The Wheel of Time Companion

LAST BATTLE MAP 6: The repaired dragons are back in the fight, and the River Mora is again filled with flowing water. But the fate of the outnumbered forces of the Light looks bleak except for three major events: Lan slays Demandred, disorienting many of the enemy; Olver blows the Horn of Valere, bringing the heroes of the Horn into the fray alongside Mat and his troops; and the Ever Victorious Army of the Seanchan enter the battle. The Seanchan march north, with one half of the army bolstering the defenses along the Mora, while the other half swing around the bogs and position themselves at the base of Polov Heights. Many Sharan soldiers manage to escape after Demandred’s death, but the remaining Trollocs are pushed down the southwestern slope of Polov Heights into a cul-de-sac, many becoming trampled by fellow Shadowspawn in the congestion, or shot with arrows or dragons’ eggs, or torn apart by Seanchan exotic animals. The frenzied remainder throw themselves into the bogs, where they meet their deaths.

Latelle. A woman who trained bears in Valan Luca’s circus. She was stern-faced and dark-eyed, with short black hair and the permanent beginnings of a sneer on her lips. She had two black bears with white faces. Latelle gave no welcome to Elayne and Nynaeve; she was jealous of other women’s interest in Luca, and Luca’s interest in them. When Nynaeve had the Chavanas over for dinner and they started flirting with Nynaeve, Latelle attacked her with a stick; when Nynaeve and Cerandin were fighting, Latelle handed Cerandin a stick. She was a terrible cook and later married Valan Luca.

Lathin. A Whitecloak soldier who was killed by Hopper in the stedding that featured Hawkwing’s statue.

Latian Basar. A young Cairhienin nobleman who was a member of Cha Faile. Short and pale, he had a pointed nose and shoulder-long hair tied off in a tail at the nape of his neck, in weak imitation of the Aiel cut. His coat was marked with four slashes of red and blue across the chest. He was one of the seven who first met Rand and Perrin after Dumai’s Wells. Latian went off with Balwer and Medore in So Habor and stayed after Perrin and the rest of his party left; four days later they returned with Tallanvor. He did not play well at being a spy; when he tried to be surreptitious about giving Perrin a message from Balwer, everyone knew exactly what he was doing.

Latra Posae Decume. An Aes Sedai at the time of the War of Power. She opposed Lews Therin’s plan of sealing the Bore because she thought that it was too dangerous, and favored the use of the Choedan Kal. A speaker of considerable force and persuasion, she gathered a great deal of support, but what assured her victory was an agreement she arranged with every female Aes Sedai of significant strength on the side of the Light; all pledged not to assist Lews Therin in his risky plan. This agreement came to be known as the Fateful Concord. When the ter’angreal to control the Choedan Kal were lost, the female Aes Sedai held to their pledge and hoped to regain the access keys. Thus Lews Therin and his companions were unable to use a circle to seal the Bore, although they did complete the task, with the dire result of the taint on saidin. Latra Posae rose to preeminence, earning the name Shadar Nor, best translated as “Cutter of the Shadow” or perhaps “Slicer of the Shadow,” for her valiant fight against the Shadowsworn. She died sometime during the Breaking.

Laud. An Ogier who was the father of Lacel and the grandfather of Juin, the last being the Ogier who stopped the incipient fight between Maidens and Shienarans in Stedding Tsofu and took Verin, Rand and the rest of their party to the Elders.

Laurain. A noblewoman attending Morgase in Amadicia. Slender with dark eyes set slightly too close together, she wore a permanent simper. She was made da’covale by the Seanchan.

Laurel Crown of Illian. The crown of the ruler of Illian. After Rand was given the crown by the Council of the Nine, it became known as the Crown of Swords. It was a heavy gold circlet, two inches wide, of golden laurel leaves; almost buried among the laurel leaves of the crown were the sharp points of swords, half point up, half down. No head could wear that crown easily.

Law of Unintended Consequences, the. Spoken of by Siuan, it stated “whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.”

Law of War. A Tower law stating that a question of war cannot be shelved; it must be answered before any question called after it.

Lawdrin Mendair. A Redarm in the Band of the Red Hand who accompanied Mat to Ebou Dar. On the way there, Elayne somehow discovered that he had five flasks of brandy in his saddlebags; Mat poured them out on the ground. When they went to retrieve the Bowl of the Winds at a deserted building in the Rahad, Mat sent Lawdrin, Harnan and four others around to the back of the building; all but Harnan were killed by the gholam.

Lawtin. A Redarm in the Band of the Red Hand. He accompanied Mat to Ebou Dar. He and Belvyn were sent with Nynaeve on a visit to the Sea Folk; both Redarms were killed when Moghedien balefired their boat.

Layden, Barel. See Barel Layden

Layden, House. A minor noble House of Andor. Its High Seat was Lord Barel.

leading. Controlling the link of a circle made by channelers; also known as focusing or guiding.

Leafblighter. The Aiel name for the Dark One.

Leafblighter’s get. An Aiel name for Trollocs.

Leafhunter. A wolf who was the leader of her pack. She had a feel of quiet certainty; her mate was Feather. Perrin spoke with Leafhunter’s pack after encountering a scent in the wolf dream that made his hackles rise (Darkhounds). When he asked the pack about it, they all shut him out one by one; Leafhunter was the last, saying simply, “The Last Hunt is coming.”

Leane Sharif. A Domani Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah originally, but later of the Green. She was the first sister ever to have changed her Ajah so far as any records showed. A member of the rebel contingent, she had a strength level of 14(2) before she was stilled and Healed; it was reduced to 36(24) afterward. Born in 952 NE to a merchant family, she went to the White Tower in 967 NE. After spending five years as a novice and four years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 976 NE. About 5'10" to 5'11" tall, she was willowy, graceful and coppery-skinned, with a brisk, clipped way of speaking, except when talking to men, or sometimes about them. She was Keeper of the Chronicles for Siuan until they were deposed and stilled. After being stilled, she looked young, about twenty-two or twenty-three years old, and no longer like an Aes Sedai. With Min’s help she and Siuan escaped Tar Valon and made their way to Salidar with Logain in tow. On the way, they accidentally burned down a barn in Kore Springs; Logain escaped but the women were tried by Gareth Bryne, who sentenced them to work for him until they had earned enough to pay for the barn and the cows in it. They swore an oath to do so, but Siuan noted that they had not said when, and all fled with Logain when he rescued them.

Although Leane had fairly small ability with Healing, she seemed to have the greatest ability with metals after Egwene, and she had an extensive network of eyes-and-ears; both made her a valuable asset to Egwene. Leane’s connection with Egwene remained a secret for a long time while they were in Salidar, as was the fact that she was no longer bound by the Three Oaths.

After Bryne arrived in Salidar, Leane, Siuan and Min were made to serve him as they had sworn to do.

Once Nynaeve Healed Leane, she chose to be a member of the Green Ajah instead of the Blue. She was quite cosseted by most of the other sisters for how well she had adjusted to her reduction in strength.

As part of the rebel Aes Sedai siege of the White Tower, Leane was to convert the harbor chain at Southharbor into heartstone; she had it half done when she was captured, and it still managed to block all but the shallowest draft ships from entering. When she was taken back to the Tower, no one believed that she was who she said she was. She was imprisoned; Egwene visited her frequently, as did many Aes Sedai wanting to learn to Travel. A bubble of evil caused her cell to melt like wax, but quick action by Egwene saved her. She was freed when Egwene was raised Amyrlin for the united Tower. Leane attended Egwene’s meeting with Wise Ones and Sea Folk in Tel’aran’rhiod; when the Black Ajah attacked, she stayed and fought, and though she was injured, she was Healed. Demandred captured her when he and the Sharans joined the Last Battle; he sent her with a message to Rand that if Rand did not face him, he would destroy all that Rand cared about. In the Last Battle, Leane was nearby when Egwene died.

Leanna ti Arathdar Mandragoran. Lan’s mother, the last Queen of Malkier. She was also known as el’Leanna. When Malkier was overrun with Trollocs, Leanna and her husband Akir had Lan brought to them in his cradle and gave him a sword and a locket and consecrated him as the next King of Malkier. They then sent him with twenty soldiers to Fal Moran. Al’Akir and el’Leanna were killed at Herot’s Crossing, and Malkier was lost.

Leashed Ones. See damane

leatherleaf. A tall, rough-trunked evergreen tree with tough broad leaves and thick branches. It grew in copses and could become a towering tree, although in the tall mountains it tended to be scrubby and wind-twisted. Leatherleaf’s natural range was extensive.

Ledar. The Ogier author of A Study of Men, Women and the One Power Among Humans, a book Loial considered one of the best about Aes Sedai dealing with men who could channel. Ledar was the son of Shandin son of Koimal. Loial also used the name Ledar to disguise his identity.

Ledron. A citizen of Hinderstap who spoke with Mayor Barlden about the papers with Mat’s likeness promising money for information about Mat’s whereabouts. Mayor Barlden told him that he was not in the business of selling out guests.

Leeh. A Maiden of the Spear sent after Weiramon and Anaiyella when Rand outed them as Darkfriends.

Leems. An Asha’man who was Taim’s crony and was fond of wine. When Pevara and Androl were capturing Dobser, Leems and Welyn came in; Pevara fought them with the One Power, enabling Androl to knock them out with a cudgel. Emarin stated his intention to dose them with something that would make them sleep until Bel Tine.

Left Hand. In Seanchan, a term referring to a primary assistant; for example, Tuon’s former Truthspeaker, Neferi, had a Left Hand who was trained and ready to replace her, until Anath was selected by the Empress.

Legion of the Dragon. A large military formation, all infantry, giving allegiance to the Dragon Reborn, trained by Davram Bashere along lines worked out by himself and Mat Cauthon, lines which departed sharply from the usual employment of foot. While many men simply walked in to volunteer, large numbers of the Legion were scooped up by recruiting parties from the Black Tower, who first gathered all of the men in an area who were willing to follow the Dragon Reborn. Only after taking them through gateways to a spot near Caemlyn were those who could be taught to channel identified; the remainder, by far the greater number, were sent to Bashere’s training camps. The Legion numbered about 15,000 well-trained troops when they joined in the Illian campaign, but their total number with recruits numbered 47,500. At the beginning of the Last Battle, the Legion fought on Elayne’s front.

Legion of the Wall. See Ghealdan

Lehynen. A member of Ituralde’s forces who died defending his flank from Trollocs outside Maradon; Ituralde thought that he was one of the best.

Leich, Mother. The local healer in Remen, Altara. She stitched up Lords Orban and Gann after their encounter with Gaul and Sarien.

Leilwin, Lady. A Taraboner noblewoman who was shipped out to the Seanchan forces after Floran Gelb’s misinformation led to Egeanin kidnapping her. Young and pretty, she was a refugee from estates burned out by the war. Leilwin resembled one of the women Egeanin sought, although Gelb should have known it was the wrong person by her Taraboner accent. Leilwin, bound and gagged, was deposited on one of the courier boats in the dead of night. She was made da’covale to an unknown Seanchan owner.

Leilwin Shipless. See Egeanin Sarna

Leiran. A man of the Cosaida sept of the Chareen Aiel and the Sha’mad Conde society. An agile man who could kick higher than Rand’s head, he was siswai’aman. Leiran was handsome except for the puckered white scar that ran up under the strip of black cloth that covered a missing eye. He guarded Rand’s Traveling tent in Tear. Enaila thought he had a good sense of humor, but the other Maidens thought that it was his strong hands which attracted her. Enaila decided to lay a bridal wreath for him at the time of the Last Battle, but she was killed by Trollocs before she could do so.

Leish. The wife of the Asha’man Canler. Round and white-haired, she was bonded by Canler.

Leitha. A Tairen Lady of the Land. She made the mistake of looking disdainfully at Moiraine while the nobles were waiting for Rand in the Heart of the Stone.

Leitiang, Stedding. A stedding located in the forests north of the River Ivo.

Lelaine Akashi. A Kandori Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 13(1). Born in 827 NE, she went to the White Tower in 844 NE. After spending five years as a novice and six years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 855 NE. She was first chosen as a Sitter for the Blue Ajah in 962 NE and after the split in the White Tower was named First Selector, the head of the Blue Ajah, in 999 NE. Her Warder was Burin Shaeren.

About 5'4" tall, she was a slender woman, quite pretty, with a dignified air that could break into a warm smile and a light laugh. Her penetrating brown eyes were a little lighter in color than Romanda’s, but not light. Although her hair had no gray showing, she stood just ahead of Romanda in the ceremony when Egwene was raised Amyrlin. Lelaine controlled her faction tightly; she could cut one of them off with a gesture. She was a friend to Siuan before Siuan took the stole. She was fond of Logain, as a fierce dog she had tamed. She had had her own candidate for Keeper, who was not Sheriam. Lelaine and her faction used Tel’aran’rhiod to try spying on Rand. Resuming her friendship with Siuan after Nynaeve Healed Siuan, she made sure that Siuan knew that she expected Siuan to be as loyal to her as she was to Egwene, should Egwene fail to survive, and help her rather than Romanda get the stole and staff. Lelaine unmasked Faolain as Egwene’s mole and pressed her hard, forcing her to give up information about Egwene, Siuan and Leane. In the Last Battle, Lelaine fought as part of Egwene’s army.

Lem al’Dai. A horse-faced Two Rivers man in Perrin’s army. He had a gap in his teeth through which he sometimes spat; he got the gap fighting a merchant’s guard. He liked to fight with his fists, and was known to pick fights. He traveled with Perrin to Cairhien, Dumai’s Wells and Ghealdan.

Lem Thane. A boy from Emond’s Field who was the son of Jon and Saera Thane. He was eight months younger than Rand, Mat and Perrin. Lem saw the cowled horseman before Winternight, too. His father was the local miller and a member of the Village Council.

Lemai Ambani. An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a strength level of 15(3). After spending six years as a novice and eight as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl. Part of the expedition to take the Black Tower, Lemai was captured and bonded by Morly Hardlin, an Asha’man Dedicated. She was one of the two strongest Aes Sedai captured by the Asha’man, and, as such, was second to Desandre in leadership of the Aes Sedai group, as much as the Asha’man allowed.

Lemore Genhal. A Taraboner noblewoman taken by the Seanchan in Tanchico and made damane. She was just nineteen when being held in Caemlyn, one of the damane captured by Rand’s troops in Altara and turned over to Elayne in Caemlyn. Lemore was a pampered young noblewoman born with the spark, though she didn’t know it until it manifested itself days before the Seanchan took the city. Found while trying to escape, she was collared on the very day the city fell. Lemore said that she hated the Seanchan and wanted to make them pay for what they did to Tanchico, but she answered to Larie, her damane name, as readily as to Lemore, and she smiled at the sul’dam and let them pet her. She knew she should hate the sul’dam and didn’t understand why she did not. Not wanting to harm any of them, she would have been paralyzed if confronted by a sul’dam, and might well have let herself be collared again without making more than token resistance.

Len Congar. A Two Rivers man who, along with Jac Coplin, stole a cow from Master Thane. After being shown proof of the incident, Perrin meted out justice by having them strapped.

Lenn. A mythical character in gleeman tales who flew to the moon in the belly of an eagle made of fire; his daughter Salya walked among the stars.

Leof Torfinn. A Two Rivers man with deep-set eyes and a white streak in his hair where a scar ran through it; the scar was given to him by Trollocs. He carried Perrin’s Red Wolfhead banner when Wil al’Seen didn’t want to, and carried it again for Perrin’s first meeting with the Seanchan under Tylee Khirgan. At Malden, he was one of those who went through the aqueduct to rescue Faile.

Leonin. Meidani’s Arafellin Warder. He wore silver bells in his hair and two swords on his back. He knew nothing of current happenings except that his Aes Sedai wanted certain things of him. He made formal bows with fingertips pressed to his heart.

Leral. A serving girl at The Wandering Woman in Ebou Dar.

Lerian. A Goshien Aiel woman of Far Dareis Mai. Lean, sandy-haired and about Faile’s age, she escorted Perrin and Faile to Rand in Caemlyn. She often guarded Rand or Min and went with other Aiel to help restore order in Bandar Eban.

Lerman, Master. The head mason working on Elaida’s palace at the White Tower. The blood drained from his face when Elaida told him that the palace must have a spire ten spans higher than the Tower itself, but a look at her face told him to say that it would be done as she wished.

lesser consensus. A vote that required a quorum of eleven Sitters, but only two-thirds of those present needed to stand for an item to pass. There was no requirement for all Ajahs to be represented in the lesser consensus except in the case of a declaration of war by the White Tower, one of several matters left to the lesser consensus which many might have thought would require the greater.

Letice Murow. A Murandian novice with the rebel Aes Sedai. Pale-eyed and close to her middle years with unblemished skin, she had a sister who was also a novice. Leane had Letice hold Egwene’s horse outside the cuendillar tent; when she gave her name, Letice sounded as if she wanted to add a title.

letter-of-rights. The only paper currency. Such letters were issued by bankers, guaranteeing to present a certain amount of gold or silver when the letters were presented. Because of the long distances between cities, the length of time needed to travel from one to another, and the difficulties of transactions at long distance, a letter-of-rights might have been accepted at full value in a city near the bank which issued it, but it might have been accepted only at a lower value in a city farther away. Generally, someone intending to be traveling for a long time would carry one or more letters-of-rights to exchange for coin when needed. Letters-of-rights were usually accepted only by bankers or merchants, and would never be used in shops.

Leuese Mulan. An old Tairen fisherman who became wealthy after finding three cuendillar bowls and a cup in his nets, but later could not remember where. He bought a trading ship.

Lewin clan. A Two Rivers family. See Adine, Ban, Dannil, Emry, Flann, Jillie, Kiem, Kimry, Laila Dearn, Natley, Tell and Win Lewin

Lewin. A young Jenn Aiel man from the time soon after the Breaking. Adan was his greatfather, Saralin his mother and Maigrin his sister. When he was six, his father and greatmother were killed by bandits. When he was older, his sister and another girl, Colline, were kidnapped by bandits. Lewin, Colline’s brother Charlin and some of their friends went to save the girls; they used weapons, killed the bandits and were cast out by their families. Lewin gathered others like him, and stayed near the Jenn; he married and fathered Jeordan, who never saw his father smile. His wife died of fever. If Jenn came to him and asked, he and his men would help to rescue their loved ones.

Lewin, Mistress. An Emond’s Field woman. When Nynaeve caught her daughter Kimry in the hayloft with Bar Dowtry, Nynaeve punished Kimry first and then Mistress Lewin took over.

Lews Therin Telamon. A leader in the Age of Legends. A very accomplished man, he held many offices and wrote critically and publicly acclaimed books. For a time he was romantically involved with Mierin, who later used the name Lanfear, but her ambition and the realization that she saw him as a path to power soured him on her. He ended the relationship long before the drilling of the Bore, but Mierin continued to pursue him. He met and fell in love with Ilyena Moerelle Dalisar; Mierin disrupted their wedding and continued to make a public nuisance of herself.

Lews Therin was named the first among the Servants and sat in the High Seat. He wore the Ring of Tamyrlin and summoned the Nine Rods of Dominion. He was known as the Lord of the Morning, the Prince of the Dawn and the Dragon. At the onset of the War of Power, the people turned to the Aes Sedai to defend and guide them. Lews Therin was chosen to lead the human soldiers, the Ogier and the Aes Sedai in the fight to prevent the Dark One from breaking free of his prison.

Lews Therin was a good leader, but the war was a seesaw affair. Lews Therin defeated Ishamael at Paaran Disen, but the Shadow had its successes as well. The forces of the Light came up with two very different plans. Lews Therin wanted to use a circle of seven women and six men to place seven focus points around the thinness of the Pattern at Shayol Ghul to seal the Dark One away. Latra Posae, another Aes Sedai, spearheaded an effort to attempt to prevail by construction of two huge sa’angreal, one for saidar and one for saidin, that were to be used to contain the Dark One. Many thought Lews Therin’s plan too risky; Latra Posae felt so strongly about it that she convinced all the female Aes Sedai to make an agreement that no woman would link with a man to help seal the Dark One’s prison; this agreement came to be known as the Fateful Concord. The sa’angreal were constructed, but access keys were needed to use them, and these access keys were hidden in an area taken over by the forces of the Shadow. Latra Posae and the women held to their concord, hoping that the access keys could be rescued. At the same time, the Shadow pressed hard and won many victories; Lews Therin believed that if they waited any longer, the Shadow would certainly prevail.

Accompanied by 113 male Aes Sedai, known somewhat inaccurately as the Hundred Companions, and ten thousand soldiers, Lews Therin attacked the Bore. A nice surprise awaited: The thirteen most important of the Aes Sedai sworn to the Shadow were meeting. Lews Therin and his men placed the seals, but not without cost. In the battle to do so, forty-five of the Companions were killed, and a high percentage of soldiers. That was only a small part of the damage; a backblast from the Dark One tainted saidin. Lews Therin and the sixty-eight other survivors went mad on the spot.

In his madness, Lews Therin killed everyone who carried any of his blood, as well as everyone he loved, thus earning the name Kinslayer. Ishamael went to Lews Therin, and returned him to sanity so that he could know what he had done. In his grief, the Dragon traveled to a wide empty place and drew too much of the One Power. He died, and Dragonmount rose to mark his grave.

In the Third Age, Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, heard Lews Therin’s voice in his head; what he learned from it helped him in his fight against the Shadow.

Leya. A Tuatha’an woman. Gray-haired but with few lines on her face, she rode into the Mountains of Mist to find Moiraine and report to her about the fighting on Almoth Plain. Trollocs attacked while she was there, and Leya was killed by a Fade.

Leyn. An Aiel Wise One who could channel quite strongly. When Cadsuane first arrived at the palace in Cairhien, Leyn watched her walk past with cold eyes in a stony face.

Liah. A woman of the Cosaida sept of the Chareen Aiel and Far Dareis Mai. Her hair was nearly black, which was rare and prized among the Aiel, and both of her cheeks bore scars. She often bounced on her toes when she laughed and looked with disgust at even a practice sword. About Rand’s age, Liah was with him in Caemlyn and went to Shadar Logoth with him and the Ogier; there she was lost. The others left, assuming her dead, because night was coming. When Rand was fighting Sammael in Shadar Logoth, he saw her; she had gone feral. He killed her with balefire to save her the agony of death from Mashadar. The names of the dead blazed in Rand’s head, and her name burned especially after he had killed her.

Liale Mosrara. A Taraboner rug weaver. One of the refugees who went to the Two Rivers, she asked permission of Faile to start producing rugs, which Faile granted. Liale promised the first and finest from her looms to Perrin and Faile.

Lian. One of the Heroes of the Horn featured in “Lian’s Stand,” recited by Thom, and part of The Great Hunt of the Horn.

Lian. A woman of the Nine Valleys sept of the Taardad Aiel. She was the wife of Rhuarc, the roofmistress of Cold Rocks Hold, sister-wife and first-sister through adoption to Amys and sister-mother to Aviendha. She had blue eyes and yellow hair with some gray at the temples. She was more than handsome, and looked older than Amys but younger than Rhuarc. She and Amys both had children by Rhuarc; they had daughters as old as or older than Berelain. Lian welcomed Rhuarc, Rand and Heirn to Cold Rocks Hold; she gave Couladin permission to enter, but as one friendless and alone. She would not accept a guest gift from Moiraine, but was pleased with those that Mat and Rand gave her.

Liandrin Guirale. A Taraboner Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah in public and of the Black Ajah in truth. She had a strength level of 14(2). Born in 964 NE, she went to the White Tower in 979 NE. After spending five years as a novice and five years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 989 NE. She was a brown-eyed honey blonde about 5'5" tall, with a full-lipped rosebud mouth and a lush body. She wore her hair in beaded braids and was pretty in a doll-like way. Born to a poor family, she worked hard to ape the manners and speech of upper-crust Taraboners. Liandrin knew a form of Compulsion, but it was very weak and spotty. She called it “opening people” to her suggestions. She was weak in Healing, unable to Heal more than scrapes and bruises. That irritated her because the ability to kill with the Power that Rianna and Chesmal had was strongly linked to the talent for Healing.

Liandrin was one of two Red sisters who accompanied Siuan on her visit to Fal Dara. While there, Liandrin used her Compulsion to force Amalisa to search for Rand. She gave at least one lesson to Nynaeve and Egwene on the way from Fal Dara to Medo, but she was more interested in the three boys than in the lessons. She tricked Egwene, Nynaeve, Elayne and Min into going to Falme so that they might be captured and the channelers made damane, but that did not go as planned and only Egwene was captured. In late 998 NE, she was the leader of the original thirteen members of the Black Ajah who fled the White Tower. Those thirteen went to Tear, where they captured Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne; after that plot failed, Liandrin went to Tanchico. She then traveled to Amador and was coopted by Moghedien to search for Nynaeve. Liandrin tried to attack Moghedien with her Compulsion, but she was shielded with a knotted, tied-off shield and Compelled to live. Moghedien then turned her over to Darkfriends in Amador, who treated her roughly because of her former poor treatment of them. When the Seanchan took Amadicia, she attempted to betray her captors as Darkfriends, hoping to escape. Instead, she fell into the hands of the High Lady Suroth, who despised all Aes Sedai in general and Liandrin in particular, and was made da’covale. She could not even use the leverage of threatening to betray Suroth for the simple reason that under Seanchan law, the word of a da’covale was not accepted as evidence; in fact, no one was likely to believe or even listen to any accusations a da’covale made. Liandrin poisoned Alwhin to try to make points with Suroth. Because Moghedien’s shield was still in place, Liandrin was not leashed, although rumors began circulating that Suroth had a marath’damane in her household. Suroth considered collaring her at that point.

Lidan. A serving girl at The Nine Rings in Tremonsien, Cairhien. She was sent to fetch Selene’s bags.

Lideine Rajan. An Aes Sedai who lived at the time of the formation of the White Tower.

Lidrin. A young officer from Arad Doman, the son of Lord Shimron, who served under Rodel Ituralde. A scar ran across the left side of his face, and he wore a fashionable thin black mustache. Lidrin was with Ituralde at Darluna when they sprang the trap on the Seanchan and when Rand met with Ituralde the first time. Lidrin was skeptical when Rand said he was the Dragon Reborn, and objected to going with Rand to see proof. At the battle outside Maradon, Ituralde sent him to lead a detachment of archers at the battlements; he was killed during the battle after going on a suicidal charge when he should have retreated.

Lidya. A damane belonging to Tuon. Red-haired with freckled cheeks, she spoke a Foretelling for Tuon, saying, “Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly, for he will marry you and carry you away. Beware the man who remembers Hawkwing’s face, for he will marry you and set you free. Beware the man of the red hand, for him you will marry and none other.” Tuon was displeased, and had Lidya caned for it, although the next day she ordered the sul’dam to give Lidya lionheart for the pain and a sweet custard as a treat. Lidya was part of Karede’s group that searched for Tuon when she was missing.

Lieutenant-General. An officer who commanded a legion of a varying number of banners. A Lieutenant-General wore four thin plumes.

Lifa. A Darkfriend merchant who ran supplies for the Shadow through the Blasted Lands to a spot near the Town. Faile’s party captured her caravan, presumably killed her and her three Darkfriend guards, and freed her captives.

Light Blessed Throne. The royal throne of Ghealdan.

Light, Children of the. See Children of the Light

Light of the Heavens, Light of the World. Other names for the Creator.

Light of Truth, The. An inn in Sienda, Amadicia. Its innkeeper was Mistress Jheran. Elayne and Nynaeve stayed there after leaving Tanchico; they met Galad in the common room and then quickly left town.

Lighteater. See Dark One

Lights, Feast of. See Feast of Lights

lightskirt. A woman of easy virtue.

lightstick. An illumination device from the Age of Legends. It looked like a plain glass rod, thicker than a man’s thumb but not quite as long as a forearm. When held in the hand it glowed as brightly as a lantern. It shattered like glass as well, and could start a fire if broken.

Lillen Moiral. Moghedien’s name in the Age of Legends.

Lincora din Omen. A Sea Folk Wavemistress who was one of the First Twelve. She met with the others of the First Twelve in Illian and turned her back when Harine arrived.

Lind Taglien. The innkeeper of The Great Gathering, at the Black Tower. Short and dark-haired, she wore dresses covered in lovely embroidery. She maintained a library with a considerable number of books.

Lindsar. An Ogier woman who was the eldest of the Ogier in Stedding Sholoon. Though she was too old to fight in the Last Battle, she allowed Androl and Pevara to use the stedding to trap a group of Darkfriends, including Alviarin and some of Taim’s cronies. She thought that perhaps a few decades in the peace of the stedding might change their outlook.

Lines, the. These joined the Worlds That Might Be, laid by those who knew the Numbers of Chaos; a part of the process used in the construction of Portal Stones. Verin spoke of the Lines after Rand had channeled too much Power into a Portal Stone and experienced many of his alternate lives.

Lini Eltring. The childhood nurse of Elayne, Morgase and Morgase’s mother. Mouthy and independent, she had a tendency to treat everyone like a child in the schoolroom, but she did know when to hold her peace sometimes, though never very often, it seemed, with Morgase or Elayne. She was a frail-appearing woman, with her white hair drawn back in a bun from a narrow face with skin like thin parchment. Her back was straight, her voice was clear and steady and her dark eyes were sharp. Lini could make a snort sound delicate when she wished. She saw her charges as children still, in many ways; and as Morgase said, she would not curtsy if the whole court were watching. Lini had a brisk but gentle voice for telling one things such as that one’s pony had a broken leg and must be put down. Her gnarled fingers used to linger on Morgase’s cheek to check for fever. Always a great one for neatness, she believed there was a place for everything, and everything should be in its place. Lini possessed a massive number of aphorisms for which she was famous within the household, and which she voiced whenever the circumstances merited.

Lini’s great treasures were the six oval ivory miniatures of her three charges—Morgase; Morgase’s mother, Maighdin; and Elayne—each as a babe and as a young woman. She cared little or nothing for the Tower or for Aes Sedai, except that they were necessary in certain circumstances. As for Rand, she knew a little of the Prophecies and knew that the Dragon Reborn was necessary, but to her, there was little to choose between a man who could channel and a rabid wolf in one’s bedroom. Of course, Lini would have shooed the rabid wolf out with a broom. Perhaps needless to say, the Asha’man were not her favorite men by a far margin.

When Morgase broke through Rahvin’s Compulsion and went on the lam, Lini accompanied her. She didn’t like Whitecloaks and didn’t approve of Morgase seeking help in Amadicia; what occurred in Andor was a problem for Andor to solve. Lini stopped Morgase from committing suicide after she had been violated by Valda, and brought her to her senses.

After Faile took “Maighdin” and her party into her service, Lini became her lady’s maid, with seniority over Maighdin and Breane, as she was eldest and the one who seemed best to understand the job. Once Maighdin was taken by the Shaido, Lini believed that Perrin had slept with Berelain and made her feelings about that quite plain to him and everyone else.

Before the battle at Malden, Lini was sent with Gill and others to make their way north to the Jehannah Road, but bad conditions made them change their route, and they were captured by Whitecloaks before Perrin could find them. Galad freed them when Perrin showed up for his trial.

Lini insisted that Morgase and Tallanvor marry before returning to Caemlyn.

Lini’s sayings.

“A fool abandons friends, and gives up silver for shiny brass.”

“A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides.”

“A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first.”

“A full stomach at midday makes for a dull head in the afternoon.”

“A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.”

“A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.”

“A secret spoken finds wings.”

“A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.”

“A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.”

“A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.”

“A young lion charges quickest, and when you least expect it.”

“Always plan ahead, but worry too hard over next year and you can trip over tomorrow.”

“An open sack hides nothing, and an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.”

“Anyone who allows two roosters in the same barnyard deserves the ruckus they get.”

“Be sure of yourself, girl, but not too sure.”

“Better to face the bear than run from it.”

“Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.”

“Dragging feet never finish a journey.”

“Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.”

“Fools only listen to themselves.”

“If you don’t look for snakes, you cannot complain when one bites you.”

“It isn’t the stone you see that trips you on your nose.”

“It’s one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don’t know exactly how.”

“It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

“Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it’s simple as breathing for both.”

“Men keep sticking their hands in the fire thinking this time it will not burn.”

“No knife is sharper than a sister’s hate.”

“Not thinking about a thorn doesn’t make it hurt your foot less.”

“Only fools kiss hornets or bite fire.”

“Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree.”

“Poke the meekest dog too often and he will bite.”

“‘Should’ and ‘would’ build no bridges.”

“Sup from too many dishes, and you deserve a bellyache that’ll split you open.”

“Tears are for after; they just waste time before.”

“The blindest are those who keep their eyes shut.”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The right medicine always tastes bitter. Most of all for a child who throws a sulky tantrum.”

“There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it.”

“Three things annoy to distraction: a tooth that aches, a shoe that pinches and a man that chatters.”

“To know two, you must first know one.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“What can’t be changed must be endured.”

“What you need is not always what you want.”

“When a woman plays the fool, look for the man.”

“When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back.”

“When you ask questions, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.”

“‘Wish’ and ‘want’ trip the feet, but ‘is’ makes the path smoother.”

“You can do whatever you wish, child. So long you are willing to pay the price.”

“You can never put the honey back in the comb.”

“You can’t know another woman’s reasons until you’ve worn her dress for a year.”

“You cannot hold the sun down at dawn.”

“You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.”

“You count your plums in the basket, not on the tree.”

“You should not be displaying wares you do not mean to sell.”

linking. The ability of channelers to combine their flows of the One Power. While the combined flow was not as great as the sum total of the individual flows, it was directed by the person who led the link and could be used much more precisely and to far greater effect than the individual flows could be. Men could not link their abilities without the presence of a woman or women in the circle. Up to thirteen women could link without the presence of a man. With the addition of one man, the circle could increase to twenty-six women. Two men could take the circle up to thirty-four women, and so on until the limit of six men and sixty-six women was reached. There were links that included more men and fewer women, but except in the linking of one man and one woman, one woman and two men, or of course, two men and two women, there always had to be at least one more woman in the circle than there were men. In most circles, either a man or a woman could control the link, but a man had to control in the circle of seventy-two as well as in mixed circles of fewer than thirteen.

Although men were in general stronger in the Power than women, the strongest circles were those which contained as near as possible to equal numbers of men and women. Entering a link was normally a voluntary act, requiring at least acquiescence, but under certain circumstances, a sufficient circle already formed could bring another woman forcibly into the circle as long as no man was part of it. Insofar as was known, a man could not be forced into a circle, no matter how large.

Lion. The name of the horse belonging to Lord Orban, the Hunter of the Horn who captured Gaul.

Lion Banner. The symbol of Andor, a white lion rampant on a field of red.

Lion Throne. The royal throne of Andor. Carved and gilded, with huge lion’s paws at the ends of its legs, it displayed the Lion of Andor picked out in moonstones on a field of rubies above where the Queen’s head would be while seated.

Lioness. The horse Elayne rode in Ebou Dar; she was killed when Elayne’s unraveling gateway exploded.

lionfish. A predatory fish found in the Sea of Storms.

lionheart. An herb used for pain in Seanchan. Tuon had some administered to a damane who had been caned.

Lions, the White. See White Lions, the

Lir Baryn. An Andoran man who was High Seat of House Baryn. His sigil was a silver-winged hammer on a field of green. Blade-slender and blade-strong, he opposed Morgase during the Succession and became one of Gaebril’s sycophants. He was too smoothly unctuous and too smooth altogether. He was used by Rand and fled when Rand reached an accommodation with Dyelin. He supported Arymilla for the throne of Andor, but was captured and threw his support behind Elayne, offering to publish his support.

Lira. A serving girl at the Blue Rose in Canluum, Kandor who had eyes for Lan. She had full lips and dark eyes and checked Lan’s wounds after he fought and killed six assassins.

Lirene Doirellin. A Cairhienin Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a strength level of 24(12). Born in 820 NE, she went to the White Tower in 835 NE. After spending eight years as a novice and six years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 849 NE. She was 5'2" tall and was once plump, with a strong face; she had lost considerable weight and her pale skin looked weathered. Lirene was raised Sitter for the Red in 953 NE, but was forced to resign in 985 NE after the discovery of the male channeler pogrom and her part in it. Although the true circumstances were kept secret for the good of the White Tower, she suffered a severe penance in the Tower, was birched, though in private, and was exiled, a supposedly voluntary retreat that lasted until she was recalled after Elaida took the stole. Elaida considered her broken by her experiences, and in many ways, Lirene was broken. She was indeed of a nervous disposition after her return, and exceedingly afraid to be caught in anything wrong. She very much feared a return to her exile, and feared almost as much that something she did might result in another dose of the birch. Even when she remembered to try hiding her fears—she had lived with them so long that she was hardly conscious of the need to hide them—it was apparent that she was hiding something. She wore only a few red slashes or other details about her dress, despite having once been a Sitter. Like the other two Sitters who were unchaired—Toveine and Tsutama—she had two major passions: a hatred of men who could channel, and a desire for revenge on those who caused her downfall and suffering, as well as those who had abandoned her. The second passion was sometimes greater than the first, sometimes less. Lirene had an additional passion: hatred of those who rose because of her fall. Those included the Red Sitters who replaced her, the other two who were unchaired, Galina, who became Highest of the Red in 981 NE, and Elaida, as she was not implicated in the male channeler pogrom and also rose to the Amyrlin Seat. While teaching Egwene after Egwene’s capture by Elaida, Lirene said that she believed that Elaida had made some serious mistakes.

Lisaine Jarath. A senior der’sul’dam from Seandar, under Miraj’s command. She was gray-haired with a pale plump face and blue eyes. She was a friend of Miraj, and they often shared cups of kaf and games of stones. Usually very animated, when approaching the final battle against Rand, she was icily calm, which alarmed Miraj.

Lisandre. A sulky novice from Moiraine’s earlier days in the Tower, very tall with long golden hair. Moiraine thought that she would be allowed to test for Accepted if her sulkiness could be cured.

Listeners. Spies for the Empress of Seanchan. Listeners were always hidden, and they had no authority whatsoever. Their duty was to report everything they saw, heard, or learned. Anyone could act as a Listener, even a servant whose family had served a noble House for generations. Some Listeners were what might be thought of as professional spies, while others were brought into the fold through rewards, threats or blackmail. Once a person became a Listener, he was a Listener for the rest of his life, and the penalty for revealing that one was a Listener was death. The identity of Listeners was known only to the core bureaucracy who controlled them for the Empress and in some cases to a control or case officer. This bureaucracy existed to record the information received from the Listeners and decide what was to be passed to the Empress and what to the Seekers. All of it had to go one place or the other if not always to both. Members of the bureaucracy could be found everywhere, including with the Forerunners and the Return. The bureaucracy controlling the Listeners was itself secret, the members known only to one another, though the highest echelons were known to the Empress. They all were hidden among the other bureaucrats and functionaries.

When called to give evidence, Listeners did so with their faces hidden and identity disguised, speaking through a tube which disguised their voices as well, keeping secret even then.

Little Tower. In Salidar, an abandoned stone inn adopted by the rebel Hall of the Tower.

Llyw. Kairen Stang’s Warder. He was as wide as a horse; Malind thought that he could almost pass for an Ogier. After Kairen was killed, he was primed for murder, but was dosed with something to make him sleep. When Lelaine first suggested that Myrelle bond him, she paled; Faiselle twisted her arm and convinced her that it was her duty. Myrelle did bond him then, and, at least early on, he made her look harassed.

Lodanaille. A vintage of wine served in a Tairen punch, mixed with honeymelon and offered by Sunamon to Rand.

lofting tubes. Devices used by Illuminators to shoot fireworks skyward.

Logain Ablar. A Ghealdanin minor nobleman with a small estate in the mountains until he became a false Dragon, for which King Johanin and the Crown High Council stripped him of title and estate; he kept the sigil, three golden crowns in a field of blue. His strength level was ++2, which was one step below Rand and five steps above the strongest women. He was born in 971 NE, began channeling around 992–993 NE, declared himself the Dragon Reborn in 995 NE, and slowed around 998 NE, just prior to being captured. Logain was a large man, about 6'2" tall, with a dark complexion and brown eyes; his hair was dark and curled to his broad shoulders. One of his special Talents was being able to see ta’veren. Logain as false Dragon was captured in a big battle near Lugard, trying to move his army from Ghealdan to Tear. Aes Sedai died defeating him. He was taken to Tar Valon and gentled, but escaped with Siuan, Leane and Min; he traveled as Dalyn, though he wanted to use the name Guaire.

After reaching Salidar, he cooperated with Siuan and Leane’s plot, claiming falsely that the Red Ajah, naming sisters, found him and instead of sending him to Tar Valon to be gentled, talked him into proclaiming himself the Dragon Reborn. He also said that they supplied him with information about the forces he faced and about where other Aes Sedai were. He couldn’t be sure Siuan and Leane wouldn’t kill him if he didn’t cooperate, and the plot was a chance for revenge that gave him at least a small new lease on life, though he had been sinking into despair; and while he wanted revenge on all Aes Sedai, he realized he was unlikely to get it. Siuan’s plot offered at least a chance to damage the Red Ajah, and by association to damage them all to some degree. While he wanted revenge on Aes Sedai, his innate pragmatism meant that he could abandon that desire if he had to, though not entirely without difficulty.

Logain was accidentally Healed by Nynaeve; the rebel Aes Sedai held him prisoner while they decided whether or not they could afford to gentle him again, given Rand and his amnesty. Since Leane and Siuan were not as strong as they once were after being Healed, the rebel Aes Sedai assumed that Logain wasn’t either; none of them knew that this Healing needed the opposite sex for completeness. In fact, because he had been Healed by a woman, he was just as strong as ever. He regained some of his old swashbuckling manner after he was Healed, but there was a darker strand in him, a touch of bleakness. He showed just a sign or two of the madness that would have come. To Min’s eyes, sometimes he wore a halo of gold and blue that spoke of glory to come.

He escaped from Salidar with the assistance of Siuan and Leane, on orders from Egwene, and headed straight for the Black Tower. There was no chance for him alone, not as the world stood, but he thought there might be a possibility in company with other men who could channel. Logain was the only man inside the Black Tower to wear the Sword and Dragon who did not receive private instruction from Taim, which others put down to the animosity between them. He and Taim did not like one another, which most attributed to the fact that each had once declared himself the Dragon Reborn. From Logain’s point of view, they felt, not only did he have to place himself below Rand, but below Taim as well, something he plainly found difficult since he had been, in fact, more successful as a false Dragon than Taim, more famous, or perhaps one should say more notorious.

Logain had a following among those not favored by Taim, including the men brought from the Two Rivers, though many of those were wary of him as a former false Dragon. He had considerable charisma, as well as leadership and organizational ability and a fair degree of military skill. He had no lesser desire for glory or power than he had before. He never really believed that he was the Dragon Reborn, unlike some who claimed it. He felt, like Taim, that if he had managed to fulfill enough of the Prophecies, he could have pulled it off. There certainly hadn’t been anyone else around claiming to be the Dragon Reborn that he knew of. He was not a man who liked being second to anyone, but he knew that taking advantage of Rand’s amnesty was his one real chance for power and glory, not to mention safety from the Aes Sedai. Despite his ambitions, he was not a bad man, not vainglorious, nor would he have made bad decisions merely for self-aggrandizement. In fact, Logain would have been a very good leader, administrator and ruler, though a hard one in some ways, and very pragmatic rather than idealistic.

Logain took part in the ambushes of the White Tower’s expedition against the Black Tower. On the first day, he bonded Gabrelle Brawley, a Brown. On the second day, despite orders that no man was to bond more than one of the Aes Sedai, he was forced to bond Toveine Gazal, though if he hadn’t been distracted by his horse nearly bucking him off because of her kicking, he could have bound her legs with the Power and not needed to bond her. He did wonder why none of Taim’s particular cronies were given positions where they could bond sisters; not that it was a special privilege, but he thought Taim would want the men who held those bonds to be especially loyal to him.

Logain found and burned Toveine’s traveling desk with all of its contents, including the order from Elaida to hang every man found at the Black Tower. He did that for exactly the reasons Toveine and Gabrelle surmised, and also hoped the act would make Toveine and the others cut him some slack, since he knew what they were about.

Logain left the Black Tower, went to Cairhien and then to Tear to find Rand and fought against the Trollocs at Algarin’s manor. Rand sent Logain to the Sea Folk to demand that they ship supplies to Arad Doman. Logain accompanied Rand to his meeting with the Daughter of the Nine Moons. When he returned to the Black Tower, he was imprisoned and attempts were made to Turn him to the Shadow, but he escaped with help from Androl and other Asha’man loyal to him. He engaged Demandred in combat, was injured and had to flee. He tried to find Demandred’s sa’angreal, but was interrupted by a plea for help, and instead he went to the ruins on the Field of Merrilor to save Caemlyn refugees who were being killed by the Shadow. Logain broke the seals on the Dark One’s prison at the right time in the Last Battle, in accord with Rand’s plan, and Gabrelle dubbed him “Sealbreaker.”

Loial son of Arent son of Halan. A young Ogier who wanted to see the world. He was born in 908 NE and left the stedding in 995 NE. He had eyes the size of teacups, a nose so wide it seemed almost a snout, a mouth that seemed to cut his huge head in two, a shaggy head and tufted ears that stuck up through his hair. His ears were very mobile and expressive of his emotional state, besides being an Ogier secondary sexual characteristic. His long eyebrows hung down like mustaches almost to his cheekbones. His fingers were like sausages, as big as a man’s thumbs, or as big as two of a man’s fingers. A narrow strip of hair like fur went up the middle of his chest. Loial was close to ten feet tall. His voice was as deep as a drum and rumbled and boomed.

Loial was a very talented Treesinger, one of the last in existence, and he said that he could feel a stedding once he was within ten miles of it. He didn’t like heat and damp; Stedding Shangtai, his home, was in the cool mountains. Loial liked to play stones and played very well. In the three years he was out of the stedding before meeting Rand and Mat in Caemlyn, Loial visited Tear, Illian and Cairhien, among other places. He journeyed through the Ways to Shienar with Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, Nynaeve, Moiraine and Lan, then accompanied them into the Blight, to the Eye of the World. He left Fal Dara in pursuit of the Horn of Valere, traveled via Portal Stone through a strange world, facing grolm, then out through another Portal Stone in Kinslayer’s Dagger with Rand, Hurin and Selene. They went on to Cairhien and then to Stedding Tsofu and traveled via Portal Stone again to Toman Head, where he saw Rand’s battle in the sky with Ishamael.

After wintering in the Mountains of Mist, he set out with Moiraine, Lan, Perrin and later Faile, chasing after Rand first to Illian, then to Tear. From Tear he went by the Ways with Perrin and Faile to the Two Rivers, where he faced the Trollocs in battle; he and Gaul went alone to seal the Waygate there. While in the Two Rivers, Loial became weary, beginning to feel the effects of the Longing but not wanting to leave Perrin and his other friends. Also, he didn’t want to give over writing his book, which he planned to call The Dragon Reborn. After leaving the Two Rivers with Perrin, he refreshed himself on the way to Caemlyn by visiting the abandoned stedding where the ruins of Hawkwing’s statue lay, and subsequently claimed to be fine. In Caemlyn, he reunited with Rand, and went on to Cairhien, then set out with Karldin Manfor to visit the stedding and secure the permission and cooperation of the Elders in guarding the Waygates.

Loial and Karldin returned to Cairhien to find Rand gone. With the arrival of Logain and Davram Bashere, Loial and Karldin joined up with them to find Rand, using the Warders left behind by sisters sworn to Rand when they went away with Cadsuane. Loial learned the Elders had named him a runaway and that his mother had promised to have him settled in marriage to someone she had chosen. Loial’s mother searched for him with the Ogier maiden Erith in tow, accompanied by his old teacher, Elder Haman. Loial was in a swivet after learning that they showed up in Caemlyn looking for him, but he was quite taken with Erith; she gave Loial a flower and listened to even his most complicated explanations, which she found interesting, and which made her interesting in return; he later married Erith.

Loial also argued convincingly at the Great Stump at Stedding Shangtai that the Ogier should not yet open the Book of Translation, but rather help fight the Dark One. He and Erith fought together in the Last Battle.

Loise al’Vere. Egwene’s next-eldest sister. She was born in 976 NE. A tomboy as late as age fifteen, she was considered the adventurous one—she was the one who hung on to climbing trees long after other girls gave it up, who sneaked off hunting rabbits and went swimming in the Waterwood long after others slowed or stopped. She was not allowed to braid her hair until 997 NE. By the time Perrin left the Two Rivers for the second time, she was looking around at suitors. She also might have been able to learn to channel.

Lomas. A scout for Ethenielle of Kandor. A sly lean-faced fellow with a foxhead crest on his helmet, he signaled to Ethenielle that they were in sight of the place in the Black Hills where she was to meet the other Borderland rulers.

Londaren Cor. The capital city of Eharon, one of the Ten Nations to rise after the Breaking.

Londraed. A lean soldier in the Band of the Red Hand. When Mat was working to set a trap for the Seanchan, Londraed climbed a tree to watch for Aludra’s signal. In Caemlyn when the Trollocs attacked during the start of the Last Battle, Londraed fought to save the dragons.

Long Exile, the. The separation of Ogier from their stedding during the Breaking when the land and sea shifted so dramatically that the stedding were lost or swallowed entirely. The Ogier who survived the upheaval of land and sea found themselves homeless and adrift, and wandered in search of their lost stedding. The Long Exile sensitized the survivors and their descendants so that all Ogier became bound to the stedding; if an Ogier stayed Outside for too long, the Longing took him and he began to weaken and eventually die. It was also known as the Exile.

Long Eyes, Cemeille din Selaan. See Cemeille din Selaan Long Eyes

Long Feather, Dorile din Eiran. See Dorile din Eiran Long Feather

Long Man, The. A well-kept inn in Cairhien where Egwene and Gawyn met in the private dining room. Its innkeeper was a round woman.

Long Tooth. The name the wolves gave Elyas Machera.

Long Wandering, the. See Long Exile, the

Longing, the. A condition experienced by an Ogier who was away from a stedding for too long; it could result in death. It was a particular problem during the Breaking, when landforms were changing. The Longing was not experienced by Seanchan Ogier in the Breaking, because in the areas that later became the Seanchan Empire, there happened to be more stedding, and so they were not exiled for long periods of time.

loobies. A pejorative term meaning, roughly, “dunces.”

lopar. A hulking exotic fighting animal of the Seanchan that was brought from a parallel world. It weighed between fifteen hundred and two thousand pounds when full-grown and had a large, round head with no external ears and two eyes, large and dark, surrounded by horny ridges. Its massive shoulders appeared hunched, and were somewhat higher than its hindquarters when on all fours. Its legs were longer than those of a bear in proportion to size, but still appeared short, partly because they were very thick; they were somewhat bowed when the lopar was on all fours, adding to its hulking appearance. Its hide, leathery and hairless, in browns ranging from dark to a pale reddish color, was not as tough as that of a grolm, and when lopar were used in battle, they were normally fitted with a sort of leather coat or barding, covered with overlapping rectangular metal plates, which protected the spine, the central chest and the belly. It had six toes on both front and rear paws, all with large retractable claws. It used both forepaws for grasping or handling. Lopar would sometimes rear up on their hind legs when fighting, and were then easily tall enough (as much as ten feet) to snatch a man from horseback. Its intelligence was higher than that of a dog, probably equal to that of a torm; as with the torm, some people found their gaze disturbing, but there was not the cold malevolence in the gaze of a lopar that there was with a torm. The lopar was as fast as or faster than a horse over very short distances—up to one hundred paces/yards—but they were not distance runners by any means. Despite their lumbering appearance, they could move as quickly as any bear. Lopar births were always in pairs, and they suffered the same high mortality rate of the other exotics.

Despite its appearance, the lopar could be handled by anyone properly trained and was usually placid and even friendly unless roused to fight by command. The exception to this was mating, which resembled a battle and usually resulted in wounds to both male and female. Both males and females would sometimes engage in a sort of dominance display, each animal rearing to its tallest and roaring or howling loudly. The shorter of the two animals would lie down flat on its belly almost immediately. If the two animals were the same size, however, combat could result unless they were properly controlled by morat.

The lopar was used primarily as a guard animal, and used only very occasionally in battle, usually for guarding a particular person. Because of the combination of a usually placid nature combined with fierce fighting ability, it was not unusual for the Blood to use lopar to protect and guard their children. Lopar used to bodyguard people, whether adults or children, often became attached and fiercely protective. Animals which formed this attachment were usually reluctant to leave the one they were attached to and frequently refused to eat for some time afterward. The lopar was controlled by voice commands and by signals from a horn a little larger than a man’s hand with a piercing sound.

Lopar, Cavan. The rotund innkeeper of The White Crescent in Tear. He suggested that Mat take Thom to Mother Guenna for his cough.

Lopiang, Kiam. An Aes Sedai who lived at the time of the formation of the White Tower.

Lopin. Nalesean’s Tairen serving man. A middle-aged man, he was about 5'10" tall, round-bellied and balding, with a blocky, square face and an oiled beard almost long enough to reach his chest. What hair he had left was dark. He was competitive with Nerim, Talmanes’ serving man. Lopin traveled with Nalesean to Ebou Dar, and after Nalesean’s death he became Mat’s manservant. Normally jolly, he was somber and sad after Nalesean died. Lopin was killed by the gholam in the camp outside of Cairhien.

lopinginny. A bird found in the Waste with a bold call, though it was not a bold bird.

Loral. The dosun, or head housekeeper, of Milisair Chadmar’s palace in Bandar Eban. Elderly and gray-haired, she had served the Chadmar family through three generations. She told Nynaeve that the last messenger from Alsalam had been taken and imprisoned, and led Nynaeve to the prison.

Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light. The commanding officer of the Whitecloaks, who presided over the Council of the Anointed, which was made up of approximately a dozen of the highest-ranking and most favored Lords Captain and the High Inquisitor. At the time of the Last Battle, Galad Damodred was Lord Captain Commander.

Lord of the Dawn. See Dragon, the

Lord of the Grave. See Dark One

Lord of the Lakes. One of Lan’s royal Malkieri titles.

Lord of the Land. A title for Tairen nobles, and the rank from which a High Lord was raised.

Lord of the Morning. One of Lews Therin’s titles, given to Rand by Weiramon, Bashere and Gregorin, and taken up more generally during the Illian campaign. See Dragon, the

Lord of the Seven Towers. One of Lan’s royal Malkieri titles.

Lord of the Twilight. See Dark One

Lorn, Evanellein. See Evanellein Lorn

Lorstrum Aesnan. A Cairhienin nobleman who rose to power after Rand left Cairhien. He was quiet and lanky and looked down his nose. He neither opposed Rand nor supported him; that middle ground helped him to gain support; it was thought that he was considering claiming the throne. Elayne demonstrated the dragons for him and other nobles, and offered him estates in Andor that she had stripped from Arymilla, Naean or Elenia. When Birgitte found a poisoned needle in the Sun Throne’s cushions, Lorstrum vowed to find who had put it there; he also opined that it must have been put there to kill Rand, since no one would want to kill Elayne.

Los caba’drin! Old Tongue for “Horsemen forward!”

Los Valdar Cuebiyari. Old Tongue for “The Heart Guard will advance.”

Losaine. An Aiel Wise One with the ability to channel and a strength level of 22(15). She had gray eyes and dark hair with glints of red. She had to link with Daviena to shield Turanna after Verin finished questioning her.

Lost Ones. The Aiel name for the Tuatha’an.

Lost, the. The name given to Tuatha’an who could no longer hold to the Way of the Leaf.

Lothair Mantelar. The author of The Way of the Light. In FY 1021, during the War of the Hundred Years, he founded the Children of the Light to proselytize against an increase in Darkfriends.

Lounalt, Jaq. See Jaq Lounalt

Lounault. See Amathera Aelfdene Casmir Lounault

Loune, Gamel. See Gamel Loune

loveapple. A plant with plump fruit; Aviendha compared Elayne’s lips to loveapples when talking to Rand.

loversknot. 1) A vine having strong crimson flowers. It was embroidered on Nasin Caeren’s lapels. 2) Capitalized, the stout brown mare that Nynaeve rode from Ebou Dar to the Kin’s farm and on toward Caemlyn; she also rode her when she took Lan to World’s End.

Low Chasaline. A day of fasting that fell on the eighteenth day of Maigdhal.

Loya. A maid at the Tarasin Palace in Ebou Dar. She was slender with bee-stung lips; she gave the towel she had just put on Olver’s washstand a pat, and then flung herself onto the bed to tickle his ribs till he fell over laughing helplessly.

Luagde. A bridge town outside Tar Valon on the bank of the Osendrelle Erinin, on the road to Chachin and Shol Arbela.

Luaine. A young Aiel woman of Far Dareis Mai. Yellow-haired, she was one of the Aiel who helped Aviendha and Rhuarc rescue Nynaeve, Elayne and Egwene from brigands and Myrddraal. After discovering that Rand had been kidnapped, Sulin sent Luaine to fetch Nandera and Rhuarc.

Luan Norwelyn. An Andoran nobleman who was High Seat of House Norwelyn. His sigil was a leaping silver salmon on a field of vertical blue and green stripes. Luan supported Morgase in her drive for the throne. Graying and hard-faced, he met with Rand in Caemlyn, when Rand told him and other nobles (Dyelin, Ellorien and Pendar) that he wanted Elayne on the Andoran throne. He said that Rand’s wine was excellent, but the “my Lord Dragon” sounded as if it had been pulled out of Luan with a rope. When Rand indicated that the wine was cooled with the One Power, he deliberately drained his cup and held it out for more. He acted with Dyelin and Pelivar against initial claimants to the throne; they hanged two nobles for declaring for Dyelin for the throne, had twenty others flogged, and imprisoned Lady Naean Arawn and Lady Elenia Sarand, who had declared for themselves. After Elayne took Caemlyn, he stood for Trakand.

Luan, River. A river with headwaters in the Black Hills flowing southeast to the River Erinin below Tar Valon.

Luc. A lord of the fictitious Murandian House Chiendelna; it was the name Slayer used in the Two Rivers. See Slayer

Luc Mantear. An Andoran nobleman born in 954 NE; his sign was a golden acorn. The son of Mordrellen, and Tigraine’s brother, he disappeared in the Blight in 971 NE after Gitara Moroso had a Foretelling that the outcome of the Last Battle depended on his going to the Blight. In the Blight, the Dark One made him into a sort of hybrid with Isam Mandragoran; the resulting being was known as Slayer.

Slayer could change from Luc to Isam in the waking world and in Tel’aran’rhiod. As Luc he was a tall broad-shouldered man in his middle years with a hard angular face, blue eyes and dark reddish hair with white wings at the temples. After the death of Shaiel, Rand’s mother, his father Janduin went into the Blight; there he came across a man who looked like Shaiel, and would not raise a weapon against him. That man, Luc, killed him.

Calling himself Luc Chiendelna of Murandy, he went to the Two Rivers at the same time as the Whitecloaks; he claimed to be a Hunter of the Horn and hinted at having a claim to a Borderland throne. He made a great show of getting the people there organized against the Trollocs, but many of the farms that were burned were farms that he had recently visited. He also tried to get the Two Rivers people to confront the Whitecloaks, and finally led a group to tell the Whitecloaks that the Two Rivers was closed to them.

In the wolf dream, Perrin put an arrow in Slayer’s chest; shortly after in the waking world, Luc rode away, hunched over and clutching his chest; after that, Luc really hated Perrin. Luc spied on Nynaeve, Elayne and Egwene in Tel’aran’rhiod; they thought he looked like Rand’s uncle, which of course he was. Taim ordered Slayer to kill Rand and Min in Far Madding; Luc went to the room in the inn where Rand and Min had been staying; since they had left, the man and a woman he killed were strangers. See also Slayer

Luca. A young Jenn Aiel male from the time after the Breaking. His shoulders were half again as wide as anyone else’s and he liked to play tricks. He went with Charlin and Lewin to save their sisters from bandits; they used weapons and killed some bandits, and although they saved their sisters were cast out by their families.

Luca, Valan. See Valan Luca

Lucain. A brown-haired novice in the White Tower who assisted Egwene during the Seanchan attack; Egwene sent her with a message to others helping her.

Lucanvalle, Catala. See Catala Lucanvalle

Lucellin. A Child of the Light. With Dain Bornhald in the Two Rivers, he made sure that no one sneaked off from Taren Ferry while Bornhald was moving his troops into the area.

Luci. The assistant in Ronde Macura’s dress shop in Mardecin, Amadicia. Dark-haired, young and thin, she constantly tried to wipe her nose surreptitiously with the back of her hand. Luci’s long curls reached her shoulders. At Ronde’s behest, she dosed Nynaeve and Elayne with forkroot tea. She was terrified and shrill and quickly caved when Thom and Juilin arrived.

Lucilde. A lanky Andoran novice brought to Salidar from the White Tower; she had a potential strength level of 29(17). Born in 978 NE, she went to the White Tower in 993 NE. Lucilde escorted Halima to Delana. If Lucilde had remained in the Tower, she would have been raised Accepted.

Ludice Daneen. A Taraboner Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah. She was bony, with a long, grim face framed by brightly beaded Taraboner braids that hung to her waist. She had a reputation for strict adherence to the law. Ludice was one of the sisters called in by Tamra Ospenya to carry out the secret search for the newborn Dragon Reborn. She was murdered by the Black Ajah early in 979 NE.

Ludin. An algai’d’siswai who worked with Birgitte to kill Trollocs in Braem Wood in the Last Battle; she thought that he was very good at moving quickly and silently.

Lugard. The capital of Murandy. Lying on the River Storn where it met the River Reisendrelle, it was ruled by King Roedran, although his authority did not extend far into the country, as local lords held sway. A rough city, decaying through neglect, Lugard was highly commercial, being on major trade routes; people from all different nations could be found in its streets. Lugarders had a reputation for thievery and licentiousness. Large areas of bare earth were set aside within the city to accommodate trade. Tall gray walls that encircled the city were neglected, their fallen stones making them low in places. Busy broad streets were unpaved, and the city was dirty. Gray stone buildings with bright colored tile roofs were dusty, and crumbling stone walls, remnants of past nobles’ territorial claims, crisscrossed the city. Stables, horse lots and inns nearly outnumbered houses and shops. The inns were noted for risqué names and risqué singers. The Shilene Gate stood on the eastern side of the city.

Lugard Road. A thoroughfare connecting Caemlyn and Lugard.

Lugarders. People from Lugard, Murandy.

Lugay, Therin. See Therin Lugay

Luhhan. A Two Rivers family. See Alsbet Luhhan and Haral Luhhan

Luin, Igaine. See Igaine Luin

lumma. A tree native to Maram Kashor that was straight and very tall, with fronds sprouting from the top.

Lunal Galgan. A Seanchan Captain-General who commanded the soldiers of the Return. He was tall with blue eyes and snow-white hair worn in a crest with the tail braided and hanging down his back. His ancestors were among the first to throw their support to Luthair Paendrag. He had a high reputation as a soldier and a general. Galgan went with Tuon to her first meeting with Rand. After the meeting, she ordered him to go ahead with the attack on the White Tower. Galgan met with assassins to find out how much it would cost to have Tuon killed, and then killed those assassins. He later did hire assassins to kill her, but only poor ones that he felt had no chance of success. Tuon planned to raise him to the Imperial family. At first Galgan was skeptical of Mat’s martial abilities, and resented Mat being named Rodholder, but he later came to respect Mat and argued for rejoining him on the battlefield in the Last Battle.

Lurk. A Tairen name for Myrddraal. See Myrddraal

Lurts. A Saldaean soldier who accompanied Nynaeve to Milisair Chadmar’s prison in the Gull’s Feast in Ebou Dar. A massive wall of a man, he wore a cavalryman’s uniform.

Lusara. A Domani woman taken gai’shain by the Shaido. Graceful, buxom, copper-skinned and stunningly beautiful, she was well into her middle years, with a few white hairs among the black falling below her shoulders. A risk-taker, she had gained and lost several fortunes as a merchant. Because of her beauty, Sevanna chose her to be one of her personal servants. She swore fealty to Faile and Faile thought she might be trustworthy, but she treated Faile’s escape plans like a child’s game, with no sense of consequence if they should fail.

Lushenos, Lord Gregorin Panar den. See Gregorin Panar den Lushenos

Lusonia Cole. An Andoran Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah and the loyalist contingent. Part of the expedition to kidnap Rand, she escaped from the debacle at Dumai’s Wells and returned to Tar Valon with Covarla Baldene. The entire party was sent to Dorlan to keep events secret.

Lussin. A Redarm tasked with looking after Olver and Setalle Anan in Caemlyn.

Luthair Paendrag Mondwin. The son of Artur Paendrag Tanreall and Tamika. His banner was a spread-winged hawk clutching lightning bolts. He was born in FY 967, and in FY 992 led a large force of ships of all sizes carrying over 300,000 soldiers and settlers across the Aryth Ocean from the western ports to Seanchan. He found a shifting quilt of nations of various sizes; most of them were ruled by Aes Sedai. No nation trusted the other, and intrigue and scheming abounded; because there was no constancy, Luthair and his descendants were able to conquer the natives of Seanchan. Luthair, whom the Seanchan called the Hammer, was also helped by Deain’s invention of the a’dam, which allowed Aes Sedai to be collared and controlled.

Lydel Elonid. A woman in Ebou Dar who purchased The Wandering Woman from Setalle Anan. Many Seanchan officers stayed there, but the standards went down after she took over the inn.

Lyncon. A Cairhienin master carpenter taken gai’shain by the Shaido. After he was freed, he still looked as though the will had been beaten out of him. Perrin didn’t trust him to do a proper inspection of wagon wheels, but thought that he would fix a problem when it was pointed out to him.

Lyndel, Larissa. See Larissa Lyndel

Lyndelle. The ninth queen of Andor. The daughter of Morrigan, she ascended the throne in approximately FY 1114 and reigned for fifty-one years. She was credited as one of the Queens that held the nation together during the War of the Hundred Years. The generally accepted date for the end of the war was FY 1117, though it could have been as early as FY 1115 or as late as FY 1119 (records vary), so the major portion of Lyndelle’s reign occurred after the end of the war.

Lyonford. A former king of Saldaea who could not keep his temper. Faile used him as an example to Perrin when she was arguing that no leader was perfect.

Lyrelle Arienwin. A Cairhienin Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 24(12). Born in 833 NE, she went to the White Tower in 849 NE. After spending six years as a novice and four years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 859 NE and raised a Sitter for the Blue Ajah in 995. About 5'4 " tall, she had a pale complexion and large dark eyes, and somehow seemed beautiful without being at all pretty. Elegant and graceful, her movements were flowing, and it was rumored she had been a dancer before going to the White Tower. She fled the Tower with the rebels and was raised a Sitter in Salidar as well. She led a group of rebel Aes Sedai to the Black Tower to bond Asha’man Warders in keeping with Rand’s offer to let them bond forty-seven. Lyrelle was part of the group that pressured Cadsuane to become Amyrlin after the Last Battle.