself. As in other countries, noblemen were expected to lead their troops whether or not they were fit to do so.

The Legion of the Wall was a permanent formation like the Queen’s Guards in Andor which provided a bodyguard for the ruler and border guards. It numbered between two thousand and twenty-five hundred men, but this formation was dispersed during the rise of the Prophet. After she swore fealty to Perrin Aybara, Alliandre used the excuse of raising troops to go with him into Amadicia to reinstitute the Legion. At that point, it numbered between nine hundred and a thousand men and officers. That was something she had planned to do, but she did not announce it even to Perrin. Only Arganda and a few of the most trusted officers knew that they had become the Legion of the Wall. The secrecy was because of Alliandre’s uncertainty regarding the Crown High Council. Gerard Arganda was named the First Captain of the Legion of the Wall, although he was not publicly announced.

Ghealdanin common soldiers had green streamers on their lances that had a foot-long steel point, and wore green breastplates and green conical helmets with barred faceguards. The officers wore shiny, silvery breastplates and conical helmets with barred faceguards, red coats and red cloaks, and had a fat white plume on the helmet; officers’ reins, bridles and saddle cloths were fringed in red.

Ghealdan was for many years the only major source of first-quality alum, easily better than that found in Arafel and Tear. Taxes on alum alone supported the throne of Ghealdan for generations. (A new source of fine alum opened up in Andor, though, shortly before the Last Battle.) There was some manufacturing of cloth and carpets, but neither was considered the finest. Ghealdan was especially known for timber and fine woods. Gold, silver and iron were mined in Ghealdan; Ghealdanin steel was not considered as good as Andoran or Illianer, though as good as most. Ghealdan also produced a significant amount of furs.

gheandin. A plant whose powdered blossoms were used medicinally to relieve heart pain.

Ghenjei, Tower of. See Tower of Ghenjei

Gho’hlem. A Trolloc tribe.

Ghob’hlin. A Trolloc tribe. Its sign was a goat’s skull with a fire burning behind it.

Ghodar, Zenare. See Zenare Ghodar

Ghoetam. A sage who supposedly sat under Avendesora, the Tree of Life, for forty years to gain wisdom; he was fed by the birds.

gholam or Gholam. A type of Shadowspawn made by Aginor. Only six were made; three with a male appearance, three with a female appearance. This creature was created for the sole purpose of killing Aes Sedai. It looked like a human, though with a gray-pale complexion. It had the ability to elongate itself, so that it might squeeze its way along a four-inch pipe. Incredibly tough, it generally had to be hacked to pieces and the pieces all burned to ash to kill it; even when one had been cut in half or dismembered, the parts continued to function for a time, still under control of the brain. Given time, they would rejoin. Even destruction of the brain didn’t necessarily stop the body walking about, much like a Myrddraal. It was strong enough to rip a man’s arms off, and required blood for nourishment; animal blood would do, but it preferred human. At a distance up to fifty paces, a gholam could sense the ability to channel. Worst of all, it was immune to the One Power, as if it embodied Mat’s medallion; on the other hand, Mat’s medallion burned one like acid. For this reason, not even the Forsaken particularly wanted to use the things. “Gholam” was correct in thoughts or speech of someone who didn’t know better; if the one speaking knew, “gholam” was correct.

Ghraem’lan. A Trolloc tribe. Its sign was forked lightning.

giantsbroom. A tree that grew in stands; its trunks split into many branches, thick and straight, a pace above the ground; at the top, the branches split again into leafy brush. Loial Treesang one to make a staff for himself.

Gilbearn, House. A minor Andoran noble House of which Lady Sergase was a member. See Sergase Gilbearn

Gilber. One of Bashere’s quartermasters in Saldaea. Vanin reminded Faile of Gilber.

Gilda. One of the maids at The Queen’s Blessing, Caemlyn. Gill said that she was the greatest gossip the Creator ever made.

Gilgame. Someone from the Age of Legends to whom Rand wished he had listened.

Gill, Basel. See Basel Gill

Gille. A pale-haired damane. Her sul’dam Nerith brushed her hair to calm her after she had problems with saidar. Gille was killed in the first battle against Rand’s army.

Gillin. A young woman who performed with Valan Luca’s circus. Olver thought her lips were ripe cherries.

Gilyard. See Branlet and Mayv Gilyard

Gitara Moroso. An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah with a strength level of 19(7). Born in 672 NE, she went to the White Tower in 689. After spending six years as a novice and seven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 702 NE. She was 5'6" tall, and voluptuous, with snow-white hair. She was also flamboyant enough for a Green or a Yellow. Gitara was always just, and usually fair, but kindness never seemed to occur to her. She possessed the Talent of Foretelling. She was the Aes Sedai counselor to Queen Mordrellen of Andor. It was Gitara who gave Luc the Foretelling which sent him off to the Blight and Tigraine the Foretelling which sent her to the Aiel Waste. She remained Mordrellen’s counselor until Mordrellen’s death in 972 NE. The following year Tamra Ospenya was raised Amyrlin, and chose Gitara as her Keeper of the Chronicles. She was the Keeper for Tamra from 973 to 978 NE. She died after Foretelling the birth of the Dragon Reborn during the Battle of the Shining Walls. Only the Amyrlin, Tamra, and two Accepted who were attending the Amyrlin, Siuan Sanche and Moiraine Damodred, were present to hear.

Glancor. A town just northeast of Far Madding, across the Ajalon Bridge.

gleemen. Traveling storytellers, musicians, jugglers, tumblers and all-around entertainers. Known by their trademark cloaks of many-colored patches, they performed mainly in the villages and smaller towns, since larger towns and cities had other entertainments available, though occasionally they might have been hired by nobles or wealthy merchants to provide rustic amusement.

Glimmer. A brilliant white Saldaean mare that Elayne rode to her coronation in Cairhien.

glowbulb. An illumination device from the Age of Legends, mentioned by the Forsaken, and found in Sammael’s rooms by the Asha’man.

Goaban. A nation that arose from the War of the Hundred Years.

goatflower. A plant having flowers with a variety of colors. The blue form worked medicinally for broken bones.

goatstongue. A medicinal herb that had a soporific effect and was good for relieving stomach cramps.

Godan. A village in eastern Tear, on the Bay of Remara. Tear regulated the size and existence of towns in their country, especially coastal towns, for fear of having them overshadow Tear, but Godan was allowed to flourish because of the need for a strong presence overlooking Mayene.

Gode, Howal. See Howal Gode

Goemal. One of the two men seeking Elmindreda’s hand in the story Siuan and Min made up to account for Min’s presence in the Tower; the other man was Darvan.

Goim Bridge. A bridge in Far Madding connecting the city via the Tear Gate to the mainland at a town called South Bridge.

Gokhan, Lord. A Seanchan member of the Blood. Min saw that he would marry soon. Tuon sent him to the front lines with orders to stay single until after the Last Battle.

Gold Road. A commercial highway that connected the city of Illian with Far Madding.

Golden Bees, the. The symbol of Illian, nine golden bees on a field of green.

Golden Crane. The symbol of Malkier, a golden crane flying on a field of blue.

Golden Crown of Heaven, The. A low-class inn in the Rahad, a seedy district in Ebou Dar. It was a dim hole with only a blue door to mark it, and black stains from old knife fights splotched the grimy floor. Mat went there.

Golden Cup, The. A low-class inn in Tear with a male innkeeper. There, Mat and Thom found Comar, a man whom Rahvin had sent to kill Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne. Mat diced with him, then broke Comar’s back in a fight.

Golden Ducks, The. A lower-class inn in Ebou Dar where Noal, who had saved Mat from a gholam, had a pallet in the attic until he was displaced by an Illianer oil merchant whose room was taken by a Seanchan officer. Mat offered to give him accommodations in the palace.

Golden Head, The. An inn in Amador. Lamgwin was to wait there while Morgase and her party were smuggled out of the Fortress of the Light, an escape which never happened.

Golden Lily. Elayne’s sigil.

Golden Lions of Aldeshar. An army that lost a decisive battle to Artur Hawkwing. They sang “Dance with Jak o’ the Shadows” as they launched their last, futile charge at Artur Hawkwing’s encircling army.

Golden Sheaves, The. A small inn in Damelien, Andor, a village with three mills and a small, drying-up river. Elayne and the Kin stayed at the inn on the way to Caemlyn after using the Bowl and evading the Seanchan army. Its innkeeper thought that Morgase had been the best queen there ever was, and that Elayne had been killed by the Dragon Reborn.

Golden Stag, The. The inn in Maerone where Mat and his officers stayed. Its innkeeper was Mistress Daelvin, and Betse Silvin, whom Mat had his eye on and taught an ancient dance, was a serving maid. It was a higher-class establishment, and the second best in Maerone.

Golden Swans of Heaven, The. A tiny inn in Ebou Dar where Bethamin stayed with other sul’dam while she worked training damane at the palace. There she was questioned by a Seeker, who made her promise to spy on Egeanin. Its innkeeper was Mistress Darnella Shoran.

Golden Wheel, The. An inn located in Far Madding that Rand visited while looking for the renegade Asha’man, and where he heard about Tear being under siege. Its innkeeper was Mistress Gallger. The inn was large, and full of bankers and merchants.

goldenthorn. A plant that grew no farther north than one hundred miles south of Tar Valon. When Pevara and the group of Black Ajah hunters found goldenthorn seeds on Zerah’s saddlecloth, it revealed her to be one of the rebel Aes Sedai.

Golever, Berab. See Berab Golever

golliwogs. Having these meant that one was very nervous.

Gomaisen, Aldred. See Aldred Gomaisen

Gomanes. A Child of the Light. Dain Bornhald sent him and Joelin with Ordeith to find out what Ordeith was up to; Ordeith reported that they were the only two killed in a skirmish with Trollocs. Dain suspected correctly that Ordeith had killed them.

Gome, Mairin. A traveling circus owner who was in Samara at the same time as Luca. The line for her show was almost as long as the one for Luca’s.

Good Night’s Ride, The. An inn located in Lugard, Murandy. It was a three-storied inn of rough gray stone and purple-tiled roof, and bawdy songs were sung inside to a boisterous clientele. The sign in front of the inn showed a woman dressed only in her hair mounted bareback on a horse. Its innkeeper, Duranda Tharne, was an eye-and-ears for the Blue Ajah. Siuan learned from her that the rebel Aes Sedai were in Salidar.

Good Queen, The. A crowded inn in Aringill, Andor. Its innkeeper was Master Jeral Florry. Mat and Thom paid a steep price to stay in its stable, and the innkeeper was foolish enough to gamble with Mat; Mat won two of his horses. Aludra sought shelter in the stable while they were there, and Mat rescued her from Tammuz and his cronies.

Good Queen’s Justice, The. A two-story brick and thatch inn in the small village of Kore Springs, Andor. Bryne presided at this inn over Siuan, Leane and Min’s trial for burning down a barn.

Goose and Crown, The. A small village inn a day’s ride from Caemlyn. Its innkeeper, Master Raimun Holdwin, was a Darkfriend and outside the inn met with a Myrddraal, who was inquiring about Rand and Mat. The pair overheard the conversation, and hitched a ride in the cart of a man going to Caemlyn.

Goose and Pipe, The. An inn found in Deven Ride, Andor. It was a typical small village inn, thatch-roofed, and slightly larger than The Winespring Inn. Perrin visited it in the wolf dream while searching for Trolloc camps in the area. He saw the Whitecloaks had the village and villagers surrounded.

goosemint. An herb used to relieve a burning or sour stomach. It had frilly leaves, and was chewed for its medicinal properties.

Goraed, Beron. A wealthy Ghealdan merchant dragged from his bed to marry Queen Teresia and so disqualify her for the throne.

Gorderan. A Tairen Redarm in the Band of the Red Hand. About thirty-five years old when first seen and standing 5'10" tall, he was heavyset and muscular with broad shoulders—nearly as broad as Perrin’s—and a heavy chest. Despite his bulk, he was much quicker than he looked and almost as good with a sword as Metwyn. He was fair-skinned for a Tairen, with black hair and gray eyes. He survived recovering the Bowl of the Winds in the Rahad, along with Harnan, Fergin and Metwyn. He acquired a heavy crossbow which he used to shoot Renna when she tried to return to the Seanchan. He and Fergin were killed by a gholam in Mat’s camp outside Caemlyn.

Gorenellin. A plump Malkieri-born merchant located in Saldaea. When Nynaeve Traveled to Saldaea to drum up support for Lan, Gorenellin was bargaining hard with two Altarans. Gorenellin went with Aldragoran and joined Lan in Kandor, almost at the Arafellin border.

Goridien, Shana. See Shana Goridien

Gorin Rogad. A false Dragon who rose in Illian in 995 NE. He was taken and burned alive by the Illianers.

Gorovni, Valera. See Valera Gorovni

Gorthanes, Ries. See Ries Gorthanes

Goshien Aiel. An Aiel clan; its chief was Bael.

Governors, the. Sea Folk rulers on Tremalking. Governors were appointed for the Sea Folk islands from among the Atha’an Miere, never the Amayar. Sea Folk considered this duty off a ship to be onerous, but took the view that it had to be treated like duty on a ship; the ship must be tended and the crew cared for, and so the island must be tended and its inhabitants cared for. Because the duty was onerous, and because Sea Folk wanted to remain with their ships, the Governors and other Sea Folk rarely ventured away from the ports and shipbuilding facilities, except on tours inland to make sure that all was well.

Grady family. See Gadren, Jur and Sora Grady

Graeger. Almen Bunt’s brother-in-law who vanished; all that could be found was a twisted, leafless tree that smelled of sulfur.

Graendal. A woman whose name in Age of Legends was Kamarile Maradim Nindar; she became one of the Forsaken. Her strength level was 3(+10). She was stunningly beautiful, lush and ripe, with long sun-colored hair. She was known around the world, famed and loved, if apparently more often by people who had heard of her than by those who knew her. Before going over to the Shadow, she immersed herself in curing those with mental illnesses that the Power and Healing could not touch. She was also a noted ascetic, not only living a spare and simple life, but preaching that others should as well. The reason that those who knew her often did not like her was that while her public calls for a sparse life were always moderate, in private she was inevitably abrasive and cutting toward anyone who did not live up to her standards of the simple life. Within ten years after the drilling of the Bore, she reversed all of this completely. Some years after, she became the second of those called Chosen to go over to the Dark One. Graendal pursued conquest as much as Sammael, though her methods did not involve soldiers; for all her concern with her toys, she took one solid step at a time, openly to be sure, as the Chosen reckoned such things, but never stretching too far at any step. Her tools were intrigue, subversion and sabotage. She was perhaps the most subtle user of Compulsion in all of its variations. She, of course, trusted no one. Among the Forsaken, she always supported whoever seemed to be winning, or at least able to give her some advantage. She opposed no one—openly, at least—unless she was relatively certain of a win. She was willing to gamble if necessary, but always balanced risks, rewards and consequences.

On the surface she seemed foolish, indolent, dedicated to her own beauty and her own pleasures, especially sensual and sexual. She had buried many who took her at face value. When she awoke in the Third Age, she went to live in a palace in Arad Doman that she took from its proper owner; she sometimes masqueraded as Lady Basene, a Domani noblewoman. Some of her plans involved Rodel Ituralde, the great captain; she manipulated Domani politics. She had been meeting Rahvin at the Royal Palace, and was surprised to find it under new management when she arrived to see him. Encountering Asmodean, she acted and killed him. She concealed this fact, in large part to let the others wonder. Also, she planned to arrange things the others would not like and blame them on Asmodean if she worked them right.

She devoted a great deal of her time to her own comforts and pleasures, to acquiring the servants/slaves she called her “pets.” Physical beauty was not enough to be one of Graendal’s servants; beauty was required, but they needed at least some degree of power or position as well—a former lord for a footman, a lady to draw her bath. A common man or woman, however beautiful, just did not interest her.

It amused Graendal to keep Jain Farstrider and use him, a bit of Ishamael’s handiwork, a souvenir of the first move in the Dark One’s grand design. Also, for a time at least, she really did think that his age and battered appearance set off and heightened the beauty of her other servants. She used only the most subtle degrees of Compulsion on him, and sent him to Ebou Dar on the off chance that there might be something to her suspicions of an angreal there which was being sought by Sammael.

She used Compulsion on her other pets like a bludgeon, so they would worship her beyond life. Sammael noted that this often made others forget her skill and subtlety with Compulsion; she was one of the best ever at manipulating the minds of others. One thing she came to believe, despite hearing Demandred’s rendition of the Dark One’s “Lord of Chaos” order, was that Rand al’Thor was too dangerous to leave alive. But she thought that killing him would have to be done very, very, very carefully. She very definitely did not want to face the Dark One’s wrath. Thus she aimed Sammael at Rand, but was caught by Sammael in a snare of her own sort. Although her own snares were working, she found herself forced into aiding Sammael far more than she wanted to, even having to follow his lead and most of his orders. She helped him to the extent of linking with him and letting him control her use of the Power while meeting Sevanna; her pseudonym then was “Maisia.” She went along with his “fool box” trick, scattering the Shaido widely.

She had an angreal, a ring, a plain gold band too small for any but her little finger; it didn’t give her a great increase in power, in her opinion, but it could step her up into the “male levels.” She found it among Sammael’s belongings after his death. Soon thereafter, she was coopted by Moridin, acting through Shaidar Haran, Moghedien and Cyndane. Moridin told her not to kill Rand, and later told her to kill Perrin, giving her the dreamspike and the services of Slayer to accomplish the task. Blaming her for the failure to kill Perrin and for the death of several Forsaken, Shaidar Haran punished Graendal by killing her and putting her soul in an ugly body. She was given the new name Hessalam.

She faced off against Aviendha during the Last Battle near Shayol Ghul. She attempted to use Compulsion against Aviendha, who was unweaving a gateway. In the explosion that followed, her Compulsion was turned back on her, making her Aviendha’s willing slave.

Grafendale. A town in Andor. Androl thought that the houses at the Black Tower would look normal here.

Grand Alliance, Grand Coalition. See Coalition, the

Grand Emergence. The most secret ceremony of the Red Ajah. They walked through the ceremony in a warded place, speaking the parts in a guarded way even so. It was, in fact, nothing less than a plan for seizing the White Tower should that become necessary. Not all Red sisters were aware of that ceremony, since it was so shrouded in doublespeak and masked words. It supposedly had been practiced ever since the White Tower was founded. Every Red sister who knew what it was felt certain that the other Ajahs had something similar. In fact, at least some did.

Grand Hall. A spacious room found in the Royal Palace in Caemlyn.

Grand Hall of the Assembly. The building that housed the Assembly of Lords, which elected both the King and Panarch, in Tanchico.

Grand Hall of the Sun. A hall found in Cairhien’s Sun Palace.

Grand Hike, The. An inn in Caemlyn; Snert was the innkeeper.

Grand Passions Cycle, The. A piece of music composed three hundred years before the War of Power; “The March of Death” was its mournful final movement, and was played by Asmodean on his harp.

Grassburner. Another name for the Dark One.

grassfang. A snake found in Seanchan.

Gray Ajah. The main thrust of the Gray Ajah was mediation and negotiation. The Ajah was ruled by a council of varying number, but always an odd number. The leader of the council was considered by Gray sisters to be the head of their Ajah and was known as the Head Clerk, but in fact she had less authority than most Ajah heads and had to depend on gaining consensus among the council members. At the time of the Last Battle, there were approximately 140 members of the Gray Ajah, making it the third largest.

gray fennel. A poisonous plant.

Gray Fox, the. See Thom Merrilin

Gray Gull. The three-masted rivership owned by Huan Mallia. It used sweeps (oars) inside the harbor. Sanor and Vasa were crewmen. Mat and Thom traveled aboard it from Tar Valon to Aringill.

Gray Men. A type of Shadowspawn, unusual in being ordinary humans who gave their souls to the Dark One; they were called Notdead by wolves. Aes Sedai and their Warders could not detect the presence of Gray Men, as they could the presence of those far gone in the Shadow, because the taint of evil was not strong enough in them; however, Rand did sense one, because of his greater strength, and Perrin was able to smell them. Some Gray Men, both male and female, were serving the Forsaken, but Lanfear had an antipathy toward them and did not employ them. Only Gray Men and Myrddraal did not dream, according to Lanfear.

Gray Owl. The symbol of Lord Ingtar of Shienar.

Gray Tower. An organization mentioned by Emarin/Algarin in a ruse.

Grayor Frenn. A Two Rivers man who watched the forging of Mah’alleinir.

Great Arvalon. A place in the Fourth Age where a children’s game had a chant that mentioned the Lord of Chaos.

Great Blackwood. See Forest of Shadows

Great Blight. A stretch of territory north of the Borderlands, home of the Trollocs, Myrddraal and other creatures of the Shadow and characterized by the evil influence of the Dark One. Not part of the normal universe (as was also true of stedding or lands of Aelfinn/Eelfinn), it was not reflected in and could not be entered from Tel’aran’rhiod.

great captain. The term for a military commander of extraordinary abilities. The five great captains of the time leading up to the Last Battle were Agelmar Jagad, Davram Bashere, Pedron Niall (murdered before the Last Battle), Rodel Ituralde and Gareth Bryne.

Great Circle, the. A huge gathering place in Tanchico that could hold thousands to watch horse races or displays of fireworks. It was located on the Calpene, the westernmost hilly peninsula on Tanchico Bay.

Great Council of Thirteen. See Supreme Council

Great Fish Market. The largest fish market in Tar Valon. Built by Ogier, it seemed to be a school of huge fish, green and red and blue and striped.

Great Game, the. See Daes Dae’mar

Great Gathering, The. The inn at the Black Tower; it was owned by Lind Taglien.

Great Hall of the Council. A building opposite the King’s Palace on the Square of Tammaz in Illian. The first King of Illian said the Council of Nine could have any palace they wished, just as long as they did not try to build one larger than his; the Council copied the King’s palace exactly, but two feet smaller in every measurement. Both buildings were Ogier-built.

Great Holding. A collection of angreal, sa’angreal, ter’angreal and other items supposedly connected to the Power that was held in the Stone of Tear. Nynaeve estimated that it would take ten riverboats to take them all to Tar Valon.

Great Hunt of the Horn. 1) A widespread hunt called to search for the Horn of Valere. The tradition of the Great Hunt dated back to the Age of Legends. 2) A cycle of stories concerning the legendary search for the Horn of Valere, composed in the years between the end of the Trolloc Wars and the beginning of the War of the Hundred Years. If told in its entirety, the cycle would take many days.

Great Lord of the Dark. The name by which Darkfriends referred to the Dark One, claiming that to speak his true name would be blasphemous; the shorter “Great Lord” was also used.

Great Pattern. The Wheel of Time weaves the Patterns of the Ages from the threads of lives and events, interlaced into designs, each and every possible reality—past, present and future. Also known as the Lace of Ages.

Great Purge. In Egwene’s test for Accepted, when she was the Amyrlin, part of her remembered something called the Great Purge that eradicated the Black Ajah, but part of her was sure no such thing had happened.

Great Rift. One of the natural barriers, a giant chasm, that separated the Aiel Waste from Shara, extending over 450 leagues from the Cliffs of Dawn into the Sea of Storms.

Great Serpent. A symbol for time and eternity, believed to have been ancient before the Age of Legends began, consisting of a serpent eating its own tail. A ring in the shape of the Great Serpent was awarded to women who had been raised to the Accepted among the Aes Sedai.

Great Stump. A periodic meeting held by the Ogier, at which matters of the gravest importance were discussed. Such a meeting was held at Stedding Shangtai, which lay at the Spine of the World. It was the first meeting of the Great Stump in a thousand years. Only an Ogier old enough was allowed to address the Stump, unless, as in Loial’s case, he was married and his wife gave him permission. It was at this meeting that Loial argued convincingly that the Ogier should not yet open the Book of Translation, but rather help fight the Dark One.

Great Tree, The. An upper-class, tall stone cube of an inn in Cairhien where Rand, Verin, Hurin and Loial stayed after The Defender of the Dragonwall inn was burned and the Horn of Valere stolen. Here they devised a plan to retrieve the Horn from Lord Barthanes’ manor. The Great Tree’s innkeeper was Mistress Tiedra.

Great Trees. Huge beautiful trees that were tended by Ogier and grew in stedding and Ogier groves. They were mammoth hardwoods that towered hundreds of feet into the air with trunks as much as one hundred paces across. The Ogier never cut them down unless they died, and when tended they almost never did. Some of largest were seedlings during the Age of Legends.

greater consensus. A unanimous vote of the Hall of the Tower. Generally this demanded that every Sitter present had to stand, and that a minimum of eleven Sitters needed to be present; the presence of at least one Sitter from each Ajah also was required. If the removal of the Amyrlin or Keeper was at stake, the Ajah from which she was raised was not informed of the vote until after it had been taken.

greatfather. See Aiel kinship

Green Ajah. The main thrust of the Green Ajah was to hold itself ready for Tarmon Gai’don. It became known as the Battle Ajah during the Trolloc Wars. The hierarchy in the Ajah was rather military. The authority of the Captain-General, the head of the Ajah, was quite thorough and far-reaching. She was assisted by her seconds, the First Strategist and the First Tactician. Green Ajah members were permitted to bond multiple Warders. Aes Sedai of the Blue and the Green Ajahs were considered the most passionate of Aes Sedai in their beliefs, the most likely to be swayed by emotion. Among Greens, being kept in Tar Valon or in the Tower was considered a punishment, or at least drudgery. At the time of the Last Battle there were approximately 180 members in the Green Ajah, making it the second largest.

Green Man. Also called Someshta, he was the last of the Nym who guarded the Eye of the World before it and he were destroyed.

Green Salts. A sept of the Shaido Aiel.

greenwood. A towering evergreen tree found in the Mountains of Mist, the wood of which was used to make boxes.

greenwort. A medicinal herb that was good for sleep and for stomach cramps.

Greeting Hall, The. An inn in Caemlyn where Duhara Basaheen stayed.

Gregana. A sul’dam who participated in the Seanchan attack on the White Tower and collared Adelorna. Egwene freed Adelorna before killing Gregana with a blast of fire.

Gregorin Panar den Lushenos. An Illianer nobleman who was a member and sometime leader of the Council of Nine. He was tall, with a round face and a square-cut beard that left his upper lip bare. He offered Rand the Laurel Crown. Rand later named him Steward of Illian for the Dragon Reborn. At first he was reluctant to sign the Dragon’s Peace, but eventually acquiesced.

Grinwell, Else. See Else Grinwell

Grinwell, Master. A kind Andoran farmer and father of Else and eight others. He was a sturdy man. Mat and Rand did work for his family while making their way to Caemlyn, and entertained them at the end of the day.

Grinwell, Mistress. A kind Andoran farmwife and mother of Else and eight others. She had yellow hair. Mat and Rand did work for her family while making their way to Caemlyn, and entertained them at the end of the day. Realizing that Else had her eye on Rand, she had Else sleep with her and put Mat and Rand in Else’s room.

Grinwell, Thom. The name Mat used in Caemlyn when talking to Rahvin and Morgase.

grolm. An exotic Seanchan animal brought from a parallel world. A grolm had a wedge-shaped head with three eyes; the mouth was toothless but had sharp ridges. It waddled in walking, but ran by leaping and moved very swiftly in long bounds. The weight of an adult ranged from three hundred to five hundred pounds. They had multiple births in litters of up to six, but rarely did more than one or two survive. They were primarily used as guard animals. Extremely territorial, they rapidly learned who was allowed in a given area and would fix on anyone who was nervous or afraid, using their very good sense of smell to detect this. Grolm also had extremely good vision, and were used sometimes in battle, though only against lightly armored opponents, to break holes in an enemy line which would be quickly exploited by human soldiers. They could also be deployed against cavalry, as horses often panicked in their presence unless trained to tolerate them. They were very hard to kill; arrows often failed to penetrate their thick hides, as frequently did blows from swords, axes or spears. Nonfatal wounds seldom incapacitated them; it took ferocious wounds to slow them significantly, and they healed rapidly. The grolm was apparently a pack animal in its natural environment, though they could turn on one another if not properly controlled; they would often rip apart and eat one of their own kind which had been injured, and they would consume their own dead.

Grolm were controlled by spoken commands, hand signals and the use of a small, piercing whistle-like flute. Among morat’grolm it was a matter of pride to use only the hand signals and the flute, perhaps in imitation of the way the Blood usually communicated in public with Voices of the Blood.

groundwasp. A nasty insect that stung animals that disturbed its nest.

groves. Special areas planted outside cities by the Ogier in days past, to comfort them and ease the Longing, while they worked on building; many groves disappeared over the years.

Growing, Songs of. A Talent used by Ogier in past Ages to aid and enhance growing things.

Growing, Talisman of. A ter’angreal triggered by Ogier Treesinging that allowed the Ogier to expand the Ways that the Aes Sedai had built.

Grubb, Mother. A healer in Caemlyn. Basel Gill suggested that she might have a look at Mat.

grunter. A food fish that squealed when it spawned.

Guaire Amalasan. A false Dragon who started the War of the Second Dragon in FY 939–943. He conquered much of the world before being captured by Artur Hawkwing and gentled by the White Tower. Remnants of Amalasan’s army unsuccessfully attempted his rescue from the Tower after his capture.

guardians, the. The ter’angreal that prohibited channeling in Far Madding. See also Far Madding

Guardians of the Gate. See Amadicia

Guards, Winged. See Winged Guards

Guarding, the Rite of the. A ceremony traditionally conducted four times annually by the Lords of Tear, in which they affirmed that they guarded the world against the Dragon by holding Callandor.

Guenna, Mother Ailhuin. See Ailhuin Guenna, Mother

guestright. According to Lan, an honor given by any lord in the Borderlands to anyone displaying the ring of Malkieri kings.

Gueyam. A High Lord of Tear. As bald as an egg and wide as a blacksmith, with fists like small hams, he wore an oiled beard that emphasized his baldness. One of the most active plotters against Rand in the Stone, he was sent to Cairhien under Meilan. Gueyam worried that Rand would punish him for his previous association with Hearne and Simaan. He was in Illian with Rand, and Min saw a vision of him dying violently in battle; he died in the Last Battle.

Gueye Arabah. A young Seanchan officer under Tylee who told Perrin of additional Shaido approaching Malden.

Gufrin. A sergeant of a squad of the Band of the Red Hand. He was not bright, but he was keen-eyed.

Guides. On Sea Folk Islands, Amayar chosen to protect the Sea Folk from themselves, if possible.

guiding. See leading

Guidings. Stone guideposts directing travelers in the Ways.

Guild of Illuminators. The name for guild members who manufactured fireworks. Tarabon was the homeland of the Guild of Illuminators, and Tanchico was the location of the Guild’s one and only true chapter house until one was built in Cairhien. The Guild was composed almost entirely of Taraboners. There was no way to enter the Guild except by birth or marriage, and people of other nations who married in were never allowed to know any of the innermost guild secrets, chief of which was the method of manufacturing fireworks, including the key secret: a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, known in the Age of Legends as gunpowder. The money made within the Guild could not be bettered outside.

There were sometimes renegade Illuminators, who either kept making and/or selling fireworks after being kicked out or who tried to reveal guild secrets, but these were rare, since the Guild would hunt down and kill such people. The Illuminators discouraged anyone from cutting open any of the fireworks to see what was inside by claiming that the contents could sometimes erupt violently when exposed to air as well as to fire.

The Illuminators fell on hard times; the chapter house in Cairhien was damaged when Rand, Selene and Loial sought shelter there from Trollocs. Rand aimed a firework at the Trollocs and lit it; the Trollocs were destroyed and the chapter house caught fire. The fire was put out, as was Aludra, the Mistress of the chapter house. When the Shaido attacked Cairhien, they burned the chapter house completely. With the turmoil in Tarabon, the chapter house in Tanchico was in dire straits even before the Seanchan invasion. Some Taraboner refugees petitioned Pedron Niall to open a chapter house in Amador, but he refused. The Seanchan had no notion of man-made fireworks because they used damane to produce the same effects, which meant no market among the new conquerors. It was not that the Seanchan would not watch a display when nothing better was available, but rather that trained damane could make shows outshining anything the Illuminators could do.

Reports on the exact events varied, but apparently some Seanchan attempted to enter the Tanchico chapter house, the Illuminators tried to resist and the Seanchan fought their way inside. No one knew what happened next—perhaps some soldier took a lantern into the wrong place—but a huge explosion destroyed most of the building, killing a great many Seanchan and some Illuminators as well. The Seanchan gathered up every Illuminator at the chapter house, and some who had fled to Amador, and everyone who even looked like an Illuminator, and made them all da’covale. The Guild as such vanished, but individual Illuminators existed outside of Seanchan rule and worked to make sure that the Guild would be remembered.

Guirale, Liandrin. See Liandrin Guirale

Guisin. An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 35(23). About 5'8" tall, with silvery golden hair and blue eyes, she was sent from Salidar to Tarabon to discover what was happening there and to determine whether the Aes Sedai could do anything to bring peace to that land. They were also trying to learn if there was a way to get a handle on Rand through the reported Dragonsworn there. Guisin was captured by the Seanchan in Tarabon along with Afara and Edesina; all three were collared as damane. Edesina was rescued by Mat in Ebou Dar, Afara remained in Tanchico and Guisin had been broken. It was Teslyn’s assessment that Guisin would betray them if they attempted to rescue her in Ebou Dar.

Guitama, Elfraed. See Elfraed Guitama

Gull’s Feast. An area of Bandar Eban close to where fishermen dumped waste from their hauls. It was also known as the Gull District.

Gurat. A Seanchan commander under Gamel Loune. While fighting Mat he lost four banners of horse and five of foot almost to the last man; not all were dead, but most of the wounded were the next thing to it.

Guybon, Charlz. See Charlz Guybon

Gwil. 1) Areina’s younger brother who went to Illian to become a Hunter of the Horn. 2) A Two Rivers man who became a servant to Perrin and Faile.

Gyldan. A dark-eyed Aes Sedai of the Red and Black Ajahs who appeared in Egwene’s test for Accepted, where Egwene found herself as the Amyrlin Seat. In the test, Gyldan was Elaida’s closest confidante and was going to participate in Turning Egwene to the Shadow.

Gyldin. Moghedien’s alias while posing as a servant in Tanchico.