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Characters Associated to the White Tower, the city and region of Tar Valon
The Initiates
Index of the Aes Sedai sisters
Index of the Accepted & Novices
The Non-Initiates
Index of the Warders
Index of the Younglings
Adim (near Tar Valon and Dragonmount)
Adrinne (near Tar Valon and Dragonmount)
Aelmara (Romanda’s maid)
Aldan (one of the rebel soldiers)
Allin (Member of Tower Guard)
Alysa (near Tar Valon and Dragonmount)
Annah (messenger in Aes Sedai army)
Azil Mareed (Domani) (High Captain of the Tower Guard during the Aiel War)
Carlya (Maid to Elaida)
Charel (groom)
Chesa (Maid to the Amyrlin Egwene al'Vere)
- Her unidentified medicines for Egwene -- in Herbs and Other Medicines
- Use of medicines -- in Herbs and Other Medicines
- Possible sources of inspiration for this character's name
- Likely age
Cords (Sgt in rebel army)
Coulin (Master-at-Arms under Siuan Sanche, killed by Gawyn)
Denhold (Cavalry captain)
Ehvin (Kitchen servant in the rebel camp)
Garon Burlow (Mayor of the village of Dorlan)
Gera (Cook in the rebel camp)
Graeger
Hahn (near Tar Valon and Dragonmount)
Holcom (Tower Guard)
Ilain Dormaile (Cairhienin Banker in Tar Valon, NS)
Jimar Chubain (Siuan's then Elaida's High Captain of the Tower Guard)
Master Jovarin (Master Mason)
Kaylin (servant in rebel camp)
Laras (White Tower Mistress of the Kitchens)
Master Lerman (Chief Mason for Elaida)
Mada (serving woman in Tar Valon)
Malvin (soldier in the Tower Guard, NS)
Marel (groom)
Martan (White Tower clerk)
Meri (she was one of Egwene's maids)
Miesa (Delana's maid)
Mistress Millin (dairy farmer in Dorlan)
Millis Fendry
Moor (near Tar Valon and Dragonmount)
Moria Elward (farmer near Tar Valon)
Mulinda (servant with the Salidar rebels)
Naorman Mashinta
Nemaris (camp follower with the rebels)
Nildra (servant with the Salidar rebels)
Pol (maid of Merillile Candewyn)
Saal (Inn maid in Tar Valon)
Mistress Satina (servant with the rebels)
Selame (Tairen maid to Egwene al'Vere)
Sigmont
Steler (Bannerman in the Tower Guard)
Tamore Alkohima (Domani seamstress in Tar Valon)
Tijds (rebel soldier)
Tinna (thrown out of White Tower, leader of Dragonsworn)
Uso (near Tar Valon and Dragonmount)
Vestas rebel captain
Mistress Wellin (Tower clerk during the Aiel War)
Identified Eyes-and-Ears:
Duranda Tharne (Blue Ajah agent, Lugard)
Milam Harnder (First Librarian in Caemlyn, Demira's eye-and-ears)
Millis Fendry (Brown Ajah informer, Caemlyn)
Nieda (Blue Ajah agent, Illian)
Quillin Tasil (Innkeeper in Bandar Eban, Cadsuane's agent)
Items related to the White Tower:
Ter'angreal
Topics
Novices
Aging of older new channellers
Change in Testing of Tower Trainees
Novice Lifestyle
Novice Lifestyle
Novice Ranking
Novice Schedule
Novice Vocation
Prohibitions for Novices
Accepted
Accepted (minimum strength to be raised) in Saidar Strength Ranking
Accepted always chosen for appropriate Ajah
Accepted Lifestyle
Accepted Ranking
Accepted Studies
Change in Testing of Tower Trainees
Daughters of Silence
Lectio and Disputatio for Accepted
Prohibitions for Accepted
Raising an Accepted
Aes Sedai
Aes Sedai (minimum strength to be raised) in Saidar Strength Ranking
Adoption of the Three Oaths
Aes Sedai agents
Aes Sedai all do some activities of each Ajah
Aes Sedai attitudes to Novice Vocation
Aes Sedai damane
Aes Sedai during the Breaking
Aes Sedai, Historical influences on
Aes Sedai, Freemasonry references of
Aes Sedai Initiation, Freemasonry references in
Aes Sedai intelligence networks
Aes Sedai Lifestyle and Money
Aes Sedai Money
Aes Sedai never refused admittance to an Ajah
Aes Sedai Saidar Ranking
Aes Sedai with grey hair, age of
Aiel War and Aes Sedai
Ambassadors
Campaign against False Aes Sedai
Demotion of Aes Sedai
’Extra bit’ in bonding Aes Sedai
Failure of Aes Sedai over Malkier
False Aes Sedai are heretics
Female Aes Sedai as representatives of the Goddess of Sovereignty
Founding of Rhuidean by Aes Sedai
Founding of The Kin
Healing of Logain
Impending Seanchan Attack on Tower
Mutiny of Aes Sedai
Oath against lying
Requirements for being raised to Aes Sedai
Sidhe -- (Mythological Parallel for Aes Sedai)
Summary of Captive Aes Sedai
Summary of Dead Aes Sedai
Summary of Missing Aes Sedai
Unification of Aes Sedai
Ajahs
Ajah Secrets
Ajah Sizes
Ajahs and Ajah Heads, Early History of
Ajahs, Establishment of
Ajahs, General customs of
Ajahs, secret weaves of
- Blue Ajah
- Brown Ajah
- Red Ajah
- Yellow Ajah
Administration
Executive Positions of Aes Sedai
Ajah Head Conspiracy
Ajah Heads conspiracy
Ajah Heads, Custom regarding
Ajah Heads, Customary secrecy regarding
Ajah Heads, First
Ajah Heads under Egwene
Ajah Heads under Elaida
Amyrlin, Authority of
Amyrlin, Customs and Laws regarding Travel
Amyrlin, Deposing an
Amyrlin, Functions and Responsibilities of
Amyrlin, Laws and Customs surrounding
Amyrlin, Law on selecting
Amyrlin, Nepotism and the
Amyrlin position, Early History of
Amyrlin, Raising of the
Amyrlin, Regalia of
Amyrlin, Resignation of the
Amyrlin succession, Patterns in
Amyrlin term length
Amyrlin, usual age for being raised
Amyrlin’s intelligence network
Amyrlins, False
Black Ajah Head
Doge of Venice -- parallel of Amyrlin Seat
First Tower executive
Keeper, Customs and Laws surrounding
Keeper of the Chronicles, Early History of
Mistress of Novices, laws and customs surrounding
Pope -- parallel of Amyrlin Seat
Sharing of intelligence with Amyrlin
Similarities between electing the Pope and the Amyrlin
Tar Valon government
Unification of Aes Sedai
Warders and the Amyrlin, Customs regarding
Crime
Cells
Charges
Crime
Crime and Non-initiates
Crime and Initiates
Trial
Usage of Chair of Remorse for Criminal Rehabilitation
Serious crimes:
- Allegiance to the Shadow
- Assaulting the Amyrlin
- Blackmail
- Collusion
- Compulsion
- Falsely Claiming to be Aes Sedai
- Fomenting Discord
- Kidnapping
- Male Channellers
- Male Channelling
- Malfeasance
- Murder
- Reading the Amyrlin’s secret correspondence
- Rebellion
- Running Away
- Theft
- Treason
Custom
Adoption of the Three Oaths
Aes Sedai Costume
Bonding a man as Warder against his will was quite common once
Customs for Raising an Aes Sedai
Customs of Ajahs
Customs of Courtesy among Aes Sedai
Customs regarding Accepted
Customs regarding Aes Sedai
Customs regarding Aes Sedai Ranking
Customs regarding Death of Aes Sedai
Customs regarding Female Channellers Who Are Not Aes Sedai
Customs regarding Male Channellers
Customs regarding Marriage
Customs regarding Novices
Customs regarding Test For Accepted
Customs regarding Test For Aes Sedai
Customs regarding the Oaths
Customs regarding Warders
Entire ceremony for raising Aes Sedai used to be conducted with all present naked
Information
Publicly known passing of Warder bond
Discipline
Discipline of Aes Sedai
Discipline of Initiates
Discipline of Non-initiates
Elaida's Embassy to Rand: (full article)
- Captive Aes Sedai
- Dead Aes Sedai
- Enslaved Aes Sedai
- Returned Aes Sedai
- Involvement with Colavaere Saighan
Law
Black Ajah Hunters and Law
Campaign against False Aes Sedai
Catholicism Of Aes Sedai
Law of Unintended Consequences
Laws regarding Accepted
Laws regarding Female Channellers Who Are Not Aes Sedai
Law regarding Interrogation
Laws regarding Items of the Power
Laws regarding Male Channellers
Laws regarding Novices Running Away
Law regarding Thirteenth Depository
Laws regarding War
Laws regarding Warders
Security clearance for information access
Legislation of Law safeguarding Amyrlin
Tower law against foreign armies
Hall
Composition and Politics of the Halls (998-1000 NE) (full article)
Black Sitters in Egwene’s Hall
Black Sitters in Elaida’s Hall
Black Sitters in Siuan’s Hall
Consensus, Greater
Consensus, Lesser
Exile of three Red Sitters
Factionalism in Egwene’s Hall
Factionalism in Elaida’s Hall
Factionalism in Siuan’s Hall
Hall and Sitters, Early History of
Hall, Authority of
Hall, Ceremony in
Hall, Convening the
Hall, Custom and Laws of
Hall, Customs and Laws of the
Hall, Failure of
Hall, Formal or Informal Sessions of
Hall, Layout of the
Hall, Quorum of the
Hall, Politics in the
Hall, Voting of
Hall’s inaction regarding replacing Shein Chunla
Re-united Hall
Sitters, Authority of
Sitter, Raising a
Sitter, Resignation of
Sitters, Custom and Law surrounding
Sitters, Discipline of
Sitters, Ranking of
Too young sitters in Egwene’s Hall
Too young sitters in Elaida’s Hall
Too young sitters in Siuan’s Hall
Votes against Siuan
Young Sitters in Siuan’s Hall
History
Adoption of the Three Oaths
Aes Sedai during the Breaking
Aes Sedai, establishment of on mainland
Aes Sedai were forcibly turned to the Shadow in the Trolloc Wars
All Aes Sedai dismissed from Artur Hawkwing’s service
Ancient Rebellions
Assassins in the Hall
Bounty on all Aes Sedai not renouncing the Tower
Cadaver Synod -- Parallel for Whitecloaks trying and hanging a dead Amrylin
Campaign against False Aes Sedai
Compact of Ten Nations
Early History of Amyrlin position,
Early History of Ajahs and Ajah Heads
Early History of Hall and Sitters,
Early History of Keeper of the Chronicles
Early History of Thirteenth Depository
Change in Testing of Tower Trainees
First Ajah Heads
Founding of Kin
Founding of Rhuidean by Aes Sedai
Founding of the White Tower
Great Fire in Tar Valon
Hawkwing wanted Aes Sedai to follow same laws as everyone else
Ishamael claimed that established Black Ajah
Many early Amyrlins assassinated
Onset of ban on balefire
Renala Merlon associated with division of White Tower
Second Compact/Covenant
Tar Valon invaded by Hawkwing
Tower declared war on Hawkwing
Trolloc attacks on Tar Valon
Unification of Aes Sedai
White Tower gained lands during Trolloc Wars
The Year of Four Amyrlins
Library
White Tower Library
Librarians are Brown Ajah
Thirteenth Depository
Thirteenth Depository, Early History of
Tower Histories
Military Forces:
Politics
Aes Sedai mutiny over Hall’s mishandling of Shein Chunla
Agreement between Andor and Tower
Ajah Head Conspiracy
Aim of Ajah Head Conspiracy
American Civil War -- Parallel for Tower/Rebel schism
Analysis of Amyrlin reigns
Black Ajah Hunters' achievements
Black Ajah hunters’ actions
Blues have strained relations with the White Ajah
Compact of Ten Nations
Consecutive Amyrlins from same Ajah
Consequences of Mesaana’s orders to Alviarin
Crucial role of Siuan’s lie about Red Ajah in rebellion
Elaida's Embassy to Rand, number symbolism of
Elaida's Factions
Hall’s inaction regarding replacing Shein Chunla
Organisation of rebels
Public Schism
Rebel factions
Rebel Factions
Rebel ferrets sent by Sheriam’s six
Rebel Sitters vote to bond Asha’man Warders
Role and influence of Sheriam’s group in rebellion
Second Compact/Covenant
Siuan’s political problems
Strain between Blue and Yellow Ajahs in last hundred years
Tower Mutinies
Strength of Blue-White-Green axis in last 160 years
Third Blue Sitter in Siuan's Hall
The Tower’s plans for Moiraine to rule Cairhien
Tower’s international policy
Tower’s services to people
Uniting Aes Sedai, Difficulty in
White Ajah allied with the Blue in the Hall and against the Red since beginning of New Era
White Tower and Rand
White Tower need for reformation
Punishment
Punishments for Crimes:
Secret punishment of Amalasan’s captors
Tar Valon
Founding of the White Tower
Tar Valon Place Names
Tar Valon, Size of
Tower Library
White Tower and Tar Valon, Laws and customs of
White Tower gained lands during Trolloc Wars
White Tower layout
White Tower roof
- The Tar Valon Harbour Chain (full article)
- Dimensions of the Chains and Harbours
- Comparisons with real-life 17th century systems
- Egwene's plan for blocking the Harbours
- Estimates of weights and dimensions of the cuendillar bars
- Elaida's orders to dismantle the chain towers
- Measures taken to re open Northharbour
- Purpose of a Harbour Chain
- Why Egwene decided to carry the mission herself
Vileness
Illegal gentling of men
Killing of many Aes Sedai
Punishment and exile of Red Sitters
Red ajah and vileness
Warder Bond
Aes Sedai’s gift from bonding a Warder
Bonding a man as Warder against his will was quite common once
Bonds Publicly known passing of Warder bond
Releasing Warders
Warder, releasing a
White Tower Prophecies
- Min’s viewing of an Aes Sedai in chains and another with an a’dam
- Min’s viewing that a brown sister will die, Warders are injured and killed, servants are injured during the Tower split
- Min’s viewing that three Aes Sedai, one of them Ananda, will be killed during the Tower split.
- Nicola Treehill's Foretelling about the fate of Asha'man and Aes Sedai
- Prophecy that the White Tower breaks and bends knee to the forgotten sign.
