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M’Hael. Taim’s self-imposed title and later his name as a Forsaken. Old Tongue for “leader,” according to Dashiva, its true meaning was something grander. See also Mazrim Taim

M’jinn. A great city of the Age of Legends. It was known for its changeable weather, as used in a remark by Graendal.

Ma’combe. A so’jhin with strong arms. He told Tuon after she had returned to the Tarasin Palace in Ebou Dar that Tylee Khirgan was seeking an audience.

Ma’vron. Old Tongue for “watchers.”

Mabriam en Shereed. An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah, with a strength level of 9(+4). Mabriam was Queen of Aramaelle and considered mainly responsible for forming the Compact of the Ten Nations, which was signed in 209 AB. Stories said that she was ta’veren. Merana, impressed by her memory, thought that when Kiruna and Bera first saw Cadsuane, it must have struck them the same way seeing Mabriam would be for her. Her name was sometimes rendered as “en Shareed.”

Mabriam’s Day. A feast celebrated on the eighteenth day of Tammaz. All labor was avoided on this day; the food was cooked the day before. Young women played tricks on young men they were interested in, but doing so in such a way that it was not obvious which young woman was responsible for the trick. If a man determined who was responsible, he earned a forfeit of a kiss, or even kisses from an entire group.

Macer, Renald. See Renald Macer

Machan. A Warder in Salidar who saw twenty-odd men approaching Salidar and reported it to other Warders. The men in question were Bryne and his men.

Macharan, Lord. An Andoran noble of a lesser House who was a bear of a man. He accompanied Lady Arathelle, Lord Pelivar and Lady Aemlyn with her husband Culhan to confront the rebel Aes Sedai in Murandy. One of those who had opposed Gaebril, Macharan returned to Caemlyn after Rand took it but did not pay his respects at the palace. Present at the meeting with the rebel Aes Sedai and Murandians, he was reluctant to speak to Egwene and tripped over his own boots avoiding having to talk with her.

Machera, Elyas. See Elyas Machera

Machin Shin. A cold wind howling with voices of death and decay that blew through the Ways where no wind should stir. Called Machin Shin, the Black Wind, by the Ogier, it haunted the Ways and fed upon unwary travelers, stealing minds and souls and leaving survivors empty husks. Possibly, since the Ways were born of tainted saidin, the Black Wind was also. Some said that it might have begun as a natural parasite that was corrupted. Others believed it was a remnant of the War of the Shadow that hid in the Ways and could not find a way out.

Machir. A powerful Domani nobleman who was supposed to be following Ituralde. Because Alsalam’s orders sometimes went straight to the men under Ituralde instead of to him, four pitched battles occurred between different groups of Ituralde’s men, Machir among them.

Macoll. A soldier in the Band of the Red Hand. In Mat’s battle against the Seanchan who were after Tuon, Macoll unfurled and carried the banner of the Band.

Maconar, Caraighan. See Caraighan Maconar

Macu. A morat’raken who died when her raken was shot down by Aes Sedai at the Kin’s farm.

Maculhene, Sawyn. See Sawyn Maculhene

Macura, Ronde. See Ronde Macura

Mada. A serving woman at The Woman of Tanchico in Tar Valon. She was pretty with brown eyes. She and Saal—who Mat thought was Mada’s younger sister—took care of Thom when he stayed there, and tried to keep him from drinking too much; they did not like it when Mat bought Thom wine, but after Mat convinced Thom to go with him to Caemlyn, they were happy because it was the most alive that they had seen Thom in a long time.

Madan, Stedding. A stedding located in the Mountains of Mist.

Maddin Todande. The nobleman who founded Altara. He claimed to be a descendant of the last Queen of Shiota, and may actually have been so. He was a strong respected ruler.

Maddin’s Day. A festival celebrated in Ebou Dar. Named after the founder of Altara, it was celebrated two days after the Feast of Embers.

Maddow, Slone. A wide-eared Redarm with the Band of the Red Hand. After the gholam attacked Mat’s tent and killed Lopin, Maddow told Mat that he thought Olver was with Noal.

Madel. One of the kings in the gleeman tale “Mara and the Three Foolish Kings.” He wound up with a fish entangled in his long beard.

Maderin. A prosperous town in Altara approximately eight days northeast of Jurador and somewhat larger. Its lord was Nathin Sarmain Vendare. Farms and olive groves reached right to the stone walls of Maderin. Tile-roofed buildings three and four stories tall, most of brick, lined the wide, stone-paved main street; shops and inns with signs that swung in the stiff breeze crowded in beside stables and rich people’s homes with large lamps above the arched doorways and humbler structures that housed poorer folk. A rougher part of town contained a maze of twisting streets, paved with rough stone blocks the size of a man’s two fists. Many of those ways were too narrow for horse carts. Luca’s show made a short stop there, right after the incident where a Shiotan village and its ghosts mysteriously disappeared. Tuon wanted to visit a “hell” there, and Mat took her to The White Ring. They were attacked on the way out of the inn, and Mat decided that they would all leave the show.

Madic. A servant in the Tarasin Palace, one step below Laren and the final link before Laren in the chain that led Mat from entering the palace to Queen Tylin’s presence. He was a balding Darkfriend who reported to Moridin just after Elayne and the others fled the palace. Moridin, in a rage, crushed Madic with the True Power without even realizing it. After Moridin left, the gholam came and fed on Madic’s still-warm blood. The circumstances of Madic’s death were such that an Aes Sedai was sure to be blamed.

Madmen, Land of the. See Land of the Madmen

Madness, Time of. See Time of Madness

Madoc Comadrin. A general from around six hundred years before Hawkwing. He was a genius of military strategy and wrote Fog and Steel, a book about soldiering from which Mat liked to quote. In one of his memories, Mat recalled meeting him after losing to him in battle.

Madome, Juilaine. See Juilaine Madome

Madresin Mandevwin. A captain with the Band of the Red Hand. Mandevwin was a stocky one-eyed man who had been with the Band since the first days in Cairhien. He earned the gray streaks in his hair in past battles against Andor and Tear. Mandevwin was to go to Trustair to find out who was distributing pictures with Mat’s likeness; he did not like it that in the story Mat made up, Mandevwin abandoned his sick aunt. In Ebou Dar, Mat used his name as a nom de guerre. Mandevwin was with Faile’s group that went to fetch the Horn of Valere from the White Tower in the Last Battle, and, as a gateway opened to return them to the Field of Merrilor, they were sent instead to the Blight. After Vanin and Harnan fled after being caught with the Horn of Valere, Mandevwin insisted that they were not Darkfriends. He was caught in flows of Air when Aravine betrayed them, and released when Olver stabbed the channeler holding him.

Madwen. See Barin and Maglin Madwen

Madwin. A member of the Band of the Red Hand. He and Dongal led men on the south slope of a hill near the Malvide Narrows, in an ambush against the Seanchan.

Maecine. A king of Eharon, one of the Ten Nations to rise after the Breaking. In one of his earliest memories, Mat remembered fighting alongside him against the Aelgari some three to four hundred years before the Trolloc Wars.

Maedin Bashere. The son of Deira and Davram Bashere. He was two years younger than his sister Faile. When Davram took Maedin to the Blightborder, Faile ran away to join the Great Hunt of the Horn.

Maeldan, Yarin. See Yarin Maeldan

Maenadrin. A Saldaean Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah whom Egwene saw in the hallways of the White Tower. Maenadrin and a section of the Brown Ajah quarters had been relocated to a different part of the Tower, caused by Pattern slippage, a result of the Dark One’s growing influence.

Maeric. Chief of the Moshaine sept of the Shaido Aiel. He was also the leader of Seia Doon. He had a wife, Dyrele; a daughter, Suraile of Far Dareis Mai; and a son, Darin, of Shae’en M’taal. He hoped to be sent to Rhuidean to become the next clan chief of the Shaido. At Dumai’s Wells he wanted to maintain screens of scouts and a reserve. Maeric died or was taken prisoner and made gai’shain on the Plains of Maredo after being tricked by Sammael into going through a gateway.

Maerin. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who fought in Kandor in the Last Battle. She did not travel light; Egwene slept in her large tent at one point to keep her location secret.

Maerin, Kenly. See Kenly Maerin

Maerion. A name Birgitte was known by in a past life; she used that name while traveling with and performing in Luca’s circus.

Maerone. A village in Cairhien across the River Erinin from Aringill, Andor. Small, dusty and unwalled, it was full of refugees and soldiers. Most of its brick and stone buildings were single-storied, with a variety of roofs; the streets were dirt and refugee camps ringed the town. Mat’s Band of the Red Hand stayed there for a time, and Mat saved Olver from a beating. Daved Hanlon impregnated an ironmonger’s daughter from Maerone, and killed her before she could tell anyone.

Mafal Dadaranell. The Ogier-built capital city of Aramaelle, one of the Ten Nations after the Breaking. It had grand towers, graceful arching buildings and intricate palaces joined by wide avenues. During the Trolloc Wars, it was destroyed; survivors rebuilt it, but since Ogier stonemasons were not available, they built it solid and simple; that later city was known as Fal Dara.

Magami. A term meaning “little uncle”; it was what Lady Amalisa called King Easar in private.

Magde Aybara. A Two Rivers woman who was married to Eward Aybara and was Perrin’s aunt. She was stout and looked like her husband. She, along with the rest of the family, was murdered by Padan Fain, although it was believed that Trollocs killed them.

Mageen. Old Tongue for “Daisy,” and the name of the dun mare ridden by Aviendha in Caemlyn.

Magla Daronos. An Illianer Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 29(8). Born in 839 NE, she went to the White Tower in 854 NE. After spending seven years as a novice and seven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 869 NE. Her Warder was Rorik. Magla had broad shoulders and was well muscled, as if she could have worked at a blacksmith’s forge, but she was not fat or unshapely. Her personality went with her body type: direct and forceful, sometimes overpowering. She was raised a Sitter for the Yellow in 985; in 999 NE Suana Dragand ordered her to join the rebellion to control and defuse events. Magla had a difficult time going against Romanda in any way, but since following Romanda helped to counter Lelaine and usually resulted in stalemate, she did not try very hard. Magla believed the stories concerning Logain and the Red Ajah. She was against any alliance with the Black Tower and worked to delay an embassy to it; she also opposed bonding Asha’man. She was part of the group, with Faiselle, Saroiya, Takima and Varilin, who negotiated with the White Tower to try to end the split.

Maglin Madwen. The innkeeper at The Nine Rings in Tremonsien. She was a lean woman with a long nose, graying hair and a ready smile. She was a Lugarder; her husband was Barin. They were married for twenty-three years, and when they weren’t fighting they were kissing. Ready to go back to Lugard when her husband died, she had to stay in Tremonsien, because he left her the inn and his brother the money instead. She was tight with silver. After Selene asked for a room to herself, Maglin tried to get Rand to knock on Selene’s door and say whatever had angered Selene was his fault, even if it wasn’t.

Magonine, Jalid. A craftsman in Ancarid, Seanchan, who owned Karede as a boy.

Mah’alleinir. Perrin’s hammer, forged in combination with the One Power. Its name was Old Tongue for “he who soars.” It had a thick, powerful head, like a maul or sledge, but the back was formed cross-face and flattened like a blacksmith’s tool. It was four feet from bottom to top, and the haft was all of steel. There was a crosshatch pattern with the leaping wolf that looked like Hopper stamped on one side. Perrin only felt a comfortable warmth when he touched the hammer head, but it burned Shadowspawn when he hit them with it.

Mahdi. Old Tongue for “Seeker.” The term was used for the leader of a Tuatha’an caravan.

Mahiro Shukosa. Rafela Cindal’s Kandori Warder. He had graying temples, a noble nose, dark eyes and long fingers. A lord in his native land, he had visited the court of almost every land, traveled with a small library, and could recite poetry, play the harp and dance like a dream. Mahiro could also solve iron tavern puzzles quickly and usually wore two swords on his back. He accompanied Rafela and the rebel embassy to Rand in Caemlyn; he looked on Min as a younger sister.

Maia, the Feast of. A feast celebrated on the sixth day of Amadaine in Andor, Ghealdan, Altara, Murandy and Illian.

maiden’s hope. A white wildflower found in the Mountains of Mist.

Maiden’s Kiss. A game in which a group of Maidens held spears to a man’s throat; he had to kiss each one. If the Maiden thought it was a good kiss, they eased up on the spears. If the Maiden did not like the kiss, they pressed a little harder for encouragement. When Mat played, he did not make it back to his own bed until daybreak.

maiden’s ruin. A dice game that Mat played in Tar Valon.

Maiden’s Spear. A rock formation near Cold Rocks Hold.

Maidens of the Spear. Far Dareis Mai, the female warrior society of the Aiel. A great majority of Maidens of all clans rallied to Rand, acting in some ways as if he had come from their society. Some Shaido Maidens followed Couladin and Sevanna, but others joined the Maidens around Rand, and no Maidens from other clans went to join the Shaido. Relatively few Maidens fell into the Bleakness, compared to the Aiel general population. Nearly one thousand Maidens went to Dumai’s Wells after Rand had been kidnapped; 151 died. The Maidens fighting to free Rand at Dumai’s Wells wore a strip of red cloth tied around their upper arms so that their wetlander allies could distinguish them from Shaido Maidens, but they were not happy about it.

Each society had its secret hand signals, in addition to those known to all algai’d’siswai, but only the Maidens had developed their signs deeply enough to be able to carry on normal, everyday conversations in it. In Maiden handtalk, a hooked little finger made a term mocking or sarcastic. For example, it was used in “spearsister” when applied to a woman who had given up the spear and then tried to behave as if she had not.

Maigan. An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 15(3). She was beautiful with large eyes and full lips, but she seemed elongated somehow. Maigan accompanied Siuan to Fal Dara and was appointed a member of Egwene’s advisory council after the death of Anaiya, the only one not oathsworn to Egwene. Maigan had been a strong ally of Siuan when Siuan was Amyrlin, but after the Tower split she was one of many who blamed Siuan for the loss and breaking of the Tower. Siuan had to beg to be accepted back into the Blue Ajah, and rumor had it that Maigan had been the most insistent on the begging. Maigan was part of Lelaine’s faction in Salidar. In view of the Asha’man situation, she once proposed altering the Warder bond so that the man had to obey; at Lelaine’s behest, she also proposed that the bond be modified to eliminate the sharing and thus protect sisters from bonding a man fated to go mad.

Maigan Nem. Admer’s wife in Kore Springs, Andor. Their barn burned when Logain, Siuan, Leane and Min were discovered there; Logain fought with Admer, knocking the lantern into the hay. The three women were caught and Nem prosecuted them; Logain escaped. Maigan asked Bryne to whip the women and run them to Jornhill on a rail.

Maigdhal. The ninth month of the year.

Maighande, Battle of. See Battle of Maighande

Maighdin Dorlain. Morgase’s alias while on the lam.

Maighdin Trakand. The mother of Morgase.

Maigran. A young Jenn Aiel woman from the time soon after the Breaking. Adan was her greatfather, Saralin her mother and Lewin her brother. When she was five, her father and greatmother were killed by bandits. Some years later she and Colline were kidnapped and abused by bandits. Lewin, Colline’s brother Charlin and some of their friends set out to rescue the women; in the process of doing so, they killed the bandits, and Charlin died in the fighting. When they went back to the wagons, Maigran told the Jenn that the young men had killed, causing them to be disowned.

Mailaine Harvole. An Aes Sedai who lived at the time of the formation of the White Tower.

Mailinde Paendrag Lyndhal. The Queen of Shandalle and mother of Artur Hawkwing. She died during the Black Plague epidemic in FY 939.

Mainde Cut. A hold in the Aiel Waste.

Mainelle. An Ogier-built city in Aelgar, one of the Ten Nations after the Breaking. The city of Tanchico later grew on the same site.

Mair. An Arafellin Accepted in the White Tower. Plump and blue-eyed, she was a novice when Egwene left the Tower. She was jealous of Egwene’s fast rise and tried to boss her around when Egwene first returned to the Tower after her capture by Elaida.

Maira. An Aiel woman of the Serai sept of the Tomanelle Aiel and Far Dareis Mai. She had red hair and a thigh-slapping laugh. She was at least ten years older than Rand. Maira was guarding Rand’s tent near Taien when Trollocs attacked; she ran off to join the fighting, leaving Rand vulnerable to a Draghkar. She carried a doll for some time after that to remind herself that she was not a child. She also accompanied Rand to the farm outside Caemlyn, and did not understand Rand’s rooster joke.

Maire. A woman who served as an attendant to Colavaere. Colavaere told Maire some of her plans for the future of Cairhien and that Rand would never dare oppose her. Maire told Faile what Colavaere said, and soon after vanished. Faile believed that Colavaere had her killed.

Mairin Gome. 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.

Maisia. The name Sammael called Graendal when she and Sammael met with Sevanna. Graendal threatened to kill Sammael if he ever called her that again; in the Age of Legends, it was the sort of name one might give a pet.

majhere. A term referring to the female head of servants at the Stone of Tear.

Makin, Croi. See Croi Makin

Makzim. A Warder leading the training of students to be Warders, after the Tower was reunited under Egwene; he was stern and thick-armed. Gawyn said that he would speak to Makzim and Chubain on behalf of the Younglings who wanted to be soldiers instead of Warders.

Mala, Mistress. A woman running an orphanage in Nynaeve’s test for the shawl.

Malahavana. A sul’dam who participated in the White Tower raid. She was paired with Tuon’s damane Dali.

Malai. A damane who could tell the fortunes of the weather. She said that there was no rain near when Tuon first met with Rand.

Malain. A Saldaean soldier with Bashere in Maradon. Just before Rand arrived in Maradon, Ituralde, about to be overrun by the Shadowspawn, ordered Malain to gather the cavalry and organize them for a retreat.

Malalin, Lord. One of the men Beslan plotted with in the basement of The Three Stars to overthrow the Seanchan.

Malan. An Ogier who was the son of Senar and the father of Aran, the last being an author who wrote about Ishamael after the sealing of Shayol Ghul.

Malari, Jarna. See Jarna Malari

Malden. A city in northern Altara where Faile was held in a Shaido camp. Malden’s largest wall was less than four hundred paces long, and shorter on the other sides, but the northern stone wall stood thirty feet high with towers and a fortress. Scattered farmhouses dotted the landscape, and rail fences marked out fields. There was a road leading roughly south through the farms and another leading roughly north. A stone aqueduct ran west into the city on high stone arches from a lake, over ridges topped with windmills.

Maldine lace. A lace characterized by a distinct golden pattern.

Malena Aylar. A Watch Hill woman who appeared in Nynaeve’s Accepted test. In that scenario, she had become the Wisdom of Emond’s Field. A bully, she beat Alsbet Luhhan, had Cenn elected Mayor and poisoned Bran al’Vere and Haral Luhhan.

Malenarin Rai. The commander of Heeth Tower on the Kandori Blightborder. His sign was the oak set aflame. As well as spending ten years commanding Heeth Tower, he was a master merchant. Heeth Tower received a flash from Rena Tower, indication that there might be a problem; Rai sent three messengers south. His son Keemlin, a few days shy of his fourteenth nameday, was supposed to be one of the messengers, but he let Tian, who was lighter and was the only son left of his family, go in his place. As Trollocs approached, Rai performed the ceremony that named his son a man. Father and son fought and died together.

Malenry, Aledrin. See Aledrin Malenry

Malevin, Arel. See Arel Malevin

Malhavish. The author of The Prophecies of the Dragon, Essanik Cycle, Malhavish’s Official Translation, Imperial Record House of Seandar, Fourth Circle of Elevation.

Malian. A young sul’dam, slender and dark-haired, who accompanied Anath/Semirhage when she attempted to capture Rand. After Semirhage was captured, Malian put compresses on Surya and Tabi’s head wounds.

Maliandred, Bassane. See Bassane Maliandred

Malidra. A young woman who was a descendant of the Aiel in the distant future as seen in Aviendha’s visions in Rhuidean. At age eighteen, Malidra was a scavenger, following Lightmakers and sometimes killing people in order to survive. She was caught while going through Flern’s trash heap and killed.

Malien. An Altaran noblewoman who was at the Kin’s farm outside Ebou Dar. She became part of Elayne’s entourage with the Kin into Andor. She brought all of her dresses, a bundle nearly as big as herself. The bundle nearly bent her double since there was no horse for her; later she discarded most of it. Slim with a thin scar on one cheek and a stern face, she complained loudly about being forced to carry her bundle on the trek and other indignities; Alise made her wash dishes for being one of the last ten ready to leave. Malien tried to stir up the other non-Kin in the group, but Reanne and Alise kiboshed that. She was still not a happy camper when last seen, but was kept in line by Reanne and Alise.

Malin din Toral Breaking Wave. An Atha’an Miere woman who was Wavemistress of Clan Somarin and Sailmistress of Windrunner. Gray streaked her hair heavily, and she had a grave face. Five small fat golden rings decorated each of her ears, and a fine chain with tiny medallions connected one to a similar ring in her nose. She was one of the First Twelve of the Atha’an Miere, the twelve senior-most Wavemistresses of all the clans. Her Windfinder was Dorile din Eiran Long Feather. Malin was present when Nynaeve, Aviendha and Elayne went to ask for help in using the Bowl of the Winds. She escaped from Ebou Dar when the Seanchan attacked.

Malind Nachenin. A Kandori Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 25(13). Born in 941 NE, she went to the White Tower in 957 NE. After spending twelve years as a novice and eleven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 980 NE. She had two Warders. Slightly plump with round face, full lips that looked ready to smile and dark eyes that could be fierce, she was raised Sitter for the Green in Salidar; she had been Aes Sedai for the least time of any of the new Sitters. Malind stood with the first nine when Egwene was chosen as the rebel Amyrlin, and was one of those who stood for war with Elaida. She was also in favor of a group going to the Black Tower to bond forty-seven Asha’man.

Malindare. An Aiel woman of Far Dareis Mai. She was rounder than most Maidens, and had the darkest hair Rand had seen on any Aiel. Malindare helped bathe Rand before he met with the Sea Folk in Cairhien. She thought Rand was very modest.

Malindhe. An Aiel Wise One who did not like having the Shaido among the other Aiel near Cairhien. She was with Amys and Cosain when Sevanna visited.

Malkier. A nation in the north that was overrun by Shadowspawn in 953 NE and absorbed by the Blight completely by 957 NE. It was Lan’s homeland. The sign of Malkier was a golden crane in flight. The oath of Malkieri kings was “To stand against the Shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides. To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains. To avenge what cannot be defended.”

Saldaea, Kandor, Arafel, Shienar and Malkier were all provinces of Hawkwing’s empire, with the borders between them very much as they stood at the time of the Last Battle, though not stretching so far south in most cases. With the Blight to contend with, the governors of those provinces—Lord Rylen t’Boriden Rashad for Saldaea, Lord Jarel Soukovni for Kandor, Lady Mahira Svetanya for Arafel, Lady Merean Tihomar for Shienar and Lord Shevar Jamelle for Malkier—met soon after Hawkwing’s death in FY 994 to reaffirm measures for cooperation against the Blight and to make agreements for mutual defense against attack from the south. Before the end of FY 995, when it became clear that the rest of the empire was splintering, each of the governors took the title of King or Queen of his or her former province, now a nation. None of these nations would take part in any of the wider fighting of the War of the Hundred Years, as nations, except for defending themselves against attacks and punishing same, though individuals and groups did sometimes become involved, sometimes for political reasons or family connections or friendships.

The last king of Malkier was al’Akir Mandragoran. On a dare, his brother Lain led his army through the Blight to the Blasted Lands, perhaps to Shayol Ghul itself. Lain’s wife, Breyan, made the dare because she was envious that al’Akir was raised to the throne instead of her husband. Lain was acclaimed for his deeds, but he could not outshine al’Akir. Lain died in the Blasted Lands with most of those who followed him, and Breyan blamed the King, saying that Shayol Ghul itself would have fallen if al’Akir had led the rest of the Malkieri north with her husband. She plotted with Cowin Gemallan, called Cowin Fairheart, to seize the throne for her son, Isam. Cowin and Breyan moved soldiers back from the Blight to seize the Seven Towers, leaving the Borderforts stripped to bare garrisons. But Fairheart was a Darkfriend, and with the Borderforts weakened, Trollocs poured into Malkier. Overwhelming numbers pushed the Malkieri back into the heartland. Breyan fled with her infant son Isam, and was run down by Trollocs as she rode south with him. When Cowin Fairheart’s treachery was revealed and he was taken by young Jain Charin and brought to the Seven Towers, the Great Lords called for his execution. Because he had been loved by the people, the King faced him in single combat and killed him.

There was no time to summon aid from Shienar or Arafel, and no hope that Malkier could stand alone. Al’Akir and his queen, el’Leanna, had their infant son Lan brought to them in his cradle and placed the sword of Malkieri kings in his hands, anointed his head with oil and consecrated him as the next King of the Malkieri. He was given into the care of twenty of the best soldiers from the King’s Bodyguard, and they took him to Fal Moran. The King and Queen led the Malkieri out to fight the Shadow one last time; they died at Herot’s Crossing, and Malkier died with them.

In many ways, the Malkieri could be considered the ur-Borderlanders. Many of the customs found in other Borderlands were also found among the Malkieri, but frequently interpreted more strictly. Respect for women was highly regarded. A Malkieri considered it impolite to stare at a woman; a polite man did not look directly at a woman, or meet her eyes, unless she opened the exchange with him, and even then, at the highest level of politeness, he avoided looking directly at her, lowering his eyes instead. To a Malkieri, forcing his company on a woman was exceedingly rude, very crude behavior. Malkieri found the way men of other countries initiated conversations with women strange. While there were exceptions, of course, normally a Malkieri man would not initiate a conversation with a woman unless she gave indication that she wished to speak to him.

The Malkieri were not dour people, taking great delight in parties and dances and festivals. The ability to play a musical instrument and/or sing was highly prized, and if one could not compose poetry, one was expected at least to be able to recite it, love poems included. By strong custom, such poems never named their object, but were oblique.

The Malkieri were, however, very much a warrior people by necessity, for their land was surrounded on three sides by the Blight, instead of merely having a border with it. While law in the Borderlands prohibited hiding one’s face inside any city, town or village, among Malkieri it was considered rude not to show one’s face when meeting strangers, no matter the circumstances or location.

While adulthood was marked by the ki’sain for women and the hadori for men, both men and women needed the permission of their mother to marry at whatever age, and if she no longer lived, of an adult female relative decided by blood relationship and age. One’s mother’s sisters came first, then one’s father’s sisters. If none of them survived, one’s own sisters came into play, followed then by the adult daughters of one’s mother’s sisters, then adult sisters of one’s father’s sister. In the unlikely event that none of these survived, the net spread wider. Arranged marriages were common among nobles, though not commoners, and sometimes neither bride nor groom were aware that any arrangements had been made until all was signed and sealed. The Malkieri wedding ring, a plain gold band, was worn on the forefinger of the left hand.

The age at which the ki’sain and the hadori were granted was not fixed. They could be given as young as fifteen, and usually were granted by seventeen or eighteen, but could be withheld longer, though this rarely meant more than another year or two. The decision to grant for boys was made by the boy’s father, his uncles and usually a circle of their friends. Being included in this deciding group was an honor and a sign of trust, respect and friendship. Their decision was not entirely final, however, as the boy’s mother had to approve the decision, if she was alive. If she vetoed it, custom demanded waiting a year. By custom she was allowed to veto the decision three times, but doing so even once was considered shaming to the boy, and very few women ever did it more than once. Relatively few did it even once. The decision to grant the right for a girl to put the ki’sain on her forehead was traditionally made by her mother, her aunts and a circle of their friends. As with men, inclusion in this group was a sign of friendship, respect and trust. There was no provision in custom for the girl’s father to veto.

It was generally expected that young men and women would take a lover (called a carneira) before settling down to court and wed. Customarily this lover was someone older and more experienced. In this, women were the aggressors, so to speak, no matter their age. Young women chose out the man they wanted for this first lover, while young men were pursued by older women. By custom, there was no way out once one was chosen except in the case of a married man. A young woman who attempted to choose a married man as her lover would face considerable disapproval, and could expect a very strong talking to by other women at the very least. While these relationships might seem casual, they were not. One had one carneira and only one, and the sexual part of the relationship was expected to be of limited duration, a year, or two at most. By custom, certain lifelong rights, responsibilities and obligations were assumed by both on entering into it. While the nature of these differed depending on whether the relationship was between an older man and a younger woman or an older woman and a younger man, in keeping with the sometimes almost matriarchal relations between the sexes in Malkier, the rights, responsibilities and obligations favored the woman. Thereafter the man had a number of obligations and duties toward her and she had the right to require certain things of him, but he had no right to make any demands of her at all.

Malkieri girls wore their hair cut at the shoulder until they put on the ki’sain, after which they grew it to the waist or often longer. A woman who wished to retire from the world would cut her hair short. This retirement did not mean rustication or any equivalent of entering a nunnery, but merely that she was simplifying her life and giving over involvement in most affairs of the world. She certainly would not be expected to engage in politics, for example, with her hair short.

A Malkieri boy’s hair was allowed to grow to the waist, but it was not cut at the shoulder when he was given the right to tie it back with the hadori. The older woman who took him as a lover, his first lover, would cut it at his shoulders, whether she took him before or after he attained the hadori. Afterward he would weave the hair into a cord called a daori which he presented to her as a token of his obligations and ties to her. Thereafter, no Malkieri man would cut his hair shorter than his shoulders, or let it grow much longer.

Malkieri. From or of Malkier.

Mallard’s Hill. A geographical feature near Renald Fanwar’s home in the Borderlands.

Mallard’s Road. A road crossing Mallard’s Hill.

Mallen, Mavra. See Mavra Mallen

Mallia, Huan. See Huan Mallia

Mallone. A member of the Children of the Light. During the Last Battle, when Galad was ordered to take a dozen of his best men to Hawal Ford, Golever suggested Mallone, among others, to go with him.

Malvide Narrows. A pass in the Damora Mountains, northeast of Maderin in Altara, that led into Murandy. The road from Ebou Dar to Lugard went through it.

Malvin. A man serving under Steler in the Tower Guard right after the Battle of the Shining Walls. He accompanied Moiraine and Siuan to the Murandian camp to collect the names of babies. When they returned to the stable, Steler told his men that he wanted the horses rubbed down and the tack oiled before anyone thought of supper, and added that Malvin knew why Steler was looking at him.

Mameris. Mameris was a city that was the center of a pacifistic movement, unfortunately coupled with a belief in bluntly saying what one thought. Birgitte knew of it; when commenting that she thought Mat more dangerous than Nalesean, she added “A N’Shar in Mameris.” A N’Shar was someone from the land on the Shadow Coast who had taken a blood oath of revenge; he or she was a walking time bomb, ready to kill in a twitch, ready to die, until the oath was fulfilled.

Managan. A plump Malkieri merchant who refused the hadori and went to Saldaea. Shortly before Nynaeve arrived at The Queen’s Lance, having dropped off Lan at World’s End, he was in a shouting match with a Tairen woman; after Nynaeve spoke to Aldragoran, Managan leaped up so fast that he overturned his chair. He joined Lan in eastern Kandor and fought with him in the Last Battle.

Manal. A boatman in the city of Cairhien. Stout and gray-haired, he had a graying noblewoman on his lap and was celebrating the Feast of Lights, but when offered five gold crowns, he dropped the woman and got ready to ferry Perrin, Loial and Gaul across the River Alguenya. They were on the way to rescue Rand from Aes Sedai who had kidnapped him.

Manala. A considerable village in Kandor between Canluum and Chachin. It was a sprawling collection of stone houses roofed in red or green tiles and more than twenty streets crisscrossing a pair of low hills. Three inns fronted a large green in the hollow between the hills, alongside the road. Moiraine, Lan, Bukama and Ryne had breakfast at The Plowman’s Inn there, and Moiraine inquired after Avene Sahera.

Mancuri den Rhomin, Eliris. An Illianer nobleman who was a member of the Council of Nine.

Manda Wan. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah. Just before Egwene appeared to fight Taim in the Last Battle, Manda was trying to persuade Leane and Raechin to fall back and regroup.

Mandair family. See Bili and Willa Mandair

Mandarb. Old Tongue for “Blade,” it was the name of Lan’s horse, a tall black fierce-eyed stallion. Zarine Bashere considered calling herself Mandarb; after Perrin laughed at her and pointed out the horse, she decided to go with “Faile.”

Mandein. An Aiel sept chief when Rhuidean was built. At forty, he was young for a sept chief; his wife Sealdre was a dreamwalker. He and the other sept chiefs were summoned to meet with the Jenn in Rhuidean. Dermon, Mordaine and Narisse spoke for the Jenn and told the chiefs that any who wanted to lead must come to Rhuidean and learn what they did not know; otherwise they and their septs would die. Mandein was the first to agree to do so.

Mandelain. A man of the Broken Cliff sept of the Daryne Aiel who was clan chief of the Daryne. His hold was Jahad Hold, and his Wise One was Merale. He was married to roofmistress Jair and her sister-wife Corehuin. Mandelain was 6'5" tall and weighed 235 pounds. He had one blue eye, blue as a polished gemstone, and over his right eye socket he wore a gray-green patch. A scar ran from under the patch up onto his nearly bald head fringed in red hair streaked with white. He was with Rand in Cairhien. Before Rand’s kidnapping, he and Rhuarc were the two that the Wise Ones trusted not to go after the Tower embassy with spears; they also thought that the two could be trusted with information that the Tower embassy might be a threat to Rand, or at least that they must be watched for that reason. Rand sent Mandelain to help deal with the Shaido, and later sent him and others to Arad Doman to bring order.

Mandenhar. His last stand inspired a song.

Manderic. Man with the Shaido, a Mera’din (i.e., Brotherless).

Mandevwin, Madresin. See Madresin Mandevwin

Mandhuin. A man of the Goshien Aiel. Gray-haired and heavyset, he wore a smaller belt knife than warriors. He was a trader at the fair outside Alcair Dal.

Mandragoran royal family. See al’Akir, Breyan, Leanna, Isam, Lain and Lan Mandragoran

Maneches, The Essays of Willim of. An ancient book known by many in the world; the author influenced the Saldaean philosopher Shivena Kayenzi.

Manel Rochaid. An Asha’man from Murandy. Born circa 981 NE, he was about 6'2" to 6'3" tall and smiled a lot, as if he knew something others didn’t. He went to Dumai’s Wells. Taim named him “Baijan’m’hael,” Old Tongue for “Attack Leader.” He was Gedwyn’s second, a crony of Taim and a Darkfriend. After the attack on Rand in Cairhien failed, he was placed on the deserters list at the Black Tower. Rand killed him with his bare hands in Far Madding.

Manetheren. One of the Ten Nations that made the Second Covenant, and also the capital city of that nation. Both city and nation were utterly destroyed in the Trolloc Wars. The sign of Manetheren was a Red Eagle in flight on a field of blue. Other cities included Corartheren, Jara’copan and Shanaine (later Jehannah); Queen Sorelle ay Marena ruled at the signing of the Compact. The Two Rivers grew on the site of Manetheren.

Manetherendrelle, River. Old Tongue for “Waters of the Mountain Home,” it was the name of the river that was formed by the White River (lower river of Two Rivers) and the Taren River (upper river of Two Rivers), all of which flowed from the Mountains of Mist southeast through the Two Rivers region in Andor and on to Illian and the Sea of Storms.

Manfor, Karldin. See Karldin Manfor

Mangin. A man of the Jindo sept of the Taardad Aiel and the Shae’en M’taal society. Tall with gray eyes, he was part of the force that took the Stone of Tear. Rand thought that he could be friends with Mangin. Mangin killed a Cairhienin for having a dragon tattooed on his arm; Rand ordered Mangin hanged. Mangin put the rope around his own neck, and made a joke before he died.

Mangore Kiramin. A figure from history, the Sword-bard of Aramaelle and Warder to Caraighan Maconar, and a translator of The Prophecies of the Dragon.

Mantear. A noble House of Andor. See Dolera, Luc, Mordrellen, Perival, Tigraine and Willin Mantear

Mantelar, Lothair. See Lothair Mantelar

Mantual. The servant of Banner-General Gamel Loune. He was stocky, with a narrow beard dangling from the point of his chin; his hands had a knifeman’s calluses. Gamel said that Mantual came from Pujili in Seanchan and had attached himself to Gamel and wormed his way into becoming his manservant.

Manyard, Jeorad. The governor of the province of Andor for the High King, Artur Paendrag Tanreall. He translated the Prophecies of the Dragon.

Mar. A scout in the Band of the Red Hand. He was tall, lanky and rough-faced. When Mat and his men approached Salidar, Mar was taken by Warders; he was very embarrassed about it. When Trollocs attacked Caemlyn in the Last Battle, Mar fought to rescue the dragons.

Mar Haddon. A nation that arose from the War of the Hundred Years.

Mar Ruois. A great city in the Age of Legends.

Mara. From a gleeman story that Thom recited, “Mara and the Three Foolish Kings.”

Mara Tomanes. Siuan’s childhood friend. Siuan mentioned her twice; she told Gawyn that Egwene and Elayne were studying with an Aes Sedai in Illian named Mara Tomanes, and later used the name as an alias while on the way to Salidar.

Marac Pandelaros den Norvin. An Illianer nobleman who replaced Lord Brend on the Council of Nine. A wide man with a stolid manner, he often seemed more craftsman than lord despite his rich silks, falls of lace and lavish armor. Marac went to the gathering of forces in Illian before Rand attacked the Seanchan.

Maraconn. A High Lord of Tear. He had rare blue eyes for a Tairen, and thin lips. Maraconn was one of the most active plotters against Rand in the Stone. He was sent to Cairhien under Meilan to restore order and feed the hungry, and he worried because of his previous association to Hearne and Simaan. In a viewing, Min saw him dying violently in battle. He was in Illian with Rand, and in the final battle there he followed Semaradrid. He died fighting in the Last Battle.

Maracru. A town or village in Tarabon. After rumors started flying that Maracru had declared for the Dragon Reborn, or, alternatively, that it had been taken over by Dragonsworn or rebels, Tanchico erupted in riots.

Maradon. The capital of Saldaea. Maradon lay within sight of the Blight, which could be seen clearly from the highest elevations, though many claimed to be able to see it from the city walls themselves. The River Arinelle flowed south along the western walls of Maradon, and was used to fill a moat that had been dug to surround the city. Access to the city and Queen Tenobia’s residence, Coramora Palace, was granted through only two gates, placed in the northern and southern walls. Maradon was situated just below a pass through mountains at the Blightborder. As a defense, the Saldaeans had built up and fortified a hill formation south of a ford on the Arinelle (which ran west at that point), directly opposite the mouth of the pass; to reach Maradon, invaders from the Blight would have to breach the fortifications. Tenobia and much of her army had left Saldaea on a mission with the other Borderlanders, leaving the country vulnerable to attack. Aware of a gathering of Trollocs in the Blight, Ituralde and his forces went to Maradon to defend the city and Saldaea against a Trolloc invasion through the pass. His army was pushed back and nearly destroyed, along with much of Maradon, until Rand arrived with reinforcements and routed the Shadowspawn.

Maragaine. A queen of Andor during the War of the Hundred Years. She reigned from FY 1054 to FY 1073.

Marah. A Murandian novice in the White Tower. No more than fifteen or sixteen, she was stocky with mischievous blue eyes. She talked with Nicola about Egwene.

Marah Anan. A daughter of Setalle Anan. Marah was a little taller than her mother and had hazel eyes that were even larger than her mother’s. She was pleasingly plump, and did not like Mat. She resented the fact that her younger sister Frielle married before her. She was about nineteen years old when Mat stayed at her mother’s inn.

Maralenda. An Andoran Aes Sedai of the rebel contingent who was a distant cousin of the Trakand line. Siuan told Lelaine that she had seen Romanda talking to Maralenda in an effort to manipulate Lelaine.

Maram Kashor. A dry island on the southeast tip of Seanchan; Tylee Khirgan was born there.

Maran, Jailin. A minor Andoran nobleman. His sign was the crosshatched Red Wall. Jailin supported Elenia for the Lion Throne before she was taken by Arymilla.

Marande Algoran. The sister of the High Seat of House Algoran in Amadicia. Pretty with a heart-shaped face, she was powerful in her own right, but not enough to resist the Whitecloaks; Niall had her serve Morgase, which irked her. She taunted Morgase about the situation in Andor and how Rand had taken over. Morgase asked her if she spent all her time listening at doors. She was probably captured by the Seanchan and made da’covale when they invaded.

Marasale Jureen. An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah who served as Amyrlin from 705 to 732 NE. Marasale was in large part a puppet of the Hall; they had gotten used to running things with Cemaille, an Amyrlin who had lost her authority, and chose someone they knew they could control and kept her on a very short leash.

Maraside Mountains. A range located along the southern border of Cairhien. These mountains were the site of a famous battle between Artur Hawkwing and Guaire Amalasan.

Marath. A battlefield from the Aiel War where things did not go well for the wetlanders. Tam rambled on about this battle while feverish after the Trolloc attack at his farm.

marath’damane. Old Tongue for “Those Who Must Be Leashed”; the Seanchan used the term for channelers not constrained by an a’dam, including Aes Sedai.

Maravaile family. See Ishara and Souran Maravaile

Maravin, Semaradrid. See Semaradrid Maravin

Marcasiev. A Kandori noble House. Its High Seat was Lord Varan; its sign the Red Stag. See also Varan Marcasiev

Marce Eldin. A Two Rivers girl with the ability to channel who became a novice with the rebel Aes Sedai, having been recruited by Verin and Alanna. She was about fifteen years old and stocky. Rand remembered little of her on meeting her in Caemlyn, except that she always had her nose in a book, even walking in the streets of Emond’s Field.

March of Death, The. The final movement of The Grand Passions Cycle, played on the harp by Asmodean.

Marcolin, Demetre. See Demetre Marcolin

Mardecin. A village in Amadicia, the first village over the border from Tarabon. It was large, a mile across, straddling a small bridged stream between two hills. Mardecin’s streets were of granite, its buildings of brick or stone, with slate or thatched roofs. It had fallen on hard times, with Taraboner trade being cut off. Ronde Macura, an agent for the Yellow Ajah, had a dress shop in Mardecin, and there was a Whitecloak garrison nearby. Nynaeve and Elayne met with Ronde, who passed on the message that all sisters were welcome to return to the White Tower, and who also gave them drugged tea. They were rescued by Thom and Juilin, and Ronde told them that she was instructed to look out for Elayne. They dyed Elayne’s hair black and left town in a different cart.

Mardina lace. A high-quality lace with an intricate weave.

Mardoon, Stedding. A stedding located along the Shadow Coast.

mardroot. An herb used to make a liniment to treat bruises; it stung on application.

Mardry. A bluff-faced man of Hinderstap with short dark hair. When Mat offered to gamble for supplies, Mardry offered his wagon and team as part of the pot.

Maredo Causeway. A wide, dirt-packed road leading two miles north out of Illian through the marshes that surrounded the city and continuing in an easterly direction toward Tear.

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

Maredo, Plains of. Flatlands unclaimed by any country, located between Andor, Illian and Tear, below the Hills of Kintara. Far Madding was the only city in this territory.

Mareed, Azil. The Domani High Captain of the Tower Guard and advisor to Marya Sedai on the decision-making council of the Grand Alliance during the Battle of the Shining Walls.

Mareesh. A city which fell to the Tourag in another Age. Birgitte said that she had not seen anyone trussed as Nynaeve was by Moghedien since the Tourag took Mareesh.

Mareil. A Sea Folk Wavemistress, one of the First Twelve of the Atha’an Miere. Tall and slender, with as much white as black in her shoulder-length hair; she had a melodious voice. Mareil and Harine were friends from the time they began as deckhands together; the two were the least senior among the First Twelve, with Harine only a bit higher. Tebreille din Gelyn South Wind was her Windfinder. Held by the Seanchan in Ebou Dar, Mareil escaped unharmed. She was at the meeting of the First Twelve in Illian with Logain and there learned of the mass suicide of the Amayar.

Marek Cormer. A Two Rivers man with Perrin in Ghealdan. Faile noted that he no longer seemed to believe the rumors about Perrin and Berelain.

Marel. The twin sister of Charel, a good-looking young groom in the White Tower stables. Sheriam used her in 981 NE to help break Theodrin’s block which prevented her from channeling unless there was a man for whom she had strong feelings present. Charel had a gorgeous smile and made eyes at Theodrin; he was allowed to sit in on her lessons so that she could channel, but after a few times Marel was substituted and thus broke Theodrin’s block.

Marella Inn. An inn in Altara that Egwene saw as she was traveling through Tel’aran’rhiod in the flesh on her way to Salidar.

Marella. A village in Altara; Egwene passed through it as she was traveling through Tel’aran’rhiod in the flesh on her way to Salidar.

Marendalar. An island that rebelled against the Seanchan, and was defeated. Bakuun spent two years fighting on Marendalar; thirty thousand were killed, and fifty times that were shipped back to the mainland as property.

Marendevin, Corgaide. See Corgaide Marendevin

Marenellin, Bukama. See Bukama Marenellin

Maresis, Therva. See Therva Maresis

Marewin. A noblewoman in King Ailron’s Amadician court who attended Morgase. Slight and little more than a girl, she almost fainted when Marande mentioned Rand giving positions to men who could channel in Andor.

Mari. A maid at The Stag and Lion, in Baerlon, Andor. She helped serve dinner to Moiraine, Lan, Thom and the Emond’s Fielders, then was shooed out by Master Fitch.

Mari, Mistress. A nom de route used by Moiraine in Illian; it was the name that Nieda knew her by.

Maric. 1) An Aiel man who guarded Rand’s rooms in the palace in Cairhien when Egwene visited him. In his middle years, he was very tall with a bull-like chest and shoulders and cold gray eyes. When he chuckled at something Somara said, it softened neither his face nor eyes. 2) Nynaeve’s notional son seen during her Accepted test.

Marigan. A woman Elayne and Nynaeve met on the Riverserpent on the way to Salidar. She appeared to be a few years older than Nynaeve; she had once been plump, for her frayed brown dress hung on her loosely, and her blunt face looked beyond weary. She had two sons, Jaril and Seve, ages six and seven, who stared silently at the world and seemed frightened of everything and everyone, even their own mother. Elayne and Nynaeve later learned that she was Moghedien in disguise after Nynaeve captured her in Tel’aran’rhiod and held her with an a’dam; she was not tested for the ability to channel in Salidar because she appeared past the cutoff age as established there. While held by the a’dam, she was forced to work as a servant and also to teach Elayne and Nynaeve and later Egwene. Halima freed her. See also Moghedien

Marille. A damane from Seanchan who was captured in the campaign against the Seanchan and sent to Caemlyn by Rand from Altara. She stuck to the party line: it was imperative that women who could channel be collared, for their safety and everyone else’s as well. Her mistress’s brother had been a Bloodknife; she recognized the knife that Gawyn had and told him what she knew of it, although she knew little.

Marillin Gemalphin. An Andoran Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah in public but of the Black Ajah in truth. She had a strength level of 15(3). Born in 848 NE, she went to the White Tower in 863 NE. After spending six years as a novice and five years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 974 NE. Skinny with light brown hair, she had blue eyes, a narrow face, thin lips and a wide nose. She was one of the original thirteen known members of the Black Ajah who fled the White Tower in late 998 NE. It was generally known in the Tower that she vanished on the night that murder was done in the Tower and ter’angreal stolen, but few believed that she was a Darkfriend. Marillin liked cats and went out of her way to help injured or stray animals. In many ways, she treated animals better than she did people; in Tanchico, she fed her cats royally, but had a maid severely punished for snitching something meant for the cats.

Marillin was coopted by Moghedien and sent to Caemlyn, where she was assigned to work for Lady Shiaine. At first she attempted to put herself in control of the situation, or at least to resist taking orders. She came to realize, partly because of how Falion was being punished, that it was in her own interest to swallow her pride and take orders from Shiaine. She was with Lady Shiaine at the house on Full Moon Street when Elayne arrived to take the Black Ajah prisoner. When the tables were turned, she was part of the group that took Elayne prisoner. She was captured when Birgitte’s forces rescued Elayne and freed by Jaq Lounalt when Elayne was trying to get information from the captives.

Marin al’Vere. An Emond’s Field woman who was the wife of Bran al’Vere and with him ran The Winespring Inn. About 5'4" tall, she had a graying braid, a motherly smile and kind eyes. Born in 940 NE, she married Bran al’Vere in 964 NE. Marin and Bran had five daughters: Berowyn, Alene, Elisa, Loise and Egwene. They lived in rooms at the back of the whitewashed second floor of The Winespring Inn. She also might have been able to learn to channel.

Marind. A Da’shain Aiel man from after the Breaking. His parents were Adan and Siedre, and his siblings Elwin, Jaren, Rhea and Sorelle. Marind married Sarilin, and they had two children, Lewin and Maigran. He and his mother were killed in a raid by bandits; his sister Rhea was kidnapped.

Maringil. A Cairhienin nobleman from a major House. Tall for a Cairhienin, he was whip-slender with white hair to his shoulders and dark predatory eyes. He believed in the Prophecies but hated Rand deeply for many reasons: because he ruled and was not Cairhienin; because he saved Cairhien from the Shaido when the Cairhienin could not; because he brought Aiel to Cairhien; and because he intended to give the Sun Throne to Elayne. Maringil wanted the throne, and maneuvered as much as possible for personal advantage. He was poisoned at Colavaere’s order just after Rand was taken out of Cairhien by the Tower Aes Sedai.

Marinna. One of Rand and Aviendha’s quadruplets, seen in Aviendha’s viewings of the future in Rhuidean; she was small with a round face.

Marinye, Beonin. See Beonin Marinye

Marisa Ahan. A Two Rivers girl with channeling ability who set off with Verin and Alanna for the White Tower, and saw and was terrified by Rand at Culain’s Hound in Caemlyn. She became a novice in the rebel camp. About sixteen, she was pretty. She always clapped her hands to her face when surprised.

Marisa Ayellin. A Two Rivers girl (originally Neysa; changed in later editions).

Marishna, Mistress. A young Kandori woman in Manala. Moiraine, seeking the infant Dragon Reborn, spoke to her when she was looking for Avene Sahera; she told Moiraine that she knew Saheras in Manala and South Hill, but none named Avene.

marisin. An herb used to make a tea that helped one sleep without grogginess.

Marisin Valley. A site in Coremanda where a battle was fought; Mat had memories of leading a cavalry charge in the valley.

Marith Jaen. An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah. Born in 700 NE, she went to the White Tower in 717 NE. She retired to the country in 973 NE to write her memoirs. There were rumors that her decision was influenced by personality clashes with Tamra Ospenya and disappointment that Tamra was raised Amyrlin rather than she. Marith had a reputation as a stainless-steel bitch long before she was called back from retirement to take the Amyrlin Seat in 984 NE after the death of Sierin Vayu. The Hall felt that they had little choice, however; the previous two Amyrlins had died suddenly, and a large number of senior sisters had died in the prior few years. There were rumors in the outside world of Aes Sedai involvement in the deaths of men and even boys, and while most people didn’t believe them, the Hall had indications that they might be true. Her methods of putting paid to the male channeler pogrom while keeping the whole affair secret cemented her reputation as someone to make the Dark One himself walk on tiptoes. During her short reign, the Hall was in her grasp like a collection of dolls. Her death in 988 NE was entirely natural, though at a younger age than might have been expected. The Tower’s influence increased under her.

Marith Riven. A Murandian Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a potential strength level of 18(6). Born in 968 NE near the Andoran border, she went to the White Tower in 984 NE. After spending eight years as a novice and seven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 999 NE, shortly after the Tower split. She had a habit of making observations about people and events that might have been better kept to herself. Marith was 5'6" tall. When she went to the Tower, Marith Jaen was Amyrlin, or became Amyrlin soon after; it was decidedly uncomfortable being a novice and having the same first name as an Amyrlin like that. When she was Accepted, Elayne threw a cup at her; Elayne was switched. Since she had not attained the ageless look, Marith was one of the three new sisters sent to help take Rand. Captured at Dumai’s Wells and treated as da’tsang by the Aiel, under Verin’s Compulsion, she found reason to swear oath to Rand and had done so before Cadsuane departed Cairhien for Far Madding. She had no Warder.

Marithelle Camaelaine. A leader who tried to seize Hawkwing’s empire after his death. Within days of Hawkwing’s demise, Jalwin Moerad, Hawkwing’s advisor, was advising Marithelle Camaelaine. She was assassinated, but was still counted as one of the three who came closest to seizing all of Hawkwing’s empire.

Market Sheran. A small village in Andor, west of Caemlyn and between Four Kings and Carysford. A small village, its only inn was a sprawling building, all on one floor, with the look of having had rooms added in bunches over the years without any particular plan. When Mat and Rand were working their way to Caemlyn they stayed at the inn there, though it was very expensive. The next morning at breakfast they were confronted by a young Darkfriend, Paitr, who Rand punched in the nose when he persisted in bothering them.

Paitr later offered to help Morgase and her group escape from the Whitecloaks detaining them in Amador; Paitr and his uncle were found chanting a catechism to the Shadow and hanged by the Whitecloaks.

Marks. A hound who ran away when Mandevwin was just seven, in Mat’s elaborate fiction concocted to enable him and his men to sneak into Trustair.

Marks and Remarks. A history book that Min read.

Marle, Beryl. See Beryl Marle

Marlesh. Vasha’s Warder. They had a casual relationship, much like that of a brother and sister. He was a short, narrow man and good with his sword. Marlesh fought at Dumai’s Wells and escaped with the Aes Sedai who returned to the Tower and were sent to Dorlan. He and Sleete teamed up to spar against Gawyn, and were defeated three times.

Marli Noichin. A captured sul’dam, held by Elayne’s group in Caemlyn. Plump with dark eyes, she wore plain brown wool. She was defiant, though she wept when forced to look at weaves too long, because she could see them. Still, like the other sul’dam, Marli denied that she was tainted in any way and claimed that the a’dam didn’t really work on her, saying that her captors were using the Power to make her think so. Elayne witnessed an attempt to make her admit she could see the weaves.

Marline. A Wise One of the Taardad Aiel with the ability to channel and a strength level of 28(16). Marline was 5'8½" tall, and looked to be about the same age as Rand, Mat and Perrin, but she was more than twenty years older. She had dark brown hair of which she was inordinately proud as it was rare among the Aiel. Her eyes were a very deep, dark blue, like the purple of twilight. Marline was one of the Wise Ones sent with Perrin to Ghealdan to keep an eye on Seonid and Masuri. She went to battle against the Shaido at Malden. Marline assisted in the forging of Mah’alleinir, and accompanied Perrin’s forces into the Last Battle.

Marne, Arymilla. See Arymilla Marne

Marne, House. A noble House in Andor. Its High Seat was Lady Arymilla until she was removed by Elayne; its sign the Four Moons.

Marodred, Cerilla. See Cerilla Marodred

Marriage Knife, The. An inn in Altara that Mat, Elayne, Nynaeve and their party stayed at on the way to Ebou Dar from Salidar.

Marris Thornhill. An Andoran Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah publicly and of the Black Ajah in truth. She was of the loyalist contingent and had a strength level of 44(32). Plump-chinned, she usually seemed mild and absorbed in study. She had no Warder. Marris was named as Black Ajah by Atuan Larisett, who was a member of her heart along with Karale Sanghir. She was captured and broken by the Black Ajah hunters in the Tower, and gave the oath of obedience to Yukiri.

Marshal-General: A temporary rank sometimes given to a Seanchan Captain-General put in charge of a war.

marshwhite. An herb whose leaves made a bitter tea to calm a queasy stomach.

Marsial. A novice in the White Tower who Egwene sent to fetch forkroot that could be administered to Egwene herself, so that Barasine and another Red sister could tend to Red Ajah business.

Marsim of Manetheren. An ancient scholar who compiled the Annals of the Final Nights about the War of Power. She was considered reliable.

Martan, House. An Andoran noble House. See Brannin and Elvaine Martan

Martan. A handsome young clerk in the White Tower. He and Mistress Wellin were sent to copy names of mothers and babies off the lists Accepted had made; he smiled at the young Siuan and Moiraine until Mistress Wellin called him down for it.

Marthea. A Shaido Maiden of the Spear who was Arrela’s protector and lover while she was gai’shain. Though she did not like what the Shaido were doing, she stayed with them out of loyalty to her clan. Marthea was killed in the battle at Malden.

Marthera. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who Adelorna saw captured by the Seanchan during the attack on the White Tower.

Martine Janata. A Borderlander Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah with a strength level of 14(2). Born in 902 NE, she went to the White Tower in 917 NE. After spending five years as a novice and four years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 926 NE. Although she was Brown Ajah, her friends joked that she should have chosen Green. Martine was happiest in her researches and studies, but she truly did display many characteristics of Green sisters, including a liking for travel and adventures and a real interest in men. She herself often said at least half seriously that she would like to have three or four Warders, and not just for extra hands to carry books and research materials.

She was the last sister who made a regular business of studying ter’angreal no one knew the use of. In 973 NE, she was discovered unconscious on the floor of the sitting room in her apartments, burned out. Martine was unconscious for three days. There were a number of ter’angreal in her apartments that she had been studying, but she could not remember which she had been working on when the accident occurred. In fact, she had no memory of the entire week preceding the accident. Her Warder was killed by the shock when she was burned out. In all the years afterward, no one was willing to have anything at all to do with any of the ter’angreal that were in her rooms. As soon as Martine recovered enough to slip out of the White Tower, she vanished from Tar Valon completely. She made a new life as Setalle Anan. See also Setalle Anan

Martna Baily. A fictional pie maker in Hinderstap.

Martyn Tallanvor. A Guardsman-Lieutenant in Morgase’s Queen’s Guards in Andor. About six feet tall, he had dark eyes and broad shoulders. There was often roughness in his voice and heat in his eyes when he looked at Morgase. He was born in 971 NE and in 988 NE joined the Queen’s Guards. From 988 to 993 NE he was involved in on-and-off border skirmishes between Andor and various Murandian lords, which were more frequent than usual at that time. Tallanvor served with distinction, was commissioned in 991 NE, and assigned to the Royal Palace in Caemlyn in 993 NE. At his first sight of Morgase he fell in love immediately, though he did not recognize it at first. From 995 to 997 NE Tallanvor served on the borders of Altara before returning to the palace. He thought that Elayne used her position to get her own way many times when for perfectly good reasons she should not have had it, and that she used her position to make Guardsmen disobey or bend orders and/or rules. He was not averse to seeing her snubbed up short now and again.

When Morgase resisted Compulsion from Gaebril and fled Caemlyn, Tallanvor accompanied her. While she was Queen, he had looked on her from afar and thought there could be no more. After some time on the run together, with her disguises and very much not acting the Queen, his personal feelings came more into the open, his love only partly mitigated by anger over her mistakes, especially one he didn’t admit to himself, that she had taken Gaebril as a lover. He began more and more to challenge her openly when he thought she was wrong, and to hide his feelings less. When Morgase, using the alias of Maighdin, and her party were taken into service by Faile, he became an armsman. After Morgase was taken gai’shain by the Shaido, he tried to find her, and instead found the Seanchan. Tallanvor arranged for Perrin to meet Tylee Khirgan and obtain Seanchan assistance in freeing the captives. He and Morgase were married by Perrin before the Last Battle.

Marushta, Rabayn. See Rabayn Marushta

Marwin clan. A family in the Two Rivers. See Elise, Hu and Teven Marwin

Marya Somares. A Tairen Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah. Tall and slender with dark deep-set eyes, Marya was chosen to represent the White Tower on the Council of the Grand Coalition during the Aiel War. She supposedly died in her bed but was actually killed by the Black Ajah in their purge of anyone who might have knowledge of what they had dragged out of Tamra Ospenya regarding the birth of the Dragon Reborn.

Maryim, Mistress. A nom de route used by Nynaeve when traveling from Tar Valon to Tear, and in Tear.

Maryl Harke. A member of the Academy of Cairhien. A lanky young woman, she was tongue-tied when she tried to explain her project to Rand. Maryl had made a study of birds’ wings in flight, and she displayed a shell of paper secured by strings and held aloft by heat rising from a brazier fire. She made huge kites she called gliders and, attached to them, threw herself off hills. She broke her arm when one folded up on her.

Marza, Therille. See Therille Marza

Masadim, Noane. See Noane Masadim

Masalin. A gray-haired Shaido Wise One who could not channel. Faile saw her giving advice to a man about his horse’s ailment. All of the Wise Ones who could channel were gaping at the display created by the cleansing of the taint; since Masalin couldn’t channel, she didn’t notice it.

Maseen. A site in Arad Doman where Ituralde once triumphed in battle.

Masema Dagar. A common Shienaran soldier who began calling himself the Prophet of the Lord Dragon. Masema had deep-set, almost black eyes that looked like twin caves and seemed to burn with a dark fire. He never made jokes, or laughed at any, even before he renamed himself the Prophet. He was filled with zealotry, and might have been mad. About 5'10" tall, he had a pale triangular scar on one cheek and wore a topknot as a soldier but shaved his head when he became the Prophet. He hated or at least was contemptuous of Rand until he learned that Rand was the Dragon Reborn, at which point he became an increasingly fanatical supporter. After he and the other Shienarans under Uno were sent away by Moiraine, Masema began to preach the coming of the Lord Dragon in Ghealdan, and eventually became known as the Prophet. He in effect abandoned his Shienaran compatriots while making this change, for they were insufficiently ardent in following the Lord Dragon. Possibly only the fact that they were his former companions kept him from making examples of them. He became so rabid that people were flogged for using the wrong tone of voice in referring to Rand, or indeed for referring to Rand al’Thor instead of the Lord Dragon. He became so powerful through his mobs of followers that he had nobles flogged with impunity and even coerced the Queen into handing over her jewelry. Masema had no wish for self-aggrandizement; he ate and dressed simply, and if he sometimes stayed in the finest house available, it was largely because it was offered to him and he could use the space as a headquarters. The large gifts he was given—and those he in effect extorted—he used to feed the hordes that followed him. He was solicitous of the welfare of women, by and large, especially widows of his supporters, and of children, but he could be harsh even with the women if they showed signs of lacking the proper ardor. Children alone seemed immune; though it made him angry, he said that children were too young to know so could not be held accountable.

Masema amassed a ragged army of upward of ten to twelve thousand men, the Dragonsworn, and they established themselves in Ghealdan. He had what might be called both a tight and a loose control of Ghealdan. That is, neither he nor his mobs of people were in constant control of Ghealdan, so a good deal went on that he might not have approved of. On the other hand, when he wasn’t there, there were a great many people who truly believed his message, and a great many afraid to let anyone know that they didn’t; a number of his senior followers could whip up a mob in short order. This happened upon occasion, sometimes for fairly base motives on the part of the one whipping up the mob. As a result, despite the Prophet’s absence, nobody did anything too far from what they thought he would approve, at least not out where it could be seen. This included commoners, nobles and Queen Alliandre herself. Masema sometimes slept in leaky farmhouses and drank only water; he always hired a poor widow and ate what she cooked, fair or foul, without complaint. Masema knew about Perrin riding behind Manetheren’s banner and assumed Perrin was out for personal glory, for which he excoriated him. It was dangerous to use Masema’s name instead of saying the Prophet, and also of calling Rand anything but the Lord Dragon, possibly with added honorifics.

Masema distrusted everyone. He despised the Aes Sedai, who he believed intended to try to control Rand. Perrin was not respectful enough of Rand, nor were the other Two Rivers folk. Or any of the others, for that matter. The Asha’man were men who could channel, and touching the Power was blasphemy for any mortal. The Wise Ones also could channel, which made them as bad as the Aes Sedai, and besides, they, the Maidens and Gaul were Aiel savages—Masema had served three years at Ankor Dail, and hated Aiel. Masema would not Travel because it was blasphemy for anyone except the Dragon Reborn to touch the One Power, and him only because he was the Light-made-flesh. He changed this position, unexpectedly, when it was necessary to keep up with Perrin.

Masema gained some control over the northern part of eastern Amadicia after an altercation with the Whitecloaks over the seizure of a vessel for Nynaeve’s use that led to rioting in Samara, but in many ways his conquest had not been as quick or as smooth as in Ghealdan. There was strong resistance from Whitecloaks, and to some people’s surprise, from the King’s soldiers too, as well as locally raised militias and levies. Thus that quadrant of Amadicia resembled a quilt, with regions that were firmly in Masema’s control, regions firmly in the control of Whitecloaks or the King’s soldiers, and regions that were no-man’s-lands.

Once Masema and his troops followed Perrin, they lost control of Amadicia to the Seanchan. Aes Sedai who had sworn to Rand were still objects of distrust and dislike for Masema, but in some ways he was easier toward them than toward others, supposedly because Seonid and Masuri could say right out that they had sworn fealty to Rand and meant to keep their oaths.

The Prophet disapproved of money gained through trade as much as he did of carousing or what his fellows called lewd behavior. He disapproved of many things and made his feelings clear with sharp examples. He was assassinated before the Last Battle by Faile and Cha Faile.

Masenashar. A nation that arose after the Trolloc Wars.

Maseta Peninsula. The center peninsula of Tanchico in Tarabon, one of the three peninsulas on Tanchico Bay; the King’s Circle, an assembly arena, lay on it.

Mashadar. The evil residing in Shadar Logoth which came about after everyone in Shadar Logoth had killed one another. Suspicion and hate made something that fed on that which created it, something locked in the bedrock on which the city stood. Appearing as a faintly luminescent silvery-gray mist, Mashadar killed anyone it touched. It came out at sunset and could sense food. Mashadar ensnared Mordeth, who alone survived the destruction of Shadar Logoth, confining him to the ruined city until he could consume the soul of another and escape.

Mashera Donavelle. An Aes Sedai from history who went against her inclinations in obedience to the White Tower and bore seven children for a man she loathed.

mashiara. Old Tongue for “beloved of heart and soul.”

Mashinta, Naorman. A third-generation cobbler in Tar Valon. Egwene met with Siuan in his shop in Tel’aran’rhiod.

Mashong, Stedding. A stedding located in the Spine of the World.

Masic. An Ebou Dari man who was killed in a knife fight with Baris. Asra tried to Heal him, but was not successful.

Mask of Mirrors, the. A weave, also known as Illusion or Mirror of Mists, which allowed one to change one’s appearance.

Maslin, Narvais. See Narvais Maslin

Masond, Jak. See Jak Masond

Masoon, Cormalinde. A famous sculptor from the Age of Legends whose works were found in the Ansaline Gardens resort.

Master of the Blades. A Sea Folk officer, appointed by the Mistress of the Ships, who had authority over all Swordmasters, and was responsible for defense and security of all Sea Folk. Though the Master of the Blades was frequently the husband of the Mistress of the Ships, it was not always so. The Master of the Blades rated a fringed blue parasol of three tiers. Baroc served as Master of the Blades for Nesta din Reas Two Moons; they were executed by the Seanchan for rebellion. When Zaida became Mistress of the Ships, she appointed Amel as her Master of the Blades.

Masuri Sokawa. An Arafellin Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 16(4). Born in 935 NE, she went to the White Tower in 950 NE. After spending five years as a novice and seven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 962 NE. Her Warder was Rovair Kirklin. Masuri was 5'4" tall, and slim, with merry brown eyes. She always spoke quietly, but unlike many Browns, she always spoke straight to the point. She was also an untypical Brown in that she took some interest in clothes and men, and liked to flirt, though she could sometimes ignore the man she was flirting with, because of something interesting, such as a book or just a sudden interesting thought. She was an expert on Darkhounds. Masuri was part of the rebel embassy to Rand in Caemlyn and was one of the first three to approach Rand there. She followed after Rand when he fled Caemlyn and was forced to swear fealty to him after Dumai’s Wells. She was treated as an apprentice by the Aiel Wise Ones.

Masuri and Seonid were sent to Ghealdan with Perrin, under orders to obey him as they would Rand, something that left room for interpretation, as she, Seonid and Perrin were all aware. Masuri, like Seonid, considered the Dragonsworn to be mad dogs, Masema included, but she thought the mad dogs could and should be leashed and bound so that they could be used. This was one of the ways she thought she could meet her obligation to serve the Dragon Reborn. Or, she thought so in the beginning; she changed her mind over time.

Masuri had a certain animosity toward Perrin. Actually, it was toward Rand, for putting her in the position in which she found herself with the Wise Ones—doing chores, and so forth—but Rand was not there while Perrin was, as Rand’s representative. In fact, she would very much have liked to skin Perrin. Masuri believed that Perrin, like Masema, needed to be leashed and bound. Whether she had decided this because she thought it was another way to meet her obligations to the Dragon Reborn, or because of her animus toward Rand and Perrin, was unclear, perhaps even to her. She and Rovair secretly met with Masema, sometimes accompanied by Annoura; Masuri thought that Masema could be used in some way to further the cause of the Light. During the Last Battle Masuri was stationed at Berelain’s palace in Mayene, and Healed Perrin after he sustained an arrow wound from Slayer.

Masuto. A Shienaran soldier with a long nose who went with Rand and Ingtar to reclaim the Horn of Valere. He stirred soup as Min and Perrin talked in the Mountains of Mist.

Mat Cauthon. See Matrim (Mat) Cauthon

Match. See Piri

Materasu. A noble House in Kandor. See Ethenielle Kirukon Materasu

Materese the Healer. Mother of the Wondrous Ind, featured in one of Thom Merrilin’s tales.

Mathena. A woman from history who shied away from men until she was kissed. Birgitte told Nynaeve that she was like Mathena, and to watch out for the first man to kiss her.

Matherin. A Royal House of Andor. See Aedmun and Nelein Matherin

Mathwin, Verin. See Verin Mathwin

Matilde. A serving woman in the Tarasin Palace in Ebou Dar. The fourth of seven servants to guide Mat on his first visit to the palace, she was skinny and wore a marriage knife.

Matoun. A lancer with Bashere’s army. After Rand had his hand blasted off by Semirhage, Bashere and his men arrived through gateways and Bashere ordered Matoun to form the lancers.

Matrim (Mat) Cauthon. A young ta’veren man from Emond’s Field. He was born in 978 NE, the son of Abell and Natti, and had two younger sisters, Bodewhin and Eldrin. Approximately 5'11" tall and weighing 170 pounds, he had brown eyes and brown hair long enough to reach his coat collar. Mat was always mischievous as a child; he and Dav Ayellin seemed rivals to see who could get into the most trouble. Mat never could figure out how his mother always seemed to know what he was doing; it never occurred to him that his sisters were keeping her informed.

In 998 NE, Mat saw a stranger in a black cloak on a black horse; his friends Rand al’Thor and Perrin Aybara did as well. On the next night, Winternight, Trollocs attacked Emond’s Field. Moiraine Sedai and her Warder Lan were visiting, and they helped fight off the attack. Since the attack was focused on the homes of Perrin, Rand and Mat, Moiraine persuaded them that it was necessary for them to leave Emond’s Field. They attempted to leave secretly, but Egwene al’Vere realized that they were up to something and went along, and the gleeman who was in town for Bel Tine joined as well.

The group started for Tar Valon, with Draghkar, Myrddraal and Trollocs chasing them; Perrin, Rand and Mat began being troubled by dreams involving a man with eyes of fire who called himself Ba’alzamon. Moiraine and Lan were able to keep them just a step ahead of the Shadowspawn. Finally they were forced to shelter in Shadar Logoth. Mat persuaded Rand and Perrin to explore the city; they encountered Mordeth, but did not help him escape. Mat stole a dagger with a ruby in its hilt from Mordeth’s cache of riches. Against all expectations Trollocs entered the ruined city, and the group gathered itself to flee. Mashadar, a deadly fog, appeared. Mat, Rand and Thom, separated from the others, found refuge on Bayle Domon’s boat, and fled Trollocs downriver to Whitebridge. Mat and Rand separated from Thom there during an encounter with a Myrddraal. Village by village they made their way to Caemlyn, sometimes performing to earn their keep. They were chased by Darkfriends and Fades, and Mat grew increasingly distrustful and hopeless; in Caemlyn Mat seemed ill. There they were reunited with the rest of their party; Moiraine revealed that the dagger that Mat had stolen was causing his distrust and illness; she Healed him as much as she could. They then traveled via the Ways to Fal Dara, and from there made their way through the Blight to the Green Man and the Eye of the World. Aginor and Balthamel appeared; they had been able to follow the dagger. The Green Man killed Balthamel, and Rand killed Aginor. In the empty Eye, they found the Horn of Valere, a broken seal of the Dark One’s prison and the Dragon banner.

They returned to Fal Dara, but Trollocs and Fades attacked and stole the Horn and the dagger; Mat would die if the dagger was not recovered and his connection to it broken. Perrin, Loial, Rand and Mat joined a group of Shienaran soldiers to pursue those who stole the items; Rand, Loial and Hurin, a sniffer who could smell the trail, vanished, and Perrin used his wolfbrother talents to lead the rest in pursuit. Rand was able to take the Horn back, but it was stolen again by Padan Fain, who took it to Falme. Mat, Rand and the rest followed using a Portal Stone, but something went wrong and they all saw all the lives that they could have lived, and lost four months in the process. They eventually made it to Falme, and took the Horn and dagger again. The Seanchan and the Whitecloaks were battling, and Mat blew the Horn; they all managed to escape, with the exception of Ingtar, a Shienaran solder who was also a Darkfriend.

Mat was then taken to Tar Valon, where he was Healed of his connection to the dagger. He found that some of his memories were sketchy, but that did not stop him from teaching Galad Damodred and Gawyn Trakand that a man with a quarterstaff could be a dangerous foe. Although he was not supposed to leave Tar Valon, Elayne, Nynaeve and Egwene were able to provide him with a letter so that he could leave. Before he left, he went on a gambling spree and discovered that he was incredibly lucky.

Mat convinced Thom to accompany him to Caemlyn to deliver Elayne’s letter to Morgase. They went downriver to Aringill, where Mat saved Aludra, an Illuminator, from thugs. She rewarded him with a gift of fireworks. In Caemlyn, he tried to deliver Elayne’s letter, but was turned away at the gate. Like Rand, he went over the wall and overheard someone ordering the deaths of Elayne, Egwene and Nynaeve in Tear; he managed to meet with Morgase and her lover Gaebril, and realized that Gaebril had issued those orders. He and Thom set out to Tear to save them. He used Aludra’s fireworks to make his way into the Stone of Tear and rescued the three women. He visited the realm of the Aelfinn using the redstone doorway in the Stone; the Aelfinn told him that he must go to Rhuidean or die, that he would marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons, die and live again, and live once more a part of what was, and give up half the light of the world to save the world. Mat went with Rand via Portal Stone to the Waste, and entered Rhuidean because of what he was told by the Aelfinn. In Rhuidean he entered another doorframe ter’angreal; it took him to the realm of the Eelfinn, where he received a foxhead medallion and other men’s memories, then was hung from an ashandarei tangled in Avendesora’s branches. Rand cut him down and resuscitated him.

In the Waste, Mat acquired a black hat from the peddler Hadnan Kadere and took up with Melindhra, a Shaido Maiden. When he arrived back in Cairhien, he intended to leave Rand and go off on his own; instead, he found himself caught up in the battle against the Shaido for Cairhien. He saved Cairhienin and Tairens from an ambush, and killed Couladin. The next day, Nalesean, one of the Tairens, and Talmanes, a Cairhienin, swore fealty to him and said that he was their general; Mat still tried to get away, but the soldiers followed him and became the Band of the Red Hand. After battling Andorans trying to take Cairhien’s Sun Throne for Morgase, Mat and the Band returned to the city of Cairhien with the news that Morgase was dead and Gaebril King. Rand declared that he was going to Caemlyn to kill Rahvin; he also badgered Mat to use his army. Mat let slip to Melindhra that Rand was going to Caemlyn; she tried to kill Mat, and he killed her. Mat went with Rand to Caemlyn; in Rahvin’s first blast, Mat was killed. Rand finally killed Rahvin with balefire, and Mat returned to life.

Mat fell in with Rand’s plans and took his army to Maerone; there he danced a forgotten dance with Betse and rescued Olver from Murandian lords. The Band headed south toward Tear; before they got there, Rand appeared and redirected them toward Salidar to fetch Elayne to Caemlyn. When Mat arrived in Salidar, he was astonished to find that Egwene was the Amyrlin. He, Nalesean and some Redarms of the Band accompanied Elayne, Nynaeve, Aviendha and several Aes Sedai to Ebou Dar. There he was rather forcefully seduced by Queen Tylin, became friends with Tylin’s son Beslan and with Birgitte, located the Bowl of the Winds, fought a gholam, learned that Moghedien (or at least one of the Forsaken) might be taking an interest in him, remained behind to find Olver when the women left with the Bowl, and was trapped under a collapsing brick wall when the Seanchan took the city. Dug out of the ruins, he recuperated in Tylin’s palace and became known to the Seanchan as “Tylin’s Toy,” or simply “Toy.” Tuon offered to buy him. He befriended Noal Charin, and planned to help Teslyn escape from being a damane to repay her attempt to warn him earlier. He also freed a Windfinder damane and two other Aes Sedai. In escaping, he kidnapped Tuon, learned that she was the Daughter of the Nine Moons, and said three times that she was his wife. He fled to Valan Luca’s show, which was camped outside Ebou Dar, and they began to make their way to Lugard.

While they were traveling, Mat attempted to court Tuon. Renna, a sul’dam who had escaped with him, tried to kill Egeanin and then went to the Seanchan; Mat followed her, and Harnan was able to kill her at Mat’s order. Mat and Thom took Tuon to an inn in Maderin; when they left they were attacked, and Mat decided it was time to leave Luca’s show. He was headed for a pass in the Damona Mountains when Talmanes and part of the Band appeared with the news that a landslide had closed it. Mat then worked to draw the Seanchan away from the Molvaine Gap so he and his group could get out of Altara. He won several skirmishes before Banner-General Furyk Karede showed up; when Karede assured Mat that he could safely return Tuon to Ebou Dar, Mat said that he would let her go. Tuon then said that Mat was her husband three times, completing the Seanchan marriage ceremony and making Mat the Prince of the Ravens. Karede started for Ebou Dar with Tuon, and Mat, the Band and a number of Deathwatch Guards fought Seanchan who were trying to kill Tuon and defeated them decisively.

Mat then headed to Andor to rejoin the rest of the Band; on the way, he won a bet in Hinderstap, but almost lost his life. He met up with Verin, who offered to make a gateway to Caemlyn for him, but he had to stay there for thirty days, not opening a letter she gave him. Mat camped outside Caemlyn and wrote Elayne asking for a meeting; while he was waiting for a reply, the gholam showed up in his camp and killed a number of his men. In his meeting with Elayne, he was able to get her support for building dragons; in return, he loaned her his foxhead medallion for three days. She was able to make imperfect copies, and he was able to use those in defeating the gholam by dumping the creature off the side of a Skimming platform. Mat met up with Perrin, and Perrin agreed to have one of his Asha’man make a gateway to the Tower of Ghenjei. Mat, Noal and Thom went to the tower, and succeeded in rescuing Moiraine, although Noal, who was really Jain Farstrider, was killed in the effort.

Mat returned to Ebou Dar to see Tuon; he saved her from a Gray Man and consummated their marriage. Tuon named him the Rodholder of the Seanchan army, third in the line of command after Tuon and Galgan. Mat led the Seanchan army to the Last Battle; when it was discovered that the great captains were all victims of Graendal’s Compulsion, he assumed command of the entire army of the Light. With a lot of help from his friends, he led them to victory over the forces of the Shadow. He then went to Shayol Ghul and killed Padan Fain. Tuon told him that she was with child, and he set off a fireworks display for her.

Mattin Stepaneos den Balgar. The King of Illian, Anointed by the Light, Lion of the Coast, Defender of the Sea of Storms. His sigil was the Three Leopards, silver on black. Mattin, old enough to have fought Pedron Niall in his prime, was still robust but almost bald, with a white beard and a creased face framing a nose that had obviously been broken in the past. He came heavily under the influence of Lord Brend (Sammael), but as Sammael became distracted by worries about Rand in the months immediately preceding the conquest of Illian, Mattin had begun to reassert himself. A few days before the attack on the city of Illian, he vanished. The remaining Council of Nine suspected that Brend had something to do with that, but in truth Elaida had had him kidnapped. He arrived in Tar Valon on one of the last vessels to enter before the harbors were blocked by Egwene’s cuendillar chains. Elaida asserted that she had saved him from Rand, but Egwene told him the truth about Rand’s dealings with rulers. After the White Tower was reunited, Mattin was afraid to return to Illian and did not try to retake the throne.

Matuchin Hall. A place associated with the Heroes of the Horn, mentioned in The Great Hunt of the Horn. Blaes, a Hero of the Horn, was of Matuchin.

Maule, the. The rough port area of Tear. It contained inns, though they were cramped and often dirty, and it also contained shops that catered to the sailors and working folk of the sea.

Mavabwin, Lord. A Cairhienin nobleman of middling power who Elayne thought could be a roadblock to her ascending the Sun Throne. Present when Elayne stripped Arymilla, Naean and Elenia of the properties and offered them to Cairhienin, he was slow to catch on and spoke at the same time as did Lady Osiellin; they had to split an estate.

mavinsleaf. An herb used to make an acrid herbal concoction, administered to those who lied. It was powdered for use in tea with boiled catfern, producing a viscous, sickly green liquid.

Mavra Mallen. The Wisdom of Deven Ride. She temporarily took Nynaeve’s place in Emond’s Field when Nynaeve followed Moiraine to bring back the Emond’s Fielders. At some point she either left or died and was replaced by Ellwin Taron.

Mayam Colona. A Tairen Aes Sedai of the White Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a strength level of 21(9). Born in 960 NE, she went to the White Tower in 977 NE. After spending twelve years as a novice and eight years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 997 NE. Mayam was 5'6" and slim, with dark skin, black eyes and black hair. She could eat as much as she wanted without gaining a pound. Part of the expedition sent to kidnap Rand, she had not acquired the ageless look and helped to carry the chest during the actual kidnapping. Mayam was captured at Dumai’s Wells and treated as da’tsang by the Aiel until, under Verin’s Compulsion, she found reason to swear fealty to Rand, which she had done before Cadsuane departed Cairhien for Far Madding. She had no Warder.

Mayel, Balwen. See Balwen Mayel

Mayene. A city-state located on a peninsula in the Sea of Storms. Its sigil was a golden hawk in flight: the Golden Hawk. Its banner was the Golden Hawk on a field of blue, fringed in gold if flown when the First was present.

Protected by its location, guarded by the sea and by the Drowned Lands, Mayene was able to escape most of the warfare that ravaged the rest of Hawkwing’s empire, although it was sacked twice during that time. Only Tar Valon, Tear and Far Madding, which escaped being sacked altogether, were sacked less often, and most cities were taken and looted many more times. There were suggestions in some records that even Tar Valon may have suffered at least partial looting. Approximately FY 1004 a youth was brought to Mayene, calling himself Tyrn sur Paendrag Mashera and claiming to be Hawkwing’s grandson (or great-grandson; accounts vary). In any event, Mayeners believed the claims, and while he and his followers denied any desire to try to retake Hawkwing’s empire, Mayene welcomed them, perhaps as a sign of stability, and styled him the First Lord of Mayene. Few if any outside of Mayene believed that Tyrn sur Paendrag was any relation to Hawkwing, perhaps because he made no claim for the empire as a whole, and while great efforts had been expended in killing all of Hawkwing’s known surviving descendants, no more than one or two desultory attempts were made against Tyrn sur Paendrag. He lived the remainder of his life in Mayene, dying of a fever in FY 1054, whereupon his eldest daughter, Miselle, was given the title First Lady of Mayene. While Tyrn’s influence in the city had increased during his lifetime until he was the ruler of the city-state in all but name, Miselle was the first to be acknowledged as the ruler. Except for some border skirmishes with Tear which never became full-fledged wars, and several small naval conflicts, Mayene was seldom involved in strife. The only time that Mayeners ever fought the Aiel was during the Aiel War, when most nations were involved in the fighting.

The ruler of Mayene was the First of Mayene, which was once “the First Lord or Lady,” a form used sometimes much later. The title normally was hereditary, with the eldest child of either gender following. This was not always the case—there were usurpations or coups, as in most lands—but no one was ever given the title without the proper qualifications. Qualification required descent from a certain family, which according to Mayener belief at least, meant descent from Artur Hawkwing.

In the beginning there was only one Second, or “Second Lord” or “Lady” who was usually the successor to the First, but over time that changed. There were, in the last hundred years or so before the Last Battle, as many as nine nobles at once, the High Seats of the major Houses, holding the title of “Second of Mayene.” They did not use “High Seat of House” as their title, rather styling themselves by first and House names, Second of Mayene.

In that same period, a number of nobles began styling themselves “Third of Mayene,” implying that they at least ranked right behind the Seconds, but that was considered an affectation by the First, by the Seconds and indeed by many of the other lower nobility.

The Winged Guards served as the personal guard of the First of Mayene and the elite force of Mayener arms. They numbered approximately two thousand men and officers in all, and constituted the only standing armed force in Mayene. The Winged Guards wore red-painted breastplates and helmets like rimmed pots that came down to the nape of the neck in back. Officers had wings worked on the sides of their helmets, and slender red plumes. Three plumes marked the Lord Captain, the overall commander; two plumes marked a captain; and one a lieutenant. The Winged Guards were supplemented at need by a general levy on the population. All physically fit male commoners from fifteen to fifty were required to train with bow or crossbow and with the halberd or the pike. Every man was required to attend a yearly muster for a week of training in a unit, and there were fines for not keeping up with training. These musters were staggered throughout the year so that one was held nearly every week. Nobles were exempted from this because they were expected to be competent with arms and to fight when necessary to defend Mayene.

Shipbuilding was a major industry; in it little Mayene rivaled Illian and surpassed Ebou Dar. Mayene was a port of call for many vessels in part because of a lively trade with the interior of Tear; that trade was all through smuggling because of prohibitive duties on exports from Mayene to Tear. Mayener import duties were much lower than those on goods imported directly into Tear, so the risk was worth it. Mayene was also the first stop for ships returning from Shara, so it had the first pick of their exotic goods such as ivory and silk.

Fishing was a major industry, especially for oilfish, whose oil was the major competitor for olive oil both in cooking and in lamps. Mayeners knew the location of the oilfish shoals, which no one else did. Economically, those shoals rivaled in importance the olive groves of Tear, Illian and Tarabon.

Mayene had no mines of any kind, but its craftsmen were known for exceedingly fine gold- and silver-work, as well for gem-polishing and exquisite jewelry. Mayene produced swords and daggers which, though not of the same rank as Andoran weapons, were certainly among the most ornate crafted anywhere. Since it had little land, Mayene had few sheep or goats but did have a reputation for fine rugs and carpets. Mayener blown glass was arguably the finest in the world. Olives and figs were both grown in Mayene, but not in sufficient quantities for any significant trade, though some people considered Mayener figs the sweetest and best in the world.

Mayene, First of. Title of the ruler of Mayene. See Berelain sur Paendrag

Mayener. One from Mayene.

Maylin. A serving girl at The Old Sheep in Ebou Dar; one of the most remarkably pretty women Mat had ever seen. Her only task seemed to be standing outside to attract customers. Mat talked to her while looking for Olver in Ebou Dar; he thought that she wasn’t very bright.

Mayv Gilyard. An Andoran noblewoman who was the guardian of Branlet Gilyard, until she died in a riding accident.

Maza, Joline. See Joline Maza

Mazone. A Youngling who wanted to join the Tower Guard instead of becoming a Warder; he was killed by one of the Bloodknives.

Mazrim Taim. A false Dragon from Saldaea who nearly managed to take over much of Saldaea and carried battle into Kandor and Arad Doman before he was brought down. Born in 972 NE, he was 6'4" tall and bore a passing resemblance to Demandred, both physically and in temperament. With a hooked nose and dark eyes like augers, he was a physically powerful man who moved with something of a Warder’s deadly grace, but there was an air of imminent violence about him. He was not a nice man at all. While not a Darkfriend originally, he was always prime material for them, a man far more interested in wealth and power than anything else, willing to do whatever was required to get them. Because it was necessary, of course; he would kill, rob, whatever, but only because it was necessary. Rape was the one crime he abhorred; he willingly killed rapists, and he never did it quickly.

On the day Rand appeared in the sky above Falme, when a vision of that event appeared in the sky above a battle in Saldaea, Taim’s horse reared and threw him, and he was knocked unconscious and captured. He was being carried to Tar Valon for gentling when he was freed, supposedly by his supporters, but actually by Demandred. Aes Sedai were killed both in capturing him and freeing him. Demandred offered Taim a choice, and Taim accepted, going to Rand in Caemlyn with one of the seals on the Dark One’s prison to make sure that Rand would trust him and take him in.

Rand made Taim the leader of the Asha’man; Taim took the title M’Hael. Taim demanded deference from the Asha’man of the sort due a king. He often spent time alone, when no one could bother him; those who tried were turned away, and could be punished harshly. Taim was given secret instructions to recruit in the Two Rivers, which he said he would handle in person. Rand was reluctant about this, but thought that maybe he could trust Asha’man recruited there. Taim made no effort to recruit for the Legion of the Dragon; he recruited openly for Asha’man and nothing else. He talked of Rand being the Dragon Reborn, and said that Rand had sent him. He played up the grand adventure aspects, demonstrated channeling and dismissed the fears of insanity. The Village Councils and the Women’s Circles knew they couldn’t stop him, but talked against him. He managed to recruit some forty-plus men and boys in the Two Rivers. Some of the boys had to run away to go with him. Taim also picked Asha’man with a dark aspect, gave them special lessons and recruited them as Darkfriends.

Using thirteen Myrddraal and thirteen channelers, he Turned other Asha’man and Aes Sedai to the Shadow. Moridin named him a Forsaken; he used the name M’Hael. Taim did a great deal of damage during the Last Battle before being killed by Egwene.

Meane sol Ahelle. The composer of “Glory of the Dragon” in the Fourth Age.

Meashan Dubaris. A member of the Domani Council of Merchants who was killed by a mob during the unrest in Bandar Eban.

Mecandes, Cabriana. See Cabriana Mecandes

Mechoacan. A region or place in Seanchan having fair-haired inhabitants.

Meciar. An Aiel member of the Night Spear society who wore the red headband of the siswai’aman. While Rand Skimmed to Caemlyn to deal with Rahvin, Meciar stood near him; when there was a stir among the Aiel, Meciar told him someone had fallen off the Skimming platform.

Medanor Eramandos. An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah who served as Amyrlin from 142 to 171 NE. Medanor was a fairly strong Amyrlin who managed through her skill at gaining consensus, mediation and playing one faction off another.

Medar, Barid Bel. Demandred’s name in the Age of Legends.

Meditations on the Kindling Flame. A history book on the rise of various Amyrlins that Egwene saw Silviana reading when she went to get one of her many punishments.

Medo. A small village in Shienar on the River Mora, which ran along the border of Arafel. The village was about the same size as Emond’s Field, maybe a little larger, and had two stone docks which projected into the river. It was there that Siuan Sanche and her entourage arrived by ship on their way to Fal Dara, and from there later that they took a ship back to Tar Valon. During the Last Battle, Medo was burned to slow the advance of the Trolloc armies.

Medore Damara. A Tairen noblewoman who was one of the daughters of High Lord Astoril; Estean once thought he might marry her. She became a member of Cha Faile. She was tall, with a dark complexion, black hair and bright blue eyes, and if she missed beautiful, it wasn’t by much. She was full-bosomed, which made puffy-sleeved Tairen coats look particularly odd on her. Her favorite mare was named Redwing. Balwer thought her of high enough rank to approach Berelain and thus set her up to spy on Berelain and Annoura; Perrin canceled the operation. She later went off with Balwer and Latian in So Habor and returned with Tallanvor.

Medrano, Rosara. See Rosara Medrano

meegerling. A small animal found in the Waste. It looked much like a rat, but was far more stupid. When placed near grain, the meegerling would go straight for it, regardless of any dangers in its path, and it never learned to avoid those dangers.

Megairil, Wreath of. Spoken of by Birgitte, referring to an earlier age, it was an important prize given to the winner of a horse race.